GrizzlyAdams's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Error installing under Checked XPSP2 - Win Installer 3.1

  Trying to install the final build of VS 2005 under the Checked/Debug build of Windows XP. My last try was a fresh install of XP followed by the Checked/Debug SP2 update. Cannot get past an error in the first step of VS 2005 trying to install Windows Installer 3.1. I downloaded the 3.1 Installer redistributable to see if it would install by itself.  It displays a message saying that the Checked version of XP cannot b ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies PST

  I have thousands of Mails archived in PST files. Is there a possibiltiy to search also these mails Hi, I have my PST files mounted but still they are not indexed, I checked if the add in is disabled and it is not. Any suggestions Not sure if it is the problem, but my PST files and compressed and password protected. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Browse info for entire solution rather than for each project?

  I have a solution that contains several projects. Some are "pure .NET", others are mixed mode and still others are native C++. Unfortunately the browse info doesn't seem to work across the project boundaries. If I press F12 to try on a classes member function that is defined in a different DLL from the current source file it comes up with symbol undefined. Also, if I use the object browser to try and find all classes derived from class X, I only ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to create an Architectural Prototype?

  Activity number 5 of the Create Solution Architecture Workstram is the Creation of an Architectural Prototype. As I have no samples of this I'm not sure of what do I have to do here. Is this the place to decide which will be the core components of my architecture Is this the place where I decide to use for example the Enterprise Library for data access and exception management Or decide to use WSE 3.0 versus Indigo Or maybe LINQ for data ac ...Show All

• Visual C# What algorith does garbage collector uses,Why it is non -deteministic ????

  Recently I faced an interview in which this question was asked "What algorithm garbage collector uses and why its non-deterministic " Please explain it... If you want even more info, check out the following episode of .NET Rocks. This was an interview with Chris Sells, one of the people who complained to Microsoft about the lack of clean-up optimization until the Dispose() pattern was implemented. http://www.dot ...Show All

• SQL Server Partitioned view & computed column..

  Hello, please enlighten me regarding an issue with partitioned view... There are 3 tables in my DB of a similar structure: CREATE TABLE Table1 (value1 varchar(1)) CREATE TABLE Table2 (value1 varchar(1)) CREATE TABLE Table3 (value1 varchar(1)) INSERT INTO Table1 (value1) SELECT 'a' UNION SELECT 'b' UNION SELECT 'c' INSERT INTO Table2 (value1) SELECT 'a' UNION SELECT 'b' UNION SELECT 'c' INSERT INTO Table3 (value1) SELECT 'a' UNION ...Show All

• Visual C# Class View Add Method / Property Wizard

  Hello! This is my first time using Visual C# IDE, - Express edition. I would like to find out if the C# Express edition Wizards (or are they called templates) are available I see where one can add the code, but this is the error after typing in the code.  The build fails as expected Error 1 Expected class, delegate, enum, interface, or struct ... public long Add( long val1, long val2) { } public ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista XPS-Enabled Print Device

  i have heard that new xps device rips will be deployed shortly after vista... understanding xps print path from producer to consumer, i am still unclear as to what an "xps-enabled print device" will consist of. the rip still processs into bitmap so what will happen from WinFX to xpsdrv to xaml/xps to device rip whta does the xps-enabled device process thanks An xps-enabled print device is one ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Help With Dynamic Forms

  Hello there; My Problem is : I want to create a form without determine to control source for each field. why, because i want to create it with the SQL statment such as : select no,name,age,id,address from perone; after run the sql statment i want to determine to result to the fields. can i do that plz help me You could bind a grid at runtime setting the proper values in the respective data p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Checking multiple cube dimensions into source control crashes visual studio

  When I try and add more than one dimension to a cube under source control on my Team Foundation Server, visual studio crashes, to get round it i need to add them one at a time and close and reopen visual studio, is this something i have set up incorrectly or is this a problem with Team Foundation Server We are having difficulty reproducing this behavior in-house. We've been trying with a Beta 3 Refresh release. ...Show All

• SQL Server Flat File Destination Filename with Date ?

  Is there a way to append a date at the end of the filename for whenever a Flat File Destination is run   So far, I only see the ability to browse to a static filename. either I'm missing something or this link doesn't work: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.VSIPCC.v80/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/extran9/html/a4bfc925-3ef6-431e-b1dd-7e0023d3a92d.htm ...Show All

• Windows Forms Formatting toolbar

  How can I insert a toolbar like MS Word's format toolbar in vb.net project. I cant setup standart .net toolbar object that includes font type and color selection properties. Is there any way to list system fonts in standart toolbar object Use the Toolstrip toolbar. It's wonderful and complex. On it you will find a renderer property, set it to professional. I started to say the only thing that I have been able to replicate was th ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamic Prompts

  Hi All I'm currently trying to shift to the SRS 2005, (Mainly the report builder) My former report generator had a capability of popping up a list of pre-defined prompts that had a dynamic data in their dropdowns, I.E whenever I asked to choose let's say employee full name it had some sort of a SELECT DISTINCT command that pulled the data and showed it in the drop down. I have tried searching for a similar capability in the SRS but all ...Show All

• 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 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create the app_name.exe.config file during runtime

  Greetings forum inmates Consider the following scenario: You have created your application and you want to deploy it either via click once or xcopy - emphasis goes on xcopy for my case though. Normally you should include an app_name.exe.config file within the download so that the settings are included and loaded when the application starts. But what if you may have a different set of settings attributes on each deployment situation One sol ...Show All