Mercury's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Populating DatGrid from SqlDatareader in VB.Net

  Im using VB.net for windows forms. Is it possible to fill a datagrid from a sqldatreader since this later is fast. If so how pls, Thanks Hi! Yes, System.Data.SqlClient. SqlConnection conn = new System.Data.SqlClient. SqlConnection ( "Connection String" ); System.Data.SqlClient. SqlCommand cmd = new System.Data.SqlClient. SqlCommand ( "Select Query Goes Here",conn ); MyDataGridView.DataSource = cm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with Hosted web

  Okay, published the sample club site to http://beta-2298.server1.dotnetsandbox.net/ Currently I am not getting a good response. The website returns an error from the host, but if I run it on my development box it works fine. I have not a clue and am hoping someone else has had the same problem and can sell me a clue Thanks! Hi, did you ask your webhoster about this problem perhaps there is some issue with the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Project is not visible if always show solution explorer is unchecked

  Hi, I have created my custom package. Normally It works fine. but the following is the new issue which i m facing these days. 1) Open VS.NET 2005 IDE 2) Create a Custom Project 2) Click on options under tools menu 3) Uncheck the "Always Show Solution" checkbox My custom project becomes invisible Whereas other projects works fine. If anyone knows how to resolve this. please help... Regards Kajal Hi kajal, I am al ...Show All

• .NET Development HELP ACCESS DB , ASP.NET and a whole lot of pain

  Hi everyone ok I have 2 serious problems.. Firstly a little background is that i'm using ASP.NET 2.0 (obviously with the 2.0 Framework) with an Access Database.  In my Web App i have an upload feature and I've discovered that if i upload anything below 25 Meg it uploads in a reasonable time (less than 1 min) if i upload anything above 50 megs when we're talking a big time wait ... for example a 100 meg file i uploaded took almost 10 m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Addin(with VSTO 2005 developed) doesn't work on Client Outlook!

  Hi all, I have developed an Addin for Outlook with VSTO 2005. It works on my development maschine without any problem. I have created a setup file from standard setup project of VSTO. I have installed the addin on other maschine ( Windows 2000 , Office 2000, Outlook 2003 SP2) . I can see the addin under options as deselected if I select it I see an error, which "AddinLoader.dll is not found c:\...\VSTO\8.0\AdinLoader.dll ...Show All

• SQL Server Using trace file in Upgrade Advisor

  I tried to use a trace file in Upgrade Advisor. But the Upgrade Advisor would not accept the trace file. It is raising the error ' Invalid Input trace file' when I specify the file. The trace file was created using Sql Server Profiler, and I can open it using Sql Server Profiler. Is there any restriction on the trace file that can be used in Upgrade Advisor Your help is highly appreciated. Thanks, Mokles ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Refresh Install Problem: SharePoint Services Not Installed

  I receive the following error trying to install the Beta 3 Refresh as a Single-Server deployment: "Windows SharePoint Services with SP2 or later is a prerequisite for this product. You must first install the latest Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 service pack before you install this product." I'm pretty sure I'm carefully following the setup instructions and that SharePoint Services 2.0 with SP2 is installed. I can bring up the SharePo ...Show All

• Visual C# Can't get TreeView data out of the thread

  I created a backgroundWorker in order to thread the creation of a treeView that shows the fileSystem. I also created a recursive method that steps through the fileSystem and adds them to a specified treeView I instansiate a new treeView when the thread starts and run the recursive method for that treeView. The data exists in that treeView (since I can acess it through the nodes) but for some reason I cannot copy the data to the original treeView ...Show All

• Visual C# toolstripcombobox size in the toolbar

  I use c#.net 2005 beta2 and i can't resize my toolstripcombobox like office 2003. The only way i found to resize the combobox in my toolbar is to resize the font point of the combobox but after the font is too small. Help me please! Thanks in advance. Hi - Please post Windows Forms questions to the Windows Forms forums. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx ForumGroupID=2&SiteID=1 Thanks! Karen Liu Visual C# ...Show All

• Visual Studio Microsoft .NET Framework SDK QuickStart Tutorials

  I see: ASP.NET 2.0 QuickStarts Common Tasks QuickStarts Web Services Quickstarts Are there no V2.0 smartclient quickstarts and tutorials in the SDK Thanks, Hi David, Yes, there are in the .NET Framework SDK. However the tutorials on on GotDotNet ( http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/CompactFramework/ ) will not be updated. For .NET Compact Framework v2.0, this topic lists .NET Compact Framework How- ...Show All

• Visual C++ Integer data types sizes for 64bit C++ compiler

  I want to check compiler generated sizes in bytes for'int' and ' long' data types: for example, in 32bit compiler: - int is 32 bit - long is 32 bit The question is - what would be the sizes in 64-bit Microsoft C/C++ compiler and 64-bit Microsoft C# compiler For 64-bit C/C++ compiler, would 'int' be 32 or 64 How about 'long' Would that be 32,64, or 128 Thanks, ..Pradosh ints and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding custom performance counters

  Hi, I am trying to add custom counters to perfmon. I followed the code sample from SDK. I see the counters in the 009\perflib , but when I start up perfmon and try to add counters, I get an event log, EVENT ID 1017. Can somebody please help me sort this out I see this in the wmiadap.log. I am not sure what  it means (Thu Oct 06 10:52:14 2005.3563656) : VerifyLoaded for s7xx hr = 80041001. (Thu Oct 06 10:5 ...Show All

• Windows Forms and I can't figure out how combobox works... @#$Arf

  Can someone help me with combobox in VS2005.NET I dragged it from toolbox on my form, Clicked on the little "play" button on top left corner of the box. "Combobox task" menu appeared, I selected databound items. Under Data Source I selecteded database then i selected my access database (which is just somthing i exported from excel). My data base has four coloums ID    Gametype     Title  &nb ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Font effects?

  Is there any way to do simple text effects other than color / style with D3D Font class Something like a glow effect or drop shadow, obviously simpler than how photoshop would do it, but that basic idea. Not with the font class directly. You will have to render them yourself. For drop shadows render a black version of the text behind and slightly offset from the normal text For glows render a slightly big ...Show All

• Windows Forms Passing data between threads

  Forgive me if this has been posted. I searched but didn't find anything that quite answered my question. What is the best way to pass data between threads. In Win32/C++ I could just call PostThreadMessage() and pass a message and data to a spec ...Show All