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• Visual FoxPro Determining opened files

  I would like to ask if anybody knows how to determine how many files are there in a form during run time. Yes I mean "tables", sorry about the confusions. Well I also found another way to get the number of tables used a by form. "nTotMem = AMEMBERS(amems,THISFORM.DataEnvironment,2)" Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server My SQL application on Windows Mobile 5

  Hi My application : On PC : Access application + Access DB On PocketPC : Embedded Visual Basic 3.0 application + PocketAccess DB I synchronise my DBs through ActivSync. It runs good before Windows Mobile 5. My customers asked me for new PocketPC with this application, so I bought some new PocketPCs : but as I see, syncronisation with Access is no more supported. So what are my solutions My customer wait for there PocketPC, so I need a quick so ...Show All

• Windows Forms EM_GETLINE

  Hmm.. does anyone have a working example of using the message EM_GETLINE from C# using SendMessage I found its code is 0x00C4. I just cant get it working right.. I know the first char of the wParam should hold the capacity of the buffer and lParam should be the row number.. but I just cant get it right .. Thanks! :) I agree, why not use Lines[] instead // Get the first line of multi-line textBox1 string ...Show All

• Visual C# Whatz the format of this file ?

  Hai....., Didn't find option to attach the file, but look below to see how the content of the file looks like. I don't know whatz the format of this file is (My boss says that its ISAM). The main file doesn't hold any extension, but it does carry an accompanying file that has the extension .idx . Please help me determining what driver i must use in order to retrieve data out of it and how the connection string should look like ema ...Show All

• .NET Development Read/Write XML file from windows application

  I have created an ASP website that reads contact information from an XML file. I used a Repeater to display the contact information in a table. When I update the data in the XML file manually (editing it with Notepad or something) , I can see that the information displayed in the web page is automatically updated when I refresh the page. BUT I like to design a Windows application through which I can update the XML file instead of editin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help with picture box and file locking

  I have the following code to download an image from the internet and put it into picture box Dim client As New WebClient() Try client.DownloadFile(img1, "C:\tmp1.jpg") Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString) End Try pbxImage.Image = Image.FromFile("C:\tmp1.jpg") When it ru ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to Sort a Group Dynamically

  Hi All, I want to sort the Group option dynamically depends up on the parameter value Eg : I am grouped a report by Customer Id. And at run time depends on the Parameter value i need to sort the Customer Id Ascending or Descending. Thanks in Advance ok if you right click on the group header, click on the option Group Expert, select the group from the list that you want sorted this way and then click on Options..., that will o ...Show All

• SQL Server Exceedingly long update on large tables - why?

  We have a simple UPDATE query, joining two tables, that takes much longer than 10 hours to run, but if we break the table in six (10 million rows in each table), it takes only fifteen minutes to run each part. Why And how can we tell in advance whether a query will cross the threshold into l.o.n.g.r.u.n.n.i.n.g query Or, how can we prevent it The system is Windows XP Pro with 4GB RAM (/3GB switch), and SQL Server Standard 2005. Log files, sw ...Show All

• Visual C# button links

  How do I set a button to bring up another form box when it is clicked private void button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.close(); } ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Remote debugger

  When connecting to TE (Tools|Connect to Team Explorer) we get the following errors: 1. Event Viewer: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A05E2B3) (80131506) 2. Dialog Box: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- External component has thrown an exception. --------------------------- OK   --------------------------- Win XP, No legacy versions have been installed ...Show All

• SQL Server Is SqlServer Agent running?

  Hi, Can anyone give me some clues as to how I programmatically determine if Sql Server Agent is running. I'm using Sql 2005 and c#. I have found the JobServer property in the SqlServer object but this still doesn't tell me is the service is running!! Thanks for your help Graham Server name is usually machine name (default instance) or machine_name\instance_name for named instances of SQL Server, so ...Show All

• Visual C# Short name in taskbar

  Hi Is there an easy way to have a different name in the taskbar and on the form. I want a long name on the form where there is plenty of space but a shortened verison on the taskbar. Best Regards Alun Gwyther There's no easy way to do this, if there is one. The taskbar gets the button text from the window caption. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Question about CString::find()

  I am currently using CString::find() to find keywords in a .ini file so as to extract the line of info after the keyword with getline(). However i am facing a weird problem. This is the format of my .ini file: alpha C:\\workfiles\\alphaLoop beta C:\\workfiles\\betaLoop delta C:\\workfiles\\deltaLoop This is the code in question:  ifstream iFile;  CString mArr;  char temp[100];  int curPos;     iFile.open(abc.in ...Show All

• Architecture Performance Monitor on a Widows 2003 Server?

  Performance Monitor on a Widows 2003 Server I think there are too many unknowns to give you an answer for example - What does the software do if it is doing a lot of number crunching 75% of CPU usage might be expected. Another example - Is the target hardware suitable for the application maybe you are using a weak platform what other programs run on the server etc. Arnon ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Immediate window problem

  The immediate window in Vs.NET is giving me problems when i use it with C#. Simple example is I have the following line of code in a function String MyString = "abc.doc"; Then I put a breakpoint on it, when i debug the application and it goes into that break, I goto immediate window and type MyString it shows abc.doc but when I want to test for something else like MyString.ToUpper() or MyString.ToUpper() it gives error error: managed ...Show All