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• Visual Studio Express Editions Where exactly is MSDN Express Library?

  Does anyone know the link for the MSDN Express Library  I downloaded all the VS and SQL express editions but I can't seem to find where we're supposed to be dowloading the documentation. The Express home page mentions "optional components like the MSDN Express Library" but doesn't have a link to where we could download it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ The MSDN Express is part of the Bootstrap Installer (at least it was in the Betas) Each language has it's own, and is an option on initial install... (Again, it was that way in the Beta) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Trouble linking classes I write to a form

  Hi, this I am pretty new to windows programing and ive been trying to create an application using c++.net. The user interface is a windows form, but there are other classes ive written to do other things behind the scenes. I want my classes to be able to access data from the form, such as the values of numericalUpDown controls. I made a data member in my own class which contains a pointer of type 'form' so that I could access my forms properties from my own class. The trouble is of course, my form is not a generic form, but has derived from 'form' and is of type 'form1' so I cant use a pointer of type 'form' to access it. I tried making the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Developer as a Persona

  We are creating complicated component which will be used by other developers and by end users. Developers will embed this component into their applications, and end users will use this component by working directly with it. We have mapped groups of users to appropriate Persons, but the question is: should we describe developers as Persons In my opinion we should because developers just another kind of users of our component, am I right If they are your customers, you should! I want to take this opportunity to expand on the role of the business analyst and personas. If you have one customer (I mean a single ...Show All

• SQL Server SUM is summing like values

  The problem with my SUM below is that I don't want it to sum up like amounts.  For example, there may be multiple rmstranamt showing but if in the list there are 2 that are alike, just sum up one of them along with the others.  In other words, I need to somehow do a grouping of the rmstranamt so that I'm not summing up one unique number twice in my SUM. Example output. Lets say my query finds 3 rmstranamt records for a particular account.  Right now it's taking 3265.12 + 3265.12 + 3000.50 which is not right.  I need just 3265.12 + 3000.50 and to ignore the other duplicate 3265.12: 10   3265.12 10   3265.12 10 &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help not listed in TOC after install

  Hi All, I am finding a strange problem with the integration of help collection. In our case, help is installed using a VS setup program. This msi is being installed silently as part of another msi install. The help is registered correctly. The help collection is listed in the filter combobox for help-index, contents and search. But, say in contents, no contents from the help is listed. similarly for index, no entries from our help collection are listed. Search also doesn't work. I can get this working by removing our collection from VSCC and adding this again, I have to close and reopen IDE between and after these steps. ...Show All

• SQL Server Is SSIS slower than DTS????!!!!!!

  I am new to SSIS and probably doing some mistake while transferring data from oracle source to oracle destination.   Please guide me..   In our project we need to transfer nearly 80 GB data from old system (Oracle 9i) to new system (Oracle 10 G Release 2). To do this exercise we are testing and comparing performance and cost effectiveness between different tools like SSIS, DTS and SQL * Loader (oracle built in tool).   We have selected one table, which is having 40 fields with 3 million records. The destination table is also having same structure.     Surprisingly SSIS is giving slower performance ...Show All

• Visual Studio Emailing a report

  I have a locally hosted report in an ASP .Net application.  I am rendering this report to a text stream so that I can send it via email, but I think there is probably a better way to do this. What is the best way to programatically email a locally hosted report Hi John -- How are you handling retreiving the rendering from the web control and subsequent image streams that get processed   I've been looking into utilizing this technique to retreive an HTML rendering since MS has removed that from the WinForms control, but I haven't had any real luck getting it to work yet. If you could maybe post a small code snippet, or just de ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need to change TextBox border color

  I have a need to change the border color on textboxes on a form. The textbox control doesn't have a bordercolor property so I'm trying to add one. The problem is, the textbox doesn't seem to be hooked to the OnPaint event. This is as close as I can come and it doesn't work. I know I'm missing something obvious, but I'd appreciate some help! public partial class dws_TextBox : System.Windows.Forms.TextBox { public dws_TextBox() { InitializeComponent(); } public dws_TextBox(IContainer container) { container.Add(this); InitializeComponent(); } private System.Drawing.Color _borderColor ...Show All

