Mathias Raacke's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms VB MAPI PocketPC 2002 Question

  Hi, I am wanting to develop a VB application for a pocket pc device the will use MAPI to parse e-mail sent to service technicians. If I buy Visual Basic .Net Standard 2003, will this functionality be available  And what book would be good to read to understand MAPI Thank You, Lane ...Show All

• SQL Server search char in String

  Hi Is there any function to seperate a sting (VARCHAR) into two based on a character in the string (e.g. '-'). In short is there "InStr" or "split" type function in T-SQL If not what is the alternative I have a column called "Range" (VarChar) in the table which has ranges like 1-14 or 15-49 etc. I need to select records by compare a variable (numeric) against these ranges.   So for instace if the variable has 15 its in range 15-49. I was thinking of spliting the range field into two so that comparison is possible. Any suggestions thanks       Hello, do ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS and WSS

  Hello there My intranet site is Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) which is running on MSDE (Sharepoint) not SQL Server. I have downloaded your adm file and added to group policy. In Group Policy under user config. In the search tab of Windows Desktop Search I have set the Primary intranet search location. I have set as follows: intranet, http://servername/_layouts/1033/searchresults.aspx k=$w when i actually search it finds a load of docs on network email as normal. but when i click on the new intranet tab it opens WSS in a search tab but never finds anything. What am i doing wro ...Show All

• Visual C++ llegal call of non-static member function

  Hello, I have a problem calling a function located in one class from another. (MFC ) What i have set up is a tab control which displays different dialog boxes. What I am trying to achieve is to click on a radio button within one of these tabs and redraw onto the entire screen using some GDI functions. I already have this code working when the radio button is not in the tab control (ie the main app dialog), as the button just calls OnRadio1(); How do I call this same function from within another dialog box / class I have tried: void CTabOne::OnRadio1() { // TODO: Add your control notification handler code here CSimulationDlg::O ...Show All

• .NET Development New to xml and how to read an xml doc advise needed

  Hi, Strange enough i have never played with xml very much.I have some questions and hopefully you guys will be able to answer them. 1)Need to read/Loop through an XML file whilst looping there might be both elements and attributes .Is there a generic way of looping through both the elements and attributes.I looked in the MSDN and I could not find an example. 2)Reading/Writing xml can be done in many ways. when shall i use the textReader when the doc class. ANy good links with examples for beginners in xml thanks a lot 1) Here you can find a sample code for looping through XML nodes: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to retrieve published data from TFS

  hi, i have published some test results. how i can retrieve those results from TFS programmatically, for future use and references to validate unit test. When you publish test results with TFS, you publish them against a particular team build. So you can double click the corresponding team build in team explorer and then you can see test results to see the overall summary of all test results published against the particular build. The same should be available programatically also. -Munjal ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using Win32 API to get mouse click

  Hi, I'm developing a small "colour picker" app in VB.Net to get the colour at a particular pixel anywhere on the screen (ie: not in the form).   I understand I have to call the Win32 API to do this, perhaps trapping the WM_LBUTTONDOWN event but I'm really confused as to how I am meant to do this from a VB.Net program.   I  ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO.NET corrupting SQL parameters

  Hi all. We have persistant failures when trying to update values from the dataset into underlying database. Our web service captures the update generated by the desktop client and sends it through ADO.NET into the SQL 2000 service. Somewhere in the "pipeline" the SQL statement passed into SQL service is corrupted. For example, here are snippets from the web server trace written just before the dataset.Update statement: (printed from dataset.InsertCommand property, notice significant characters in bold) INSERT INTO tblIDCallNumberGroups ....TruncateDeweyD ec imalPlaces..', ...@TruncateDeweyD ec imalPlaces tinyint.... here is the sa ...Show All

• Visual C# SMS Creating collection with SMS SDK and C#

  Hello, I am strugling already hours using the SMS SDK 2003 to create a new collection. // Use the Managed SMS SDK Interfaces using Microsoft.SystemsManagementServer.Automation; // SMSProvider instance that represents a connection to the provider private SMSProvider m_oProvider = null; m_oProvider = new SMSProvider(Program._SMSServer, "", ""); SMSCollection nCollection = m_oProvider.Collections.Create("TEST Collection"); Well the last is doing nothing. Any help or push in the right direction is appreciated. ESTAN ...Show All

• .NET Development Best database choice?

  I am wondering what the consensus is on choosing a database solution for a windows forms application when developing for the following criteria: 1. For applications that need to be deployed with their database on target computers (nothing complicated like oracle or ms SQL). 2. small amounts of data...( say...less than 500 mb of data [basically only need to persist small amounts of data between application executions ]) What kinds of storage media are easiest to develop and deploy   Is it best to use something like access, dbase, an xml file, or something else Thanks Thanks for the repl ...Show All

• Visual Basic What happens when newer version is installed with 2005 ClickOnce?

  I published a newer version and ran setup.exe to install. 1. The Windows Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs automatically deleted the older version. 2. Additional folders were added in the new locations for ClickOnce in cryptic folder names, some layers below C:\Documents and Settings: C:\Documents and Settings \user name \Apps \2.0 \cryptic name.OT4 \cryptic name.QTH \manifests \cryptic name x version 2 \cryptic name x version 1 \cryptic name y version 2 (app's exe file here) \cryptic name y version 1 (app's exe file here) Q1. What is the easy way to provide a meth ...Show All

• SQL Server Discard Rows in a flat file

  Say I have a flat file with the form FHRxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SHR1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DataRow DataRow STR1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SHR2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DataRow DataRow DataRow STR2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FTRxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Where FHR=File Header, SHR=Section Header, STR=Section Trailer & FTR=File Trailer How can I discard all the header and trailer rows I have the manager defined as ragged right and have defined the fixed length columns. I know I can tell the flat file connection manager to discard n header records. I can also tell it to redirect rows which are truncated to "nowhere" but some headers & trailers still get through ...Show All

• Visual C# How to access classes and properties of .dll file?

  I'm new to C#. Will someone show me how to access the classes and properties of a .dll I already have it reference in my bin folder. Once your C# project has a reference to the .dll (right click on the project in Solution Explorer and select "Add Reference...") you need to add an appropriate "using" statement to your source file to indicate which namespaces you want to use. For example, new C# projects already have a reference to System.dll, and the source files start with: using System; which allows you to use the types declared in the System namespace. You will need s ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting vs Web Services

  Hi I have been into .NET for Couple of Years but havent implemented anything related to Remoting and Webservices.. Can anyone tell me the Difference between them and what are their main uses with some realtime example Bose.T     Hi, I recommend you go through the following articles: 1.) http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/2201701 2.) http://www.thinktecture.com/Resources/Articles/REMOTINGVS.ASP.NETWEBSERV.html 3.) http://www.thinktecture.com/conferences/slides/BelgianDotNetUserGroup/Remoting_Vs_WebServices__Brussels.pdf Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Authenticating users

  Hi there, In our application when a user logs in, he receives an security token that is valid for his session. This token is a Guid. When he calls a service i have to validate to token of the user. What is the best way to implement this I thought i should implement a membership provider, and pass the token as the user name using the credentials passed to the service by channel factory. I have also an example of implementing a custom user name password validator. What do you think Thanks. Guy The Token Provider sample have many code to resolve a simple problem... ...Show All