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• SQL Server Need Steps to upgrade SQL Yukon 9.00.852 (Intel X86) to 9.00.1399.06

  Hi SQL DBA,s What are the step to upgrade Microsoft SQL Server Yukon - 9.00.852 (Intel X86) version To Sql 2005 Standard {9.00.1399.06}. When I tries to backup and restore from this 9.00.852 version to Sql 2005 Standard {9.00.1399.06}. It is giving me an error that this version is not compatible. What we need to do know Also let me know where I can download SQL Server Yukon - 9.00.852 (Intel X86) version so I can do the test on test box. Thanks In advance. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual Studio Version

  Question - I'm an ASP.Net developer taking on a new job working with Sharepoint and hopefully getting a chance to start delving into some MS Office development. Perhaps it's just late and I'm sleepy after trying to figure this out by reading blogs, newsgroup postings, and Microsoft marketing materials for the last 2 hours, but can someone recommend to me the ideal VS.Net version that I need to recommend my employer purchase for me in order to do BOTH: 1) ASP.Net Development AND 2) MS Office Development It seems if I tell them to get VS.Net Pro, I don't get VSTO. However, if I tell them to get VS Tools for Office then will I still ...Show All

• Visual Studio Creating A connector to CompartMent Items

  Is there a way to create a connector that connects a shape to items in another shape's listCompartment I want to emulate the WWF designer capability that lists the State-Activities events as listCompartment items. These events are visually connected to other stateAcitivities. Regards, Jacques  This is not a good way to do it. Connection points are just a suggestion to the routing engine for where it should connect lines to. However, moving a connection point or deleting one and creating a new one doesn't move the line endpoints. And, if the routing to the shape becomes complicated enough ...Show All

• Visual Studio strange error after install vs2005(Version 8.0.50727.26 RTM.050727-2600)

  When I uninstalled beta2 and installed the current version. Run following code will get a wrong result. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace test {     class Program     {         static void Main(string[] args)         {             string test = "\x3007AB";             if (test.StartsWith("AB")) //it return TRUE!!!             { ...Show All

• SQL Server How to attach an .MDF file to another server?

  Hi all I am having trouble moving an .mdf file from a dev machine to a production machine. On the dev machine(windows xp sp2 login <MyName>) I have an SSE instance - part of VisualStudio installation.  on the production machine I have only one full version SS instance called "PROD"(windows server 2k3, login Administrator) I do have SSMS installed too. I create a website in VS on my dev machine. C:\Websites\Website1 I add to App_Data a new file: DB1.mdf I add a couple of tables to DB1.mdf and maybe other objects etc. - all  dbo. Then I detach DB1.mdf and physically copy the file (without the  ...Show All

• .NET Development runtime error

  I hope someone can help me out here. Since a few days my website gives a runtime error. I haven't changed anything, and my provider says he didn't change anything, and he can't solve the problem. Take a look at www.gratisverlanglijstje.nl/default.aspx Hey, It's impossible to tell because your app does not allow us to see the stack trace prior to the termination. You can try and reproduce the problem on your development box, or you can follow the steps outlined on that page to allow us to see the lines of source code around the bug. Please realize the implications of following the last recommendati ...Show All

• Visual C# how to check overflow

  how can i check if a sum of 2 numbers are causing an overflow (but i want to use a custom exception, not the regular one). thanks I guess the obvious way is to catch the exception that gets thrown when bounds checking is turned on, and then rethrow whatever you like. If I was going to do something like that, I'd make it a static method on a class, so I only had to write it once. Of course, any place you just plain add two numbers instead of calling this method, the behaviour you want will not occur. I don't think there's any way to change the exception that's defined for this. ...Show All

