DBNull's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Gathering a list of System DSN 's through the ADO .Net toolkit

  Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to extract all the system DSNs from a machine in order to populate a drop-down box, without having to write code to access the relevant registry entries Is there a library provided in the .Net framework that will achieve this Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Mike ...Show All

• Visual Studio Extending Visual Studio for cfm pages

  Well i screwed that post up Try again: I want to extend visual studio so that I can Edit cfm pages (create some sort of schema that lets me use the features of vs to colorcode html and coldfusion stuff) Don't want a design view When I "Run" the solution it should bring up the index.cfm file (not even that important of an option) I just don't know what to search for to find out how to do this.  If anyone can p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Source Safe Analyze

  We are using the VSS 2005 Beta with about 10 local users and 3 remote user. Looking from the VSS Admin GUI, we see that nobody is Logged into the Database, but when we try to run Analzye -f it complains that someone is logged in. Where can I see all the machines logged into SourceSafe The remote people are using the VS 2005 Beta with the Internet plugin. These people never seam to show up in the list of users logged in. How can I determine if th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Warehouse Troubleshooting Guide

  This will be a living document and as we troubleshoot issues, we will add to the query and document. It will culminate in a consistency checker tool which automates the checking and ultimately other functions like kicking the warehouse etc... Feedback is welcome and I will update this data. Symptoms: The data in the reports is stale and doesn’t seem to ever get updated. The reports error out. An error has occurred during report pr ...Show All

• Visual Basic Byte code

  I have the following problem(Project) define a subset of c++ or java or c# or x or any combination of them  justify that a subset is complete  list goals and objectives for your selection  descripe its syntax & semantics  implement the above  define AM & simulate AM on RM infact i have never programmed such things, if any body can help 1- what do we mean by complete subset 2- how to programm the abstract machine( ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro toolbox trouble

  All of a sudden, out of the blue I got a problem with the toolbox. When I click the button on the bar to invoke the dropdown menu with the controls depicted I get an error message instead. Program error File 'aclsids.prg' does not exist When I click suspend, the debugger appears at this position: Object: _activexcategory IF EMPTY(aCLSIDs[1]) IF oReg.EnumOptions(@aCLSIDs,m.cActiveXKey,m.cHKey,.T.)#0 RETURN .F. ENDIF ENDIF The arrow ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to use pics in Controls

  How can I use some pics in a User control hosted in html Embeding doesnt work because of security while I retrive the images from assembly Crirus One of the things that would trip up security is if the picture you're trying to  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Suite or Professional?

  Would anyone be able to tell me what makes Team Suite any better than having Professional plus another free unit testing model. I have had a look at the comparitive table, but I'm only fairly new to this and to be honest I ended up not knowing anymore after reading it. So if someone could tell me in practical terms why paying all that money for Team Suite over Professional is a good idea it would be appriciated. The integration with Team F ...Show All

• Visual C# EventHandling on buttons

  hi there, i’m very new in c# and i have a question. I have some Buttons, which are dynamically created by my application, the buttons should activate or diactivate something. Now my Question, how can I differentiate between the buttons, every one should activate or deactivate another thing. For Example Button1 activates the MYSQL-Windows-Service Button2 deactivates another service. In Java it is possible to add a ActionCommand to an ...Show All

• .NET Development Best Practices: Generating Serial Numbers which contain informations?

  Hello Forum Users, i am working on a Software which can be registered by people and companies for variable period like 3 months, 6 months or one year and so on. For example, we receive the order from company X, purchasing the software license for 6 Months. Now we would like to use our own Serial number generator and pass in the name of the company and the period and generate a serial number, which will be delivered to the custome ...Show All

• SQL Server No TRIM function in 2005 - are you serious!?

  I cannot believe that there is yet another version of SQL Server without a TRIM function.  So for SQL 2005 (like I've done in 7.0 and 2000) my T-SQL will look like dog poo because I will have to write LTRIM(RTRIM(MyValue)) anytime I want to remove whitespace from both ends of character values instead of just writing TRIM(MyValue). Microsoft - how can you write LTRIM and RTRIM and not write TRIM in the same breath an ...Show All

• SQL Server .NET Framework 2.0 question - continued...

  Hi, I have a few more questions related to my .NET Framework 2.0 question thread posted last week.  I know that some of these questions will go beyond the realm of SQL-NS and into the SQL Server 2005 world, but my belief is that you guys will already know the answers. Lets say I have an IIS web server on Windows 2003 Server with the following software already installed: 1.  SQL Server 2000 client software 2.  .NET Framework 1.1 3. ...Show All

• Visual Studio from purticular pc VSS database not able to connect

  hi all am not able to connect vss from a particular pc, but from the other pc i can open the database with the same user, the error is when i connect is "unable to access the user.log file", but user same or admin i can login from the other pc. pls help me out thanks in advance You may not be using the same Windows account to access the database share when connecting from different computers. The Windows us ...Show All

• Visual Basic Tree view help

  I'm a novice with VB. to create something like what you would find in outlooks side bar. Where all my data would be listed in the treeNode and all i have to do is click it to open in a Data Grid if possible. Can you help me please. Also i don't have a clue how the send information the a Form window using the MdiParent to miChild. can you help with that as well. Thank you very much.. Yes and no. I'm thinking abou ...Show All

• Visual C# The IDE often automatically changes the file subtype from "Form" to "Code" in the .csproj file

  The IDE often automatically changes the file subtype from "Form" to "Code" in the .csproj file, which renders the forms unviewable in design view until that change is undone.  Is there any way to prevent the IDE from doing this automatically Thanks, Wilfred This sounds like a bug. If you can reproduce it consistantly, post a bug report on the Microsoft Product Feedback Center . ...Show All