• SQL Server Expressions still get evaluated even though the task isn't executed

  Whilst investigating the problem talked about here: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=118141 I noticed something quite strange. The symptom of whatever problem we are having (we don't know yet) is that some property expressions fail to get evaluated and cause the package to fail. ALL of these property expressions are in package-scoped eventhandlers. Now, if I set DisableEventHandlers=TRUE on the package container the problems still occur. If I completely delete the eventhandlers the problem goes away. So, it seems to me that even though DisableEventHandlers=TRUE, the property expressions within those eventhandlers are sti ...Show All

• Windows Forms RichTextBox Length

  Hi! I'm currently programming a text editor that needs to display very large files... The one that I'm testing with is a log file that's about 55 MB. The StreamReader can read the entire file just fine, but I can't seem to get the entire text to enter into the RichTextBox. Here's the code I'm using: Dim openstream As New FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open) Dim opensr As New StreamReader(openstream, True) Dim NewWin As New frmNoteWin NewWin.rtbText.Text = opensr.ReadToEnd opensr.Close() opensr = Nothing openstream.Close() openstream = Nothing It doesn't even come close to loading ...Show All

• SQL Server Encryption and database restore

  Hi Can anyone help I have a database using encryption with symmetric keys created using asymmetric keys. I backed up this database and restored it on another machine along with the service master key. I can read the encrypted data fine. But all the encrypted stored procs that are associated with the application that uses the data cannot read the data, they just return Nulls. If I regenerate all the encrypted stored procs from script they work fine again. Is there a way to restore the database without having to regenerate all the encrypted procs You are probably missing this sequence after ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Coded WebTest c'tor called before and after 'vstesthost.exe' invoked?

  I have implemented dummy event handlers for Pre/PostWebTest, as well as Pre/PostWebTestRequest.  I have also disabled the "Use the VS hosting process" option in the project properties/debug screen. Two issues 1.)  The WebTest c'tor is always getting hit twice 2.)  The handler function for PreWebTest never gets hit at all! Here is the output my coded test is generating...(no [DataSource...] parameters) DemoCodedWebTest() c'tor...1:22:51 PM __________________________________________________________________________ 'vstesthost.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\WINNT\assembly\GAC_32\System.Data\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Messages Suppression

  Hello! At the moment we are trying to get rid of all the fxcop warnings in our project, but have three issues we can't resolve. 1. Is there any ways to specify all the message suppressions in one place (file) We need it because suppression attributes like this: [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis. SuppressMessage ( "Microsoft.Security" , "CA2118:ReviewSuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurityUsage" )] make code complitely unreadable. We have option 'Create assembly level suppressions in:' in the project's properties but there is no information on how to use it. 2. In some cases we have to define enumerations in the following format: public ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Strange behaviour with disabled toolbar

  I have discovered a strange behaviour (bug ) in the chess application. Load the chess game, go to 2D page, navigate back to the main page and then navigate forward to the 2D page: the toolbar is disabled. This doesn't happen with the 3D page or if you navigate using the menus instead by clicking the arrows. I have no idea if it's a bug in my application or in WinFX runtime. Any thoughts Valentin, Would you mind sending the source code over so we could take a look at this If you could narrow it down to a smaller repro sample, that would help tremendously. Offhand, I don't know what is happening. Thanks, Lauren [M ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net Framework Beta 2 - Write access problem on Temporary ASP.NET Files folder for ASPNET account

  We have installed .net framework beta 2 version and when we browse any .aspx page we are getting the below error message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Server Error in '/WitsWeb' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The current identity (<Computer Name>\ASPNET) does not have write access to 'C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Temporary ASP.NET Files'. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details ...Show All