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• Visual Studio Express Editions reformat reinstall

  I just had to reinstall windows and when I re installed express it wont take my registration key. I tried to revist link in confirmation email but wont take the key. any help in how to get it registered would be great. The Express registration process binds the key to your machine and user account... when you formatted you nuked that user account causing the key to be worthless. Thankfully with the Express Editions free and likely expected to remain that way you can simply register your newly installed copy to get a new key. ...Show All

• .NET Development unable to consume web-service on .NET2005 (though its working in 2003)

  hey, i have a problem consuming a web reference on the VS.NET2005, im getting errors refering to- Reference.map Settings.settings the errors are about not recognizing elements in the namespace. this is weird because i succesfully comsumed this WS in .NET2003. any ideas naama Please post this in the WebServices forum. There could be some changes and there may be some workarounds. In any case the web services guys are the right people to help. In the mean time, it does not hurt to be ready with a netmon trace. http://blogs.msdn.com/dgorti ...Show All

• Visual Basic How get the difference of TIME

    I have a problem on how to get the difference of time (09:24:00 PM - 09:00:00 PM)   Is there any way to solve this Can u help me please:(   I am using Visual Basic 2005 for this program, how can i do this You can use either the DateDiff function or the TimeSpan structure.  I've included a simple example of each:         Dim d As Long         d = DateDiff(DateInterval.Minute, #9:00:00 PM#, #9:24:00 PM#)         MsgBox( "The difference is " & d.ToSt ...Show All

• .NET Development Application server, why?

  My manager wants me to know why we should have an application server in our web app. Currently, our web app talks directly to SQL Server. What are some of the pros and cons of having an application server (generally speaking) --SY I'm having a hard time figuring what or why you want it. For a Windows Application it would be good to have all the data centered at one place. But a web application is already centered at one place, unless you have multiple site (app) fetching the same data. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ASP.NET WS Workflow - raising events in beta 2 - web.config file setup????

  Hi guys, I'm in the process of migrating some WF Beta1 to WF Beta2. I've currently got a WS that exposes a Sequential WF (ran the WS Publishing Wizard on this). In Beta 1 - I could happily add my Custom EventService to the Web.Config Runtime, Services section (saves instantiating in code etc - no good for a WS) In Beta 2 - I've noticed we have to wrap EventService objects in ExternalDataExchangeService (from memory). Question of the day: How can I specify this in Web.Config Cheers, Mick. Mick, This is a known issue, and unfortunately, in Beta2, you cannot specify ExternalDataExchange services in the web.co ...Show All

• SQL Server VS2005 --> sqlExpress via the IDE

  hiya, When I try to add an sqlExpress connection via VS2005 the "serverName" dropdown displays "machineName"..I select my machineName and test the connection. It won't connect.It doesn't connect when i try "machineName/SQLEXPRESS" either. It DOES connect when I use ".\sqlexpress" Why, in the "serverName" dropdown , does it display invalid server names Is this a bug Maybe I need to perform some kind of "reset" many thanks, yogi I've been doing some stuff with sqlExpress, detaching a user table.MDF and using it within a win 2.0 app. ...Show All

• SQL Server Breakpoint doesn't work

  I've got a breakpoint in a script task. The script task executes successfully but doesn't break. Short and sweet this one. Anyone any idea why it might not -Jamie SSIS does not currently support breakpoints in script components. You will need to put some logging information in your script component see my post http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/simons/archive/2005/08/03/SSIS_Script_Component_Debugging.aspx ...Show All

• .NET Development HttpWebRequest and SSL

  I need to communicate with a web server using https just as a browser would.  What steps are necessary to achieve this using HttpWebRequest, is it as simple as the URI beginning with 'https://' or do I need to supply some credentials of some kind   I dont have a certificate myself (the server does) so I wont be using client authentication but I assume this is how browsers operate.  Will data be encrypted in both directions using https Also, is there a simple way to check that information is being sent encrypted   I'd like to double check that the encryption is happening OK before I start sending credit card details over ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS Query from VBScript or COM

