Matthew Petersen's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Best way to implement external Log file

  Hi, I am developing application for our clinet. some of requirements are system failure scenarios. SQL Server is generating numbers for items inserted in some tables ( something like "oridinal number / year". logic for this is specified by my client and is somewhat complicated ) . most important requirement is to have external( usb stick on the server for example ) log file with latest numbers generated so that in the case of system failure it can be red and work can be countinued on the paper( with countinuing numbers) until system recovery. Ideally, write it should be done inside of number generating and recor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project deletion in TFS Source Control

  I have created a (C#) web service project and stored it in an appropriate team project using TFS Source control. However things went awry during check in and I was left with some items checked in and some not. To cut a long story short, I deleted the web service project from source control, checked in the deletion and started over. Now I get errors complaining that 2 of the files in my project can't be checked in because they already exist. They clearly do not (or at least I can't see them). So, my question is what happens when you check in a deletion Does the item get deleted or just marked as deleted If the latter, is there a way of gettin ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView doesn't display icon

  Hello to everyone, My application uses a listview with a largeimagelist associated. Sometimes listview doesn't display images, but only a gray border. I'm sure that Image object that I passed to the control are valid, because if I try to save them to a file, I get a correct image. Anyone can help me Thanks you thanks you for your aswer, but my problem is differrent. I create ImageList after standard control initialization. I fill my ImageList with some image loaded from disk and after I add an item for each image. Thanks you in advance Cheers ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Process Events

  Hi all I am workign on a program that acts as an installer for multiple programs. My program simple runs other install programs as processes from C#. I was trying to use the process.Exited event in order to trigger the next step of the installation, but this event never seems to get triggered even when the processes is finished and terminates itself Does anyone know why this is and a solution to it. I need a way to control the different steps in a linear fashion and prevent multiple processes from running simultaneously. I would use the .WaitForExit() method but this prevents my windows form from refreshing and placing a different object on ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Failed to open a vsp report

  After my program exits, a progress bar is shown indicating that the analysis is executed. At the end of the analysis, a dialog appear saying that "Error VSP1743: DIA symbol engine not registered.". If I open the vsp file directly, the same error appears.   Yes, Before I install VS RTM, I installed a Beta2 version if VS on that machine. Is the DIA DLL is : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\DIA SDK\bin\msdia80.dll After I regsvr32 it, profiler works ok now!   Thanks!   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Validating fields

  I'm testing a jsp website that's using Power Builder to create the jsp's loaded into IFrames. Playing around with the automation tool for webtest, I am finding it to be very good at record and playback... In the tests that I am automating, I have to vaildate that certain text boxes loaded into the iframes are editible, and only support <N> number of characters... Is there a vaildation rule that works for testing like this I also need to verify that there are no runtime errors or asserts... Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can go about that   Thanks in advance for replies.   Rafer ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Getting Started sample not getting service.exe

  Hi, Well, I have been trying to get this first sample "Getting Started" going for a very very long time, and so far, I've been pulling my hair out just trying to figure out what is going on. My question is, when i compile the "Getting Started sample" which is from WIndows SDK, it compiles fine, and I find client.exe but I can not find service.exe anywhere. Neither under Getting Started/service/bin folder which produces service.dll file and service.pdb nor under wwwroot/servicemodelsamples/bin directory. I got the console based sample going but I really want this IIS based samples to work as well. Any help woul ...Show All

• Windows Forms Gridview and getting row index

  This is a truly stupid question. I have done this a million times with 1.1 and asp.net but cannot figure out how to do this using .net 2.0 and a WINDOWS application. Basically I have a gridview control which contains some records.  The first column contains the primary key for my record.  When the user clicks on a row I want to extract the value held in the primarykey column so that I can get that record from my dataset and display it in a series of textboxes for editing. I am using the CellContentClick event ( not sure if this is correct) on my GridView and am extracting the current row "e.RowIndex" but how the hell do I get ...Show All

• SQL Server Can it be a bug in SQL CE?

  Hi! I use SQL CE with VS.NET 2003. I find the following bug second time. The table has an " ID int IDENTITY(0,1) PRIMARY KEY,". That is my row identity. I add rows to the table, then I made some select and update queries. Then I realized that the ID order not in the general order (from 0 to ........) For example: 6,7,8,0,1,2,3,4,5. Of course row 6,7 and 8 was added the very last. The content of each row is not mixed, only the ID order. Is it a very confused, because we develop mobile invoice programs for PDAs. What I did wrong Thank you! Duplicate thread from the same ...Show All

• Windows Forms add customized combo box in datagridview

  i have my customized combo box found in the other site. i need this to add in dfatagrid view the combox box have multiple columns which i find it suitable for me.for now, the problem is aading it in datagridview heres the my code public class mycombo inherits datagridviewcomboboxcolumn public withevents columncombobox as mtgccombobox ---this mtgccombobox is mycombobox found on the other site ........ end class then in datagrid when form loads dim col as new mycombo datagridview1.columns.add(col) --- the combox box shows but the data inside combo box does not show any missing code in my c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Is there Noone capable of answering this question on this forum?

  I have posted this question on several forums and in several newsgroups including this one. I recieve no answers other than is it a legal copy or is on cd or other such ***. Is there anyone capable of answering the question here, can I install this on my machine or not The same post I have posted everywhere else: I purchased visualstudio .net from the microsoft alliance at my school and can't get it to install on my machine, a celeron 1200.. I was able to get it to install on my wifes machine a celeron 2400. I need to install, if at all possible, onto my machine. I get a Strong Name validation failed for assembly 'C:\W ...Show All

• Visual Basic Form Clicks etc

  Hi Everyone, I forgot to ask this question... is there a way to set clickable areas of the form without a picturebox or button If there is, how do you find out or determine where on the screen the pointer is when you set up the points I tried to turn the GRID feature on but it never works. I'm using a map as a FORM background, but the pix boxes are slow to load when the form is called. Thanks again, Elgee El Gee wrote: I tried to turn the GRID feature on but it never works. Which grid feature are you referring to ...Show All

• Visual Basic Socket.connected and Socket.receive question

    Can someone explain how to detect if a socket connection is lost or closed   I am experimenting with Express VB 2005 (my first exposure to .NET) with a Telnet client application. Even after closing the Telnet session, the Socket.connected value still returns True.  The docs would indicate (but are not explicit) that this value would/should be changed (to False) by a Socket.Receive/Send, but I don't see a state change. Thanks,     The return value of "Connected" is the state of the socket as of the most recent send / receive call. You have to call "Send" with a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Custom wrappers

  My project has a reference to Microsoft Excel 9.0 (2000). A warning message appears in the Error List: "There are updated custom wrappers available for the following referenced components: Office" Does this simply mean there is a newer edition of Office I couldn't find beginner info explaining "custom wrappers". Thanks I have the same warning.My development machine has Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library. Should I replace custom wrapper as VS suggests Would it cause any problems for customers of my application that probably have previous version ov E ...Show All

• Visual C# How to detect windows service installed or not?

  Dear all    I want install the windows service when service does not be installed.  But I don't know how to do You could enumerate through the ServiceController values: ServiceController[] scServices; scServices = ServiceController.GetServices(); // Display the list of services currently running on this computer. Console.WriteLine("Services running on the local computer:"); foreach (ServiceController scTemp in scServices) {    if (scTemp.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Running)    {       // Write the service name and the display name       ...Show All