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• SQL Server uniqueidentifier update question

  Hi all I am written a script to update the customer db, it is 99% done apart from this. The information is sorted in a temporary table where I then update two tables, customers and contacts. The uniqueidentifier field is an nvarchar in my temp table as I am extracting it from a txt file, when I go to update the customer table all ok apart from the fact I can’t update this field: Server: Msg 8169, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Syntax erro ...Show All

• SQL Server OLAP cube format

  Can the reporing services read the cube definitions (backcolor,forecolor etc.) the MDX contanins the " CELL PROPERTIES VALUE, FORMATTED_VALUE, CELL_ORDINAL, FORE_COLOR, BACK_COLOR, FONT_FLAGS " clause. Thank you Are you using RS 2005 If yes, you can access these so-called AS member properties by using e.g. =Fields!Measure1. BackgroundColor Here is a list of predefined new field properties th ...Show All

• Visual C++ TIME CONVERSION BUG

  // TimeConstructionBug.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. // #include "stdafx.h" #include "ATLComTime.h"   int _tmain( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { COleDateTime a(2006, 12, 1, 17, 0, 0); SYSTEMTIME b; a.GetAsSystemTime(b); FILETIME c; ::SystemTimeToFileTime(&b, &c); COleDateTime d(c); CString startTime(a.Format()); CString endTime(d.Format()); printf( " ...Show All

• Visual Studio Disabling the 'cannot edit while running' MsgBox in VS2005

  Hello, I'm the developer of ViEmu , an add-in which provides vi/vim emulation for VS.NET 2003 and VS2005. I want to ask for advice on an issue with VS2005 (not with 2003). The vi/vim input model employs regular keys as movement actions, for example, 'j' means cursor down, 'k' means move up, and for instance, '3w' means move to the beginning of the third word to the right. I have a problem with VS2005, when viewing a file while the applicatio ...Show All

• Visual C# trace of function call

  hi, how can i trace source (class or namespace) of function call inside of code Here's a code snippet System.Diagnostics.StackTrace trace = new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace(); System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(trace.FrameCount > 0); Console.WriteLine(trace.GetFrame(0).GetMethod().Name);   This will give you the Method name in which the code is currently executing. trace.GetFrame(0).GetMethod().DeclaringType.Namespace &nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms In the form designer I can't access objects which are on an other form.

  how can I access an object being declared on an other form in design time in visual studio .NET For example I have a grid on one form and I wanted to set its datasource to a DataSet table being on an other form. And I also wanted to refer to an image list which is also on the other form. But, I can't. I wanted to do it in design time! Can anybody help me Oh, All my objects are listed at the bottom of the page in the code view. They are p ...Show All

• .NET Development How to select XmlDocument root node with XPath slash "/"?

  XPath reference says that "/" returns the root node.  However, I can't seem to get it to work. Take the following as an example XML file: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <employees>     <employee>         <firstname>John</firstname>         <lastname>Doe</lastname>     </employee>     <employee>     & ...Show All

• Visual C# AODV implementation

  what name spaces and library classes are used for the implementation of Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocole. thx I want to implement AODV in C# what short steps with in a month that i could adopt for it implementation of aodv. cause it is my final project. thx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions DateTimePicker - non-English characters

  I have a small program where in one element the user selects the date from a DateTimePicker control. This date is then used as part of a file name in the format "23May2006". Recently the program was installed on a PC that had Chinese language Windows XP installed and the month part of the date was changed into what I assume were Chinese characters. Does anyone know how I can force the output to remain in 'English' characters. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office graphs links

  I have an application that manages Excel - word document pairs with Excel graphs linked from Word/powerpoint. How can I (from C# or VB) break (manage) the links I tried to record a macro to remove all links, but the generated macro is empty. Embedded Excel charts in a Word document are accessible in the Word object model via the InlineShapes or Shapes collection off of the Document object. Each chart embedded in Word is represent ...Show All

• Windows Forms Format phone number

  Hello, I have a text field where the user types in a telephone number. When the user is done typing the number and the text field loses its focus I need to take whatever the user typed and format it to a standard format. i.e. ###-###-#### If a user types 1234567890  I need it to change to 123-456-7890.  Any ideas on how to do this or examples Thanks! The user will enter in different formats of a phone number. Two ways to ...Show All

• Visual Basic Console Application

  Is it possible to get right click menu on the console so users can paste If you right click on the bar along the top of a console window, there is an edit menu, which has a paste option. Otherwise, no. Your console app does not have a message pump to process mouse messages. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem solved

  It appears that when I close the lid on my laptop, my program receives a DeviceLost message, but the program never receives the DeviceReset message after the laptop is re-opened.  The same thing seems to happen when the screen saver runs. Any suggestions Thanks, Jeremy P.S.  The source code is here: http://gosub.com/OpenSource/DirectXControl/DirectXControl.htm (it's a free DirectX control) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office how to turn off outlook security warning dialog box using C#

  Hi, How can one get rid off the  Security Warning dialog box which pops up when you try to access a property of ContactItem in Outlook 2003 I'm using Visual Studio Team Suite Beta 2, Microsoft Outlook 11.0 Object Library, Outlook 2003. I've written a webform to get the list of contacts and display it in a listbox. But everytime the webform loads, an outlook security dialog box pops up. I'm not sure if this is the right forum but ...Show All

• SQL Server SP1 ships

  Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp1.mspx Thanks, Mark The link for the download on that page goes to the link http://www.microsoft.com/sql/tbd , which doesn't exist, and gives a 404 error. I assume "tbd" means To Be Decided. Has it really been released yet It'd also be good if it was possible to install this via Windows Update, but apparantly the technology doesn't yet exist to do this. See here for details: http:/ ...Show All