Kablambo's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Indexing

  My indexing seems to be perpetually stuck on "Waiting for status update...". I added an extension of * which I think might've caused it, but now how can I fix it I can't click on the buttons because they're disabled. I too am having the same problem with beta 2, has anyone found any solutions ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VISUAL BASIC EXPRESS - 2 COPIES

  Several weeks ago I installed VB Express from a CD On Friday I installed Visual Studio Express from a DVD which I received from Microsoft. Do I now have 2 copies of VB Express on my computer If I do , can I use the Uninstall program to delete the 1st VB Express installation Visual Basic Express Edition is a product that can be individually installed and uninstalled. If you want to uninstall it you should be able to find it in the add and remove programs in the control panel. I have not heard of a Visual Studio Express Edition. Do you mean the full Visual Studio 2005 product If you have VS2005 installed VBEE will be red ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Serial Port DataReceived Event in .Net 2.0

  Hi there, This is driving me crazy, I cannot seem to get the DataRecieved event to work on the Pocket PC using the new serial port class in Visual Studio 2005 with C#. The DataRecieved event just never seems to be called. I can write data to the port just fine. Here is some very simple sample code that reproduces the error:. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.IO.Ports; namespace SerialTest {     public partial class Form1 : Form     {       ...Show All

• SQL Server Complex Transformations (SSIS components vs TSQL)

  Greetings SSIS friends, I have been attempting to implement one of our numerous ETL processes in SSIS but hit a brick wall when I tried replacing a complex stored procedure with a series of Merge Join components. In the end, I had to settle with using a SQL task which merely calls the stored procedure and this proved to be the better option as the other version where I used SSIS components only took forever to run. How do people cope with complex transformations ! Do you guys opt for pure TSQL to perform complex transformations and use SSIS components for control flow+simple(ish) data flow tasks I am confused. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Migration to TFS from VSS - complicated project structure

  I am currently brain-storming the best way for our organisation to structure TFS Team Projects.   I have successfully completed a test migration which simply migrated our current VSS root directory to a top-level TFS Team Project. However, we have a complicated and fairly large VSS database so we will want the actual migration to be a bit cleverer.  I plan to use the migration as an opportunity to do some reorganisation of the project structure by utilising the VSSConverter.exe tool's "ProjectMap" node in the migration_settings xml.  My questions are as follows: 1) In the migration_settings.xm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# & Regional settings

  I have a COM Interop DLL written in C#. I create an instance of it in VB. The DLL does not seem to pick up any change in regional settings while the instance in VB is still active. On restarting the VB session, all is well. Is there some way of ensuring that the DLL picks up the latest regional setting Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development Where is System.Date.OleDB and .ODBC for .NET 2.0 and C#?

  I'm just getting started with VS 2005 and am trying to modify a database connection that is currently using System.Data.SQLClient. The application is using written in .NET 2.0 and C#. When I try adding "using System.Data.ODBC" or "using System.Data.OleDB" in the .cs file, I am getting error messages that.. " Compilation Error Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately. Compiler Error Message: CS0234: The type or namespace name 'OBDC' does not exist in the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF Custom Control project related issue

  Hey all, Using the Feb CTP, if you generate a Custom Control project, it looks like it's not easy to use it from an application. Or perhaps I did something wrong. I created a simple UserControl derived control (the default) and added an Ellipse into it. Compiled it. Then I created a WPF application, added a reference to this control library. But now, there's no way I can use it from the XAML for the main window. It won't recognize the control at all - not even the fully qualified name. I also tried to add it directly to the toolbox and got an error message that said that there were no controls in that assembly that could be added to ...Show All

• .NET Development Fix: Confirmed "BUG" in VS2005 - Microsoft Access, SourceSafe (Operation must use an updateable query.)

  Hi ! Just wanted to let you all know about a problem I strugled with for some time before I found the solution. To recreate the problem do this: 1) Create a windows form project that uses a access database as its data storage. 2) Add the project to the sourcesafe (note that the database will be added aswell) 3) Now try run the project in debug mode and you will receive the error when you try to update/add any data to the database "Operation must use an updateable query". The problem here is that since the database is added to sourcesafe, its been set to "Read Only". The "Read Only" flag does not change when the files are copied to the bin/De ...Show All

• Windows Forms New installation issues

  Hi, I downloaded the server (Beta 1) for Terrarium.   I am checking both the database and web site checkboxes on the installation wizard.   The installation starts and I get a progress bar that moves along. However before I get to the end of the installation I get the following error: "Exception occured while initializing the installation: System.IO.FileNotFound ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office sheet change event target (range) and named range

  Is there a simple way of finding out that the change event target (which is a range) is part of a named range without matching cell references or addresses I have sheet that has a named range on it and I am creating several copies of this sheet via code (copy method). Throuble is there is no code behind for me to put the sheet's named range change event and handler so I thought I will handle sheet change events and figure out if the change happened in cells/range that is defined within the named ranges. This is manageable for one or two named ranges per sheet but gets a bit messy after that. I am new to the VSTO and Excel object model so I ...Show All

• .NET Development Nested queries to populate a DataSet using OdbcDataAdapter

  The class listed below uses a CSV file and OdbcDataAdapter object to populate a DataSet using a nested query BUT I keep getting an Access Violation exception when I call OdbcDataAdapter.Fill(). The message is: "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." This is written in VS 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0). Are nested queries in the SelectCommand() method of the OdbcDataAdapter object not valid I essentially need to execute this SQL query to populate the DataSet with different pressure/temp combinations.  The query executes perfectly in Query Analyzer:  SELECT Value,Pressure ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions German Edition

  Hey, I downloaded Microsoft Basic Express Edition. It's a English edition (of corse). Does anybody know if there is a German edition available Thanks for answering! Greetings Jorg Haxter Hi Jorg, Yes, it's available - see the following posy for a link: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=190045&SiteID=1 Steve Hoag Visual Basic Express ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Exception error on all programs I build now...

  I'm getting the following exception error on Windows 2000 machines now. I wasn't before, and I don't know what I changed. See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WaitForWaitHandle(WaitHandle waitHandle) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.MarshaledInvoke(Control caller, Delegate method, Object[] args, Boolean synchronous) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method, Object[] args) at System.Wind ...Show All

• SQL Server Merge join

  Hi, folks: I am now testing merge join with results not expected. I have two OLE data source (one from Oracle, one from SQLSERVER) then I do a merge join with the key LOCATION_ID OLE DATA SOURCE 1                  OLE DATA SOURCE 2 --------------------                  -------------------- Location_id   volume                  location_id   shortname 123    ...Show All