Luca Giuffrida's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro coming back to foxpro

  used foxpro 2.5 and now have visual fp.  am having trouble lwith iff and if then syntax.  i want to have user enter a zip code and then the city and state are filled in.  thanks for any help there are many 3rd party controls available that do this, you might save yourself a lot of time. I used one about a year ago, it was under $100.00 and worked very well. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies IFilter Preview

  What interface and registry settings do I use to supply the picture for the Preview box in the Windows Desktop Search window   I tried adding an IViewObject2 to my IFilter DLL but it never gets called. Joe, Thanks for answering, however a statement in a 3rd party blog hardly constitutes an answer. I have no way of knowing from whence Tom comes. I have have opened an MSDN support incident through my Certified Partner ac ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) can't generate proxy classes for HelloWorld Sample at WC.NET

  I'm following this step by step: http://windowscommunication.net/collateral/pages/howto.htm But there seems to be a problem still. svcutil.exe gives me: Warning: Unable to import wsdl:binding Detail: The following Policy Assertions were not Imported: XPath://wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='http://tempuri.org/']/wsdl:binding[@name='BasicHttpBinding_HelloService'] Assertions: <wspe:Utf816FFFECharacterEncoding xmlns:wspe= ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to handle DateTime Variable and NULL Value

  I have the following code. The MemberJoinDate Column on the SQL Server Database allows NULL. How do I set the MemberJoinDate DateTime Variable in my Form to NULL if the user does not enter a value in the txtBoxAMMemberJoinDate At the moment I get an error of "Cannot Convert dbnull to datetime" string strMemberJoinDate = this .txtBoxAMMemberJoinDate.Text; DateTime MemberJoinDate = System.DBNull.Value; if (strMemberJoinDate != "") { Mem ...Show All

• Smart Device Development No result code for SendMessage with WM_COPYDATA

  Hello, I've asked this question in MSDN forum , but without result. So I' want to ask somebody here, whats the problem with my code. I try a inter process communication with windows messages and WM_COPYDATA. It should work for managed and unmanaged applications. The receiver of WM_COPYDATA messages is a managed applications. For the sender the result code of SendMessage is important. In the managed receiver I use Microsoft.Windows ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Clickable 3D Cube

  I'd like to draw a simple cube with "dynamic content" on each face. I'm using a Viewport3d with the mesh of a cube, and on the GeometryModel3D.Material I draw the user-interface. This solution does not seem to work because it simply draw the scene, without giving the user the ability to interact with it. What do you suggest me to draw different content on each face of this cube I attached below the code used by now. Thanks fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Application goes blanc

  Hi when I'm using the graphics system to draw out points on my form in a loop ( finite) , the application sometimes goes blanc. It also doesn't update some labels even when these are in a different function. Anyone had the same problem I use this sub as a delay Sub Delay() Lvoltooid.Text = CStr ((i / 100000) * 100) & "% is voltooid" PgbVoltooid.Value = PgbVoltooid.Value + 1 System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(TBTijd.Value) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sourcesafe Shadow Folder

  Is there a way to automatically update a shadow folder when a user checks in files I would like to keep a copy of the most current source for a project on a different server. Thanks Hi, Shadow folders are automatically updated on check-ins, you don't need to do it yourself. If you notice that the shadow folder doesn't get updated, this might be because the users that check-in the files don ...Show All

• SQL Server Force Modification of a User Defined Function

  Is there a way to force the modification of a User Defined Function upon which depend other objects. This is the message: Msg 3729, Level 16, State 3, Procedure FunctionName, Line 22 Cannot ALTER 'FunctionName' because it is being referenced by object 'OtherObject'. I have 48 objects related to the function and each time I need modify the function is a big pain. Any help will be much appreciated. Best Regards ggpnetwork ...Show All

• SQL Server Bug in the OLE DB command?

  This command has no error: update art_anz set anz = anz where artnr = 'xxxxxxx' declare @artnr as varchar(10) set @artnr =   But this command has an error: --update art_anz set anz = anz where artnr = 'xxxxxxx' declare @artnr as varchar(10) set @artnr =   The difference is the first line. When you use parameters ( )  in the OLE DB-Command, the very first line has to be a Non-Select SQL-Statement. The S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions download and to install

  i want to get MS Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and SQL 2005 (Non trial ). can anyone tell me how much to pay and from where to get these above development envirnment so that i can sta rt working on it.. kind regards, Hi, To download the Express versions of those programs, go here. Only the Express edition of SQL 2005 is available for download, the full versions are not. The Express editions are free until November. Good luc ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with Resource

  Hello, I want to test the new resource-feature, so I created a resx-file with some values. Now I compile it with resgen and get following .dll: Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Ressource\Ressource\bin\Debug\de-DE\Ressource.resources.dll I want to read a value to a console with following code: System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New System.Globalization.CultureInfo( "de-DE" ) Dim rm As New Resources.Resource ...Show All

• .NET Development Discard changes made to datatable columns of a Dataset?

  Hello, I have a windows form with several text boxes. OnLoad, I use a DataAdapter which calls a SQL sproc to retrieve it's info. The sproc returns has 3 select statements so when all is said and done, the dataset ends up with 3 tables. (table, table1 and table2) Next I use databindings.add for each of the textboxes and bind them to the appropriate column in the appropriate tables. The textboxes are readonly by default and I have an Edit ...Show All

• SQL Server Generation of report takes a long time (performance issue)

  Hi, My company is using MS SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition and Report Services. We have some tables which are have now around 4000000 rows. When we genarating report SELECT     sessionNum, moteID, dbo.MacAddrConv(macAddr) AS macAddr, chID, dbo.TimestampConv(timestamp) AS timestamp, value FROM         NotificationData ORDER BY timestamp it takes 15 minute. Our table is located in the S ...Show All

• Visual Basic ADODC unrecognized database format for Access 2000

  I am working on a networked version of Access 2000 using a Visual Basic 6 front end. The access file was recently moved to a new server with MS Server 2003 installed. Over the last couple of days my clients, who have todate had no problems accessing the data, have one by one been unable to access the data getting error message "Unrecognized database format". Any help would be appreciated. This may ...Show All