Pongo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Document Explorer crashes

  Thought I'd start a new thread, since I'm using Visual C# Express, rather than full VS2005. Windows XP Pro SP2, Visual Studio 2003 Pro, SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition, Visual C# Express, Visual Web Developer Express, SQL Express 2005, MSDE. I also have Virtual Server 2005 SP1 beta installed. Problem just started this weekend. Whenever I click on any topic in the Index, Document Explorer crashes. I've tried Repair on Visual C# Express, Visual Web Developer Express and MSDN 2005 Express. Same problem. It was working fine last week, I'm not sure what's changed. I have previously had VS2005 beta2 installed, but I removed that by following the ...Show All

• .NET Development Events & Delegates CPU spikes

  Hi, I have the following issue and am not sure what's the best way to tackle this: The application I'm dealing with utilizes live financial market data for stocks, options, etc. So, there is one class that handles all the market data subscriptions and emits the quote as an event. There are several controls which subscribe to this Quote event and process the data the event delivers. The issue with this is that one control might subscribe to market data for MSFT and the other control might need data for IBM, however they are still subscribed to the same event and thus the control itself has to filter the incoming data from the event and determ ...Show All

• SQL Server is sql server 2005 a standalone install? Or do you have to install windows server

  I have never installed sql server before and I didnt know if I just take the sql server 2005 standard edition media and boot off it and do a fresh install that way or do I have to install Windows server SQL Server is "just" a database*. You need an underlying operating system in place before you attempt to install it. For SQL Server 2005, supported operating systems are Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Not all versions of SQL Server 2005 are supported on all these operating systems, but I believe the standard edition of SQL is. Paul *Well, a database and tools and report ...Show All

• SQL Server Upsize Access 2000

  Hi, Is it possible to upsize Access 2000 to Sql Server 2005 Thanks My original test was using the Access 2000 frontend upsizing into SQL 2005 - it didn't work. But, like the earlier poster, I have used the Access 2003 frontend to upsize an Access 2000 database into SQL 2005, even Access 97 databases seem to go with the Access 2003 frontend. So, it appears that you will have to get Acc2K3 if you want to upsize into SQL2005. Unless Microsoft has some kind of add in for Acc2K. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Modal Windows And Transparency

  Hi, Seeing as you have to make Transparent windows by doing native methods (Gadget example), I would like to know the following: 1) Is it possible to improve the appearence of the transparent window seeing as controls on the transparent window appear with a few pixel errors here and there. 2) Is it possible to make the modal Thank you very much Jaco This functionality is important to me also. I need to create transparent, modal windows. Joe ...Show All

• SQL Server Simulate ROW_NUMBER () in SQL 2000

  I would like to generate an incrementing column value to each row found in a query in SQL Server 2000.  My understanding of SQL Server 2005 is that you can accomplish this approximately along these lines:    insert into MyList (myNo, lName)    select ROW_NUMBER() myNo, lName    from Employee    select * from MyList    order by myNo    myNo         lName    -----         ------    1           ...Show All

• Windows Forms why is this wrong

  try { SqlConnection ListTick = new SqlConnection(SQL_CONNECTION_STRING); string SQL_List = "SELECT * FROM Support"; // initialize dataadapter with query SqlDataAdapter myAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter (SQL_List, ListTick); // initalize and fill dataset with query results DataSet myData = new DataSet(); myAdapter.Fill (myData); DataTable table; table = myData.Tables["Support"]; foreach(DataRow myRow in table.Rows) { Tickets.Items.Add(myRow); } ...Show All

• Smart Device Development 3D smart devises

  I have this problem to solve, hope that you can help me: I have a building with a “control system”. The control system, depending of the temperature inside and outside the building, opens and closes windows automatically. I want to create a 3D model of the building that displays in real time the processing mode of the building (temperature inside and outside, windows that are open and closed, etc). For that I have to interconnect the “control system” of the building with a computer. The control system gives data temperature inside and outside, windows that are open and closed, etc) in format txt. I want also to be able to use ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can i pass values to a precompiled 3rd party app ?

  I have application1 that is precompiled by another vendor(which i do not have control over it) and i have a string value from application2 (that i am working on it and have full control on it) i wanted to pass it to a textbox in application1 ,any ideas well, actually the app1 (3rd party app ) will only run once and it will not allow another instance of the program to be running so my problem now how to get  the handle for this textbox using win32 api any idea that would be great ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies SIMPLE instructions to REMOVE Windows Desktop Search

  I have written to MS without receiving a simple, non-MIS/IT description of how to remove this horribly intrusive add-on, that installed itself DESPITE clicking on DO NOT INSTALL. So (and without getting into the politics of who is behind this), all I want is the easy way to remove this program. I have gone into Add/Remove Programs and YES, clicked on Show Updates, but there is NOTHING clearly identified as Windows Desktop Search. ALSO, and most important, I DO NOT want to disable or screwup other programs/software. HELP. What is the point of having multiple users with passwords if ANYONE can access the entire history of EVERYONE ...Show All

• SQL Server Processing XML with defined namespaces

  I'm trying use the SSIS XML Task to process some XML files that have namespaces and schemas defined . One of the things I am doing is trying to perform an XPATH query on the files. However, I'm unable to provide either a namespace manager or XsltContext to the XML Task and that causes the XML Task to not understand my XPATH queries. For example, if my XML is: <o:object id="12345" xmlns:o="urn:some-urn"/> and my desired XPATH is "/o:object/@id", I get the following error: Error: 0xC002F304 at Query, XML Task: An error occurred with the following error message: "Namespace Manager or XsltCont ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums EOF or BOF error

  Help! Why am I getting a EOF or BOF error after looping through only a couple of times Do While rst.EOF = False testNo_Rows = rst.RecordCount iPhoneNumber = CStr(Replace(rst("SUBSCRIBER #"), "-", "")) iAmountLoaded = rst("SUBSCRIBER TOTAL") iAmountBilled = iAmountLoaded + acct_Amt_allocate iStampDateTime = Now() rstMobileDevices.Open ("select Phone_Number, User_Id, first(Mobile_Type) as Mobile_Type, max(STAMP_DATETIME) FROM tbl_Mobile_Devices WHERE Phone_Number = '" & iPhoneNumber & "' GROUP BY Phone_Number, User_Id") If rstMobileDevices("Mobil ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro SELECT wrkArea statement

  Please consider this piece of code. It is a bit weird as far as DO loop goes but it is the way I frequently do things. The problem I run into is the  SELECT statement. USE HistData!myTable IN 0 wrkArea = 0 DO WHILE ! EMPTY (wrkArea+1)   wrkArea = wrkArea + 1   wrkArea   cTableAlias = ALIAS (wrkArea)      IF cTableAlias = "MYTABLE"     SELECT wrkArea    && here the program breaks down     EXIT   ENDIF ENDDO I get an error message that alias "wrkarea" not found. It is an integer! If I modify the statement like this: SELECT ...Show All

• Visual Basic Compressing Folders

  Sick of me yet Hunting around for any help on compressing entire folders with .net 2.0. The standard examples are fine for single files, but i can't see to work out how to adjust that for an entire folder (+ subdirectories both empty and not etc) I've previously use the #ZipLib but i'm trying to limit my code to what is available in the .net Framework. Can anyone help ...Show All

• Windows Forms Messagebox Location?

  Is there a way to display a messagebox in the center of an Active Form or will it always be displayed center screen Several of the overloaded versions of MessageBox.Show allow you to specify a window that you want the alert to display in front of, but that doesn't move the alert from the center of the screen. It's easy enough,&n ...Show All