gRoberts's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Will system written in VB.Net 2003 work with SQL 2005?

  Hi all, I have got a system written in VB.net 2003 and back end is SQL Server 2000. I am about to upgrade to VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 and i wanted to know whether my existing system will work with SQL 2005 and will SQL 2005 recognise SQL 2000 database Has anyone been in this kind of situation or how do i handle this transaction with minimum disruption. Regards Mits I have migrated several SQL 2k databases over to SQL 2k5. The only thing I've noticed is an occassional error in the Stored Procedure, usually it was something that for some reason SQL 2k allowed, or didn't catch ...Show All

• .NET Development What is the difference between SOAP, XML-RPC and REST type of webservices?

  I have observed there are three types of web services SOAP, XML - RPC and REST. Can anyone guide me regarding what they are and what is the difference between them Thanks in advance It's a long answer (and it will create along discussion) so le me start with something to open the discussions. SOAP is a transport independent messaging protocol that can be used in a very widely set of architectures. It uses XML as the formatting of the messages and it does not depends of any protocol. Since SOAP was mainly used over HTTP (I don't know if that's the real reason, so it's my impression) somebod ...Show All

• Windows Forms No Animals teleport to my machine.

  Hello there! I've already read a lot of these problems on other postes but none of the solutions seems to apply. I'm behind a firewall, the 50000 port is redirected to my machine and the redirection seems to be ok according to the online Port Scanner http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/port-scanner/ Port Scan <MyMachine> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:30:25 -0800 The host <MyMachine> h ...Show All

• Visual Basic Relase the Fix for Visual Basic Compiler Error &H8013141e&

  Hi all i just want to know when is going to be released the fix for visual basic compiler error &H8013141e&   this is already reported in the microsoft productfeedback site. i think this is a very urgent patch that must be released asap and please do not repond that i should go back to vs.2003 because i have lots of code developed in VS 2005 to framework 2.0 ..   JSB PS: this error pisses me of, i need to restart VS.IDE every 5 minutes. i think this is too bad for a recent relesase product ( its full of Bugs ).   Hi, João, This is a good opportunity (in the ...Show All

• .NET Development Row index and problems with deleted records

  I have two problems, I use Visual studio 2005 First i have filtered dataset, in DataGridView i se filtered data. Ockey then when i preseed my button i do delete data1.Table1.Rows[dataGridView1.SelectedRows[0].Index].Delete(); but this selected index is index of recorviewed in grid and not the right index coresponding to dataset, how can i get the right index so that i can delete the right record in my dataset ! Why is all this so complicated :( Second DataRow [] dr; dr = data1.Table1.Select( "" , "" , DataViewRowState .Deleted); why this is not working, i get no rows, but delete was made, than ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Automaticly updating charts in excel

  You guys (well mostly Derek) have been so helpful. I have everything but one thing working in my Excel file. I still can't get the charts to update when new information is put into the spreadsheet (I am using a form to fill in the cells with the data inputted). Now I have been basing all of this on a spreadsheet that already does this function. There is one major diffrence in that spreadsheet's charts and the one I am doing. The example is only using one line of data (line charts) where as mine has two or more on one chart. Here is what I have come up with using the other as an example. Sub ChartData() 'this sub is ca ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem running .NET application

  I am having problems running ndoc (I have two versions, both generate the same error; the one I would like to use is from http://jonas.lagerblad.com/blog/ ). When I try to run NDocConsole.exe, I get the following error: Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'NDoc.Core, Version=1.3.1851.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied. File name: 'NDoc.Core, Version=1.3.1851.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' ---> System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) at NDoc.ConsoleApplication.Entr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Having issues with Team Build

  I'm having some issues with this Team Build. The first one was I didn't have Team Build installed, so I have a computer beside me that I just re-did with Windows XP Pro, and just put team build on it. The main issue I have right now Is I cannot delete yesterday's "team Build" i created. Nor can I edit it. When I created it, I wanted to test to see how it worked so I set it up to build on my computer. However, now I can't change it at all, nor can I delete it. I see the XML, I try to save my changes, it tells me it's write protected, so I overwrite it. My changes do not save. Can anyone tell me how to delete this Buil ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums portal question ???

  i want to know http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/ which techonlogy used to design like this site is it sharepoint or another technology thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX: Assigns a new mesh causes auto Dispose()

  I'm going through the Software skinning method as a learning exercise & I'm at the GenerateSkinnedMesh step, when I had to do this: meshContainer.MeshData.Mesh = newMesh What I'm finding out is that MDX calls Dispose() for the Mesh that's there before assigning the newMesh to it. 1) This is a problem because that Mesh is being kept around in the OriginalMesh property for later use & SHOULD NOT be Dispose'd of, and 2) Is there a way to turn off this behavior If not, MDX is being pretty presumptuous here. This was reported to me recently internally as well, and it's something I'm looking at for th ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I create a working splash screen?

  Hello, I am wondering how can I create a simple but true working splash screen. I mean I don't want just to show a form for 1 or 2 seconds and hide it without loading anything!!! Please Help. Thanks. I'm pretty sure there's a splash screen available to add to projects in the IDE. However, it's so trivial, I do my own. It's just a form with no borders that's topmost. And once it's visible there's no reason for it to slow down the loading code. However, you would need to call Application.DoEvents often, or run the splash screen in another thread if you want it to keep looking good if it takes a long ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Releasing - does the DirectX version installed matter?

  Hi there. I have just finished a game and I would like to know the following. Currently I have only DirectX SDK February 2006 installed, but lets say the user has another version of DirectX installed, will it be able to run the game This is a 2D game. Do I need to install all the SDK versions so the game will work on all 9.0 version or what Do I have to do something like that so I can be sure the user only has to worry if he has DirectX 9.0 installed. I really don't want him to worry about anything else. It depends. If you are in C++/Native and you don't use d3dx then any version of DirectX 9.0c will have all the files you need. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office vsto2005

  i have vbasic express, sql server express and office 2003 proffessional, what else do i need to starting developing vsto2005 applications i have seen the products comparision page on microsoft site, but i dint understand. can u help me Hi, VSTO functionality is not included in Express products. You will need VSTO 2005 which is a full edition of Visual Studio - it means you have to buy the VSTO 2005 product or the VS Team System. Also, VSTO is included in some MSDN subscriptions. You can get more info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/vsto/default.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to create an extended worksheet from an external application (non-VSTO excel project)?

  Hi, Here's the setup: I have an excel add-in application and I want to leverage the new binding capabilities of the extended Worksheet hostItem. I cannot create an extended worksheet using CreateViewForWorksheet() described in http://blogs.officezealot.com/maarten/archive/2005/09/12/7979.aspx   and in Eric Lippert's new book, since I don't have the 'ThisWorkbook' to start with (and get the RunTimeCallback reference). Anyone hit the same issue (trying to marry the hostitems/hostcontrols to an Excel-addin project or any other), or does one always have to start with a Excel Workbook/Template VSTO template project Appreciate any opinion : ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error 1406 Installing Web Developer Express

  Successfully downloaded all 344 MB of the Visusl Web Developer Epress load (VWD, MSDN documentation, SQL Server Express) Encountered error in doing VWD setup using Windows Installer 3.1 in Win XP SP2 machine. (SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition has been sucessfully installed previously and is currently installed on the machine and the service was running). -------------------Error Message Box-------------------------------------- Title: Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Setup Message: Error 1406.Could not write value to key  \CLSID\{AC0714F7-3D04-11D1-AE7D-00A0C90F26F4}\ProdID.  Verify that you have sufficient ac ...Show All