amit lohia's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Need good tutorial for Query Builder

  Where can I find a really good tutorial on the VS 2005 version of Query Builder using C# I have limited SQL knowledge and no experience at all with previous versions of the Query Builder. I posted this in Visual Studio General as well. My question isn't really specific to C#. ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Diagrams

  TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner. To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog box or the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement to set the database owner to a valid login, then add the database diagram support objects. ------------------------------ BUTTONS: OK ------------------------------ I don't know what is the meaning of the above message, which I get when I 'right click' the Database Diagrams node of the Northwind database. Every thing seems OK, since I am t ...Show All

• SQL Server PERCENTILE_CONT equivalent in MS SQL

  Hi All,   I have a table with a count of 30K rows that describe values over a period of time. I would like to be able to replicate the PERCENTILE_CONT function that is found in Oracle with MS SQL Server 2005 but have not had much success.   Would anybody know of a way to use current MS SQL syntax to retrieve the value of the 5th,10th,15th,20th etc... percentile of my table values Assume that all of the values are associated with the same key. Oracle gives you the Percentile_Cont function for inverse percentile calculation but what does SQL2005 give you Sample Table Structure: ID int, Timestamp datetime, ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Killing Fast User Switching in Vista32

  I have security applications that will not function using FUS. In XP there was an Option in the control panel to kill FUS. How do you kill it in Vista32 I'm not sure there is a way to turn off FUS in Vista. I'm sure someone more familiar could verify that. That being said, turning off FUS might not fix your problem. We have an app that doesn't play nicely with FUS, so advise our users to turn it off in XP (fortunately most of them are on a domain which automatically disables FUS on XP). One of the causes of this is the new session that gets created when a the second user logs on. In XP the first user lives in session 0 along with ...Show All

• Windows Forms SmartClient ?

  Is there anyway to launch these apps thru browser without a popup killer stopping them Thanks Deasun Anyone out there at all have any ideas on this Heres what I am doing currently to run the exe: <code> strLinkToItem = "http://www.tirnaog.com/applications/winapps/TirNaOgMaintenance.exe" Dim strTheScript As String = ""   'popup code          strTheScript = "<script>window.open(""" & strLinkToItem & """, ""_blank"", ""directories=no, left=50, location=no, menubar=no, scrollbars=yes,  resizable=yes, status=yes, toolbar=no, top ...Show All

• Windows Forms Output in label

  A simple question I know, but decided to play around with C#. Getting the output in a label is easy, but I have to call the label from a seperate class.  The label is in the form class and just can't seem to find the right syntax. Most code removed for easier read for problem. namespace RomanNums { public class Roman : System.Windows.Forms.Form { public Rom ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Internal Links

  Hi, I was working on a project in Visual Basic Studio 2005 Express Edition, and was wondering if there was any way to link the various items in the project together, using an index page Its probably fairly simple, but I cannot find how to do it anywhere. Thanks a lot. Scott Hi, My program consists of 3 sub items (3 area calculators or other math function calculators). I want to put them into one program, organized with an index page, similar to a website. That way, I can just install one program, instead of 3 or more. Hope that clarifies it. Thanks for the help. Scott ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C++ Compiler

  I'm using Borland C++ 5 compiler but can't seem to get the tutorials to compile and run through there. Sofar i've installed the DirectX SDK and installed Tutorial 00. But when i go to run, it tries to compile but gives me errors. I just noticed that the folder contains visual c++ files. Does that mean that I need Visual C++ to run this tutorial If my Borland C++ 5 won't run it at all will Borland C++ Builder 4 run it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Why don't "Closer Look: More About Menus" examples work?

  MSDN Library > Development Tools and Languages > Visual Studio > Visual Basic > Visual Basic Guided Tour > Creating the Visual Look of Your Program: Introduction to Windows Forms > Giving Users Choices: Creating Menus at Design Time > Closer Look: More About Menus The code examples for "MenuStrip" and " ContextMenuStrip" don't work! Anybody know why It was the ContextMenuStrip example at the bottom that did not work. I now see that these are also known as PopUp menus! So, I suspect that my PopUp Blocker suppressed it! I don't think ...Show All

• Smart Device Development add to windows mobile 5.0 start menu

  how do i add to my windows mobile 5.0 start menu vs2005 automatically deployed my app to my device. now i simply want to add a shortcut to it on the start menu. sounds like it should be simple but can't figure it out. You can create shortcut to your application by creating a Smart Device Cab Project. Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/tour/vs2005_guided_tour/VS2005pro/Smart_Client/DeploymentNETCF.htm Thanks, Manish ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DX10 CreateTexture

  I've started playing with DX10 and I see the functions D3DX10CreateTextureFromFile / FromMemory / FromResource. I can't find a way to create a standard texture from scratch. I just want to give a function parameters describing the texture to create and it should return a blank texture. Am I overlooking something Perhaps this hasn't been added yet due to DX10 being beta Nicholas Nezis Please ask question that relate to beta versions in the beta newsgroups. See http://msdn.com/directx/beta for more information . ...Show All

• .NET Development c# or vb.net

    What is going on. When c# first came out M$ was pushing users to move to that. Now I see an article that show that you can now translate c# to vb.net.   http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx pull=/msdnmag/issues/06/02/PasteAs/default.aspx   why does it seem like vb.net is being pushed so much more in the 2005 version. I just decided to move to c# from vb.net because of the following. 1.forced declaration of variables 2. told it was better language for businesses (reguardless that vb can do the same) 3. was told c# is more professional where vb.net was used more as hobbiest. 4. Pay is larger ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is this Bug???

  Hello~~ I tried to execute the method by function key in the keydown event of the form. 1. in the Form :  KeyPreview = true 2. Form KeyPress event : e.Handled = true; 3. Form KeyDown event : MessageBox.Show("keydown event"); At first, after the form is load, even though I key in the function key ( ex. F5 .. ), It's showed the messagebox of th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MarkMembersAsStatic documentation

  Hi Does anybody know when there will be more information on the rule   Duncan http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms245046.aspx   We need to get some of the new rule topic content rolled up into the stand-alone tool. In the meantime, though, the msdn2 VS2005 docs are helpful, since they refer to the same analysis. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to determine current XMLNode in a XMLNodes collection in XMLNodes.AfterInsert ?

  Hi, When you get back a XMLNodes objet, how can you determine the current XMLNode For example: public void AfterInsert( object sender, NodeInsertAndDeleteEventArgs e) sender is a XMLNodes and I want to know which one in the collection has been inserted. Thanks Laurent, This is somewhat embarrasing to think how easy it could have been for us to expose this information as part of NodeInsertAndDeleteEventArgs - we are essentially listening to the ThisDocument_AfterInsert event and then re-raise this event if the NewXMLNode is contained inside the XMLNodes control. But we just completely missed on the need to pass ...Show All