MsMe's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Worlds Best App Contest Winners

  It’s time to announce the winning applications for MSNR Messenger’s Worlds Best App Contest , which MSN ran from September through December 31 st , 2005. There were a lot of great entries, hard work and interesting new ideas for building new applications and games within Messenger. Submitted applications were judged based on the official rules and judging criteria which included creativity, launches during the contest, suit ...Show All

• Windows Forms Connecting to a Remote SQL Server via windows forms

  Hi I am trying to find the best practice to connect to a remote SQL server from a windows forms application. The SQL Server does not belong to same network or domain and has been configured for mixed authentication. I know we can encrypt the connection string within a config file but do we ensure that the credentials are not passed as clear text along the wire in a secure format. Configuration: SQL 2005, ADO.NET 2.0, VS.NET 2005 What ...Show All

• Visual Basic 2 Internet Connection

  Hi, I want to use 2 Internet connection each with diffrent IP with 2 wisock control for for each connection. the problem the newer connection is the active forever and i cannot send data through the older one. can any one help me. Food for thought for the original poster. In service to the community, we've posted suggestions at the top of the forums on how to get an optimal response to your question and how ...Show All

• .NET Development CommandText in SQLClient Command Sintax

  Hi, I'm upgrading from ADO to ADO.Net. I used in ADO the following: AdoBdp.Execute "Update Database.dbo.Table Set Field=blabla... where blabla..." Weere AdoBdp was the connection object. Works fine In ADO.Net i tried: Dim loCmd As New SqlClient.SqlCommand loCmd.Connection = AdoBdpNet (SqlClient connection - working fine) loCmd. CommandText = "Update Database.dbo.Table Set Field=blabla.. where blabla.. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help!!! Unsolvable Serial Comm Port problem??

  Hi, My current application requires that I use a PC serial communiction port to talk to a remote device. I am using visual basic from Visual Studio .net 2003. In the older versions of VB I would add mscomm.ocx to the toolbox and add this to my form. I can add Mscomm32.ocx to my toolbox, but when I try to add mscomm32.ocx to my form I receive 'You do not have a license to use this Active X control.' I have registered the file using 're ...Show All

• .NET Development Make a Project Management Forum

  I wanted to ask if anyone else runs into the problem of not having a skilled project manager as I posted in this Blog here , but couldn't find a forum here for it. Hi, These forums do not have sub forum for general discussions. You can however post such articles in the ASP.NET Forums in the Free For All sub-section: http://forums.asp.net/12/ShowForum.aspx Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• SQL Server Why take so long loading Report Manager

  Today I started Report Manager on my local machine and it took a minute and 15 seconds to load. Is this normal I am a .net developer and when running reports using Report Manager the first time in the day it can take a minute and 30 seconds before the user actually sees the report. After the first time, speeds are pretty good - but still. Is this just the way it is and I need to get used to it or is it possible that I have things configur ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to Modify My Database Schema

  I've built a C# app. in VS 2005 Express that uses an MS SQL Server 2005 database. Everything is coming along swimmingly, but I've found that I now need to add a few new columns to my tables. How do I go about doing so without jacking-up my table adapters/data set Does everything update automagically, and I'm just being overly cautious Thanks! ...Show All

• .NET Development No Managed DirectX for 64bit?

  I posted this issue back during Beta 1 and was told that Microsoft will look at making a 64 bit Managed DirectX after the OS and the development environment was released. That is way too late for those of us looking to release a 64 bit application any time soon! Is there any update from Microsoft on availability of even a Beta Managed DirectX for the x64 Thanks - John Sigh... I'm Still getting the BadImageFormatException with DX SQ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What's the Best Way to Learn VBExpress????

  I started in Nov/05.... Eons ago I had Considerable experience with Procedural Languages(Non OOP)..... Including Old School Basic, Pascal, IBM assembler etc...... I read a lot of Posts saying things like "I want to learn VB express so I decided as my First Project to write A Web Browser Etc.... Is this the way to learn a new Concept(OOP) and A new Language(VBExpress).... What I have been doing is the TUTORIALS and writing MANY Trivial Progr ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute a SSIS master package through an ASP.NET web app

  I am trying to execute a SSIS package via a web application built in c#.  I found a sample to read the output of a data flow task, but I'm stuck.  If I build the command line syntax for the package, create a DtsConnection object and set the connection string to the syntax, what else do I need to do   Thanks. Clay Well, the critical step is to create a DtsCommand whose CommandText = the name of the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Crystal Reports for Visual Web Devoper 2005 express edition

  How to install and use crystal reports in Visual Web Devoper 2005 express edition. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista using regsvr32 in Vista 5231 to install COM component fails to write to registry

  I am trying to register a com object (dll) with regserv32 in Vista 5231. My Dll is being loaded and my DLLRegisterServer method is invoked which uses RegCreateKeyEx and RegSetValueEx to write to the registry (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\XXX\XXX). I am writing everything out to a file just to make sure everything is going ok. all the RegCreateKeyEx calls and RegSetValueEx calls are returning success, but when I look in the registry my newly created k ...Show All

• SQL Server HELP: REPORTING SERVICES Pie Chart Point Label Formatting

  I'm trying to complete a report with a few pie charts. these charts need to show the category, the associated revenue, and the % of total. I can get the first two but am having a problem with trying to add the % to the label. This is the only show-stopper for my report. thanks You can calculate the percentage by using an expression for the data point label. E.g. =Sum(Fields!Sales.Value) / Sum(Fields!Sales.Value, "ChartName" ...Show All

• Visual Basic The "SignFile" task was not given a value for the required parameter "CertificateThumbprint"

  Hi, I get this Error; The "SignFile" task was not given a value for the required parameter "CertificateThumbprint".  C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Microsoft.Common.targets When I try to publish This is after I reinstalled windows XP home & VB2500 express beta It worked before I don't know enough to sort it out, please help VeryGood work for me. Thanks Tayron ...Show All