Chris R. Timmons's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic VB Express debug adds missing file to directory when starting???

  This is in reference to my previous post concerning changing Access databases. It seems VB Express in the debug mode does not use the Access database files defined in the code. Instead it loads a copy of the database from somewhere unknown and writes that copy to the directory where the code specifies the database should be, whether it is there or not. If it is there it replaces it. Here's the code: dbpath = "C:\XData\PPPos.mdb" DB1 = DAODBEngine_definst.OpenDatabase(dbpath) rs1 = DB1.OpenRecordset( "ModeTable" , DAO.RecordsetTypeEnum.dbOpenDynaset) I have been working with computers since 1960 and I have ...Show All

• Windows Forms Misadventures in Printing

  I've encountered several oddities with printing in Windows Forms. The PrintPreviewDialog has some bizarre visual artifacts on the edges of the previewed pages. This is most apparent it you toggle the controls that select the number of simultaneously previewed pages.  This doesn't only happen in my code. The behavior is present in the sample printing code that accompa ...Show All

• Visual J# Free game - Engineer your own World

  This is Windward's Christmas present to the development community. Download the Game – for Free! Happy Holidays from Windward Studios. Windward Studios, the creators of Windward Reports, is making Enemy Nations available for free. Sim City meets Civilization meets Age of Empires Enemy Nations combines the world building of Sim City, the large scale and detail of Civilization, and the combat of Age of Empires. Award Winning And you don't have to take our word for it - read the reviews. Enemy Nations is one of the highest rated games ever published. See why T. Liam McDonald of Computer Gaming World called it “The Best Game you Never Played. ...Show All

• .NET Development Software protection problem with MSIL

  Hi, I am developping a software protection with the Win32 API. My protection system run perfectly with standard .EXE file but failed with a .NET .EXE file. Explaination of my software protection : I extract and encrypt the code segment of the .EXE file and i replace the original code segment of my .EXE file with the encrypted. The program is also protected because it cannot be run as it is. A loader launch a CreateProcess of my protected .EXE file in suspend mode. I extract the encrypted code segment and decrypt it and restore it. I remove the suspend mode of the process for run the program. This system works with many .exe file, ev ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions DataGridView TextBoxes

  What is the easiest way to limit a textbox column in a datagridview to the entering of just numbers. I know how to do it on a regular textbox by using the keyup and keydown event handlers but am not sure how to do it on a datagridview textbox. Also, I don't have a datasource and don't want one for the datagridview, I am using it for another purpose and for some reason it will not format the number to a currency even though I have that selected as the format under the default cell style. I have gotten this to work on another form in the app that has a datasource bound to the datagridview, why won't it work without a datasource bound to the ...Show All

• .NET Development accessing asp:table cell values

  I'm working with an asp:table control using C#. I wish to get the string values in the cells but it is proving more difficult than I had thought, is there an easy way My method doesn't appear to work, Text always returns and empty string! The cells in the second column actually contain a asp:textbox as the contents are meant to be editable. There are only two columns and a variable number of rows. Here's what I'm using [CODE] TableRowCollection rows = Table1.Rows; foreach (TableRow presentRow in rows) { string presentKey = presentRow.Cells[0].Text; string setValue = presentRow.Cells[1].Text; if (!presentKey.Equals("") ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't uninstall or reinstall nonfunctioning sql server

  In previous post in the Getting Started section, I discussed problems trying to run queries on multiple databases: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=299240#299240&SiteID=1 Nobody could help with the problem. I eventually got a query to run after several attempts at deleting and recreating databases. Then, I was hit with the following error message: Class does not support aggregation (or class object is remote) (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040110 (CLASS_E_NOGGREGATION)) (Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlTools.VSIntegration) Nobody could help with that either but based on posts with the same message, I tried uninstall ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista newb question: hlsl and ie

