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• Visual Studio fail to install msdn library after vs2005 beta2 installed

  my machine comes with Dual AMD Opteron DP 244, OS is windows server 2003 enterprise x64 edition, evaluation copy. with service pack 1, v.1433., first I installed vs2005 beta1 refresh, both vs and msdn library installed and works very well. then vs2005 beta1 expired and I can not use it, so I installed vs6 to tweak the 64-bit application. after I got the vs2005 beta2(by downloading), I uninstalled vs2005 beta1, and then installed the b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Celeron 975mhz runs like P4 ??

  alright, not sure if this should be posted here but am looking for help, it started while installing vb 2005 via express, anyway after 1 day i got bored and uninstalled it, later that day i was looking in my service's section and found this mscorsvw.exe .NET Run time Optimization Service v2.0.50727_X86 .... so i didn't know what it is so i just pressed start, then soon after i enabled it i couldn't believe my cerlon acting like a p4 seriously th ...Show All

• .NET Development How to setup a VPN connection in code?

  In my C# program, how can I detect if there is a VPN connection to another machine and setup a connection if needed I have known the IP address of the target machine and the VPN username/password. Thanks! This piece of code is really interesting. But since i am a fresher, i couldnt understand it clear and i am not able to reproduce the same in my code. Actually whats my requirement is to establish a VPN connection through my application ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Installation Problem

  Hi I installed full MS VS.Net 2005 professional edition on my machine and i have Office 2003 installed on the same machine. Basically i want to write an add-in for MS Word. When i try to create a new project i cannot see the options for office templates. New Project-->Visual Basic -->Windows/Database/Starter kits. But i do not have any "office" folder in my visual basic and no templates installed in it. Do i need to i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom "FxCop" rules in VS 2005 Code Analysis?

  I've written several custom FxCop rules that I want to use with VS2005's Code Analysis engine, but I can't find any way to add-in my custom rules assembly. I know Beta 2 doesn't have all the documentation yet, but can someone tell me how to build a custom rules assembly for VS2005 and get it installed for use in a project Thanks! Hello, Thanks for the reply Michael, that solved my problem. If the xyz.xml file is ...Show All

• .NET Development how to create a xml document

  hello i need to create an xml document whith c# and display it in page pane which contains navigator You want to look at the XmlDocument class. It's an in memory representation of an xml document based on XMLDOM (worth reading about), which stores the xml information as a tree structure. You can use the XmlDocument class to load/write/query xml, and you can use it to create new nodes (elements, attributes, etc) Read up on this class an ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Add Graphic User Interface to custom Activities

  Is possible to create a custom activity and include some GUI, so when that custom activity is used in a workflow the user would be able to double click the custom activity and set properties If so, where can I read some documentation about it. I think that, maybe, I need to override some method but I can't figure it out what method. Thanks in advance. Can this custom activity designer also be set up to be a drop ...Show All

• Visual Basic Textfieldparser object

  I need to be able to access a file via a network path using the TextFieldParser object. I have the following code: <code> Dim tfParser As New TextFieldParser( \\servername\e\April_CDR_Search\0423\filename.csv ) </code> I get the error that the file can't be found, when I know it is there. When I change it to my local drive (with C:\ as the prefix, it works fine). Is there something else I need to include in order for the ...Show All

• Visual Basic Window size?!?!

  I work on a 17" Widescreen LCD monitor with a resolution of 1920 x 1200. How will I know if the Windows application I develop will fit on a 15" screen with a resolution of 1024 x 768 In VB6 there used to be the "Form Layout Window", is there anything similar in .NET 2003 Thanks Sorry, this little used feature was not implemented for VS.NET.  You should be able to adjust your screen resolution to 1024x78 a ...Show All

• .NET Development Passing Float value to stored procedure giving an error.

  Hi, We have a stored procedure in SQL Server 2005 Sep CTP 2005, which will accept an integer, a string and a float value in order to store these values into the respective table. When we are passing the values from SQLCommand object by setting the parameters and assigning the value to these parameters and asked to ExecuteNonQuery we are getting following error. "The incoming tabular data stream (TDS) remote procedure cal l (RPC) protocol stream ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is there a way to determine the color of a point?

  Well, the title pretty much outlines my querry. Is there a way to find the color of a given point, if the point is known I've written a code to randomly draw a "land mass" (a polygon that's flat on 3 sides and randomly "mountainous" on the upper side) for a simple game that I'm creating. I've filled in this polygon as green. When I made a very similar game in QBasic, there was a function for determining a pixe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express 2005 & Access MDB

  I just downloaded VB Express 2005 and I am trying to use it to make an application for my Access Database.  The program is supposed to compare the version numbers in two tables, update the database if necessary (simple file copy off a network drive), and then open the database with Access.  For now though, I am just trying to figure out how to read from the tables in the database. I created a new project and added the datasource.& ...Show All

• SQL Server View properties of a measure group

  I want to write an XML/A Process command for a Measure Group. Yeah, I know I can script the Process command myself but I like writing these things myself - helps me learn things y'know! Anyway...in order to write the Process command I need to know the ID of the Measure Group but other than scripting the Measure Group to a new query window there is no way to get that ID. Why is there no UI interface in SSMS to see the ID property of a M ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to identify the difference bwteen non-defined property and empty property?

  Experts,    The the following blue scripts can work well. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------        <PropertyGroup>           <My1></My1>          .....     </PropertyGroup>          <PropertyG ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro ensuring data integrity using cursoradapters

  What is the best way 2 ensure that no partial updates occur when using cursoradapters on VFP8 Currently am issuing different TABLEUPDATES for all the cursors open. I am using an Access databases. Is there something like BEGIN TRANSACTION...END TRANSACTION when using CursorAdapaters Please give me the best approach to ensure data integrity and consistency. Thanks. thanks you all for your insights and ideas. I app ...Show All