MaryJones's Q&A profile

• SQL Server store and retrieve files to/from database

  Hi! I want to store files (.doc/.ppt/.wmv) to SQL Server 2005 database and retrieve them. Can anybody help me with that Thanks in anticipation, Abby http://spaces.msn.com/baxiabhishek Hi, that should be no problem, whcih coding language are you using HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Uninstalling express editions

  How to uninstall express editions of MS VS 2005 Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs doesn't work, the same message pops up: "Setup is unable to determine valid ordering for installation". have a look at the faq post at the top of these groups, there is a section on uninstalling the Express IDES, follow the link and try the tools that the post suggests. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express Icon

  Earlier versions of SQL had an icon in the system tray - which was very useful. I cannot seem to find how you activate this in 2005. Also you could schedule a job MSDE 2000 to, say, backup a database. I can't find how you do this in SQL Express. The system tray icon app is not shipped as part of SQL Server 2005, there are several alternative versions in the comunity. You are correct SQL Server 2000 h ...Show All

• Windows Forms Balloon tip

  A built-in control to display balloon tips on a given control (currently I'm using 3rd party libraries and self-written components to do this via a Platform SDK invocation). Check out this ToolTipExt - http://component.cheapcard.com.au ...Show All

• Visual C# Why to use Interface IDbConnection,IDbDataAdapter .Its real time use????

  Hi, I could not understand real use of this syntax IDbConnection myConn = new SqlConnection();  IDbConnection myConn = new OleDbConnection();   IDbConnection myConn = new OdbcConnection();   We can also use for SqlConnection System.Data.SqlClient's SqlConnection class . Then why to use Interfaces.... Please give architectural benefit....any example will be more help full. regards ashok  Hi As ...Show All

• .NET Development Framework 2.0 beta2 breaks IIS 6.

  Hi all, I just installed a fresh copy of Windows 2003 Enterprise RTM x64.  Then I installed VS2005 beta2.  Finally, I installed SQL Server 2005 April 2005 CTP.  Here is the problem.  The framework broke IIS6 completely!  For some reason my application pool is not starting up. Here is the error from the event log: "ISAPI Filter 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50215\aspnet_filter.dll' could not be loaded ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Will more processor types be supported in the VS 05 release

  Hi - A question to somenoe 'on the inside': On the 'Platforms' panel we get: Instruction sets:    ARMV4  When the 'real deal' gets here, will there be some other goodies like     Mips and SH3... Thanks - John Yes, it's true for 2002, 2003, 2003SE and WM 05. This it NOT true for PPC 2000 (and older), but it's long gone. Custom CE can run on various processors as well. WM 05 is ARMV4I flavor, ot ...Show All

• .NET Development C# ADO.Net Not consistent in reading text files/ records

  hi, i have a small program that reads a text file. but it seems that it's not reading correct records. because i have 220 records but it can read only 219. but when i create a link in ms access it can read those records w/ no problems. kindly take a look on my code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using Pervasive.D ...Show All

• Windows Forms Switch connectionstring for TableAdapter

  TableAdapter is great. But, each TableAdapter needs itself connectionstring. Now, I need to switch Sql Server database, do I need to reset connectionsstring for my more than 50 TableAdapters Is there a better way to do it Thanks I still don't understand why you said connectionString in app.config doesn't work for TableAdapter. Why do you think it doesn't work I use it all in my project. In my TableAdapter ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS based on wss 3.0 (beta)

  Could TFS be deployed on the new released WSS 3.0(beta) OK, I've found this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=441445&SiteID=1 So the short answser is NO. However, the good news is that the future version of TFS will support WSS 3.0. But I still have a related question on this. I have a TFS and WSS 2.0 installed on a Windows Server 2003. Could I install WSS 3.0 side by side with TFS and older WSS on the same m ...Show All

• Visual C++ problem with afximpl.h in VC2005

  I'm working on a library that has to continue to compile in VC6, but also support up to VC2005. We have this block of code all over the place: #ifndef __OXMFCIMPL_H__ #if _MFC_VER < 0x0700 #include <..\src\afximpl.h> #else #include <..\src\mfc\afximpl.h> #endif And src\MFC\afximpl.h continues to exist in VC2005, but I get these errors: Error 1 error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '<' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help on editing a map

  Little background: I'm trying to build a azimuth and elevation calculator for antenna pointing for tracking satellites. I've built a form which performs the calculations and displays the azimuth and elevation depending on the lat/long of the satellite antenna and satellite subpoint. Everything works great. I'm trying to work on the asthetics of the form now. I want to add a map to the form. On the map, I would like crosshairs that pinpoint th ...Show All

• SQL Server Full-Text Search -- What Thesaurus does it use??

  can't find a full-text search forum .. decided to post it here... Here's what I find in documentation on FREETEXT Generates inflectional forms of the words (stemming). Identifies a list of expansions or replacements for the terms based on matches in the thesaurus.  Question: which thesaurus does it use Because it definitely doesn't pick up on synonyms from the Office thesaurus.. nevermind... found the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Extending VS2005

  Hi all, I have a custom tool pane to aid in the documenting of our source code, but i have no idea how to read the line where the cursor is at in the editor, i need this to see what Methode or type i have selected.. Could anyone point me in the right direction Greetings Well that makes sense because I put the interface name down wrong.  Try searching for IVsCompletionSetBuilder.  That will teach me to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Key Handling

  I'm working on a hex editor as a practice project to teach myself VB.NET.  So far it has been going well, but I ran into something that I'm not sure how to deal with.  I want to let a user type characters into the ascii  ...Show All