Mik Dennet's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQL Express user permissions?

  I'm trying to build a web application using SQL2005 Express and Visual Studio Express.  It all works OK on the local machine, but gives an error "Login failed for user xxxx\ASPNET" when used remotely.  I can't find where I can set login permissions for SQLServer 2005 Expresss - can anyone help, please Thanks John Remote connections are disabled by default. You can use the Surface Area Configuration tool to enable them. Thanks Laurentiu ...Show All

• Visual Basic Arrays

  I have a text file in the format of: ID number Income # or Persons when I load my form an open dialog comes up with the text file there. How do I put the information from the textfile into an array, and then call the array to load the information to the form into their respective listboxes You mean each value is one line, and every third line it repeats Then you need to read the line three times to get your three values into your three lists, then repeat. ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot connect to a datasource error

  I have been working on a report for a while now and just when I go to deploy it, the bloody thing stops working. I have been testing it mainly under my account (Admin + Domain Admin) and peridocally under another admins account. I have also been testing it under a dummy normal account (domain user only) and up until now it has worked fine. Originally it did not work although I found that if I Rebuilt & Redeployed the project to the server and then started Reporting services and selected the datasource1 and supplied my credentials and checked Use as Windows Credentials and also the Impersonate check, it all worked perfectly. Howe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Reports and JOIN SQL

  Hi All I have been stuck on this problem for a week and read every example on the web I have 2 tables and I have generated a SQL Join Statement that fills a dataset I display this in a datagrid and all is ok However when I attempt to push this to the crystal reports object I get a cross join which does not have any of the criteria applied The code I execute to generate the dataset is as follows. Two tables concerned are CustomerInvoices and CustomerAccounts PK of CustomerInvoices is: UniqueInvoiceID PK of CustomerAccounts is: UniqueInvoiceID  and PaymentNumber Its like a parent- weak entity relationship 1 invoice many accounts sq ...Show All

• Visual Studio SQLServer 2005\ Visual studio 2005

  Can someone tell me exactly which versions of SQLServer 2005, and Visual Studio 2005 I should use so that I can develop a web page with a reportviewer control on one machine and use Reporting Services on a different machine. Any links to downloads (i know files will be big). At the moment I have Visual Studio 2005 Standard Beta 2. I also have SQLServer 2005 Beta 2. The cds/dvds have no mention of ctps etc... By the way the error I'm getting is ''[MissingEndpointException: The attempt to connect to the report server failed.  Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version.]" Thanks   Proble ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can't uninstall MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 Beta

  A while back I installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Beta 2 Version on my laptop and used it. I now have the latest Visual Studio 2005 Professional and I want to install it but I can't. MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 Beta will not uninstall. I've tried just about everything but everytime it goes through the uninstall process at the last possible moment it "rolls-back" and dosn't perform the uninstall. I'm stuck. I read through most of the messages here to try to find a clue and I've tried several many good suggestions but still with no success. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Uninstalled VB Express causes problem with Outlook

  I recently uninstalled VB Express and now everytime I start Outlook, I get a popup window with the title "Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 - ENU". The message says: "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable." After clicking Cancel (because I don't know what it is and I don't really want it), I get a message box with an Error 1706. I don't want to reinstall VB Express Beta (it's not worth the trouble). What is this mess and how can I permanently get rid of it I uninstalled VB Express and now everytime I start ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Anti-aliasing in WPF 3D??

  As i blogged about this, anti-aliasing doesn't seem to work in 3D for WPF apps. As you see from here    PIC Link According to Karsten, this shouldn't occur since the 2005 Sept CTP but I still see it in the Feb CTP. (my card is 6600GT). Details here . Anyone has an idea Unfortunately, due to downlevel/XPDM driver problems, we can only enable anti-aliasing in Vista with an LDDM driver :( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 doesn't want to run!

  I downloaded uninstall tool to kill previously installed Beta2. Than I ran Visual Studio 2005 Final Release setup. All went well, setup completed successfully. But... I launched Studio IDE, it showed Studio Logo and than disappeared. It didn't run. Oh, Lord, give me strength... :) There is following information in application event log: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7C81EB33) (800703e9) ...Show All

• Visual C++ Run time error when execute "In run-time dll"

  Hi All, A fuction definition from header file: define TSXAPI __declspec(dllimport) #define TSXAPIFN extern "C" TSXAPI TSXAPIFN tsxERR tsxRenderAViewRectangleToFile(tsxRenderToFileData *data, CtsxRect *rectangle); I want to access this function by :"In run-time dynamic linking" my code is: 1: CtsxRect j_renderRect; 2: tsxRenderToFileData j_renderToFileParams; 3: tsxERR error_code; 4: typedef tsxERR (CALLBACK* tsxRenderAViewRectangleToFileX)(tsxRenderToFileData* data, CtsxRect* rectangle); 5: HINSTANCE dllHandle = NULL; 6: tsxRenderAViewRectangleToFileX tsxRenderAViewRectangleToFileXPtr = NULL; 7: dllHandle = LoadLibrary ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro data grouping report form

  dear all, i have a table field22 as Y / N value. I use data grouping to print receipt by printing Y then N. i wan my output similiar like this : - item qty u/price u/amt - Y details item qty u/price u/amt - N details But the problem now its print item qty u/price u/amt - Y let a gap that is reserved for group header details then print group header then ... My questions can i move out the spaces for group header Thanks in advance. Are you asking if you can move the group header bar up against the page header bar (so there is no space for the header) Of course you can… ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I programmatically start a WebTest?

  Given the path to a valid WebTest (xml) script, how do I programatically run the WebTest script (from within Visual Studio)   I am creating a Visual Studio plugin, and one of the features is to automatically run selected WebTest scripts, very much like how users can use the TestManager to select & run the WebTest scripts. Ed,   Could you please suggest the path or the place where to find this extensibility Kit. This would be of great help!!! Thanks in Advance.     ...Show All

• Visual Basic Grouping Radio Buttons

  I have, or want, three sets of RadioButtons. However, they all seem to be in the same group, as I can only have one checked at any one time. I want to have three groups of RadioButtons, but I don't see a property where I can set any groups. To group RadioButton controls as a set to function independently of other sets Drag a GroupBox or Panel control from the Windows Forms tab on the Toolbox onto the form. Draw RadioButton controls on the GroupBox or Panel Sorry about the loud font - that's how it came out when I copied it from the Help file. ...Show All

• Visual C++ What is the syntax for declaring an event as an argument of a function?

  How do declare FireEvent(...) so I can use it in foo() With previous beta versions, I can just do this FireEvent(EventHandler^ e), but with beta2 compiler, I get C3918. Thanks, hdp. // class that defines events ref class EventSource { public :     event EventHandler^ OnEvent1;      event EventHandler^ OnEvent2;      void FireEvent(...)     {          ....     }     void foo()     {          FireEvent(OnEvent1);      ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I format a richTextBox?

  Hello, Can you please tell me how can I format a richTextBox using bbcode! How can I search in the whole richTextBox content and put every occurance of text between [ b ] & [ /b ] in bold. Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla [ b ]IN BOLD1[ /b ] Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla [ b ]IN BOLD2[ /b ] Bla [ i ]ITALIC[ /i ] Your help would be greatly appreciated.       use RichTextBox.Find (String, Int32, Int32, RichTextBoxFinds) to find any occurences in text find method selects found text and after this you could execute richTextBox1.SelectionFont.Bold = true ; hop ...Show All