Rahul Patil's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development VPC Network Driver not installed

  Hello, I have a system where I just installed VS 2005 beta 2 for the first time (no exisiting previous version). The installation went smoothly until the installer tried to installed the Device Emulator. It complained about the emulator not being installed although it was. But now, when I try to launch the emulator, I always get a message telling me that the VPC Network Driver is not installed and indeed, it is not. I have tried to re-install th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Remove the X from a from

  Is it possible to remove the X from the top right hand corner of a form Sorry folks, I meant to say; Is it possible to remove the X from the top right hand corner of a Form ...Show All

• Visual C# Hiding MDI child name in mainform caption

  Does anyone know how to stop an mdi child to add his name to the main application window If my app is named MYMDI and the childform’s caption is CHILD1, I get a caption MYMDI - [CHILD1] ! But I want the main window caption to keep the name MYMDI. By default, I think the child form doesn't add its name in the parent's text, check your code, I think there is a code to change the parent's text... ...Show All

• Visual Basic Toolstrip MergeAction

  I'm trying to merge a toolstrip in an MDI child form into the toolstrip of the MDI form. I have two toolstrips in the MDI form and wondered how VB would know which toolstrip to merge it into. To my surprise it didn't choose either of them but instead into used the toolstrip of a PropertyGrid that I have in the MDI form!! How do I fix this On the hosting MDI parent form, there is a property called Main ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem restoring database with encrypted columns to different database or server with encrypted columns.

  I need to start encrypting several fields in a database and have been doing some testing with a test database first. I've run into problems when attempting to restore the database on either the same server (but different database) or to a separate server. First, here's how i created the symmetric key and encrypted data in the original database: create master key encryption by password = 'testAppleA3'; create certificate test with subje ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how can I schedule a Unit test to run multiple time?

  Hi, I would like to know how can I schedule a Unit test to run multiple time w/o using a loop or timer. I am using Team System for Software Developer edition. Please advice! Thanks, Hello, You can use an ordered Test. An ordered test will let you add the same unit test multiple times; then you can schedule to run the ordered test, and you will get the behavior you're looking for. More info on or ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to start SQL Server !!!!

  Hi, Im unable to start my SQL Server. When I try to start SQL Server from the command prompt, I get the following error in my error log. Starting up database 'master'. Error: 602, Severity: 21, State: 50. Error: 5180, Severity: 22, State: 1. I tried to start my server in single user mode. Any idea why this is happening Somebody please help!!! Thanks, Hi, make sure that the readonly ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSF books

  Hi, Does anyone know of release dates for books on MSF Agile Some books have been released recently that cover VSTS but I cant find anything on MSF. The only one I can find is planned for release in Feb 2007!!! http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321336445/qid=1130847491/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl/202-4186540-2622229 Thanks, David Hi David,    That's my book! It will be out long before 2007 although I can't fully say whe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error : Value cannot be null ,Parameter name:Key

  Hi, Follwoing is the error which is coming randomly on running the application .. Error : Value cannot be null ,Parameter name:Key The project is running properly on one machine but when copied to new machine and later run from new location above error is coming. This error comes very randomly for intial run the application is running properly but after some time this error comes up. We tried changing " ...Show All

• Windows Forms Possible datagridview bug? UserDeletedRow event doesn't fire when only one row is available

  I have a datagridview bound to a dataset (sql table). I'm trying to automatically save the changes after a user deletes a single row. The only problem is that the event for "userdeletedrow" only fires when there is more than one row already present in the grid. Is this the proper way for it to work Also, is there a way to fix this so I know when a row has been deleted Thanks for any help. I had the ...Show All

• Visual Basic DAta Sources Toolbox functionality reversed

  When I am looking at a code window all of my data sources are visible in the data sources toolbox. When I am looking at a form, the toolbox is empty and greyed out and no options can be accessed. This is exactly opposite from how it worked in beta 1, 2 and RC1. Anyone know what the deal is with this As of right now I cannot drag/drop a table onto a form because all the tables are hidden when I am looking at a form. Thanks, Josh ...Show All

• Visual Basic What can I do to display a dropdown list in a dbgrid cell ?

  What can I do to display a dropdown list (may be a dbcombo ) in a dbgrid cell I will populate this list with data from a recordset. Thanks in advance! []s Murilo Hi, Apparently there is no easy way to achieve this with DBGrid in Visual Basic 6.0, there is a commercial control DBGrid Pro that can do this easily. You can attempt to work around this by - Add a ListBox and make its visible property to False. - Add ...Show All

• SQL Server error on server

  TITLE: Microsoft Report Designer ------------------------------ A connection could not be made to the report server http://localhost/ReportServer2005 . ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=utf-8', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with the error message: -- <html> <head> <title> SQL Server Reporting Services </title><meta ...Show All

• Visual Studio using MSBuild to build projects from multiple developers

  Hi all, I am starting out to setup a automated build process for our organization. We decided that we are going to get the latest version of the code from sourcesafe whenever a complete build needs to made. But i am having trouble implementing that solution. The project i am currently trying to automate the build process for is being worked on multiple developers. Each of the developers have their projects setup in their own directories local ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS.Net 2005 Crashes on Overriding BackColor, ForeColor properties of User Control

  I'm working on a User Control and everything was working fine. Then i added code to override the FORECOLOR & BACKCOLOR properties and after that when i rebuild the solution and tried to add the control in a sample Windows Forms and the moment i do this the VS.Net 2005 IDE crashes and closes without any warning / error message as to what happened. This is very annoying. I have been trying to resolve this since 3 days but no solutions so ...Show All