Aziz Ahmedabadwala's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions When will Visual Studio 2005 ship?

  I place an order on November 7 with Amazon for VB2005Pro and still they have not ship it yet because they have no receive stock from Microsoft.   Does anyone know when Microsoft will start shipping the new version I have ordered my copy of VS2005 standard for about 3 weeks now, the delivery date from the supplier has been postponed twice already. Microsoft in Australia says that there is stock available but by looking at the various retailer's sites it does not seem that they have it in stock. 1st delivery schedule was for Nov 23rd, then it went to Dec. 3rd currently ETA Dec. 10th...somehow I don ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Building PocketPC app

  When I try to build a simple app with a label and listbox, I get the following error: Error 1 The specified task executable location "C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\Vbc.exe" is invalid. c:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Microsoft.CompactFramework.VisualBasic.v1.targets 28 9  Please upgrade to RTM (release), make sure beta is properly uninstalled.   ...Show All

• SQL Server How to install sql server 2005 developer edition over sql server express.

  Hi, I have VS 2005 team suite , msdn , vss and sql server express 2005 edition installed on my windows xp system. Now I want's to installed sql server 2005 developer edition instead of sql server express edition.Also I have some important Databases so i don't want's to delete them want's them to be appear in sql server 2005 developer edition(which I am going to install.(I don't want's the sql server express instance) I have copied files from sql server 2005 developers edition dvd to my system.It contains two folders 1,Servers 2,tools and a file named autorun.inf which contains text [autorun] shellexecute=Servers\splas ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. directx integration with vs2005 is missing

  I have installed vs2005 on a clean system and next I installed dx9sdk 2005 october. During setup the tab with utilities could not be expanded to let me select integration with vs2005 and it did not by default install. What I am looking for is the shader debugger, which I would like to run from within the vs2005 ide through the debug/directx/start with directx debugging How do I get this integration up and running If this is the wrong "group" to ask in then please redirect me. I see no more relevant dx group in this forum and on the regular newsgroups there is little or no activity and no asnwers. So this sh ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Unable to create .NET class in VBA

  I'm trying to use a .NET DLL from VBA, but i keep getting a error message in VBA: "Run-time error '-2147024894 (80070002)': "File or assambly name ClassLibrary1, or one of its dependincies, was not found." I'm running VS 2005 and I have selected "Register for COM interop" and "Make assembly COM visible" in the properties window for the project. The code is rather simple C#: namespace ClassLibrary1 { public interface IClass1 { bool getTrue();} [ ClassInterface ( ClassInterfaceType .AutoDual)] public class Class1 : IClass1 { public Class1 (){ } public bool getTrue() { return true ;} } } And the VBA code is also ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Debuggin Assertion Error

  Here I include the error Assert message at the bottom of file and the Call Stack message that I recieve with the debugger, please any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help. E.C. Call Stack CObArray::ElementAt(int 1) line 196 + 46 bytes CObArray::operator[](int 1) line 210 + 19 bytes CSerializeDoc::DeleteContents() line 228 + 15 bytes CDocument::OnNewDocument() line 682 CSerializeDoc::OnNewDocument() line 45 + 8 bytes CSingleDocTemplate::OpenDocumentFile(const char * 0x00000000, int 1) line 151 + 11 bytes CDocManager::OnFileNew() line 829 CWinApp::OnFileNew() line 29 _AfxDispatchCmdMsg(CCmdTarget ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Persisting layout for State workflow in designer control

  Hello, is there a way to persist the layout of a state workflow in the workflow designer control sample I can persist the Xoml to file and re-load it, but when I do all the states are drawn on top of one another in the top left corner of the view. Hi Don, The layout information is persisted in SUO file in case of VS projects and since the re-hosted designer does not have one, you are seeing the problem. I have logged a suggestion for this functionality in Beta2. Thanks, Vihang ...Show All

