Olav Tollefsen's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Transfer Access database into SQL Server 2005 Express

  Hi, A question regarding SQL Server 2005 Express edition. Is it possible to export Access databases into SQL databases without using programming (e.g. using SQL and programming languages) I understand you can do this with DTS, but the Express edition seems not have DTS. Many thanks Yuelin Hello i found a way of getting around of it: using the Upsize Wizard from Access. I have successfu ...Show All

• Visual Basic help designing guitar sheet music interface (custom forms, musical notes)

  Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to design the interface for a program that creates and plays musical notes. I was thinking about creating a control tray with musical notes that could be draged over to a staff control. before playing the staff could validate that the combination of notes matched the time signature. Since i have never developed custom controls in .net i was wondering if anyone had advice on what base ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS Lan Service working randomly

  Hi, The Lan Booster service works randomly here. Sometimes everything is ok, and sometimes, for the very same operations, for the same database/project and on the same system, I get the following message: Unable to use SourceSafe LAN service, performance of SourceSafe operations will not be optimal. The service is running on the system hosting the database. Known problem I'm not very familiar with DFS, but I think that you're access ...Show All

• Visual C# create gif

  does anybody has a simple idea how to create .gif image with c# do you want to create one (like draw a box from scratch) or make a gif from some other image. System.Drawing and System.Drawing.Imaging and System.Drawing.2D are all classes that deal with writing / copying images. hth, mcm ...Show All

• Windows Forms Delete multiple directory in file system

  Is there any way we can delete multiple directory at the same time without cleaning the children I have over 200 folders on the project and I don't really want go one by one to delete the content inside the folder before deleting the folder itself. When I'm trying to delete it is saying: Cannot delete folder, folder is not empty or it might contain excluded files, which are not shown. I can't beleive I will need to do one by one.... ple ...Show All

• Windows Forms Refresh dataSource of DataGrid in Thread (WInForms)

  Hi In my application I need to refresh DataGrid every 10 sec. When I try to refresh data source in DG in thread method I got this message: "A first chance exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll" Does anybody could help me, or explain what should I do. Thanks Tom You will need to post more information. What is the message of the exception (the argument and why it is invali ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add connection wizard fails with Access database

  I have the RTM version installed. I am quite puzzled at this wizard. It works fine with SqlClient. But for Access databases, this wizard completely fails. In this wizard, I only have one option to do - setting the ConnectionString. I set it to Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=D:\path\abc.mdb, which works fine in my code. But when I click OK, it complains: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 and 2000

  When SQL Server 2005 finally ships, will one be able to install it on a machine with SQL Server 2000 already installed Where can I find instructions to install SQL Server 2005 Developer on same box as SQL Server 2000 Developer Do you want to select the SQL Server Database Services 8.00.761 for upgrade during the SQL Server 2005 installation I want to make sure I don't mess it up. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Remote access timeouts in VSS 2005

  Hi, I'm setting up a VSS2005 database. It is accessible with http. For small projects it seems to work fine, but when we try to add or open a larger project, the webservice is throwing errors, wich state it are timeouts. I'm looking for a solution to this problem, or a setting to make the webservice timout a higher value. I hope someone here can help me with that! thx in advance. Ivo Ivo, You can increase th ...Show All

• Visual C++ CFileDialog.DoModal() Crashes When Hint box is about to appear.

  I have a strange crashing problem in an application developed on Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. The crash comes during a function call to CFileDialog.DoModal(). The problem seems to relate to the "hint" box that appears if you let the mouse pointer linger over a file. If the mouse pointer registers over a file with an unregistered file type, then a hint box appears indicating the file type (e.g. ".slg file"). You the ...Show All

• Visual C# IVsaSite vs ICodeCompiler

  I have an application that makes extensive use of IVsaSite, specifically it generates VB code, and adds a number of "Global" objects such as an execution context, value evaluators,.....  Now that I have upgraded to .NET 2.0 all IVsaSite references are considered to be obsolete and will not be supported in the future.  The warning message suggests using ICodeCompiler instead, however I can find no way of allow access to named global ...Show All

• SQL Server Gurus: Please help! SSIS package using custom dll fails on server

  I have a SSIS package that has a script component. In the script I reference a custom dll that contains some functions. The dll is registerd with a strong name in the GAC on my machine and the SQL Server 2005 box. The package works fine in Visual Studio. The problem lies when I deploy the package to the server. (note: several other packages created without the dll work fine on the server). Is there something else that has to be configur ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll Problem

  Hi there, can someone possibly tell me why Noton WinDoctor is telling me that 10 executables in the .NET Framework 2.0 cannot access the necessary dll file msvcr80.dll I see that the dll exists in the WinSxS directory and I'm running XP pro. I didn't have this problem until I downloaded the 2.0 framework at windows update. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Naolin Thank you for sharing the solution to this msvcr80. ...Show All

• Windows Forms how using RasDialDlg() in API

     hello , how are you please i want ask about how i can using RasDialDlg() function in API to connect the internet by dialup and what is the it structure by C# Thank you Ahmed Osama Try posting your question on the Microsoft Newsgroups. These forums are only for technical programming questions on the Windows Forms technology.   http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Decription for :: COM301 VE Final Demo

  Is it possoble for someone to add a description to " COM301 VE Final Demo " I launched it to see, it seems to show both users the same map. Does it do anything else Point taken Andrew.  Thanks for the feedback.  -Scott ...Show All