Nick N's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Windows Mobile

  Hi everybody, this is the first time i am here, so, i hope not to make many mistakes. the problem i have now is that a customer wants, for any reason, the date/time application of a Windows Mobile Operating System to be locked, so nobody can change the date or time, Do you know a way to do this Oscar There is no way to stop the user from changing the date and time on a windows mobile device. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Unable To DL Installer

  I am trying to DL an offline installer for VB Express Edition. Here is the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/ I am neither able to get the .IMG nor the .ISO file. In both cases the operation times out and the DL never begins. Any suggestions Mike Use a download manager. I have used http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ with success ...Show All

• SQL Server Help with using the right approach

  Greetings my friends I am attempting to solve the following problem using SSIS, actually I am attempting to convert a SQL Server 2000 DTS package in to a SSIS package. The package does the following : 1) Retrieve the maximum Price_ID (PK) from a PRICE dimension table. 2) Populate a staging table with data coming from a source system where the PRICE_ID > (Price_ID from above) 3) Update the actual DIM table with the new data he ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro KeyPress

  Hello everyone, I was trying to use KeyPress to do the same code I have on a command button that runs a report with its preview. The problem is that when I press the key (in this case Enter) and the report execute, the preview doesn't work as when I click the command button. When I'm in the preview (using the command button) the preview show its 12 pages and I can see every single page but when I press Enter, the preview show me the first page a ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Ifelse activity in workflow

  How can I set the condition for the ifelse activity . how do I invoke the branching based on the condition. There are a couple of ways to set the condition for an IfElse branch.  Scenario 1:  Rule Condition 1.  In the Workflow designer set the ifElseBranchX Condition to System.Workflow.Activities.Rules.RuleConditionReference. 2.  Expand the Condition property and set the name of the RuleCondition 3.  Clic ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Convert between Func<T> and Expression<T>

  Are there facilities to convert a Func<T> and an Expression<T> in order to use something that was intended to be used as a predicate and use it instead as an expression tree -Scott Convert it Runtime I dont think so, its an compiler trick afaik . Im afraid they need an extra layer of indirection for that. So i guess its not possible yet. I tried to achieve the same thing for an kind of Lin ...Show All

• .NET Development Howto create a read/write application setting?

  Hi! I'm trying to create a writeable application setting with VS 2005 Express beta-2. When I open the Settings tab in the application properties I have a designer that allows to create a new setting (say "MySetting" of type String). I can specify a default value and I can use the properties window to enter a description etc. In the code file Settings.Designer.cs a property "public string MySetting .." is generated automatically. But this pr ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) System.Windows.Window Display issue.

  I recently installed the Novermber CTP of WinFX distributed as part of Windows SDK. I created a very simple application using the System.Windows.Window class however, the frame comes up completely black, including the controls added to the frame. Has anyone else experienced this Here is the code I ran (With an Application class instanciating the window on startup) using System; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Controls; namespace WP ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with databinding?

  I have a Windows form for accounts/products. There are three tabs, the first (LIST) has a datagrid with account number and name, the second (EDIT) has text boxes for account data and a datagrid listing products, the third (PRODUCTS) contains textboxes&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Disassemble C/C++ Code

  Hello People, is it possible to Dissasemble C or C++ code with the Express edition What I have to Download Thanks Leo JaLeo wrote: is it possible to Dissasemble C or C++ code with the Express edition The dumpbin utility is included in the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. You can use it to show a disassembly of native Windows code from a .EXE or .DLL. Use Tools | Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt, switch to ...Show All

• .NET Development Get identity specification with GetSchema

  Hi everybody, i have built an entity generator in C# using the GetSchema method to get the information of the table, but I want to know if a column has the identity specification, but I can’t find it with the information I get. The way I get the schema is this: using ( DbConnection cn = provider.CreateConnection()) { cn.ConnectionString = tbConnection.Text; cn.Open(); res[1] = "dbo" ; res[2] = table; metadataTable = cn ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to Deploy Solution

  I've been successfully deploying an SSAS 2005 solution to production and have today encountered a strange deployment error: Error 26 Errors in the metadata manager. An error occurred when loading the (Bookings measure group, from the file, '\\ \F:\MSSQL\OLAP\Data\....det.xml'. (The path in the above error message has been truncated). My production data source server name has not changed although this appears to be a server connectivity is ...Show All

• SQL Server Which Replication Topology?

  Folks, Help me figure this out once and for all! We have three geographically dispersed offices, each with their own local SQL Server. We are creating a DB application (SQL Server 2005) for our primary business (insurance) and expect to have one database with replicas on the other servers. (There is no "primary" or home server -- each of the local replicas/servers are peers.) Users in each office will update records in the local ...Show All

• Smart Device Development determining phone location---recieving broadcast messages

  I m trying to develop the code for determining the current location of the phone user on smartphone 2003 SE. I m doing native code development--win32 apis. As it should be i want to know the current location (like country city locality) of the user. And i guess broadcast messages is wat I need to determine that. But i m having a hard time finding a way to recieve these messages. I hv googled enough in vain already. Any thread or clue wud b hig ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ Express B2 not working with Platform SDK

  Microsoft claims that you can write native Win32 applications with the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2.  Microsoft claims that this can be done simply by downloading and installing the Platform SDK. Is this in fact true   Are they really giving away a full-featured IDE and SDK that would allow you to build Win32 applications   Let's find out... These are the EXACT steps I've gone through 3 times now to get this to work ...Show All