I would like to know if there is a way to check from code if there is any instance of sql server 2005 on the local machine running in order to use it to create a new database. Thanks in advance From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

I have written a program that access an sql server 2000 database installed on a windows 2003 server machine. Sql server is setup with integrated security and i don't want to change this. if i install my app in a computer that is a member of the domain and logins windows with the credentials of a windows server user account works good. Is there anyway from a computer that is on the same network that logins using a local windows account and does not have access to network resources access sql server? the result i want to have is :asking username and password for a windows 2003 server user account within my app and authenticate the user against windows server when the user wants to access the db. Thanks in advance From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

I have written a program that access an sql server 2000 database installed on a windows 2003 server machine. Sql server is setup with integrated security and i don't want to change this. if i install my app in a computer that is a member of the domain and logins windows with the credentials of a windows server user account works good. Is there anyway from a computer that is on the same network that logins using a local windows account and does not have access to network resources access sql server? the result i want to have is :asking username and password for a windows 2003 server user account within my app and authenticate the user against windows server when the user wants to access the db. Thanks in advance From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

I have written a program that access an sql server 2000 database installed on a windows 2003 server machine. Sql server is setup with integrated security and i don't want to change this. if i install my app in a computer that is a member of the domain and logins windows with the credentials of a windows server user account works good. Is there anyway from a computer that is on the same network that logins using a local windows account and does not have access to network resources access sql server? the result i want to have is :asking username and password for a windows 2003 server user account within my app and authenticate the user against windows server when the user wants to access the db. Thanks in advance From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

i would like to live in italy and especially in florence, i lived there for four years and is very nice!! From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

how can i vote for the mobile devices competition? i am looking the site but i cannot find the articles that are in this competition. thanks From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

I ,finally after lot of search, found what is the problem. It's a bug in office XP and office 2003. When you have installed the english version of office and you regional settings are not the same then you cannot call some functions, especially in Excel, and you have to use InvokeVerb so you tell with what exactly Culture Info you want to call the method. I lost really lot of time searching for this. By the way in office 2003 the PIA work good, you don't have to do the copy you have told, in Office XP there is this problem. Thanks a lot From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

Could you explain what exactly i have to do, i have to copy the assemblies in my runtime directory form %WINDIR%\assembly\gac and then add a reference to them thru the .NET tab and not the COM tab? I really appreciate your help From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

I am trying to write some data to excel 2003 from C#. I installed windows xp on a machine,visual studio.net and office 2003 from scratch to be sure everything is ok. I also install of course .NET programmability support for the office I write in C#: Excel.Application app = new Excel.Application(); app.visible=true; app.Workbooks.Open("c:/data.xls", System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value, System.Reflection.Missing.Value) when i run it the first two lines work good and when it goes to the Open function a COMException come up telling me "old format or invalid type library", i also tried _Open function but the same thing happened. If i use an event in the Application object everything works fine,it crashes only when i go to the Workbooks property. PLEASE HELP From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

Does anybody know if a c# program can run in 64 bit mode on Windows XP 64bit edition or Windows server 2003 64bit. I have some customers that have AMD Athlon 64 and asking me! From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

I am really sorry if my answer was not reasonable. I have seen your code and it is really excellent! But lot of times and i mean (lot of times) i have installed a product of mine which worked perfectly in all of the previous installations on a computer and simply on that computer didn't play, after lot of time on debuging my code for the problem i have seen, i found that the user has deleted some keys from the registry himself :(( and this was the problem!!!!!! My answer was not a programming one and i am sorry, but it is true that sometimes you need to go that way!!! From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

Format and reinstall windows 2000 on the laptop :) !!! Most users play with the settings of the windows and they end up with a windows operating system missfunctioning From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

The thing you want to do, i think is done more easily in that way. Once the user want to change your playlist immediately you go and update the file you are writing. The other form will use a filesystemwatcher component so that once it sees that the file you want changed he will go and update the view of the playlist. If you want to do the thing you are saying you will have to mark the writeQ method as public and when you create the viewer form pass a variable of type MainPlayer with the mainform in it in the constructor and store this variable as a member and call the function writeQ in it. From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

try this article (http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/twaindotnet.asp?target=scanner). It is good enough to do what you want. There is another one in msdn but is more complicated. If you need all of the functionality of a scanner you have to build something custom. From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

the soaphttpclientprotocol class that the your proxy class derive from has the url property which you can use to do what you want, you can view also the code of the proxy and modify this thing within the derived class. From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

I have tried in a program to serialize the PrinterSettings class using the BinaryFormatter but an error come up saying that tristate is not serializable even if the PrinterSettings class is serializable.Does anybody know how can i overcome this problem Thanks in advance From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

Does anybody knows how can i create a report programmatically with any fields i want in it and from any source i want? I have searched a lot for any package with such features but i have not finded any. thanks a lot From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

I would like to be the CEO.:) From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

for questions see System.Windows.Forms.DataGridTableStyle and DataGridColumnStyle, this two things are grid properties so you don't have to knoe the source (if the source edit TableStyles then you are in trouble) if you don't have the Datatable to which the grid is binded you don't have any direct way to find the columns. From Greece: Dimitris Iliopoulos dimilio@yahoo.com

The solution i am going to tell you is what are you going to do with the source code NOT WITH THE DB, which is a bit more difficut. let's say n is the number of the columns. System.datatable newtable = new Syste.Data.DataTable(); string colname; for(int a=0;i