jmasramon's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Create objects from a configuration file

  Anyone think this is a good idea http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=42c20106-de27-4fb8-88e4-1bf13598c4e1 -Jamie Would this approach be extended to putting standard code for error handling, logging, event handling, etc... ...Show All

• Visual Basic [VB.NET VS2005] Multicolumn combobox

  Hello, I'm new with VB.net and I've found a code that I use to do a SQL query on ACCESSDB and it return me a datagrid. For Exemple, I do a query on my tbl_person : "SELECT id_person, person_name, person_birthdate FROM tbl_person" After that, I want to show this result in a combox box, but I don't find how to have 3 columns (id, name and birthdate) with the id hidden. Usually, I work with Access forms, but I want learn vb.net. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Contex Menu with image.

  How to add an image in Contex Menu with specific menuItem in Contex Menu. See these links: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/menu/nicemenu.asp http://www.codeproject.com/cs/menu/menuimage.asp http://www.codeproject.com/cs/menu/MenuExtender.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why are the ClientBase<TChannel> ctors protected?

  With the service contract in a separate assembly it is really nice to be able to share the same assembly between the client and service. Then you can create a generic proxy client without the need for svcutil. (The same way you should share an interface for .net remoting). Unfortunately this requires writing a generic helper class that derives from ClientBase<TChannel> because all it's ctors and InnerProxy property are protected! Why oh ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application.ThreadException does not seem to fire

  I have followed the example shown here: http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/howto/doc/WinForms/WinFormsAppErrorHandler.aspx But I still get the generic, "An Unhandled exception has occured in your application, if you click continue..." What could be wrong     ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Simple question for new DirectX projects

  What does Microsoft use for typical settings for a DirectX project There are so many options to choose from in the options for the win32 proj... theres so much... anyways what do you guys recommend turning on and off, I'm talking about VS2005 You should be okay if you go for the most basic Win32 application. Depending on what you're trying to do, you shouldn't need anything extra - the MFC/ATL/whatever isn't requ ...Show All

• Windows Forms grid, dataset, datarow

  Simple question (I think), but I'm struggling with this. I'm passing a dataset and a datarow to a new form by reference. The new form uses the dataset to populate a datagrid. I want to be able to select a row in the grid, and fill the  ...Show All

• .NET Development Dropdownlist not being populated with a query string paramter.

  Question 1:  I have two web pages, Page1.aspx, and Page2.aspx. From Page1.aspx I'm passing a querystring "Page2.aspx State={0}" with the State selected in page 1. On page 2, the State is being received as I display it in a label. On Page2.aspx I also have a dropdownList with a sql "SELECT ... WHERE @State=State" associated with control. I want to be able to show items in the dropdownlist as soon as I enter Page2. I have tried binding in ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. directx9 lib error

  hi all i have problems with directx9 lib's. i have started programing with directx8 and now directx9. the problem is that when i am trying to use directsound i get errors like: Sound.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IMediaPosition Sound.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IMediaControl Sound.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _CLSID_FilterGraph Sound.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symb ...Show All

• .NET Development How can we know that there is Concurrency Problem arised? (i.e Other than DBCOncurrancy Exception)

  How can we know that there is Concurrency Problem arised (i.e Other than DBCOncurrancy Exception) Concurrency is a common cause of error in multi-threaded applications.  The DBConcurrencyException will be thrown by a DataAdapter if the number of rows affected by an insert, update or delete operation is zero because this is "generally caused by a concurrency violation" according to the documentation. You may have other concurency bugs ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Net.Dns - How to implement GetServByPort() or GetServByName()

  The two functions GetServByPort() or GetServByName() are defined in the WinSock2 API. However, they aren't present in the core System.Net.dll library (even in v2.0 of the Framework) Could you give me some guidance as to how best to call such a function (e.g. how best to write the DLLImport definition for the function direct from WS2_32.dll. --- Once I've managed to implement the basic functions (getservbyname(), getservbyport()), I w ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista problem with two filetrgraph

  hello 2 all. I'm trying to develop an application that performs previewing and capturing from a webcam. I modified amcap application to insert a custom processing filter to the live video only during preview. So when I start the preview graph everything works corrrectly., but when I start the capture filter and modify the preview I'm not able to see in the window the video. The capturing, instead, works fine and after I have a good file av ...Show All

• SQL Server Shading By Value

  Currently in my reports I am shading every other row by using an expression in the background color property. This works fine. Is there any way to shade by other options I have a report with a non-unique id as the first column. I would like to be able to alternate the background color based on these id's. For instance I might have three rows of white background (id = 1), five rows of grey background (id = 2), and two rows of white background ...Show All

• Visual C# Strategy: Draw Large Map without Flicker and Save time.

  Hi ,master For plotting large map, My strategy is to set the overall map size to scrollbars. when scrolling, I judge which partion of my map need redraw,then draw it. which will cause to reduce the time it needs to redraw map. About flicker, I can solve it. I used to use MFC and I am new for WinForm .Could you tell me which methods or properties of WinForm to use I put a picture control, HScrollBar,VScrollbar into Form ...Show All

• Windows Forms disalbe items in listbox

      I want to disable individual items in listbox. is there a way to do it This is how I am doing it right now but has a problem. I am keeping track of which items are to be disabled in a list. Then in OnDrawItem method, I do not highlight this item and draw it with a disabled color (prefereably gray). But the problem is, when I click on the disabled item, it shifts the focus from an enabled item. I re-highlight the previously fo ...Show All