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• Visual Basic unhandled exception error

  hello all, I am getting an error when I try to run my project.  I am using VB.Net 2003. The error states: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException' occurred in ScottsClientTracker.exe. The following is the code it's stopping at: Public Overloads Shared Function ExecuteDataset(ByVal connectionString As String, ByVal commandType As AccessCommand, ByVal commandText As String) As DataSet    &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to format numbers in XAML?

  Is there a way to specify how numeric variables are displayed in XAML (a la String.Format) I want to set number of decimal places, if there's a thousands separator, etc. The only thing I've thought of so far is to format the numeric data as a string and bind the string...not exactly what I'd like to do. At some point, I'm also going to need numeric data entry, but it doesn't look like there's a control for that in WPF yet. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Business Scorecard Manager 2005 database problem

  Hi, I’m having a problem with my Business Scorecard Manager 2005. It’s installed, but it doesn’t make a connection with the database (SQL 2005 Enterprise). Even with the templates that it already has, the connections that he tries to make are to tables that do not exist. If i try to create a connection string to an existing database, it also gives me an error. How can i solve this Thanks As I understand it, the tem ...Show All

• SQL Server trouble installing SQL Server Desktop Engine

  laptop profile: XP pro I'm trying to install the SQL desktop engine, but I'm having trouble. First I got the "A Strong password is required for security reasons. Please use SAPWD switch to supply the same." I opened up the "setup.ini" and under [Options] I entered in: setup SAPWD=" AStrongSAPwd " (taken from http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=190587&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. in managed directx, Materials are black if I create more than one mesh

  I'm using the cool example from the managed directx wiki. http://pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Craig.DirectX/MeshBasicsTutorial.html I created an object that took the mesh name and the device as arguments and have their own render methods. It works perfectly if I only make and render one Mesh but if I render two the materials seem to disapear, every surface of the mesh is totally black except for where there are textures, those parts render ...Show All

• SQL Server Date export from SQL Server-Oracle (case sensitive)

  This will be a long post, but it is a complicated problem. Situation: We have 3 databases involved. Progress is the production database. SQL Server is the data warehouse. Oracle houses the combined financial data between Progress (via the data warehouse) and our other Oracle databases. Problem: 1. Data is imported successfully into SQL Server from Progress using a SQL script written by an INFOR technician Example: IF object_id ( ' ...Show All

• Visual C# Print word Document

     for print Document i have used the following code  Word.Application ObjWord = new Word.Application(); //Create Word Application             object M = Type.Missing; //M is missing...hi..hi             object V = StrFileName; //Convert to Object..            ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. how get the ray of shot

  How to get the ray is the line in the center of screen direct to the space. In the SDK, Pick example is not a common model. I want to get the ray like the Pick in my program,How to do how to get the vPickRayOrig and vPickRayDir. If you only ever want the ray going directly from the middle of the screen through world space, then can't you just use the properties of your camera (view matrix) The vector defined by the "eye" and "look at" com ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Positioning a sprite.

  This is my first real directX attempt, and it doesn't seem to be going too well. Here's my "render" method, that gets continually called. (C#)             device.Clear(ClearFlags.Target, System.Drawing.Color.Blue, 1.0f, 0);             device.BeginScene();             Bitmap grass = new Bitmap("c:\\gras ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions icons in video lessons

  where can i donwload the icons there a being use in the video http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualCSharp/learning/ I was getting the same problem last night, the servers that you are logging onto might have had a problem. Logged in this morning and it is all working fine. ...Show All

• .NET Development windows service process flow

  I have created a windows service in c# and it works fine but i have a question in my mind: In my service constructor i call a method to initialiaze all variables which are defined from app.config. and in OnTimer method, service does what it should. So at each interval it starts its job. I was thinking about process flow of my service application and i thought it should work like this : when i start Service i am actually making one instance of th ...Show All

• Visual C# System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventHandler Not Working For Me

  I can't figure out why this event is not being raised in my application. This is not my actual app but it is a simplified application that i created to try and figure out why my application is not working and even the simplified app doesnt work.  I am attempting to trigger the event with a device called the NetCallerID which is a caller ID that sends its data to the serial port of my PC.  I have tested the hardware in HyperTerminal and ...Show All

• SQL Server Execution of Package failed

  I am trying to design package which would copy all tables and stored procedures from one server to another. It used to be simple task in SQL 2000, there was wizard. However the new wizard does not work... I wrote SSIS package, but when I execute I get the following error: "Can not apply value null to property Login..." Any idea It seems to me that this new SQl2005 is not that simple to use like 2000. 2000 was a great product. I am consider ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce, assembly validation failed.

  Ok, I have a very strange problem. I have a class library and I create a windows forms application that uses it. I Publish it as a ClickOnce online only setup. When I try to run it it fails the validation and I get: ERROR DETAILS Following errors were detected during this operation. * [01/06/06 9:47:45 PM] System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (RefDefValidation) - Reference in the manifest does not match the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installing an updated Process Template

  I have downloaded the newest build of the MSF Agile process template.  I would like to install it into my Beta 2 VSTS install put don't see how to do that other than just overwrite the existing files.  The web site says to read the ReadMe file after extraction but that file does not exist.  Any help would be appreciated. You have run into a version issue. The CMMI process template was made to be us ...Show All