kspreston's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Problem installing sql 2005 express ---cannot start service .... :(

  2006-03-26 20:33:09.42 Server Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.1399.06 (Intel X86) Oct 14 2005 00:33:37 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Express Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4) 2006-03-26 20:33:09.42 Server (c) 2005 Microsoft Corporation. 2006-03-26 20:33:09.42 Server All rights reserved. 2006-03-26 20:33:09.42 Server Server process ID is 2068. 2006-03-26 20:33:09.42 Server Logging SQL ...Show All

• Windows Forms Tear-off ToolStrips?

  Is there a way to allow ToolStrips to be moved around and undocked as in Office and Visual Studio We went from being slammed in getting B2 done to being slammed in getting RTM done...we still have plans to do these samples,& ...Show All

• .NET Development Transporting a newline character (\r\n) across a web service

  Hi, I had some trouble getting newlines to serialize across web services. I then read that a web service in .NET 2.0 adheres to a certain soap/xml standard wherein each \r\n character is serialized as \n. I've already written a string substitute class that overrides its own serialization and replaces the unix newlines (\n) back to Environment.Newline (\r\n). I was wondering if there is a better (cleaner) way to do this, e.g. some setting or twea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Remaining Work" report only shows active workitems

  Using TFS Beta 3 Refresh, I've created a MSF project, imported 100 or so workitems ( via Excel ) and closed 9 of them. When I look at the "Remaining work" report however the chart starts at 105 workitems and decreases to 96. The closed workitems do not appear. Have I missed something or is there a problem with the "Remaining Work" report Problem solved...Having played with the report ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows System .ico dirctory?

  Ok, this may sound like a bit of a dumb question, but here goes. I've been porting a linux icon theme over to the mac and windows operating systems, but given that I don't use windows (I prefere linux, use mac for the rest of my  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Have yo ever created a menu component

  Hi guys, I m trying to use the component technology of Visual basic.NET in order to create a customized menu control in this context: I have menu items that must change according to the active windows form (the form that has the focus in each moment); so since the menu items re so similar and since a lot of those items will be repeated inside different forms; i don t want to go through creating the same menu items over and over for all the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How can I start instalation a Windows Vista os

  How can i start instalation of Windows Vista OS. I burn a DVD image, but i can not open it. I can read only a README file. What shall I do What does the Readme file say ...Show All

• Visual C# Enterprise Library and BLOB/Image fields

  Greetings, I am using Visual C# 2005 Express and the Enterprise Library for C# 2.0 and version 2.0 of the .NET framework. I love using it ... except for one (rather large) problem I am having ... I cannot for the life of me figure out how to add a field of type "Image" to the DbCommand object using the AddInParameter method. The image contents are usually big than 8000 byts so adding it as a DbType.Object results in an exception being ...Show All

• .NET Development Access Database JET 4 using VB.NET

  Hi,     I would like to know if I need to have MDAC_TYP installed on my PC to allow an application to write to an access 2000 database.  The VB.NET application uses adodb and I thought that the .NET framework installation and also the deployment package would take care of the dependancies. However, when I tried to run the application on a PC that did not have MS Office installed it failed when trying to write to the database. ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS and COM

  Dear all, Does anyone know if exists any COM wrapper provider for SSIS TIA SSIS is exposed as a series of COM interfaces that have managed wrappers. Are you looking to use SSIS from a COM environment or a managed environment ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Beta 3: Files and folders converted to lower case

  We have run a test conversion of our VSS database into TFS Beta 3.  During this process, the conversion has renamed nearly all of our files and folders to lower case names.  This is a problem as we have cafefully used PascalCasedNames for all of these items for better readability, and to match the casing of the class names that many of them contain. For example, in VSS we had \SolutionName   \FirstProject   &nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Activation Key

  Hi Everybody How r u all I am developing an intra office messanger using c#.I want that my product setup will be secured by both product key and activation key.I want to make a trial version that required a produck key to run trial version but after 30 days it required activation key.So only that user can use my application Product Key : Product key is same as window cd key Activation Key : Activation Key can be get by my website.You ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel Question

  Hi,    can anyone tell me how to copy a sheet from workbook a to workbook b please   thanks, Ed. For questions unrelated to VSTO, but related to Excel's object model, please post this on one of the Excel specific forums, like http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.excel.programming&lang=en&cr=US Thanks   ...Show All

• SQL Server font size, family, style and weight of Subtotal Column in Matrix

  Hi, It is found that the font attributes of the subtotal columns in a matrix is set to the same as the detail column.  How can I set the font attributes of the subtotal column to differ from the detail column (note: not the subtotal heading column) e.g. The detail column font keep Normal, Arial, 8pt, Normal and want to set the subtotal column to Italic, Arial, 8pt, Bold. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to reload a form?

  Hello guys, I'm trying to reload a form displayed by using a simple button. The sentence I was trying to use is: Form1_load() but I'm getting this error: "Error 2 Argument not specified for parameter 'e' of 'Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)'." Can any of you please tell me what is that argument I'm not passing or any other way to reload my form using a button Thanks sooo much for your hel ...Show All