Calibus's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration benefits

  I just read the announcement about the benefits of registration. I already had registered so of course it didn't let me register again. Is there a way to still get the downloads or should I now know never to register an MS product until they have some registration benefits announced If you are registered you can take part of the benefits. Check the registration benefit portal. http://connect.microsoft.com ...Show All

• .NET Development "Could not create type..." error deploying webservice

  I know this question has been asked a billion times already because I've found several instances on the net, but none of the proposed solutions seems to solve my problem, so I'd appreciate any help. I've created a C# webservice on my local machine that runs fine. Now I'm trying to deploy it to a webserver. The server is Windows 2003 with IIS 6. I created a new virtual directory in IIS, set it to be an application, and gave it "scripts on ...Show All

• SQL Server Empty Source So there is no data in the pipleline

  Hi, I am trying to do a lookup for a value in a codes table and if that code is not there; add it to the table, my problem is if the lookup table is blank no records to begin with it will not add any data, that means the data source is empty so there no data going thru the data pipeline. So how do I get data in the table if we start with an empty table If I am not clear I can explain it more. Thank I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions LPCWSTR doesn't work with reg commands

  I am making some functions that use regcreatekeyex, regsetvalueex, ect. So I made them and tested them by making a command prompt program and had no problems. Then I tried using the in the form designer and the compiler keeps telling me it can't convert my parameters that are strings into LPCWSTR. So I add the (LPCWSTR) in front of the parameter to convert it. Well my project compiles but recreatekeyex and stuff never succeed. How can I fix this ...Show All

• SQL Server Arithmetic Overflow error

  Can someone help me with this error: I need to change the datatype of a column from int to tinyint. I did this : ALTER TABLE EmailTracking ALTER COLUMN URLID tinyint and got this error: Msg 220, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Arithmetic overflow error for data type tinyint, value = 74860. The statement has been terminated. how do i fix this thanks Rookie, perhaps you could ...Show All

• Windows Forms Screen Refresh Problem

  I'm developing windows forms using VB.NET 2003 and whenever I run my application I have screen glitches. For example, If i drag a screen I developed it creates a window streak on the screen. I tested this problem out on another computer and&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Code Coverage loses it's mind

  Please refer to http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=FDBK40689 .  I'm now seeing this on other code - non-generic code, so I doubt the original problem has anything to do with generics. Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior   Is there any solution available Having the coloring completely scrambled makes code coverage quite a lot less useful!  Update: Here's the new link on Connec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with MSSCCI Provider

  Hi I've installed the latest version of the provider and tried to open a solution from tfs. It starts working fine(very slow) and gets all the folders and the csproj files but thats about it. It looks like its working but thats as far as it would go. no cs files! After few attempts, removed this version and installed the beta2 version and now it works. Avi Hello, could you provide some mor ...Show All

• Windows Forms NullReferenceException in Unknown Module when binding 2 checkboxes.

  Hi, I am getting a nullreferenceexception in Unknown Module, additional information: Object reference not set to a instance of an object when databinding 2 checkboxes in my form. This form is a secondary form called modally from the startup form. When I step through the code slowly, I don't get this error, I also don't get this error when I call show instead of ShowDialog. When I comment out one of the binding statements, I also no longer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Adding an sql connection to vb express

  Hi, I was using sql express with vb express edition. Everything was fine. I removed sql express and installed sql server 2005. Now when try to add a connection from database explorer I get an error: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network ...Show All

• Windows Forms Progress bar for unknown file size

  Hi, I'm loading a text file(log) from one folder to another. I want to show the loading status. I don't know the file size.I can find it by reading all the lines. but i hope it's not an efficient way. bcos loading 3 or more files into one. is there any other way can anyone tell me how to do this Thank U! You can do what Windows does, just have a progress bar that moves endlessly. Or, you could ask t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Taking a certain part of XML...

  Hello, I know that the title is not at its best but... anyway, I need to strip out: http://img.maps.yahoo.com/mapimage MAPDATA=eJz6K.d6wXVM6myr2yRPfx6.kl.uMGgD3Tu4JtDQzr_33pFEsTTSaosZ9OCtsiDrsLv9t65fzjz0CJm6JO2v_ZIHLflY9gto.xWMK9ovlRJVmrBLO4FoSsh3Ipsr from: < xml version="1.0" > < Result xmlns:xsi =" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance " > http://img.maps.yahoo.c ...Show All

• Visual C++ What is the output?

  Here's another question that we are all stumped over here.  Here's the program. What is the output void main ()    {           int x;           x = WhatHappens (12, 2700);           cout << x;           return; } int WhatHappens (int one, int two)        { &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS 6.0 Problem

  Hi there, we have been using MS Visual Source Safe 6.0 within our organisation for past few years, - but Ive just realised Ive made a serious screw up about six months ago. I decided to move the location of some of the folders of code up two levels so each folder would be in a logical location. I renamed the old folders to _OLD. However, all the history in the new folder has been completely lost, all it contains is the date the new folder was ...Show All

• Visual C# Trying to set projectype property

  I have a program that I would like to be able to have programmatically switch between having an output type of "Console Application" or "Windows Application" based on a command line arg. Haven't yet figured out how to do this in C#, anybody have a clue I think you need to set the parameters to csc.exe. csc/target:exe produces a console app while csc/target:winexe produces windows app ...Show All