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• SQL Server Cannot shut down VS after using report designer

  Routinely when I use BIDS to work on a report design, I cannot close BIDS because I get a message box that says: Microsoft Visual Studio cannot shut down because a modal dialog is active. Close the active dialog and try again. Of course, there is no visible dialog open. I actually have to terminate the process from task manager. I do not get this problem when using SSIS or SSAS. Only SSRS. Any Ideas Thanks! BobP Myse ...Show All

• .NET Development Question about SqlString

  Hi there, I'm using the datatype System.Data.Common.SqlString to convert "normal" DateTime-values into SQL-compatible values. One thing irritates me: Method "ToSqlString()" always format the Year with 2 digits (yy/MM/dd). Is there any chance to change this behaviour so that ToSqlString() puts the year as a 4-digit number in the output Thank you. Reiner Were you calli ...Show All

• Visual C# How to change the backcolor of subitems in a listview programmatically?

  on form load i want to change the backcolor of subitems from different rows and columns in a listview, how do i do that Change the BackColor property of an item, that will change the BackColor of the entire row: listView1.Items[0].BackColor = Color.LightBlue; Similar effect will happen if you changed the BackColor of a SubItem: listView1.Items[0].SubItems[0].BackColor = Color.LightBlue; You can loop through it to change ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic 2005 Express Ed. BETA 2

  Hello. I was wondering if it's possible to get Visual Basic 2005 Express BETA 2 on CD without having to have a Credit Card in Australia. I have tried the manual and automatic downloads and they don't work for me at all, both at home (not connected to internet) and at work. (I couldn't use the automatic download at work due to me not having admin privleges) Thanks. Hello again I've just downloaded it. I had to split it into 5 pieces an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server -- Team Explorer Licensing?

  Hi, We are planning to deploy TFS for one of our small development groups. We will be using the following: - install Team Foundation Server on one server. - install Team Explorer on each developer workstation (15-20 developers). 50% of these developers are under MSDN subscription. - install Team Explorer Proxy on one server. I read the Team System Licensing Whitepaper, however, I have no idea on what all we would need to buy and h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I add a binary registry key to the registry?

  I am currently trying to add a key to the registry with: Dim location As String = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout" My .Computer.Registry.SetValue(location, "Scancode Map" , "00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,5b,e0,00,00,5c,e0,00,00,00,00" , Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind.Binary) but i get an error when I add the Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind.Bina ...Show All

• Windows Forms OnVisibleChanged quagmire

  I have a control that is becoming nonvisible and I cant seem to find the source. What I thought would be an easy problem to solve by hooking the OnVisibleChanged event, turns out to be a confusing and difficult problem. Hooking the controls OnVisibleChanged event did not allow me to determine when the control was being hidden. In fact, the event never fired (and the parent is visible). I understand a bit of the background that child controls do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Status of the 28100 error?

  I have installed the TFS B3 Refresh on a blank box following the instrauctions in TFSInstall-v51020.chm *exactly*. Adding the tfsservice and tfsreports to the local admin group works - but the error ever resolved or is it just a B3 Resfresh bug (I can live with that) - B3 installation worked fine. Jorgen Others have reported that the problem is that the service accounts don't have write access to the %windir%\temp directory, necessary for A ...Show All

• Visual C# Form changes from Designer view to code view - can't get back to designer view

  C# Express. Twice errors were reported in the IDE window and locked the IDE window up (from viewing anything but the error mesaages) and I had to close, then reopen, then recompile the .cs files to get the errors to go away. Errors were that certian objects, which had been created through the IDE, had not been declared when they had in fact been working just fine moments before. Both times the Designer.cs forms switched to code view.&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server missing notifications

  Hello, We are building a simple distributed application around the service broker where each queue is serviced from a windows service. We have a windows service running constantly as a "listener" on an event queue for each of what we call "request" queues. When a message is received by the request, the listener service instantiates a reader to process the request. As we are in development, things get out of sync at tim ...Show All

• Visual Studio Extending the Server Explorer

  I have made a code generation tool for use with our sql stored procedures and I want to make it easy to use from the IDE. Is there a way to add items to the context menu of the server explorer when you right click an item thanks, Josh this looks like its creates a menu item called "Server Explorer". What Im trying to do is create a menu item that appears when you right click on a stored procedure in the server explorer. I have tried to fin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  Everytime I check in a file, i get this message. What is this for Thanks, Ted This is unusual... I'm afraid I need more information on what your are doing to be able to analyze the problem. Is this message appears in VS or VSS What is exact message (including the title) Which version of VSS you are using Do you get this message on other operations or only on Check in Is this ony for ...Show All

• Windows Forms Making a button look like a combobox button... sort of

  Hi there I have a button that I want to look similar to the combobox drop down button. It needs to have the same background (as defined by Windows) but I want to replace the down arrow with something else. Is there a way to draw just the background I've already used ComboBoxRenderer.DrawBackground() and ScrollbarRenderer.DrawArrowButton() But they draw the forground as well. What I want it the lovely blue gradient backgr ...Show All

• SQL Server replication component missing error while installing Sql Mobile2005

  Hello i installed sql2005,first when I install it,it dont show SqlMobile option in available component lists,second when i install sqlce MSI file seprately,it searches for SQl Replication service and says its not installed,though its already installed on machine,i can install it anyway but why this message comes up did anyone else experience this thanks Yes SQL 2005 install does not show option but it install SQL Mobile. You should se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is there a way to delete Automatic Dependencies Setup Project

  Hi all, I am wondering is there a way in which we can stop automatic dependencies check in setup project. There is a reference which our project checks automatically which we need to remove permanentaly but it comes whenever we reload the project. --Gaurav ...Show All