Usman Sheikh's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions MyMovieCollection Starter Kit

  Gday All, I just downloaded the amazon enabled version of this starter kit and been looking over it but when i run it all is fine including the search online function but wen i try to add the highlighted result to my collection i get the follow prompt 'There was a problem adding this to the DVD collection' and in the debug window i get this. I'm rather new to VB and .net so any help would be great. " ID column is changing to proposed value 3 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# Express expired

  I installed a MS Visual Basic 2005 Express a month ago. I didn't register this product, so my copy expired. Now, I install MS Visual C# 2005 Express. Setup says that my version of MS Visual C# expired. I want to register this product, but it's not go. Could you give me some advice First up... why didn’t you register it during the first month Before attempting to install it again, did you uninstall the previo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ServiceBehavior attribute!

  I find the next code for using session: [ServiceBehavior(InstanceMode=InstanceMode.PrivateSession)] But I can't do this with Windows SDK February CTP, I find the next code: [ ServiceBehavior (InstanceContextMode= InstanceContextMode .PerSession)] Is the same . Saludos, Hi! But the next code: [ServiceBehavior(InstanceMode=InstanceMode.PrivateSession)] exist , in the new CTP of WinFX , or it was remove Saludo ...Show All

• .NET Development new to Web App - problem w/ IIS

  Hi out there - - This is the message that comes up when I attempt to Open a new Project as a ASP. NET Web Application rather than a Windows Application: Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET Web applications or services. Looking in the 'About' area of Visual.NET I read that I have the: Microsoft Development Environment 2003 versio ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista workflowloadingfailed in asp.net

  web.config: < WorkflowRuntime UnloadOnIdle = " true " > < Services > < add type = " System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting.ASPNetThreadingService, System.Workflow.Runtime, Version=3.0.00000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35 " /> < add type = " System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting.SqlTimerService, System.Workflow.Runtime, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35 " Connect ...Show All

• Visual C# Detection of thread executing

  I have read up some on utilizing threads, being a newbie to programming in C# and converted a major function in my application to execute in a background thread (to stop the display from freezing up if I switched to another application). The threading worked perfectly and it even terminates itself after completion. The only complication I have is that I cannot update the various text boxes on my form because they are part of other system thre ...Show All

• Visual C++ fstream issue in VS 2005

  Hi I had a project in VS 6.0 in which I was using fstream to get and put data into a file. After conversion to VS 2005 there is a problem with the fstream functions. I manage to open the stream once and read something from it, and then I close the stream and reopen it in binary mode and now the get operation returns an empty buffer. is.get( szBuf, 10000, '|' ); Maybe I'm doing something wrong and I would really appreciate your help because it's ...Show All

• SQL Server Data-driven subscription error

  I'm using Windows 2003 server with Sql server 2005 June CTP. When I create a data-driven subscription for a report everything works fine, the query that gets the subscribers from a database is validated successfully. The subscription is time triggered, but when it should start and deliver the reports I get a logon failure error. I use credentials stored securely in the report server. I tried it with sa account and it still doesn't work. When I t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Run a single application on WM5

  I have a .NET CF application running on WM5. I need to restrict the running/loading of any other application if the user chooses to run my application. How do I achieve this Any help would be appreciated. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 - Emulator problem

  I had the same problem so from a previous tip for vs.net 2005 beta 1 I added the service Virtual Machine Network Services to my network connection. I still got the same error so then I saw this tip and deleted the CoreCon directory and it worked fine. (I tried removing the Virtual Machine Network Services to see if just deleting the corecon directory solved the problem but I was back to the original problem.) Now if I deploy to an unsaved state ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista IE 7 crashes

  Hey when using Vista I have discovered that every single time I open IE 7 it crashes. The toolbars don't load it's just a white box with a title bar nothing else. My computer locks up and then everything goes at a snails pace. Once I eventually get the task manager open, I try and end the task. It gives me the option of restarting the task, or leaving it be. I tried both but the same thing happened again. They only way to fix it is to restart. I ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView StandardTab

  Hi, I am using C# Whidbey. My problem is that i need to navigate only to cells of columns which have property readonly = false; meaning suppose i have 5 columns in DataGridView with the first 2 being ReadOnly = true then whenever i press tab it should only put focus on any of  the last three column cells only. I have put the StandardTab property to false. Any suggestions Thanx n regards, Nitin Gupta ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Logging WCF Messages to a Database

  I’d like to log WCF messages to a database instead of logging them to disk. What’s the best practice for extending WCF to log messages to a database I’m most interested in logging messages that contain data (e.g. AddPerson and AddPersonResponse) and less interested in messages that are required to setup WS-* (e.g. http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/trust/RST/Issue). Ideally, I’d like to extend the WCF logging functionality to log ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems adding MS access datasource in VB studios 2005 enterprise

  I am running Visual Studios 2005 enterprise edition and I am creating a mobile application to keep track of some receipts. The problem I'm currently having is that even though I can connect to the MS Access Database with Server Explorer that I'll be aquiring data from; Everytime I attempt to use the Data Configuration Wizard to add a new data source that namely the database I get this error message: The new connection uses a data provider tha ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista GdiPlusEffects.h missing in February 2006 SDK

  I downloaded the new Feb CTP Windows SDK and the compiler complains about missing GdiPlusEffects.h. This file is included conditionaly when GDI+ version at least 1.1 is detected. Where can this file be found The workaround is to edit GdiPlus.h and change the GDIPVER from 0x0110 to 0x0100: // Define the Current GDIPlus Version #ifndef GDIPVER #define GDIPVER 0x0100 #endif Chris, thanks for the reply. Now _th ...Show All