Edgar's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Connection Pool Error

  Hi Everyone! I'm having a problem with my ADO.NET Connection When runing this code about a 100 time the connection pool raise a error Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached. Here what my code look like. Dim dr As SqlClient . SqlDataReader Dim conn As New SqlClient . S ...Show All

• Visual C# List of Funny Objects

  I have played with generics and I have one question. Take this simple sample: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace FunnyTests {     public class Funny<T>     {         private T _value;         public T Value         {    &nb ...Show All

• Visual C# Get the font filename (like tahoma.ttf)

  Hi, Is there a method that can retrive the font filename e.g. tahoma, by passing it the font family You can't with a existing .NET Class, but you can get it yourself. On codeproject there is a little example written in C++, but it shouldn't be hard to convert. You find the article, here . ...Show All

• Visual C++ collate in C++

  I am trying to generate hashes for a set of strings (that I store within a class) using the hash() method in collate class in <locale>. Suppose the class SetOfStrings has a list of strings and it has a method getNextString which returns a const char *. When I pass this to collate as follows: SetOfStrings ss; // Assuming ss is set up with all the strings const char* beg = ss.getNextString(); collate<const char *&g ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DX sdk 2005 october and vs2005

  As far as I can tell, the october version of the sdk should have support for net 2.0 and as such is updated for vs2005. The question is then why the installer can still not recognize that you have vs2005 installed and thus let you add the visual studio integration. It seems that you need to install BOTH vs2003 and vs2005 to have this integration. If you do this then you (that means I) experience that the shader debugger when run from debug/direc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Manual Test Authoring through Microsoft Office Infopath 2003

  If I wanted to use a Microsoft Office Infopath form instead of a Word or Excel document to author my manual test cases, what would be the best way to implement that I'm assuming that I would probably have to create a custom test type of some kind. Should I try to launch Infopath as an editor or something when the test is edited, or would it be easier to use the object model since there is already support for creating tests in Word and Excel f ...Show All

• SQL Server Generarting XML based on Schema in SQLSERVER 2005

  Hi, i have the following requirement Can a stored procedure in SQL Server 2005 generate XML data based on the schema, We don't prefer to manually build an xml string inside the stored proc Is there any SQL Server 2005 feature to do it if possible i appreciate your help. Thanks, Vaishu Yes this is possible. Michael Rys' article about FOR XML support and the Xml datatype shows examples of this: http://msd ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Service Projects

  I don't see web service project templates.  Is that only in the Architect edition now I found my own answer, so I came back to post it in case others have trouble finding it.  It's under new website which is an odd place for it since a web service is not a website. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Database update

  I am trying to update an access databse, I can't get this line to work: Me.InstrructorsTableAdapter.Update(Me.StudentsDataSet.Instructors) This is from a sample database in the Microsoft Press visual basic 2005 step-by-step book. Do this feature not work in express Also, can I use this to update an SQL databse Thank you in advanced for any help. Hi, This update method should work in VB Express version, Can you please share y ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Selected Text

  I am mailed request to update our database, the request will be for a new Deal, employee or vendor. I would like to create a menu item that will ask if the selected text is a new Deal, employee or vendor. from there i have all the code to update myDB, i just dont know how to add a menu item or button and get the selected text. Thanks One way to do it is to create an Action Pane using VSTO 2005 in Excel or Word. Within the Ac ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with KeyDown or KeyPress

  I am very new to VB but I am progressing well. However, I have tried numerous solutions to this problem and have not found the right answer yet: I want my program to do something anytime a certain key is pressed. It is not going in a textbox or form. So Basically something like this: If (The "5" Key is pressed) Then DoTheseThings() End If I need it to always be active. Any help Thanks!! ...Show All

• Windows Forms MIXER Recording control

  Hi ! Anyway i can switch the Selected Volume Control in the Mixer Recording control with programming  i able to make mute selection in the playback, but the code not work in recording . any programming also can ! i just wnat to sure there  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Serial Communication using VB MSComm

  Problem regarding the ErrorHandling of MSComm Component... Help Me how can i know about the communication break and other types of errors that may be generated during the communication.. if you cannot use System.IO.Ports you can still trap your usage of the MSComm Compentent and check for systemexception, ioexception, and the global Err object. ...Show All

• SQL Server Errors when attempting to use DataReader destination

  Hi, We have an ASP.Net app that consumes data from a SSIS package. I have proved that this works by building a noddy ASP.Net app against it on my local machine. Unfortunately the same isn't true of our project-wide solution where we get error "Package failed to execute." In our package log I can see that the things that were failing were various property expressions that are in my package. The expressions are all on the SQLStatementSource proper ...Show All

• Windows Forms System Tray

  Can anybody pls show/tell me how to reduce/minimize my form to the system tray.  I also want to click on a button a fourth to the minimize/maximize/close buttons so that this fxn can be implemented. I've been lookin around but I saw the VB version but I'm interested in the C# version. Anyone wit a hint This works quite well! protected override void WndProc( ref Message m) {     const UInt32 WM_SYSCOMMA ...Show All