gjvde's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Solutions...

  A brief history... Okay, I am completely new to programming. My past attempts with trying to learn C++ from the two huge 3" books that I have was a waste of my time. When I did finally learn how to make something simple, I did not understand how to implement a "user-interface" with the project. But when I came across Visual Basic 2005, it completely opened up the programming basics to me...I am even able to understand more about the C++ and C# a little bit better (not because of VB, just because I am an idiot to understanding programming). The beginners video series really helped out. Now, as with everyone else here, I ...Show All

• Visual Basic Getting the Control under a Context Menu

  Hi,  I have a context menu attached to several controls on the same form. How can I determine on whitch one of these controls the user right-clicked to get the context menu and select an option I gess it can be done in the menu option click event handler, but I do not know how. Thanks Patrick My apologies, seems I may have pointed you in the wrong direction. I'm new to VB.Net and the menus I've created are for dynamicly created control collection. I've done a little reading though and it looks like the property you need to reference the clicked control is "ContextMenu1.SourceControl", this apparently re ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Open an excel file

  Hope you will help a beginner .. Here's what I want to do:  In a VBA subroutine, try to open an excel file with a particular name say, P01GAB.xls.  It may not be in the diretory, if not, wait for 10 seconds and try again.  If so, open it and go on to the next thing.  (Eventually, it will be in the directory...)  So, I take it, I need some sort of error trap on the Workbooks.Open command... Thanks much.   Oops! That piece of code should now look like this: for i=1 to iMax on error resume next set wb = workbooks.open(sPath & "\" & sFile) on error goto 0 if not ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is the Team Suite trial compatable with TFS Beta 3 Refresh

  I am currently having a problem accessing Documents in Team Explorer using the client shipped with TFS Beta 3 Refresh and wondering if I will have better luck with Team Suite Trial edition. Anyone know Yes, my AD id has been designated as an Administrator within the team site. This has been working fine for me. BTW, is the Team Explorer "Documents" folder interfacing with SharePoint ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Need advice with respect to VS Team System

  Hello... We are a company that has a development area in which about 10 programmers work. We have recently started to program in .NET Framework 2005. By using VS.NET 2005 only local development can be made and once the program is ready to publish, it is possible to publish it by using VS.NET itself. When I tried to use a network shared folder to store project files, a warning was shown telling about security. This happens in both windows or web projects. Is there a way to develop in a centralized server so that all programmers in the team can work on the same projects I have thought about VSTS but I'm not sure if this will work for ...Show All

• Smart Device Development from pda to oracle DB

  i'm passing data from hp PDA that using microsoft application to oracle DB. what supposed script/codes that i can use to solve that. Are you using any database on your PDA What kind of data you need to pass Typically you develop mobile app with SQL Server and use SQL Server's synchronization features to sync mobile database with your server db. Oracle's mobile dB is Oracle 10g Lite with sync capabilities with server dB. You may want to read about their documentation. Manav ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Assistance With Goal Based Load Pattern

  Hi, I am running a goal based load test for the overall Avg. Response Time counter with these settings Initial user count - 1 Max user count - 2000 max. user increment and decrement - 5 min user count -1 stop adjusting user count when goal reaches - true test time between iterations - 30sec I am recording the results for the above scenario and need some help understanding them. The userload shows as 1 for the first 3 minutes in the run and jumps to 109 and stays there. The Requests/sec even at this user load is around 3. How can I know how much load is actually hitting the server on the remote machine Each iter ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Filter ????

  I could filter the data in “Datagrid” by a textbox when “Dataview” tool was present in “VS.NET 2003” . I was using the following code (DVPerson.RowFilter = “Name like” & txtSearch. Text & “%”) Using this code, when I typed a letter in “txtSearch”, names starting with the letter I entered would be automatically displayed in “datagrid”. But I can’t use this code this code in VS.NET 2005 because there is no “DataView” tool… How can I do this operation in VS.NET 2005 DataView class is available in NETCF. I'm not sure what tool are you referring to, but you can simply type som ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql Server Merge Replication vs. Sql Server Transactional with updatable subscribtion

  Hi, Transactional replication allows updatable subscriptions where changes at the subscriber are replicated up to the publisher, this can happen via Immediate Updating subscriptions, Queue subscriptions and P2P (new in SQL 2005), all forms of Transactional replication. Any compared document between merge replication and Transactional with updatable subscribtion Thanks, Tarek Ghazali SQL Server MVP There is no doc, just what's in Books Online, which can be summarized as: Transactional replication is typical for server to server environment requiring low latency. Typically there are few su ...Show All

• Windows Forms When/Where should I instantiate the control when placing on the designer

  I'd like to pre-populate some properties of a control when drag'ndrop from the toolbox onto the custom designer. When should I set these properties During the onselection, drag event, or somewhere else Thanks, Alan the link provided for the behavior service appears to be dead. I found this white paper written by Jim Galasyn that is supposed to have info on Behavior services.  I haven't read it yet but i wanted to post the link before I forgot. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/DSExtend.asp You can view Jim’s blog here h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VS 2005 Professional with Office Tools

  Does VS 2005 Professional with MSDN Professional Subscription come with Tools for the Microsoft Office System I don't beleive so. Actually, checking this site reveals that it does not: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms source code download

  I seem to remember that since Terrarium is MS's "cool thing" to do with .NET, the source code was available for download somewhere. Anyone know where the links went Yes, I co-wrote the Terrarium application, so I'm privy to various internals about it's creation that aren't available to the general public yet.  As far as I know,  ...Show All

• Visual C++ Possible Bug in Reference to Pointer to Const

  This is with VS 2005 void F( const char *&pChr) { pChr = "Test" ; } int _tmain( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { char *pChr1; const char *pChr2; F(pChr1); // Fails: cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char *' to 'const char *&' F(( const char *)pChr1); // Fails: cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char *' to 'const char *&' F(pChr2); // Succeeds return 0; } This behavior is by design. (Any other C++ compiler allowing it is not conforming to the C++ standard.) In general, implicit conversions in C++ cannot simultaneously appl ...Show All

• Windows Forms AutoToolboxPopulate option question

  Hi, Is it possible to limit the AutoToolboxPopulate to some certain projects in a solution Or is it possible to exclude some projects in the solution from toolbox population Thank you in advance Setting the options per project would be very useful for large projects. If you can make that suggestion in our feedback site, that would be great. http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback Its best if you can do this (as opposed to us filing the issue internally) so we can track that it came from a customer and you can check back at the site to view the current status of the suggestion. ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't get Connection String to work in File Connection Manager

  "\\bs-10ss\\users$\\mydir\\output.txt" + (DT_WSTR,15)(DT_DBDATE)GETDATE() + "_" + (DT_WSTR, 15)(DT_DBTIME)GETDATE() + ".txt" This throws an error when pasting it into the ConnectionString property of my Flat File Connection Manager.  All I want to accomplish is to throw in the date of the file created and so far, I have been unsuccessful.  It doesn't like any of the syntax I've put in there other than using the browse button to specify the source or straight UNC path. Could be way off here (only been using SSIS for two weeks), but when I look at unc paths in a variable, the servername is preceded by 4 backslashes i.e. " \ ...Show All