mabeghin's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Polling Access Database

  Hi there, I have an access database that is used on an online ASP system to book holidays, now I'm wanting to create a VB application that can look at the database and as soon as a new record appears have the display update and a message window appear. Problem is that I can get the program to look at the database and display the content, but I don't know how to get it update and refresh the screen automatically, or even to get a message de ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista A question for state machine workflow

  Hi,All, I will use State Machine to bulid a human workflow. One of the police is if one 'state' is not changed in 60 days, the workflow will be terminated. It means if nobody approves or denies the request for 60 days, the workflow will be closed. How can I do this in state machine workflow I tried to put parallel activity and delay in one of branch, handleExternalEvent in another branch in state machine workflow, but it will cause the e ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX9 Multi Screen Apps losing focus

  Hi, I'm trying to create a multi-screen ( 2, 3, 4 screens ) application with a couple strange parameters. Different screens may have to run at different resolutions, and may be placed anywhere ( above, below, left right ) in relation to the primary display. Right now my software works in windowed mode, I have no problems setting up multiple windows at different resolutions with different DX Devices. When I try to run my app in full sc ...Show All

• SQL Server VS2005 and SQL Reporting Service

  Dear All, I am using the VS.NET 2005 professional edition but it doesn't have reporting service project at all. I am planning to use the SQL Server Express 2005. I want to use the reporting service 2005 and report server as well. Could anyone please let me know how can I get a copy of Reporting Service embeded into VS.NET 2005 and Reporting Server for deployment even evaluation copy or from anywhere in SQL server 2005 installation disk Rea ...Show All

• Windows Forms I need a ReadOnly CheckBox and ReadOnly RadioButton

  Does anyone know where I can find a ReadOnly CheckBox control and a ReadOnly RadioButton control    Thanks! This seems to work for me: Put the control you want to make readonly in a panel.  Then shut off all mouse and keyboard ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom collection inside inherited control NOT removed when control removed

  Hello All, We have a custom ComboBox which inherits ComboBox and extends it. Within the custom ComboBox there is a custom collection. Everything works as expected except for one thing. If I drag a custom ComboBox onto my form, add some custom collection items and then remove the custom ComboBox from the form, the custom collection is NOT removed from the Designer generated code. It seems like that should happen automatically. Can someone e ...Show All

• Architecture Spcification of web services you need from third-party company

  I want third-party company to implement bunch of web services. I wonder what it is the best way to specify them. I can create wsdl for them, is it ok Interoperability is very important because services will run on non-windows machine and clients will run on windows boxes. thanks in advance for any info Pawel, Are you saying that you want them to use web services that you have implemented We have toyed with this question ourselves. There ...Show All

• SQL Server ReportViewer Component

  Hi all, I'm creating a custom interface for reporting services but I am having a few problems. This is my environment: Using the ReportViewer component in remote mode to show my reports of the report server. There are 2 user levels of which any user can be apart of, Admin & user. In every report, there is a parameter called MERCHANTID, when the user who logs in (via custom login interface) is of group admin, then the merchantid paramet ...Show All

• Visual C++ MDIRefreshMenu() ??

  MDIRefreshMenu() Some one recommended to me to use this method but i dont know what it does and i cannot find any information about it.  Also when i put it in my code it comes up as not recognised, has it been discontinued Thanks Will Who recommended you and why do they recommend you to use this function I do not know such a function I know only a message called WM_MDIREFRESHMENU http://msdn.microsoft. ...Show All

• SQL Server Querying 2 tables in different databases

  Is there any query code that will allow joining tables that are in different databases running on the same server If yes, how is the connection to each handled You are right, on the client side you can use the same (only one Connection), the rest is handled on the server side. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with designtime support for controls with collections

  Hi guys, I wanr to write a Control, which allows me to add Columns at designtime. Similar to the ListView Control. I have implemented 3 classes: VTraceColumn   (has Informations about the columns) VTraceColumnCollection  (this is the collection class) VTrace   ...Show All

• .NET Development Thread Serialization

  There are several project that have proposed mecanism for the transmission/storage of computation (i.e. thread serialization) is Java. Is there any equivalent in .Net (any equivalent expected with .Net 2.0 ). Thanks in advance, Joannes Vermorel As far as I am aware, there are just proposals or research projects in the Java space. I don't think Tiger supports this. It could see it is an interesting thing to exp ...Show All

• SQL Server Installation of SQL server 2005 Developer Edition Sep CTP

  Hi, I am trying to install SQL server 2005 Sep CTP on my laptop... I have installed VS.net 2005 beta 2, my OS is XP Pro SP2. It always get hanged at "Detecting Installed IIS". Please help... thanks Sorry for not able to reply before... yes... that norton security center created the problem... i did the same thing and it is working fine now... thanks for you reply... ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Detecting a network in C# .NET

  What method is recommended to detect a network (either via cradle/wifi etc). Thanks, Jeff. Readers of this thread might also appreciate knowing about this component. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/NetworkComponent.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I have an XML encoding problem in C# express

  I have created an application for generating XML files for korean friends of mine. The end files need to be encoded iin EUC-KR, but my files seem to be encoded in utf-8, there doesn't seem to be an option to use korean encoding :( I will appreciate any help that anyone could offer. Jason D. Try File->Advance Save Options... to get options for saving the file using a different encoding. Thanks, Luke Hoban Visual C# IDE Program Manager ...Show All