Bassel Samir Banbouk's Q&A profile

• SQL Server installation of SQL Server 2005 CTP (June) error 2147944003

  During installation of SQL Server 2005 CTP (June) I get the error 2147944003. This error refers to the installation of tools (client components). The server components seem to be ok., services are running. My os is Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600). Could anybody help me, please -------------------------------------- This is a part of summary.txt: Machine         : WBG5 Produ ...Show All

• SQL Server Reports with OLAP Cubes

  Hi I try to design a report with Chart based on an Analysis Services Data source... It does'nt work !!! Has anyone else the same problem It would help if you could provide more details of what exactly does not work. Maybe the data values are coming across as strings rather than numeric values Try to convert the datatype for the datapoint expressions. E.g. =Sum( CDbl (Fields!Measure.Valu ...Show All

• SQL Server Background image sizing

  Hello, I have a jpg image to use as report background. How can I strecth the image in order to fill the page background (i'm using PDF output) with my image Thanks, Pierre In report designer, go to the properties editor window and select "Body" for the report body from the drop down list. The report body has a background image property. Note: page header and page footer are independent of the report body - but you can also use images in th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Studio 2005 = very unstable !!!

  Out of frustration, I'd like to warn you all that the release of Visual Studio 2005 is horribly unstable !!  Please beware before upgrading. We've upgraded and it wasn't worth it. I regret it ! Please elaborate - what exactly do you mean by "horribly unstable" What were you trying to do, and what was the result Have you filed a bug Steve Hoag Visual Basic Express  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting Constructor Passed Parameters

  I've cast an SqlParameter Newobj opcode's Value parameter to an InstanceInitializer class. I'm trying to find out if the second passed parameter in the constructor is of type HttpContext. I could do this by walking the IL around the Newobj instruction, but I'm wondering if there's a simpler way using the Parameters collection of the Instance Initializer class. I have tried: InstanceInitializer createdObj = methodInstructions //emoticons/e ...Show All

• Visual Basic My form uses Listbox and ComboBox and records are not saved in the database

  Hi, I am new to VB and I need to write an application where users will pick values from ListBox and ComboBox to fill-in the records. I can pick some options and when I press the 'save' button, I get a successful message. I can move from record to record and see my changes were 'saved' but when I exit and preview data or restart the application, the data is back to the original. I have set the Dataset property to 'Do not Copy' (I have trie ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums How many people have submitted their application?

  I stayed up at least until 3:00 this morning to make mine presentable. I know at least one other person has submitted and with the two already up that makes 4.   Scott Swanson MSN wrote: The Bonus winners are based on which apps make it all the way through provisioning successfully. I don't believe there will be a problem with mine, but if there is will I be contacted ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro newKey() method not found

  I have visited this ng before with great success always getting comprehensive explanations. I started about 3 months ago and was active for about 2-3 weeks. I then switched to C#, C++ and SQL Server and I found the atmosphere in those groups much less hospitable than here. You guys are great. I got my infusion of knowledge at that time that allowed me a jump start. Now I am doing some FoxPro stuff again by necessity. I am trying to implement a M ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting Matching Records

  Hi, I have the following table: *********************************************************************************************** Sheet --- Cycle Init SC --- 89 Post NCOA --- 89 Post Supp --- 89 Revised Final State Counts --- 89 Revised Final State Counts --- 94 *********************************************************************************************** Since "Revised Final State Counts" appears in both cycles 89 & 94. ...Show All

• Windows Forms TextBox with Bookmark

  I'm trying to create a textbox with the ability to bookmark lines (like VS bookmark or the breakpoint feature when editing code). User will be able to select lines from a textbox and then be able to do multiple task using only those line. I decided to create a usercontrol with a textbox beside a picturebox. The picturebox will display an image indicating which line is selected. It's easy to have the user click on the picturebox to select a ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista create WorkflowQueue

  Is it possible to have the WorkflowHost to create a WorkflowQueue for a workflow instance before the workflow is started I want to create a WorkflowQueue with a fixed name for each Workflow instance and to make processing fast create the queue before the workflow starts and push some objects into the queue. During execution of the workflow it will suck these objects out at some point. But i do not want to wait for the worklfow itself to creat ...Show All

• Visual C# Creating a reference to a value type

  I need to create a variable that holds a reference to a value type so that something like the following will work: int i = 0; int x = i; i = 2;  // i need: i == 2 AND x == 2   This obviously works with reference types: DataSet ds = new DataSet(); DataSet ds2 = ds; ds.Tables.Add("Table1");  // now ds AND ds2 have 1 table (they reference the same object).   I thought that boxing a value type would create a ...Show All

• Visual C# new browser in C#

  Hi, I just started learning how to use Visual C# and I am having trouble creating a new web browser from a button. I currently have a button that I want to click to open a new web browser window, which will go to my homepage. I can't find anything on how to open a new window. The closest I have is webBrowser.NewWindow, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Any help is appreciated. Thanks edit: wait wait, there's more! I also have a combobox and I ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I make a property have custom fields?

  I have a custom property on a custom UserControl called "Direction". I want the choices in the property window to display "North, South, East, West". However even when i make the property return an emum type it shows up in the property browser as 0, 1, 2, 3. For example, the FlatStyle property on a label control has "Standard, Flat..." as choices. Thanks for any ideas! ...Show All

• Windows Forms VB express DatePart in datagrid

  Hello I use VB express to discover VB... I use a datetime picker to set a field in an SQL DB (sql express) After, i use a DATASET, DATABINDING, TABLEADAPTER as show in the tutorials to show a datagrid with all my info. Well, everything is running good excepted that the field "DATE" in my datagrid show the "complete" date "dd/mm/yyy hh:mm:ss" and I'd like to see only the DATA part "dd/mm/yyyy" I read a lot of posts in multiple forums but I couldn ...Show All