Luther Smith's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions ToDouble compiler error

  trying to learn visual c++ and can't seem to get this working. I have a friend that managed to get this working on his computer with visual studio 2003 pro I think was the version. Anyways, I have a windows application form with three textboxes and a button. When the button is pushed I want it to grab the values in the first two boxes and output it into the last one after going going into my formula. I used t + w to keep it simple. private: S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can/Will beta 2 SCC/WI data be preserved in the GA release

  OK, we're interested in starting to use beta 2 for our next big project, however I need to know if the data we create using beta 2 can be preserved (or at least migrated) in the GA release Does the "go live" license apply to TFS too Dave We haven't been dogfooding it for 2+ year - It's been about 8 months :)  A converter from SourceSafe has been planned from the beginning as you suggest and is available in the Beta. The issue of ...Show All

• SQL Server Wow, thanks

  Well, at least I think it's complex! It might be easy for you! I have the following 3 tables: ContentPages (Primary Key is PageID) stores information about pages, such as where the file is on the server, who created the page etc. ContentProtocols (PK is ProtocolID) stores the names of "protocols". In my content management system, a protocol is made up of a sequence of pages. So " Ben's Protocol " could be a seque ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Change Design Surface Background Color

  I'm embedding a workflow designer inside of my application. I based this off of the Designer ReHosting sample. It is working just fine. However, I absolutely despise the blue'ish designer surface that my workflow appears on top of by default. Is there a way to change this design surface color Sounds like a very trivial problem, but I've yet to figure out how... Thanks, Mark I have been trying to m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetFactory

  I downloaded the VS Studio Team System Extensiblity Kit and I am using the TeamFoundationServerFactory .GetServer method to get the team foundation server. I am getting an error accessing registry key because I suspect the teamfoundationserver did not have the permissions to access the registry. Even when I try to pass in the default credentials using the following code, I am still getting the registry key error: System.Net. ICredentials ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cross Thread Headache

  I am having a cross thread headache with my control I have created. I have a control on a form (frmUtils) when an event is raised by this control I want to update a listbox on my main form (frmMain) to show this data. I have read a lot of posts about this problem but nothing seems to give me an elegant solution. Setting CheckForIllegalCrossTheadCalls=False, causes other code sections to stop working properly. It is very frustrating when somethin ...Show All

• SQL Server Nullable foreign keys

  In my SQL Server 2005 T-SQL book, it mentions that SQL Server 2005 now allows you to set Foreign Key Update/Delete Rules to "Set Null" and "Set Default". In Management Studio, I only see "No Action" and "Cascade" as options. I wish to have the foreign key field set to null when the Primary key in the other table is deleted. Does anyone know why these options aren't showing up, or what I can do to achieve t ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll Problem

  Hi there, can someone possibly tell me why Noton WinDoctor is telling me that 10 executables in the .NET Framework 2.0 cannot access the necessary dll file msvcr80.dll I see that the dll exists in the WinSxS directory and I'm running XP pro. I didn't have this problem until I downloaded the 2.0 framework at windows update. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Naolin I am having the same problem... I even uninstalled i ...Show All

• .NET Development SmtpClient.Send() problem results in "An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine"

  Hi, I'm having problems with SmtpClient.Send() where I end with an "An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine" type error. My infrastructure people tell me that I should have access to the Smtp server so things should just work. I've been googling and searching forums but have yet to see a complete answer to what this error is trying to tell me. Oh and I've tried this in both a Web and a WinForm app o ...Show All

• SQL Server Pocket pc 2002 sqlce data synchronization with sql server 2000 (SP4)

  i am using C#..net I am synchronizing the sql server data with sqlce.but i get an error when i call synchronize function. i am using sqlcereplication class. the error is "a call to sql server reconciler failed" native error 29006 and sometimes native error 29045. Details please: 1) SQL Server version - 2000 or 2005 2) SQL Mobile version - 2.0 or 3.0 3) IIS Version Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Will Operation Behaviors be configurable in a future release of WCF?

  Hi Community, Will Operation Behaviors be configurable in a future release of WCF What I mean by the question is that let's say if I have an Operation Behaviour " MessageTransformBehavior ". Typically I will use the attribute as class PersonService : IPersonService { [ MessageTransformBehavior ( locationofXSLT = "c:/XSLTs/Message2Person.xslt")] public void Add(Message msg) { var body = XElement.Load(msg ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions making a cell only numeric

  Hi!!! I’m using the DataGridView control. I add columns manually and I want let the user can enter numeric values only in certain columns. How can I do this Thanks hi, i'm not sure from this but you can try it, datagridview is just a representation of your dataset, you can edit your  datatype for this column in your dataset designer to be integer hopfully it helps ...Show All

• .NET Development Web service on my localhost

  Hi all, I want to give others to call a webservice on my localhost. I mean, I want my PC active like internet server to internet clients. Is it possible. Please help...  It should be possible but is also depending on what operating system you have installed. I am using Windows XP Professional SP2 and can run local webservices for remote usage. The firewall needs to be opened and IIS with .NET set up must be ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using VB2005 DLL in C++

  Hi, I am total beginner to C and C++. I wrote a VB2005 Class Library DLL which I can reference from VB and use its members. Now I would like to use it in a C++ program the same way. I read I need to reference it so I right clicked on the project ->references->Added a path to the dll -> clicked on Add New Reference and it came up with a blank form which didn't have a browser on it, wouldn't accept inputs and didn't have anything in it. C ...Show All

• .NET Development Invalid Binary Format

  I so much need your help here. I have a simple application ... and its going to get big :) if I figure out the .NET remoting part. It just wont work. Its based on configuration files. I use VS 2005 - .NET 2.0 - IIS 6.0 to host the remoting objects and a simple Form GUI to test. I use binary format. thats the code : web.config - server : <system.runtime.remoting>     <application>       <s ...Show All