Sorin Sandu's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ MS C++ 2005 express database mismatch error when compiling

  It is good for me to know that it is not the norm and I hope that someone can figure out how this happened. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Upgraded VB5 project

  I have just used the upgrade wizard on a Visual Basic v5 project I had on an old computer for quickly making invoices as PDFs.  I'm very impresed with how few errors/warnings were produced and how well they were documented. Well done MS. Gareth Thanks for the feedback Gareth. Please let use know if you have any further feedback or suggestions regarding the VB Upgrade tool.   ...Show All

• .NET Development Inconsistent InvalidCastException and FormatException errors

  Recently we have started getting InvalidCastException and FormatException errors on 3 clients out of > 100 that are in use. We believe it is caused by the upgrade of our application from .Net 1.1 to .Net 2.0. In one case we get the following message - System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "0" to type 'Integer' is not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format. In this particu ...Show All

• Windows Forms different drawing origin

  Hello! Does anyone know a nice way to draw on a graphics-object with an origin at the bottom-left corner + | | 0/0 -- + I know that the default origin is top-left and positive coordinates will extent to bottom-right: 0/0 -- + | | + Any ideas would be greatly ...Show All

• SQL Server what is [SQL-DMO]

  in computer management, when i expand the branch of my sql2005 express, i got a error message. it seems i cant register my server, but i cant login in sqlcmd i also installed sql2000, and it works fine... could anybody help really strange With which tool do you want to admister SQL Server Express SQL-DMo sounds like you are using VS2003 or another program to gain access to that. Whats the actual error message jens Suessmeyer. ...Show All

• .NET Development Dataset Merge Duplicates

  I gotta be doing something wrong: i'm Using the SqlClient namespace I need to detect changes in a SQL SERVER 2000 database.table I am, initially, setting a DataSet with the table (ds as Dataset) Then, at specified intervals, i'm setting another (different) dataSet with the Live data with the same SQL connection, and SQL query as the initial (dsLive as Dataset). I then MERGE the newly created dataset with the saved, "cached" dataset: ds.Merge(d ...Show All

• .NET Development Use Javascript to check if client has added the domain as a Trusted Site

  I need a way to check, using Javascript, if the user has added the domain as a Trusted Site. We sell different kinds of content management tools and similar products to our customers. To be able to guarantee it's functionality, we require, among other things, that the domain that the CMS is installed on, has been added as a trusted site. At the login prompt we need a way to check if it has been added as a trusted site and if not, display a wa ...Show All

• .NET Development Using a converted tlb-Library in C# .NET 2005

  Hello .NET-Friends, I have to use a type library (.tlb) in C# .NET 2005 which was once build in VB6. It's not possible to import or point to the library without converting it to an .NET-Library. So I used the TlbImp.exe which is included in the .NET SDK and converted my (three) libraries to .NET DLLs. All this worked fine, but now its not possible, to create an instance of the included class in this new DLLs. The Objectbrowser in .NET show ...Show All

• Visual Studio Exporting file from report view problem!

  Dear All, I have another problem. We are using the winform to develop our windows application uisng VS.NET 2005. We would like to have our reports in asp.net using .rdl so that our users can view from any browser such as IE, etc. In the windows application, we create a report form by using the WebBrowser control comming with VS.NET 2005 becuse we just want to use the same reports built in aspx. When we view the report, the reports render c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Shared Memory Provider: No process is on the other end of the pipe.

  I'm unable to install SQL Express 2005 on a windows 2003 server.  I have installed it on several 2003 servers, but for some reason, the one I need it on will not install.  I have tried the manual install, and the command line install.  Both give the same error.  Setup gets to the point where it is configuring the server, and then I get the following error. SQL Server Setup could not connect to the database service for serv ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Forms application closes unexpectedly

  Hi, we have a quite large Windows Forms application (one small executable and about 30 assemblies). On several client PCs (Windows XP SP2) the application suddenly disappears (like a crash but without an exception). We register a ThreadExceptionHandler with the application instance to catch otherwise not caught exceptions, which normally works. But in the case of the above issue the application seems to close without calling the Form.OnClo ...Show All

• Visual C# I think this is for an expert!!.. coz` no one knowes it..

  I think this is for an expert!!.. coz` no one knowes it.. Can anyone tell how to insert a new line in a file Example:      test.txt line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 line 6 line 7 line 8 after the insertion of the line... line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 line 5 line 6 line 7 line 8 i tryed to use the seek() method.. it works but he overides the other lines.. Anyone know how to do that You will have to rewrite the file ...Show All

• Windows Forms DrawCurve Query

  I know I can use the DrawCurve method to draw a curve through an array of points but what I'd like to know if anyone has any suggestions or ideas on how to generate an array of points for a smooth curve purely based on having&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS Migration from SQL Server 2000

  I’m currently evaluating SQL Server 2005 to what advantages there would be to upgrading from SQL Server 2000. Our existing systems make much use of DTS so it critical for us to be able to run SQL Server 2000 DTS packages in SQL Server 2005.   Having installed the Enterprise SQL Server 2005 CTP successfully on a new Windows 2003 server and following the advice to install Legacy Components I find the Migration Wizard (under Legacy> D ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DX class present in two assemblies?

  Hi, I am in the process of converting my 1.1 app to 2.0. The only remaining error reads: The type 'Microsoft.DirectX.PrivateImplementationDetails.IDirect3DDevice9' exists in both 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Managed DirectX\v9.02.2904\Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.dll' and 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Managed DirectX\v9.02.2904\Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX.dll' I need both Direct3D and Direct3DX in my application How do I specify the assembly to look in f ...Show All