D Wall's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Can't Connect to SQL 2005 Express Edition via Server Manangment Studio

  I have installed SQL 2005 Express Edition on a Windows 2003 Web Edition server. Everything installed correctly, no errors to be found. I also have: Local & Remote Connections using TCP/IP only turne don SQL Browser is running as well. I have tried connecting with the most recent CTP of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 9.00.1399.00 When trying to connect using the SA account I recieve: 'An error has occured while ...Show All

• Windows Forms DateTimePicker problem

  Hallo everybody My problem is DateTimePicker.When I "change value", example: From 10(hour):59(min) and Up i'm getting: 10:00 I want my DateTimePicker to increase "hour" value! Example: From 10(hour):59(min) and Up 11:00 What seems to be a problem Any idea how to "work" around this problem Regerads Gamb Do you change the value by hand or in code If in code, then you may tr ...Show All

• .NET Development Calling RaiseEvent over Reflection?

  Hi, I have a Event on my class and want to call RaiseEvent using Reflection. I don't want to use a workaround method which calls RaiseEvent for me ... I tried calling my EventInfo's GetRaiseMethod but it simply return nothing. How can I do this   Thanks TheGetRaiseMethod returns null for all events declared with the event keyword as explained in the MSDN help for the same. The documentation apparently is not as verbose as it shoul ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA2000 Dispose temp resource question

  This is my first foray into code analysis, so please be gentle ;) I have a component that utilizes several performance counters. Upon dragging the counter onto the design surface, the following designer.vb code is generated (pared down for applicability)... Private WithEvents myPerfCounter As System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> _ Private Sub InitializeComponent() Me .myPerfC ...Show All

• Visual C++ Sorting of msflexgrid control in VC++

  I want to sort data that is being displayed in my msflexgrid control. All data of a column needs to be sorted on the selection of the column header. Just like we can sort the items in our inbox in outlook by clicking on the tab headings "From", "Date", "Subject", etc. This is a very simple task in VB. But I am unable to find the method to implement it using VC++. Can somebody please help Thank you Ronald. That was exactly wh ...Show All

• Visual C# Accessing .AVI As Embedded Resource

  I've got a project in VS2003 where I've added a number of images and a video clip as an embedded resource on 'Build Action'. I can access the images easy enough by using the following code: System.Drawing.Bitmap bitmap = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(GetType(), "sampleImage.jpg"); this .pictureBox1.Image = bitmap; The problem is accessing the embedded .AVI; both the ActiveX Windows Media Player and the DirectX AudioVideoPlayback r ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can't find project template Smartphone Magneto

  Folks, I just installed VS 2005 Beta and Pocket PC SDK 5.0 along with Smartphone SDK 5.0 but when I try to create a new Project for Smartphone I do not find those options. Should I be doing something else I refered to this document http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dntake/html/yctiwy_wm5.asp  but seems like I did everything it says. Any help Regards, Udaypal Aarkoti Are you using Beta 2 of Vs 2005 this ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Performance Throttling?

  I have a multi-threaded C# application that loads a bunch of tables into ado.net datasets in memory for surrogate key lookups. Depending on what else is going on, it can process 100,000 to 170,000 rows per minute and usually utilizes 20-30% of each cpu. I tried duplicating the process in SSIS using the Lookup Transformation and caching enabled (cache size calculated at 2 * rowcount * bytes/row) with clustered indexes on the lookup columns. With ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to stub out a VB form constructor programmatically?

  Hi all, I have a VB.Net form and I'd like to programmatically stub out New() as if I click the top <ClassName> and <MethodName> drop-down lists. Is it possible The code generated Public Sub New () ' This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. InitializeComponent() ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call. End Sub Thanks! Hi Sorpor, If I understand your questio ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Inserting a record with a TimeStamp field

  Did anybody make it to insert an object with a TimeStamp field. When I try db.SubmitChanges() throws me: Argument types do not match. If I omit the timestamp field it works (however it won't protect me agains concurrency violations upon update or delete). Here is my timestamp property definition: protected System.Byte[] lastChange; [Column(Storage="lastChange", Name="LastChange", AutoGen=true, IsVersion=true)] public System.Byte[] LastChange { ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combination of fields as DisplayMember?

  Hi, I'm binding to an array that holds class objects. Setting a DisplayMember works fine for one property like: cbPartners.DisplayMember = "Name"; cbPartners.DataSource = myArray However, I'd like the display member to be a combination of several properties like "FirtstName" and "Name". Is there any way to do something like that Thanks You have to hook the ComboBox Format event.  If you're binding via ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectInput best practice

  Hi everyone, Im working on a game and I want to add control. (Don't worry, everything is coded for how control will work with game object) I was thinking about a Thread based systeme to handle input from keyboard and mouse. Im just asking if some of you know the "best practice" to handle user input. I mean, do it's better to have one thread for keyboard and one for mouse, or one big brutal thread for all control Im of the advice that smalle ...Show All

• Visual C++ vector<String*>

  Something strange is happenning: I want to initialize a vector of Strings. I write: std::vector<System::String*> listVariants; But I've got an error of compilation: Error 1 error C3265: cannot declare a managed '_Myfirst' in an unmanaged 'std::vector<_Ty>' C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\vector Error 2 error C3265: cannot declare a managed '_Mylast' in an unmanaged 'std::vector<_Ty>' C:\Program ...Show All

• Windows Forms Which Control has less Memory Requirements for GDI?

  I'm currently using the PictureBox as a container for GDI and in my app I have many PictureBox rendering graphics. My question is ¿Is there any other control I can use which is lighter and still produce GDI output Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql server 2000 required but only have SQL server 2005

  I have recently purchased SQL server 2005 for a new install of bespoke software - I have however just been told that it only runs on SQL server 2000 at the moment - is there a way I can install sql 2000 server from the 2005 cd any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks I looked through the bespoke instruction manual and don't see a reason why it shouldn't work on SQL 2005. Have you tried installi ...Show All