Matthew Wiggins's Q&A profile

• Architecture XP or XPE for POS application

  Hi, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this - apologies if it's not. I'm developing a custom POS application in VB.Net 2.0 for no more than 4 terminals. The touch terminals all have P4 processors with 512 MB RAM and 40 GB HDDs. I'm just wondering if there are any advantages to installing XP embedded (or XPE for POS) instead of XP Professional. Because of the limited number of clients, it would be more expensive to buy t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to Load / Save

  I Have three questions about loading and saving!  1.   How do you load a file like a .txt file into your program and then edit and save it as another file like .doc   2.  also how do you open music files and/or picture files    3. And is it possible to convert files like mp3 by opening them and them saving them in another format like wma Thanx in advance ...Show All

• SQL Server RowsComplete in SSIS

  This may be an easy question but the answer in not obvious to me.  I am copying a table from one DB to another and would like to get the number of rows transfered.  In DTS you could look at the 'RowsComplete' and 'RowsInError' property of a CustomTask, how do I access this data in SSIS   I am using a DataReader with an ADO.Net connection to retreive the data and an OLE DB Destination to write the data. Any help is appreciated, &n ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid update

  I have a DataGrid showing some records and when the user double-clicks one of them, a Form is open to allow the user edit the data using a DataSet cloned from the DataSet used the Main DataGrid.  The Update in the Database happens but  ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition

  Is Visual Source Safe 2005 included in Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition I haven't been able to find information on this anywhere.  We are worried that we may have to purchase Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition and also purchase Visual Source Safe 2005.  Previously, we only had to purchase Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect which included Visual Source Safe 6. Any information will help. Thanks.  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Textbox event pbm

  HI, When i execute the sample codegiven below, no errors. but not popping up the Msg. ("Are You sure to proceed ). By default it's taking as "Yes" and gives the Msgbox stating "Y". what is wrong here Private Sub txtE_TextChanged( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles txtE.TextChanged If ((txtE.Text.Length = 9) And (txtE.Text <> " ") And (txtE.Text ...Show All

• Windows Forms TimeSpan in Datagridview

  Hi there Given that the only format for storing a time (I just want HH:mm:ss.ffff) in a sqlexpress table is using the datetime format which also needs the date to be valid, I thought I might be able to store it as ticks (long - 64 bit). That will probably work, but how do I get the Datagridview to automatically display that column in a TimeSpan HH:mm:ss.ffff Also, how to I get it to allow inputing a timspan into the column and converting that ba ...Show All

• Visual C# space in file path!

  When i use  a file path like "C\ test cases\testfile.csv", the file cannot be opened.. I know the problem is the space in my  path. If  i use "C\ testcases\testfile.csv", then its ok. Is there any tricks to come around this problem.            ProcessStartInfo pSInfo          =  new ProcessStartInfo( "Excel.exe");    &nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development Interpreting the data from database schemas

  I am using ODBC and specifically the MS Access driver but I could also use some general knowledge about these issues if nothing specific is available. How should I go about retrieving the number of rows in a table from a data source without retrieving all the data Normally, you would "Fill" a DataSet with one or more tables using an Adapter, initialized with the proper connection to the data source and the desired SELECT query. The problem is, a ...Show All

• .NET Development The Undo operation encountered a context that is different...

  This is not specific enough information for me to know what I did wrong and where. Does anyone have any insight to this It appears to have something to do with asynchronous socket I/O completion. System.Transactions Critical: 0 : <TraceRecord xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/10/E2ETraceEvent/TraceRecord" Severity="Critical"> <TraceIdentifier>http://msdn.microsoft.com/TraceCodes/System/ActivityTracing/2004/07/Re ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataBinding.Format and Parse

  Hi Guys, I am tyring to bind an SQL Image field to a picturebox in windows forms with format and parse. Here is the problem. 1) When I call save on my form calling EndCurrentEdit, even though, I didn't change the picture or anything in my& ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Handling events in a multi-form application

  I'm trying to write a .NET CF 2.0 application that behaves a little like the built-in Calendar application, in that the main form has multiple views with very different contents. In fact, in my application the four views are so different that I'd like to implement them as four different forms, so that I can use the Visual Studio designer to layout and script each one separately. This also allows me to completely close the forms I'm not using so ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ASP.Net 1.x Performance Analyses Tool

  Hi All, Is there any tool available for asp.net 1.x like we have performance analyser in asp.net 2.0.   Right Ian, I m referring to the same tool that is available in developer edition of VSTS and i know it can not be used in 1.x solutions. but my concern is there any third party or microsoft tool available that can be used with 1.x solutions for performance profiling ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Redirecting mouse

  hey, I'm currently doing a Visual Basic .NET project in school which also counts as my final exam for my programming class. In my program, I am trying to make sord of a help mode for my game and I was wondering if it was possible to redirrect the mouse. What I mean is that if the user put the mouse over a certain button and that is not what he is suppose to click on, I want the mouse to go over the button he is suppose to click on, so it moves t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Build Complete Notification Sounds

  I just upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 from VS6.0  and I cannot find any documentation for Visual Studio sounds schemes.  In VS6.0 I could have seperate sounds for "BuildComplete", "BuildError", and "BuildWarning".  In Visual Studio I can only create a sound for VS_BreakpointHit  Are any of the others available The three I mentioned in my post BuildComplete, BuildWarrning, and BuildError.&nbs ...Show All