Dio1961's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Support for Win2000 AD except NT4 mixed-mode

  VSTS is supposed to support Windows 2000 ADs by the time it RTMs.  I had heard from someone though that VSTS will not support Win2K ADs in NT4 mixed-mode.  I'm not a sysadmin and I'm not sure about the terminology.  However, I would like to confirm if this is true and if so, how would I go about finding out if our corporate AD is in NT4 mixed-mode Then again, if the MMC snap-in&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't Deploy AdventureWorks Database

  Hi, We attempted to reload the Adventure Works DW in Analysis Services 2005 after a previous install. We first dropped and uninstalled the sample OLTP databases, then removed the previous install using the add/remove programs tool. We then installed the samples again using the AdventureWorks Data Warehouse Database and Analysis Services Project, attached the two databases to the database engine, and then attempted to deploy the Adventure Work ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to turn off redrawing?

  Hi! I would like to turn of redrawing of richtextbox while procesing text inside it. I have found one solution, but I can't get it to work. c od e: SendMessage( new HandleRef( this, Handle ), WM_SETREDRAW, 0, 0 ); Error Message I get: The name 'SendMessage' does not exist in the current context Perhaps I misunderstand. Can't you just use SuspendLayout while you're processing the text and then Re ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading a string from a binary file

  I know this is easy. I have done it before. I can't find a suitable answer in the help file. I am trying to read 6 bytes in a file. They make up a string that I need to read. I tried using StreamReader, BinaryReader, and StringReader. None of the arguments looked like what I wanted to do. I need to read the string into a textbox, and then write the string back out to the stream. I know it is possible and I know it is very easy. It may be becau ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Appending data to a work item field as opposed to COPY

  Hi, I am trying to create the equivalent of the History control but for notes. I would like to have a Notes PlainText field as well as a Notes Log. upon writing in the Notes field, I would like to be able to do the equivalent of a APPEND to Field->NotesLog on a transition for instance. For the moment, only the COPY functionality seems to be available. The reason for this is that in a given workflow, multiple state transitions requ ...Show All

• Visual C++ MemoryStream

  This does not work: MyStream is a MemoryStream InsertString = String::Format ("insert into blobtest (blobtest) values ('{0}');", MyStream->GetBuffer()); MyStream->GetBuffer() just returns "System.Byte[]", not the actual data, which is what I want. You can see what I'm trying to accomplish here. Why isn't it working Before I answer this question, I'd like to know how you obtained ...Show All

• Visual C# web site administration tool

  I'm doing this... Walkthrough: Creating a Web Site with Membership and User Login (Visual Studio) with a sqlserver db on my server. I create this (not mentioned) < xml version = " 1.0 " > < configuration xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0 " > < connectionStrings > < remove name = " LocalSqlServer " /> < add name = " LocalSq ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP update now available

  There is a new Management Studio Express CTP download available at   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=82AFBD59-57A4-455E-A2D6-1D4C98D40F6E&displaylang=en . This update fixes the defect where installing the full Books Online documentation prevented Management Studio Express from starting.  With the update, Management Studio Express and Books Online no longer interfere with each other. To update Management Stu ...Show All

• Visual Basic About RTC API example.

  Hi. This is my question: Could I use the example for the RTC API (VB), for playing a file (wav, for example) during a PC-PC call How can I do it Thanks! Hi, Do you mean VB6 or vb.net Thank you, Bhanu. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can I write/read a struct binary to/from a file

  In native C++ you can write classes or structs to a file, and I wonder if there is a way to do that in .NET In my forms application I want to save applicationsettings to a file binary, using a struct like this: struct appSettings{ int setting1; int setting2; int setting3; int setting4; }; appSettings settings; //fill settings with info (integers) ofstream fout("settings.dat", ios_base::trunc | ios_base::bi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Learning VB6

  Hi, Im wondering if anyone could help me out I have got Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and want to know if there are any good sites with tutorials on using these packages (particularly VB6 for starting up) , Can I get learning Packages or Starter Kits , I dont know any code but understand how it works, I know HTML and tried some JAVAscript ... can anyone please advise.. Thanks Paul There is n ...Show All

• Windows Forms what happens when more than one applications access same ACCESS db locally?

  Say: I have 3 applications running at same time which all communicate to the same ACCESS db on my C:\ drive. If I modify the data on one application, commited the change to db, will the data displayed in rest 2 applications be automatically updated If not, do I need an extra update/refresh functions in every application so that I can manually update the data shown on rest 2 applications when they are changed in one application plz help ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Porting web navigator from VB6 to VS2005 C#

  I am porting a VB 6.0 application to C# that automates navigation of multiple web pages within a site and extracts information from some of the pages. One of the pages contains a listbox containing a number of countries. The default value that is set is not the value I need to use. The HTML in the web page looks like this: <select name="country" style="" onchange="" multiple id="countryList" size ...Show All

• Windows Forms MultiLine Listbox (VS 2005)

  Hello, I am attempting to make a listbox that allows each item to span multiple lines. I have made it owner drawn and am capturing DrawItem and MeasureItem. It all works great, except, when I resize the control, MeasureItem is not triggered. Is there anyway to force it to recalculate the size of each item when the listbox is resized Also, does anyone know of an easyway to be able to display richtext in a listbox ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to access methods of MDI Child from by MDI Parent Toolbar?

  Hi How can I access the methods (Add, Save,Delete, Record navigation methods such first, previous, next & last) of a MDI child from when clicking on a toolbar positioned in the MDI parent form So on the MDI parent I have this toolbar. When clicking on a button on this toolbar it must call a method from the current MDI child form. I am running there are several types of MDI child forms with keeping recordsets, but each contains (th ...Show All