DWBI_Doug's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Adding items to the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox using Visual Studio Content Installer

  I need to add custom controls to VS 2005 toolbox using Visual Studio Content Installer. I can get them added to the 'My Controls' tab which is the default & it works fine. But I want to add them under a custom tab (say 'My New Tab'). How can this be done . How to spcify the toolbox tab in .vscontent file (between <content>.....</content> tag . In the vstemplate file, you can give a filename tag l ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CF 1.1 Transparent button doesn't stay transparent

  I'm working on a device with Win CE 4.2 using the compact framework. I made a button class for creating buttons that will accept transparent images. It works great as I can dispaly circle buttons. The problem I am having is that as soon as something is displayed in front of the button the transparent part of it takes on whatever was in front of it (ie, if a messagebox pops up in front). The only way I can get it to take on the the background aga ...Show All

• Windows Forms DateTime in Datagrid

  Hi there,  i fill a datatable with a stored procedure and one of the fileds is a datetime datatype. But when the datatable is linked with the datagrid only the date (01-02-2005) is displayed. I want the time also in the datagrid. It is&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server What are the performance characteristics of RDA?

  I have a server table containing a field of filenames and a field of type IMAGE containing large .tiff bitmaps, which I wish to pull via RDA down to my device connected by ActiveSync on it's cradle in a "refresh the device" scenario.  Is there anything anyone knows about the way in which RDA performs in this scenario about which I need to be concerned   Performance seems to drag to the extent that I'm reluctant to perform anymore ...Show All

• .NET Development EventLog.WriteEvent

  Hi, I would like to write errors for my application to the eventlog with the error icon so that its easy to see whats an error and wants an information for my log. Today I use . WriteEntry ("myMessage...") witch is no problem , it generates a message entry with an information icon in the event log. So far so good... What I understand is if I want to write an error I have to use . WriteEvent to get the error icon and read about this but ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't create new project in Visual Basic 2005 express

  I had the previous version installed of Visual Basic 2005 and I unistalled everything like the site said, Now I will test Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2, open a previous project, and it doesn't work at all, the program changed everything, ok too bad I think. Let's make a new project and "plop" there is an error message saying I can't create a new project because there's something missing. What can I do about it, how do I have to work with the new vers ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CAB Header structure

  Hi! This might be a bit off-topic, but here goes.. I'm currently trying to understand the file structure of a cab built for wm 5.0 devices. This differs from the earlier structures. Does anyone know where or how i could get hold of the struct for the header I have the "common" structure already.. but i want to find where offset to AppName and Provider is stored... For the moment, I'm using a hex editor and trying to find the off ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLCE Query Analyser in Windows Mobile 5.0

  How to use the SQLCE Query Analyser in Windows Mobile 5.0 I have MSPDB.SDF database in WM 5.0. I can't open this sdf file. Please update me, what are the softwares i have to install in my WM 5.0 device I would swear I answered this already (a week ago) but it didn't show up in the forum for some reason. Anyway, you need to install the Pocket Query Analyzer that is compatible with SQL CE 2.0 on your WM5 device. This is inclu ...Show All

• Windows Forms edit row in RowChanging event

  Hi dev's question i got some bound controls on a form, when a record is changed one field should be changed with a value indicating who changed the record. I tried the rowchanging and rowupdating event to do that, but the changes are not reflected in the database. I suspect it got to do that the eventargs containing the changed row is passed byvalue (copy instead of a ref). Any sugestion to solve this   Remco ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server wont start (after ALTER DATABASE for model db)

  I ran an ALTER DATABASE on my model to move the data and log files. The command ran ok, I have physically moved the files, but SQL wont start now - the error is "... terminated with service-specific error 1814". Anyone know what I can do Whats the detailed error message in the event log HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Beginner, need help

  I am just getting started with learning the C++ language. I have downloaded the Visual C++ express edition and set it up with the instructions on this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/ Now to test the installation I am trying to compile the simplest of programs: // hello!.cpp #include <iostream> int main() { cout << "Hello!"; return 0; } and get this error: Error1 fatal error C1010: unexp ...Show All

• .NET Development Database UPDATE problem.

  Just a question. Im really wondering why my sample database program wont update. It will say that it has updated the actual database but when i double check, it didnt. I am not using the command builder coz i want my own sql codes. When I test using the query builder, i will see the data being updated or added but when i use my own program, it really wont. Actually i have this one sample database prog ...Show All

• SQL Server Regarding Querys

  HI All, at the time of data exporting from dts to Text file in the query builder i gave a sql statement as select max(...) from <table name>. at the time of parsing its working fine. but at the time of exporting its throwing error like 'Please specify a valid name and ordinal values for the column' in dts we can use group function or not It looks like it wants a column name for the aggregate column. Change to: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System AD -> SD: Override settings

  Today I am confronted with the following questions.. 1. If application diagram component's overridable settings are changed, system diagram also gets updated. In SD, under what circumstances will I need to override settings (just to make my deployment validation successful ) 2. Since code generation can be done from only AD, why am I able to override the default settings in SD (These overrided values will not be implemented in code) ...Show All

• .NET Development CertMgr tool and PFX (PKCS #12) Certificates

  How can I import a PFX certificate into a System Store from a file. The following does not work: certmgr -add mycert.pfx -s my The error I recieve is: Failed to open the source store I think it has something to do with the encoding (-e) flag, but I can't find ANY documentation on this. Sorry -- I'm not sure ... certmgr is a tool produced by the Windows team, not the CLR team. -Shawn ...Show All