Mr Bongo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Changing a string value ?

  I am having trouble understanding why I can’t modify a string variable within a function. To better illustrate what I am having trouble, please refer the following code: <<myapp.h>> #include <string> using namespace std; static string FName = "SOMEFILE.INI" ; void ChangeDefaultValue(); <<myapp.cpp>> #include <stdio.h> #inclu ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute SQL Task Error

  I have a stored procedure that accepts an integer as input and sends a value out as type varchar(600). When I use Execute SQL task with ADO.Net or ADO Connection Manager and assign proper values for the parameters and their direction, the execution of the task returns ONLY 1 character (first character)for the output parameter. Sounds like a bug since I can't set the string length anywhere in the data type. Any help/work arounds would be greatl ...Show All

• SQL Server Wich datatype?

  Hi Group, Wich datatype can I best use for a number with several decimals (can be anything between 1 and e.g.10) If the number has 10 decimals the customer needs the EXACT numbers. They couldn't explain why.... TIA Regards, Sander use the Decimal or Numeric data type! float and real data types only store approximate data which loses precision when the decimal part of the data cannot be exactly represented using ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error on delete [] v

  Hi, I have a problem with a class. The declator is class Configuration { public : struct conf_table { char name[40]; char value[10]; }; struct conf_table *conftable; int size; //rows on conftable int max_size; //maximum rows on conftable public : Configuration( void ); //Constructor ~Configuration( void ); //Destructor }; And the code is Configuration::Configuration( v ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there a better way to handle menuStrip Click Events ?

    Hi there, I am constructing menuStrips,toolStrip programatically and I was wondering if there was a better way to write my "OnMenuStripClickHandler"even reduce the code or get rid of the casting,may be just by getting the name of the sender or something like that.I saw somewhere done with "sourceControl" method but not sure now.    ToolStripMenuItem FileMenu()   {    ToolStripMenuItem tsmiFile = new T ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Validation error symbol

  Hello, when I drop an IfElseActivity into the custom designer ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/WFDsgnRehst.asp ) I don't see the validation error symbol as it is shown into VS. How can I show it Thanks, Pierre You can just set this somewhere in your code (before you create the view) WorkflowTheme .CurrentTheme.AmbientTheme.ShowConfigErrors = true; ...Show All

• .NET Development WebClient,... Can't get files using ".php?" types of links...

  Greetings Folks ! We have a web crawler that searches the net for specific images... When the link is a simple href, we can easily get the file using : WebClient myWebClient = new WebClient(); myWebClient.DownloadFile(m_remoteUri, sDestination); But when the link is PHP based, the code above will not work. Using the example below, how could we get the image in the page that this link will produce. http://img120.imagevenue.com/img.php ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums export lots of Access stored queries

  Hello, I've got about 100 stored queries in an Access database. I'd like to export them each to text files with a VBA macro for source control. Any ideas   If anybody could clue me into what VB object contains the export method for stored access queries, I would appreciate it.  Thanks. jrock2468 wrote: Hello, I've got about 100 stored queries in an Access database. I'd like to export them each t ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to cast a struct over data correctly?

  I'm messing around with a bitmap header struct and data I read from a bitmap file. I try to access the fields of the bitmap header using the struct. But this doesn't really work. The data inside the fields of my struct is not correct. Somebody told me, that the compiler aligns the fields and this causes the failure. How can I solve this problem Here my code: #include "console.h" #include <stdio.h> #include <iostream> #inc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems with SoundPlayer

  Hi, I have a problem with SoundPlayer. When I play longer .wav files they sound very damped compared to playing them in WMP. Also, if I play very short .wav's, I can't hear them at all although they play nice in WMP. Any idea what this might be Thanks, Tom lol :D .NET 2.0 has a class called SoundPlayer private System.Media.SoundPlayer player = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(); player.SoundLocation = SoundSetting ...Show All

• SQL Server how to deploy reports to the production server

  Hi,   I have developed few reports, i want a installer similar kind of application installer to install /deploy reports to the report server.   currently i am deploying from solution file to the staging server or i use report manager to upload reports one by one. is there any kind of option of uploading all the files together to the production server since there will be no visual studio in production environment   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Debugging Hosted COM DLL

  Hi, Anybody know how to debug a COM DLL which is initialized by a seperate executable In VS 2003 Full Blown version, you can set Debug Mode to program, specify the exe which runs your DLL and debug quite happily. In C#2005 Express I cannot find any way of specifying this type of debug mode, it just tries to execute the DLL direct which it cannot do as there is no startup code. Anybody help at all Cheers ...Show All

• SQL Server Query Designer in SQL 2005 Mgmt Studio a let-down?

  Greetings, all. Thanks for all of the great postings in this community. However, one question I have doesn't seem to have been addressed. In SQL 2000 Enterprise Manager, a user could right-click on a table, and choose Open Table>>Query. This option brings the user directly to a query designer very similar to the query designer available in SQL 2005 Management Studio. However, I have been frustrated by the following: - The Open Table ...Show All

• SQL Server Alter column question

  I've been asked to consider modifying our largest, oldest and most used database. "They" want to change the type of some columns from tinyint & smallint to dec(4,1) thru dec(6,1). I'm doing all I can to prevent this asinine change, mentioning the fact that everything we've built in the last 12 years will need to be checked / modified. But, in case I lose, I wrote a script to modify the columns. It consists of a bunch of T-SQL comma ...Show All

• Windows Forms get value of checked item in checkedlistbox

  Hi, I have a checkedlistbox. I am trying to get the value of all checked items, but cant really find any function that gets the value of checked item. how can I get it    CLBDiscount is the checkedlistbox for(int i=0;i<CLBDiscount.CheckedItems.Count;i++) { _AL ...Show All