TorB's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Datasets: Problem with using Guid.NewGuid as a default value

  (Using Visual Studio 2005 Architect RTM) I'm having an issue using Guid.NewGuid as the default value for a column in my typed dataset.  The Guid.NewGuid is only evaluated once, so every row has the same Guid inserted as it's default value.  Now I'm using the Guid as the primary key for my row, so this is causing duplicate key errors.  I've been able to work around it for now by attaching to the TableNewRow event and reseting ...Show All

• SQL Server cant see Report manager page

  Hi Friends we've report server (sql server 2005 standard edi) on win 2003 server. i can see report manager page (i.e. http://servername/reports) from my machine but some of out users cant see this page !! all they can see is "sql server reporting services" text nothing else. no reports and no models ertc., i assume its something to do with rights issue. where can i set these rights so that all users within our domain can see and create ...Show All

• .NET Development Create simple master page in VS2005

  Okay, this seems like it should be a simple thing, but when I look at the documentation for creating a master page in an ASP.NET web app, it says to right-click on the project, select Add..New Item, and a choice for master page will be there. Problem is when I do that there are 35 different options (Class, Windows Form, Inherited Form, etc.), but no master page option. Where did it go Visual studio version 8.0.50727.42 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Backgroundworker and my.computer.network.ping

  Hello, I am developing a small application that checks a list of ip's to see if they are reachable or not. When they aren't available the icon turns red, otherwise it just stays white. I've decided to use a backgroundworker to check if the pc's are available when there are more then 0 computers in the list. However when the program reaches the my.computer.network.ip("insert adres") event my program freezes until it gets a timeout or a reply. I t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Path arguements in the "Additional Dependencies" linker field

  Hi, I've recently converted my eVC 4.0 project files to VS 2005 and each of them have for their Additional Dependencies something like: lib\somelib.lib lib\some_other_lib.lib This is the way they were specified in the original eVC project, but now I get the linker error MS_LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '.\lib\somelib.lib' Anybody know why this is the case with VS 2005 MSBuild isn't used to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploy chm file with click-once

  I'd like to include a chm file with the application that I am deploying, but no matter what subdirectory of the project I put it in I can't seem to get the file to be included in the deployment. The help file does work correctly from my application on the development machine where I have it located in the project bin directory. Right now, my deployment is just to a directory from which I burn a CD. Thanks, jerryK ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot Create Team Project

  I have just installed team server and all its pre-reqs, single server install.  I have installed this on a Virtual Machine.  After all this, I installed VS 2005 on the machine and tried to create a Team project.  The error I am getting is "Unable to connect to server" When I try to connect to http://servername:8080/default.aspx i get the following error: Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to acc ...Show All

• SQL Server Report manager HTTP status 400: Bad Request

  I am having trouble to access Report Manager on a fresh SQL Reporting Services install on Win 2003, SQL 2000 SP3a machine. /ReportServer works fine, I've created a Virtual Directory /OnlineReports to allow anomynous access but /Reports doesn't work. So I can't add IUSR to the folder I need anomymous access on. Can somebody please help Thanks in advance. Yes, here's what it shows <ReportServerUrl>http://www.domain.com/ReportServe ...Show All

• Visual C++ Negtive zero valid?

  Hello, I hope I am in correct forum. I am testing Visual Studio 8 RC1, and found a negative zero. Here is a C example: {    double val = 0.0;    val = -val;    printf("%g\n", val); } Output is: -0 The result is "0" with .net 2003 version. Is this a expected behavior If this is expected, could somebody point me to the documents describing new double behaviors. Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual C# throw

  Hi. What work do the throw statement, alone. What exception it force to take place Nice article about Exception and Throw http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Tutorials/ExceptionHandling101RVS.asp ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL Connection Problem

  Hi, I have an ASP.NET 1.1 and MSSQL 2000 installation hosted with the same provider. Normally, I have no trouble connecting to the database, but roughly once per day, I get an exception train that starts with a 'General network error'. Mysteriously, this usually seems to happen at roughly the same time each day. My connection string and the code causing the exception are given below (values replaced by 'X'). I am sure you will agree, they are ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Managed DirectX, disposing resources

  If objects dispose themselves in C#, do we ever need to explicitly dispose Pool.Default resources when the device is reset or Pool.Managed resources when the device is destroyed If they dispose themselves, what are the OnLostDevice and OnDestroyDevice methods for Its always best to manage the lifetime of Managed DirectX objects yourself for a couple of reasons. If you have the default even behaviour enabled ...Show All

• Visual C# Tree View Image

  Can anybody teach me how to change the image of the Plus Sign and the minus Sign for the Tree View to other image of my choosing. Thanks You can't "change" those images; but you can disable them and use images that depend on whether a branch is opened or closed. You could start by loading the images you want into an ImageList object (either through the Designer or manually, in code). Then, process the ...Show All

• Visual C++ Merge IDEs

  I find the MSVC .NET GUI just awfull... (no offence :P). Is it possible to use the .NET linker and compiler with MSVC 6 Thanks. Speaking of moving folders.  Moving/reordering folders at least manually in the project (text) file worked well before 2005 and is broken in 2005 (now all folders are sorted alphabetically no matter what you do - maybe the C# team pressured them for this, but we C++ guy ...Show All

• SQL Server COnfiguring Number of records per page?

  Is there a way I can specify how many records per page should be displayed > This is a very basic functionality that needs to go in the deployment at any cost for us ...any ideas. thanks Assuming you display your data in a list or a table, you could add a grouping expression like this: =Ceiling(RowNumber(Nothing)/20) This will cause the list/table to group on every 20 rows. On the grouping dialog, select to add a page break on ...Show All