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• Visual Basic VB first time install

  I am a network administrator interested in program development. I installed VB 2005 Express Edition for the first time on a Win XP Pro SP2 Dell GX 260 Optiplex (1GB of RAM, 1.8 GHz processor). I log in and therefore install with admin rights. Upon writing a small program to view web pages, the IDE hangs when I start debugging to test the program. The vbexpress.exe CPU usage hits 99% and stays there. I have to use Task Manager to force the proces ...Show All

• SQL Server Can the SQL Server 2005 be installed on Windows 2003 SP1?

  I recently attempted to install Windows 2003 SP1 on a machine on which someone had previously installed SQL Server 2005.  The build number for the SQL Server 2005 installation is 9.0.1116.  (BTW, which CTP is this build number ) The installation of the service pack seemed to go okay, but I soon got calls from users reporting that they could not log in to the instance.  I investigated, and discovered that the SQL Server servic ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Where is DC.exe located in the December WCF?

  I am looking for the location of dc.exe.  I have installed both the platform SDK and the runtime, but I am unable to locate it.   Thanks It is no longer there. You can use  svcutil.exe /dconly   instead. Cheers, Christian ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Warning CA1822 : Microsoft.Performance :

  The Error: Warning 1 CA1822 : Microsoft.Performance : The 'this' parameter (or 'Me' in VB) of ActivateFormClass.CheckActiveMidChild(Form):Void is never used. Mark the member as static (or Shared in VB) or use 'this'/'Me' in the method body or at least one property accessor, if appropriate. C:\Documents and Settings\joe\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\BMC_2005\BMC_2005\Components\ActivateFormClass.vb 15 Bmc20 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using PNGs to develop irregularly shaped forms

  If anyone has ever used WinAmp 3, you know you can use complex PNGs for the shape of your form. This PNG can even contain shadows. Also, I don't know if anyone remembers Kai's Power Tools 3 for Photoshop, but not only was the form irr ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) GridLengthAnimation

  It would be great if MS provided a GridLengthAnimation type out of the box. I would use this to animate the width of a column in a grid. Can't use DoubleAnimation because it's not a double. It's a GridLength. And I can't just DoubleAnimate the GridLength.Value property because it's not a settable property. Thanks. You can also do this..... /// <summary> /// Animates a grid length value just like the DoubleAnimation animat ...Show All

• .NET Development Remote DLL referencing

  Hello All, How can i reference a dll on the server.. i am not talking about web services of course. A pure DLL residing on the server, how can I reference it Not too far off what i was thinking off. my concern was to make sure i am not way off in my model. Thanks Again.. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System show project portal

  When click show project portal, I got this error "application not found".But i can access the portal if I typed the portal url directly in ie address . Jackie, Can you let us know if you are still having trouble navigating to the portal Thanks, Bill ...Show All

• Visual C# close all forms

  DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show("Username or password not correct!", "Error...",MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel); if (result == DialogResult.OK) { textBox1.Text = ""; textBox2.Text = ""; } else { //what comes here (1) this.Close(); } what do i have to write instead of (1) for closing all forms the open form is called existuser and the main form is Form1 ...Show All

• .NET Development " is not a valid Win32 application ??!

  Hopefully when i submit this the server wont crash and lose my message again. I have just converted a project to .NET 2.0. It consists of a class library and a winforms app. When i run the winforms app, it gets to the first point where it tries to instantiate an object of a class defiend in the class library, and throws a BadImageFileFormat exception with the message " is not a valid Win32 application I agree, but don't s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Moving the record pointer

  I have used foxpro for 15 years and have just downloaded the express editions for vb and sqlserver. In foxpro, when the record pointer in the controlling table moves the linked tables automatically move to the child records. I haven't been able to see how it's done with sql express and vb.net. I'm sure it must be a simple task, but for the life of me I can't see it. I think this is what you are looking for: &quo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Property files

  I would like to populate the properties of a project file by reading them in from an external file.  This would enable users on two different machines, with different settings, to share project file w/o storing the properties within the project file itself. Can this be done and how do I do it Thanks, Dan You are in luck! Visual Studio 2005 uses this exact mechanism for storing user specifi ...Show All

• .NET Development Checking whether a server using TcpListener is broadcasting.

  Hi there, I need to do some simple network communication. My program can act as both a server and client. When it's a server I create a TcpListener, start it, check whether listener.Pending() is true, and then create a TcpClient from which I create a NetworkStream which I write my data too. So that works just fine. Now on the client side, I create a TcpClient and grab a NetworkStream from it. Here's my problem, so when I now call NetworkStream. ...Show All

• Visual C# Datagridview Combobox event

  I have a datagridview with a combobox column. After I select a value in the combobox, I want to get info from the database for the selected Itemvalue. How do I get hold of the Item Value changed event for a combobox in a datagrid Thanks     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I make a directory browser?

  Basically, what I want to know how to do is click a button that makes a folder browser window come up, and add the chosen directory to a string variable. I hope it isn't too complicated. Thanks. hi, no its not complecate thing to do Dim fbd as FolderBrowserDialog = new FolderBrowserDialog () Dim dr as DialogResult = fbd.ShowDialog() if (dr = DialogResult .OK) then Dim name as strin ...Show All