Neil McLaughlin's Q&A profile

• Visual C# He need some help with authentication

  Im trying to design a login form that will check against a SQL database to see if the username and password are correct. Could some one please supply some sample code of how i would do this. Thanks, Greg Are you working on ASP.net 2.0, check the following link http://www.asp.net/QuickStart/aspnet/doc/ctrlref/login/default.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Moving a SQL2K publisher to a SQL 2005 instance.

  Hi, I have to move a SQL2K instance (publisher) to a SQL 2005 instance and i prefer not to re-snapshot all the databases being replicated due to the large size of the databases. As i understand all i need to do is    1. Ensure all published databases are in readonly mode. 2. Stop the replication (by either dropping subscriptions, publication or stopping replication agents). 3. Move the databases to the SQL ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Framework 2.0 question

  I appologize in advance if some of my  questions to the forum is a little out of place. I am not a programmer or developer, just a gamer, system builder, and network administrator of a home network. After installing .NET Framework 2.0, Direct X9.0c's Diagnostic shows that one of the two system.dll files is missing. The one that is listed belongs to 1.1, so logic dictates that it is the one for 2.0 that is missing. However it is in ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Looping for Complex Query

  Good Morning, I am dealing with a complex query that seems to generate stack compile and timeout errors.  It was suggested that the query be rewritten to become more simplified, and while I need to still display the same required data, I am wondering if incorporating a loop in the statement would help... and how would I go about doing so A working example would be helpful.  Thanks!   trav ...Show All

• Visual Studio CR in VS.Net underlines text despite properies setting

  I have an unbound string field on a report that contains concatenated fields from a database. It is contained within its own detail section. I added another section for a subreport and now the text in the unbound field is underlined even though the underline property for the field is set to false. CR has done other strange things after adding sections as I stated in my "Lost Data in VS.Net Crystal Report" post. Is anyone else ha ...Show All

• Visual Basic AnalogTVTuningSpace and MSVidCtl

  I´m trying to develop a decent tv tuner/capture application (since there are no such apps, nowhere, I say) in Visual Basic 6.0. I´m using the MSVidCtl component together with the AnalogTVTuningSpace and IChannelTuneRequest object to achieve this, as desc ...Show All

• Windows Forms TaskVisionWS DataSet(xxx).vb

  First, thanks to Microsoft for TaskVision and Microsoft Application Blocks, they are great tools. I’m attempting to leverage off of the TaskVision framework for development of a custom solution. I’m currently involved in the rather tedious process of adapting the  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Adding a ComnboBox to a propertygrid

  Hi Folks I have a custom class bound to a Propertygrid in a vs2005 form. One string Property has a limited list of strings allowed to enter. I know that I can use an enumeration to cause the propertygrid to show the allowed values in a combobox. But my problem is that the strings allowed come from an xml-file and I want to add them at runtime in the new() method of my custom class. My Question: is there a chance of showing a combobox to the use ...Show All

• Visual Studio Open From Source Control problem

  When I do this with the MSSCCI provider I am developing I get this error ... "The source control bindings for this project do not match the bindings reported by your source control provider. This solution, or part of it, may have been forked or branched. To update the projects source control bindings use the Change Source Control on the Source Control menu." If I click OK, and let VS reload, everything is fine.  But I can't f ...Show All

• Visual Basic Set an environment variable

  Hi, I'm looking for the possibility to set an environment variable temporarily for an application that my VB-application starts. My VB-application look like this: Dim pExtApplication As New Process pExtApplication.StartInfo.FileName = "ExtApplication" pExtApplication.StartInfo.Arguments = "--help" pExtApplication.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False pExtApplication.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions A lot of code on one form when using tab folders. Any solutions?

  Hi, I am using VB.NET 2005. I have a fairly large program and have broken it up into tab folders. I would like each tab to have a seprate form in order to isolate the code associated with each tab. I notice that the way VB.NET uses tabs, all of the code is on one form which makes finding code segments messy. Is there a way to fix this, or do I have to live with it. I am using modules extensively to reduce the amount of code on the form. Any s ...Show All

• Visual C++ problem using static gc arrays!

  I've defined some static __gc arrays in a class that i intialize & dimension them in my class constructor and use them in a function but when i call this function from my main routine the staic array acts like a nonstatic variable and dont works probably .anyone has any idea whats going wrong even when i use __gc array in my function in a for loop to sum some variables it doesnt work . my code is somthin like this: --------------- ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) charging for ws usage

  Hi I have several services and I would like to charge by the invocation of its methdos. Which is the best way to solve this problem in WCF It would be in the server side. Thanks Javier server side make sense ,because if client makes the call and if that call didn't reach server,This model may not work(If you are giving generic web service client,you may track this on client side also,but if you are ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to change font in dialog??

  Hi every one, I use the follow code to modify the bold attitude for some static text, but the code need to define the character size and others. it will affect the character size on the different resolution LCD. I want to just modify the font weight to be bold and others keep as system default setting. How could I do it HFONT hFont ; LOGFONT lfFont; memset(&lfFont, 0x00, sizeof(lfFont)); memcpy(lfFont.lfFaceName, TEXT(" ...Show All

• Visual C++ Unresolved external for IID_IXMLDOMDocument2

  Hello, I am trying to reproduce a problem (huge memory increase) in an MSXML wrapper library. I Created (using visual studio 2003) a console application where I create a DOM document using IXMLDOMDocument. This works fine since there is hardly any code to go wrong The next step is to switch on XPATH support. For that I need the IXMLDOMDocument2 interface. So I figured I query IXMLDOMDocment for IXMLDOMDocument2. However when I try to ...Show All