Lorren's Q&A profile

• Visual J# Timer Troubles

  I have had serious troubles getting timers to work in Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 and in both Visual Basic and J# unless I enabled them by default. While I've developed a work around by making my timers run constantly and then using boolean values to "enable" them, this is prone to inaccuracy and logic errors. So in trying to figure out what is wrong with my computer (or my coding), what is the difference between calling timer.Start() ...Show All

• SQL Server High Performance in Mirror

  In this mode, I get that it's asynchronous. Does that just mean it sends the TX over and what happens, happens Do I at least know it hit the comms stack, or the wire or anything Or just it will do its est. Thanks. When you say 'the principal takes database offline' you mean the MIRROR right, not the Principal database which could still live and service TXs, right ...Show All

• SQL Server Authentication Problem x64

  Win 2003 Server x64, .Net 2.0 x64 Reporting Services 2005. RS Database is a remote SQL 2005 on the same Domain in the same room. I can only get the report manager to authenticate local users; it will not authenticate Domain users. If I set up a local user and add a New Role Assignment all works OK. I have no problem adding a Domain user to a New Role Assignment, it allows this, but it will not authenticate the user. Adding the Domain user t ...Show All

• Windows Forms getting the cellValues of a datatbound DGV row before it is removed

  hiya, I am struggling with the above.I have grabbed the RowsRemoved eventHandler, but I can't seem to get the values from the eventArgs..So, I tried this instead... <code> private void dataGridView1_RowsRemoved( object sender, DataGridViewRowsRemovedEventArgs e) { if (dataGridView1.CurrentRow != null ) //the CurrentRow ALWAYS seems to be null! { string currValue = dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells[0].ToString( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Simple Listview Question

  Is there a way to make my listview's background color altenrate with 2 colors Like on some programs a list of something has white blue white blue for each item's background color. Is there a way to do that so i dont have to have a loop go trhough each item and set its background color There is no shortcut, but looping through the items is easy: Dim i As Integer Dim j As Integer = 0 Dim item As ListViewItem F ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Relationship to BPMN or BPEL?

  I've installed and played around a bit, but I haven't looked closely at the XML resulting from the designer. Is it BPEL or something else How close is the graphical notation to BPMN from BPMI AFAIK, it has been announced that an activity set will be released through the activity gallery on windowsworkflow.net ( http://www.windowsworkflow.net/default.aspx tabindex=2&tabid=31  ), that supports both import and export of BPEL ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to compile C code using Visual C++ 2005 beta 2 ??

  first should say am not a professional in writing codes or preparing other stuffs like that (like header files and thiiings like that)! am novice!!my problem is that can not compile my C codes using visual C++ 2005 beta 2!the first problem have encountered is that can not see any button or right click or left click menu for compliing the code like had been doing while using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0!Secondly, I did open new project and file to wr ...Show All

• .NET Development How to load a ListBox from an ArrayList?

  Hi, I tried the sample from MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformslistcontrolclassdisplaymembertopic.asp But it did not compile.  The ListBox is loaded thus: Dim USStates As New ArrayList USStates.Add( New USState("Washington", "WA")) USStates.Add( New USState("West Virginia", "WV")) USStates.Add( New USState("Wisconsin", "WI")) USStates.Add( New US ...Show All

• SQL Server Encryption whitepaper

  There is a whitepaper discussing an application of the SQL Server 2005 encryption features at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/security/sqldatsec.mspx Thanks Laurentiu ...Show All

• .NET Development Why there is a huge jump in the time used?

  Hi, I've a quetion which has bugged me for several months. I wrote a .NET Web service which is hosted by IIS 5.1 on a Windows XP SP2 machine. This Web service just get the content of the specified txt file and send the content back to the client. The processing time on the server side was logged. The file sizes and results are listed below (in millisecond): FileSize:     1K       2K  &n ...Show All

• .NET Development Multi-threading reference book

  Hi. Could anyone recommend a decent reference book for multi-threading I have seen a couple of books on amazon etc. but various reviews claim they are mostly regurgitated MSDN articles. I am building a .NET remotable Client-Server application using c#. There will be different processes running concurrently (hence the multi-threading) on which I would like to run remoting events etc. When I needed a book on remoting Ingo Rammer's ThinkTectu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Creating a Database in Visual C++

  In the SQL browser on Visual C++ the menu is greyed out to create a new database. I cannot seem to find out how to create a data base. I have SQL server installed. It is in the menu to create a database, but the menu is greyed and will not function. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot resolve bug activated by a removed user

  We have a bug that was activated by a person who left the company and was removed from our security group/DL. The bug was reassigned to another dev who fixed the issue and is now trying to resolve the bug. But when he changes the state to resolve and tries to save it, he gets a message saying "the field Activated By contains a value that is not in the list of supported values". It seems that the Activated By field has the name of ...Show All

• .NET Development UploadFile() Returns Error 403 from some server, Has it something to do with machine.config ?

  I have written a program to upload file using UploadFile(), it works well with server A but returns an error 403 with server B. Can any one explain the reason I have got required write permission on server B. Am I missing some config parameters in machine.config file 403 can indicate a couple of different things. I have seen it when a server requires that the client supply a client certificate or when th ...Show All

• Visual Basic deleting tab pages

  ive made a couple of tab pages to link to each other but can i delete the buttons at the top to link you to the pages cause i have made buttons to do this job instead any way of doin this cheers    It's a little hard to understand what you mean but I will try to help you anyway. I am assuming that you are talking about the Windows Forms TabControl and TabPage. To remove a TabPage: 1. Click the tab of the tab page you want t ...Show All