Dan Drew's Q&A profile

• .NET Development ado.net 2.0 Fill method fails silently (bug?)

  Please help me if you can. Using VS 2005, windows form. I have a dataset with a few tables, some of which are bound to datagrids.  When the form loads, the datasets are filled with data from SQL Server stored procedures.  No problem so far. I have a procedure which processes data (using stored procs), after which I re-fill the dataset, using the same code as successfully fills the dataset when the form loads. But... the fill ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Using and querying custom property sets/items

  Hi In terms of the Windows Indexing Service and IFilters you can register custom property sets and return data for these custom properties when your IFilter is called. In the MSN-DS (WDS) dev guide at http://addins.msn.com/devguide.aspx they mention that your IFilter should return values for all properties that it finds for the item types it indexes. However the docs go on to state that : For a complete list of supported properties u ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I perform the Button1_Click subroutine?

  I coded in a Button1_Click event and it works properly when Button1 is clicked.  Now, I want to also "perform"  this Button1_Click subroutine from my Button2_Click subroutine. My Button2_Click event (labeled "Back") subtracts 1 from a counter.  Then I want to perform the Button1_Click event (labeled "Next"). How do I "perform" the Button1_Click subroutine (without clicking on Button1)     ...Show All

• Windows Forms The need for the Framework

  I create my windows application. Does every computer I want to run it in need to have the framework installed You may be right about the datetime/currency/etc. localization issues, I'm not for sure.  But all dialog text, error messsage ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Check list for prereq installation for Team Foundation

  Check list for prereq installation for Team Foundation   Is there a check list of pre-reqs in order to install Team Foundations, for a person who wants to install Foundation and Developers but does not want to understand the internals of SQL, SharePoint and W2K3     Something like this: Install W2K3 SP1 Pick these options, don’t pick those options Install SQL 2005, pick these options Install SharePoint Service ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB5: Run-Time Error '380'

  This is very frustrating.  A VB5 program I wrote years ago stopped working and is now giving me this error: Run-time error '380': Invalid property value I cannot figure out what has changed, since I run that program almost daily.   It was working fine, then stopped (without any changes to the program).   I suspect I may have uninstalled something it uses, but cannot figure out what. When I open the VB5 ID ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ 2005 compliance with The C++ Standard

  Despite a boat-load of documentation on Microsoft extensions to the C++ language, I have been unable to find a single page describing how VC++ 2005 differs from VC++ 2003 (7.1) with respect to the serious non-compliance issues that plagued users of VC++ 2003 (7.1). This document http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vclang/html/vclrfNonstandardBehavior.asp is available for Visual C++ 2003 (7.1). Does anyone know whic ...Show All

• SQL Server Modify existing stored procedure??

  I have a stored procedure I created in SQL Server 2000 enterprise manager which I would like to modify in SQL Server 2005 Express Management Studio.  When I right click on the stored proc and select "Modify", the code opens - however any attempt to save creates a local .SQL file.  How can I save these changes to the stored procedure on the server When you open a stored proc on SQL Server (any version) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions shutdown windows

  Is there any way of shutting down windows thru a form is it in the My.Computer listings please help Hi, The below link should be of help. Link: http://www.codeproject.com/Purgatory/AMR.asp If you think that your post is answered then please mark it as Answer. Thank you, Bhanu.   ...Show All

• SQL Server Default Schema and Synonyms

  database0.User1 has a default schema of database0.Schema1 and also belongs to database1. I have the following synonyms in database0: Schema1.Customers - points to database1.dbo.customers dbo.Customers - point to database2.dbo.customers User1 has execute rights in database0. I have a stored procedure in database0 that says select * from Customers I thought since User1's default schema was Schema1, it would automatically see ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Debug Mode vs Release Mode

  I am working through a beginning C# book which is attempting to demonstrate the Debug.WriteLine and Trace.WriteLine functionality in both Debug and Release mode configurations. The book states to simply choose the release mode option from the standard toolbar. I believe that the book is assuming the use of the full blown version of Visual Studio 2005, whereas I am using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. I see a drop down box in the standard too ...Show All

• Visual C# Not executing some event

  I have listbox and I use "ItemIndexChange" event to do some action, but i do something else when i click on the list ("MouseDown" event). Events order: "ItemIndexChange", "MouseDown". How can I prevent executing "ItemIndexChange" when I clicked on the list and execute this event when I use keyboard to navigate throught list items. Just be creative an ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to use other DLL in COM DLL?

  First, generate a project by the VS2005 of ATL DLL, and add a simple object into the project, then add the IShellExtInit and IContextMenu interface manually. Well, it is work fine. But if i invoke other DLL's function in the ATL DLL's project, it is will alway show an error as:(and the invoked DLL is surely 64-bit) Linking... Creating library x64\Debug\PWContext.lib and object x64\Debug\PWContext.exp Embedding manifest... Registering outp ...Show All

• Visual Basic sql database

  I am trying to work on an inventory program for my model railroads using SQL.  i got the form down pat, but when I test it out and put data in, close it, then restart the build, nothing.  What am I doing wrong DUHHHHH .  I accidentally stumbled upon the way to get it going after I posted this.  Now, as long as I execute it from the release directory of vb, it will work.  Sometimes I have ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Data Source view in Import export package within same solution is not possible ?

  hello ,   I want to download data from an AS/400 to a SQL 2005 Database. Within Sql server 2000 it was possible to do more than 1 transformation with just 1 source connenction and 1 destination. In SSIS I have created: -  new solution -  data source -  Data source viewer ( I made named queries to format the data as i want it to be in Sql) Although it is possible to view the named query data it does not ...Show All