TheRoon's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Lazy Processing - Info required

  Hi Folks, I'm trying to get under the hood of Lazy Processing because i'm a DBA and will be responsible for tuning AS servers. Lucky me! I've scanned BOL but just can't seem to find anything that explains in some detail what happens during this process and how it all works etc. I can clearly see that one can tune it and monitor etc - that's documented in BOL clearly. I guess, what i'm asking is: Where's the detailed description of La ...Show All

• Visual C++ STD::equal verification

  Hello I am using VS2005 pro. I read that the new VC++ compiler performs more checks on iterator use but I have pbs with these checks. If you try to run that code std::string parameterName = "DestinationHostName"; //std::string parameterName = "DestinationAETitle"; std::string ori = "DestinationAETitle"; if (std::equal(parameterName.begin(), parameterName.end(), ori.begin())) { std::cou ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help with Form application created by Visual Studio 2005!

  I have successfully compiled and tested a windows Form application that was created using Visual C++ 2005.  However, when I tried to run the same application on a different machine that does not have .Net framework it ask me to install it. My question is, is there any way I can somehow make the form application work on machines that does not have .Net installed   (for example is there some quick way to convert the form t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Controlling Font

  How would you control the font, color, size, bold, italics of text decorators in shapes and connectors Copying Pedro's e-mail reply to the same question here so it's publicly available: These things are not settable in the DD file, but you can write custom code to change the font boldness and color. Add the following code to the shape class that you want to customize (I used the ClassDiagram template for my ex ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem deploying MSDOS executable

  Hi, Here's an odd one ! My app. uses a legacy MSDOS com executable which I deploy along with other support files.   My app works fine after deployment, however when I try to access the com executable -either from the app. or directly -  I get a Win32 exception  "The parameter is incorrect". If I copy the com executable to another folder it works fine. It looks very much as if it's an access rights problem but I can access ot ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office ServerDocument.AddCustomization() starts new Word Instance

  Hi, I use VSTO ServerDocument.AddCustomization() method to dynamically customize Word .doc file. However, if I try to customize a fresh (new) Word .DOT file, a new instance of Word is started even if one already exists. This is causing so much pain. Also, this behavior is NOT repeated if the .dot file is already customized and I re-add the customization after removing it first. Here is the code: private void button1_Click(object sender ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ActiveControl + Textboxes

  I have several textboxes a couple on the main form then some on tab pages that the tab control is on the same form and I cannot figure out how to use activecontrol so I dont have to check 60+ textboxes to see if they have the focus or not then call a function to do the routine of cut, copy, and paste.  With that said any ideas so I dont have to make the code bloated by just that Something like this sh ...Show All

• Visual Basic Socket Encoding and Decoding using Ascii Encoding

  Hi All fairly new to VB .Net and have been trying to port code from vb6. I have picked up the sample application for sockets and my problem is I have a string which come come in with binary data packed as bytes i.e 10101010101001 and the bytes would appear as .>D.... .. .B..." compressed bitmap. It would now appear that I cannot see the full string I have some characters missing and when I read through the data and build a response I can ...Show All

• Visual Studio sourcesafe v5 - various issues

  I have a SrcSafev5 database that is about 30Gb is size.  I know that various documents recommend that 2Gb should be the max size but (other than performance) it doesnt seem to cause any problems. So first question is does it really matter how big the database is   (Does size really matter ) I am currently trying to reduce the size of the database using Analyze and Archive (ssarc) however before I do anything I want to copy the database ...Show All

• Windows Forms Better Tab Control?

  Hello, Is there a better Tab Control to add to the toolbox that has a little X on the right side of the tab so you can easily close the tab Matt Check out the www.codeproject.com website as they have lots of posted code for all sorts of controls including tab controls. Not sure if any have the close button on tab itself though. If you need to code it yourself you could try custom painting the tabs and add ...Show All

• Visual C# DllImport - EntryPointNotFoundException

  hello.. I tried to load a function from a dll file that has a function with specification as below: return type : int *pResult parameter 1 : BSTR string1 Parameter 2 : int integer1 Parameter 3 : VARIANT_BOOL bool1 and in my code, that's what it looks like, [DllImport("myDll.dll", EntryPoint="function_name")] public static extern intPtr function_name( [MarshalAs(Unman ...Show All

• .NET Development Data is not getting saved in MDF file, when insert

  Hi, i am having this problem where i am trying to insert a row or collection of rows with DataSetTableAdapters, but when i am closing the Application and checking my database i find no row in it, Dim InsertCustomer As New AjantaEDataSetTableAdapters.CustomerTableAdapter InsertCustomer .Insert(_cn.Text.Trim, _ad.Text.Trim, _ta.Text.Trim, _ph.Text.Trim, _mo.Text.Trim, _qty6.Text.Trim, _Qty12.Text.Trim) Please help ...Show All

• SQL Server Can we create two servicess in a same database?

  Hi, I tried creating two services in a same queue but i couldnt see them working properly. Now i got a primary doubt that can i create two services which communicate with each other in a same database Please help me.... here is the script which i used to create the services /************************************Scipt *********************************/ /********************** Sender Queue and Service ***********************/ CREA ...Show All

• .NET Development Inserting lots of rows from a Datatable into a database

  I have to build a datatable in VB.net and fill it with all of its data (about 35000 rows). I'm fine with this but I then need to insert the entire table into an SQL 2000 database but only insert the rows that do not already exist in the table. If the rows do exist in the database they may have some of their values changed so i can't just over write them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated Thanks I ...Show All

• .NET Development Convert MSXML2.DomDocument to XMLNode

  Hi all, I have been trying to convert an MSXML doc to .NET system.xml.xmldocument in order to eventually get the document to a node. However I am not having any luck loading the MSXML doc to system.xml. Example: Dim xDoc As New MSXML2.DOMDocument() xDoc.loadXML("<Root><Element>Text</Element></Root>") Dim xDocNew As XmlDocument xDocNew.LoadXml(xDoc.xml)   'ERROR xDocNew.Save("C:\SAVED.xml") ...Show All