Dave_Bates's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic ADO/Access Questions

    I've had a moderate amount of of experience with access databases in vb6. We'd declare a file system object and from that declare a workspace and from that a record set descriptor. One could picture and understand what was happening. VS2005 is different though. You could create and delete tables and define them dynamically. VS2005 seems to be different. It seems that things are done up front in the IDE Almost as if the relatio ...Show All

• .NET Development Append a node not to the root

  Im trying to append a node to my xml file but it is not at the root and i dont know how to do this. can anyone help i want to add the following 2 nodes into my xml file: <Conference Bridge>020 74152 58</Conference Bridge> <Pin>*1234*</Pin> My xml file is: - < Dataset1 xmlns =" http://tempuri.org/Dataset1.xsd " > - < CrisisManagementGroup > <Conference Bridge>020 74152 58</Conferen ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Locking device

  Is there an OS level password lock that will let me lock the screen (requiring user/password) before the device can be used Or... is this an application level function.  If it's application level function, what are the security implications of this on a Pocket PC   Is it a trivial task to bypass such an application function Thanks.   InquiringMinds wrote: Is there an OS level password lock that will let me lock the scr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting hold of dotNET 2005.

  Hi. I got the Express version (Minus the Help - MSDN. Because of downloading 'difficulties') I LIKE it, and I WANT dotNET 2005. It may sound silly, but how do I get it What do I ask for (I am not 'up' with all the modern computer jargon - for reasons not needed - so I am somewhat bewildered. I have looked on the net but I have only seen one for sale; and that was for over ￡1000. I can only afford the cheapest. So can I have some guida ...Show All

• .NET Development Going deeper.

  Hey, i was just wondering if anyone had a good link for reasearching deeper into either C++ or VB. I know the basics, and maybe a bit more but i would like to delve deeper into these languages and learn more than the common newbie stuff.    -Teenprogrammer What topics are you interested in If you don't know then any book from Microsoft (or any other for that matter) would be good. I suggsest you do a search on amazon, read ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Update WPF UI

  I try to update my UI made in WPF by call an External method from my workflow. But I get an exception that says That I can’t change the button visibility because the calling thread cannot access this object because a different thread owns it. Can anyone point me in the right direction here because I am not used to the Thread thing. /Godzilla Here are a couple of threads from the Windows Presentation ...Show All

• SQL Server Package Configuration in Dev enviornment

  Am I missing something, I can't find any way to specific the XML configuration file when I try and run my package in Debug of BIDS. My OLE DB connections are all failing due to a lack of a password. I can set the password in BIDS but its forgotten as soon as I start Debug or build the solution. The only way I seem to be able to run my package (now that I have enabled configurations) is to de-select the enable configurations box. I've trie ...Show All

• Visual Basic Converting String to double?

  OK i have a plain text file in a rich text box. This plain text file contains for the most part just text, but it has several chunks of data which are apparently stored as doubles For Example this string here: 33333oH@33333oH@26/01/06 I happen to know that the date field is a date of payment, and apparently, the data before this is the amount paid. The original program i am trying to read was written in quickbasic 7. I don't k ...Show All

• SQL Server RS 2005: Excessively Long String error when printing

  I have a VB.NET 2003 WinForms application that contains a browser control to render reports within. I have a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services instance - and through the RS site, the reports come up great, and print just fine. However, when pulling in the reports through the WinForms application, when trying to print - I receive an error. A message box pops up that says "An error occured trying to get the current window." The next message is: ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Comparison Question

  I am not sure if this is the correct forum for my question but I will give it a shot. I want to be able to create a dataset from an ODBC datasource and compare it to existing data in my SQL DB. If there are changes (inserts/updates/deletes) I want to raise seperate events for each row state. Is this possible to do with SSIS/DTS or am I on the wrong track with what I am trying to do Have a look at this and see i ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Dlinq for VB9?

  Does the LINQ preview for VB9 also includes DLinq for accessing SQL databases I couldn't find anything and wasn't sure if I had missed something. I looks like Sqlmetal.exe is only available for C# 3.0 Thanks, Peter Sorry, I got busy with Microsoft MVP Summit so I am just trying to catch up on this forum. VB team is actively working on DLinq support through VB. Simultaneously, we are also working on VB code ge ...Show All

• Windows Forms Great article, but a question to David Guyer

  Read this rticle on sql express and Click once it should be an anouncement i believe http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnsse/html/EmSQLExCustApp.asp I believe you did not write that article but maybe you can answer this question: assume that on version 1.0.1 i publish the application and the user install it and create the db as in the article. Then i publish a version 1.0.2 with db changes, but the user ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Bitmap to Array (CF v1.1)

  I need to export pixel data (RGB values) from a Bitmap object to byte array (in CF v1.1). How can I do that on pocket pc Thanx! Well, in CF1 I'm not sure how to do it, but in CF2 it became a lot easier with the LockBits function. http://www.bobpowell.net/lockingbits.htm http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/5ey6h79d.aspx ...Show All

• .NET Development peer-to-peer connection

  hi i want a example that shows peer-to-peer connection As Durga notes, please detail the functionality you are looking for. We are currently considering adding further P2P support to System.Net - I am interested to hear about your scenario. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I "return" after a user makes a selection from a menu?

  I set up a menu by labeling a variable number of RadioButtons in GroupBox1. After the user makes his selection, I have him click Button1 labeled "Next". When the user makes a selection, I want to return to the next instruction, that is, the line of code following where I set up the last menu, not to a Button1_Click subroutine, because then I would lose my place and become lost. I want to set up another menu in GroupBox1 depending ...Show All