Harry CC's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Cannot Install SQL Server 2005

  I'm trying to install the final releases of Visual Studio 2005 Pro and SQL Server 2005 Developer's Edition. Unfortunately, I uninstalled VS Apr CTP "first"  INSTEAD OF SQL Server 2005 Apr CTP. I was then able to install the final release of VS 2005 without any problems but now I cannot install the SQL Server 2005 because it finds the beta components that must be uninstalled before proceeding. I tried using "Add/Remove Programs" but when I ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) FindResource is throwing an exception

  The documentation says that FrameworkElement.FindResource will return null if the resource is not found.  But if I search for a style that doesn't exist, I am getting an exception thrown: ResourceReferenceKeyNotFoundException.  This is a huge performance drag in this particular application, where I look for a named style that is usually not present to see if the default style has been overridden. I don't see any "HasResource" or "TryFi ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to generate class file from t4 template into a sub-folder under project

  Using actions Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio.Library.Templates.TextTemplateAction and Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.Library.Actions.AddItemFromStringAction, I was able to generate class files and add them to the project. If wanted to put the class files into sub-folders under the project, AddItemFromStringAction dose not allow include folder name and "\" with file name. Is there any other action that can help ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting Hotkeys

  Hello, I've got a question; Is it possible to set a global hotkey in a C++ Windows::Forms Application (in 2005 Beta 2) With Thanks,                    Gal Beniamini Hi Gal, You can do this in the Winforms designer by selecting the menu item that corresponds to the command you want the hotkey to activate and set the "ShortcutKeys" property to the ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem to install SQL Server 2005 CTP June edition...

  Hi When I tried to install, I kept getting the following problem with System Configuration Check: A previous installation required a reboot of the machine for changes to take effect. To proceed, restart your computer and then run SQL Server Setup again. I've rebooted many times (with AntiVirus turned off) and yet the above problem remains. Anyone has a solution to the above problem Thanks. Rgds OngCF The reg key ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid - select entire row

  Hi I am trying to enable multiple selection of rows with the RowHeadersVisible property set to false. When a user clicks a cell in my datagrid I want the whole row to be selected.  I have achieved this by extending the DataGrid and overriding&n ...Show All

• Visual C++ DirectDraw interface

  I want to use DirectDraw7. I include DDRAW.H and add a DDRAW.LIB to Win32Project. My code is: LPDIRECTDRAW lpdd=NULL; LPDIRECTDRAW lpdd7=NULL; DirectDrawCreate(NULL, &lpdd, NULL); lpdd->QueryInterface(IID_IDirectDraw7, (LPVOID*)lpdd7); And there is a error: Error 4 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IDirectDraw7 DDraw_Using.obj Why i have this error IID_IDirectDraw7 is defind in ddraw.h. I using DXSDK ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums vb in excel - on data modified?

  Hello. This is my first time here and I'm totaly not sure if I post this question in the right place (or even if this forums have a place for it) but I didn't found anything that sounds more apropriate so here goes. I'm trying to capture the event when someone modify a cell data in an excel worksheet. I managed so far to patch the following "macros": per the support engineer: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions working with Auto Complete

  Hi, Here is the situation that happened. I tried to use Autocomplete source for a combo box( or list box ). for ex. i have values like this ( Customer 1 :- Jane,Tamil Nadu,India and Customer 2 :- Jane,Karnataka,India ) when assigned the autocomplete source for it, from the list source, I got only one value ( i.e., the distinct customer. only one Jane ). and Iam unable to choose the second customer . ...Show All

• .NET Development how can i do this?

  Hi what i am doing is i am searching for empty records in my table if any cloumn is empty it should return me column name for perticular id lets suppose 1 is our id if 1 has two clomns that are empty i want write like "u are missing column_1,cloumn_2 as so on" but right now i can only do with one column how can i convert it into dynamic form lblReport.Text = "There are only " & flyer_alert_days & " days left for " & column_ ...Show All

• SQL Server VS 2005 Report Preview Toolbar different from RS 2005 report Manager preview

  Hi I have deployed reports created in VS 2005 to RS 2005 report manager and finding the tool bar for report viewer is different. In report designer I can see Print layout,"back to parent" etc  buttons in preview mode but in Report manager these options are not available. Thanks Ronald     ...Show All

• Windows Forms ContextMenuStrip for treenode

  Hello, I'm using a contextmenustrip for a treenode; how do I figure out which tree node currently has the context menu strip for it I'm trying to use the contextmenustrip location, but it references the wrong tree node. Thanks. I did not understand you clearly, are you trying to say that for example if a user press right click to a certain tree node then when you are trying to use the SelectedNode proper ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Properties.Settings gives error :"0, 0 is not a valid value for Int32"

  Happens everytime, don't know why... Take a form... In properties: ApplicationSettings...Location...new...opens up a standard window to pick a New Application Setting...Take the default value 0;0 or make that anything you want and then somehow that 0;0 turns into 0,0. Now when I edit it in the Settings.settings and type in 0;0 instead of 0,0 ...pop-up says cann't convert 300;00  to an instance of System.Drawing.Size... Am I missing somethi ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows Service using Sockets

  I am experiencing a wierd problem... I have a C#.Net application Server which uses Sockets. It listens on port 11000. and it runs as a Windows Service. -- If I run it as a consple Application, I can connect to that port/Application from any machine on the network as well as from my local machine. -- BUT If i install it as a Windows Service, I cannot connect to it from the network though it works just fine form the local machine. --A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Report Checked Out Items and Changed Items

  Hi, Where can I find a list of all Source Control checked out items Where can I find a list of all Source Control changed items between two dates Regards Simon Hi Simon, This information is not avaliable in the TFS data warehouse. It can be obtained by using the version control APIs. I will add someone from that team to this thread to provide you with further details. Thanks, tom ...Show All