MichMash's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Please Help!!!

  I'm running Visual Studio 2005 (VB) with SQL 2005 installed. I tried to add a SQL database and it says SQL express is not installed. And here I was thinking that SQLexpress was only for VS express. I do not want to use that old crippled handicap SQL express database... how do I use the regular SQL database Thanks. For starters, SQL Express is hardly OLD, it came out at the same time as SQL Server 2005 ...Show All

• Windows Forms easy forms printing?

  Is there an easy way to print a form I saw articles like this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/printwinforms.asp about printing reports, but what I wanna do is print out a couple images along with some text, some of which comes from a variable. I thought the easiest way might be to create a form that isn't shown to put it all together in a way that is relative in size to 8.5 x 11, the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Set Focus to a datagrid row

  Hi,   I have a datagrid filled with data. I search thru this datagrid and found one row using ds.dt.select( ) stmt. I want to set focus to this row in the datagrid. Please help me, how can i do it. Thanks in advance. thanks.. Hi Mark,     Thanks for your reply. I am new to .NET. Can you please tell me, how can I set this CurrentCell property. Below is the piece of code... ---------------- Dat ...Show All

• Visual C# C# generics on conversion operator and constructor

  I have so far a class Expr with a constructor taking a string, and the following two conversion operators. public static implicit operator Expr ( int expr) {    return new Expr (expr.ToString()); } public static implicit operator Expr ( string expr) {    return new Expr (expr); } I have various others, but they all get distilled down to a string using .ToString().  So, the obvious question: ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Direct X

  How to create Mesh - object, if the coordinates of verteks, coordinate  of normals are known, and there is a list what verteks belong to what faces Slightly off-topic but... Does anyone know of any utility that is able to import .x files into any modelling package ...Show All

• .NET Development Xml.XmlDocument.Load problem and don't know why???

  ok i've done this before and i know how to use it, but i'm a little confused now because of the following error i'm getting. and maybe whats really confusing me is that the file is local and that i have the same code in an app that's using the 1.1 framework but for some reason the 2.0 doesn't work. path: "c:\documents and settings\derekklingman\desktop\20050901\reviewpwk010906.xml" System.Net.WebException: The remote server retur ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Data Source for Web Tests?

  In the July CTP you cannot choose a sql express database (you cannot change the provider either - it's greyed out). Will this be fixed in an upcoming CTP (I hope quickly) Jeff Ok, I see now. Unfortunately web tests only support OLE DB connections. I have a query out to the SQL team to see if there is a way to connect to SQL Express from OLE DB. Ed. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to raise notifications in SSIS script tasks?

  Hey guys, I created a script task in my package that checks for filenames of files that are to be processed by the package. for example, File.txt contains a header row of "File.txt|03252006" what my script should do is to check whether or not the actual filename matches the header record inside.. If File.txt has a header record of "readme.txt|03252006" then the script should raise an alert or notif ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions database saga

  I am at my wits end. I am trying to create a program that will add users to a database. I have read the various posts regarding the output file and have changed the Copy To Output File to Copy Never. I have also tried Copy If Newer. The database still does not retain my changes/additions. The code I have used is shown below. Code Here... Private Sub AddUser_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles AddUser ...Show All

• SQL Server Cube Datasource is not on SQL Server

  Hi, is it possible to define a Cube on SQL Server 2005 where the data source itself is on a DB2 or Oracle Database I would like to have the Cube to collect the data from the DB2 Database to build the Cube. The Cube itself can copy some data to the SQL Server if necessary. What I'm trying to avoid is to have an ETL Process to copy over everything to the SQL Server and then build a Cube on top of it. It is currently very difficult to synchroniz ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to write a homescreen program

  Hi i am writting a new program that i want to be able to write the same prog ram for the homescreen too. I am using studio .net 2005 and i got smartphone 2003. Is it possible to do this thanks. No, homescreen plugin needs to be a COM object that can be activated (CoCreated). This is not supported in CF 2.0, because of the lack of CLR hosting support. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Good Book or Set of Rules for Control Development

  Any suggestions  I'm creating User Control and Components in VB.NET right now but I'm not sure that I'm dotting all my I's and crossing all my T's. Specifically, I want to ensure all my User Controls and Components work equally well in C# and&n ...Show All

• Visual C# select datagridview row programatically

  how to select a row in datagridviewprogramatically idea is to move the selection back to selected row after a page refresh.... i can set back the page position, but how to move the selection ! You can now post in this the Windows Forms General Forum . New forums are popping up everyday! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Printing display area to printer

  We are designing a drafting type program and need to be able to print the DirectX display area.  Not only the current clipped region (or current visible camera area). I was thinking about creating a hidden display area that is much larger and have my app draw to that device area and then printing it (since they may print on 11x17 paper), but was unsure about memory issues (since many of the laptop users have 32Mb graphics cards). Ess ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Bug Caching Non-DataSet objects in ServerDocument???

  Is there a bug with caching objects that are not DataSets in Office 2k3 docs Although the examples state that anything xml-serializable can be cached using the "Cached()" attribute, I have had no luck trying to cache a simple string in a Word doc. My code in ThisDocument.cs is something like: public partial class ThisDocument {     string id = string .Empty;     [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Run ...Show All