kg81's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Pocket PC 5.0 Emulator plays only audio

  Folks, I'm using the Pocket PC 5.0 Emulator to play a video file that is streamed from a Winodws Media Server but I only get the Audio and no Video. Couple of Interesting observations though 1. If I store the file on the Emulator file system, it plays the video file without any problem 2. I can see the video on an Acutal device (Dell X50). Now, is this is known issue. If so any workarounds or patches I need to install Thanks in advance U ...Show All

• .NET Development Error when executing Process.Start() when running under SYSTEM account.

  I have an ASP.Net page using the System.Diagnostics.Process class to execute an Excel file with no arguments, I/O redirection, or direct impersonation. I have setup the web app to run under the SYSTEM (Local System) account via an Application Pool in IIS 6.0. The Excel file has a macro that will run automatically when opened. The web page is actually going to start a ProComm session, executing a script, to telnet to various telcom exuipment and ...Show All

• Windows Forms or how to create a transparent listBox?

  Hi, or how to create a transparent listBox thx this way goes: set TransparencyKey from MainForm on a color p.e. green set BackGroundColor from listBox on green at runtime you will have a transparent listBox how knows an other way ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Formless Application?

  Is there anyway to create an application that (when created) doesn't have a form For example, I would like to create an application that has an icon in the notification bar and have it so that when I double click it a settings form is created. I would prefer not to have the form exist all along and just have it invisible because to my understanding that uses more memory then creating it on demand and the goal of this application is to make it a ...Show All

• Windows Forms problem with threads between framework 1.1 and 2.0

  Hi people, My small applicaton is working well on framework 1.1 but when I use 2.0 beta, it's giving me an exception:  Illegal cross-thread operation: Control accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on. Does anyone have an idea a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Beginner DataGrid/DataSet Q. (Get values, store values...)

  Hello...  I'm pretty new to C#/Windows Forms (and .Net itself), but I've managed to get some aspects of a DataGrid and DataSet working. Here is what I do: gridBook.DataSource = bookData; //gridBook is DataGrid, bookData is a DataSet. gridBook.DataMember = "bo ...Show All

• SQL Server ForEach Loop Container

  I am using a SQL Task to load the data needed for the loop into a variable, then using a script task to perform calculations.  Is it possible to update a table from the script task with the calculated values . Thanks Yes the structure for all reports are the same, the calculations are dependant on the specific measure. May I contact you offline and not involve the forum until a suggestion is re ...Show All

• SQL Server T-Sql Preformance

  I have a Stored Procedure that I need to make run more efficiently. I am calling the SP from a page that displays the data as a report. I have tried to change the SQL to several queries into temp tables and selecting the data from the temp tables, but the page does not display any data. I then put all the queries together and the page works if it doesn't timeout. I realize the query below is not efficient but I am uncertain how to speed it up fu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to Configure a Testing Policy?

  I'm trying to configure a new checkin policy of type "testing policy", but when I click Ok in the "Create New Checkin Policy" dialog I get a new dialog (Unit Test Policy) that asks me for a "Config string". What do I have to put here Can anyone give me an example Thanks. While mstest / does give you the list of parameters, only the /testmetadata and /testlist are supported in the case of Test Policy. Thanks. Winnie Visual Studio Team Syste ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can you mask InputBox text?

  Is it possible to mask the text typed into an InputBox I know I could create another form and show it, but it seems like masking the InputBox would be much easier. Dump the InputBox: it's should just be used for testing at the most. If you need something special (like you do) then create your own dialog box: it doesn't take long. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Property Grid Conditional Values

  Hello, Does anyone know how, or a reference, to produce conditional value lists in a property grid. Ex.  One of the properties for an object could be a list of states, there is also a list of cities.  When a state is selected I want&n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How can I query StateMachineWorkflowInstance before the WF idles

  I would like to retrieve the name of the State that a current State Machine Workflow Instance is in. The StateMachineWorkflowInstance class works fine for this once the WF idles, but I am unable to use it to retrieve the current State when a WF instance is first started. The idea is that I start a WF and then query the State. Can this be done with StateMachineWorkflowInstance or will it require tracking The St ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual C# inserting a text file into a excel sheet

  Pleae Help, Is there a way to take a .txt file and insert the whole thing into cell A15 of an existing excel sheet using a C# windows application ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro VisualFoxpro9.0 row delete and commit through JDBC

  Hi all, I am new to foxpro. I have two issues, 1.) I want to run sql statement and delete the rows throght JDBC connection. Every time I run the delete query, I go to table/Remove Deleted Records and remove the records manually. How can I remove deleted records and refresh table through sql statement 2.) I want to manage transaction manually. I set  the autocommit to false in the JDBC connection object but VF doesnt seem to care about ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA1062:ValidateArgumentsOfPublicMethods and "callbacks"

  I have a class that implements the System.Web.UI.ITemplate interface. I get the CA1062 warning on the implementation of public void InstantiateIn(Control container). I am wondering if I really should validate the argument. I know, it's a public, so everybody can call this method, but it stillsems a waste of time and performance to check for nul in this case. Should I make the implementation explicit Would that help Someone else wh ...Show All