Earl Bonovich's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Killing a ThreadPool thread

  How can I safely kill a thread from a ThreadPool That is, how can I kill/abort the thread resulting from queueing like this: ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem( new WaitCallback(someMethod), someObject); The problem is as follows: 1. Once in a while (much more often than we can afford for the critical production application!..) the Image.SelectActiveFrame(...) method hangs, consumes 98 to 99 % of CPU, and we have to reboot the server... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System many applications sharing framework projects, and each on a different version

  I have several applications that share a set of framework projects. Each application uses a different version of the framework projects. Can I check out multiple versions to support multiple checked-out applications, or do I have to check out separately It might sound goofy at first, but originally we just created project references to the framework projects. But this assumed that all of our applications would always use the latest version ...Show All

• SQL Server KPIS Help

  In asp.net 2.0 How can I use the KPIS and show the semaphores as the balanced scorecard     Check this out... http://blogs.msdn.com/olivier_pieri/archive/2004/12/06/275811.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Create .SDF from .MDF File

  So we have this database in SQL 2005, and we want to create a SQL Mobile database filled with a subset of data from that SQL 2005 database. Replication is NOT an option for us (otherwise, believe me, we would be down that road in a heartbeat). Hence why we're trying to create the files manually. Now, I know I could write an app that creates the .SDF file, gets the data from the master and puts it in the mobile one...but if there's a way to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Q : MDI Forms

  hi, now i'm learning how to create MDI form that can contain other forms but i have 2 problems, the tutorial wasn't clear about them 1) when i add a menubar to the child form it doesn't appear in the child form but it appear in the parent form so i will have duplicated menus like 2 menues for file , the same for edit ... etc how can i stop that and make the menu appear in the child form 2) parent form may contain many Child forms opened ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to make shortcut of program

  Hello How can I create a shortcut of program on Desktop, Start menu, Program Menu and Start Up Menu   Thanks & Regards When you create your deployment project, you can right click on the project output and choose create shortcut. You'll need to make one for each location. Rename these appropriately. Then you'll need to make folders for each location and move the shortcuts into t ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to create the Web 'http://localhost/Website'. Service Unavailable

  hello ppl...... I've got a problem when I've finished installed Visual Web Developer 2005, everything just fine but i didn't get any IIS in my computer. my operating system is Windows XP SP2. then when I run Visual Web Developer 2005 and select "create Website...." I got warning ==> Unable to create the Web 'http://localhost/Website'. Service Unavailable in the last time i got succes to installed the same software in dif ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Standard not suppoted!!!!!

  Why is Office 2003 Standard not supported in VSTO! THIS IS HORIBLE! It has Word, Excel and Outlook! I PAID GOOD MONEY FOR IT! I could have spent $150 on another product. This just doesn't make sense. Hi, Thanks for your feedback. Currently only Office Pro has the XML support that is the foundation of VSTO technology. The features that are in the various Office products are controlled by Office. I will pass this feedback allong to the Off ...Show All

• Visual Basic Read/Write CurrentUser Registry Entry

  I am looking for reference material or code for writing to the current user space in the registry. I need to check for a value on app start, if the value is not present show a form else continue. I have a form that I can use to select the proper value already built, I just need to be able to get the key inserted properly so when the app starts next it can verify if the key value is set then proceed. Suggestions David 1: Is the va ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions splash screen

  hi there i have a fairly small project im trying to make a splash screen that comes up for a short time and then disapears revealing the main form i have my splash screen working with a small piece of code in the aplication events and i just used the add new form splash screen for the rest my problem comes as the splash screen does not always display in front of form one and when it does you can just select the main form from behind and carry on ...Show All

• .NET Development Web service in VS 2005

  I am trying to debug a webservice by steping into a web method called from a web project. The strange thing is that sometimes it works but often it does not. When it does not work I get the following error when trying to step into a web method: Unable to automatically step into the server. The remote procedure could not be debugged. This usually indicaes that debugging has not been enabled on the server. See help for information. Here is h ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Custom Date Picker Control

  I am developing a form for entering data into Excel and for some of the fields have dates as values. I really like the built-in date and time picker control for this, except that I want to be able to change the background colour of the part of the control that looks like a combo box. And that is simply not possible with the standard date and time picker. How can I get around this problem I have been trying to create a custom control to ...Show All

• SQL Server Groupings in Matrix Layout?

  Hello, I am trying to come up with a Matrix report using RS 2005 that looks like this one below. I have row data: question, columns data: Ethnicity and Gender, detail data: Gender average response and Ethnicity average reponse. I utlilized Report Wizard to create a report in a Matrix format , however I wasn't able to have Gender and Ethnicity column on the same line. The report wizard groups columns so Gender is a subset of Ethnicity ...Show All

• SQL Server Insert Into...Exec

  I'm just curious if there are any known issues with the Insert Into...Exec statement in SQl Server 2000. We have some pretty intensive reports that were increasing exponentially in execution time as the amount of data increased linearly. We had difficulty tracking why this was happening, so I broke down all of the stored procedures and outputted the execution time of each. I isolated the problem down to an insert into...exec statement which woul ...Show All

• Visual Basic Tab Control Bug

  When a tab control is created with multiple tabs, how can I enforce the sequence or oreder of tabs that are displayed.  Net scrambles the tab order sometimes.  It takes me a long time to go into the net generated code to rearrange them back into the proper order and then it happens again.  How can I fix this. Fred Herring I'm finding the same problem, but the recommended solution doesn't help.  I have to actually edit th ...Show All