Martin1977's Q&A profile

• Visual C# How to check that SQL Server or MSDE is installed?

  Hi, 1) How to check that SQL Server or MSDE is installed 2) How to install MSDE automatically from my setup Thank's Alexei Hi, This creates the setup but if I have sql server with sp4 it tells me to install old msde. I don't want to install msde where I have sql server... How can I solev my problem in another way ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Activities Menu Unavailable

  I've noticed a number of instances with users not being able to access our P4 application because the Activities menu is consistently unavailable.  I have witnessed this situation myself over several  home broadband connections and the Activity list comes up with the following message: "List of games or activities is temporarily unavailable. Please close and try again later." I initially thought this was due to a restriction on the client machine's network, but this has happened to me in my own home after a recent move.  I've changed nothing...even my provider is the same, but the Activities menu is inaccessible from home. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista C4819 Warning, help me, urgent!

  ---------After upgrading from VS 2003 to VS 2005 and rebuild a my COM/ATL project, I got following messages. What I concerned is how to prevent VS 2005 from generating idl file in CP936. It dose not take effect to set VS options. Thanks. .......... Linking... Creating library Release/LTModel.lib and object Release/LTModel.exp Microsoft (R) 32b/64b MIDL Compiler Version 6.00.0366 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation 1991-2002. All rights reserved. Processing .\_LTModel _LTModel .\_LTModel : warning C4819: The file contains a character that cannot be represented in the current code page (936). Save the file in Unicode format to prevent d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems installing the platform SDK

  I am having problems running the windows installer. (in order to extract the SDK) The steps I took were: 1)Download x86. version from web. Using web install. (I have a cable internet connection) 2)Go to the installed file and double click on it. 3)It opens and brings up windows installer. 4)Windows installer never opens. (I left my computer for about 20 min to see if it was opening slow).   That is the problem. In the end i had to abort the installation. Any help is appreciated. I did what you told me to do 1)checked updates and added all updates 2)attempted to run the window ...Show All

• Windows Forms Installation Error

  I am getting a very interesting error when I attempt to install Terrarium on my system XP Pro, AMD XP 2000+, 512Mb RAM I installed the SDK Package, then the Redist Package (It told me I had to) then When I went to install Terrarium I got This error "The cabinet file '_C9F1883766682CC7EB741FAA48B7F607' requitred for this installation is corrupt and cannot be ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual inheritance and layoutPanel problems

  If I create a Form with a FlowLayoutPanel or GridLayoutPanel, then create a new Form inheriting from this base Form, the layout panels are locked (even if their modifiers are public or protected). I can add controls to the new form around the layout panels, but not within the layout panels. Is there a way to fix/work around this Or does it basically defeat the purpose of visual inheritance and send me back to lots of copy/paste You click on the Panel in design view. Then you hit the the escape key on you keyboard (esc) to unselect the current Panel and selects his owner. In the property window you can see w ...Show All

• Visual Basic how do I get web templates in my ide?

  how do I get web templates in my ide When I installed beta2 I chose visual basic.  Now I want to try some web pages.  I find no way of changing my profile so that I can create some web projects. Can somebody please help me dennist Forgot to mention in my earlier msg, I have installed from the "Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite" CD. I am assuming I can use it as an individual developer without a team. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Best way to embed a list of name/values in the application settings

  I have a static list of name/value pairs that I need to store with the application. I would like these to be editable in a file stored with the executable. Using the newer default settings was my first thought. My question is this... Can I access the name by doing a search for the string What I'm doing is having the lookup the name at runtime depending on what was returned in a DataTable and replacing that name with the corresponding value. I can't use the newer, and very nice, code completed way of pulling my settings. In short, I'm trying to store a dictionary that I can load at runtime and use against the data pulled ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Uninstalling Pre-RTM Visual Studio Express builds (CTPs or Betas)

  Here are a set of resources to use before installing the RTM versions of VS or the .NET Framework.  The main key is to uninstall SQL Express, VS, and MSDN *before* uninstall the .NET Framework.  If you don't, you will end up with some orphaned files in the GAC which will lead to package load failures. Aaron's blog has some suggestions on how to clean that up. Tools and Tips on Uninstalling Previous VS 2005 Releases Official: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/uninstall/ Official: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/uninstall/preRTMuninstall/default.aspx astebner: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/11/09/491118.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error Bindingsource

  I use a Form with a Datagridview-Control (DataGridConn), a Datatable (Testtab) and a Bindingsource (Conn). When I add a new row in the Grid and want to set some starting values (XXXX) in the Conn_AddingNew event I get the error: Objects added to a BindingSource's list must all be of the same type. The used code is the following: Public Class frmFormConn Dim WithEvents Conn As BindingSource Dim TestTab As DataTable Private Sub frmFormConn_Load( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Load Dim i As Integer Conn = New BindingSource TestTab = New DataTable TestTab.Columns ...Show All

• SQL Server Remove Numbers

  I have a column within a table with date like 25C1, 26B1, 345SS4, 432BRP5, ect........ I need the remove the numbers both front & back and leave only the letters. Like C, B, SS, BRP........... The letters will be in a new column..... Thanks If you're familiar with ODBC, you can call SQLColumns( ) on the table name, and then SQLFetch( ), SQLGetData( ) to get each column name in sequence. Then you can parse each column name character by character, skipping characters until you come to a non-numeric character, and append that character to your column's name. The problem with what you're trying to do is ...Show All

• Windows Forms installState file is not removed by the uninstall action

  Hello there! I have the following problem: I created a custom install class that is accessed by a setup project. So far so good. The problem appears after I uninstall my application ... the file named myCustomInstallClassName.installstate is not removed by the uninstall action. Is there any way I can solve this What is that installstate file usefull for anyway Thanks a lot. Roxana, the installstate file is created by the installer base class.  It creates this file during the install custom action and removes it during the uninstall custom action.  even if you have not implimented the Uninstal ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Query regarding CreateFontPackage API used for Font Subsetting

  Hi, This is regarding the CreateFontPackage API which is implemented in the FontSub.dll as part of Windows GDI which we would like to use for Font subsetting: I got the details about this from the URL below: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/gdi/t2embed_CreateFontPackage.asp 1. I tried out using this API but the API is returning an error code of 1009 for which I was not able to get the error message string. The API documentation gives a list of error codes @ http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/gdi/t2embed_FontPackageErrorMessages.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error: 28002 During Install

  I've seen some other people post about this error, but I haven't really seen any solutions. I'm installing a single server deployment of TFS on a Win2K3 server with a domain admin account. The error i get is Error 28002 about halfway into the install. Here's the details from my Event Log. Detailed Message: TF50621: GSS: Failed to retrieve identity from source : [S-1-5-21-3001352713-997110418-654693162-1110] Exception Message: The specified domain does not exist or cannot be contacted. (type ActiveDirectoryObjectNotFoundException) Exception Stack Trace: at System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain.GetDomain(DirectoryContext context) a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Working with Panels ???

  Hi I intend using 1 form with multiple layers to display different information. So I am attempting to use panels on my form to do this. I am going to use hide and visible commands to display the required panel depending on user selection. Is there an easy way to work with multiple panels when in design view As once a panel overlays another one I cant access the bottom panel with out physically moving the top panel out of the way. I have tried the bring to the front, send to the back and also the option select panel1 (which is the hidden one) it gets select but it still remains hidden behind the top panel (i.e panel2). It's g ...Show All