rguez_18's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions New Express contest - $10,000 and all it takes to start is an idea...

  Just announced, a new contest for Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express. Do you like to use technology to build cool and useful stuff Do you think you could do it with Visual Studio Express and/or SQL Server Express Would you like $10,000 cash Well then we have a contest for you! Learn more at www.MadeInExpressContest.com . Cool stuff. MJ Sounds cool. Is there like different divisions. For begginers, Intermediate, advanced etc.. Or wouldn't that just allow a a l33t programming to win everything Any idea on the allowed ages. Im only 14 ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net Oracle process error

  hi This is regarding a performance issue in my windows application... Maximum possible process in my oracle server is 150... Sometimes my users wont be able to log on to my application since it exceeds maximum processes.. so we have to restart my oracle server.... Can anyone suggest the best practise to avoid this...im using Visual studio 2003 and coding in VB.Net Thanks Raju, I don't have any Oracle knowledge, but at a guess, are you making sure that you are calling Dispose on your database connections when finished with them How are you connected to the Oracle server ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) z-order in XAML?

  Hi, is there any way to change Z-Order in XAML It would be really helpful as not removing and adding items in code Greetings I have a couple of images in a Listbox (bind from dataset) where i have swapped the regular itemspanelfor a wrapPanel instead. With the help of triggers I managed to change the zIndex for the image thats for examples is mouseover and the result is that the image in focus is on top of the others... < Style TargetType = " {x:Type ListBoxItem} " > < Style.Triggers > < Trigger Property = " IsMouseOver " Value = " True " > < Setter Property = " ...Show All

• Visual C# Detecting mouse clicks

  How can I detect mouse clicks outside of the application and then read the coordinates I'm trying to create an application which pops up menu when clicked right edge of desktop with the right mouse button. Hi, Well, you could do that by creating a mouse hook in your app. Here's a document that provides an sample on hooks in C#. http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/NetWin32Hooks.asp cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sql money type and textbox confusion

  I have a table (named mymoney) with three coloumns dept and holding as money type and id. I got another table (name bills) which I enter some bills. Bills table also have a dept, holding and id coloumns. I created a datagridview to enter bills. Then when someone click on save, I want that program gets the sum of dept and holding coloumns and update the mymoney table according to the id. On the datagrid form I used ---Begin Code--- Dim x As Decimal = t.Compute( "Sum(Dept)" , "Code = '" & CodeTextBox.Text & "'" ) Dim y As Decimal = t.Compute( "Sum(Holding)" , &q ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal report using dataset read prompting for database login on a deployment machine

  Hi,   I created a windows application that reads data from ms-access database using OLE DB connection. I used push method (filling dataset and adding dataset to the report object). Everything is working fine on my development machine.       I included merge modules during build process and created msi. When I installed the app in a different pc, the database login screen pops up with already filled in server name (that is, database path). I tried with userid and password that was already in connection string. And it comes up with a message "Login failed. Try again". I added message box r ...Show All

• Windows Forms Sizable multiple list boxes

  I saw a program which had three list boxes side by side and they were sizable.  How did they do that.  The list boxes have a common side and when you drag the bar one box will get smaller and the adjacent one will get larger.  The one one the other end stays the same.  Can we do this in VB.NET. I have looked ever ...Show All

• Visual C# Can this be made more efficient?

  Does anyone know of a better way of doing this   I have been tasked to convert a VB 6.0 app over to C# and encountered this routine (there are more like this).  Luckily the original coder believed in documenting but, I'm having a devil of a time trying to convert this to C# code! I've thought of possibly using a regular expression but I'm not at all familiar with them and so far have gotten hopelessly lost.  Can someone please help   My meager attempt at this is below the VB code.  As you can see, I'm very new with C# and there is an obvious error "Operator '||' cannot be applied to operands of type 'bool' and 'st ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Installing CAB's on Pocket-PC.. Program not appearing in the Programs menu

  Hi I've created an application in VB 2005 and added a setup project for a SmartDeviceCab. My Target is pocket-pc 2003. I've added the shortcut to the setup project and all the dependencies. I get the CAB and install it on the PDA. I don't get any errors and it looks as if it installs correctly. However, the program does not appear in the program menu. I can find it in Program Files\Test and it runs fine if I click on the executable. What am I missing Pete pete@infonote.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with SaveFileDialog???

  Hi Ladies and Gents, Please can you help with the below The SaveFileDialog is appending to my text files and I can't find a way to get it to overwrite whatever existing text is in the save file. Please can someone advise me Private Sub SaveToolStripMenuItem_Click_1( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveToolStripMenuItem.Click Dim Save As New SaveFileDialog() Dim myStreamWriter As System.IO.StreamWriter Save.Filter = "Plain Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*" Save.CheckPathExists = True Save.Title = "Save" Save.ShowDialog( Me ) Try myStreamWriter = Syst ...Show All

• .NET Development Store SQL BlobColumn as Attachment to MailMessage?

  I'm looking for a way to send an email attachment from the contents of a BlobColumn. We have table with a BlobColum that contains a PDF File. I'd like to be able to send an email with that PDF file as an attachment. Is there a way I can go directly from a variable of type Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.BlobColumn Directly to an Attachment without having to save the file first Thanks,  Scott<- There is an Attachment constructor overload that takes a stream.  If you implement a custom stream that helps the Attachment class to read the data out of the BlogColumn class, then it should wo ...Show All

• SQL Server 2005 SQL Reporting Service XML Data Source (WebService)

  Does anyone know how to ensure a WebService/WebMethod needs to be serialized to ensure is compatible with Reporting Services' new XML Data Source when passing parameters to the report. I have had success on using the Report Server WebService http://localhost/reportserver/reportservice2005.asmx and using the Query designer to pass the SoapAction call <Query><SoapAction>http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/06/30/reporting/reportingservices/ListChildren</SoapAction></Query> and associating the data set parameters to the Designer GUI parameters (which I may say is not documented well on BoL) But when using ANY ...Show All

• Visual C# Moving contents of a file

  I have a program that watches a folder and when a file is dropped into that file it executes some code on the file then moves it to another file. The problem I am having is I dont know how to select the new file that was just moved into the folder thats being watched. My question is. How can I select a file (or all the files, since their will only be one at a time) in the folder without knowing the files name, and be able to retrieve the name of the new file Thanks I tried both code examples and I found that when you add more then one file at once to the folder being watched the e.FullPath only executes ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataSource turns null after DataBind() ?!

  Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum so sorry if i misplaced this thread. I'm building a simple ASP.NET page having a GridView control and a DetailsView control for master/detail display. code for databinding the GridView is: DataTable prodTbl = ... // code which successuflly reads a table from DB ProductsGridView.DataSource = prodTbl; ProductsGridView.DataBind(); // next lines of code DOESN'T WORK even though CatalogNum is a valid column in the datatable bound to the grid view: ProductsGridView.DataKeyName = new string[] { "CatalogNum" }; // Next line returns null as a result of what i desc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Backup you data with Team Foundation Server Beta 3

  Since the documentation looks to be outdated: What are the steps to take to backup all the data within TFS3. It should be a backup of all tables (including SharePoint Services and Reporting Serves data) from SQL Server and a backup of Windows SharePoint Services. Is that it Are the attachements now stored within the database Thanks, Neno That's the version control file cache, as Bill mentioned.  The version control caching proxy is both part of the server (TFS) and a standalone app that can be installed on a server at a remote location.  Since it is inherently part of every TFS app tier, all installations end up with this dir ...Show All