msreeni's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Installing Windows Presentation Foundation

  I installed WinFX RTC founded at http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getthebeta/default.aspx . Then I try to install Windows SDK but a receive an error and installation abort. The error log is here: ----------------------------------------------- 14.08.10 venerdi 13 gennaio 2006: [SDKSetup:Info] Begin 14.08.10 venerdi 13 gennaio 2006: [SDKSetup:Info] SDKSetupDll_DoTasks: Starting 14.08.10 venerdi 13 gennaio 2006: [SDKSetup:Info] S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA1062:ValidateArgumentsOfPublicMethods False Positive?

  I have the following code that gives me the CA1062 warning. Looks to me like a false positive: public static string Format(IFormatProvider provider, string format, params object[] args) { ... int argsLength = args != null args.Length : 0; ... } Regards, Erwin Erwin, I can't reproduce this warning given the above code, however, if you have something like the following: & ...Show All

• Visual Studio satellite dll not found in RC1

  I recently upgraded to release candidate 1, and now when I run my addin, AddNamedCommand2(..false, 1,....) throws the following exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'MyAddin.resources, Version=1.0.2125.31379, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. File name: 'MyAddin.resources, Version=1.0.2125.31379, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=null' ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom control patterns

  Is it possible to create custom control patterns The docs don't say it isn't, but I couldn't find any hints or information on how to do it. If it is possible, is it just a case of inheriting and implementing the base pattern interface to create a custom control pattern Thanks, Will Hi, I thought I'd provide some more information. I was in a bit of a rush to attend a meeting when I posted last time. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Could someone recommend a good book for VB 2005?

  I'm new to programming and this is the language I've choosen to start with. Could someone suggest a good book to begin with Myself I can not image anyone Learning this trade without First taking a few Formal Courses in this Area.... But if You are Really Smart(Cgraus) you can Do It..... These are Free Movies Not Books... http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Querying and late bound data providers

  Hi Normally in the projects I work on we use a strict provider based architecture for accessing data. Obviously this is done to avoid having any nasty database or XML or something else dependancies in the logic of the program. The problem on the other hand is that querying such data stores must also be part of the provider meaning that all possible ways of querying data must be covered by the provider which obviously isn't feasible. Now I was ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unloading an Add-In

  Hi, I would like my add-in to load only after it had detected that another feature is installed on the local machine (this feature can be removed without notice, hence we do not check it existence while installing the add-in). If the feature isn't there i would like to display a message to the user and unload the Add-In. Where is the best place to put this validation code I tried using it on the OnConnection event handler, but when i instr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Working on both VB 2005 Express & Visual Studio 2003 ?

  Hi! I'm learning programming (VB .net) as a beginner and downloaded Visual Basic 2005 Express edition at home. However, we use Visual Studio 2003 in School and will present our project there and then I wonder if it is possible to work at home (with 2005) and get it working on 2003. Shortly: is it possible to either make visual basic 2005 express to save the project or convert it some way so that 2003 will be able to open it or to lim ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to update rows in an mdb data source??

  hi everybody , I'm a beginner student in vb.net,and I'm working on a very small project as a homework,and I've some questions which I ought to search for their solutions via any   source . I need to make an (Update )button in most of my VB forms,which enable me to update any row elements in the datasource in Access through each form , for example: I've a form about CustomersData as (Cust_No,Cust_Name,Cust_Address,Cust_Phone...etc) ...Show All

• SQL Server how to get SQL SERVER 2005 NETWORK CONFIGURATION...

  hI ALL,   i wrote my problem before also...n it was I have installed SQL SERVER 2005 CTP,Version 9.00.1314 but the problem is...as soon as i m trying to connect..i gave the local server name as SHUCHI during the installation and now i m trying to connect to it... then it gives me error as : cannot connect to SHUCHI additional information: An error has occured while establishing a connection to the server . When connecting to SQL Server ...Show All

• Visual Studio Integrating help without the Help Integration Wizard - Urgent

  We are now desparate since installing VS2005 Beta 2 we have lost the integration in MSDN with our help collections and more importantly the Enterprise Library help collection.  Even re-installing the Enterprise Library does not put the collection into the Beta2 MSDN help.  Now we are fumbling around in the dark. How do we integrate these help collections without the Help Integration Wizard Please help, Claire ...Show All

• Visual Basic Little bit of help, would appreciate it thanks.

  Hello all, I am currently in School for a Network Admin Degree, but i am also taking up .Net developing. I am currently doing Visual Basic.NET. My assignment is to make a form that goes to another form and in the second form there are 3 fields ( UserID, First Name, and Date) then there are 2 buttons; Validate and Exit. The purpose of this form is when you click validate for the form to validate that the 3 fields have the correct information in t ...Show All

• SQL Server Installing SQL Express SP1 with existing User Instances

  Hi, I've read the readme for the Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2005. http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/d/1/bd1e0745-0e65-43a5-ac6a-f6173f58d80e/ReadmeSQL2005SP1.htm But I'm not quite clear on what will happen if you currently have SQL Server Express 2005 installed with User Instances, and then you launch the installer for SP1. Will it also update the User Instance If so, how could I tell When I go to the registry for ...Show All

• SQL Server MSDE & SSMSE -CTP connection problem

  hi friends, I'll be thankful if anyone solve this problem. When i developed my application i used sql 2000 as a server side DB. Now my client want to install MSDE instead of SQL 2000. so i uninstall SQL2000 and installed MSDE . AS we all know, MSDE doesn't have GUI. So i installed Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express - Community Technology Preview (CTP) (includeing xmlparser,windows installer,.net 2.0). now i could able ...Show All

• SQL Server sql 2000 scripts

  How can i set something up so that a new sql script is generated on a regular basis for the tables, stored procedures This is because the tables, stored procedures change once a day. So that we can just run the generated scripts on the required sql servers. Thanks THere are several was you could do this. All would involve querying the createdate on sysobjects. If you can add triggers to this table, that would b ...Show All