fly_boyz's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio VSTS 2005 (PDC bits) Installation and Running Issues...

  I installed the given PDC VSTS 2005 and by the end it sort of failed still it finished the installation.  An exception was thrown while "Executing Action: hxMerge_VSCC_v80" and request for the selecton of a debuger by just ignoring the issue it continue with the installation and later told me that it was completed successfully.  It happend by the point in where it tried to run VSTS for some reason that I don't know, still on a ret ...Show All

• SQL Server setting sql server authentication for database user - wont let me

  I have created a database now I am setting login details for that user. I am using slq server authentication and entering a password of recommended length. I enter my details in my webconfig file and I get -couldnot connect to database specified in connection string for sql data provider. when I check the login properties the password has changed it appears to be the password for NT Authoritysystem, ie same length, what it is Idont know. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is TFS RC?

  Can anybody explain me what is TFS RC (Team Foundation Server Release Candidate) Thanks Team Foundation Server is the server component of Visual Studio Team System. It provides work item tracking, source control and collaboration services to your projects. Unlike the rest of the Visual Studio Team System suite that launched in November 2005, Team Foundation Server has just been Released To Manufacturing (RTM ...Show All

• .NET Development problem in Byte Array

  hi, i'm learning networking and i have a problem in my simple server program (echo server) ,i have byte array [1024] when i recieve data the recieve method just recieve for example 6 bytes but my array keep its 1024 bound, it instantiate every element in the array to 0, as result for that it send array composed from [1024] elments  (most of them are empty  it  just contains  [ 6 ] letters),  so the client  ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 on the same computer

  Hello. Is it a possibility to install two different instances on the same computer, one from SQL Server 2000 and another from SQL Server 2005 I've installed first SQL Server 2000 and I didn't want to upgrade it to SQL Server 2005. I don't want to upgrade SQL Server 2000 to 2005, because I'm working at two applications who uses different instances. Is there possible to appear conflicts between SQL Server 2000 and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Code released for .NET Terrarium?

  Does anyone know if the code for the Terrarium was ever released   Is there going to be a new one for .NET 2.0   Can you guys at least open source since it was pretty cool and I think there would be an audience for it if it were to be maintained and improved.     Yeah, if only they had made it about robots or tanks with explosions and such you know put a little testoserone in it. But, I guess people weren't too in ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I limit file types on my drag and drop?

  Hello, I am building an app and I want to limit what file types a user can drop onto my form. I got my starter code from on of the C# sites. Here is a sniplet of me code: private void listBox1_DragEnter( object sender, System.Windows.Forms. DragEventArgs e) { if (e.Data.GetDataPresent( DataFormats .FileDrop)) e.Effect = DragDropEffects .All; else e.Effect = DragDropEffects .None; } I just want to have t ...Show All

• SQL Server How to delete the uploaded files in Report Manager

  Hi, Is there a way to delete uploaded the report projects in http:/Localhost/ReportServer Thanks, Zixing Wang Note: the Detail view is only available in report manager (.../reports), not through the /reportserver virtual root. -- Robert ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Manager

  I think I have Reporting Services installed correctly and it is working except for the Report Manager. When I browse to http://localhost/reportserver  I dont have a user interface. All I see is big black letters saying localhost/reportserver -/ and underneath is a list of the reports I have deployed. How do I get the user interface to show Your help is appreciated. Roy The Report Manager web application res ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions RSS News

  Using VC# Beta 2 When I startup VC# Express, my startup page is supposed to get news from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/rss.xml but I get "There's no content available yet. Content will be downloaded once a connection to the internet is established." I have a connection to the internet and everything else seems fine, when I go to this url I see news available. What's weird is that I have beta 2 on my machine at work and it does work ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Old Users show up in "Assigned to" field

  To add everyone in my team as users, I have added a distribution list to Contributors group in team project. Now all these users do show up in "Assigned to". We keep up to date that distribution list, but still old users(ex-employees) still show up in Assigned to drop down list, which is kind of confusing for users. How to remove those old users from "Assigned to" which is still showing up even though that distribution list d ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2003 Help System

  The Dynamic Help on a few of our machines take 10-15 minutes to load the help after the developer presses the F1 key - locking them out of doing anything with that instance of VS.  The rest don't.  In the lower left status bar of the IDE, it is set to "Downloading...".  In the options/environment/help settings, we're all set the same - Preferred language = English, Preferred collection = Visual Studio .Net 2003 Comb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cannot call Close() while doing CreateHandle()

  If I load the form below as an mdichild and try to close it again, say after a condition failed I get the error Cannot call Close() while doing CreateHandle(). I tried to pu then check condition that close the form in MyBase .Activated event by its still comes back with the error Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Try Dim f As New frmTranSetup If f.ShowD ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Process Hook Failed" with Performance Explorer when using sampling on a specific app

  I've successfully used sampling with Perf Explorer on my app in the past, maybe a month or two ago. And I can use it successfully on several OTHER applications. I can also instrument, although it's too slow for my current needs- However, currently if I either launch or attach to the process with sampling, I receive a "Process Hook Failed" error. In Output, it successfully attaches, and then immediately exits. Any ideas ...Show All

• Visual C++ ATL with VS 2003

  Hello i am trying ATL first time ,and using VS2003,i ran the project for ATL PROJECT,but it didn`t generate any .idl file,i added myself but i aint sure it will add the stuff itself when i write code in source files guide me thanks You choosed "Attributed" from the wizard. In this case no idl is needed and used. All classes contain the idl information inside the cpp file. Uncheck the option "Attributed", in thiscase the wizard will create ...Show All