Bob Mack's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Cannot complete Install of Express

  Product: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client -- Error 1706. An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Server Native Client cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package 'sqlncli.msi'. Logged as MsiInstaller in App Log. The install fails with this and two other items in the bos that shows successful install items SQL Server Database Services Workstation Components, Books Online, Development ...Show All

• Windows Forms AppUpdater without directory browsing enabled

  Just started using the AppUpdater, and it's very cool. But I'd like to use it with a webhost running linux. I haven't been able to get it working properly. The AppUpdater successfully downloads the manifest off the server, but then doesn't ever down ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Concurrency violation error!

  I have an access database with a table TEMP. In my project I have a DataSet, which is connected to access database, a TEMPBindingSource, which datasource property is set to DataSet and datamember property to TEMP and finally a TEMPTableAdapter. On a form I have a DataGridView which is bound to TEMPBindingSource. So, as I want to save the changes made to DataGridView to the database, I use the DataGridView_Leave event to fire the ne ...Show All

• Visual J# Application does not exit, remains in memory

  I have a quite sizeable application written primarily in J# (with some C#). Under the .NET framework 2.0, when the close button on the main window is clicked, the exe remains in memory after the application exits. In the previous version of the .NET framework this did not happen. There is one slight difference in the code under 2.0. In the form_Closed() event, it is now illegal to put a System.exit() call which worked perfectly well in the prev ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) programmatically clicking a button?

  is there a blessed way to programmatically simulate a button click so that the button acts as though it's been pressed   perhaps sending a mouse click to the button sorry, i should have been clearer.  what i want to happen is not just that the button looks pressed, but i want everything to happen as though the user clicked the button. e.g., for a button, it would be a look pressed then look release ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS 2005 RTM WINFORM DESIGNER BUG IS DRIVING ME CRAZY

  I have a project with various forms but when I try to view the designer for one of the forms I get the following error messages -even though the project atually compiles : I Have looked around and if you type "Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information. " IN GOOGLE you gets loads + a notification by Microsoft that says that they could not fix it before release http://lab.msdn.mi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Co-ordinating workflows with external events

  Hopefully someone here can lend a hand to a WF novice... My situation is, I have a number of workflows running that need to wait for external events to fire before proceeding. For example, I have a service for which the external events are triggered by messages arriving on a queue. When an inbound message arrives, I need a way to link up the message to the workflow, in order to raise the event on the relevant workflow instance. The arrivin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Connecting to sql server

  I am wanting to write a visual basic front end to my sql server 2000 database. I have downloaded visual basic express 2005 and it only seems to want to connect to an sql server express database. Is it possible to connect visual basic express to sql server 2000 and if not whats the best way to go about this   Yes in a way... but remeber that only the Wizards and automatic processes for development wil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Webbrowser

  i have a problem which i cant figure out i use to use the following code for making my own web browser WebBrowser1.Url = ("http://www.google.com") now this code doesnt work anymore and i wonder what i have to use now. Use the button which you want to use to redirect the browser's on click command, and type If AddressBar.Text.Contains( "http://" ) Then WebBrowser1.Navigate( New System.Uri(AddressBar.Text ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to calcuate log

  Hi Guys, I am tryinig to figure how to calculate the standard deviation of a data set. For any of you who trade stocks I want to create a function that calculates bollinger bands. Any pointers of samples   Right. The N-1 is a correction of the estimate of error. So if you like change this line: sts.Var = (sts.Sumlx / sts.N) : sts.SD = Math.Sqrt(sts.Var) to sts.Var = (sts.Sumlx / (sts.N-1)) : sts.SD = Math.Sqrt(sts.Var ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot access Calculations tab, BI Studio hangs up after installing SP1 and Hot fix.

  Dear All, I have installed SQL Server 2005 SP1 and Hot fix, and after that I cannot access calculations tab in BI Studio. any suggestions! Thanks Some questions. 1. Are you working with the offline project files on disk or you connected BI Studio directly to the database on the server 2. If you work with the offline project on disk, does it happen with all such projects or with some spe ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WMF9 sdk help please

  I used WMF9 to render a file from harddisk.I used IWMReader::Open method. I called IWMReader::Start method.All these works fine without any runtime error. Onstatus , I am getting status as Opened, but no video is displayed. Can u please help me as it is urgent. I want the video to be displayed in a picture box.( I am using C#). What are the steps to be done to display video in the picture box. I haven't tried this with W ...Show All

• Visual C++ Unexplained stack\heap overflow

  Hi everyone I'm having a little trouble with an MFC application, SDI, pretty simple stuff. However, the running of the app is absolutely crippled by stack\heap overflows. They appeared one day - I have no idea what has caused them - but most strangely there seems to be no real pattern to when they occur in the program execution. It's usually upon closing a dialog box which is used to alter strings in a CTypedPtrArray. A breakpoint is triggere ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Extracting email addresses (from column), date and subject line from Outlook to excel

  Hi, I need to know if there is a way to code something in an Outlook Macro which will scan all Folders, extract SMTP email addresses to an excel file There are probably alot of duplicates as well and I'd want to deal with that as well (NOT bring over duplicates) Also want to capure the Subject line and Date received as well. I tried to do this with a simple EXPORT in Outlook but I did not get the desired results.. ANY help would be greatly ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team System Builds and dropping an MSI

  Hi, I just started using Team System this week, and I've been able to muddle along fairly well, but I've just discovered something that to me is a real show stopper. And based on the searches that I have done in Google and in these forums, I'm beginning to think there is something fundamental I missing based on the small number of responses to this problem. My problem is that the team system build does not build the Setup projects ...Show All