Prashanth Desai's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Gathering a list of System DSN 's through the ADO .Net toolkit

  Hi - I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post, so apologies in advance if it's not! I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to extract all the system DSNs from a machine in order to populate a drop-down box, without having to write code to access the relevant registry entries Is there a library provided in the .Net framework that will achieve this Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Mike Hi Mike, If this were provided by the framework, it would be through the .NET ODBC data provider (System.Data.Odbc). However, although there is a native ODBC API to gather DSNs (SQLDataSources), ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL Server 2000, uniqueidentifier (guid) PK columns, and ADO.NET 2.0

  Hello gurus. I am hoping that one of you will know the answer to this question, as I am at a complete and total loss (even google, ultimate mensa of the net, seems to have a hole in its memory). So, without further ado, here is the problem: I have a simple web app. Its currently 2 pages, written in ASP.NET 2.0 using C# and ADO.NET 2.0. The data store is SQL Server 2000, with a meager 10 tables. All of the tables except one have integer identity PK columns, and the one unique one has a uniqueidentifier (guid) PK column. If I query any table by ID directly from SQL Server (enterprise manager or query analyzer) I can query all of the tables ...Show All

• Visual C# Thread Synch and Monitor: How to handle Value Types, and Private Locking to Avoid Deadlocks

  I've been doing some reading on the Monitor class for thread synchronization.  Four questions have come up. Here's a pretty good example from the MSoft docs of synchronizing access by using Monitor around a critical area of code: class MonitorSample { //Define the queue to safe thread access. private Queue m_inputQueue;   public MonitorSample()   {   m_inputQueue = new Queue();  }   //Add an element to the queue and obtain the monitor lock for the queue object.   public void AddElement(object qValue)   {    //Lock the queue.  &nb ...Show All

• Visual C++ GetProcessIoCounters() Problem

  Hi, I'm trying to use GetProcessIoCounters(). I've included the windows.h file (as MSDN says) and Kernel32.lib is in my link-settings too. But when running the program I get the next error: error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__GetProcessIoCounters@8 I cant understand why!!! (I'm using visual studio 6 on windows XP.) Please H E L P ! You need to install an updated Platform SDK, more recent than the one included with VS6. You can download the latest from  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=A55B6B43-E24F-4EA3-A93E-40C0EC4F68E5  but I don't think it's compatible with VC6. You can order older vers ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Power icon problem

  Hello, I've just installed the Windows Vista Beta 2 (Build 5384) and so far so good, except for one thing: somehow i can't activate the option to show the power icon on the "notification are" of the "taskbar". When i go to the properties of the "taskbar", and then go to the "notification area" options, i'm allowed to select to always show the clock, volume and network icons, but not the power icon. Do you know what can i do to fix this problem Because of this problem, i never know when the battery is low. Thanks for your help!! If your machine is battery-enab ...Show All

• SQL Server June CTP Sql agent problem

  I Have installed June CTP DEV edition on a Windows Xp box. I'm a unable to start Sqlagent ..Sql agent status marqued as 'Agent Xps Disabled'  Any idea P.S.  Instance services started and running fine .e. I get a message saying I am not authorized to run sp_configure for databases I created.  What am I doing wrong thanks, Greg ...Show All

• .NET Development join two diffeerent tables

  i have one table called custsales on my machine and and with same table name on different machine.That talbe has field date and storeid.now when i select date and storeid from different machine(using IP address) all values of that storeid and of that selected dast should be copied to my local machine database and in table called custsales.how can i do that in vb.net.i appriciate ur help.its urgent please thanx If I understand your problem correctly, you don't need to code in VB for this.  From SQL Analyser use something like the following... select storeid, date into localDB..custsales from remotDB..custsales where....  M ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System REQUIREMENT FIELDS IN MSF FOR CMMI

  What's the field should I to use for to inform supplier requirement in MSF For CMMI Thank you You may need to customize the template to meet your requirements. The CMMI template is really intended to be customized and for a CMMI Level 3 appraisal you really need to be doing that - customizing the process for each project. In MSF for CMMI Process Improvement we did not attempt to solve the Supplier Management process areas SAM and ISM. Hence, there is no field as such in any of the work items that aids communication with suppliers. Hence, you will need to add it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Disabling page caching

  I am using VSTS to run load tests on a web site. To test it i would like to disable page caching . Is there any way to do this in VSTS. Thanks in advance ! By default top level pages are not cached but dependent links such as images or css files are cached. This simulates browser behavior. Are your top level requests being cached ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services not working

  Hi, I'm tearing my hair out with this problem, hopefully someone can help me. When I try to access the Report Manager (http://server/reports/), I get this error: The attempt to connect to the report server failed.  Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version. When I try to access the report server (http://server/reportserver/), I get this error message: The permissions granted to user 'SERVER\LowPriviligeAccount' are insufficient for performing this operation. (rsAccessDenied) And finally, when I try to deploy a report from inside Visual Studio, I get this error message: --------------- ...Show All

• .NET Development C# How to use Progess bar for writing data to file with multiply lengths

  I am trying to figure out how to use a progress bar inside of a loop. Inside this loop a line is written to a text file and I just want to have the progess bar show the progress of this loop so they have some idea how long it will take. But the problem is each time this loop executes a differnt number lines is written to this text file. So Im wondering how could I use the progress bar in this situation Thanks. I didnt really get to test it out a hole lot but from what I did get to it seems it was between 500 - 600.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newbie with questions_MySql Express and possible PHP link-up

  Let me begin by stating I am an absolute newbie here. I am interested in a couple things: 1) I know that in order to run PHP, I have to have a database program; will this MySql Express work for doing that I mean I can load PHP on my local machine, right If so... where I'm a little lost on this, but I am willing to learn if you're willing to advise me in what you think would be best. 2) I downloaded and installed the Visual Web Developer, and noticed, it doesn't have anything for C++ (at least not mentioned). Is C# the same thing If I learn C# can I get along OK with C++ I'm really looking forward to getting the info about the free learning ...Show All

• Windows Forms BindingSource Setting current position

  Hi, I have a form with a list of employee and a Button to view the detail of that employee. When i click the button to view the detail. I'd like to pass the employeeID to the DetailForm. And with that employeeID, i'd like to set the bindingsource position to point to the correct row in the dataset. How can i achieve that behavior (without passing the bindingsource of the master form). I've tried bindingSource.IndexOf(..) ... but it generates an error ... by passing a typed-row of the dataset. Thanks, http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=54481&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms "Help" button/utility

  Hi, I want to make a "Help" button in my application that opens up help documentation in the msdn format. I want it to have a side panel, with index, search, documentation etc. and the main panel with the actual documents. Is there some "help" document control that comes with .net which does it all for me and I only need to pro ...Show All

• SQL Server Miscellaneous option???

  Does anyone knows what is it for Miscellaneous option on Package Explorer It seems totally useless Strange. I don't have "Miscellaneous" on my Package Explorer. I have: Executables Precedence Constraints Event Handlers Connection Managers Log Providers variables I am running SP1. How about yourself -Jamie ...Show All