hellosmithy's Q&A profile

• SQL Server About Login Account

  Hi everyone, I have a simple question for you which is too important for me. My question is about logins in my own(local) server. I know that my local server(my computer's server) has to default login account which are called sa and BUILTIN/ADMINISTRATOR. While I am using my own server, I do not know which default login account is used by my Server since I use windows authentication while connecting to the Server. Another question is that while ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to close the former form?

  Hi. I have built a login form which links to a main form. After check user's ID and password, i use such codes: Dim newForm as New mainForm mainForm.show() Here i do not know how to close the form login form, me.close() and me.disposal() do not work well. anyone can help me thanks!  Try Form.Hide(). This may not be the most elegant of solutions. By the way, why is close() not working ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with .Net 2.0 RC Framework and accessing Performance Counters (specifically Processor)

  I have written a tool to dump performance counter data from any number of sources to a perfmon-compatible csv file. The problem is... on certain performance objects such as Processor\% Processor Time\_Total.... I get a zero back no matter what I do. There are alot of counters that give me zero back that shouldn't, but at the same time there are alot of counters that give me back what I expect (ie. Memory\Available KBytes). I have checked al ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Force workflow unload

  Hi Is there any way to make an activity force the Unload method on the workflow instance Thanks. There is an attribute you can apply to activities that will enable this behavior, [PersistOnClose].  It will be in Beta2.  This, by the way, will add a persistence point, but won't actually unload the instance from memory. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition - Small question with licensing...

  Hey guys, I have one question. My friend and I were talking about VB 2005 Express at school, and our Computing Studies teacher overheard lol We use VB 6 at school, but I downloaded VB 2005 Express, burned it and gave a copy to my friend. So anyway, he asked me to find out about the licensing: Can you install and use it on multiple computers as a learning resource. In other words, can the school use it legally with no issues lol Ye ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can a WebBrowser control be used in an Excel Custom Task Pane?

  I get the below exception when I try to navigate in a WebBrowser control embedded in a custom Task Pane from an Excel Add-In. Any ideas Thanks, Andrew See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. at ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems with GetHicon method

  I've a problem converting System.Drawing.Bitmap in System.Drawing.Icon using the GetHicon method. This is my code sample : private void pSetIco( int parNumImg) {    System.Drawing.Bitmap b;     b= new Bitmap( this .ilIcons.Images[parNumImg]);      this .StartIcon.Icon = Icon.FromHandle(b.GetHicon()); } There are no runtime errors but the result icon is a black box. I've try to save ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Installation Problems?

  Hi there, I've gone ahead and installed the XNA package, following the instructions in the download. The prerequisite's, Visual Studio Partner Edt, and the XNA installer. I've however not downloaded the MechCommander2 package yet. I wanted to see if this was any bit usable without it. I fire up Visual Studio and attempt to make one of it's "content build", and am greeted with a number of exciting errors. Of note, the content build proj ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Dual Boot Vista Beta 1 and CTP 5231

  I have a Windows XP Machine which I added a new 200GB hard drive to so that I could partition it and install Beta 1 on it. I have a detailed explanation of my many problems involved with installing it here: http://startether.com/blogs/startether/default.aspx . But that is not the reason for this post. I want to have a machine where I can boot to CTP 5231, Beta 1, or Windows XP. Before installing CTP 5231, I could start Beta 1 without a problem, ...Show All

• SQL Server executing dmx query (prediction join) in ssis does not process all rows, works in SSMS

  I run a prediction join (dmx query) against a table of 490K rows; it works fine in SSMStudio. Then I created an SSIS package to run the same query and it consistently stops at 18018 rows processed. Am I running up against some type of limit in SSIS It's using a 'MS ole db provider for Analysis Services 9.0' connector in the ole db source, the ole db destination is a db on same server, the table gets the 18,018 rows inserted okay. I get the exac ...Show All

• .NET Development WebBrowser control in a Windows Service

  Hi, I need some help with the WebBrowser control. I'm writing a Windows service in .Net 2005 to monitor the up/down state of servers. One of the things I need to do is to check on the availability of URLs. So I added a WebBrowser control to the design frame of the form, and ran the service, and I simply get nothing from the WebBrowser control. I think this is due to the fact that there is no user environment associated with a service, and the We ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Access bindingsource LIST...

  ok I have used this bindingsource cntrl to filter rows that i needed then find the row containing a certain value under a certain column. now how do I access the bindingsource.list to find out what the value of 'column1' is in the row that I just found Thank you, -willhelm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Visio Enterprise 2000

  Visio experts out there, I have an abstract base class and an implemented derived class. How do make the a virtual method in the abstract class appears in the implemented class I have tried the generalization as well as the realization link but when I viewed the code, I can't see the method in the derived class. public abstract baseclass {    public virtual bool Query(string A, string B) } public class derived class : basecl ...Show All

• Visual C# Deployment

  Can someone tell me where to go for more information on the installation part of my program, or if anyone has any advice. Go to your Solutions Explorer Box and double click on the Properties Folder. This will bring up a list of options for your application. Most of the options have to do with the way your application installs and what files it is to install with. Play around with them to see what works for you. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Creating a solution in a TeamProject, how?

  I created a sample TeamProject but I can't figure out how to add a typical code solution to this team project, how can I do this Also, is the Team Server available via IP   Or do my team members need to be on the same domain/network as me   Thanks in advance.   Thanks for the help everyone.  The more I use and understand the features in Team System, the happier I am with the software. ...Show All