• Visual C++ aspell compilation problems

  Hi, I tried to post on the forum but it kept coming up with an internal error so i was wondering if you could help me with the following:I have recently been trying to compile aspell (a spell checker written in c and c++) in visual studio .NET (2003) which has taken forever but i managed to get it to compile a dll now. When i come to add this dll file into another project which will be using the methods from this dll it keeps giving the following error and not allowing me to add it: "Add Reference: Error adding reference to the project.". Does anyone have any suggestions on how to overcome this Any information woul ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem Installing MS VISIO

  I hardly use any software from Microsoft except Operating system and MS Office. I found out that VISIO is a good tool to create diagrams and flow charts. While I was installing MS VISIO , I got the following error. "You must first install one of the qualified Visual Studio Editions" Any Solutions What should I install first I don't want to pay microsoft hefty fees. Because I am not going to use any other software other that MS VISIO. Any solution Thanks in advance. Where did you get Visio from Visio is a stand alone product, if you've got a version ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Reservation System

  Hi. I want to make a client-server application used for reservations. The client is a pocket pc 2003 CF2 and the server app is a basic C# application running on a Windows XP Sp2. I am using VS 2005 and C#. So the basic idea is that the Pocket PC is connected by WIFI to the windows machine running the C# app. With the PP you should be able to make a reservation which will be shown in the C# app and the pp should be able to show reservations made by the C# app. 1) Is the smartes thing here to use web services or .NET remoting 2) When using web services, how can the C# app update the reservations made by the client PP Synchroniz ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I use XSD in 2005

  I am a beginner with C# and I am trying to use datasets. I have been tiring to find some good books on how to use xsd or dataset class in VS2005 and haven’t' found much like this. Does anyone know of good examples or books I can buy that has this information. I understand Datasets (limited) but xsd just are confusing. Any help appreciated A dataset is a collection of tables. An XSD is an XML schema. Datasets can be populated from XML, I believe, but I'm not entirely sure what it is you're trying to do with the two An XSD will let you validate XML data, that is all. ...Show All

• Visual C# How to use COM Interop in C#

  I have a requirement to use a dll written in Visual C++ 6.0 in my C# application. In order to establish the link between my application and the dll, I have written a ATL COM Component in Visual C++.NET [visual studio .NET version 8]. This COM component is referenced in my C# application. The COM component statically links with the 6.0 dll. I am facing problems in passing data from C# to the dll through the COM component. Description: 1. The dll exposes a function as: __declspec(dllexport) int __stdcall ProblemFunction(int param1, BYTE param2, BYTE param3, BYTE *param4, DWORD *param5); 2. In the COM wrapper component, I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions read write serial port

  I have found several classes online that say they make using the serial ports easy. I am never able to get any of them to compile. Is there a bare bones example of how to read/write to a serial port all bundled in a project for Visual C++ Express Edition It depends what classes you found. You need a class based purely on the Win32 API. Even than you need to install the PSDK as documented. If you used one using MFC and ATL you must fail because MFC and ATL are not part of VC Express. http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/learning/vcexpvids/default.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to do SQL query on xsd schema file in CR for VS2005?

  I have a .xsd schema file look like this: Table:   number_of_subjects   birth_day   birth_month   birth_year All the data are stored in an .xml file. In my project, I need to generate a report to show how many duplicate entries in each birthdate bin (e.g. 120 occupied birth date bins have 1 entry; 31 have 2 entries; 4 have 3 entries...). Thus, in the crystal report, I need to show the results of an SQL like: SELECT COUNT(number_of_subjects) AS 'entries', number_of_subject AS 'bin_size" FROM Table GROUP BY number_of_subjects My problem is how to write this query in the crystal report I also tried to do the query in t ...Show All

• SQL Server Configuration Files

  Hi, I’m having some issues associated with the configuration files that I can’t understand: - Having a project with several packages using the same connections in each one (some packages use all connection and others I just have some of them), why can’t I use only one configuration file for all project. Assuming that I would have to configure all packages at least I would like to use always the same file. On the other way I would need 100’s of configuration files (one per package) to configure always the same connection, just because not all the packages use exactly the same connections. - Having a ...Show All