swax's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Search for installed office programs

  Hi! I need to be able to find all installed office program (read the whole thread before replying) I need to retreive the path for each excel.exe even if there is 5 different installed. This goes for all office programs (winword.exe, powerpnt.exe, publisher.exe etc....). I have found 3 strategies so far. * Check the Path property of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\InstallRoot registry key (for each version, 8.0, 9.0...and so on) together with the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Application.11 for example. (This works fine for most applications but I cannot be sure for all). * Iterate the HKEY_LOCAL_ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Simple Add New Record

  I have a simple win form which has a few text fields bound to my dataset i designed in the dataset designer. I am able to view, edit, and delete records no problem using the bindingsource.EndEdit() and the tableAdapter.Update() or Delete(). However i am at a loss when it comes to adding a new record to the database. I have spend days looking at articles on the internet but very few cover the inserting of data from a databound form. Here is what i think should happen. Form fields are cleared ready for new data to be entered. Data is entered by the user. Save Button Is Pressed Data is loaded into the new row Any miss ...Show All

• Visual C++ Stepping through Fiber Switches

   I am trying to debug my code, which uses fibers and I want to step through fiber context switches. Specifically, when the current fiber calls SwitchToFiber(next), I want the VS debugger to go to the instruction that the next fiber executes. Does any one know how to do this  thank a lot madan This is certainly a good suggestion. Having to set breadcrumb-style breakpoints just to be able to step to the right place after context switching is annoying. It will be great if you log that suggestion at: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/Default.aspx Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Lininking as Single-Threaded in VC, Win32 Console

  Hi everyone, Im using VS 2005, writing a Win32 console app. I would like to link my program with the single-threaded CRT libraries (compiler option, /ML), rather than the multi-threaded libraries. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_c_run.2d.time_libraries.asp When I look at the Property page for my soure code I only have options for linking with multi-threaded CRTs. Specifically, I right-click on the source file in "Solution Explorer", select "Properties". Go under "Configuration Properties" | "C/C++" | "Code Generation". In the right side pane there is a dropdown list for "Runtime L ...Show All

• SQL Server Help with DTSInstall.exe

  All I need to do is copy a deployment package that I created with Visual Studio 2005 to another server location, installed in that server's file system (not msdb).  I am hoping to use a simple deployment script, but I can't find any info on how to call dtsinstall.exe to automate this for me.  I keep reading references to this utility, but how does one use it in silent mode and send it parameters   At the command prompt, typing dtsinstall / gives an error rather than helpful info.  Am i missing something If all you need is to copy a package - you can use XCOPY If you need to modify package’s protection level ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Do we get any CAL with TFS Standard?

  According to Rob Caron's post, ( http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2006/03/16/553121.aspx ), Workgroup edition will only give us 5 licences, and if I have 15 developers, all with MSDN licences, I will have 15 licences for TFS server, but I still have to purchase TFS Standard edition in order to have all 15 of my developers access the same server. Sure seems like there should be a better way to do this. Like, for instance, everyone who buys a CAL (or obtains one from their MSDN subscription) can actually use the product that they have a license for If I don't want to buy 15 MSDN subscriptions, but I want all my developers to access TF ...Show All

• .NET Development new to Web App - problem w/ IIS

  Hi out there - - This is the message that comes up when I attempt to Open a new Project as a ASP. NET Web Application rather than a Windows Application: Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET Web applications or services. Looking in the 'About' area of Visual.NET I read that I have the: Microsoft Development Environment 2003 version 7.1.3088 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 version 1.1.4322 SP1 Not sure where I am suppose to find IIS - I don't see it under my Programs in Control Panel...... Not sure what ...Show All

• Visual C# Who is referencing this object?

  Hi all, Before disposing an object I'd like to know if there are other objects referencing it, because otherwise it will not be destroyed by garbage collector. Any idea Thanks in advace Andrea I have one to many situation, where my object is referenced by different types with several instances. Some of those types uses a field or a collection to reference the object. I do use IDisposable , however each type using my object have to release my object before I complete the Dispose otherwise the object will remain attached and not begin disposed. Also each type referencing my object has diffe ...Show All

• SQL Server errors while running ssis packages from the command prompt.

