Robert Kok's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic WMI in Visual Basic

  I am wondering after searching the forums and many of the online coding sites, if there are any small tutorials or examples on how to access and display hardware/system information on a Windows Form Application using WMI. I am currently trying to retrieve the local computers CPU information as a starter. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you could email it to supernorman1@hotmail.com . That would b ...Show All

• SQL Server Configuration of RSreporthost

  Hi, having used the most of my day trying to do this - i have to ask. Is there no way to config this tool to get the same permissions as the vs.net preview I have a strong name assembly who read the System.Environment.username - and it won't run in the rsreporthost. Please help me out here.. I've got it right now... I had a restart (mentally) and now it works. For the record, I've added a permissionset ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to install sql server 2005

  I got the following message when I try to install the SQL server 2005 June CTP. "SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup has detected incompatible beta components from Visual Studio or SQL Server. You must run the build cleanup wizard from the CD to remove previous SQL Server 2005 components and .NET Framework components, and then run SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup again. For detailed instruction on uninstalling SQL Server builds, see the SQL Server 2005 CTP rea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crysta Reports - export through code

  I am using Crystal Reports 8.0.10 for reporting, application is in Visual Basic 6.0 and Database is SQL server 2000. What i need to do is export my report through code in viual basic to a specified location with specific file name(then my email application will will email exported report). I dont want user to export button by crviewer interface but the code from back does so.. Any help in this regard... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is DirectX good enough for creating modeling tools?

  this may seem a silly question. yet all the modeling tools i see on the commercial market and free tools use opengl. is this choice due to opengl having the ability to be used on no windows OS or is directx not upto the task well i wasn't aware of 3dsmax having a choice. :) i was curious because i wondered about creating my own tools and would prefer to stick with directx. yet was a bit worried by the choice for ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to install VSTS Beta 2 on remote development Win2003 Server?

  I installed VSTS Beta 2 on remote web development Win2003 Server (I selected none of the VSTS components). Prior to doing that I uninstalled VS beta 1 succesfully. The installation was successfull, but now the ASP.NET tab is missing from IIS 6 web site properties, and I have no way setting the script mappings for spesific Framework version. I tried -regiis -ir -enable, but the tab is still missing. Any advice how to do a remote development serve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer error: unable to connect to the remote server

  Question:  I have a Visual Studio client I have been using to connect to a TFS install.  Its running on a virtual PC.  In the past, I've reverted back to a point prior to connecting to TFS before connecting to a new TFS.  This time I just tried to connect to the new TFS instance I created without reverting.  The issue I'm seeing is that the old TFS that the VS 2005 Team Explorer client knows about is not up and running ...Show All

• SQL Server Where are my migrated packages?

  I have successfully migrated 50+ packages from 2000 to 2005. Where are they ! ! I looked through Management Studio and through Visual Studio ("SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio") and cannot find them. Note: When I open Visual Studio the splash screen confirms that Integration Services is installed.   Thanks   Kirk has blogged about it here: http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/knight_reign ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 can't be added Active Directory, but the documentation says it can.

  Hi, I've installed SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003 SP1 Standard Edition. Before I install SQL Server 2005, I've configured Windows to be an domain controller with Active Directory. As the documentation said that using Object Explorer and then selecting Properties, I have the property page of Server Properties. But I still can't find the Active Directory page. When I try to run the system stored procedure sp_ActiveDirectory_SCP, I ca ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Assigned To Field - Full name insted of User Name

  Currently, the Assigned To field in Work Item shows User ID names. We would like to invoke the full name of the users. Is it possible Thanks in advance, Michael We have recieved a great deal of feedback on this issue.  We are currently looking at the possibility of changing user names in work items (assigned to, etc) to full "friendly" names rather than domain names.  If you ping me again in a week or two I'll be able to let you ...Show All

• Visual C# Snippet behavior in C# Express

  I am new to C# Express and can't seem to get the snippets to work in files that are part of a project.  If I open a .cs file by itself, that is, not as part of a project, then the snippets work fine.  However, if I open the same file as part of a project, then the snippets won't work. Let's say I want to code a "for" loop.  In the stand-alone .cs file, I can type "for" then TAB and I get the skeleton of the for ...Show All

• .NET Development Try...Finally and performance

  Hi! Are there any negative performance issues and diferences with the two alternatives below: Alt 1- With Catch PersonHandler myPersHandler; //Implements IDisposable..... try { //Some errorpotentiall code } catch(Exception ex) { //Do some logging } finally { if(myPersHandler != null) myPersHandler.Dispose(); myPersHandler = null; } /************************************************************/ Alt 2. - No Catch PersonHandler myPers ...Show All

• Visual Basic Catching SQL Server connection exception

  Hello All! I have a small VB 2005 read-only app with a SQL Server back end. I am working on error handling. When filling table adapters,I want to catch exceptions thrown when a SQL Server connection cannot be established and display a certain message to the user. I would like to test for an error number but I am not sure exactly wich kind of exception and property to look for. What's the best way to do this Is there a better way to test t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Saving Text to an Excel file

  I have searched all over for this, and can't figure out what to do, could somebody please start from the top, and explain to me in depth exactly what I need to do to Save text to an excel file Using normal file appending doesn't ever change the cells, I need a more integrated way, so please explain to me what I need to do from scratch, as of now I have nothing on my project. -Thanks I'm assuming ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Adding components!

  Hi, I am having some trouble adding components to VB express edition 2005. How can I do that please Bee Sorry I did not explain well enough. I meant when you make a component (control) and want to add it to a windows application in VB.NET. In Visual Studio 2003, you usually add it by right clicking the Toolbox and then select add...then you browse to where the control is and add it. After that the control will appear on the toolbo ...Show All