DevCowboy's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Is XP Service Pack 2 really required for .NET 2.0?

  The requirements for .NET 2.0 state that XP Service Pack 2 is required which is a step up from the requirements for 1.1. (which dont specify any Service Packs)  This has become such a hot issue for us that is even questionable whether we want to use 2.0 due to this requirement alone. Is Service Pack 2 really required and if so, why   Thanks      Andrew Officially, XP SP2 is required.  Unofficialy, you can install the framework on XP Gold or XP SP1, however, there are no guarantees that everything will work 100% (although it should). XP SP2 is the baseline the V ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Clarification

  So if i'm right, Microsoft is releasing MSN Messenger Activity API's for the protocol Good, in a way, but will Microsoft change they're licence to allow us to create applications (such as MSN Messenger Robots and 3rd Party MSN Messenger Clients) that will connect to the .NET Messenger Network , because if not, then this is really just for refrence.... Well I think encryption would be fine, given that translation is an example in the documentation.  Photo Sharing is probably out of the question -if- it works like the current Photo Swap (aka, some sort of flickr viewer/sharer would probably be fine -- ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista vista download

  Can someone please tell me why microsoft let us download Vista, but dont give us keys....... When i was finish downloading it read: "Keys are limited. Please contact your msdn admin. " but he says: "i dont have any keys" I'm thinkin' about getting a key on the big bad web..... I dont think Ms are too keen about that, but if they wont give me a key i'm gonna get it myself..... bytheway, i'm in the msdnaa program(student) :-) ...Show All

• Visual C++ General Inquiry about Intellisense Diagnostic Repertoires

  It seems that I am really talented at sabotaging my own Intellisense. And, I'm wondering if there are any really good sources of information on the 'Under the Hood' operation of this feature. I have read the documentation available at MSDN. The Visual Studio version that I use is: Visual C++ .NET 2003 Standard. I know, having to depend on Intellisense is worse than being in rehab with, say, Hannibal Lechter, but, it IS a useful feature, especially, for me, as I am a fairly inept programmer. A typical example: I often work through source code examples provided by MSDN Magazine or authors of publications on .NET Development. These code samples ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Fuzzy Matching

  Is there any way to use fuzzy lookup functionality (that exists in SSIS) in your .Net code   I want to call a .Net class rather than calling an SSIS package. Thank you. -- AK Thank you  Michel, Jamie, and Darren for clarifying the issue. Yes, as Jamie wrote, the startup time for a SSIS package is quite significant.  I have a project with a relatively big database (3+ million records), and needed to do fuzzy matching initiated from a UI. The response time was seconds, which was bigger than user expected response time. -- AK ...Show All

• .NET Development Display data from multiple tables into datagrid

  I am using visual studio 2003 and was able to create a dataset and bind it to sql adapter but the data is from one table. I want to view the data from multiple table when i add the tables to dataset it only shows me 1st table. Not sure how to accomplish this... Any help will be appreciated. Is this a winforms app If so, you can set up a view where the grid allows you to expand different tables, I believe.  However, if you want them all to show at once in one table, then they need to make sense with one another, that is, you should write a query which returns all the data you want to display. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem getting code generated unit tests to work.

  Everytime I add a new test project a localtestrun.testrunconfig file is not generated for me. Everytime I open the project my output window keeps telling me: Error loading "FilePath".vsmdi: Input file not found: "FilePath".vsmdi. Error loading localtestrun.testrunconfig: Input file not found: "FilePath"\localtestrun.testrunconfig. So, my question is how do I add a .testrunconfig file to my project Thanks in advance, Dan Thank you very much.. I thought the .testrunconfig file would be under the project (Like the app.config file). Real newbie mistake, but appreciate your help. Thanks again, Dan ...Show All

