Fred.Thorel's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I save an image to a SQL database table?

  Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition: I have an image in PictureBox1. I want to save the image into an SQL database table. I have a column in the table named PictureBox1 with image as it's DataType. HI furjaw, Check this link : http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_database/sqlserver/article.php/c7427/ It store/retrieve image to sql database. Hope it helps, Michael Castillones ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Middle Tier Server using WCF

  Hi, Please, I need to know if it is possible convert my Middle Tier Server to WCF and how. Using 100% .NET Remoting I wrote a middle tier server named ‘Endomap – Enterprise Domain Application’ to easy administrate connections and application servers. Like an IIS, but only for ‘Smart Clients’, so it is : 1) A windows service (EndoServer) that runs your middle tier Assembly/DLL's in one or more AppDomains. You give your methods the < ...Show All

• Windows Forms Open Child form

  Hello all, I have 3 simple forms: 1. Main form (MDI Container) 2. Search Form (Child) 3. Record Form (Child) I want to open the Record Form using code that is in the Search Form. And both of them will be MDI children to the Main form. Any ideas Than ...Show All

• Windows Forms Changing the Mouse Cursor on ListView

  Hi, I am having a ListView, I want to change the Cursor style of he ListView on MouseOver event of the ListView, I have tried setting the cursor style of the listview, but it is not helping me, Please suggest me some solutions. Thanks & Regards, Benin. Did u tried the code something like the following this.listBox1.Cursor = Cursors.UpArrow; it is working fine at my end, What is the problem at ur end ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Runtime Files for Visual Foxpro 5

  Does anyone know what runtime files are to be included in a Visual Foxpro 5 application for distribution Thanks. That's a very old versionthat I have not seen in many years. If I remember correctly you need VFP500.DLL plus whatever language runtimes if your destination language is other than English. Hopefully somebody else will chime in if I'm wrong. Anyway, all you have top do is use the deployment wizard and it will take ca ...Show All

• Visual C# Deploy Windows Service

  Hi, I read a tutorial on MSDN about the creation of a simple windows service, and then install it from Visual Studio.NET command prompt using InstallUtil ... command. My question is: how can we deploy this windows service so that we can install on another computer that doesn't have Visual Studio.NET installed. I mean can we create an installer or some package for it, or must we need Visual Studio.NET command prompt also on another compu ...Show All

• SQL Server prorating the date fields with cost

  Hi all I have got 3 columns in my table- start date,finish date and cost..in the following format... start_date finish_date cost 12/12/2000 20/12/2000 $2000 01/09/2000 12/10/2000 $400 Now if the month and year of the start and finish date is same, the cost remains same... but if the month of the two dates are different, i have to distribute the cost between the two months by calculating the cost f ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows forms assistance...

  Hi there, I come from a web development background, and have been thrown in the deep end having to create a database driven windows forms application in a very short timespan. Not having any formal knowledge/training/experience creating a windows application, this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Wil the launch really be at November 7.?

  Hello, I am currently developing a product with vs 2005 beta 2 and sql server express, the software is going to be sold to customers who dont know about technology, I dont want to use the go live license because the software will take more than 4 months so  in November 7 I will be developing yet, and second because the customers wont like to install beta 2 software on their production servers (I know that its very stable but Customers just ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Wrong version of windows found

  I just tried to install and got a popup that said I must have Win 2k sp4 or higher. I'm running Win XP SP2. This is not the first I have hit this. I got it installing the Adobe reader. My system came from Dell preloaded with XP on it. The system properties in the control panel show 'Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2'. My software had always validated when using Windows update. What can I do to correct this Can I edit ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can I create unbounded generic type in VB.NET?

  I would like to create an unbounded generic type in VB.NET. I know that in C# you can do e.g. GenericType<of Integer> and an unbounded version with GenericType<> but if I try to do GenericType() in VB.NET, I get an "Too Few Type arguments to 'GenericType'" error. So, is this possible or is this yet again something that is in C# but not in VB.NET The reason I'm trying to accomplish this is that I have a generic type ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1

  Is there no "passive" install mode for SP1 (gui but no user input required) I can run unattended using the /quiet switch but this gives me absolutely no feedback as to progress or success/failure of the install. It also returns to the command prompt immediately whilst kicking of msiexec in the background, meaning I can't trap any errorlevel. How are we supposed to check success or failure in applying the SP for unattended installs For ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) am finding some problem with invoking a web service written using WCF.

  hi, I have developed a web service in WCF and its working fine on windows xp sp2. when i run the same code in windows 2003 server then i get some error when my client tries to invoke the web service that is hosted in the IIS. The error is as given below: 1. The server did not provide a meaningful reply; this might be caused by a contract mismatch, a premature session shutdown or an internal server error. The above error occurs when i ...Show All

• Visual C# Showing FileName

  Ok, when I put the following code for a label to display it a file name it displays the whole directory: label1.text = file.FileName; What I want is just to dispay the name of the file. Not the whole directory. ie. Eddie McClain - Living Forever.mp3. Is there a way to do this. Can someone help me It depends on where the file name is currently stored.  If you have only a string then use Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension ( ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Adding query results to a List, can it be done?

  I've been testing linq and I'm wondering if this can be done.  The code compiles fine but crashes when run. I'm trying to get LINQ to create a new instance of my class for each result set that I then add to a typed list using foreach.  Now, is it not working because my class does not implement IEnumerable or is it some other reason Here's the code snip I'm trying to get to work. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; ...Show All