Desmond Green's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Adding item to setting page

  Hi all, I would like to ask if it is possible to add an item (icon) in the setting page of smartphone (i.e. "setting.exe" as I found in process viewer) and then it will trigger some code written by me Forgot the link. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=223605&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Blocking updates of a table

  Hi, I've been trying to design a way for me to issue a transaction that: Block all inserts on a table when row X has a certain value (call it A) Add a row to the table with row X containing A Add rows to another table Unblock inserts Commit transaction Is this possible Can anyone give me some pointers as to what to do Thanks in advance! I assume you only want to block Inserts but not Updates, Deletes ...Show All

• .NET Development Discard changes made to datatable columns of a Dataset?

  Hello, I have a windows form with several text boxes. OnLoad, I use a DataAdapter which calls a SQL sproc to retrieve it's info. The sproc returns has 3 select statements so when all is said and done, the dataset ends up with 3 tables. (table, table1 and table2) Next I use databindings.add for each of the textboxes and bind them to the appropriate column in the appropriate tables. The textboxes are readonly by default and I have an Edit ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to overload == in CF?

  public static bool operator ==(MyObj o1, MyObj o2) { return o1.Equal(o2); } the problem with the code is that if o1 is null the code throws "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." exception. Any ideas Thanks, Alex Checking for o1 been null should help out: return null == o1 false : o1.Equal(o2); Alternatively you can call static me ...Show All

• Windows Forms maintain data knowlege across functions?

  I'm new with VB.net and have hit a wall. I don't know how to implement this. Data binding, MDI, data sets, collections, arrays, etc.  I don't know how to have critical info known across multiple classes, functions, subs, without making everything Public. Can& ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to create my own Refactor?

  Such as Rename... I want to create a refactor with a similer function, How to do You will need to parse the source code within a project, generate a symbol table containing the symbols for the code, search through the symbol table for references to the item you want to rename (you cannot just do a general search, because the variable 'i' can be used in multiple places but not be the same 'i'), and then rename them. Craig ...Show All

• Windows Forms mageUI.exe fails to sign manifest after adding files - HELP!!!

  I am using VS.NET 2005 beta 2 ClickOnce deployment and need to add some data files to my manifest.  So far, I have been unsuccessful in using mageUI.exe to add the files due to a signing error.  This signing error stands in the way of a production point-of-sale deployment scheduled for next week .  We would greatly appreciate any help you might give us.  Here's the steps I took and the errors/warnings that I s ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro cumulative column calculation

  Hello, have question about calculations in visual FoxPro. Have a table ID Sk 1 4 2 8 3 9 4 3 and so on… need to calculate cumulative sum in next column like ID Sk Cum 1 4 4 2 8 12 3 9 21 4 3 24 Do you know how to calculate this column The easiest way is to write some code ...Show All

• Visual Studio Uninstalled Visual Studio 2005 Standard and having problems with the re-install

  I hope someone can give ma an idea of how to go about solving this problem. I re-installed the previously uninstalled verson of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. Since then, when I try to restart VS, I get the message window that VS is shutting down since it encountered a problem. I tried repairing it, re-installing it two more times, even deleted some keys in the registry. (Yes, I did a back up first). I do notice that I can open an appli ...Show All

• SQL Server Error that has nothing to do with my cube

  I right click on my AS cube and click "Process".  It tells me the server content is out of date would I like to build and deploy first.  i say yes. I get this error Error 1 File system error: The following file is corrupted: Physical file: \\ \E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Data\Adventure Works DW.0.db\Dim Product.0.dim\1.Start Date.(All).sstore. Logical file . Errors in the metadata manager. An error occu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Start Page and Proxys

  How can I make the visual studio 2005 RTM Start page work through an authenticating proxy server I'm not really sure what proxy technology is being used where I work, but it only requires basic authentication (eg: http://username:password@proxy:3128 as the http_proxy/https_proxy environment variables, allows me to run curl commands). I'm kind of baffled as to why the devenv.exe.config defaultProxy fix has no eff ...Show All

• System Center Exchange 2003 Workflow

  Hi All Can any one help me,how to configure the workflow in exchange 2003 If any one have step by step guide or Webcasts kindly provide it. FYI I searched in microsoft MSDN i didn't get the document what i need Thanks In Advance Many Thanks Hameed Hammed hi, Here are various resource that might help you with the product: The following web page is the home page for SCCP and includes pointer to a webcast: htt ...Show All

• Visual C# Datagridview from 2 tables ; one filling up combobox

  Hi, I'm having a situation like this. I am using a datagridview which fills up Item details from a table, say Items. I am also adding a Datagridcomboboxcolumn to this datagrid whose datasource is table 'Category' from where it should show various category names in combo box for user to select one. I can see the datagridview being filled up with data from Items table.I can also see the combo box column being generated for each row.How ...Show All

• Windows Forms On Validation, Value is rounded!

  I have a single datatype bound to a masked textbox in 2.0 (it's a gps coordinate). When I enter a value XXXX.XXXXX, it gets rounded to 3 decimal places, which I don't want. I tried a custom formatter - but I'm sure what interface implements the .Parse method that must get called when converting the string-->single. Help! Thanks, Nick. ...Show All

• SQL Server Mobile Replication

  Dear All, I need to make Sql Server Mobile replication with Sql Server 2005, could any body tell where can I find step by step procedure to make this Thanks and Regards This article will get you started with using replication with SQL Server Mobile http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171801.aspx Using Merge Replication with SQL Mobile http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172407.a ...Show All