  I have created ssis package. It has been successfully running at UI level. But when i am trying to execute it from the command prompt by using dtexec utility it is showing the following error messages. Error: 2005-12-23 17:01:57.67    Code: 0xC00470FE    Source: Data Flow Task DTS.Pipeline    Description: The product level is insufficient for component "Flat File Source" (1). End Error Error: 2005-12-23 17:01:57.67    Code: 0xC00470FE    Source: Data Flow Task DTS.Pipeline    Description: The product level is insufficient for component "Script Component" (9). End Error i ha ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem using CheckBoxField in GridView Control

  Hi, I am developing an ASP.NET Web Page in Visual Basic.NET. I am displaying data in a GridView control, the fields of my table are: Number_Id Varchar(10), FirstName Varchar(15), SecondName Varchar(15), Status Bit. When I execute the web page that I developed, I can see that GridView control displays Number_Id, FirstName,SecondName and Status, but Status field has a CheckBoxFields, CheckBoxFields are checked if Status fields are 1. In executed web page, I am trying to change the status of CheckBoxField and it is imposible because CheckBoxFields are disabled. I want to know what steps or procedures or methods are necessary to c ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Sending and Receiving UDP Broadcasts from IP Address 0.0.0.0.

  I am designing a network of small embedded modules each running Windows CE 5.0 and .NET Compact Framework. I have successfully built both UDP and TCP communications routines and are moving right along with the main functionality of the system. I have a "master" node that listens for BOOP requests on port 68. It has a list of valid MAC addresses for my closed system and will send back the appropriate IP address from its database if the MAC address of the sender matches one in the database. It is a closed system and the addresses should never change or expire, so I am just using BOOTP instead of DHCP. My problem is the IP Addre ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using arrow keys to navigate through ComboBox issue

  Hi all, I have a rare instance where I need to let the users of my application use the arrow keys to navigate through the controls. One such control they will navigate to is the ComboBox control, and this is the control that is giving me problems when using the arrow keys. So when I press the up arrow and the currently selected value in the combobox is on the last entry, the focus goes to the next control the combobox selected index goes down a value (so entry before it now gets displayed). Now if any other value is selected other than the last value in the combobox list then I can set the SelectedIndex to + 1 on the keydown event (this will ...Show All

• Visual Basic cannot debug avalon application on vb express beta 2

  I m usin vb express beta 2 with win fx extensions (no previous intances of beta1) when i try to debug "avalon application" it gives me following error: Error 1 Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\AvalonApplication1.application" to "bin\AvalonApplication1.application". Could not find file 'obj\Debug\AvalonApplication1.application'. C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Microsoft.Common.targets 2492 9  i got same error while bilding vb projects using 'click once' Hi, I realize that this is a very old post, but I did want to ensure that it was clear that the WinFX extensions ...Show All

• SQL Server query to get sql server version information?

  Hi! I'm new to sql and would appreciate it if anyone could show me the query that i need to type to get the server version information - I do not have direct access to the sql database (doing some work on an old website that runs on windows box w/ coldfusion :p) appreciate it! hey, thanks for the response! Could you also please let me know what's the column name that's returned The coldfusion markup that I need to use is something like this <cfquery name="getDBVersion" username="*" password="*" datasource="*" dbtype="ODBC"> select @@Version </cfquery ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Compiling DirectShow Samples with Visual Studio .Net 2005

  We've just purchased .Net 2005 and would like to compile the DirectShow BaseClasses supplied with the Platform SDK.  DirectShow documentation (in the on-line version of the MDSN library) states that there should be a .dsw file in the BaseClasses folder... but there is none. All we could find was a makefile.  Is there a way to create the project from a makefile   Help! haroonsarwar84 wrote: I am having the same problem.... In trying cpix's suggestion I downloaded the December 2004 edition of the DirectX SDK from a MS site...and extracted it's content......and unbelievably enough there is ...Show All