Christopher DC's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Maximum number of Conversation Timers?

  Is there an upper limit on the number of Conversation Timers We're using Conversation Timers to implement a retry mechanism for outbound web service calls. The idea is to use Service Broker to queue up a number of web service requests. If a web service call fails to contact it's target server, we would like to reschedule that request to retry after a few minutes delay. It appears that when we have a few thousand Conversation Timers queued up, S ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 1.1 compliance

  Hi! I've now been using VS 2005 Beta 2 for my major C# project Virtual Photo Organizer for quite some time now and I am, apart from a few unexpected crashes in debug mode, pretty satisfied with it. There is however one major problem: I can't release any assemblies that require the .NET 2.0 BETA, thus I always have to compile my code with VS 2003 for the official releases. When doing that I also frequently have to remove some excess Windows-Form ...Show All

• Visual Basic Newbie: VB 2005 Express & Form Inheritance

  Beg pardon, but I'm 5 days into a long journey to learn .NET.  ;-)  I downloaded VB 2005 and bought a few books on VS 2003 to get started. On a chapter concerning form inheritance, and on the Help documentation of VB.NET Express, it looks like I ought to be able to inherit a form by clicking Project, Add Inherited Form.  From reading this forum, it looks like in the Express edition, that menu navigation may have been removed from ...Show All

• Windows Forms TaskVision client destroyed my PC!

  I've decided to repost this message as separate thread cos I don't think it's getting the attention I deserves.   Here's the problem... I installed the TaskVision client about a week ago, and immediately after started noticed weird things happening to my ...Show All

• Windows Forms Searching the Database for Records with Specific Criteria

  I want to implement a search engine in my application that searches by a text box entry along with drop-down boxes. Similar to software at doctor's offices.  They type in the name of the person and that person's record is returned if there  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to Hide Mouse Cursor in Visual Basic Express

  I have a problem on hiding my mouse cursor on Visual Basic Express... How can I do this... Can you please help me my fellow:( ...Show All

• Visual C++ Latest compiler creating XP-only compatible .exe files

  [had no luck on the Visual Studio Express forum...] Has the compiler for this new release version of VC++express changed since the beta On a different forum, the following posts have been made: " I always use UPX to compress my binaries, and it seems that compressing the output of the new compiler produces something that doesn't run." "Is there any managed code in it UPX butchers that as I recall as it is not actual valid machin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Populating Textbox from Combo Box Selection

  Friends, Looking for suggestions on how to populate a textbox based on a combo box selection. My instinct tells me that I will need to have two seperate data tables...One to populate the combo box with values from a data table and another against the same data with a query parameter. For example, my combo box contains values from data table called Departments. In the combo box I would like to display all the department numbers available... ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Cannot uninstall WDS v2.6.5 (5378) under XP SP2

  Howdy, I am using XP SP2 on a IBM T40 laptop, accessing through two accounts; one with admin privilege and the other under Power User. For daily usuage, I used the latter. The problem is I can't uninstall WDS v02.06.5000.5378. It is because: a) WDS isn't listed in Add/Remove Programs b) the Uninstaller package is not listed in %systemroot%\$NtUninstallkb911993-V2$\spuninst and lastly c) The "Windows Install Clean Up" doe ...Show All

• Visual Basic Getting data from a database using a primary key

  Hello. I am having trouble with a program. I want to be able to get some data from my database table, given the value of the primary key. This is what I have so far: projectName = DbDataSet.Projects.FindByid(projectId).name where projectName is a String, and DbDataSet is my dataset. The variable projectId is the ID of the row I want to extract the data from, but every time I run my code I get a NullReferenceException. I know ...Show All

• .NET Development help me about shortcutkeys in vs.net2003

  Is there any shorcutkeys to add a comment tag on selected area in visual studio.net html edit box I find it only offer one in c sharp edit box. thanks! Oh,thx, I heard about it can add comment tag in html editor box form my buddy,but i tried it before and proved it had no support in vs.net 2003.So i post the question to get help, and i haven't thought it only be supported in vs2005. Sorry.  Thanks a lot. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to close Explorer.EXE and restart at END

  Hello All... As many of you who have helped me before know, I am working on an app for a KIOSK. The desktop appears during form to form switches, and I tried closing the desktop(Explorer) and what a difference! Is there a way I can shut it dow when the app comes up, and restart it when and if the app is closed (for maintenance etc) Hi Renee, and Spotty...If there were a way to prevent the desktop and taskbar from making sudden an ...Show All

• Visual C++ Why doesn't the following compile under VC2003?

  Why does the following code snippet not compile in Visual C++ 2003 It compiles under GCC, so why not in VC2003. What is wrong with it // Outter class: class Outter { public: // First inner class: template class Inner1 {}; // Second Inner class: class Inner2 { public: // Method definition: Outter* Inner1() {} }; }; Mozilla did that to me too: nuke the linebreaks.  Here it is again (over-compensation courtesy ...Show All

• Visual C# Network

  Hi, I am start learning to use the System.Net functions build in 2.0. Now I have a simple task I want to complete, I want to be able to send information between different computers in my LAN. More exactly I want to send strings between the computers: - type - name - message What is the best way to do this The best thing to do is to working with a server-computer, I think, because I'm working with more than 4 computers. Pleas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Overriding "CreatedBy" and "CreatedDate" for new work items

  We are in the middle of writing a tool to migrate all our bug data to TFS via the object model. It is essential for us to preserve the user and date of each change made to a bug report. Currently TFS uses the current user and datetime. Is there a way of overriding the "CreatedBy" and "CreatedDate" when adding new work items A possible workround is to insert each bug in its initial s ...Show All