Gary A. Bushey's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Custom Form Movement

  i want to create a form that has no Default control box instead i have put a picture on it and i want that picture box to act as its control box like user can move the move by that picture box........as this can be seen in MSN Messenger 7.0... Hi, I think you are looking for this: http://www.thecodeproject.com/csharp/CustomForms.asp ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Converting FoxPro application to a SQL server backend

  Hi We would like to convert an existing FoxPro application to a SQL database. If possible, we would like to do it in multiple-phases. For example, Is it possible to keep the UI as is and convert the code and the table to SQLin the first phase And for the first phase, we would like to translate the code and the table to SQL. Is this a viable strategy If not, what should we be doing You haven't said which version of FoxPro you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What's Changed in v4.0

  I'm trying to prepare a presentation on MSF, but my current experience and documentation is based on v3. Part of the presentation will talk about VS2K5 support for MSF so I need to make sure it's talking about the right stuff. Would it be possible for someone to summarise what the changes are from MSF v3 to MSF for Agile Software Development Hi Derek,     At a high level, version 4.0 of MSF has ...Show All

• Visual C# Add "Help" button

  How can I add "Help" button to my forms Like the picture: http://img.majidonline.com/thumb/39010/Untitled-3.gif Sibusiso wrote: Hi Why dont you use a tooTip control from your toolbox property, so that when the user hover/clicks on the control (e.g Button, textBox, whatever) it displays a message which you can set in the control tooTip in Tooltip properties. Hope this Helps I wanna ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. "Ensure that DirectX SDK is correctly installed" *Resolved* by Noizu.biz

  I just downloaded C# Express, and then installed the DirectX SDK from February 2006, from Microsofts homepage Then I loaded the Simple2D_2005 sample (running it from the sample viewer), and it worked as it should. Then I installed the samples source code, opened it in C# Express, but when I run it, I get the following msg: "Could not find required media. Ensure that DirectX SDK is correctly installed" I have tried to uninstall DirectX ...Show All

• Visual Basic Compare two numbers and display larger of two in label

  I am new to this, please be kind as I am sure to sound a bit dim. I placed a command button and two text boxes on a form.  I want to click the command button have the program look at the entries in txtfirst and txtsecond determine the larger of the two numbers typed there and then output that number to a label  lblresults so I coded  Dim txtfirst as Integer             &n ...Show All

• SQL Server High CPU utilization on Merge Replication with SQL 2005 Mobile

  I have a question for anyone who mas some tips/pointers for optimizing SQL merge replication publications.  The front end web server is running IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003 x86 Server Standard (Server A).  The back end database server is running SQL 2000 Standard on Windows 2003 x86 Standard (Server B).  The merge replication clients connect via HTTPS over the Internet from a custom C#.NET 2005 application using SQL 2005 M ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to get Count in GroupBy

  I tried to translate the very common sql query Select Category, count(*) as NumberOfProducts from Products group by Category into linq syntax. I was able to write it like this: var orderGroups = from p in products group p by p.Category into g select new { Category = g.Key, NumberOfProducts = g.Count() }; Question: is there a O(1) way, to get the NumberOfProducts without using the Count()-Function running presumably O(n) Th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Asp.net page hosting windows forms control.

  I am having a problem with my web page hosting a windows from control, It is acting up, sometimes it freezes, sometimes the dropdownlists just keep rerendring not allowing you to select, and when you touch the scroll bar the page hangs up and you have to exit and rerun it Help please Hi, As per my understanding, you are trying to use winforms control in a webpage. If this is yes, then why would you like to use winforms control in a webp ...Show All

• SQL Server Obscure error while attempting to install SQL Server 2005 SP1

  I successfully installed SQL Server 2005 SP1 on one PC. When I attempt to install it on a second PC, however, I get the following obscure error: Unexpected Error Occurred The following unexpected error occurred: That's right, there's nothing else listed, other an OK button. D'oh! When I press the OK button, the following error report dialog box appears: Hotfix.exe A recently applied update, NULL, failed to install. There a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Bluetooth, PocketPC 2003, VS.Net 2005 to Access Network DB

  We have a number of iPAQ 39XX units, some with bluetooth. Is it possible to build a web service which a bluetooth-enabled PDA can access by going through a workstation connected to a LAN Obviously, using WiFi, this should be QED. I need to show my boss the potential usefulness of PDAs to access DBs on our LAN, via web services before we invest in WiFi-enabled handhelds and more wireless access points in our workplace. I am excited about the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. StateBlock in Managed DirectX using C#

  I am using the April 2006 DirectX SDK and experimenting with StateBlock's. I have followed the sample in the SDK documentation however it seems like nothing is ever getting recorded to the StateBlock. When I call Apply() none of the changes I made to the Device during the BeginStateBlock() EndStateBlock() Capture() get re-applied. Furtermore, any changes that I make to the Device while creating the StateBlock do not get applied to the D ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Access violation errors

  Hi.   I'm trying to make a DirectShow app in C++. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Express, and I don't want to use .NET for various uninteresting reasons. I can get programmes to compile fine, but every time I try to run them it comes up with access violation errors. I feel sure there's something fairly simple and probably fairly obvious I'm doing wrong, but I really don't know where to start figuring out what that thing is. In ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net 2.0 release version breaks VS 2005b2?

  I have just upgraded my .Net frameworks to 2.0 release version, and in the process, I had to uninstall the previous beta version and also some other stuff like the compact framework. Now, Visual Studio beta2 is not launching anymore. Is this a known issue With kind regards. Two things. One, ClickOnce docs tell you all about how it downloads the most recent version of the .net framework. Yea it feels like *** wh ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA in EXCEL - Connect to SQL Server

  I am a new programmer try to write some VBA codes in excel to get data out from the Sql server database. When I try to compile the codes, it said "compile error: user defined typed not defined" for the following sentences Dim dbsCurrent As Database Dim qdfPassThrough As QueryDef Dim qdfLocal As QueryDef Dim rstTopFive As Recordset Dim strMessage As String What I need to define for Database,recordset or QueryDef Please help! ...Show All