Scott_P's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Data Source / ODBC error

  Hi all, My replication of those SQL 2000 servers gave errors: Data source (11): General Network Error. Check your network documentation... and ODBC (08S01): Communication link failure. The replication was across the WAN. I don't know where to start to troubleshoot this problem. Please help! Thanks in advance. John Oh, by the way, if you can't get it to work, I suggest starting a new thread, because some people will see this thread as answered, and not read it. Cheers. ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development MF_ProtectedPlayback Sample doesn't work for Video on Vista Beta 2:

  1. Installed Vista Beta 2; 2. Installed Vista Beta 2 SDK; 3. Build MF_ProtectedPlayback Sample from provided samples; When starting both Release and/or Debug versions of MF_ProtectedPlayback Sample with both Adminitrative and not-Administrative priv. as well as with DRM and not-DRM Video content => getting complain in the form of 3 Message Boxes: "Windows -- Bad Image: X is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error...." Followed by the crash... Works fine for DRM/not-DRM Audio Files... My guess: Video is not implemented yet Are you able to play ...Show All

• Windows Forms Checking for a null entry in a textbox

  Lets say I have some code and I want to check to see if the user has not entered anything into a textbox; how do I do this In order for some code to work the textbox should contain a number, however, the user may not have entered the textbox yet. The value of the textbox is used in a calculation so I need to be sure the textbox does not contain a null. I have tried a couple of differnt lines of code to check for a null value but they have not worked. What is the right syntax Does C# consider "" as a null In VB you can move to a text box, put something in it, take it out again and the ...Show All

• .NET Development Sorting Does Not Work for Select Function in DataTable in Framework 2.0

  Hi, I would like to report a bug in DataTable select function.  I entered statement 1  in red below but col4 is not sorted.  Sorting works for statements 2 and 3.  Would like to confirm if this is a bug and when it will be fixed.  Thanks in advance. Problem Description: Sample code namespace testDataFilterSort { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); DataSet lds_data = new DataSet(); lds_data.ReadXml(@"D:\test.xml", XmlReadMode.ReadSchema); DataColumn ldc_col = new DataColumn("Sys1", typeof(string)); ldc_col.DefaultValue = ""; lds_data.Tables[0].Columns.Add(ldc_c ...Show All

• Windows Forms HELP!!!!unable to save data using window form!!!!URGENT!!!

  Hi...can someone help me to figure out what's going on to my form Currently, I'm doing an assignment using the window form and I'm using Visual studio 2005 and SQL express edition. I'm trying to save data from the window form but it seems like nothing change to my database. After i run the program, enter the data to form, close the form, then preview the dataset's data and database table data.BOTH remain same, the data unable to save to the database. But when I try to save data using Web Form, it works very well. So can someone tell me what's wrong with my setting ...For your information, i didn't configure the SQL server and let i ...Show All

• Visual Studio What Class Designer?

  Are there plans for C++ support Has there been an update on the decision for a C++ class designer in Orcas A possible solution/workaround would be to try out Visio 2007 to see if it is currently functional with VS 2005 or recreate a project in VS 2003 and use it with Visio 2003 to generate class diagrams. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can I develop the DX10 and DX9.0c application use VC++ 6.0?

  Can I develop the DX10 and DX9.0c application use VC++ 6.0 My develop environment is VC++ 6.0 and installed VSSP 5.0. VC++ 6 hasn't been supported by the DirectX SDK for quite a while now. If you go back far enough you can use DX9, but I think it was somewhere around December 2004 that VC6 support was dropped. The short easy answer is no. You'd be better of downloading VC++ 2005 Express (which is free) and using that. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums licences for Open Src/non-profit projects

  What are MS licencing policies about: - for non-profit organizations - for Open Source projects (in Java) Can u give me any link What is the trial period for: - MS VS .NET 2005 Architect - MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprize Link on download More specifically I am interested on .NET, Office development tools and products Guennadi Vanine Here's the link to the Microsoft Volume Licensing site: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/default.mspx You'll find a link in the right column under Next Steps to contact a licensing specialist. They would be the best resource to answer your specific questions. This page has details on the ...Show All

• Windows Forms disappearing DataGrid row

  Hello all, I have a DataGrid bound to a filtered DataView on a DataTable.  When a new row is added through the DataGrid the new row dissapears as soon as focus is moved off of the new row. I have searched this forum and google and found similar threads that lead me to believe it has to due with rowstate for this new row but I c ...Show All

• Visual C++ Increasing /STACK value does not get rid of 'stack overflow'

  Hi, I have a program that, with the default value for /STACK, results in a 'stack overflow' error. So I continually increased that value (up to 1,000,000,000) but to no avail. It errors out in the same place even though the stack is maybe 200 levels deep. Memory usage (including allocation by called routines) does not seem to be anywhere that value. Any ideas Thanks, Nick. The /STACK option can not protect you against an stack overflow. This options says only how large the initial size of the stack should be. It seams that you just have an infinite recursion in you code. Let the application cras ...Show All

• SQL Server Compatibility of MSDE with .NEt

  Hai frnds, Can i use MSDE for my .net applications instead of SQl server Can u sugget some good documents regarding MSDE compatibility with .NET Applications ...Show All

• SQL Server General Network Error OpenXML

  Hi I am using OpenXML to import data from text file. While it is working fine with small files...I am getting General Network error while parsing file of 4.5MB. Could anyone suggest the possible cause for this. What is interesting is that , I am able to load the same file using another SQL server. Could someone tell me the possible reason for this behaviour.... Thanks Anand This error typically denotes a problem at the network layer. Can you check the NT event logs of the server for any network card failures What about the SQL errorlog Does it have any suspicious messages ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual studio locking up when doing TFS stuff.

  Hi, I am wondering if anyones else is having a similar problem as me. It seems at certain times when I do various actions (getting latest code, checking in something) the action completes and then Visual Studio locks up to the point where I have to kill the devenv.exe from the task list. It has happened to me quite a few times now. I am running the VPC image for the server and have installed the TFC from the en_vs_2005_tfs_trial.iso file. I really like the product and have convinced my manager we should move to it but I can't really do that in good faith if the team is going to lock up frequently. Cheers, Clint It is true t ...Show All

• .NET Development Programatically establish multiple outbound PPP connections

  I'm not sure if this is the right place to be asking this, but I will anyway. I am designing an application that needs to retrieve data from many (potentially hundreds) of remote sites "in the field", which can be accessed via dial-up PPP. I.e. if I have a pool of several modems, I need to be able to pick a free one, tell it to dial a phone number and establish a PPP connection with the device that answers. I've been going through all the help for RRAS to see if I can configure to establish the PPP connections automatically based on IP traffic (demand-dial), but everything I find in that regard is for a "branch office" sc ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Mobile Voice Command and Outlook 2003 with Business contacts manager

  I hope I have put this in the right place, and apologise if it isn't, but I'm new to this (first ever post!) I have just upgraded my Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2003 with Business Contacts. I have installed the pocket PC version of business contact manager on my mobile device and the data sync great between it and my PC When I move my contacts from my Contacts folder to my new "business contacts" folder, Voice command can no longer find them when I ask to show them. Does anyone know a way to enable voice command to look into the Business Contacts application as well as the contacts folder or do I ...Show All