• SQL Server Accessing April CTP OLAP cube from Excel 2003

  I installed Office 2003 first on a Windows XP machine. I then installed SQL 2005 April CTP. When I try accessing cubes from Excel, I get the error "An error was encountered in the transport layer" This error occurs when I try to setup the connection to my OLAP cube. Thanks for any help you can offer Taylor I did all things you mentioned before and it still does not working. Could it be a problem that I have installed OWC10 and then I installed OWC11 I have also installed "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Analysis Services 9.0" and I registered msolap90.dll and unregistered msolap80.dll and none of this helped. Maybe other DLL' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Populating/selecting/manipulating windows file names in a checked list box

  After many hours of trying to solve this problem I can't proceed without some assistance. Thanks Shakalama for the previous helpful information. I need to read in multiple windows filenames into a checked listbox component with the multiselect option. Wrox page s855-857 has some clues but I still can't solve my problem. After the following initialisation: Me .lblApplicationStatus.Text = "Started to retrieve text files..." OpenFileDialog1.Title = _ "Select the required text files..." OpenFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "c:\ACCESS\somefoldername" OpenFileDialog1.FileName = " " ...Show All

• Visual Basic Uninstall file

  Hi, Can someone tell me where to find the uninstall file for any given program Where is it normally located Or else, if it has to be created, then how can I go about doing that Thanks a lot. The uninstall file's name isn't standard for all programs, it's usually Uninstall.exe , if you are sure what is its name use this code : Private Function UninstallFilePath( ByVal ProgramPath As String ) As String UninstallFilePath = ProgramPath.Substring( 0 , ProgramPath.LastIndexOf( "\" )) & "\Uninstall.exe" 'To run this file call Process.Start(UninstallFilePath) End Function ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions insert filename into SQL Table

  Hi I'm just not getting this but how can you insert the filename into a table. I managed to upload a file from website to my hard drive but now what to save the filename to a field in the database. Can someone please help Here's the code for aspx file and following the code for aspx.vb file: <% @ Page Language ="VB" MasterPageFile ="~/MasterPage.master" AutoEventWireup ="false" CodeFile ="AddFoundImage.aspx.vb" Inherits ="MemberPages_AddFoundImage" title ="Untitled Page" %> < asp : Content ID ="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderI ...Show All

• Visual C# GDI+ Multi Thread

  I am using GDI+ to draw to the graphics object when an OnPaint event occurs. However, if you draw lots of things, the form becomes unresponsive until all of the drawing is done. Is there anyway to put the OnPaint event in another thread, so the form can remain responsive while the painting occurs hi, i think this might help you                     //this will make your application wait to perform something if you                     / ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS not seeing all accounts properly

  I'm having multiple issues that all seem to point to TFS not seeing all the accounts it should.  First up, when I run reports, I get the following errors: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot impersonate user for data source 'CurrituckDS'. (rsErrorImpersonatingUser) Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed) For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors Secondly, the list for the "Assigned To" dropdown doesn't include a large majority of the accounts that should be in the Team Foundation Valid Users group.  For at least on ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to compile my C++/CLI classes in VC++ 2005 using Microsoft .NET framework 1.1?

  This post is related to my previous post, http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=358605&SiteID=1 The problem that I had is the DLL which I builded in VC++ 2005 using .NET framework 2.0. Is there anyway to specified my output DLL is target for .NET framework 1.1 during compilation I am tried by adding app.config file to my project, by it would not work. My app.config file look like below: < configuration > < startup > < supportedRuntime version = " v1.1.4322 " /> < supportedRuntime version = " v1.0.3705 " /> </ startup > </ configuration > ...Show All

• Windows Forms Editable datagrid

  Hi. Can anyone point me to an example of an editable datagrid in VB.NET Windows Forms  I have seen many examples on the ASP version of the datagrid but nothing using the Windows Form version of the control. Regards, Rinaldo hi,  i've used   dataadpater.update(dataset,tablename); to update data from data grid, but the database doesnt gets updated.  wht co ...Show All