dcleary's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms regarding password protection

    i developed a small application is windows forms2.0 using ms-access as backend Now i want to provide a security feature to both my appln and the mdb file when the user opens the appln, it should display dialog box for password in the same way, if the user tries to access mdb file ,it should display same dialog box for password. I dont know how i can implement this ive heard about forms authentication vb.ne ...Show All

• Architecture Exception Management in N-Tier architecture

  Hi, The following are the layers in our application: 1. Entities/Collections 2. Data Access 3. Business Logic 4. Service Facade layer 5. UI The way we implement our exception handling in each layer is : 1. Catch exception 2. Wrap the exception using a Custom Application Excpetion class, that also indicates the type of exception, say the exception is due to Data/Service or a Generic one. 3. Log the exception 4. Re-throw the exception ...Show All

• Visual Studio Copying all the solution's output files to a folder

  Is there a way to automatically copy all the output files for all the projects in a solution to a given folder Thanks I've just edited my original post to change the name of the property to "OutDir" this property will work for solutions where managed code and ASP.NET webs are present. (Thanks Ramesh!) ..Kieran ...Show All

• SQL Server sql server agent job execution of a package failed

  Hi, when I try to run a package as Job I receive the following error Executed as user: SITA\sqlserveragent_svc. The package execution failed. The step failed. Has someone an idea how I can get more detailed information about WHY the job failed Tha package was created in BIDS and imported into MSDB. Running the package from the Integration Services context menu works, but starting it as a job from SQL Server Agent fails. Any idea or ...Show All

• SQL Server What's the easiest way to copy tables from one 2005 DB to another 2005 DB?

  I've tried creating a simple SSIS package but I get the error: [Transfer SQL Server Objects Task] Error: Execution failed with the following error: "Cannot apply value null to property Login: Value cannot be null..". THis is a known bug and while we wait for SP1 to fix this error, is there another way to simply copy tables (with indexes and without having the identity column renumbered) Any help is appreciated! ...Show All

• Windows Forms opening a paticular cell in editMode when dg row is highlighted

  hiya, When the user clicks on a dgRow, I want to be able to be open the 5th cell (in editMode) of the selected dgRow.Ideally, I want the underlying datable to be updated if the user subsequently enters data in this cell and then moves ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Load Test Display

  Is it possible to display where each user is during a load test My goal is to have code webtest that is similar to the following: display (User Login) <http requests> display (User Logged in As UserABC) <http requests> Then while running the load test I have created for the webtest. I would be able to see where each user was in the code with the display statements in a list. For example, User1 User Login User2 User Logged in As Us ...Show All

• Visual C# Counting lines of a file

  Is there a easy way to get the amount of lines a file has Without looping through every line and incrementing a variable as I am working with large files, or is that the only way I can do it Basicly, I'm looking for the quickest way to get the amount of lines a file has. Thanks. Hi Squimmy, You can do it by the following code snippet. Void CountLines() { string[] fileContents = File.ReadAllLine ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I get mathematics functions

  I have just downloaded Visual C# Express. I find that it has no mathematics functions and many others missing such as sleep(). Can someone tell me how I get these. I have looked in the MSDN library at System.Math and can see no way to download the mathematics functions. Is this something that is missing form the Express edition You have the Math class http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/s ...Show All

• .NET Development SqlDataSource/DataField Bug in 2.0 ?

  I've come across an odd situation. If someone has a table where a column name contains a space, and you generate a SqlDataSource on that column, some interesting things happen if you try to bind them. When I tried to bind, (in a GridView), the column name First Name via DataField="[First Name]", it gave a runtime error stating that [First Name] cannot be found in the sqlDataSource. Oddly enough, I took the brackets out and just sent i ...Show All

• SQL Server Question About Scalability of Reporting Services

  We use SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services to represent reports for our company. Our boss complained to me about the poor performance of Reporting Services when he viewed reports. He suspected that RS Server is a single-thread server and can not be scaled up by adding more CPUs or memories to increase the reports process speed. Is my boss correct And how can we increase the performance of Reporting Servces Traditional scale up can res ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions WeatherTracker Web Service

  Hi All, Been working my way through the book "Visual basic 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!" (available as a download once registered). I've reached the last chapter where it references the Web Service for http://www.esje.com/WeatherService/Service.asmx however, this does not seem to be 'live'. Also, the service appears to be US based and I was hoping that someone can point me in the direction of another similar service which I can att ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problems in Release Compilation

  My Visual C++ 6.0 MFC project serves as a framework that loads a variable series of MFC extension DLLs that do most of the work of the project. Although the DLLs vary widely in function and complexity, they have many common features and derive from a common base class. All of the DLLs export a configure() function. In most cases, the configuration is accomplished with a standard MFC dialog and associated class derived from CDialog. ...Show All

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• Visual C++ retrieving commandline arguments

  Hallo, I am invoking a programm developed using visual c++ from another program which is also developed using vc++. i call from Prog A using the function STARTUPINFO si; PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; ZeroMemory( &si, sizeof(si) ); si.cb = sizeof(si); ZeroMemory( &pi, sizeof(pi) ); ::CreateProcess("B.exe"," /mod", NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi)==0) Now my question is how to retrieve or using which ...Show All