OpticalMan's Q&A profile

• SQL Server How Do I Start New SQL Server 2005 Database?

  I just installed SQl Server 2005 on my Windows XP Pro system. But I can't figure out how to start the Database Engine. In the MS SQL Server Management Studio I see one Database Engine, but not SQL Servers. If I do "Update Local Server Registration" nothing happens. If I do right-click "New Server Registration" I get a databse icon with a white open circle. If I the try "right-click, Connect, Object Explorer" I get "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server...". All this time the right Summary pane is showing "No Server Connection." The tutorials are no help and do ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help, ERROR: Project Creation Failed.

  pls help me how to solve this problem. I downloaded and installed Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and it was successfully installed in my system but when I run the application and create a new project then select a template of my choice the status bar displays: Creating project '...'... project creation failed. I tried to reinstalled it again and also repair the installation of Visual Basic 2005 Express but I have the same error all over again. Thanks in advance forumers... You should have no issues between the Beta2 VB and C# Express skus.  However the SQL Express CTP edition you have is likel ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom order of categories in PropertyGrid

  Hi, I need to know how change the order of the categories in the PropertyGrid. Thank's Alexei Hi, I have found solution: For the first category (in my order) I have added character '\r' 256 times. For the second I have added character '\r' 255 times. And so on... For the last I have added character '\r' 0 times. The PropertyGrid control sorted categories  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C1083: Cannot open include file: 'afx.h': No such file or directory

  I downloaded a working project from the internet and tried building it.  I received the following error: Compiling... StdAfx.cpp c:\projects\win_services\icon_service\stdafx.h(15) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'afx.h': No such file or directory I searched for this file with no hits.  Do I have to download the Platform SDK as well, to get this project to build Would appreciated any help that anyone can provide thanks in advance Sixpack wow, thanx you figured out my problem! :) , They should really talk more about this problem, or set up express C++ to tell you that you need the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. hit testing/Mouse picking objects on display

  I was wondering if anyone has a good example on how to use the mouse to select objects on the screen using Directx 9 with c#   Thank you Take a look at this post, http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=80853 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Getting the directory "OpenFileDialog"

  Hello I use "OpenFileDialog" and I chose a file. How can I get just the directory (file directory that I chose it) Thanks for assistance spotty wrote: Use the GetDirectoryName method to extract of the directoryname of the filename property of the openfiledialog control. Dim sdirectory As String = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(OpenFileDialog1.FileName) Thanks very much It's working. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Very slow speed on displaying controls in a form

  How to improve the display performance on dynamics create controls on form load event The following code is very slow.   Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Me .Location = New Point(0, 300) Me .Size = New Size(800, 300) Me .Refresh() Dim but As Button Dim x As Integer Dim y As Integer Dim bHeight As Integer Dim bWidth As Integer bHeight = 48 bWidth = 48   Me .SuspendLayout() For y = 0 To 4 For x = 0 To 14 but = New Button but.Location = New Poin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Smart Doc Pane Failes to refresh in WINXP but not in WIN 2K

  I have a SmartDoc Excel solution that is used in XP and Win 2k . The 1 st time I open my solution in both of the above OS(s) I can see and use the smart doc panel. However when I save the document in XP and reopen i t, the comboboxes in the Smart Doc pane are not drawn (a white space is left on the panel) , but I can see all the other GUI components and use them. The solution RUNNING   in Win 2K doesn’t have the effect described above. Any ideas any body It's a drag that this is not working as you expected it to. Let's see if we can make some progress on it. 1) Is this a VSTO solution o ...Show All

• SQL Server How to make tables & stored procedures in MSDE?

  Hello, I am a beginner using MSDE & Visual Basic.NET standard version (not Visual Studio.NET) . MSDE was downloaded from microsoft.com yesterday, which is sql2ksp3.exe. The problem is I don't know where to input data to set up tables or stored procedures after configured the MSDE. The MS Desktop Engine pops me "configuration sucessfully", then I can just open a small window with the title of "SQL Server Service Manager", telling me SQL Server is running. But I can't find any SQL application in the  Start->All Programs-> for me to run. What's the human interface of MSDE Can anybody tell me ho ...Show All

• Windows Forms DGV RowEnter event: How to determine if it's fired during initial load

  As described in documentation, the "RowEnter event occurs when the DataGridView is initially loaded, as well as when the user selects a row other than the current row". Since I just want to react to user changes, I need to determine if the event was fired because of user interaction or initial loading. Does anybody know how to reach this Thanks a lot! You may check e.RowIndex in RowEnter event handler. If it returned 0 then it was initial loading that fired the event. ...Show All

• .NET Development File IO Behaviour

  I have a windows Service that writes an XML file to a specific location. The details are as follows: I am using VS 2005 Beta 2 I am running on XP SP2 The service runs using the local system account I am writing to a mapped drive which is actually a UNIX server (using Samba). The xml is created with the XmlTextWriter class. The problem is I get the following exception every time  I try to write to the mapped drive: Exception thrown:System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'm:\00000001.xml'.    at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)    at System.IO.Fil ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem using SQL Server Mobile 2005 with Windows Mobile 5 application

  Hello, I am developping a non-managed C++ application for PocketPC using a SQL Server mobile database. The application is compiled for PocketPC 2003 and uses SQL Server Mobile v2. I use Visual Studio 2005. But I need to compile the application for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. So I installed the WM5 SDK and had the WM5 into my project configuration. The "ssceoledb.h" which I include incluses the "transact.h" file. But my problem is that this file is only provided with the PocketPC 2003 SDK and not in the WM5 SDK. So I cannot use the WM5 configuration project with SQL Server. I also tried with the last SQL Server Mobile 2005 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Stuido Push-Pin Panel

  Does anyone know if you can use the push pin panel that visual studio offers in your own programs If not, is there a good example on how to mimic the functionality Thanks Eric There is no such control in the standard Visual Studio control set. However, this FREE docking library offers all of its functionality, and it is very nice and well coded. Check it out! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) compiler inferred method

  Hi, i am interesting in read home c# compiler inferred method work. I appreciate any help. regards -gabriel C# 3.0: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/future/ C# 3.0 Language Specification: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/0/9503e33e-fde6-4aed-b5d0-ffe749822f1b/csharp%203.0%20specification.doc ...Show All

• Windows Forms HTML Textbox

  Hi, I am developing a news website that is using ASP.net and SQL Server as database. Can anyone recommend a text box that I can use on a windows form that will allow formatting of HTML such as bold and hyerlinks that can be inserted into the database to then be shown on the site  I use the textbox from Freetextbox.com for the asp pages b ...Show All