  I'm looking at integrating WDS functionality with an existing application and have been trying to call the ExecuteQuery from VB6 but am having problems. Does anyone else have some example code that they've managed to get working I've worked out that passing empty strings seems to case issues and am passing null references instead but am getting some errors raised ("Inv. Proc. Call"). This is for a small quick research project to decide between WDS and GDS so any suggestions would be very gratefully accepted! Many Thanks, John I'm not really a VB6 or VBScript expert, but I think this ...Show All

• Visual C# Size of an extra reference to an object.

  Hello, I was wondering. If I am using Win XP 32bit, and Visual studio 2005 how much extra memory does a refernce to an object take I.e: MyClass object1 = new MyClass(); MyClass object2 = object1;   How much extra space does object2 take here Is it just 32 bit Or does it hold a lot of extra infor like reference type and so on too. I need to know this 100% sure. Thanks in advance. - OO - Thanks for the info. Since this is just for a 3D demo for GDI+ I think I will try and hope that it is 4bytes all the time. If this was an app I made for someone else or to sell, then I wouldn't have trusted it lik ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions When I assign x = y and then later change x, y is getting changed

  My subject line is a simplistic summary of my real problem. I am a new programmer to Visual Basic, with prior experience in main frame structured programming in PL/I, so I have not tried to use the object oriented principles in my first program. Here is the pertinent parts of the code where I have problems: Public Class Form1 Structure SudokuBox Dim Answer As String Dim NumPossible As Integer Dim Square As Integer Dim Possibles As String End Structure Dim ScreenArray(8, 8) As SudokuBox Dim SaveArray(8, 8) As SudokuBox Etc Private Sub TryAPossibility() SaveArray = ScreenArray Call GetPossibi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem in changing the System.AreaPath Field in Work Item.

    Hi, We customized the MSF Agile Template according to our project requirement. Now when we create a new Work Item we now want to make the "Area Path" field to accept the values from given by the user who is going to create the work item. But the problem is that it is by default displaying the project name in that field and if the user  want's to changes the value it is not allowing him to do. We placed the following statment in the following way in our WorkItem Types for this field.  <FIELD name="Area Path" refname="System.AreaPath" type="TreePath"/> We want this "Area Path" field to be a mandatory fi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using Inputbox as password Entry

  Hello all first time post on this forum been using VBA for some time and i got so much help there i figure it's worth a go :). i have been asked to make a form password entry but cant use a text box as it's opened from an MDI parent form so no main screen to speak of as such, my problem is at current the password works fine as shown below its basic stuff. If InputBox( "Please Enter Administration Password." _ , "Password Entry" , "" ) = "trafficlight" Then 'Close current frmMDIChild and set the new form frmMDIChild.Close() frmMDIChild = New frmAdmin 'Set the Parent For ...Show All

• SQL Server Trans Replication Works Under certain conditions.

  I have 2 SQL 2000 servers (both have SP4) and are running on Win2003 SP1. We will call them SQL1 and SQL2. SQL1 is the publisher and distributor for trans replication, SQL2 is the subscriber with immediate updating, and queued updating as failover. I configured the publisher and subscriber. The snapshot replicates fine to the subscriber and all the agents are working fine. There is only 1 table article configured for replication. Let's say I am trying to update a single row. I can make as many updates on this row to the publisher as I want and they all replicate just fine to the subscriber. (Note: an update to publisher row cause ...Show All

• Visual Basic showing a disposed form

  i keep getting a message for the code: Option Explicit On form2 as new form2 Private Sub menuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As _ System.Object,ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles _ viewhelp.Click help.Show() End Sub that says "cannot access a disposed object named 'help'". how does that work sonny jim oops, never mind, it's: Private Sub menuItem1_Click(...) Dim form2 as new form2 form2.show() End Sub of course; no global instancing. ...Show All