• Visual C# value in a variable for string method

  Hi, The Select() method of XPathNavigator takes an XPath expression in the form of a string. I have a string type variable 'name' which needs to be given to Select() method. How should I do it name = "John"; Ideally, I should have something like XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavigator(); nav.Select("/root/level1/Name[contains(.,name)]"); Instead of name variable, its value should come into the Select() method. How should I do it Thank you. This should work. nav.Select(string.Format("/root/level1/Name[contains(.,{0})]", name)); ...Show All

• Visual C++ Passing an array of structs

  I have this struct struct student//Struct layout { char name[30]; char id[11]; float gpa; int age; char gender; }; this is the syntax I have for the function I want to send the array to: void firstmenu(student students[]); student students[5];//Struct Array, this is where I make the array firstmenu(students[]); and that is where I try to call it. I get a compiler error of: error C2059: syntax error : ']' when I try to call the function. So I am assuming I have the right parameters when I make the function but I am missing something when I call it. I tried it without the [] doing [5] and it still gives me errors. I'm not sure ...Show All

• Visual Studio Emailing a report

  I have a locally hosted report in an ASP .Net application.  I am rendering this report to a text stream so that I can send it via email, but I think there is probably a better way to do this. What is the best way to programatically email a locally hosted report Hi John -- How are you handling retreiving the rendering from the web control and subsequent image streams that get processed   I've been looking into utilizing this technique to retreive an HTML rendering since MS has removed that from the WinForms control, but I haven't had any real luck getting it to work yet. If you could maybe post a small code snippet, or just de ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to find which RadioButton has been selected in a GroupBox?

  I have a lot of RadioButtons in a Groupox, except checking the Checked property of each RadioButton in the group, is there any other way to know which is selected Thank you for your help! Hi, Try and search for a property like ... radionbuttonlist.SelectedItem.Value. This should give you the value of the selected radio button in the list. Cheers, Nasha. from eeks to geeks ...... you can catch me @ nam_shah at hotmail.com or namratha1 at hotmail.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Multiple MsgBoxes

  In my program I have If x < 5 Then MsgBox( "Error: Not enough songs. Song count: " & CStr (x) & " Songs required: 5" ) End End If But when x < 5, the screen fills up with MsgBoxes continuously until I manage to click one. How to I only make one box appear Thanks Hi! I can't see from your code that this would in itself result in multiple messageboxes. Could you post some more of the code that this code exists within One more thing. You may want to start using System.Windows.Forms.Messagebox.Show instead of Msgbox. Though they ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies But wait, it gets better.

  Cannot install/re-install MS DeskTop Search (nor toolbar): "cannot remove older version"; running XP Pro on Intel 865 motherboard with 1 gig of ram and 3Mhz Pentium 4. Error message "cannot remove older version" is response to running new download; nothing which looks remotely similar to desktop search shows up in {Remove Software} nor do I find any version of anything which looks like desktop search in \Programs\..., including complete invisibility of any of prior third-party (Google, Yahoo/X1, Copernic) desktop search utilities which I have previously installed and removed. What to do How to "remove older ve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System External resource editor

  Hi. I am a project manager using the Visual Studio Team System. In my project, I have a couple of localized resx-files. I would like one of my co-workers to edit these resx-files to translate the strings, however we can not afford one more Visual Studio license. Is there an external tool which allows editing of resx-files Cheers, Chris Here are some possibilities I found. You'll probably need to poke around a bit more to find something that fits whatever your needs are. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cptools/html/cpgrfWindowsFormsResourceEditorWinresexe.asp ...Show All

• .NET Development Strange XmlNodeList behaviour - NullReferenceException

  Hi, I used the SelectNodes() method which returns an XmlNodeList. I checked the Count property of the returned value. It is giving correct value - 3 or 1 depending on XPath Expression. Now, when Iam iterating through it Iam getting a NullReferenceException. XmlNodeList nodeList = doc.SelectNodes(............); foreach(XmlNode node in nodeList) { } Iam getting that exception at the foreach statement. Everything seems alright. When I tried it using for loop like "nodeList.Item(i).Value" , I got a ArgumentNullException. What went wrong Thank you. It looks like ...Show All