Keith Mange's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Compatibility with sql 2000

  Can I Install Sql 2005 in a machine with sql 2000   Will I have problems when the final version of sql 2005 comes out 1. RTM is still a few months in the future, what about right now, will it break 2000 2. If not, will it be OK if 2000 has Report Server installed Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error installing SQL Server 2005 Express

  I'm having dificulty installing MS SQL Server 2005 EE onto my XP Pro Machine. I did have the VS2005 Beta2, but i think this was fully removed (Tried using Add/Remove Programs, but had to use Windows Install Cleanup in the end). I've downloaded the executable and whenever i run it i pass the system configuration check 100%. I continue to install using the default options, and the following components install correctly: MSXML6 SQL Set ...Show All

• Visual C++ Why do I get these C2065 and C2057 errors?

  This is a brand new MFC program I created thru VS and C++ version 6.  When I added a new dialog which only has a progress bar and named it IDD_COMPUTER_SPEED I get the following errors "error C2065: 'IDD_GET_COMPUTER_SPEED' : undeclared identifier" and "error C2057: expected constant expression" both pointing to the .h file that was created automatically.  I don't know why I'm getting these error beca ...Show All

• Windows Forms Rtf Input

  I have built a program that uses code-snippets. Basically, when I type a word into the edit the other matching words, that I have specified in the rtf are updated. Everything works fine except, for that when I have text that exceed the length of the editor and I am adding text, the scroll bar flickers down to the insert spot while the text is being inserted and then back to the current position. This makes the user experience unbearabl ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Getting audio files' extended attributes

  Hi everyone... I hope I'm posting in the right forum for this question. I origianlly posted this in the VB.NET development forum, as that's the platform I'm using (original post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=230192&SiteID=1). But it's really a Windows API question... I have a couple of applications that find all the .WAV and .MP3 files in a folder (and its subfolders), reads their headers, and repo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting the Connection String Just Once

  I have Midi application that requires just two different connection strings, one for my dev environment and one for production.  The main form is frmMain. The main form has a function that detects whidh connection is sucessful.  This is called in&nb ...Show All

• .NET Development Odd class behavior

  I'm redesigning a website and am creating classes for business logic. When I create a new object: Dim obj as new objBusiness obj.Foo has a default value as 'Nothing' if i write code like so: if obj.Foo is Nothing then Response.write("ERROR") end if I keep getting this error: Referenced object has a value of 'Nothing'. It doesn't really make sense If Foo is a reference ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Standard Installation Problem

  Hi, can anyone please help me.  I am having trouble installing SQL Server 2005 Standard or SQL Server 2005 Express.  Everything installs until it gets to Installing SQL Server Database Services, every time I get the following error - "The SQL Server Service failed to start.  For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, "How to view: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" and "Starting SQL Server Manually."" i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Reading ini file?

  How can I read ini file using vb.net app.     ini files are predominantly just simple text files.  You can read an .ini file by using the normal way to read text files. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconrea ...Show All

• .NET Development How to access DataGrid Cells

  When my Data Grid returns results and i click and Highlight an entire cell...I want to see that information for the Cell i selected in another form in my project Private Sub dgshow_DoubleClick( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles dgshow.DoubleClick MsgBox(dsWatchTracker.Tables("tblWatchInstance").Rows(dgshow.CurrentCell.RowNumber).Item("watchid").ToString()) End Sub ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Help Event

  I want to create a procedure that when I add ou delete one sheet, it will call a sub or execute a code. Someone know I WANT HELP!   you can add code to the NewSheet event of the workbook when you add a new sheet, but I cannot find an event that's raised when a sheet is deleted. Mr Excel suggests this workaround http://www.mrexcel.com/archive2/4900/5453.htm ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Forms tip: use Spy++!

  I wanted to share a great little tip with all of you on how to debunk the inner workings of Windows controls. While .NET Windows Forms is a great library that makes creating forms very easy, there are limits to what you can do with Windows Forms. Luckily, it is just a wrapper around ancient technology, and we can still have a lot more control over the controls than you might think at first glance. Windows messages are still in the core of the . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Capturing Out of office event in Outlook 2003

  Hi all, I'm writing an addin for outlook, where I need to capture out of office event (when user turns out of office on / off). I would also need to be able to get the out of office message that user has entered when out of office is enabled. What is the easiest way to do this I'm using VS.Net 2003 (C#) for addin development. Thanks in advance. Hey, We could use CDO or Extended MAPI to turn on/of ...Show All

• Visual Basic Finding Folders

  Well i find files like this: Imports System.IO Imports VB = microsoft.visualbasic 'Gets the files Dim App_Path = My .Application.Info.DirectoryPath Dim desktopDir As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) Dim dir As New DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(desktopDir, App_Path)) For Each file As FileInfo In dir.GetFiles( "*.txt" ) 'end 'takes 4 letters off the end of ...Show All

• Visual C++ About Registry Monitoring

  Hi, how to capture the Changed registry key name,key value and key status(changed/modified/deleted). I used RegNotifyChangeKeyValue() for notifying the changes but i can't under stand what it will return how can we get those above values Thanks, Kiran.V Check this MSDN library article for an example. You would create one event for each key you'll monitor. Thus you know the key name. To get th ...Show All