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• Visual Studio Express Editions activex control in C#

  I am using an activex control with C# (compiled with VB6).....works a little too well. The control itself uses another activex control as well as a .dll. In the VB IDE all is well.... With C#...a method in the control will always fire twice! The control itself saves text to a file. If it saves "a"...it will be "aa". weird. Sorry about that muddied explanation. Yes that "hack" did solve the problem. If I use the compiled ocx (the one "embedd ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System BUG - Rank field

  Entered 99999999999 in rank field on work item and got this error. Error The value you entered for field 'Microsoft.VSTS.Commaon.Rank' is not a valid whole number or is not within the allowed range of -2147482648 to 2157483647. Actually, the server is not the source of the error. The client produces this generic error message as it attempts to convert the string that you typed in into an integer. The message is meant to cover all cases, b ...Show All

• Visual C++ error C2220: warning treated as error

  Hi, I am moving an application from VS2003 to VS 2005 and I got the following error: error C2220: warning treated as error - no 'object' file generated C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\include\atlfile.h Any ideas on how to correct this Thanks in advance, Could you give the full error message Until then, if you just want to eliminate the error, turn off "Warnings as Errors" -WX. ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC Application and stdout

  If possible, what is the best way to write to standard output (or standard error) from a VS C++ MFC Windows Application I want to be able to print a a few lines of text to standard output when the application is exiting. This would be useful when the application is invoked from the DOS Command prompt and the application outputs a few lines of text that could be viewed in the command prompt window (or redirected to a text log file). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Progress bar

  Ok. how do you gte a progress bar to work beacuse i'm clueless. hi, first of all to get a code about that there are some sites that have lots of examples you can see them first and if you didn't know or you face trouble in your code you can ask here , or you can ask here about direction, not to ask ppl to write something for you open this page http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/ as soon as it shows the contents up click CTrl + F , ...Show All

• Visual C++ c language connect to access

  How to connect in c language with microsoft access database.For example and give me some source code for this query. Please use the newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/ for such issues. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS error listing

  Is there a list of all the SSIS Error codes and what they mean Ex. -1071607778 is an error code output when a lookup task fails to find a match. I haven't been able to find any information on the different error codes. Is there a description file or enumeration file that exists somewhere I think it's still hex, the L at the end is usually included in literals to denote the size of the integer - i.e. L = long, w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions link.exe error

  I followed this tutorial: Building Windows Forms Applications with Wizards in Visual C++ Express (12 Minutes - 8.2 MB) And I get an alert box that pops up and says: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library --------------------------- Runtime Error! Program: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\link.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Shortcut key

  I have set shortcutkeys for buttons using properties. Now what i want to do is to underline the character which i have set as shortcut key,on the button text,which is possibe in VB ,(by setting as &Save, now underline will be below the 'S' character),In VB.Net, At runtime it is not displaying the underline for that character. I want this in VB.Net is there any way to do that. Please help me. Hi, I've mov ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Basic 2005 Express vs NET

  I am new to Visual Basic. I just installed the Visual Basic Express 2005 Beta 2 version and was looking for books to buy on the subject, but I can only find Visual Basic NET ones. What's the difference in them Can I use the NET books to learn the coding Thanks in advance for your help Visual Basic .NET was the name given to the Visual Basic version that was released with Visual Studio 2002 and 2003. Microsoft has now renamed it back to Visu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions "Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject'

  I get this error when trying to create a new data source in Visual Studio 2005 Express and SQL Server 2005 Express. Does anyone know how to fix this "Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{6D5140C1-7436-11CE-8034-00AA006009FA}' failed du ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Message bubble not showing on windows mobile 5.0 for pocket pc

  hi all i m facing a weierd situation with my application . i m developing an application for windows mobile 5.0 PPC,i m using Notification object to show msgs etc. i have an imate JazzJar with windows mobile 5.0 . the notification ballon doesnt show up on the device and emulator, though a beep arises but no notification while running application. the amazing thing is taht when i run the applidation on a window pocket pc 2003 SE base pda, applica ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows App Not working over Network

  I've got a windows app that connects to a DB and copies a few files from a network share to the local PC. The app is ran on the network share because everybody in our company uses it and when modifications are made, we don't want to have to redistribute 50 or so copies of the .exe. Every time I run the program from the network, I get a standard Windows error and Microsoft wants me to send them the information, it doesn't get too involved oth ...Show All

• .NET Development Major shortcomings -will vs2005 fix them?

  I coded Dim a As Boolean = Me .ActiveCheckBox.CheckState and get the warning, implicit conversion from syste.windows.forms.checkstate to boolean. I have lots of such warnings.  You'd think vs would allow you to get more information on how to solve it.  I have many such warnings and can't submit a million questions to this forum on solving each one. In addition, I can't copy the warning Another irritant is the well known need to ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005, Limit to the number of variables

  Hi all Is there a limit to the number of variables that a stored proc can use in sql 2005 (June CTP)   A proc I use under sql 2k has 975 variables, it runs fine there but in sql 2005 half of them return 0 or Null.  All should have values. thanks There is no limit and it hasn't changed from SQL Server 2000. Are you sure that this is not a data related problem or logic issue If you can post a simple repro ...Show All