thediehl's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Adding Table to Dataset for SQL Server Mobile causes VS 2005 to lock up.

  I am running VS 2005 Professional Edition Windows XP profession with Service Pack 2 SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition. WHAT I HAVE DONE: I have a database running in an instance of SQL Server. I set this up for merge publication and then set up a SQL Server Mobile Edition Subscription to that publication.  After a few oversights I got everything working.  The Mobile database replicated just fine.  I went back verifi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista 5308 refuses to activate. Any way to retrieve files?

  We upgraded a windows XP machine (non-domain) to Vista 5308 recently. Upon trying to activate we kept getting an activation error 0x8007000 "Data is invalid". It only once came up with an option to activate by phone. However when the form came up, the activation codes that normally appear for you to read to the automated system were blank. We had forgotten about the issue for a few weeks as other development issues had taken preceden ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Go-Live Licence for VSTS Beta3.

  Hi, According to Buck Hodges blog http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/09/21/472618.aspx   mentioning that we can go for Go-Live License for Team Foundation Beta3. Please kindly provide us the information about to get the Go-Live License for TFS Beta3. Thanks. I'm tracking down links for this - all that's apparent at the moment is the Beta 2 Go Live license, which didn't apply to Team Foundation Server. ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot Start SQL Server Database Services - SQL Server Express April CTP

  I am new to SQL Server.  I tried to read as much as possible in newsgroups prior to this post.  I have tried several different ways to install this without success.  The last time I attempted to install as a local service and I unchecked hide advance configuration.  I am running Windows XP SP2 with all the latest updates.  Is there a solution to install this properly   Any help would be greatly appreciated! -------- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual studio insall bug

  When I try to open help, as well as look in to the properties of a project, it appears that components of Visual Studio did not install properly.  I had Studio Beta 1 installed, this may be related to the problem, though it has been uninstalled. This is the message I get: Message box title: Package Load Failure Message text: Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load properly (GUID = {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C} ...Show All

• Visual C# How to Convert HtmlData to string *** Urgent

  Hello all, I am using C# 2.0, in my winApp. I am getting the HTML Data. I need this in string format. I don't want to use browser control. how to achieve this. anybody any sounds will be appriciated plz help me   my application is e-mail reading application. some cases email body will come in the form of  HTML Data. I want to show this in TextBox Control. how to achieve this plz tell me,  it is urgent ...Show All

• SQL Server inserting data returned from a sproc into a table

  i am writing a sproc that calls another sproc. this 2nd sproc returns 3 or 4 rows. i want to be able to insert these rows into a table. this sproc is inside a cursor, as i have to call it many times. how do i insert the rows that it returns into another table You can use OPENROWSET for this... INSERT INTO YourTableName SELECT a.* FROM OPENROWSET('SQLOLEDB', 'ServerName';'UserName';'Password', 'Nort ...Show All

• Visual C# create avi

  hi i want to create avi file from imagelist Rene Nyffenegger has posted his AviWriter class code on a newsgroup, take a look at the post here . ...Show All

• Windows Forms toolStripProgressBar Problem wont Move

    I fixed the Error BUT now the toolStripProgressBar1 dosnt even move when i run the debugger and the Browser loads   private void webBrowser1_ProgressChanged( object sender, WebBrowserProgressChangedEventArgs e) { if (e.CurrentProgress <= 0) { this .toolStripProgressBar1.Value = 0; } else { this .toolStripProgressBar1.Value = Math .Min( this .toolStripProgressBar1.Maximum, Convert . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Problems Using DirectX 8.0

  ok, What I really would like is to download visual basic 6.0, but I cant find anywhere to do that.. My problem with visual Basic express edition, is I cant seem to get my reference to Directx 8 to work, I have reinstalled directx 8 and VB but it still wont work for me, any ideas> I am programming in BASIC and am very new at it... if anybody could help me I'd be very thankfull, you can contact me by emailing me at Lukeskiwalker@b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Hidden Form Fields

  I'm recording web tests in prep for eventual load testing. The recording then assigns an extraction rule for hidden values including one for a form field called UIApp. Now our developers tell me (a QA) that our app frequently (but not on every page) uses the UIApp hidden form field to pass page status along on the client side. The web test recording does not seem to grab this value, because when rerunning the scripts, it reports that the va ...Show All

• .NET Development XmlWriter.Close

  In 1.1, this really did automatically close any elements or attributes left open - in 2.0 Beta 2, you seem to have to explicitly call WriteEndElement before Close or Dispose . Is this a design change and the dox are out of date, or is this a bug in Beta 2 Not aware of any design change here.  For me the following code : static void Main( string [] args) {     XmlTextWriter w = new ...Show All

• Visual Basic Listbox update problem

  This should be an easy problem, i bet there is someone who can help me. I'm a begginer, so thanks in advance! I'm working in VB 2005 Express. The problem is: in one form there is a listbox with a MS Access database source, and in the other form si a datagridview throug which users change that particular data. Datagridview control works and updates perfectly, but how can I update (or refresh ) listbox in the first form after the changes have b ...Show All

• Visual C++ RE-sorting a listbox

  Hello, hello.  First post here and all that nonsense. :) Right, so I'm using VC6, and something that has eluded me since VC1.0 is how to get a standard listbox to REsort itself.  I have an owner-drawn list box that needs to change its sort-order on the fly.  Now, without removing all the items in it and reloading them, is it possible to tell the listbox to resort itself Many thanks. If you go the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server Installtion Failed

  I am runing Win2003 server as a primary Domain Controller w/SP1 I received the 3 dvd disk set for beta2. I also used the Team Server while at Microsoft along with VS2005 Beta2, Indigo/Avalon Beta1 and the Ent Lbi framework V2.0 from the Ent Lib team. But this is my first time installing the Team Server on my own server. I am doing a single server install. I have installed SQL Server2005, and Sharepoint Services 2.0, I setup TFSSETUP and TFSSERVI ...Show All