Stephen C. Steel's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Help needed in structing a solution in source safe safely

  How can I structure my Solution in source safe Hi I have created a solution in vs.net as follows   Framework     DataTier  (solution Folder)           DT.DataManager   (class Library)     BusinessTier (solution Folder)           BT.BusinessManager   (class Library)     ...Show All

• Visual C++ MDIRefreshMenu() ??

  MDIRefreshMenu() Some one recommended to me to use this method but i dont know what it does and i cannot find any information about it.  Also when i put it in my code it comes up as not recognised, has it been discontinued Thanks Will Who recommended you and why do they recommend you to use this function I do not know such a function I know only a message called WM_MDIREFRESHMENU http://msdn.microsoft. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Flashing/Blinking Forms/Windows

  How can I flash/Blink a certain form. Like a Blinking/Flashing "ACCESS DENIED" dialog I take it you mean flash it so that if it is hidden behind other windows, its tab in the taskbar flashes a couple of times If so... as far as I know there is no built in way to do this in the .NET Framework, instead you’d need to do a P/Invoke against user32.dll to call FlashWindowEx . Take a look at this pinvoke.net entry on it and see if ...Show All

• SQL Server High CPU Usage SSIS Package

  Anyone aware of anything I can look at to improve performance of my SSIS packages i basically have two master packages that call about 15 child package tasks each. All the package tasks are called sequentially and all they do is just load flat files into temporary tables and execute a simple stored proc. Each package tasks check to see if a file is there and if so it processes it else it just ends. The packages are scheduled to run every minute ...Show All

• Windows Forms hooking RowState changes in a complex databindind scenario

  Hi, I have a form with BindingNavigator, BindingSource and typed DataSet all connected in usual fashion. I'm trying to hook up when a row is changed in the dataset to commit those changes to a database. While handling the BindingSource.CurrentItemChanged event seems to work, the behavior is unwanted. That is, the event is fired only on navinating to another record, no matter the operation (addnew, edit or delete). Handling the BindingNaviga ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005 Compiler Bug?

  I have some source code that does DES, 3DES encryption decryption based on the algorithm. A lot of bit operations. The same code, with the same testing program, yields inconsistent results: - Compiled under EVC4 for PPC2003 and SP2003, test passed. - Compiled under VS2005 for Win32 desktop platform (UNICODE defined), test passed. - Compiled under VS2005 for any Windows Mobile platform (PPC2003, PPC5.0, SP2003, SP5.0), test failed. Any id ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System File/Folder-level security

  Hi all, I'm not sure whether this question should goes into VSS2005 or TS, but we have high requirements on security. Let's assume we created Team Project, and 5 developers are working on it. However, only 2 senior developers are authorized to access some core source codes, and the rest should be able to do their own parts without the ability to read or open the core source codes. Can this scenario be achieved in VSTS A brief look of the scenar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MSI Visual Basic Express

  I am system administrator at a school, and I would like to distribute Visual Basic Express over the network. The easiest way would be by using an MSI file. Is it possible to download an MSI installation file somewhere Best, Arnoud Roeland You can use ClickOnce Deployment from VB Express to deploy your application. Read up on it in Help. It will allow you to deploy your application from a Network Fileshare, fro ...Show All

• .NET Development how to divide a string

  im not sure im in the suitable forum for my question... i have a long string (lets say x) and a short string (y) ,now i need to find if y appears in x (dont have to appear in x  sequential ). so first i need to divide x to sub-strings but without missing a matching , how can i do that thanks You are going to have to explain what you are after a little clearer, perhaps give us some information as to what you ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't update database with a non-admin account

  Hi All, Thanks in advance for any help. I'm writing a simple c# application for my home pc that writes to an Access database on Windows XP Pro.  The Access database is stored in the "CommonApplicationData" location (c:\documents and settings\all use ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get field values from TableAdapter?

  Can I get field values from my database using the tableadapter or bindingsource Like rs.Fields("field1").Value, but then with the BindingSource or TableAdapter or DataSet // Retreiving data from BindingSource: System.Data.DataViewManager dvm = (System.Data.DataViewManager) this.bindingSource1.List; foreach (DataTable tbl in dvm.DataSet.Tables) {     foreach (DataRow row in tbl.Rows)  &nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms High lighted row in datagrid?

  Hi, In datagrid, how could i find that a row is high lighted (programmaticaly) You can use the DataGrid IsSelected(int rowIndex) method. for example, if you want to know if the second row in the data grid is selected you can use t ...Show All

• Visual C# Use Access with Automation, from c# program

  Hi to all! for this my first post i ask information on an argument about wich a very poor documentation on the web exists: the office automation. My problem is about a windows c# program that manage some Access data using classic DataSet. In the same access mdb file where the tables are stored  i also have some access reports that i want to open in preview mode from the C# program. unfortunatel ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Listbox with different indented items

  Is there a way to implement a listbox with different indentation for the listboxitems that are bound to a XML The indentation looks like something shown below :- Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4 Item 5 I tried using data template to customise the layout but there is no way to create a different indentation for different items. Any clues for implementing this thank you. Do you reall ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. rendering meshes

  hi! i've made a mesh picture_1: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blender/object_mode _solid .gif even on actually flat faces there are a lot of triangles i.e. many different faces picture_2: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blender/edit_mode.gif when i view the mesh in the meshview - that one that comes with the sdk - it looks like that picture_3: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blender/directx.gif and when i load the mesh to my device it looks ...Show All