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• SQL Server Error Installing Workstation Components SQL 2005 Enterprise

  Hello. I am trying to install only the Workstation Components portion of SQL Server 2005 and I get about halfway through and the installation errors out. The error is: EventType: sql90setup P1: installtoolsaction P2: 0xc0000006 P3: 0x78158a35 P4: 0xc0000006 P5: setup_sqlactionenginelistener.cpp@198 P6: setup.exe@2005.90.1399.0 P7: none This happens after the second disk of the installation is about halfway throug ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem with my GUI when i start a program from a windows service.

  I have made one service that startes when windows does, and that worked out fine, then when i login the service will start another program with one new process like this. Process myProcess = new System.Diagnostics. Process (); myProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = false ; myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "c:\\eServerGUI.exe" ; myProcess.Start(); The program will start and i can see it in the task manager but i can't get it ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot show requested dialog Error on View Database Permissions

  I am having issues with the database permissions on SQL Server Express. I downloaded the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services SP1 and everytime I try to view database/schema permissions I get an error "Cannot show requested dialog."  I have 3 different installs of Sql Express 2005 on different machines and they all throw the same error.  The error happens in a couple locations but one way is going ...Show All

• .NET Development Which DB to use?

  Hi, i am writing a program that uses a db. My db will have 3 tables and maximum of 5,000 records. I want that the customers will download my application... The proplem is that i don't know whether they hav a db engine or not. I heard about MDAC for mdb files... 1) How can i check in my installation wizard whether the client has MDAC installed on his local mashine 2) Can u suggest me somthing better remember fire ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ windows Application Executable file Crash

  I have a problem, i created a windows application in visual C++ with which i made an executable file and when i open the executable it crashes. Does anyone know how to solve this problem Lilly Compile your application under the debug configuration, and run by pressing F5. the Visual C++ debugger should take you to the source code line where the crash occurs. At that point, diagnose the bug and fix it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms CancelButton not compatible with ToolStripButton

  I want to use a button in my ToolStrip (a Forms.ToolStripButton) as the "escape key handler" for my form. In the form designer only plain Button objects show up in the list of candidates for the property. Also, if I try to cast my ToolStripButton--as in "this.CancelButton = (IButtonControl) myToolStripButton"--that generates a runtime error. So my conclusions are: Only plain Button objects may be assigned to the Form ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Specular reflections aren't working right

  I'm having a problem with specular reflection.  It flickers as I move around my object. Sometimes when I'm looking at a face, and I swivel the camera just a few degrees, I get specular reflection.  When I swivel a few more, the reflection is gone - leading to the flicker. But specular reflection is only based on the position of the camera, not the direction it's lookin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Controls Resizing

  I have 3 controls on a Panel.The panel is docked to Fill. The client has demanded that the controls on either side (i.e a listview and treeview) be resized with the form but the center control which happens to be a Panel with buttons(Add/Delete) be nonresizabale.I have managed to achieve this programmatically, but I'm running into the following problems, 1 As I'm unable to use the Docking and anchoring properties(I have tried to my wits end b ...Show All

• Visual C++ Keyboard bug

  I am unable to use the enter, backspace, delete, up, down, left, and right keys in .cpp and .h files.  This is fixed if I close the file, then re-open it.  However, if I siwtch focus to a different file, then go back, I will once again be unable to use those keys, and will have to close the file and re-open it again.  Does anyone know if there is a patch to fix this, and if not, I guess this should be added to ...Show All

• Visual Basic BeginOutputReadLine not resuming reading lines after process restart

  I have an application where I'd like to have the user start over and over a console application ans watch its output redirected in the GUI. I have noticed that BeginOutputReadLine will correctly get the stdout redirected on the process 1st execution, but will resume reading lines after the process is restarted. I have managed to reproduce on a small example which as a console application starts a built-in operating system app, which is: ...Show All

• Visual C++ Exception within ATL when creating dialog

  Hello, Sorry if I'm bothering too much. I've gotten great help from here before. Here's the situation. I'm using Visual C++ 6.0. Within my IShellView I have a memberpointer to a dialog class that implements the CAxDialogImpl dialog. When the view loads I create this dialog dynamically by these lines:  m_pDialog = new CIsdSpreadDialog;  m_pDialog->Create(m_hWnd);  m_pDialog->ModifyStyle(WS_DLGFRAME | WS_BORDER | WS_T ...Show All

• Smart Device Development WebBrowser continual refresh on PocketPC 2003 SE emulator

  I have a WebBrowser control in my Windows Forms application, and I'm setting the display using the DocumentText property of the WebBrowser instance.  As soon as I set the property, the Navigating event fires, then the Navigated event fires, and then the DocumentCompleted event starts firing repeatedly and won't stop.  This causes the page to reload continually, and I can't seem to do anything to make it stop. Has anyone else seen this ...Show All

• SQL Server Locking of rows of MS SQL Server 2005 database table in disconnected environment

  Hi Everybody,   I’m about to develop a web application that has to handle customer orders. If an order is exists in the database it would be able to be modified. A user (customer) can log in to multiple sessions (he/she starts more than one browser and logs in). If a user starts to modify an existing order I would like to prevent other sessions to open that order under the modification.   Because of the disconnecte ...Show All

• Visual C++ iostream and wchar_t

  Hi, I would like to use the C++ iostreams. Especially ifstream and ofstream. But the require a filename of type char. But I would like to use wchar_t. BYTE* Load( wchar_t * filename) { ifstream is(filename); // error, "char" required :::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::: return NULL; }; How can I tell the compiler, that I want to mix char and wchar_t. Are there other libraries that allow me to use wchar_t inst ...Show All

• Visual Basic Design advice for TAb effect form !!

  hi, I'm just after some advice really, I'm new to visual basic (i'm using 2005 express) and was wondering how or rather the best way to create a form that has tabs on it. The same effect as the properties page in visual basic( properties page of the project) i.e it has tabs down the side for application, compile,debug etc.. so when you click on a tab(or they may be buttons ) the form layout changes so different information is display ...Show All