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Well, that was short-levied... NEWID() is out, since the sequence number has a fixed-width of 8 chars... argh!! if at first you don't succeed, get a 10lb lump hammer

I was looking throught the help section and came accross IDENTITY(), i yey'd with joy. Then i saw it could only be used to SELECT...INTO, and all was not well. I'll give NEWID() a try - but i'll have to check if it has to be incremental or just unique... And i can mess with user defined...

Hi, I'm running SQL 2000. I have a view that needs to have basically the same as an table identity auto-matic incrementing field. I have tried using the quick-but-nasty Count(*) method, but that doesn't work since my view is based on many tables. Also, I cannot import the data from the view...

There's the context menu, but that just seems to create a run-time only menu with things like cut & paste & select all options on it... if at first you don't succeed, get a 10lb lump hammer

Is there a way in VB.NET for me add add an extra item to the design-time right-click menu?? Basically I would like a programmer to dump my control onto their form, right-click on it and get a 'Configure' item as well as all the normal menu items, that will open a form in my control. TIA...

Is there a way in VB.NET for me add add an extra item to the design-time right-click menu?? Basically I would like a programmer to dump my control onto their form, right-click on it and get a 'Configure' item as well as all the normal menu items, that will open a form in my control. TIA...

OK, this is giving me some odd results (such as if you try to resize it using the top resize box, it simply moves the control up. Is there a way that putting the control on the form and simply not allowing to to be resized vertically?? if at first you don't succeed, get a 10lb lump hammer

Hi, I'm making a custom crtol and i need it to only have a resizeable width. I handle the base Resize event with this code Private Sub OBControl_Resize(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Resize Me.txtPart.Width = Me.Width Me.cmbPart.Width = Me.Width...

Oooh, the big question!! What is the deal with all the different Linux distros!! Everyone will have their favorite and for desktop usage, mine is SuSE. But I did go through about 5 different version of different distros before I settled. Best advice I could give you is suck 'em and see. For a...

/me kicks self How many times do i tell friends and family to check for the latest versions of drivers?? ugh!! So, I updated the BIOS and loaded the new driver disk and things went very nicly indeed... Typical!! Thx to all, i will be LARTing myself as punishment. if at first you don't...

Hmm, I have a couple of Maxtor 30Gb ATA133 7200rpm drives... But if it was a HDD jumper setting then surly the RAID card would refuse to acknowledge the drives?? Worth a try, but i dont wanna have to re-create my array either as Linux is working quite happily and we know what a stickler for...

After chaging the boot order I still get the W2K pro stalling when trying to setup after loading all the drivers. I even left i for half an hour to make sure it wasn't just my impatience, but alas the HDD led came on and did not go off as usual and installation hung. Cheers anyways, any other...

The TX2000 is an IDE card, does it emulate SCSI?? I am currently booting into Linux fine, so I don't think it's any of my BIOS setting, but I'll go ahead and give them a try anyways... I'll set the boot order to CDROM,SCSI,A... if at first you don't succeed, get a 10lb lump hammer

OK, my HDDs are on a IDE-RAID 0 (stripe) set up, Fastrack TX2000 PCI card (dual ATA133). I have no HDDs on my mobo IDE ports, just two CDRW\DVDs, Zip250 & Seagate Travan tape drive. I also currently have a linux & win98 setup, what i was gonna do is during the w2k pro installation, reformat my...

OK thx I'll work on this and get back to here if i get stuck. which i envariably will... thx again. if at first you don't succeed, get a 10lb lump hammer

Hi all. I'm making a custom combobox and for ease of use deriving my ccontrol directly from the ComboBox class. Is there any way I can access the button part of the combobox in order to show\hide it (ie if there are no list items, then hide the dropdown button). If it's a no then i'm gonna have...

Hi all. I'm making a custom combobox and for ease of use deriving my ccontrol directly from the ComboBox class. Is there any way I can access the button part of the combobox in order to show\hide it (ie if there are no list items, then hide the dropdown button). If it's a no then i'm gonna have...

Sorry, should have been clearer.. The control I am building inherits the combo box class since i thought it would save a lot of time to just tweak the combo box to my needs... if at first you don't succeed, get a 10lb lump hammer

But what is the drop-down button of the combo box called?? if at first you don't succeed, get a 10lb lump hammer

I am sorry, but it appears i am talking out of my ass. VB.Net does allow comparisons like that. Is the logic human-related or is the code looking at whether 12 is 'true'?? eugh - it's friday, my brain is mush. TJ if at first you don't succeed, get a 10lb lump hammer