mikelaw's Q&A profile

• .NET Development .NET Windows Service

  Hi, I am having some issues running my VB.NET windows service on SOME windows 2000 machines. The service works fine on Windows XP, and fresh installs of Windows 2000. The error I am receiving doesn't provide me with any helpful information (it is listed below). If anybody has some ideas on where to start to sort this issue out, I'd love to hear them. Thanks, Nathan Output from the Windows Event Log --------------------------------------- Event T ...Show All

• SQL Server FTP Task error when no files found on FTP

  Hi, I have created a FTP task that logs into FTP server and receives files and scheduled it to run every 15min. However, it fails when there are no files on FTP. How would I check the if files exist How can I catch the FTP task error and compare it to Hresults.NoFilesFound in a script task Thanks in advance for any help. Here is a package that uses the WMI DataReader task to check a folder for fi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions F1 problem

  When I login to my computer as "administrator" the F1 key works perfectly in Visual Basici Express. Then I logout and login a user with admin right. The F1 Key gives a message server cannot be found. Cannot access the Help files under a user login with admin rights How did you install the product As Administrator If you did and do not have administrator privs then I would suspect this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to Install Team Explorer on Visual studio team suite beta - 2 version

  Hi TFS users, I have couple of queries on TFS installation and usage !! 1. Can we install Team foundation Server on Windows XP with Service pack 2 installed I know the client can be installed on Windows XP, but i have specific reasons for installing TFS too on windows XP!! If yes, does the installation steps hold same as installation on windows server 2003 2. Can we integrate clearcase with TFS Please let me know if ...Show All

• Visual C# Is there any way to play video file(static) in Pocket PC with C# ?

  Hi, Earlier i wrote an application using which we can play ( a static & streaming also ) a sound file(audio). But, now i would like to play an video file(static first...!!!). Pls suggest me if there is a way. Thanks, ramakrishna swamy. ...Show All

• Visual C# string manipulation functions

  Hi, I've been trying to find a link where all of the string manipulation functions are listed but couldn't find any.   Could someone please direct me to where I could find these functions Thanks, Bruce Just how far will Microsoft go.... Readability...no...the REHIRE wont know...add a ref to VB. We will send our "partial" classes around the world!! Make sure "Mid" is killed by fxcop. ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 - "Suit Integration Toolkit Error" is not sweet

  With a lot of expectation and excitement I started to install VS 2005 EA edition. But the installation seems very very scary one - perhaps the most irritating in my recent past. I had beta 2 products installed prior. So un-installed meticulously everything as described in "MS-Sequence". Then I got a "Suite Integration Tookit" error and VS 2005 installation exits. I tried un-installing all beta junks by several MS 'official' un-installers(also s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Data for provinces and states

  I am looking for some advice for the following scenario.  I am building an application that has several forms that have a province/state combobox which contains a list of all of the provinces and states.  Because this information will likely no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to view Source Control Explorer in Beta2

  I currently have 25 or so developers running up against Beta 2's Version Control. Everybody up to this point has been fine. However, I recently added another member to the team and they can NOT see any of the existing projects under Version Control. I have given them every access right I can find (include Project Administrator on the Team Project itself). Any ideas or things I could try Thanks, ~slee Yes, they ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with Lookup task and dates

  I’m trying to make a Lookup transformation with a relation on two string columns and a between dates condition set by parameter: select * from  (select * from [dbo].[RgnErhverv_Ansvar]) as refTable where [refTable].[Opretdato] = and between StartDate and EndDate where the second parameter is my Date column (FakturaDato_konv) . My problem is that I keep getting the error: "Error 1 Validation error. Data Flow Task: Looku ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Enterprise June CTP Installation Error

  Tried to install several times (on Win2003 Ent. SP1) but I always get the following error: Failure adding user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE to local group SQLServer2005MSSQLServerADHelperUser (1388) The user varies (sometimes NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) and so does the local group (sometimes SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser). Any tips Regards Roger I have tried to install SQLDEV ,But got the same error mesage. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Interoperability and utility

  XML, to me, has always been about interoperability, and XQuery was going to bring the promise of XML to the database world. The promise that my code could work as easily with an Oracle database as it could with SQL Server -- the database would become a black box, and data would become universally accessible. Is LINQ going to bring about an end to that dream My question is born out of ignorance, because I don't understand LINQ well enough. What ...Show All

• .NET Development EventLog.WriteEvent

  Hi, I would like to write errors for my application to the eventlog with the error icon so that its easy to see whats an error and wants an information for my log. Today I use . WriteEntry ("myMessage...") witch is no problem , it generates a message entry with an information icon in the event log. So far so good... What I understand is if I want to write an error I have to use . WriteEvent to get the error icon and read about this but ...Show All

• SQL Server Saving Auto Recovery Information

  Hi I am using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to manage our database objects over a VPN connection. At scheduled intervals the system saves recovery information. The problem is that the location of the recovery files appears to be located on a remote server. This causes the UI to completely freeze while the operation is in progress. How can I change the location of the recovery files or turn off the Auto Recovery functionalit ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Application Error

  Hi experts, We have an application written in VBA. The application is failing with the following log entry in the event log. Faulting application: appname.exe Faulting Module: VBE6 Version: 6.4.99.72 Fault Address 0x000dc6f2 Event ID: 1000 The application is running on Windows XP SP2 with Office 2003 SP2. Help would be much appreciated. Thanks Steve Hi, This time the application is failed on a call to M ...Show All