Nigel Rivett's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions I missing the tool devenv

  Hi, If I try to build a Open Source Project with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, it appears a error message: ------ Build started: Project: BuildBin, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Performing Makefile project actions Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. devenv Apache.sln /useenv /build Debug /project mod_ssl Der Befehl "devenv" ist entweder f ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Connect to Analysis Services from Client Management Studio?

  From my client machine, I have no trouble accessing the Database Engine of my 2005 server in SQL Server Management Studio since I can use SQL Server Authentication.  However, Analysis Services (at least how my server is configured right now) only allows Windows Authentication and I can connect.  For what it's worth, I can't connect to the Database Engine either on my client using Windows Authentication.  What do I need to do to c ...Show All

• SQL Server db design question

  This problem comes up over and over in my designs. It must be the way I think. Here is an example: Table proposals is the depository of all data. The other table is only to enforce the constraint. An author can make many proposals with the same topic, language and category. When done, she flags just one within this group of rows as FinalizedProposal. I am keeping the data of the ‘drafts’. They are all proposal rows but just one is labeled fi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form and textbox resize when the textbox's text has changed

  I have to show different questions on a multiline textbox. I want to make possible resizing the textbox (to show the entire question) and also the form. If it's possible i need a tip and maybe a little sample. Thanks hi, Is your problem solved Could you be more clear in your problem definition Thank you, Bhanu. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Why Mobile Device Hardware do not support 9.6 kilobits per second?

  We want to develop a PLC controller use PDA. I find the Mobile Device Hardware's serial port baud rates is from 19.2 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 115.2 Kbps, But the PLC's baud rates is 9.6kbps.:( In industry environment, the speed must be slow because there is a lot of Electro Magnetic Interference. What can I do "I find the Mobile Device Hardware's serial port baud rates is from 19.2 kilobits per second ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cell Data Changed

  Well the situations is like this... I have got a grid onto which i fill with data that i get from SQL. In that grid i have a combobox and when the value of the combobox should change (example: if its now "Default" and if you change it to "Hello") i just have to capture the even of changing of the combobox cell. Beacuse i need it to fill up the other grid with the new/changed value from the combobox cell. If anyone can h ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I query the node in XML with XQuery?

  1. I store the xml info below in the XML field Demographics in SQL 2005, I hope to query all the node info with XQuery. The result just like <Folder Name="Root" Id="a6dce8fe-749c-4e38-ab2f-3d03d9711b3d">   <Folder Name="Card" Id="b8dcf8fe-749c-4e38-ab2f-6d03d9711b8j">   </Folder> </Folder> but I can't get the correct result using select Demographics.query('/Folder') from store   2. Furthermore, How can ...Show All

• Visual Basic basic words the documentation doesn't define

  I'm trying to understand what Serializable and Hashtable really mean. The documentation doesn't really explain what the words mean and why they're important. I've learned how to use them from the books I'm reading. However in my own projects I wouldn't use them because I don't really understand what they mean and what advantages they have. I produced perfectly good applications without ever overriding anything, serializing anything or ever using ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Grid Control In VB Express

  Hello All, I have a bit of a problem here. I am in need of an unbound .Net Grid Control. There does not seem to be a grid control available in Express. I am trying to recreate the Permissions/Change Owner form in MS Access. In my VB6 version of this form I used the MS Flex Grid control. I am trying to stick to using native .Net controls in my design. Does anyone know of an unbound .Net grid control, or possibly have a suggestion for an alter ...Show All

• Windows Forms i am wondering...

  I am using vb.NET part of VS.NET, and no matter how many times i check to see if targetanimal is nothing ( targetanimal being animalstate of the current target ) i always seem to get OrganismNotVisibleException, and my creature ends up attacking&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C# Writing entries to eventlog from asp.net!

  Hi, I'm having trouble writing entries into the event log from asp.net (C#). Its giving me a security exception. How can I make this possible through code itself, i.e without manually changing any setting in iis or something like that. Thanks & Regards, Frenz You are probably having a problem registering the event source. This cannot be done by IIS applications because they do not have the registry pe ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. The Game Programming from Scratch

  I'm Professional in VB6,VB.Net 2003,VB 2005 and i want to start in game programming but i don't know from to start study. Some friends tell me to study DirectX, but i found it hard to self study and there is no books in vb and DirectX (Almost), Anybody have any idea to start in it in simple way Here are some Managed DirectX tutorials that have been ported to VB.NET: http://www.drunkenhyena.com/cgi-bin/dx9_net.pl And here is an Italia ...Show All

• Windows Forms Jet User-Level Security in Windows app

  I connect to an Access 2002 db from a dotnet Windows app. I used the designer to create a connection at the start of the development. Now, I want user-level security on the db. I've created a workgroup file (.MDW). Now, when I try to  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Make PocketPC emulator connect to MyComupter through ActiveSync

  Hello, i've got the following problem: I've devloped SOAP based Web service by means of ATL Server library. My developed application is the server itself and listens the incoming connections at port 1111, for instance. No IIS is required. I wish i could make connections from my MS Visual Studio 2005 Pocket PC emulator to my server. I found out that in order to let the emulator have internet access i need to have ActiveSync installed. As soon as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot connect VS 2005 Team Suite client to Team Foundation Server

  I have installed Team Foundation Server Beta 2 (application and data tier on a single server) and the install seemed to work correctly. I can certainly use the Sharepoint Services pages successfully. I have Team Suite Beta 2 on a separate machine and I am attempting to connect to the TF Server. However, when I use Tools/Connect to Team Foundatioin Server and add the server I get a message saying "Unable to connect to the Team Foundation Server:v ...Show All