susan8's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Lost Vista Key

  I am unable to activate my copy of Windows Vista Beta 2. I am unsure as to why, the documentation states that it should work for up to 10 PC's. I did have a problem with my initial install with the antivirus causing the system to go haywire and had to do a completely clean install. When I did the reinstall I lost all of the email (oops I forgot to copy it the 2d time around, not usually a problem except for this ) I had, thus losing my keys for ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Help

  Ive Downloaded Visual C# 2005 & the MSDN from the site and have watched every video and pretty much understand whats going on my question is where do i go from here to learn more about the language. Would like to know more about functions and the different Librarys and how to use them. Thanks :) QuickStarts in .NET Framework SDK is a great place to explore .NET Framwork. You can install all samples in QuickStart locally on your machine ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot deploy data source DataSource to the server because it already exists and OverwriteDataSources is not specified

  When I deploy the reports I get the following warning Cannot deploy data source DataSource1 to the server because it already exists and OverwriteDataSources is not specified Is there any way of specifying Overwrite data source. Any suggestion is highly appreciated. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is this component thread safe?

  Hi I have a singleton class/component created in C#. It job is to send construct mail object using the input xml and send email using SMTP. It has a public function Execute(xmlData string, out string returnStatus) which does all that. xmlData has tags&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where is the MicrosoftR Visual Web Developer? 2005 Express Edition: Build a Web Site Now! pdf?

  On the benefits page I see the downloads for the VB express and C# express books, but not for the Web Express book. Did they remove it You need to download VWD 2005 Express too. Install and register it and then in registration benefits portal you will have access to download Build a Web Site Now!  pdf ...Show All

• Visual Basic Installing VS 2005 keeps on asking ' Please insert the disk: Visual studio 2005'

  The installation process for Visual Studio 2005 prompts ' Please insert the disk: Visual Studio 2005' everytime when I try to install VS2005. This is what I did: * Downloaded VS 2005 from the MSDN members download site.    File name: en_vs_2005_pro_dvd.iso (size=2,825,748 KB) * Used MagicISO tool to unpack the files   * Used Nero 6 to write the extracted files to the DVD * Created a brand new Virtual PC with Windows XP + SP2 ...Show All

• SQL Server enforcing password complexity in sql server 2000

  Hi all, Are there any built-ins, utilities, ... within sql server 2000 that can be used to enforce password complexity in the database. i.e at least 8 characteres, upper and lowercase mix, includes at least on number and one punctuation (underscore,...). I understand that this requirement can be achieved using windows authentication. Unfortunately we do not have that luxury (at the moment). tx. There is n ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there a planned delivery date for .NET Framework 1.1 SP2

  Hi We are experiencing a serious issue that results in our application not operating correctly if SP1 of Windows 2003 is installed on the server. We have a WinForms client/server application using .NET remoting This is due to incompatibilities between .NET Framework 1.1 (installed on the clients) and the version of .NET framework installed on the Windows 2003/SP1. There is a hotfix available, but we have been asked to pay a substantial amo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Stored Procedure Wisdom

  About a year ago a friend and I attended a small class (about 6 people) with Paul Sheriff down at Paul's office is So. Cal. In that class, Paul said that with VB.NET working with SQL Server 2000, using stored procedures was no longer  ...Show All

• Visual C# network connection state change event? does it really exists?

  in the "ready to rock" launch event of visual studio 2005 i saw an event called something like onNetworkConnectionStateChange. they told me that this event will be triggered when there's some changes to the network status. for example when the wifi lan becomes available. i cannot find this event anymore. can someone help thanks a lot! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Shader debugger + ... VS2005beta2?

  I want to hear the answer from Microsoft representatives: does the "DX extensions for VS" (the most important for me is HLSL debugger) compatible with VS2005beta2 And if it is - what SDK version i should have to use it (now i only have June2005)   There is a bug in VS2005 / DirectX-installer. If you only have VS2005 installed the installer program will not recognize that you have VS at all, and t ...Show All

• Visual Studio How do I deploy it on a web server running ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2?

  How do I deploy Crystal Reports on the server My reports work on a local development website (w/ VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 installed) but when i deploy it to the web server I get the following message. Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'CrystalDecisions.Web' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. - Johnny Hello Johnny, You will need to include the Crystal Reports ru ...Show All

• Visual C# Make a timer go once

  How do I make a timer call only once Yup, that's the best way. And if you add the timer via the windows forms designer, you can set the AutoReset property right in the properties page for the timer. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to create an .xps file

  Can any one please let me know how to create a Simple xps file. How to start creating an xps file Thanks in advance, Santhosh. Santhosh: You can create a simple XPS file in one of three ways: a) Using an application that natively outputs XPS documents, i.e. Office 2007 when using Save As XPS. b) Using the "Print-to-XPS" driver Microsoft provides, called the Microsoft XPS Document Wr ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro table manipulation

  Two tables exist, call them tableA and tableB. They share some data. which was easy to get select a.work_id, a.sp_id, b.work_id, b.sp_id; from tableA a inner join table b on (a.work_id = b.work_id); order by work_id; into cursor hold1 there is still a matter of getting all the data from tableA and tableB that they don't share. i tried doing a left outer join, but i still get duplicates. Any ideas MP Here you go: SELECT A.CITY,SUM(A. ...Show All