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• Visual Studio Express Editions Windows Forms Opacity where is that ?

  im using vb.net 05 express, im trying to make a transparent form, where is the The Opacity property i been looking everywhere hi, its in the properties table at the bottom under "window style" tab has its value as % or if you want to put it as code it can take value between 0 and 1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Lookup task with NOLOCK

  I have an SSIS package that unpivots data - each row from the source becomes 20-24 rows in the destination db. In the dataflow it looks up some type-data IDs before inserting into the destination table. The whole process flies through the data at an incredible rate, however I find that the final commit on data insertion takes a very long time, and two of the lookup tasks remain yellow throughout. It appears that there may be a contention issue because the final table has FKs to those lookup tables. In T-SQL it is possible to do SELECT..... WITH (NOLOCK), but when I modified the SQL statement of the lookup task by adding this clause, it ca ...Show All

• Visual Basic How can I get the text in a particular textbox NOT to clear when I click on the AddNewItem button?

  I have a form with a text box for a purchase order number. I want the number the user inputs to stay in the text box when the user clicks on the AddNewItem button on the BindingNavigator. Right now every time I click the button, everything is cleared out to start anew. I would like the user te enter the PO number once and it will stay there as each new item is added until the text is manually cleared. Thanks Store the contents prior of the textbox at the start of the AddnewButton click event and then after you have executed the addnewitem method set the text property of the control.... Example Dim StrContents as string = Textb ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cannot display custom password applet at startup

  Hi, I am trying to implement a custom password applet that displays instead of the standard builtin password screen. This was possible using pre-WM5 by creating an applet and setting (amoungst others) the Redirect registry setting for the password control panel applet. Using the letmein msdn example (which i have digitally signed to allow it to load at boot-time), this functionality no longer appears to work - the standard builtin password screen always displays. I have successfully managed to get other signed files to load at boot time. Is there any way to load a custom password applet, or has this functionality been removed in Windows Mobi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application Icon

  In building my WinForms app, I've noted that the Debug exe I'm working on, doesn't have the icon I've specified for the form while I'm viewing the folder in Explorer. When I run the WinForm, the icon is correctly displayed on the taskbar. Do I need to supply the icon in some additional setting while designing the Form, or is this normal for the Debug exe Go to the Solution Explorer, select your project, in context menu select Properties. First page (Application) will contain Resources group on the bottom with Icon selector. ...Show All

• SQL Server ReportWizard.vsz

  Is there a way to modify the reportwizard.vsz file to use a specific report.rdl file instead of the report.rdl file found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Report Designer\ProjectItems\ReportProject Basically I want to add multiple wizards and point each of them to a different report.rdl file. Any help is appreciated. Thanks --devin Sorry, this is not possible. The path to Report.rdl is hardcoded into the wizard. -Albert ...Show All

• SQL Server Information/ErrorCode from FireInformation/Error

  Hi, Very low priority this one... Is there a "free" number range that we should use for the InformationCode/ErrorCode parameter to the FireInformation/FireError methods Currently I just use 1 and -1 respectively. On a similar note...I remember someone from MS (might have been Matt) once saying that a list of all the rror codes would be published at some point. Is this still the plan and if so, where will it be Thanks Jamie It's my understanding that errors, warnings, and informational messages from Microsoft-provided Integration Services components are all included in the HResults class already documented (though without the hex codes ...Show All

• Visual Studio Source Safe Pricing.

  Hello. How much will this product costs to license on server and clients What about if I have MSDN Universal SourceSafe is included in the MSDN Universal. I don't think SourceSafe server is available by itself, but rather as part of VSTS:  http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/mar05/03-21VS2005PR.mspx . ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Culture specific design attributes for CF classes

  Hi! I've wrote my own class for CF and also added .XMTA file for it's design-time. Now I have a problem: how to add, for example, CategoryAttribute with different value for other languages How it is made in CF designers How, for example, System.Data.Constraint.ConstraintName property has attribute Microsoft.CompactFramework.Build.SRCategory Hi IP, The XMTA file and the generated Asmmeta file is not culture aware. However, nothing prevents you from having multiple Asmmeta files for different cultures. The following might work for you: 1. Create multiple xmta files, one for each culture 2. Comp ...Show All

• SQL Server Slow execution of queries inside transaction

  I have some VB.NET code that starts a transaction and after that executes one by one a lot of queries. Somehow, when I take out the transaction part, my queries are getting executed in around 10 min. With the transaction in place it takes me more than 30 min on one query and then I get timeout. I have checked sp_lock myprocessid and I've noticed there are a lot of exclusive locks on different objects. Using sp_who I could not see any deadlocks. I even tried to set the isolation level to Read UNCOMMITED and still have the same problem. As I said, once I execute my queries without being in a transaction everything works great. Can you help ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot get the generic test sample code

  I am trying to complete the walkthrough for generic tests. When I attempt to get the sample code I get a 404 error. The URL is http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/5/1/251FF798-6CD7-418B-9AE2-81906B0C8ED9/Demo.zip.exe . I tried searching MSDN for "generic test sample" and I still have not found what I think I need. I also installed the SDK samples and still did not see it. Where can I get the sample code to complete the walkthrough Jeff Hi Jeff, I just investigated and this is a known issue. We had to pull this topic right before we shipped RTM. The topic will be shipped soon; I'm curr ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect from SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager

  I have two servers, one have SQL Server 2000 and another has CTP2005.  I am trying to register the newly installed CTP 2005 in Enterprise Manager of SQL Server 2000, but failed. I have make sure that SQL Browser is started and TCP/IP protocol is enabled in the configuration manager.  I stopped also all firewalls between the two servers.  But I still cannot find the CTP.  The error message seem to be some Japanese like "...SQL Server Management Studio...SQL Server Management Object(SMO)..." where ...are Japanese. However, I have no problem registering SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server Management Studio. Ple ...Show All

• SQL Server Renamed computer and connected to sql server without problem...

    I have read that if I change "computer name" and then try to startup sql server it will recognize the changes automatically BUT you need to execute sp_dropserver and sp_addserver procedures too in order to set all thing right.But yesterday I tried it on a Personal edition on xp and after reboot sql server came up without any problem and I could connec it without executing sp_dropserver and sp_addserver! Was it a specific situation or no need to those SPs at all -PM: Is there any difference between named or default instances in this context I have read you need those SPs fot both of them,but I doubt now!Just curious! -Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Previous Row Calculations (sql server 2000)

   if anyone know a way that you can look up a value from the previous row in a View to do a calculation on (in sql server 2000) for example: expr1=PreviousRow.Expr1/30 + expr2 - expr3 =100 so the next row is expr1=100/30 + expr2 - expr3 =300 so the third row is expr1=300/30 + expr2 - expr3 =100 or tell me if it not possible please and special thanks to Umachandar Jayachandran - MS for help. the second line is the initial expr1: update #temp set pv = 0 where id = 1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Ad Hoc Reporting?

  Hi all,             anyone know of a technology that permits ad-hoc reporting by the end user.  Someone mentioned Crystal Reports does this but I couldn't find any information, was someone pulling my leg cheers ...Show All