CurtGibson's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Another Stored Procedure Question...

  Hi, Is it possible whithin a Stored Procedure send the table name as a parameter And some Columns to Ex.: CREATE Procedure Xpto @TableName as @ColumnName as @SomeValue as nvarchar(10) AS SELECT * FROM @TableName WHERE @ColumnName = @SomeValue Thanks JPP create procedure SelectFrom @table sysname , @column sysname , @value sysname as exec ( 'select * from ' + @table + ' where ' + @column + ' = ''' + @value + '''' ) ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) What the method EntitySet.RemoveAt is for?

  When I remove an entity with this method, the entity is removed from the collection. But when I then call SubmitChanges, no commands are send to database.   Vitali Lesheniuk wrote: > Removing an item from an entityset does not cause deletion.  It merely breaks > the link between the two entities (foreign key is set to null.) I didn't write only about deletion. Broken link between two entities must also be saved. But now nothing happens. That sounds like something is not working right.  Are you using SqlMetal generated objects or ones you wrote yourself &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Random server 400 errors

  Usually on startup of VS.Net I get 400 errors connecting to TFS. After 1-3 retries it works. The same things happens once in a while for checking out code. Usually after 1 or 2 retries it's successful. I looked on the server IIS logs and I don't see any 400 errors. I'm wondering if anyone else is getting this error All the directories have integration authentication enabled. It's just very annoying. Please post the actual errors that you receive. Additionally, check the event log of the application-tier (log: application) and post any errors or warnings for TFS components. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom Control Click Event

  I Have created a custom control which has a couple of labels on it and a progress bar. When i use it on a form, i want to assign a click event to it, so that if you click anywhere on the control, its registered as a click on the control. Adding the control.click event to an eventhandler doesnt seem to work. What am i doing wrong What do i need to do to get it to do what i want Cheers When you design your control and assign the control.click event, it will fire only when the user clicks on the 'background' of the control...not when the user clicks on a label, textbox, or other control on the control....you ca ...Show All

• Visual Studio Additional Toolbox Tab

  Hello I have got a question concerning the grouping of toolbox items in a dsl debugging instance of Visual Studio. Is it possible to add an additional toolbox tab besides the e.g. "Minimal Language" tab. If yes, how do i tell the items which toolbox tab they belong to. Thanks in advance alexander Hi Alexander, This is not really possible with the currently released CTP, but you will be able to do this in our version 1 release. Thanks, Grayson ...Show All

• Visual C++ LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'LIBCD.lib'

  HI, I'm trying to install GLUI to work with Visual Studio 2005, i'm just trying to run one of the examples but i keep getting this error: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'LIBCD.lib' the only reference i could find to it was in a microsoft help page but it said the bug had been fixed in an eariler version. Any help would be great. Cheers This file is the static library for the debug single threaded version of the C runtime. Visual Studio 2005 no longer supports this version of the C runtime: instead you need to use the multi-threaded version (libcmtd.lib) or ...Show All

• Visual C# Check and verify that a smtp-server is up and running?

  Hey there. I have an application in C#, that is depending on the fact that a smtp-server is valid and running. Is there any way of checking if a given smtp-server is "alive" SmtpClient smtpclient = New SmtpClient(<server>); /Kristian You can try to handshake with the Smtp server, it the handshake could be done everything is running normally. Take a look at the Smtp protocol how to implement an handshake or take a look at the following article that demostrates how to then email with C#. It implements all commands and you can just pickout the handshake process: Sending email with c# u ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can we retrive value of selected items from the list box??

  We have used one listbox in windows form and we bind it with datasource from database. Listbox allows multiple selected. How can we retrive value of selected items from the list box we tried following thing for(int i=0;i<lstEducation.SelectedItems.Count;i++) MessageBox.Show(lstEducation.SelectedItems .ToString()); But it prints System.Data.DataRowView We couldnt find the way please help actually when we are using selectedItems.count when nothing is selected in the listbox it wont enter the forloop, bcas we are giving condition as i < selectedItems.count so selecteditems will also be 0., we need not che ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to make shortcut of program

  Hello How can I create a shortcut of program on Desktop, Start menu, Program Menu and Start Up Menu   Thanks & Regards When you create your deployment project, you can right click on the project output and choose create shortcut. You'll need to make one for each location. Rename these appropriately. Then you'll need to make folders for each location and move the shortcuts into these folders. Search MSDN for "Deployment Projects" for more information. ...Show All

• Visual C# Concurrent File Upload Handler Access

  I have an application that utilizes file upload and calls another aplication that handles uploaded file. I want file upload handler to be placed in a queue. In other words, I want that handler to be accessed by only one user and if another user accesses that handler/uploads files at the same time, I want the file upload handler to wait until the previous upload is complete. Do I need to user threads What is the way to lock the process and release it when it is done Please help Mikhail Hi! You can make 3 things: 1. handler must check at startup that no other handler are started. If other handler are s ...Show All

• SQL Server dynamic change of graphs type

  We have a requirement where we show a particular simple graph in type columns. we wanted to give the user a parameter like Type: which has some or different charts in it. i would like to give a user a feature of dynamically changing the chart type. hope you understand me. let me know which is the property i need to assign the parametere value and where i should write that Hi, I didnt find a way to choose the graph type by clicking a text box. i created all the graphs in the report, all connected to the same dataset. i also created a list control and the user can choose which type he want ...Show All

• .NET Development XSLT for an XML with Namespace

  HI can anyone help me out with this, im a newbie to xml n stuff. i really have tough time working on this . Xml file: <p:win32_Service xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance " xmlns:p=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsman/2005/06/wmi/root/cimv2/win32_Service "> <p:AcceptPause>true</p:AcceptPause> <p:AcceptStop>true</p:AcceptStop> <p:Caption>Windows Management Instrumentation</p:Caption> <p:StartMode>Auto</p:StartMode> <p:StartName>LocalSystem</p:StartName> <p:State>Running</p:State> <p:Status>OK</p:Status> ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Getting rendered graphics (quickly) from the card

  I had a thread about thins some days back, but for some reason I can not write into it now. I am faced with the task of rendering some graphics with directx and then copying that graphics into another card which generates a video signal. I need to feed it a new frame 25 times a second. The size is 720*576 The rendering does not have to be any faster that this. I have tried two methods of geting the pixels, and both are much too slow. One takes 500ms for a frame and the other 1800ms. I need a time below 40 for this to work. I post the two methods below. Perhaps someone can provide input as to what I need to do. I might add that ot ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ReportViewer control in VB 2005 Express Edition

  i've just installed ReportViewer.exe for VB 2005 express, but i still can't find the ReportViewer control from the Toolbox. is this ReportViewer.exe same like the ReportViewer Add-in for Visual Web Developer Express Thanks. hi, what i know is that report viewer for vwd, not vb EE , at the top of this forum in FAQ thread there is a post about reporting you can see it hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Protocol violation - can I change how sensible the test shall be to protocol errors?

  I get this error when running a test on a web page that I have no possibility to change: RequestFailed: The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseHeader Detail=CR must be followed by LF Is it possible to configure how the test shall handle this so the test will not fail Sten, this sounds like a bug so I'm going to need some more info to track it down.  What's the request like that's causing this error   Are you using non-ASCII characters in a custom header value or in the URL Josh ...Show All