SonosDataGuy's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Cube Browser

  Hi all, I created a cube in analysis services project in a computer where sql server 2005 is not installed there, when I try to click on Browser tab in the cube, the following error occurs: TITLE: Microsoft Visual Studio ------------------------------ A connection cannot be made. Ensure that the server is running. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An ex ...Show All

• Windows Forms First Time Poster - Display Status while process is ongoing

  Fairly new to the vb.net world.  I've done plenty of Client/Server dev and I'm looking for a way to display the status while a process is in the works.  The process is a crystal report that takes approx 20 secs to query and displ ...Show All

• SQL Server uploading images to sql database using Visual Basic 6

  how can we upload images using visual basic yes, you can sample: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/ado270/htm/mdmthcopyrecordvbx.asp Hope, it helps. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with Delete from database

  This is really perplexing me. I have a dataadapter "mcom1", and perform Update, Insert and Delete commands. I am using access 97. Everything works fine when this is function is a memeber of a class in a  windows app. But when I w ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Change ToggleButton Content from style trigger doesn'

  Hi, I am trying to change the ToggleButton content when togglebutton is checked, but it doesn't work. If I set other property such as Background color, it works fine. < Style TargetType = " {x:Type ToggleButton} " > < Style.Triggers > < Trigger Property = " IsChecked " Value = " True " > < Setter Property = " Content " Value = " Selected " >< ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Create And Host Custom Designers With

  Is there a sample for WPF like this one http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/03/DesignerHosting/default.aspx I want to make a custom designer for the WPF. One of our goals for the WPF Designer in Visual Studio (Cider) is to enable similar scenarios. However the functionality is not available today. You could look at Mobiform's designer which I believe supports hosting their designer as a control ...Show All

• Windows Forms difference b/w setting an object to null and calling dispose method?

  What is the difference between setting an object to null and calling dispose method of the object  E.g. Object obj = new Object();  obj = null  obj.dispose()  regards Kamran Sorathia I'm not sure there is a consistant rule about objects&nb ...Show All

• .NET Development lock synchronization error using NetworkStream

  Hello! I'm having a problem with using NetworkStream::BeginWrite() method. I've implemented a class CClient which contains a method SendMessage() which uses BeginWrite() method. The code is like this: void CClient::SendMessage(String^ message_) { //we convert the data from String to byte array: Monitor::Enter(sentData); sentData = Text::Encoding::ASCII->GetBytes(message_); Monitor::Exit(sentData); //we start ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions can't install SQL Server Express 2005

  I've tried to install sql server express (final release),  but the setup failed and I got the message: "An instance with the same name is already installed on this computer. To proceed with SQL Server Setup, provide a unique instance name. "  any idea what this means Many thanks to you guys for the suggestions/help that you provided! Although it took me awhile to solve the puzzle so to speak, I fou ...Show All

• SQL Server June CTP

  I have this installed, I LOVE the virtual session stuff. Very nice to get up and running. I see it expries in 14 days as of 10/14/2005. Why is that. Will you provide trial editions of the final product in this format. Is there a way I can trick it to keep going. I don't want to lose 'all set up learning environment'. Suggestions Can I change a system date and not get the session to sync Thanks Matt -- we've met ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. VertexBuffer problem

  Hello, Im write simple bitmap font manager for my game. In my font class im created vertex buffer for 100 chars(600 TransformedTexturedColoredVertices). Vertex Buffer is dynamic and WriteOnly. My problem is in rendering function. In each call of this function vertex buffer is locked with discard option and then filled with data. Next some set render states and rendering with TriangleList. In game im render 10000 chars (60000 vertices) for spe ...Show All

• SQL Server Good SSIS Example tutorial - User Variables

  Hi There I have read BOL extensively and gone to SSIS tutorial/example web links all day. Problem is the examples are way to simple. And the tutorials on BOL especially the DW warehouse example have no explanantion or step by step flow, and the others are to simple. I would REALLY appreciate it if some had a link or resource to a good complicated step by step SSIS tutorial/example. Or more specifically not a basic one, i am most interested ...Show All

• Visual Studio Signing Assemblies with InternalsVisibleTo

  I have a number of assemblies that use the InternalsVisibleTo attribute. For example: MyProject\AssemblyInfo.cs [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("MyServices")] When I try to sign the MyProject assembly, I get an error: error CS1726: Friend assembly reference MyServices' is invalid. Strong-name signed assemblies must specify a public key token in their InternalsVisibleTo declarations." So, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error: 'null' is not null or an object

  I've installed Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office 2003 on my computer. Whenever I add an Excel or Word project, the project opens and I get an error messagebox saying "null is not null or an object".  When I look at the ThisWorkbook.vb file, I see a lot of squiggly lines indicating errors -- the required references are not added to the project. I have installed Visual Tools  and Office Professional 2003 correctly with all the Net ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create a color text editior with number lines

  I am trying create color text editior.  I was thinking to use a textbox but the how would i color individual words in a text box   is there any other way to do this   and i also want to add a line numbering on the  ...Show All