brandon beacher's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic My form uses Listbox and ComboBox and records are not saved in the database

  Hi, I am new to VB and I need to write an application where users will pick values from ListBox and ComboBox to fill-in the records. I can pick some options and when I press the 'save' button, I get a successful message. I can move from record to record and see my changes were 'saved' but when I exit and preview data or restart the application, the data is back to the original. I have set the Dataset property to 'Do not Copy' (I have trie ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX: Assigns a new mesh causes auto Dispose()

  I'm going through the Software skinning method as a learning exercise & I'm at the GenerateSkinnedMesh step, when I had to do this: meshContainer.MeshData.Mesh = newMesh What I'm finding out is that MDX calls Dispose() for the Mesh that's there before assigning the newMesh to it. 1) This is a problem because that Mesh is being kept around in the OriginalMesh property for later use & SHOULD NOT be Dispose'd of, and 2) Is there a way ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server Installtion Failed

  I am runing Win2003 server as a primary Domain Controller w/SP1 I received the 3 dvd disk set for beta2. I also used the Team Server while at Microsoft along with VS2005 Beta2, Indigo/Avalon Beta1 and the Ent Lbi framework V2.0 from the Ent Lib team. But this is my first time installing the Team Server on my own server. I am doing a single server install. I have installed SQL Server2005, and Sharepoint Services 2.0, I setup TFSSETUP and TFSSERVI ...Show All

• Visual Studio Need help...noob

  Hey guys This is my first time ever using msdn for support and why not right, using Microsoft product, makes sense to get support from fellow users and pros. So here is my dilema, I'm more of a C and C++ guy but only know the basics of that (only 1 year into my 4 year degree program at college) but at work I was asked to create a report which connects to and Access 97 database (dont ask, I have no control over this its a government standar ...Show All

• SQL Server ErrorCode and ErrorColumn in Excel Destination

  I am exporting records with errors to Excel using the Excel Destination tool. The ErrorColumn is a numeric. How do I find out which column it is While it's fairly easy to add an ErrorDescription column on top of the ErrorCode, it's NOT so easy to add an ErrorColumnName on top of the ErrorColumn numeric ID value, because of all the ifs ands and buts that determine whether the column name is readily available or n ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Thread Issues

  Hi, I’m working on a migration from a simple windows app to a PDA app with Threads. After to inspect a lot of code, i found that i have a problem with the inicialitation of a thread (the app just die with the "System.NotSupportedException was unhandled Message: An unhandled exception of type 'System.NotSupportedException' occurred in Unknown Module."). I identify the thread making sleep all the others threads form the app after invocation of sta ...Show All

• Visual Basic Date Difference

  I have two month calendars. Monthcalendar1 and monthcalendar2 I have set monthcalender 1 to be the computers clock date monthcalendar2 date can be chosen bu the user How do i get the difference in the number of days btw those to calenders Dim date1 As DateTime = MonthCalendar1.SelectionStart; Dim date2 As DateTime = MonthCalendar2.SelectionStart; Dim diff As TimeSpan = date2.Subtract(date1); Dim daysDiff As Double = diff.TotalDays; ...Show All

• Visual C# Login Control problem

  Hey guys, I have a VS2005 website project on my dev machine. It compiles and runs perfectly. When I publish the project and put it into production, the Login control keeps giving me a "Login failed for user..." error. The web.config is the same, the connection strings are the same. Anyone know what the problem could be Can you provide more info on this, may be some tracing/event logging would help in here to diagnose further. ...Show All

• SQL Server The target service name could not be found.

  Hi : I am creating a queue application using Service broker. I was able to send and receieve messages between 2 databases in the same instance. Now I am trying to communicate b/w 2 different instances. I am getting the following error... The target service name could not be found. Ensure that the service name is specified correctly and/or the routing information has been supplied.. The routing informations is as follows DROP ROUTE ...Show All

• Visual C++ Working with bytes and bits

  I'm writing a program (to be more exactly it's a DLL) that comunicates with some machines through the serial port, so I need to read 17 bytes from the buffer, get the first byte and split it into 7 bits (the serial port configuration specifies that will be 7 the number of data bits). - How can I get this value from the BYTE array and split it into an array of bits - I'm getting the value from a position of the BYTE array a writing to a fil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problem deleting excel sheets

  I have noticed a behavior that I hope is not intentional.   If a user of my Excel VSTO project deletes one of the sheets that is referred to by one of the managed sheet classes (ie Class Sheet1), the next time the application is started this class picks a new sheet to bind itself to.   I hope I am explaining this clearly.     Here are the steps to reproduce.   Create a new Excel VSTO project. Run the ...Show All

• Visual C# Windows Start Button

  How can mimik the windows start button without component please thank you Fahd looks great! how can I keep the button held thank you guys for your help!! ...Show All

• SQL Server Paritioning based on a uniqueidentifier column

  Hi, I would like to partition a table based on a uniqueidentifier column. But i'm not able to specify range for partitioning the table. Please help me. Regards, Gopi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TestContext.RequestedPage property

  How can I return a specific page through the TextContext.RequestedPage property Whenever I use the [UrlToTest()] attribute and include a specific page, the property returns null. Is there another way to specify which page to return through this property Any help at all would be incredibly appreciated! Hello, Did you specify all of the attributes, required for ASP.NET Unit tests E.g. those are needed fo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is it possible to specify access modifier in IDesignerHost.CreateComponent?

  Hi all, I'm working on a control that generate/destroy/manipulate other controls on the form. I can preserve the name and other stuff using the designerhost: IDesignerHost host = GetService(typeof(IDesignerHost)) as IDesignerHost; if (host!=null)    TextBox textbox = (TextBox)host.CreateComponent(typeof(TextBox)); IDesignerHost. CreateComponent is overloaded with a second parameter to specify the name of the component I am  ...Show All