javierdem's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Asynchronus WebService call Progress Bar

  I have a WebMethod that I'd like to call asynchronusly and be able to display a Progress Bar.  What's being sent to the WebMethod on the WebService is a byte array. I'm fairly new to asynchronus calls and was wondering if this is possible& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Creating Virtual Directories in MsBuild

  Hi, I tried to use the SDC task library to create a virtual directory and had the following error.        Message                  = Could not load website from given DirectoryEntry        VirtualDirectoryName  = TestWeb        Path     &n ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Custom control for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone disabled (greyed) in toolbox

  Hi all, I'm compiling a custom control outside of VS2005 against Compact Framework V2.0 so that the control will show up for CF devices.  I can add it to the toolbox.  My problem is that for Smartphone 2003 projects, the custom control is greyed out.  However, for Pocket PC 2003, Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC projects, the custom control is not greyed out. Does anyone have any ideas how to get the control to sho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions toolbar for dataset (how do i make one?)

  i checked out the beginner videos and they were really useful. i added a dataset and when i dragged the table in datagridview onto the working area, a data grid pops up with a nice toolbar on top with the usual functions like adding, deleting and saving. i thought i didn't need the toolbar so i deleted it. now that i want one, how do i add one i tried dragging another datagridview onto the working area, and a data grid shows up WITHOUT a tool ...Show All

• SQL Server Ambiguous Complex Type definition with XML Source. Workaround?

  Hi, This could well be down to my _limited_ knowledge of XSD. I have a document and SXD supplied by 3rd party. Both documents are valid, according to XMLSpy. When I give the document and xsd to SSIS XML Source it complains about ambiguous complex types. In the XML doc there is an element called Allowance that has child elements. There is also a group which references many other elements including Allowance. When I re ...Show All

• .NET Development ATL Server Web Service, session-state, use of COM and multi-threading ??

  Hi everybody,  I have an ATL Server Web Service (SOAP & HTTP), using session-state managament per client Session Variables storing  COM Objects/Pointers  (VB6 ActiveX dll multi-thread ) casted to Variant(IDispatch) in order to set the Variable. With multiple clients I'm having several thread issues (which I don't have (obviously) using the same management with an ASP .NET WebService), perphaps I'm missing some thread ...Show All

• Windows Forms Software Version numbers

  Does anyone know the standard uses for the software versioning pattern of 1.2.0.420 - I've been using the first for major, second for minor, not using the zero, and using the last to indicate the build. Anyone know how these are supposed to be  ...Show All

• .NET Development Opening Web Page from a Button

  Hello, I am using VS 2005, and I have a button that I put on my form.  I would like to be able to have the user click the button, and automatically have their preferred web browser open up with a link that I defined under the button. Can someone please tell me know to do this Thanks, Shawn System.Diagnostics. Process .Start( @"http://www.yazgelistir.com" ); ...Show All

• SQL Server Percentile

  Hi, l would like to calculate 80% and 95% percentile of a column from my table in SQL server 2005. Does SQL server 2005 provides such built-in function, if not, how should l do Any suggestion (Suggest to MS : Please include percentile as a built-in function on the next services pack). Thanks and happy labor day! Lookup the NTILE and RANK functions in Books Online. -- David Portas, SQL Server MVP Whenever pos ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS2003 C++

  The problem I have is I have a class called paths_dlg.cpp and paths_dlg.h.  As well as a Dialog box called IDD_PATHS in my resources. In the paths_dlg.h file i keep getting the error C:\will\paths_dlg.h(26): error C2065: 'IDD_PATHS' : undeclared identifier This refers to a line that reads enum { IDD = IDD_PATHS }; in the paths_dlg.h file.  What is it that i am doing wrong here   Many thanks Will ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) OpacityMask and PerPixelAlpha

  Hello people !! I'm trying fx3.0 and I want to made the principal window with a mask of opacity like I do with a rectangle (example I have an image like mask.png with alpha transparency). Can any give an idea of how to do that Thanks a lot !!!! In future releases , you should be able to use something like this: <Window xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:sys="c ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro passing parameters to vfp com servers using createobject

  Is it possible to pass a parameter to a vfp com server using CreateObject("COMServer.Class", eParameter) It seems to me that whatever I pass in eParameter it is always .F. within the INIT method and PCOUNT() always gives 0. Regards Darren Woodford Woodford Computer Systems Ltd http://www.woodfordcomputers.co.uk Hi Darren >> Is it possible to pass a parameter to a vfp com serv ...Show All

• SQL Server Adventure Works DW Script

  The Data Mining Tutorial accompanying the June CTP includes mention of a table DimProspect. Despite the csv file existing in the Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Samples\AdventureWorks Data Warehouse path containing the data for the table, the instawdwdb script doesn't include any reference. Can someone supply me with the necessary script for this table Regards Baz Star I have covered the correct st ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Deployment?

  I've read articles in the online help files about deployment of programs, and I'm still confused. Is there a runtime library that has to be deployed with an app that I make I know that earlier editions of VB required a user to have a library installed. Is that the case with VC++ 2005 Express Please clear this up for me. Thanks If you just search on msdn.microsoft.com on Compiler options, you will find how to ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Model-View-ViewModel

  Hello, I want to build a bigger application with WPF and it should have a structure like MVC. I heard about the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern but I have never seen an example of how a ViewModel looks like. I don't want to have all that event-code in my code-behind file and thats why I am thinking of the ViewModel Pattern. I want to be able to seperate my business logic from the ui. Any suggestions or hints Thanks ...Show All