rbarr8's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms I cannot install nvidia graphics drivers on Windows Vista beta 2

  I am having problems installing my Video card drivers with my Dell XPS M1710 on Windows Vista beta 2 every time I try to install nvidia geforce Windows Beta 2 x86 drivers it says that you are installing the wrong graphics drivers for your operating system please install Windows Vista to continue. Can anyone help:( Im having a similar problem with the 64 Bit Nvidia Drivers, i get installed and then it will ei ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Need help saving what's typed in a textbox

  Hello all and thanks for reading. I'm trying to make a program that will simply remember what I type in multiple text boxes. I started approching the problem with a database but decided I should probably use file I/O with a text doc to save my data. I've found a few thing on loading my txt file, but I don't know where to go from there. I'm thinking I'll go comma delimated. I basically have about 150 text boxes. The number of text boxes will n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Catch when a control has been added?

  I had a VB6 add-in that caught when a control was being added to any form in the solution.  I am trying to rewrite this add-in in VS.Net 2K3 and I don't know how to do this.  The new object model is very different from the VB6 model.  Does anyone know how to catch when a control is being added to a form in the VS.Net 2K3 environment Thanks, Kevin I finally figured it out.... I was surfing thr ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cannot view running processes when certain programs are running on WM5

  I'm currently using the Remote Process Viewer on EVC to view the running processes on a WM5 device. I find that when I have, for example, a webpage openned, the Process Viewer does not get a list of processes (just comes up blank). When the browser is no longer active, I can see the processes once again. My assumption is that something is blocking the Process Viewer from getting a snapshot. Does anyone have any ideas ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS in SQL 2005

  Hello, This is kind of a stupid problem. I just installed SQL 2005 Standard and I am trying to use DTS to transform a Access DB to SQL. I am having a tough time finding where that feature is. Is it by default insatlled or is it an add-on Thanks! In SQL 2005 it is no longer called DTS it is known as SSIS(SQL Server Integration Services). You can migrate DTS packages to SSIS or re-build them using th ...Show All

• SQL Server Identifying Processing Counts

  Is it possible to determine the size of a cube using AMO I would like to know how many rows were processed after a process command, and how much data is stored within the cube. ...Show All

• .NET Development bug in serialport.close() ?

  Hi ! Here is my problem ... I developped in C# a class heriting from SerialPort. It contains functions structured like this : serialPort.open(); ....write....read.... ans so on; serialPort.close(); I use a timer to run theses functions every miliseconds. After a time, the application freeze. When i debug using "break all", i see a green arrow pointing serialPort.close(). When i press F11 to go to the next instruction, i can't see any y ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deployment project questions

  I would like to do the following in a CF deployment proect: 1) Add the program to "Programs", the "Start Menu", and "Startup" -- It seems that I should add these "Special folders" to the "File System on the Target Machine", but what do I add to those folders to actually get the program reference to be poperly added 2) I'd like the "Application Folder" not to be directly in "\Program Files" so I set the property "DefaultLocation".  This d ...Show All

• Visual C# How Do You Simulate a Mouse Click?

  I have a tab control with 6 tabs.  I want a specific tab to come into view and display its contents - just as if the user has clicked the mouse on it - based on user interaction on the form.  e.g. On one tab there is a datagrid with stock information, and when the use double-clicks on the column with the stock symbol, I load the graph for that chart on another tab.  This works fine, but I haven't been able to then have the ch ...Show All

• .NET Development Generating dataset fails with invalid error

  When I try to generate a dataset I get the following error 'There were problems generating <name dataset>. To resolve this problem, build the project, fix any errors, and then generate the dataset again'. Of course I first rebuilt the project but already without any errors, so this message doesn't make any sense. Later I tried to take another database, also without success. It seems now it has nothing to do with the database because i ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to install sql server 2005

  I got the following message when I try to install the SQL server 2005 June CTP. "SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup has detected incompatible beta components from Visual Studio or SQL Server. You must run the build cleanup wizard from the CD to remove previous SQL Server 2005 components and .NET Framework components, and then run SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup again. For detailed instruction on uninstalling SQL Server builds, see the SQL Server 2005 CTP rea ...Show All

• Visual C# tlbimp.exe problems

  Hello I'm working with Visual Studio Net 2.0. I have a C# with ASP-NET and a MFC-Com interface. Now, i have a problem with my assembly file. Microsoft has a workaround in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814721/en-us . If i use this workaround, he can't compile my webside net 2.0 anymore, because he doesn't know the namespace. If i use Visual Studio Net 2005 to load the dll, he can compile the project, but i get the 'System.Reflection.Targ ...Show All

• Visual C++ A Simple Question to MFC Developer Team

  why don't you still add to MFC library a native datagrid class p.s. blabla.ocx and listctrl isn't the answer......... The shortest way to reach the Lib team is to log the issue though the product feedback center at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there a way to force derived classes to implement serializable?

     I have a base class which is serializable. When I distribute this class I need to ensure that any derived classes will have to implement serializable or throw an error.  After looking through the documentation I added the [Serializable] attribute, will this do it Not by using attributes The SerializableAttribute 's i nherited property is set to false, so the attribute is no ...Show All

• Visual Studio "Unexpected error" dealing with vss in vs2005

  I get the following error when I try do do getLatestVersion or "Change source control" on a vss linked web app --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Unexpected error encountered. It is recommended that you restart the application as soon as possible. Error: Unspecified error File: vsee\pkgs\vssprovider\cmsscciabstractionlayer.cpp Line number: 5906 --------------------------- OK --- ...Show All