Brent Mullet's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Want Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta 1 Installation

  I first uninstalled Beta 1 of of C# 2005 Express and then tried to install Beta 2 but got a message that XP SP2 is required.  My company doesn't support SP2 yet so I tried to install it myself but ended up getting a permissions error.  I have administrator privilages but the XP SP1 on my system has been customized by my company. I would like to get back to where I was with the Beta 1 install, but can't find it on the sit ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC2005 Beta2 Crashes

  Hello, I'm running beta 2 on a W2k SP6 machine. I have a large solution converted from VS2003 that is all native C++ code. The development environment is having persistent crashes. A crash happens every minute or so and I get a group of dialog boxes that say something to the effect "unknown software exception 0xc000000d at location 0x7c3b3984, ok to terminate, cancel to debug"). I can choose 'ok' and continue running the program(!). I usually ...Show All

• .NET Development Do we need to explicitly close a sqldatareader object?

  We have a piece of code that does the following in order: 1. create a sqlconnection object. 2. create a sqlcommand object 3. open connection from step 1. 4. create a sqldatareader object that calls sqlcommand.executereader with "CommandBehavor.closeconnection". 5. while reader.read() some processing is done. 6. A finally block then closes the connection. Question: Do we need to explicitly close the sqldatareader ob ...Show All

• SQL Server Error while importing Text file using Import Export Wizard

  Hi all i have text file where i can import it to excel to access or sql2000 without problem but when i import it using (sql2005 pro) i get this error message during the import O peration stopped... - Initializing Data Flow Task (Success) - Initializing Connections (Success) - Setting SQL Command (Success) - Setting Source Connection (Success) - Setting Destination Connection (Success) - Validating (Success) - Prepare ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I get list of pc's in Active Directory

  Anybody have some sample code to query the computers in Active Directory on a domain I would like to build an array from a list of computers within Active Directory. I am building an application that checks for existing files on computers on our network to tell me whether a particular program was installed or not. Thanks, Arkman5 to get started with, read about DirectoryServices. it cannot be imported by default using Imports System ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ObservableCollection is missing !!!

  Hi All, I tried to move my beta code to Feb CTP and found ObservableCollection is missing. Is there substitute for ObservableCollection Please let me know. Thanks a lot. Basav My Mistake, I was using the old project file and it was it had reference to non valid windowbase assembly. Remove the old reference and reference correct windowbase.dll ...everything works fine...now. ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to override QueryStatus ()

  Hi All, I am using C# to write a VS Package with SDK 2005. I need to override the function Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IOleCommandTarget.QueryStatus (). The Package class implements the interface IOleCommandTarget but does not have QueryStatus() as virtual. Would anyone know if there is an alternate way to achieve what QueryStatus() function does The IDE calls this method and gives the package a chance to disable/enable any UI com ...Show All

• SQL Server Change the type of an expression container

  Hi, I use expressions to build the SQL query that is executed by the data flow. Today, I ran into an issue. For the first time the SQL query has exceeded 4000 char so the expression cannot be validated and it is not possible to use it. Is there a way to change the expression datatype to nvarchar(max) instead of the default nvarchar(4000) Thanks, Philippe Is there any way around the 4000 literal s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Open source version?

  Has anyone started an open source version of this If not is anyone interested in starting one Also would like to start/join a open source version of this. Not sure of the ramifications legally, but the TaskVision Workspace on GotDotNet (ht ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I get the active item in a listview?

  I'm trying to make a method where I doubleclick on a listview item, and a button should then be added on a panel with the listview item's text Thanks for the answers. I did it this way; ListViewItem activeItem = new ListViewItem(); act ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DX Engine (3D) ... C# or C++?

  Hello, everyone. Some friends and I want to develop a 3D engine (using DX9). We know how to create an engine using C++. But should we go with C# this time I have been using C# for a while now, and I am confident. But I just need to know someone else's opinion on creating a DX engine in C# or C++. I would go with David on this one and agree that it doesn't matter which language you do it in. Just pick the lang ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can't understand delegate function

  I'm reading Wrox's Professional VB 2005. I'm just at the beginning of delegates. It has us open a module1 and put in the following code: Public Delegate Function Compare(ByVal v1 As Object, ByVal v2 As Object) As Boolean Public Sub DoSort(ByVal theData() As Object, ByVal greaterThan As Compare) Dim outer As Integer Dim inner As Integer Dim temp As Object For outer = 0 To UBound(theData) - 1 For inner = outer + 1 To UBound ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Working with 3D textures

  Hi! I just modify my program to work with 3D images instead of 2D images. But I need some help. I have two options. One Im not sure how it works. It's to create a texture as IDirect3DTexture9, and especifying a value for level. I dont know, what does exactly the parameter level means. Can i put a 3D image, writting my Levels parameter as the Depth of my 3D image And After use GetSurfaceLevel to get each slice of dimensions x*y, for each z(depth ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hiding column in datagrid

  I have a datagrid (master-detail) which shows the details of a specified lognr. In the grid I want to hide the column 'lognr', because I can see that elsewhere. I can hide all columns, accept that one, i think it's because 'lognr' is the key for the relation between two tables. This is how I do it: this might work dataGridViewDescriptions.Columns[ "Lognr" ].width = 0 Remco ...Show All

• SQL Server users cannot accesss report builder without being local administrator

  I've seen similar posts on this problem but no answers. Does anyone know what 'local rights' the user needs without being admin to access report builder. I have already gave them the rights to install report builder they can see the icon on the web page but when they go to install it and are not local administrators on their desktop, they get this error. We have tried putting the users in the Power Users group but still does not let them ...Show All