Donna46502's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to update a property size change in the database back to the dataset.

  I am new at this! I have 2 forms. I have linked the forms to a database.I ran the application and found that the "City" field was a Nvar (10) and it should be a nvarch (50). I went back to the database and changed the property. I ran the application again and found the same problem. How do I update the properties change in the database back to the dataset hi, double click your dataset in your solution explorer it will open the design view then select the field that you want and go to properties tab and change the size Hope tht helps ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Designer Text

  In the designer is there a setting to show the decription instead of the Name in the diagram. It would read a lot better with the descriptions instead of the names. well we are not in production yet so that should be a trivial feature to add. these could be printed out and handed in as documentation if they just showed the description (text with spaces in it) instead of fixed width boxes. how does one get this info to the dev group ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS MSSCCI Provider Final fails to install

  I have downloaded the latest MSSCCI provider for Team Foundation Server that was published today. The .MSI is about 1.06mb. I am able to complete most of the installation but during the last few percent a message appears with the following error: "The cabinet file '_DE4122DA27BBE897D870DBB37A5A532C' required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the CD-ROM, or a problem with this package." I have tried installing a few times on different machines. I have also tried re-downloading a few times from different machines with different browsers. The download page ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with databases

  Hi I have a database with about 20 columns one of which is vehicleNumber and one of which is temperature. I have many different vehicleNumbers. When the user types a vehicleNumber into a text box I need to collect all the temperatures for that vehicle and find the average temperature. I am not using SQL, I'm using an access database with the dataset and all that. I found a little information suggesting a dataview. Can anyone help me Just to visualize here is a shortened example of my database: VehNum Temp 123 73 456 68 123 83 456 79 123 81 456 72 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS 2005 beta2 - Referenced package not found

  I have just installed VS 2005 beta2. I created a smartphone application with a simple textbox and when I try to run (F5) using emulator I get a deploy error. The output log shows: SMP1 -> C:\dev\SMP1\SMP1\bin\Debug\SMP1.exe ------ Deploy started: Project: SMP1, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------ Referenced package not found. ========== Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ========== ========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ========== Any ideas Hi, try to rename directory C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Application Dat ...Show All

• Windows Forms Databinding to a combobox... strange

  Hey, I want to bind some data from my sqldatabase to a combobox in my form. When i try this, it doens't work; i get this exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object It's strange, because I use the same code for a toolstripcombobox (other names, other table) but the code works. This is my code, if someone can tell me what wrong... thanks! query = "EXECUTE getToBeSolvedIn" ; IDataAdapter ida = dat.GetAdapter(query); ida.TableMappings.Add( "Table" , "ToBeSolved" ); ida.Fill(ds); //gives me the correct number of columns and rows, so the table i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SQL Express free or not?

  Hi All,   I am really happy to hear and read from microsoft websites and also press release that a free edition of SQL Express 2005 will be made available for novice programmers like me. But when I heard that you are required to pay RM700 per user for the SQL Express, I am basically dumbfounded! Could anyone please explain to me how does the 'FREE' term works for SQL Express Does this mean that you can install the SQL Express for free but you cannot legally use it because you will need to purchase user license to access to it Would really appreciate if someone can explain to me how this works From what I understand from microsoft webs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Signing Assemblies with InternalsVisibleTo

  I have a number of assemblies that use the InternalsVisibleTo attribute. For example: MyProject\AssemblyInfo.cs [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("MyServices")] When I try to sign the MyProject assembly, I get an error: error CS1726: Friend assembly reference MyServices' is invalid. Strong-name signed assemblies must specify a public key token in their InternalsVisibleTo declarations." So, I add the PublicKeyToken value to the assembly name: MyProject\AssemblyInfo.cs [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("MyServices, PublicKeyToken=aaabbbcccdddeee")] This allows MyP ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Can I use the SAM to authenticate my users ??

  We currently market a client server system which uses a text based dialogue over TCPIP. It authenticates itself using a locally implemented form of CHAP, to avoid passing the password over the network.  This obviously requires that the our server maintains an account database holding login IDs and hashed passwords. What we would like to be able to do away with our local database and authenticate our client login details against the SAM database on the machine that the server is running. Is this possible It occurs to me that if the server needs to call local APIs to hash a password or use the password directly then it will need to be ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hiding a window during startup

  Hi all,     I need to hide my window during startup. Unfortunately I could not find a way to do it.     Setting this.Visible = false in Constructor on OnLoad event are not working. The window is shown and then it is hidden making a flashing effect during startup.     I tried few workarounds like ShowInTaskbar = false and Window ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Modifying canned reports

  I am trying to the rdl from the Team Systems report services site and the rdl before I switch to data view runs fine, but once I switch the report to data view. I have both connections that the server uses and checked permissions and all that seems fine. Is there any info any where to let me know how to properly setup a development environment to be able to properly modify and make variations of the canned reports I seem to be pretty close, probably something simple. thanks in advance for any help. I would guess that it has something to do with the parameter values.  To set up a developement environment ...Show All

• Visual Basic Socket Encoding and Decoding using Ascii Encoding

  Hi All fairly new to VB .Net and have been trying to port code from vb6. I have picked up the sample application for sockets and my problem is I have a string which come come in with binary data packed as bytes i.e 10101010101001 and the bytes would appear as .>D.... .. .B..." compressed bitmap. It would now appear that I cannot see the full string I have some characters missing and when I read through the data and build a response I cannot pack the binary data to its original state. Can Any one give me any pointers as to where I am going wrong. Sample Code for getting stream state.sb.Append(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII. ...Show All

• .NET Development Failed to access IIS metabase, VS2005 RC

  I am developing a webservice in Visual Studio RC. I have just got a new pc and my problem is that I am not able to access this webservice. I have created a virtual directory in IIS, but if I try to browse there, I get a "Failed to acces IIS metabase" error message. Does anybody know how I can resolve this problem 1) Is IIS installed on the machine (From a command prompt NET START - Is IIS Admin service present in the list) 2) Is ASP.NET installed  - Run aspnet_iisreg.exe /lv from the VS command line prompt 3) For 2) is the default install for ASP.NET v2.0 as opposed to v1.1 ( the running version is marked with ...Show All

• Visual C# Get Random Row From Table

  Hello. All other questions that was before i solve. Thank you all for ideas. Taday i have other problem :)   i have Table "PLAYERS" i want receive only one row from it but it must be randomly choosed AND obey special createrias (Field1 equel to 1 , Field2 more than 76 something like this) before i used dataset and it was easy DataRow [] NotPlaying = dataSet11.Tables["PLAYERS"].Select(Creteria ); if (NotPlaying.GetLength(0) != 0) { Random d = new Random(); int number = d.Next(0,NotPlaying.GetLength(0)); NotPlaying[number]; // this was randomly choosed row in a set of valid rows   }   BUT now i do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Ordering Feature ?

  I could not find ordering a diagram in the class diagram like "send to back" or "bring to front", does class diagram even have this features Class Designer does not support this functionality in Visual Studio 2005. You might want to try Class Designer PowerToys add-in available at http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx id=fe72608b-2b28-4cc1-9866-ea6f805f45f3 - it enables that command. Regards Dmitriy Vasyura [MSFT] ...Show All