  Yep, another newb question out of the blue... ...Anyways, When windows vista is released, will it support the rendering of hlsl scripts I'm a digital artist at heart, but just getting into web design, programming, et cetera...it would be cool if I could use rendermonkey to develop dazziling web effects and all that flashy stuff within ie to show off to the world in realtime. =] According to Tom's Hardware , DirectX 9 will continue to be supported in Windows Vista. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLEXPRESS CREATE DATABASE

  Why does: USE master GO CREATE DATABASE Sales ON ( NAME = Sales_dat,    FILENAME = N'D:\Database Files\saledat.mdf',    SIZE = 10,    MAXSIZE = 50,    FILEGROWTH = 5 ) LOG ON ( NAME = 'Sales_log',    FILENAME = N'D:\Database Files\salelog.ldf',    SIZE = 5MB,    MAXSIZE = 25MB,    FILEGROWTH = 5MB ) GO Gives me the error: The file "D:\Database Files\saledat.mdf" is compressed but does not reside in a read-only database or filegroup. The file must be decompressed What does this mean It worked perfectly for me. By defa ...Show All

• Windows Forms Global Variable in Windows Application

  I have created an MDI based application using C#. How and where can I create a global variable that can be used anywhere in the application Thank you for the info. I tried the resources. Also, I visited the link that you gave me. However, I cannot use the resources for the following 2 reasons: a) the variables defined in Properties.Resources are read-only variables, and so they cannot be changed at run time, b) Using resources, I cannot keep a live connection for my application. i.e. everytime I want to create a recordset, I have to open a new connection, which I do not want to. ...Show All

• SQL Server help with sql query

  Lets assume i have ' employee_Id ' column in table employeesIBM , and 'employee_Id' column in employeesSUN. Now, Lets once again assume,that there are 4 records in employeesIBM. and 10 records in employeesSUN. *******What i want to achieve***** i want to write a query which will display one column 'ALLemployees' displaying 4 records of employeesIBM and 2 records in employeesSUN. something like this >>> employee_Id ******from employeesIBM table 1 2 3 4 employee_Id ******from employeesSUN table 10 11 want to write a query which will display something like this ...Show All

• Visual Basic What to use?

  I have an existing project that was done in VB6 that used excel extensively for retrieving data and charting on a pre-made template. Are there existing controls in VS2005 Beta 2 to do: Load text files easily into a grid Search for and find items in a grid Get aggregates of data from columns I want to try to do all the searching and parsing of data in the grid rather than in excel itself and then dumped the data into excel for the charting. Also If I am using excel 2000 or 2003, what if my end user is using office 97 I dont want to have issues like this either. Thanks, Tom Hi, If your targeting office 2003 then you could use ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studio lists all databases

  I was under the impression that Management Studio wouldn't list any databases that a user doesn't have access to.  But if I create a new user and give them db_owner permissions to just one database, if they log into Management Studio, they are able to see all databases listed.  They don't have access to do anything further, but they can still see the list which I thought was handled better in 2005. I'm using the Sept CTP.  Is there something I can do to hide all databases that the user doesn't have access to Thanks, Scott Forsyth Thanks Laurentiu, That makes sense as it's directly relate ...Show All

• Visual Studio Command line Properties that contain properties

  Can a property be recursively evaluated I want to include property tokens in my command line properties and have them be evaluated at build-time, but it seems this is not currently possible. Simple example: ----- MyExample.targets ---- <Project DefaultTargets="ShowVersion" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"> <Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" /> <PropertyGroup> <Revision>1234</Revision> </PropertyGroup> <Target name="ShowVersion"> <Message Text="This should be 1.2.3.1234: ...Show All

• .NET Development TCPClient just "hangs" when unable to connect

  I am developing on a WM5 smartphone device. I have not had this problem for WM2003SE smartphone devices, infact the code is the same except the .NET CF versions are different (1.0 and 2.0)   Problem is, when I try to connect to a computer from the WM5 device, I do this:   this.theTcpClientProtocol = new TcpClient(someServerName, somePort); this.theNetworkStream = this.theTcpClientProtocol.GetStream();   problem is, if the application on the server end has not started the service, in other words it is not running making the port available - when creating the new TCPClient object it just hangs endlessly! ...Show All