Arrun's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms c# Express Edition having trouble with the set Image?

  Error message In Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: An item with the same key has already been added. This happens when I add a button to a toolStrip in an application. When I go to Image on the properties window. I need help with this so i can add my image buttons for my application this is my last step to completion of the project. Please give me some advice! I have the same problem. Notice. My proyect is imported from V ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies But wait, it gets better.

  Cannot install/re-install MS DeskTop Search (nor toolbar): "cannot remove older version"; running XP Pro on Intel 865 motherboard with 1 gig of ram and 3Mhz Pentium 4. Error message "cannot remove older version" is response to running new download; nothing which looks remotely similar to desktop search shows up in {Remove Software} nor do I find any version of anything which looks like desktop search in \Programs\..., incl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What are visit methods?

  Hello I have been using FxCop to develop my custom rules. Although I have been using various Check functions to develop all kinds of rules... I dont know the functions of various visit functions. Can anyone elaborate me briefly Also How can I access the module type in check function : public override ProblemCollection Check(string namespaceName, TypeNodeList types) I am developing a rule which requires accessing of module as well as namespace.. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums What kind of info do you want to see on the MSDN ISV Community Center site?

  If you have a minute or two to let us know what kind of ISV-specific content you'd like to see on the ISV Community Center it would really help us tailor the site to your needs as an ISV. Just a few questions to get you started... > Is the focus of the current content too broad, too narrow, or generally on target > What topics would you like to see more info on in relation to your business and/or software developme ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Lookup task

  Is there a way to set the Lookup task to be not case sensitive For example, the lookup table has id 1, value 'ABCD'. The value that I'm using to lookup is 'abcd'. I cannot make it to return the id 1 unless I convert my lookup value to be all upper case. And I don't want to use Fuzzy Lookup. Thanks, Ash Converting both data to all uppercase or lowercase is exactly what I currently have for workaround. Just thought there may be be ...Show All

• .NET Development WEBSERVICE EXCEL AUTOMATION

  Hi I made a webservice to extract especific data from an excel file located in the web server. For instance: <System.Web.Services.WebMethod()> Public Function HelloWorld( ByVal sRange As String ) As String Dim oExcel As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application Dim oWorkbook As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook Dim sValue As String oWorkbook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open( "C:\ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Extracting Variables from Strings and Event for a Tabchange in a TabControl

  I have a program that is meant to take a user defined string (ex. x2 + 2x + 1) and divide it, and then store those values (the coefficents of x); there is a practically indefinite number of numbers in the coefficient. I've looked at the String.Split Method, but I don't understand it very well nor do I believe it's very practical when you have to keep splitting each variable to get the coefficient. Is there an easier way to the the opposite of ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS 2K5 Dimension Processing

  I have a lot of experience with SSAS 2K, but I am trying out SSAS 2K5 (June CTP) for the first time. I am trying to build cubes against a SS 2K database on a different computer on the network (Win 2003). Everything works great until I try to process a dimension--where it always fails. I think I have tried every permutation of access security and impersonation. Messages are like, "The following system error occurred:  The specified dom ...Show All

• .NET Development should we put our ADO.Net objects in data tier or biz tier

  Datadapeters, connections, datasets, parameters. should we put them in data classes or in the buziness classes. I think Queries, views, columns we should put these in data tier , right Thanks http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=a8381e9c-884d-4cb2-9dbe-255c2790634b&DisplayLang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=A08E4A09-7AE3-4942-B466-CC778A3BAB34&displaylang=en http://msdn. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Copy/Paste/Delete/Undo in a MainMenu

  How can I utilize these commands using a MainMenu as seen in most of today's applications Sure, but keep in mind that you don't have to literally store a "text" value in your tag -- since it is of type Object you&n ...Show All

• Visual C# calling C++ methods from C# and vice versa

  I've got a C# project and a C++ project in the same solution. I want to be able to call C++ methods from C# and vice versa. Are there any guides for this (Visual Studio 2005) Make you class COM Visable, here are some article: Marshaling Data with COM Introduction to COM Interop Interop Marshaling Default Marshaling Behavior Marshaling Data with Platform Invoke Marshaling Data with COM Interop Intero ...Show All

• Smart Device Development DeviceIoControl for Service.exe problem

  Hi I’m currently writing a application in VB.NET for using the intermediate driver on a XDA Exec this works perfectly and I can view the current position how many satellites etc. The problem arises when the Pocket PC turns its self off then turning it back on the intermediate driver get stuck with the device status registering as StartingUp a reboot does fix this but it but is not viable option as the Pocket PC powers off after 5 mins ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Optimization

  Hi There We have a package that simply reads a rows from a table and puts it into a flat file destination, this repeats through a for each loop. It is a very simple package. Problem is it takes 10 minutes to do a thousand rows. This is incradible slow, i have check indexes are fine, the table are only 1000 rows, but it seems to only read and write about 3 rows a second, this is crawling. Please how can we make tis faster, are there any obviously ...Show All

• Visual C++ error about"cannot be marshaled as an unmanaged structure"

  i got a struct like: --------------------- public ref struct OutPacket{ int m_replyIndex; List<MainInfo^>^ m_mainInfos; }; --------------------- when i pass it to another process, i have to transfer it to intptr : --------------------- IntPtr pnt = Marshal::AllocCoTaskMem(Marshal::SizeOf(outPacket)); Marshal::StructureToPtr(outPacket,pnt,true); return pnt; --------------------- then i got a message: ********* err = {"Type 'C ...Show All

• SQL Server Formating bound data

  How do I change, or add to, the following code so as to be able to format the display: this.txtAppointmentDate.DataBindings.Add(new Binding ("Text", dsData.Tables["Results"],"AppointmentDate") The data is stored in SQL Server as datetime and I want only the date portion to show in the TextBox. Thanks in advance Hi, thats more a GUI related question, but anyway: http://www ...Show All