nextgeneration's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Remoting client mutual exclusion

  I have a service that hosts a control that I want to expose through .NET Remoting (derived from MarshalByRefObj).  A single control is instantiated and starts interfacing to a device when the service starts.  The control must only be accessed by a single client at a time because only one person can control the device at a time.  I want to expose a mutex like locking mechanism so only one client can get access to the remoted object.  Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this I'm using the .NET 2005 Beta2 with C++\CLR.  I have a shared assembly that houses the interfaces for marshaling between client and server so ...Show All

• Windows Forms multitasking

  I have get 2 questions ...about multitasking  1)is there any way to get a picture of a window content while it's minimized    (i.e. :lets say I want to write to a file what's going on my anti-virus window while it's minimized)  2)is it possible to give a window inputs(from mouse or keyboards) from my application while the real user is using a ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL server setting

  This is what I have: 100 GB (raid1) = OS 143 GB X 2(raid5) = SQL software, logs, and data This is for about 30 users that access the data via vb.net Is this ok Everything depends on the specific workload. Use profiler and perfmon to monitor your server. If possible try to stress test the system before you use it for production purposes. Products such as LoadRunner enable you to simulate multiple users for your application. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System SharePoint Portal Server or Services?

  Do  need to install SharePoint Portal Or just the SharePoint Services Hello Raphael, You need to install Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 with SP 2 for use with Team Foundation Server. For more information on how to go about installing this, please refer to the installation guide here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=E54BF6FF-026B-43A4-ADE4-A690388F310E&displaylang=en Hope this helps! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Frames with windows forms

  I am making a windows form program in vb.net that i want to have in a single form. My question is, what is the best way of creating an interface similar to "frames" in html. This is what i want to do: Create two seperate areas/frames within my form. Click on a button in area/frame 1 will open/display a particular form/page in area/frame& ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to show an index search like display in listbox?

  Hello, I would like to link an user input textbox with a list display, while user input character will be compared with the listbox content and the closest one will be poped up to the top of the listbox. (The way a lot like Dynamic Help Index works). Could somebody please suggest a way to do this. Thank you very much. James Well, it's not even much harder, I have made no code yet but, here is the behavior to follow It is exactly the same, - add a function that searches ";" - when it catches ";" add " OR " to the query string and voila ! ...Show All

• Visual Studio database vendor code 4060

  I am having trouble with one report out of many that I have written so far. I have a .Net app using the crystalreportviewer. I set the logoninfo (which I have verified a dozen times as correct) at runtime and I still get the following when trying to run the report against a sql server database: Failed to Open the Connection Details: [Database Vendor Code 4060]   Now, according to SQL Server, this is an authentication error. However, when I run this exact same .rpt file in the report designer, it comes up just fine. I verified that the stored procedure I'm running up against is correct and that basically everything I can ...Show All

• SQL Server Dtexec Version

  I have noticed something while I was testing over the weekend. When I execute packages via "dtexec" it is showing the version as 9.00.1399.06 even though I have installed SP1 and hotfix. It is same for 32 bit and 64 bit. Is this a bug or nothing changed in SP1 as far as dtexec is concerned and therefore the version still remains same as RTM Thanks Sutha ...Show All

• .NET Development Error 25015 while installing .NET Framework 2.0

  Hi there, I try to install .Net Framework 2.0 and encounter this error : Error 25015.Failed to install assembly 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.VisualBasic.VSA.dll' because of system error: The filename, directory name, or volume label setup syntax is incorrect. Please help! Pl. make sure that no Antivirus is running while installing. Disable all AV services & then try installing the framework. ...Show All

• .NET Development Network stream problems (PLEASE HELP!)

  Is it possible to read a single network (TCP) stream using both blocking and asyncronous reads in the same application All attempts I have made cause the application to hang. Basically I would like to be reading asyncronously for unexpected incoming messages in the background whilst blocking for replies to specific messages sent to the server as a result of the users actions. Please tell me if I haven't worded this very well as I haven't been very good in the past (this is about the 5th time I have tried to get this question answered on msdn!) Could you give me the context that this is functioning in ...Show All

• Visual C++ System.InvalidOperationException in System.Windows.Forms.dll

  Hi!!! I posted some days ago with a problem: I had this: I had a large C++ unmanaged application which I compiled and ran perfectly using Visual Studio 2003. Now, I want to compile and run it using Visual Studio 2005. When I compiled it in release mode everything worked fine, but I got about a thousand comiler errors when trying to compile it in debug mode. All of these compiler errors appear in files that belong to Visual Studio 2005 such as stdlib.h, cstdlib.h,etc. Finally, I managed to compile my application in debug mode :D But now when I try to run my application I get this message: System.InvalidOperationException occurr ...Show All

• Visual C++ Has to do with linking files to a project

  I'm not really new to VC++.. I have VS2003.net and have used it for years now, but I have never seen this before. I am using threads and sockets, so I need to include items in my linker. Normally that would not be hard, I would just rightclick on the project, select properties, go to the linker tab and add the lib dependancies there... here is my problem: When I select the properties, I cannot change ANYTHING. Furthermore, when I select sub-tabs (ex. the linker tab, or the C/C++ tab) there is nothing there. I have re-created my project several times, restarted my computer, done everything I can think of. Nothing works, and I really nee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions getting rid of the Console Window problem

  This is for all of you who were trying to get rid of that annoying console window when you write a console app.  I was writing a program that you opened from a quick launch icon near your clock, and i figured out how to turn off the window.  You want to create a Windows Application project and set the "Application Type" to "Windows Application", then just uncheck the "Enable application framework" checkbox under the project properties window.  Now just run "Sub Main" from a module instead of a form.  Hope this helps. DAVE   Origamidave wrote: This is for all of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System creating new process template

  Hi, I would like to integrate the new process model in VSTS, which already exists in my organization named as Pbook. How can I integrate Pbook with VSTS without customizing the given two process (Agile and CMMi ) Well I can edit the XML file after downloading it and then will upload it but it is the customization process. I don’t want to do this, because this will work fine for work item and basic configuration setting, all the process guidelines may not fulfill (which is defined in Pbook process model). like, i want to use Pbook manual test templete while creating new manual test in Tester edition. I want ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C++ Express Compatibility with Service Pack 6

  I have an application that says it requires Service Pack 6. Is this compatible with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition or is it only compatible with Visual C++ 6.0 Express uses an entirely new set of DLLs, stored in a different location so wouldn't make that application happy. Make sure it wants the Microsoft Visual Studio version 6 service pack, not some other one like NT4 or Jet SP6. You can download MSVC6 SP6 from here . ...Show All