LaxAtMsdn's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Installing SQL Server 2005 Express edition

  I'm trying to install the latest SQL Server Express downloaded from Microsoft. I've followed all instructions on the download page but get the message concerning Incompatible Components being found on my machine. To my knowledge I have never installed any previous components from any betas or other previous versions. Nor have I had a previous version of .Net Framework 2.0 on my machine. Just in case, I've checked Add/Remove Programs and run the removal tool as recommended on the Microsoft site. The tool reports that it can't find any components! If I knew what to look for I'd go through the Registry to manually uninstall any problem keys. Th ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with Stored Procedure

  Hi. I'm having problems with the stored procedure listed below. I have two rows in my forumcategory table, and two rows in my forum table. The query returns each forum row twice. Can anyone see what causes this Help would be highly appreciated! Thanks! ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.Forum_GetAll AS /* SET NOCOUNT ON */ SELECT DISTINCT F.ForumID, F.ForumCategoryID, F.Name, F.Description, F.FromDate, F.ToDate, TC.Threads, MC.Posts, LP.LastPostDate, LP.MemberID AS LastPostByMemberID, LP.ForumMessageID AS LastPostID, LP.DisplayName AS LastPostUsername FROM Forum F RIGHT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT COUNT (*) AS Threads , ForumID FROM ...Show All

• .NET Development how to represent xml document on treeviewer using c#

  I am student and i am biggener user of c# I want to represent xml document on treeviewer can any personne help me thanks As a quote from a MSDN Article : try { // Create a DOM Document and load the XML data into it. XmlDocument dom = new XmlDocument(); dom.Load(textBox1.Text); // Initialize the TreeView control. treeView1.Nodes.Clear(); treeView1.Nodes.Add( new TreeNode(dom.DocumentElement.Name)); TreeNode tNode = new TreeNode(); tNode = treeView1.Nodes[ 0 ]; // Populate the TreeView with the DOM nodes. AddNode(dom.DocumentElement, tNode); treeView1.ExpandAll(); } catch (Xml ...Show All

• Visual C# how to make an application that loads automatically when windows start??

  i want to make a c# application that automatically loads when the windows starts how can i do that through the program Add the filename of your program to the registry at HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run using Microsoft.Win32; RegistryKey key = Registry .CurrentUser.OpenSubKey( @"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" , true ); key.SetValue( "MyAppName" , Application .ExecutablePath, RegistryValueKind .String); key.Flush(); key.Close();   ...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

• Windows Live Developer Forums Windows Live Messenger Newsgroup

  It seems a public Windows Live Messenger newsgroup has been set up: URL: microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger Subscribe with your default newsreader: click here I just set up an online page where you can read the MSN Messenger newsgroups: http://www.messenger-news.com/groups/ Update: it seems you can also view it online at Microsoft.com ! ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid

  Hi, Please help me in this: I have a datagrid. The first column of datagrid is ClickableBooleanColumn which contain checkbox. This is done to facilitate multiple deletion. The problem is when I press space bar in one of the columns of the datagrid, the focus moves the first column (Checkbox column). This mostly occurs in the columns where the user has to ty ...Show All

• .NET Development tabControl bugs in VB.Net 2003

  I have been working with tabControls quite a bit lately and have noticed a couple of annoying bugs.  One of these bugs are that I set the order of my tab pages collection and when I compile my project the tab pages end up in a different order all by themselves.  Another problem is that when I try to delete objects that are on tab pages I am unable to do so by right clicking and clicking on delete; the delete, copy, and cut options are greyed out.  Selecting the object and pressing delete doesn't work most of the time either.  The only thing that does work sometimes is to delete the control from the "Windows form designer ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server authentication mode in 'Transfer SQL Server Objects Task' gives error

  I was trying to transfer a SQL Server 2000 database  to SQL Server 2005 using SQL Server Objects Task. However, The following error message was encountered:   "[Transfer SQL Server Objects Task] Error: Execution failed with the following error: "Cannot apply value null to property Login: Value cannot be null..".“   Once I changed the authentication mode from SQL Server authentication to Windows Authentication for the connections in connections manager, the package got executed successfully. Can anyone tell me why the package was giving this error with the SQL Server authentication, while works fine ...Show All

• Visual C++ CComVariant LPSTR and LPOLESTR

  I'm porting some code from VC++ 2003 to VC++ 2005 and started receiving a very strange linker error: unresolved external symbol "class ATL::CTraceCategory ATL::atlTraceException" ( atlTraceException@ATL@@3VCTraceCategory@1@A) unresolved external symbol "public: static class ATL::CTrace ATL::CTrace::s_trace" ( s_trace@CTrace@ATL@@2V12@A) unresolved external symbol _AtlTraceVA After commenting out everything until I hit the "bad" code, I found the following line to be the offender: CComVariant vBarName(L"Standard"); I tried replacing this with: CComVariant vBarName("Standard"); and even: BSTR bstr1 = SysAllocString(L "Standard" ); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Reading from COM ports

  Hi I'm experimenting with the capabilities of COM ports and .NET. Is there a way to 'listen' to a com port instead of reading. Suppose an other program is using the port can I 'listen' what the program is saying to the port This is my reading code : Dim com1 As IO.Ports.SerialPort = My .Computer.Ports.OpenSerialPort( "COM2" ) TextBox1.AppendText(com1.ReadLine() & NewLine) While com1.ReadLine <> Nothing TextBox1.AppendText(com1.ReadLine() & NewLine) End While ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums outlook code modification

  the following code executes in the some machines..but it fails in some machines...please help and point out the line to be modified var app= new ActiveXObject("Outlook.Application") nameSpace = app.GetNamespace("Mapi") var AddLists = nameSpace.AddressLists var AddEntries = AddLists.Item(1).AddressEntries var AddEntry = AddEntries.GetFirst for(i=1;i<AddEntries.Count;i++) { alert(AddEntry.Address); AddEntry = AddEntries.GetNext; } Per our support engineer: There is a little problem: for (i=1;i<AddEntries.Count;i++) this is the problem. If there is only one record in outloo ...Show All

• Visual C++ implementaion of unwinding

  I have troubles finding information on this subject, so I'll try to ask here: What kind of unwinding mechanism implementation is used by VC8.0 Is it the same old and slow 'update structure on the stack while we go' (like it was up to VC7.1) Or MS finally decides to go after GCC & others by separating successfull execution path on compile stage (which is significantly more efficient) Bye. Sincerely yours, Michael. (1)(a) " __try/__catch instead of range checks " -- just as before: I hope you know what you are doing. Invalid data usage results not only in AV or DIV -- it could also results in memory ...Show All

• Windows Forms antenna sample flaws

  I want to use the antenna feature... Setting an antenna state is easy.  How can I read it on an animal that I have in my target list - the objects that are returned via scan() Sounds like you may be using an older version of the Terrarium Client  If you view the items in the OrganismBase assembly in the VS.NET object&n ...Show All

• SQL Server impoert and export data

  where is the import and export data function in sql server 2005 express i have a data in ms access which i want to import to sql server 2005 express.. thank you   erd wrote: do you have to uninstall the existing sql server 2000 enterprise edition to install the sql server 2005 trial version does it have to be clean install Hi erd, you don't necessary have to. However to do an 'upgrade' you have to ensure that your system has the meet sql 2005's minimum requirement stated in the sql2005 details website as well as doing some preparation work before performing the upgrade. Its adviseable to foll ...Show All