quilty's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions VC++ won't work anymore

  Hi, I was messing around with partitions on my computer running xp, and I messed it up so that it would not boot. I did a system repair and it fixed everything keeping all of my files. But now I can't run or uninstall VC++ express edition. It keeps saying things like: The procedure entry point LockClrVersion could not be located in the dynamic link library mscoree.dll. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Writing plugins for Internet Explorer (IE)

  Since I'm programming ASP.NET a lot, I always have to test my websites at several resolutions. I wanted to write a plugin for internet explorer with which I can set the window-size of ie to a number of pixels width and height. The height and width when viewing in 800x600, 1024x786, etc. so I dont have to change my screenresolution all the time for testing. I cant find any info on writing plugins for IE on MSDN, but I see that several progra ...Show All

• Visual Studio NAnt project to VS2003 solution - How do I do it?

  Everywhere I look, I see the opposite. I know NAnt has many features beyond what I want right now (whiuch is to get VS intellisese and the other nice things I'm used to). I want to take some sourcecode that is written in C# for .NET 1.1 and was managed within a NAnt build environment, and convert it (ie, create the .sln, .csproj etc files) so I can use VS2003 to continue some coding. I'd love someone to give me a step-by-step recipe for doing th ...Show All

• SQL Server Oracle to Sybase - Data Migration

  Hi All, I need to move data from some tables in oracle to sybase. Its jus kind of ad-hoc process - need to do it manually. I thought of doing it using DTS tool. In sql server 2005 - using Integration Services - how to achieve this any help is greatly appreciated. thanks. Mani It rather depends on the Sybase and Oracle connectivity that you have available. If you have the OLEDB drivers, then the import export wiz ...Show All

• Visual Basic Old Question about Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture

  I think it's an old question and asked before. But I can't found any reference. Sorry if you need to re-answer again. Here is my problem: Right now my system is using English (United States) regional setting which the datetime format is MM/dd/yyyy. I want my application displayed in display in Indonesian format "dd/MM/yyyy" without changing user's regional setting. So I did the below programmatically: Thread.CurrentThread. ...Show All

• SQL Server Object Explorer/Server Explorer Error

  I have just installed the released VS2005 as well as the released SQL2005.  When ever I try to browse my SQL Server with either the Object Explorer in MS SQL Server Management Studio or the Server Explorer in VS2005 I get the following error: 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 componen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Create Team Project from existing Project

  Hi, I wanted to know that is it possible to Create Team Project from existing Project. The idea is my organisation will have say 10 different projects and I want to maintain same standards , roles and project permissions in all the projects. Only thing that will change is the project name. How to acheive this Thanks in advance, Sanjoyan Microsoft MGSI India I don't think the ability to create a Team Project from an ...Show All

• SQL Server Setup of user-defined columns with eye on reporting

  I'm looking for a best practice for creating user-defined columns that allows for not-overly complicated methods for reporting. For instance, a user or admin adds a few columns specific to his department, including descriptive and/or "column" names. He then wants to create a report that includes these columns along with some of the default columns. I'm thinking that for the novice or regular users, setting up report models would suf ...Show All

• Visual C# Unloading an Assembly

  Hello, I read in one of the Blogs that an Assembly cannot be unloaded. It has to be loaded into a AppDomain and then unloaded. I have tried that. Take a look at the following code. AppDomain newDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("NewDomain"); Assembly myAssembly = newDomain.Load(AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName(assemblyPath); After doing Reflection on myAssembly, I used ...Show All

• SQL Server SmoApplication.EnumAvailableSqlServers does not list default instance if sqlexpress is in same machine

  Hi, I have installed sql server 2005 as default instance and sqlexpress in a machine named "mani" EnumAvailableSqlServers  does not list the default instance. It lists only "mani\SQLEXPRESS", but not the "mani".  But I can see both in SQL Server Management Studio Any idea fix it Regards mani Hello, I have already noted that EnumAvailableSqlServers is not always working ( sometime giving the ...Show All

• Visual C# spy++

  Hi As you know spy++ has that when you move it over an object it showes you what class and pointer is that object .. Does anybody knowes how to do it Hi! Spy++ displays Windows Class, not object from .NET. When you start drag, it detects what window is under cursor and query system for that window details. You need to check Win32 API for more information, look at GetWindowInfo(), RegisterClass(), ChildWindowFromPoint(), RealChildFromPo ...Show All

• 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

• Windows Forms Is there a "Fix tab order" mechanism in Visual Studio?

  Some IDEs I've used have a very helpful tool that "corrects" the tab order (i.e. the TabIndex value) for all the controls in a form/container.  This automatically sets the tab order to a reasonable default, e.g. left-to-right top-to-bottom. Is there ...Show All

• Visual Basic Filling text box with KeyUp strokes

  I'm trying to get the keyboard letter values to appear in a textbox as the user types, but I get some other values that don't make sense. Here's my code: Private Sub txtRootPath_KeyUp( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles txtRootPath.KeyUp Dim newKey As String Dim sPath As String = txtRootPath.Text & e.KeyCode.ToString lblPath.Text = Path.Combine(sPath, txtHTM ...Show All

• .NET Development Versioning question

  Hello, using Visual Studio.NET 2003 I've developed two custom controls (one in Managed C++ and one in C#) derived from existing classes. Will these components work on a PC which misses the .NET framework 1.1 and only has the .NET framework 2.0 (with Visual Studio.NET 2005) installed Do I need to recompile the controls with Visual Studio.NET 2005 also and have two different builds Thanks in advance and Kind Regards Severino ...Show All