Jon500's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Going-Live and Persistence

  Hello I am happy to see that you are providing a going live license with beta 2, but there is one thing that I would like someone from the product team to comment on before I actually dare using it: What's your plan for upgrading persistent information from beta 2 production environments to the release version Are the DB schemas of the persistence and tracking services already fixed How about if I provide my own persistence servi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Need simple steps to port vc++6.0 to vc++2005 express

  here are the vc++6.0 codes from a graphic training book: MainFrm.h and MainFrm.cpp: // MainFrm.h : interface of the CMainFrame class // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #if !defined(AFX_MAINFRM_H__58CBEE29_854F_11D8_B394_00E04C391319__INCLUDED_) #define AFX_MAINFRM_H__58CBEE29_854F_11D8_B394_00E04C391319__INCLUDED_ #if _MSC_VER > 1000 #pragma once #endif // _MSC_VER > 1000 class C ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to create custom Format for DataGridView?

  Hello all. I need to show a DataGridView with a numric culmn that display values from 0 - 100. Sometimes their is no data in this column and than I want to display UNKNOWN, but in order to keep the column as a numric column, I set&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C++ NULL STL string exception with 2005

  The following code properly throws an exception that is caught in the "catch(...)" below on Visual C++ version 6.0 and Visual C++ 2003. However, an exception is thrown that is not caught and a CRASH occurs on version 2005 of Visual C++. This seems like an extremely serious bug to me. Does anyone know: 1.) Is this a confirmed bug by Microsoft 2.) Is there a safe way around it. By "safe" I do not mean "just don't ...Show All

• SQL Server XP_CMDSHELL -- Microsoft guidance on using/not using

  Is there any guidance on using Xp_Cmdshell from the SSIS team at Microsoft We're needing to remotely execute SSIS packages on the server where MS SQL Server 2005 is installed. FYI, I've researched this heavily and know about the common ways--re: Using SQL Agent or the Microsoft.Dts.Runtime library in .NET with a web service etc. We are needing a strategy for LOTS of applications to use at this client. ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 setup FAILED!!!

  Hi everybody, I Developed a small application in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. I tried to deploy that application in a machine running Windows XP SP2. I downloaded the file dotnetfx from microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework Beta 2 Redistributable page and I tried to install it on my deployment machine.... I tried everything to make it work, but the .NET Framework 2.0 does not install on my machine. I renamed the mscor*.dll on the System folder, I'm&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Optimizing Test Rig machines

  does anyone have a link or suggestions on how to best optimize a windows XP professional machine for load testing with VSTE Thanks! John If the machine has more than one processor (or 'core'), it can help a lot to enable the server GC. This process is described in this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=210575&SiteID=1 Other than that, I'd say make sure you have plenty of ...Show All

• Visual Basic MDIForm

  How can I activate a MDIChild form after closing a non MDI form because all the commands in the Childform_Activated event after closing a non MDI form was not working Childform_Activated Dim i As Integer lsvBacBus.Items.Clear() i = 0 SQL( "SELECT * FROM Course" ) Do While Not Rs.EOF lsvBacBus.Items.Add(Rs.Fields( "coursecode" ).Value) lsvBacBus.Items.Item(i).SubItems.Add( "1" ).Text = (Rs.Fields( "coursename" ).Value)lsvBacBus.Ite ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Disable The Windows Desktop

  i want to make a application In .net in which i want to Disable The Windows Desktop means only focus on my application any one who know how to disable or lock the Windows Desktop plz Share his/her Knowledge Maximize you window over the whole desktop using FormBorderStyle.None, that'll do it. If you want to lock the desktop to protect it from sneaky eyes or something while you're out for lunch, it's a fundamental feature for any net ...Show All

• SQL Server Populating a report table

  The report wizard makes it easy to put some all of your fields into a table, but once you are out of the wizard you can only add one field at a time, or so it seems.   Is this true or are there some short cuts that will allow you to add multiple fields at a time.   On the same note, can you add more than one column at a time to a table TIA Paul Hammond Richmond, VA ...Show All

• Windows Forms install desktop icon conditionlly

  I have been unable to install a desktop icon conditionally during an install. I have tried using checkboxes and radio buttons and based on the users input, use the condition property of the destop icon folder toconditionally instal/not-install the icon. Unfortunately the icon is always installed. Has anyone had any success doing this Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Programmatically extending the project tree

  Hi, I need to write an add-in, that when installed it will add a virtual folder to the project tree (in which I can later add other stuff). The problem is even more complicated since the project I want to extend is an SSIS project (SQL Server Integration Services), and it doesn't let you customize the project structure even from the project explorer itself (can't add folders). I appreciate any help on this. Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development SecurityAction.DemandeChoice is obsolete ?

  I'm working with Beta 2 (v2.0.50215) and I'm using PrincipalPermissionAttribute. As I wished to use more than 1 attribute on a single method, I tried the new SecurityAction.DemandeChoice flag. To my surprise, the compiler said this flag is obsolete ! I've not found anything about that on the web (nothing about that on MSDN2 for example) except in a Mono mailing list. Has this new feature been removed Is there other removed feat ...Show All

• Visual Basic Suggestions on how to do this?

  hi, I am attempting to calculate data from a file that is ordered much like below. 10 10000000 0.65478 10 15649897 0.12347 15 1234564 0.78946 15 7845132 1.56974 20 123124874 1.98649 20 123548 2.65478 I need to group items by column 1 in the table, in reality, they are not ordered in this way, and may appear in entirely random positions (relative to sort order). What I have been doing so far ...Show All

• Visual Studio Load a new source control plugin error

  Hi Gurus, I am writing a source control plugin(add-in) for vs.net 2003. This add-in works fine when I put all dlls at the local machine that vs.net is installed on. But if I put all dlls on a mapped network drive, I got the following error message: There was a failure while initializing the my source control provider. You cannot use this provider to perform source control operations. When I try to debug it, I notices the following ...Show All