Bakl's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro UPDATE vs REPLACE record locking

  The VFP 9.0 Help file shows the following: UPDATE - SQL Command ,Remarks, Tip: "When updating multiple records in a table opened for shared access, SQL UPDATE uses record locking, unlike the REPLACE command." Locking Data, REPLACE: Current record and all records from aliased fields UPDATE - SQL: Entire table These statements seem to conflict. The first leads one to believe that the UPDATE - SQL command would lock records and i ...Show All

• Visual J# deploying j# runtime

  Hello, i want to create a deployment project in vs2003 for a j# project which automaticaly installs the j#-runtime if it isn't installed on the clients mashine. i already done this with a launch condition. the launch condition forces to run a .bat file which starts the j#-runtimeinstallation and at finish, restarts the .msi again. i want to get rid of the uggly dos-window which pop up when running the .bat file. it would be ni ...Show All

• Visual Basic Getting Data out of a DataSet

  I am new to Programing with VB.Net and I am working on an application that contains a DataSet but does not contain a Database. I am having trouble getting the data out of the DataSet. I can get it to go in but I can't get it out Does anyone having any ideas Ben Chuck, Here you go: Private Sub addProjectToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles addProjectToolStripMenuItem.Click ...Show All

• SQL Server Introduction to Data Types??

  Does anyone know of a good place to get an introduction to the Data Types in SQL Server I come from and Access background, so I'm used to auto-number, text, etc. I just need to figure out which types I need to be using for my data.... Any help is appreciated. The best thing to start from is BOL. Look at ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/tsqlref9/html/a54f7373-b247-4d61-8fb8-7f2ec7a8d0a4.htm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS and email

  I'm trying to track down email issues with TFS Beta 3 Refresh. Upfront I want to say that a) I've looked on this forum and seen some stuff on Beta 2 that is no longer relevant, and b) with the setup I have I don't expect email to work (at them moment), but I want to check that I have it setup correctly and if possible go and look in the logs to see that my server is at least trying to send the email. So I have TFS installed on a single tier. I ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX: Desktop or Laptop?

  Hi all, am planning to purchase a new pc and I can't decide between laptop or desktop, my main concern with a laptop is performance and developing games with Managed DirectX and shader v2.0 or even v3.0 Anyone developing on a laptop Specs Graphic card   Thx a lot DX 10 presentations are linked here: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=97912 Short answer: Yes, DX 10 wil ...Show All

• SQL Server Regarding Send Mail Task

  Hi, I am using a Send Mail task to conclude the control flow at the load of each dimension. My requirement is to put mail items like to,from,cc,subject etc. to be picked from a file. The send mail task has an option of picking up the values from a file.But, I am not able to configure it properly it seems. Can anyone suggest how to do it with a example. Thanks in advance. Regards, Aman Kirk, I had specified the file ...Show All

• Windows Forms Performance and Many Child Controls

  Hi, I have the need for a ListView like control (used in Details mode) that can contain one of several different child controls in each cell. I am using 9Rays FlyGrid as the ListView-like control, and placing a myriad of child controls into this FlyGrid and painting them over the specific cells they "belong" to. My problem is that the scrolling performance of this ListView window is horrendous. I have located the slowdown to ...Show All

• SQL Server Developers cannot execute sp_addmessage

  Hi, I have problems with the concept of user-defined messages. I'm migrating from sybase ase to sql2005 and found out that there is only one global pool of messages. Do you give every project on this server a dedicated range of error-numbers Another problem: only the sysadmin oder serveradmin can call sp_addmessage. In my environment the developers own their databases and used to be able to create their own messages. Now I try to let the develo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to set the Formuals options of Excel 2003 in Csharp code as runtime.

  Menu: Excel2003>Tools>Options>Click View tabpage. There is a Formuals option.Can you tell me how to set the option in runtime Thanks! This is more of a question for the Excel Programming newsgroup. You can post your question here:   http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.excel.programming&lang=en&cr=US Thanks! Mike Hernandez Community PM VSTO Team ...Show All

• Windows Forms Empty Dataset

  Is there a simple way to check for an empty dataset Thanks. 'VB If MyDataSet Is Nothing Then //C# if (myDataSet == null) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ComboBox

  Hi, Im new to the whole programming game and just wondered if someone had some simple help for me. I have created a comboBox using the tools. I have a list of products say pen, paper, pencil and they each have a product code i.e. 1,2,3 How do i get the comboBox to display pen,paper,pencil etc while giving me back the product code. Its only a small thing and so i dont see the need for a database. could somebody please talk me though a solut ...Show All

• SQL Server sql server mobile 2005 and emulated storage card

  Using shared folder in windows mobile 5 emulator,  it is not possible to create a database (sqlserver mobile 2005)   in the emulated storage card. The error "sql mobile made an unsupported request to the host operating system. Minor Err 25133 is raised.  Reading or writing file from/to  the emulated storage card occurs without error. Is this a bug of  SqlCeEngine thank you vincenzo     ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Beta2, StatePersistenceService Load/Save arguments

  Hi, when writing a custom StatePersistenceService e.g. like in the WWF example CustomPersistanceService/cs/FilePersistance.cs getting the WorkflowInstanceId is done through the following code: ActivityExecutionContextInfo contextInfo = (ActivityExecutionContextInfo)rootActivity.GetValue ( Activity.ActivityExecutionContextInfoProperty ); Console.WriteLine ( "Saving instance :-{0}", contextInfo.ContextGuid ); From the StatePersistenceS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Testing Native Code (C++ ) using Team Unit Testing frameworks

  I have been looking for some pointers or guide lines as to how do I test C++ unmanaged code using Unit Tesing capabilities of VS 2005. Do I need to write wrappers in managed code ( a sort of mixed mode class one that calls into managed code and other that calls the native code) Any suggestion welcome Regds Dinesh If your C++ code is COM typelib, you could register the lib, and could add the lib to your test project's references (v ...Show All