Ashok Debnath's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Setup VS 2005 RC from DVD stops and asks for Visual Studio 2005 DVD

  I created a DVD from the Visual Studio 2005 RC image file downloaded from MSDN subscriber downloads. The DVD is labelled "Visual Studio 2005". The DVD is 3.67 GB and contains the folders msdn, visio, vs and vss. When I try to install the product from this DVD on my PC it starts the installation of some components. After "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005" appears on the Installing components dialog a prompt box appears asking me to insert the "Visual Studio 2005 DVD". How can I solve this problem When installing from media, specific label names are required since the Windows Installer needs that informa ...Show All

• Visual C# invoking native code from c#

  Hi I have faced one problem on calling the native dll's functions from C# .Net coding.Actually i wrote one dll to control the Digital Multimeter in a remote programming mode through GPIB interface. Initially i have imported the win32 dll provided with GPIB driver in my coding and tried to send the data to the Digital Multimeter, Whenever i send the data, it throws this Exception " System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." , but i will send the data from VC++ application,its working fine. Is there any specific setti ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I delte work items?

  Is there a way to DELETE work items Say the pre-defined template for Agile puts in some items which I don't agree wish - and instead wish to start 'a fresh'. How do I go about deleting work items So that they would not pollute reports as being closed/completed - even though I did that - just to get rid of them! Thank you. I have responded about deleting work item in http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=327599&SiteID=1 . Please take a look and let me know if you need any more information or help in deleting work items. -Mohammad ...Show All

• Visual C++ std::string Construction

  I have created a standard C++ Win32 Console application in Visual Studio.NET 2005. The code is as follows:- // StdTest.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. // #include "stdafx.h" #include <string> int _tmain( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { std::string s( "Test" ); return 0; } Building and single stepping this code in Debug mode is fine and the variable s is correctly assigned as "Test". However, when in Release mode the string is corrupted. There seems to be 4 bytes that preceed the actual value. Any ideas I have not modified an ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can someone help a newbie please (Unicode text documents in VB.Net)

  Hello All First, I hope I'm in the right place, and if I am not I apologize. I am a newbie to Visual Basic.Net, and to programming in general. I had a little run with C programming years ago (DOS Days), but thats where it ends. So, with that said, I have set the mind set for this question. (I'm Green)  ;) I have been working through 3 &q ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System All Unit Tests abort immediately

  I've been using the TestManager extensively in Studio 2005 Team Version for months running dozens of unit tests as I develop. Recently, every time I try to run a unit test *in Debug mode*, it aborts immediately with no message. When I open the test results, all I get is this: Test Name: <test name> Result: Aborted Duration: 00:00:00 Computer Name... Start Time: 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM End Time: (the real date time) That's it. Not a word more. And ALL unit tests are doing this, even ones that used to run just fine. If I just run them, they run fine, but I absolutely cannot run them in Debug mode! Very bizzarr ...Show All

• SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server Setup Support Files (English) -- Installation failed

  I'm trying in vain to upgrade sql server 2000 to 2005 with great headache and pain. I (finally) have removed all Beta, and other incompatible version of .NET, Visual Studio and any other offending components, and made it to the first page of the install shield. The .NET 2.0 components installed fine - but I get a fatal error trying to install the SQL Server Set Support Files. I do have a log file - and have tired searching on the various error codes in it, but am coming up blank. Please advise - this is taking forever! sample of error msgs in log file: MSI (s) (B0:E0) [12:33:06:613]: Note: 1: 1935 2: 3: 0x8002802F 4: 5: Crea ...Show All

• SQL Server Best Oracle source provider?

  Hello, I am using a massive Oracle db in SSIS and am trying to figure out the best way to increase performance in moving data from this db to sql server.  As far as Oracle sources, which seem to have the best performance Thanks, Adrian Hello, We have built a super fast connector for Oracle for SSIS. We have been able to achieve about 30 times performance improvements over the OLEDB Oracle provider. E.g 1 million rows, we loaded in about 2:20 mins. Let me know if you are interested in beta bits. Regards Sidharth http://www.persistentsys.com siddossy@hotmail.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Graphical representation of branch/merge history

  Hi everyone, I don't have Beta2 installed yet and I couldn't find the information in blogs or other forums so I'm asking the question here: Is there any graphical representation of the file history as well as branch and merge visualization in VSTS source control similar to other source control such as cvs Thanks, for your help. Unfortunately, we won't have a GUI tool for this as part of the version 1 release.  We do have the branches command that can be used with the command line interface, h.exe (for example, "h branches rev5" to see its branch history).  Similarly, there is a merges command to show merge hist ...Show All

• Windows Forms compilers

  I have done a project in vb.net windows form, I did use thinstall before to compile the project, but now it has expired and does not work anymore, I am looking for a freeware compiler or online compiler, I did load .net framework on my home pc, but the project exe file does not work, it only works if I compile the project and then&n ...Show All

• SQL Server Unattended installation woes

  Hi, I have tried to do a new SQL 2005 install via an unattended install script. I have tried both a modified version of the template.ini and just from the command line. The installation starts and successfully installs some of the components I have selected through the ADDLOCAL option. Unfortunately it then reports an execution error and exits. The errors I find in the install log files are as follows... SQLSetup..._Core.log: Error: Action "LaunchLocalBootstrapAction" threw an exception during execution. Error information reported during run: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\setup.exe&qu ...Show All

• Windows Forms Progress Bar in StatusBar control issue

  I am using the code below to create a Progress bar in my status bar on my MDI parent form.  The code works well.  However, when it is finished I want to reset the progress panel to its original state and cannot figure out how to do it.  How do I get the panel's color back to windows gray.  Any ideas Thanks, Mike //**************Cod ...Show All

• Visual C# DataGridView and Autonumber

  Hey guys, I noticed that each time I insert a record in the DataGridView, I must fill out the ID column (primary key) as well. I have it set to autonumber in Access, and when I fill in data some other way it works, however in the DGView I have to fill it out manually or it will throw an Exception. Any Ideas Thanks! Hi Check that the primary key Column AutoIncrement property is set to true. Like dgV.Columns["PK_ColumnName"].AutoIncrement = true; Thanks ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Why no help support in VS2k5 for PocketPC?

  I am converting an application from eVC4 to VC2k5. _WIN32_WCE_NO_HELP_SUPPORT is defined, which makes ON_HELPINFO disappear. Why was help support removed from VS 2k5 when targetting CE The Application Wizard also disables the "Help Support" check box when creating a new application. Am I doing something wrong JAB c:\foo\foo\foo.h(31) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'HELPINFO' foo.cpp c:\foo\foo\foo.h(31) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'HELPINFO' .\foo.cpp(30) : error C3861: 'ON_WM_HELPINFO': identifier not found .\foo.cpp(31) : error C2143: syntax error : missing '}' before '{' .\foo.cpp(31) : erro ...Show All

• SQL Server Index Searches/sec activity

  Why is there frequent Index Searches/sec activity when there isn't activity on the SQL Server 2005 machine This counter spikes at about 70 approximately every second. Typically this is due to the SQL Server background tasks such as index ghost record cleanup task or service broker background task. They usually scan the metadata which causes index activities. Thanks Mirek ...Show All