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• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot open file.

  Okay I click new project , then I click windowed application and then finish. all works fine then I push F5 to build. I get the following information in a dialoge box. ------ Build started: Project: zane, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Compiling... stdafx.cpp c:\program files\microsoft platform sdk for windows server 2003 r2\include\windows.h(157) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'excpt.h': No such file or directory Project : wa ...Show All

• Windows Forms VSNET 2005 FINAL release can't open a form

  Hello, The new version of VSNET2005 FINAL release can't opens a form file that use Infragistics controsl. The error shown is the following: One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes. The designer loader did not provide a root component but has not indicated why. Hide      ...Show All

• Windows Forms Upgrade Visual Studio 2002 framework from 1.0 to 1.1

  Hi, I need some help in upgrading Visual Studio 2002 from framework 1.0.3705 to 1.1.4322.   I have loaded the update to my system.   In the control panel the “Add/Remove Programs” shows it is known and I can see it in folder C:\WINNT ...Show All

• Visual Basic dll needed

  I need a net dll to transform wgs84 geographic coordinates to ED50 UTM coordinates. Any help or direction . I need only this and not a full .dll that load a lot of bytes into memory at runtime and they are costly. With the amount of ram most computers have now, the basic memory needs of a dll is minimal. If you really want to have low memory cost, then make a c or c++ program to do it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team foundation toolbar missing in excel

  I've installed vsts and the client etc, and also the "MS Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime Beta 2", yet I have no toolbar for working with Team Foundation server. I have Office 2003 installed, do I have to install office 2005 or is there something I'm missing Thanks Marvellous, that worked a treat. Found the following articles searching for xllex in case anyone else visits here: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/ ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cannot start debugger

  Hello, I have been using VS.NET developing Pocket PC applications for over two years now, but all of the sudden I can no longer interactively debug apps running on the emulator.  Everything seems to start up fine - Emulator starts up, initializes, .NET CF installs, app under development installs, then... nothing (Output window in VS says "Launching Application").  I can start the application on the emulator by navigating to it using th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Code coverage broken

  I have a solution with a number of projects, some of them unit test projects.  I've been running tests without problem, and using code coverage on the tests. Suddenly, code coverage no longer works.  Editing the local testrunconfig file, the appropriate assemblies are checked for instrumentation, but after a test run completes, the code coverage window always says "code coverage is not enabled for this test run". Ideas Immediately pri ...Show All

• Visual Basic Insert float to SQL from VB 2005

  Hi. I have a Windows Form to insert/edit/delete records from a SQL 2000 database. I have a problem when i insert a float (for example 11,35) to the SQL Server. Visual Basic 2005 insert 11,359999656677246 value in the database. I need to do something Where i can configure the number of decimals If i write (11,344) i want to insert in the database 11,344.... if i write (11,34) i want to insert 11,34. Thanks a lot!!! ...Show All

• Smart Device Development radiobutton in datagrid && get "Form handle"

  question 1) how to extends in CF datagrid with columns for a radiobuttonlist and 'deletebutton' it's for marking which row has to be edited or deleted or are there other workarounds to achieve this question 2) I had a problem to get the handle of a form because my control was in a tabcontrol. if I do something like this.Parent.handle or this.Parent.Parent.handle it didn't get the handle of the form ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Standard Replication

  Hi, We are looking into implementing SQL 2005 on one box and have SQL 2005 Reporting Services run on another box with its own replicated database. Mirrioring would not work in this scenario as the primary box has to be down for the secondary box to accept any incoming request. My questions here is Microsoft website states that Transactional replication is supported for SQL 2005 Standard Edition, but I did watch some presentation on microsoft ...Show All

• Windows Forms Best practice to email all our members

  Hi, I need to email everyone who is a member of our organisation and I need to do it from a list held in a dataset. There could be up to 30,000 people in this list. Given that background, is the best practice  to create a mailmes ...Show All

• Visual Basic Process.Start unable to recognize < elemet.

  I'm tring to pass arguments to Process.Start function, but some problem occured. Process.Start("xyz.exe","-a <C:\project\abc.txt") After I execute the above function, it the xyz.exe just hang as it just read until -a, and somehow ignore the "<" element. Is my code correct or this function do not take "<" as part of the input argument Thanks. Lennie This thread is merged and tracked at: http://for ...Show All

• SQL Server Trouble connecting with bcp

  Hi, I'm trying to use the bcp utility to create a format file to import data from a flat file. However, bcp cannot connect to the local instance of SQLEXPRESS. I am able to connect using both Visual Studio 2005 and SSMSE. Here is what I get: snip C:\>bcp SQLEXPRESS.SAMS1DB2.Organization_01A format nul -c -f Organization_01A.fmt -T SQLState = 08001, NativeError = 10061 Error = [Microsoft][SQL Native Client]TCP Provider: No conne ...Show All

• Visual C++ run time errors!

  Why am I getting these errers at run time ////////////////////////// Debug Assertion Failed! File: dbgdel.cpp . . Expressiong: _BLOCK_TYPE_IS_VALID(pHead->nBlockUse) ////////////////////////// Debug Assertion Failed! File: dbgheap.c . . Expressiong: _CrtIsValidHeapPointer(pUserData) ///////////////////////////// Debug Assertion Failed! File: dbgheap.c . . Expressiong: _BLOCK_TYPE_IS_VALID(pHead->nBlockUse) Is there someth ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Implement Subscriptions/My Subscriptions Like Report Manager?

  How to Implement Subscriptions/My Subscriptions Like Report Manager Hello All, We are using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.   We are developing an ASP.NET 2.0 (C#) application to be used as an alternative for Report Manager.  We're now to the point of developing functionality to allow users to view, edit, and delete subscriptions.  Similar to Report Manager, we want to provide both the ability to see all the subscription ...Show All