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• ChiefW Create Connection and DataSet Using Express foe Web

  I have some experience with VSNET 2003 (VB) and have created numerous data driven web pages. I want to start moving to 2.0 and my first project is to create a web page in VWD 2005, set a connection to a SQL 2000 server, create a dataadapter/dataset and read in some selected data. I am lost! The help pages refer to the Server Explorer which doesn't appear to exist (I assume the database explorer is the equivalent ). The "How To" opens a page with ...Show All

• zzy A comment and suggestion

  I'm coming back to programming. It's been 8 years of more since I wrote any code. I think the the last C++ compiler I used was VC 4.0. Not sure. The VC++ 2005 GUI is just plain excellent! I can't believe what was accomplished with this. It is truly ingenius. The Help system overall is excellent, save for some errors that show out of date code or examples. Getting around everywhere -- the GUI and the Help -- is most excellent. However, one thing ...Show All

• DaTimelord Windows Media Player SDK Wizard in Visual C++ 2005 Express

  I'm having trouble installing the WMP 9 SDK Wizard into Visual C++ 2005 Express. It's supposed to "self-install" on Visual C++ .NET, but with Visual C++ 6.0 you have to copy the wizard file to \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin\IDE Neither of these worked for me. Is Visual C++ 2005 Express a .NET version or a standard version (5.0, 6.0, etc.) Is it possible to install the wizard with Visual C++ 2005 Express If so, how ...Show All

• Mr MTA Q: C# tutorials with samples?

  hi, when i was learning macromedia flash Actionscript i found lots of recources with examples and that was so helpfull and reduce the time for me you can for examples take a look to this site http://actionscript.org/tutorials.shtml is there anything like that for C# Best regards www.codeproject.com has lots of stuff. As for differences - lots of new controls, generics, partial classes, nullable types, anonymous methods, it ...Show All

• Nguyen Thai Hung Unable to decompress with GZipStream

  Hi everybody. I'm trying to modify the GZip compression code sample provided in the MSDN Express help for Visual Basic 2005, creating two methods. The first one compresses a file to a new compressed one, and the second should decompress the given filename to a new uncompressed one I'm using the GZip compression,provided in the System.IO.Compression namespace. I'm able to compress files in the way I like. But I cannot decompress.. I'm u ...Show All

• Syedi no visual studio template found

  I just installed the recently released Visual C# 2005 Express. When i tried to create a new project. I got this error message "no visual studio template found". I went to the "event viewer" in "Administrative Tools" to see the log. I found the message : "The Visual Studio template information is out of date. Regenerate the templates by running 'VWDExpress /installvstemplates' or reinstalling Visual Studio.  Note: corrective action requ ...Show All

• Bloke No 7 How do you detect an empty Cell in DataGridView?

  Hi Folks, Before updating the DataSet, how do you detect an empty Cell in a DGV I have a required field but can't detect a Null in the empty Field. I've tried lines like this trying to detect an empty cell in a DGV but getting nowhere fast: If DataGridview(1, index).Value = "" If IsDBNull(DataGridview(1, index)).Value If DataGridview(1, index).Value = Nothing If DataGridview(ColName, index).Value.ToString = Nothing I ca ...Show All

• Michael# Uninstalling Beta 2

  Hi all, I'm having trouble getting Visual Web Developer Express 2005 installed because I'm having problems uninstalling Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server Express (both Beta 2). I can't install the full new version until I get these off my computer. I try uninstalling it by going to the Add/Remove programs in the CP, but always get a message when I try and remove SQL Express or VWD Express that says that "Setup Failed." I then click ...Show All

• sohman Collection access in event handler (newbie)

  Hi I am making huge progress on my first program in Visual Basic Express, and have come to an abrupt stop. I have dynamically created a new Panel and dynamically populated it with a series of textboxes. Then I have filled each box successfully with desired text contents. These procedures work well and I can refill the textbox text properties at will. During the dynamic creation of the textboxes, I added each to a collection with: new ...Show All

• silvio_at Beta 2 totally unusable?

  Is this just my installation that has gone to pot I keep getting really freaky things. Opening an old project, my menus have disappeared. They are still in the code, but don't show in the design view of the form. Tried a sample project to double check my code against the automatically generated code. - created a new form - added a menu with a few menu items VS adds multiple definitions for each item. Manually deleting the additional items cras ...Show All

• Rajesh Govindasamy Taskbar Marquee

  Hey everyone. I'm in a bit of a bind. I'm trying to make the text in the taskbar area of my application marquee like Winamp does. I've been trying for a few days but have found no way of doing it. I've even tried searching Google, etc but still no leads to helping me accomplish this goal. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance. Your welcome and thank you for the intersting post. I'm going to "borrow ...Show All

• Tom Archer - MSFT About Combobox

  Hi friends. I'm newest user for Visual Studio 2005 VB, i couldn't find right way, I need some information. Sorry My English is not so good. I can explain so; I have one combobox, i connected that to my db(Access) There is so much Column, When i select somthing in Combobox i wish textbox show what a that row compoist for other column. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sno      ...Show All

• hiTTmaN error building application...

  Hi, I'm trying to build a simple winsock application and it is failing. I did a typical install. I'm pointing include to PSDK/include. I removed all framework references from project dirs. Still showing this ambiguity error. help. ------------------------- Compiling... c:\program files\microsoft platform sdk\include\servprov.h(93) : error C2872: 'IServiceProvider' : ambiguous symbol could be 'c:\program files\microsoft platform ...Show All

• pender Cannot get leftclick mouse_event to work

  Hi, I hope someone can help - I'm new to vb express and am looking for some code that will let me move the mouse pointer and perform a click of the left mouse button. I use the following code to reposition the cursor and perform a left click - I can get the mouse pointer to where I want, but running the leftclick() function generates a 'mouse_event has unbalanced the stack. This is likely because the managed PI Signature does not match the un ...Show All

• sushila error 2098

  When trying to install visual studio 2005 beta , I got error 2098 saying the file may be corupt and exited the installation. Any suggestions You cann't install Visual Studio with your corrupted installation file, so, download Visual Studio Express , it's free to download and free to registeration. You mentioned beta, the VS2005 are no longer in beta but released. Either you install the free express editi ...Show All