Spumbu1977's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I cause a desktop icon to be placed during installation of my application?

  When my application is installed on the user's computer, I want an icon to always automatically be placed on his desktop. ClickOnce did not offer this. How can I do it (Visual Basic 2005 Express) The code on my last post is for Windows XP. It may need additional code to handle other versions, but, the idea is the same. Click once installs add the program to the start menu. Just track down the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how to delete the file or folder in version control and keep disappeard?

  in the source code explorer, I check in some files and folders mistakenly into the teamproject, I want to delete them, so I rightclick them, select the "delete" menu, I found the status became "Deleted", but those files and folders still appeared in the source code explorer, how to make them disappeared Thanks a lot! Unfortunately we don't have a good way to clean up "orp ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot install 'SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services'

  I tried to install 'SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services'. First, I uninstalled the old version thru Add/Delete Programs in the Control Panel. My first problem was I didn't have IIS installed on my computer, but, I could not find it in the downloads section. Then the installation aborted because old version databases were in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data. But, it would not let me delete them, sa ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problems with Vibrate API

  Hi, I am using the Vibrate API is C# after PInvoking the native API. [ DllImport ( "aygshell" )] extern public static int Vibrate( uint cvn /*0*/ , IntPtr rgvn /*null*/ , uint fRepeat, uint dwTimeout); This is my call: int result = VibrateAPI .Vibrate(0, IntPtr .Zero, 1 , 10*1000); For some reason I cannot get it to work. Thanks, Piali I've been unable to find the vibrate API working cod ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem referencing a global temporary table

  I'm having difficulty referencing a global temporary table in a stored procedure. My stored procedure will execute correctly for days on end, but then all of a sudden it will stop working and I will get messages like: Invalid object name '##TableName'. and Cannot drop the table '##TableName, because it does not exist in the system catalog. ========================================================================== In my store ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Event log errors RTM Workgroup edition

  I have just installed the workgroup edition on a fresh installation of Windows Server 2003 R2. I'm getting the following errors in the application event log on boot: 1) MS SQL Server - Failure Audit - Event ID 18456 "Login failed for user 'domain\tfsservice'. User: TFSSERVICE Followed by 2) Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 - Error - Event ID 1000 #50070: Unable to connect to the database STS_Config_TFS on THUNDER. Check the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installing over VS 2005 Beta 2

  Question 1: What is the correct way to install VS 2005 Standard over VS 2005 Beta 2. Should Beta 2 first be removed and then install the Standard VS or is it ok to install over the Beta 2 version. Question 2: I have been trying to use the different starter kits and the .vsi files are not recognized by VS 2005 Beta2. I am hoping that by installing VS 2005 Standard this will take care of this issue or is there something else I ne ...Show All

• Visual C++ Retrieving CObArray from method

  Hi, I need to manage a CObArray object in a class, but this object must be retrieved from another class. How can I implement the method of this class to get retrieved the object in the first class raulhsj wrote: Hi, I need to manage a CObArray object in a class, but this object must be retrieved from another class. How can I implement the method of this class to get retrieved the object in the first cla ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System visual studio 2005 beta 2 experience

  I'm trying to sighn up for the visuall studio beta 2 experiance, but when I submitted my detail, I recieved a confirmation email, when I verified and clicked next I got a page saying "We’re sorry, but we were unable to service your request. You may wish to choose from the links below for information about Microsoft products and services." any idea why this is, and how I can sighn up Can you let us know if you co ...Show All

• Visual C# Why must I cast on the way out of an emumeration?

  Hello, It's hardly a major issue, but I do occasionally get irritated when the compiler tells me that something like Logger.Log("portfolio selected", Developers.carlos); doesn't work, because I haven't casted Developers.carlos as an int (which I never think to do, as I have explicitly defined the Developers enumeration as being of type int ( public enum Developers : int )). Just wondered if there was a good reason behind this. Obviou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using VS2005 (beta 2) with custom rules

  Hi, I'm trying to integrate custom FxCop rules using the Code Analysis capabilities of VS2005 beta 2 and I'm hitting some problems :( I've written a very simple custom rule which loads and runs OK under the stand-alone version of FxCop 1.32  I've then changed the FxCop and Cci references (and imports) to hook up to the integrated version of FxCop (SDK under "Team Tools") so I can load the rule for use in the IDE but that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Project manipulation from an add in

  I need to change the value of Copy local based on the active configuation, below is the solution I was given to do this, but it requires I manually edit the project file. This is where the add in comes into play, I am able to get the list of references and such from the project object, so I've got it started at least. However, I'm having trouble with the following: 1) How to add the CopyLocal to the propert Configuration once I have the confi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Code conversion help (C# .NETto VB .NET)

  Here is the code that was posted earlier for how to perform a click event.  I need help changeing it to VB .Net code.  I understand most of it but from "void PerformClick()"  on I'm stumped.  Please help! using  System;  using  System.Windows.Forms;  using  System.Runtime.InteropServices;  using  System.Diagnostics; class  MyForm: Form  {  Process no ...Show All

• SQL Server Only apply border to left and right of stacked column bar chart

  Hi. Is it in anyway possible to only add borders to left and right sides of a column in a bar chart. I can see in the xsl definition schema that style does allow left, right, top, bottom tags. But if i replace the <Default>4.5pt</Default> with left, right, top and bottom and accordingly 4.5pt and None - the result doesnt seem to be any different. What i need to do is to create columns like this where y is for instance Yellow and b i ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I add an "as" clause to my select without a "differs from base query" error?

  If my base query looks something like this: select item_id, price, quantity from sales But I want to have this happen instead... select item_id, price, quantity, price*quantity as gross_sales from sales How can I avoid the warning error "query differs from the base query" warning error at the BindingSource level since I don't seem to be able to change the base query and it won't let me add the modified query I'm using Visual Basic.Net ...Show All