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• SQL Server Error 3: the system cannot find the specified path

  Installed SQL Server 2000 Enterprise trial a week ago on XP Pro. Installed new Seagate 80G HD; used Seagate's utility to copy old C: to new drive as new boot drive. All seems to work fine, except, when booting up, SQL server doesn't start. When I try to start it manually I get the following: Could not start SQLSERVER service on the local computer. Error 3: the system cannot find the specified path. 1. What could be wrong 2. How do I fix it If you are starting via the service, look at services.msc and see what path is pointed to for sqlservr.exe. Check if the file exists at this location. Is this er ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Starter Kit Code Review?

  Does anyone at Microsoft review the code for the starter kits I understand they are designed to demonstrate how to develop a fairly simple application start to finish and not the inner workings of an enterprise level client/server distributed system. But if you are trying to demonstrate techniques to beginning programmers and give them the ability to extend an application, don't you think the application should be well designed, extremely well documented and minimal best practices should be followed I saw there was a starter kit for Black Jack and thought I would play with it as I love a good hand of cards as much as the next guy. I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Creating A toolwindow.

  Hey there, I have created a map editor for a platform game in C# Express, and have all my various tools and palettes on forms with the Toolwindow border. My problem is as the different windows are used, the form focus follows them around. Could anybody point me in the right direction for creating an environment like photoshop 7, where all the toolwindows have focus if the main window does. Would be much appreciated Thanks, Scott Llewelyn I'm not totally sure how Photoshop 7 handles focus, but will offer two shots in the dark. First, check out Form.Owner ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I use timers, and make the mouse "be" clicked

  Hello, could any of you tell me how I could use the timers I looked at the help for visual basic express 2005, and it didn't help at all, in fact, it made me more confused. And how can I make it so that when the certain line executes, it will left click, i want it to do this while being minimized, so that it will left click into another program, is this possible A timer has a start and stop associated with it..... so when u drag a timer onto a window u can fire its start method........ then there is something called interval which is the time duration after which ur code fires ... for example.... private ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX Final Version

  I'm interesting to integrate avalon on my software that is currently on development, but i need to understand when circa is planned the final version of WinFX and the Beta 2 of WinFX is scheduled Bye The Feb CTP was just released. Full beta 2 is not expected for a while (several months would be my guess). The release of WinFX has been stated to match the release of Vista near the end of the year, or August for those optimists. ...Show All

• .NET Development Legalities

  I'm developing some mobile and web apps.  one is a secure Data Repository.  I want to make the file structure similar to Internet Explorer to promote a more comfortable environment.  Is it legal to use Microsoft icons[word doc, folder, trash, etc.] in such a manor   Thanks. No it is not, see: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/permission/default.mspx You are only allowed to use icons and images that are redistributable. However, Visual Studio 2005 comes with a collection of icons and images out of the box that you are able to use in your applications. They are typically located in the follo ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 IDE Crashes when debugging a stored procedure/inserting breakpoint.

  Hi. I'm running the following setup: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0.50727 Installed Edition: Professional Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 77626-009-0000007-41026 Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Microsoft Visual C# 2005 77626-009-0000007-41026 Microsoft Visual C# 2005 when I try and debug a stored proc in the IDE it immediately crashes and pops up the dreaded "send an error report " dialog. Specifically, I create a new sql server proj, add a db connection, open the stored proc, set the breakpoint and it immediately crashes. If I open the ...Show All

• .NET Development Error 454 5.7.3 Client was not authenticated

  In my VB.Net application i am sending email using MailMessage object of System.Web.Mail, using following code '**************************************************************** Message = New MailMessage Message.To = strEmailAddress Message.From = strMailFrom Message.Subject = strSubject Message.Body = MailBody Message.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html SmtpMail.SmtpServer = strMailServer SmtpMail.Send(Message) '**************************************************************** system is working fine on development computer but it generate error on client PC, which have fix IP authenticated on Exchange Server. ...Show All

• Visual C++ im a beginner/ need help

  How do I delete projects and files i have done and messed up on in visual studio c++ If you click on them the IDE will say that the project cannot be found, do you want to remove them. That will remove them from the list. I haven't found another way to do this yet. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System On the rule DoNotInitializeUnnecessarily

  FxCop flags a warning when it detects initializations that were already supposed to be have done by CLR; for instance: int _StartIndex = 0; While this is redundent initialization, I think it's good practice to include it to make it explicitly clear that your code relies on the default initialization of CLR. This is extremely helpful when doing code modification later because there may be many methods which might assume above initialization and changing above line may effect many methods. When explicit init is not done, there are two possibilities, either your code doesn't use those init values OR it does; that is, you have to keep guessing ...Show All

• SQL Server How to make a diagram from data in a SQL Server table?

  Hi all, I’m a real SQL rookie and after two days of intensive research and reading of dozens of articles and web pages a bit confused about all that knowledge concerning database technology ... and I only want to do something very easy ... Now, my question is, how can I produce a diagram from that data, that is stored in a table, maybe called "DiagData1" I have installed SQL Server Express 2005 and Visual Basic Express 2005 and did some first steps with it as where shown in an brilliant tutorial that I’ve found on a Microsoft ( ) webpage. It shows the complete way building a database and connecting it to a form which was build with ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista VBScript activity

  Does exist some way to build a custom activity that executes a piece of VBScript code It should be configured triggering the visualization of a VBScript editor.... any suggestion thanksalot Andrea Hi Andrea, You can write activities using .NET code. So if you decide to write an activity which executes some VBScript you will have to first learn how to execute VBScript from .NET code such as C# or Visual Basic .NET. I expect you will have to load the VBScript COM component using COM Interop from .NET. Best of luck with this project. Regards, Paul ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Im confused about this.

  I read this in a tutorial: Literal constants, like variables, are considered to have a specific data type. By default, integer literals are of type int . However, we can force them to either be unsigned by appending the u character to it, or long by appending l : 75 // int 75u // unsigned int 75l // long 75ul // unsigned long I underlined what I dont understand. I know unsigned means that its a positive or negative but what does long mean I also have another question. After reading a tutorial, I was supposed to put this code into the thing: #include <iostream> using namespace std; #define PI 3.14159 #define NEWLI ...Show All

• SQL Server Any advice on where to start with learning SQL and C#?

  Hi all, Not sure if this is correct place to post this thread but im looking for advice on where to start with learning SQL and C# as i wish to start in a new career as a DBA. Cheers, Your best bet is to download the express editions, and buy some books. C# and SQL are obviously different languages, you'll also need to learn ADO.NET, which is part of the .NET library that is for talking to databases. In the first instance, I suggest you learn C#. Which means buying a book and working through it. It also means writing console applications first, unless you have a C++ background, in which case you sh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to debug: The binding handle is invalid

  When i try to debug a C# application I get this error: Error while trying to run project: unable to start debugging the binding handle is invalid What can i do Thanks for your answers ZAiNT, Thank you so much for your help. To test native debugging: 1) File->New->Project... 2) Visual C++->Win32 Console Application 3) F10 Thanks, Gregg ...Show All