Stuart Campbell's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Database OLE DB Issues

  Hi Guys. I am just wondering how I insert data from my window with the textboxes and everything to my table in my Access database . Also, I have the customerID number on my form and in the database it is an autonumber. How do i show the customers actual customerID when the form window opens Cheers and thanks in advance. Well, if your controls are bound to a datasource, all you have to do is call Update() on yo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions WebBrowser and Credentials (Basic authentication)

  Hi, I got this problem that i couldn't solve by myself. When im trying to access protected Website (Basic authentication) it's obvious that i have to give the correct login information. What im trying to do is automating this process and get the WebBrowser use hardcoded login information (username: admin, pass: admin) when asked authentication. I have found lot's of information about the credentials but nothing about WebBrowser. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Services - Checking Status, starting and stopping

  Hello, I am writing a program that requires me to stop the print spooler service in order to access the Printer Port according to Microsoft Article ID # 823179 !  I have no Idea yet, as to how to go about doing this.  I included a snippet from my program showing how I would start writing it, I thinks its OK, but I need the actual code to retrieve a status, start, and stop the Print Spooler Service. Public Function LP ...Show All

• Architecture A good second book about arquitecture

  Hello I have finished "pro scalable application in .net 2.0" which was nice. Now I want to read another book about architecture. What do you recomend I think Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software is a good option, do you know another Thanks. DDD is a good book - however it deals with a certain narrow aspect of architecture. I would recommend reading "Software Architecture in Practice&qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System JavaScript support in web test

  Hi, Just starting looking into the test tools in beta 2 and was surprised to see that the web test engine doesn't support JavaScript. Is JavaScript support planned at some point  If not, what is the rational behind the decision not to support. Thanks Mike Ed, We have a product that makes extensive use of the IE DOM through javascript so support for this is pretty high on our list of things we need from a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Creating a dll in C and then using it in Visual C# express

  Hi all, Does anyone have a solution to my problem. I have lots of functions that are programmed in C. I don't have the time or sufficient knowledge to convert the functions to C#. My only best bet is to convert all the functions to a .dll and reference it to a C# Windows application I am creating at the moment. I've tried building a .dll in MinGW..but no luck since there seems to be some incompatiblity. Please help. Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development unable to automatically step into the server

  with vs 2005, and wse 3.0 i try to connect a webservice from a client applicaiton. (i ran the kerberos sample that comes with the wse3.0 samples), i am unable to debug the application of the webservice. i get, "unable to automatically step into the server. The remote procedure could not be debugged. this usually indicates that debugging has not been enabled in the server." with this error i 'googled' and got informations that set ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setting Build Status

  I am writing a script that does NOT extend the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets file. Everything has gone well but I cannot get the logger in VSTS to report success. The build has definitely succeeded and the text log file says that it has too. I have tried calling the UpdateBuildFlag method on the BuildStore but with no success. I wondered whether it was because the "Initializing Build" step was still set to "In Progress&qu ...Show All

• Visual J# Visual J# no symbals loading

  my forms start up then shut down immediatly and i get the following messages: 'DefaultDomain': Loaded 'c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\mscorlib.dll', No symbols loaded. 'Project1': Loaded 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\Project1\bin\Debug\Project1.exe', Symbols loaded. 'Project1.exe': Loaded 'c:\windows\assembly\gac\vjslib\1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\vjslib.dll', No symbols loaded. 'Proj ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Accessing SQL Server Express

  I have just installed VB Express and SQL Server Express on a single machine. The installation and all subsequent actions have been performed thru a Windows User account that has Administrative priviledges. The installations proceeded normally with no error indications. I created a VB Project without problem but when I try to add a database I am not getting very far. 1. When I try adding a DB thru Project => Add New Item I get a message sayin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows form's Closing Event taking long time

  A windows form has 12 tab control’s pages. Mostly pages have a grid control, some .Net control (text box, combo box, label, and buttons) and user controls; on each tab we have a different DS. Popup windows are also open on some tabs. Some time when we visited the all tabs and fill all grids,   form closing event takes long time (40 - 50 sec). Actual the MyBase.Dispose method in Form generated code is taking this long time.  &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Loading Project items from MSBuild project file

  Hello all, Technology: VSIP SDK (I believe Aug or Sept build) with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 We have created a custom project deriving from Microsoft.VisualStudio.Package.ProjectFactory and have created our own custom project and folder nodes.  Programatically we have no problem adding these nodes to an open project and are adding ProjectElement(s) through " CreateMsBuildFileItem" to be included in the project ...Show All

• Visual C++ declared

  how and where do i declare a program that i want a button to run Hi James, Just like your other question: you need to be specifially more precise: 1) What exactly do you want to do 2) What have you laready tried yourself 3) What did not work or did not meet your expectations Ronald Laeremans Visual C++ team ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Spanish operating system.. XP Pro, need stuff in english...

  I bought my computer in Panama. It came with Windows XP PRO installed in spanish! (no english available). I speak spanish but have worked since 1968 in english. Does anyone know where is the "key to default" that makes everything come in spanish For example, I downloaded messenger in english, but when it came up it was in spanish... I have been able to individually change some programs, but not messenger... Help I wish I could change ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView -update

  Hi I'm new to C# after working 11 years withVB. I have visual c# 2005 beta on my system. I created the Dategrid View with the following code SqlConnection oSQLConn = new SqlConnection (); oSQLConn.ConnectionString = "Connection string " oSQLConn.Open();   SqlDataAdapter sqlDa = new SqlDataAdapter ( "select * from table1" , oSQLConn); //create dataset instance DataSet dSet = new DataSet (); //fill the dataset sql ...Show All