Lance199's Q&A profile

• SQL Server OLE DB or ADO?? plz give me a suggestion!

  i am learn database access with native vc++, so ADO.NET is not electable for me. i wonder whether i should study OLE DB first or ADO. i've been working with ADO under VB for some time, it's very simple to use. but i dont think it's the best choice for vc++, i think it's OLE DB. but OLE DB is really difficult, too many interfaces, and properties!!! could u give a suggestion should i learn ADO with vc++ first and then OLE DB, or sould i  ...Show All

• Visual C# Single Instance Application in C#

  Some one has more better idea to force application to run as single instance than as give below. private static void SingleInstance() {      Mutex MyApplicationMutex = new Mutex  (true,"MyApplicationMessage");       if (MyApplicationMutex.WaitOne(0, false))               Application.Run(new Form1());      el ...Show All

• Architecture designing an online & offline application... what methodology to use?

  Hello, I am at a stage where I want to develop and application that will work the same whether if you are online or offline. I can always write an application that hooks up to a server while online (connected to a network) and queries a db for the interactions bewteen the user and the app. Then when offline have another app that looks at the local database... but i don't want to write two apps... I want to build an app like outlook ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to generate Setup and deployment project for PPC

  HI , I've developed an application for PPC. It's working fine . Now i want to create a setup project. But i don't have any idea abt that. my application utilizes XML lookup tables.Can i add it into setup how to add icon Kindly suggest me to acheive this!. If u know links related to it kindly post it!. Thank You! Hi Senthil, I'm happy to inform u that i successfully load the pgm b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamic Data Entry Control

  Hi We are going to migrate a VB application to Windows Forms. The current application uses DataView Control from Green Tree. This is a kind of dynamic data entry control. We can specify the field type (Text Box, Check Box etc), data source  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Button problem...

  Hi! I need som help with coding. I wan't to have a ToolStripMenuItem and link it to another form but I don't know the code for that. Can someone please help me Thanks in advance. Didde wrote: Hi! I need som help with coding. I wan't to have a ToolStripMenuItem and link it to another form but I don't know the code for that. Can someone please help me Thanks in advance. A ...Show All

• Visual Studio DSL Tools Licensing

  Hello, We are currently developing our own custom modeling language base on the VS DSL Tools. We understand we (as an ISV) need full Visual Studio 2005 DSL Tools licence but what will be the license requirements if an end-user uses our custom modeling language inside Visual Studio 2005 - Visual Studio 2005: which version (or SKU) - VSIP or VSIP redistribuable. In this case shall he need ay licence) - DSL Tools or DSL Tools redistribuable Thank ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System can team server run on one box with an asp.net site ??

  ok so I got some things to work -- installing the beast and making a sample empty project... but then I need to put a web site on the same server to develop. WUPS!   to remotely access the web site with Visual Studio I need Front Page Extensions and adding them seems to break TFS perhaps I am trying the impossible what I want to do: one server. have Team Server on that box to manage the development of one app. the app has : 1) a wind ...Show All

• Windows Forms calculations on Keydown, Keyup events of datagrid

  Hi, I am working on windows forms datagrid.. Here i want to keep datagrid as editable... There are say, 5 columns in the grid eg. Item, Price, Quantity, Toll Fee, Tax, Gross Amount.. There is one textbox in which i show Total Gross Amount which is&n ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get Dictionary<Tkey, TValue> entry information through reflection?

  I have been working on some code that probe through the entries of a generic dictionary Dictionary < TKey , TValue > , using reflection. Unlike working with Hashtable, it's not easy to find out the entries' key and value information. Here is the code depict the problem. Suppose I have a class hold two fields: public class MyClass { Dictionary < string , DateTime > m_dateTimeDictionary; ...Show All

• .NET Development Bug with the .NET XslTransform xslt transformation?

  Hi, I have an C#/ASP.NET application.  Most pages are generated this way: I extract data from the database, produce an xml string, use a xslt stylesheet to display the page. I can either send the page as xml with a link to the stylesheet, in which case, the transformation is done by IE or I can transform it on the server with the Transform() method of XslTransform object and send HTML. Now, usually, this works fine in both cases but I have ...Show All

• Windows Forms Blank Container when embedding windows form

  <object id="myComponent" classid="http://localhost/FormTest/FormTestForm.exe#FormTestForm.Form1"  height="300" width="300"/> </object> Hi, I've been trying to configure a windows form to run inside an ASP.NET application. This is the object tag i'm using. However, wh ...Show All

• SQL Server identifying the invalid procedure

  Is there any option to identify the invalid procedure objects. Say for example if procedure P1 uses a table T1 and the table T1 is now deleted then P1 procedure will not be executed. I need to identify these procedures. Any guidance sql2k suppors 'defered name resolution' thus it's perfectly legal to have a stored procedure that references a non-existent object. However, it's important to note here is that if ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Create forms in code but can't 'paint' them

  I can create forms in code OK but if I draw graphics on them they don't refresh automatically.  If they are resized or another form is displayed over them then the graphics are wiped out.  If I could put the code in the form's paint method I know it would refresh automatically but I can't access the paint method because the sub form_paint() doesn't exist.  Is there some other way of making a form created in code repaint   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions XP 64 Bit Edition - VB 2005 Express - "Unable To Start Debugger"

  Hi! I am running the final build of XP 64 Bit Edition and have installed VB2005 Express on what is basically a clean install with a default corporate local security policy applied (admin name changed and terminal services disabled etc). VB 2005 Installs smoothly with no errors or unexpected delays. When I have written my code and press F5 to run/debug it , the project builds ok but then I get a pop up box with the error "Unable To Start Debugger ...Show All