FinnErik's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Serious limitation in SQL server installation

  I am trying to install the server in a non-system drive.  I have to install the server in a diffferent folder like (E:) instead of the default C: due to existing partition that I have to continue to have (due to reasons that include security). Even though I selected this drive and every thing else (Program Files etc) the same, the install program still asks for over 2 GB on C drive. I checked each of the install options and found that most of this space is required by Books and client services which themselves need 1GB.  So I can do without them for now.  But then how do I get them installed   I can accomo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Generate Unit Tests Problem

  From S Hill: I'm trying to create unit tests.  After creating a test project, I right-click the project and select Add|Unit Test.  In the Generate Unit Tests dialog I expand the treeview to reveal the classes I wish to create unit tests for.  The problem is that most of the classes have a red icon next to them with an exclamation point in it.  The tooltip for these items reads, "<filename>.cs exists in the project, but not on disk".  I have so far been unable to determine the commonality between the classes for which this problem is presented. Hello, I was unable to reproduce this problem. Can you answ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Studio Is Busy?

    Pentium IV - Northwood 3.5 Ghz - I Gb of Ram. XP SP2 .. all current patches applied. VS2005 RTM Team Suite On occasion while debugging the IDE becomes nonresponsive and I receive a Bubble message informing me that "Visual Studio is busy waiting for an internal operation to complete - If you receive this message often, please inform Micorosoft" After I receive this message the IDE never recovers. All I can do is to delete the process and restart it. Any idea what's occurring I experience the same problem from time to time. No idea what causes it, but would like to know! VS2005 Pro Ed. Carl ReneeC ...Show All

• Windows Forms MessageBox.Show Focus Problem

  I have a strange problem with a C# Windows Forms application. I have a MenuStrip, a ToolStrip right below it, and another ToolStrip down the left hand side. The rest of the client area is taken up by a panel control set to Dock Fill, so it fills the entire client area. I am displaying custom user controls in the panel control. The problem I'm experiencing is that whenever I call a MessageBox.Show, the message box is not visible - it is not at the top of the Z order. The title bar of the application changes to inactive and clicking anywhere in the application produces the normal beep indicating that a modal dialog is displayed, but it i ...Show All

• SQL Server Adding Table to Dataset for SQL Server Mobile causes VS 2005 to lock up.

  I am running VS 2005 Professional Edition Windows XP profession with Service Pack 2 SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition. WHAT I HAVE DONE: I have a database running in an instance of SQL Server. I set this up for merge publication and then set up a SQL Server Mobile Edition Subscription to that publication.  After a few oversights I got everything working.  The Mobile database replicated just fine.  I went back verified all data was there.  Can make queries to it.   PROBLEM:  I set up a new dataset to use tables from the SQL Server Mobile database.  If I drag one of the tables to the d ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Dataflow vs SQL2K DDQ

  I am trying to recode a SQL2K DDQ into an SSIS Dataflow. I have no issue recoding it in SSIS except I am not sure that I am doing it correct way. My DDQ has source,destination, update/delete/insert statements and few lookups. I have used activex script for the transformation because I have atleasst 10 If conditions. For every "if condition" the destination columns are popuated with different lookups/source columns and constant values. Now When I start doing it with SSIS I have to use at least 10 Conditional split. and then at least one lookup,one OLEDBCommand and one OLEDB Destination for each of them . that brings my count o ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to create UDP program that LIsten to Different Port

  Hi, I would like to development one program that able to send different type of data structure base on the port. Like  May be Video data using port 1000, Text data using port 2000 and etc. When receive the data, it can be know this data is received from which port. On the Server: Open 2 ports and wait for data Start two threads to read from two ports Dim VideoClient As New UdpClient(1000) Dim TextClient As New UdpClient(2000) Dim readVideo As Thread = New Thread( New ThreadStart( AddressOf ReadVideoPackets)) Dim readText As Thread = New Thread( New T ...Show All

• Visual C# Encode

  Hi what is the best way to encode code Hi You may get from the DotFascator's company a Professional version of that software. I think the web site address is www.preemptive.com . You may find there. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DirectShow in WinFX (C# v3)

  How to do DirectShow in WinFx aka C# v3 I am runing Vista and want to distribute a special video player embed in a browser control.(Vista say that non managed code will not run right)Ideas So far I am planing on using the SourcForge C# port. .V ...Show All

• Visual Basic Splah Screen Hang

  I have been working on my program for a while but when i came to the splash screen, I became frustrated. When I launched my application, the splash screen just stayed there and never went away. How do I set it so that it goes away after a certain amount of time Hi Cory, I'm assuming that you are showing your Splash screen by setting the Splash screen nproperty in the Project designer - if not, you should take a look at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bfkbc5a3.aspx This is much simpler than using than old thread-based approach. By default, the Splash screen will be displayed for 2 sec ...Show All

• Visual Basic setting a system color at runtime.

  I am trying to change the backcolor of a picturebox when it is clicked. I want the resulting color to be system Highlight. I can only seem to change the color to the set of of colors provided by drawing.color. Is there anyway to set the color to the system highlight color. Or any other system color for that matter. After a little trial and error and searching.... Me .PictureBox1.BackColor = Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Highlight) ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagrid heirarchy

  I've a dataset with 1 table and 1 relation. I set this dataset for data source of 1 datagrid. The datagrid creates automatically a link for the child rows. How is possible put the data instead of link You might try posting this in the "Data Binding, Data Grids, and List Controls" forum. But . . . hmmm . . . you say one  ...Show All

• SQL Server Linked Server slow query return

  Hello can some one explain this to me and give me some advice. I have sqlserver1 and sqlserver2 I have a linked server set up [ipaddress] on both servers. When I pass a variable to the stored proc or the query it takes up to 20 seconds to return 1 row but if I replace my varibles like email='sqlboy@coxnet' and firstname='ted' and lastname='clien' it returns the one row im looking for in about 2 seconds but if I pass email =@email ,fname=@fname,lname=@lname I get the 20 second thing. The query is a stored proc being called from an asp app. I get the same results when I run this in query analyzer. Here is the query. DECLARE @email VARCHA ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer Bug - Get Latest on Check-out

  I consider it a bug that Team Explorer does not fetch the latest version of a file when the client selects to check it out for edit. There should be at least an option in settings to enable/diable this. Editing out-of-date files is getting old. That's my 2 cents. DougN explains why this is the default behavior: http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/08/20/454140.aspx In short, silently breaking your build is a lot worse than making you click the automerge button during checkin. Given how often it's brought up on this forum, there's a decent chance we'll provide an option for VSS-style checkouts in a future version. If we did, w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to Develop InfoPath Application Using MicroSoft.NET InfoPath ToolKit

  Hello Everybody, I am stuggle with .NET and InfoPath. Because I donnu How Can I use .NET InfoPath ToolKit to develop the InfoPath Forms to validate the forms and some scripting. I already did some forms with MicroSoft Script Editor. But I donnnu How to do with .NET InfoPath ToolKit. Anyone can send any Some simple example about this above request. Its really very very helpful to me. Just a simple example. Thanks in Advance vasantha prabu. Nevermind, I found it in our MSDN subscription pack. It's a separate CD that was in our Dec. 2005 shipment. ...Show All