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• Visual Studio VS2005 does not work with web services of VSS 2005

  I have VS2005 (Prof) installed on a client (XP Pro) and VSS2005 (Prof) installed on a Windows 2003 server. I can connect to SourceSafe via LAN plugin but when I try to connect via web, it gives an error: Cannot contact the Visual SourceSafe Internet Web Service or cannot access the specified database. The Visual SourceSafe Web Service returned the following error: Call context cannot be accessed after call completed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010117) When I try to connect to the websevices directly with the full URL in the browser, it shows me all the web methods. I'm going crazy with this already. We have a bunch offshore de ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System The Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services

  This is probably the seventh time I'm trying to create a team project but having trouble with SharePoint. Ok, this is what I've done: 1. Installed Windows Server 2003 2. Installed Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 3. Created TfsSetup, TfsReports and TfsService 4. Logged in as TfsSetup (with Administrator rights) 5. Installed IIS with ASP.NET 6. Installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Release Candidate 7. Installed SQL Server 2005, according to Visual Studio Team Foundation Installation Guide 8. Enabled TCP/IP for SQL Server 2005 for all Ip addresses 9. Installed Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 with SP1 10. Installed Windows SharePoint Servi ...Show All

• .NET Development ado.net, connection pooling, and leaked connections

  Hi, I have been looking at some legacy code with performance issues: I ran perfmon on the problematic use case, with a counter on .NET CLR Data / Current # Pooled connections (amongst others) I noticed that while performing a set of tasks in the use case, pooled connections increased systematically peaking at 9. I think this is because of the workload governor which MSDE uses, but I think that this would simply carry on increasing on a full instance of SQL Server. I am unsure why this is happening: my question is this: given a non-threaded single-user  environment, why would the current pooled connections increase in this wa ...Show All

• Visual Basic Change one field in a table

  I've written a program that reads a comma delimited text file into an SQL Server table. I have more than two hundred such files with literally hundreds of thousands of rows of data. Unfortunately, the existing time data is in the wrong format (e.g. 0350 instead of 03:50. How can I read, each record, change that one field and move on to the next I know there are Datasets and BindingNavigators available. I have read the help files and online docs but I can't quite figure this one out. PS Due limitations of clients existing software, I'll also want to write the results of queries back to text files. What would be the most efficient approac ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions TreeView question

  Hi I have a project which works reasonably as expected - apart from one aspect. I have a TreeView which is populated with folders and files in a typical Windows Explorer sort of way. However, in the  TreeView_ NodeMouseClick event handler, where it populates a Folder node with the files in that folder, I cannot find a way to stop it from adding a fresh batch of files to the node each time the node is clicked. eg when I first click on the node, it opens with the first batch of files in it, when I click again it collapses the node after adding a new batch of the same files to the node, and of corse, when I next open the node ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to print receipt in a picture box?

  Hi, I made a simple program that would generate a receipt preview, but I wander on how to do it in Visual Basic Express. I am going to use Picture Box because, other said that picture box can hold up a text or an image. How can I do this with my example format below: MyCompanyLogo MyCompanyAddress DATE: 05/06/2006 RCPT: 34566 STAFF: 23455 SND: 3467785667 1 480MLNSTEA ICE 18.00 2 SFGUAR SOAP 5.50 ------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL 23.50 CASH 25.00 CHANGE 1.50 VAT ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Windows Installer error w/cryptographic issues - going on 11 hours-help!

  I hope someone can help me... We purchased the open lic. upgrade of XP PRO and I installed it on my workstation; at first all seemed great but I've run into error after error and the root problem seems to be windows installer. I've tried all of the updates, patches, fixes... from microsoft along w/others but I keep looping back to the same issue. I started working on it at 7:30 AM and it is now 6:00 PM - H E L P! It looks like you've read and followed the hotfix with no success. Your next step is to call Microsoft Support and have them help you resolve the issue. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to delete columns in Datagrid

  Hi i am doing project in vb.net. I have placed data in datagrid with the use of DataGridtextcolumn. I don't know how to place datagridboolcolumn in datagrid. I need to place datagridboolcolumn for all the rows in the Datagrid. if i click the checkbox of datagridboolcolumn the concern row should be delete. I need this. if any one know this, kindly help me.I hope for ur helping. Thanks ahead. Regards S.P.Maheswaran mail to maheswaran.s.p@gmail.com mahessa_msc@yahoo.co.in You can change your code so that the form2 constructor takes a form1 as parameter. You can us this to access you're public variables. Then yo ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error on build log? and why is this condition not working?

  Based on Dennis Pilarinos blog ( http://www.dennispi.com) I tried to recreate from scratch a simple console workflow project "Loan submit": -The host console sends a Loan submit message with an ID (string) and a value (float) to the workflow. LoanEventArgs myeventargs = new LoanEventArgs (wfInstanceID.InstanceId, "Jumbo" , 100); SubmitLoan( null , myeventargs); -The workflow should be very simple:  Eventsink gets message, if-else checks if amount exceeds certain value, and based on that an InvokeMethod activity is called (either "LoanApproved" or "LoanRejected").  Here are the 2 issues I have: 1- Af ...Show All

• SQL Server PROBLEM INSTALLING SQL SERVER EXPRESS

  Hi, I successfully installed Visual Basic 2005 express edition and but the SQL Server component did not get installed. 12:37:11 AM Sunday, April 09, 2006: [Fail] ConfigSamplesDll_DoTasks:: [Fail] Config_SSE_INST_Install: SQL Express service install (failed). The process did not return a success value. ExitCode: 1282 Command: 'C:\Documents and Settings\Oluwaseyi Awoga\Local Settings\Temp\SQLEXPR32.exe -q /norebootchk /qn reboot=ReallySuppress addlocal=all SCCCHECKLEVEL=IncompatibleComponents:1 instancename=SQLEXPRESS'. I keep getting this error. Can anybody help me I have uninstalled and installed ALL versions of the .NET frame ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System property evaluation order (beta 3)

  Why is the following not working I tried moving the Import of the M icrosoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets from the top of the build file to the bottom, but it had no affect. Our environment has separate TFS and Build servers. I'm using TFSBuild.exe to kick off the build through a batch file. This article describes http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171464.aspx the order of evaluation but it isn't working. I also tried moving the RootProjectFolder property to a a new <PropertyGroup /> element. The affect is that only the first <PropertyGroup /> element is evaluated before the build is "kicked" off. An initial round of e ...Show All

• Windows Forms dataGridView; changes by the end user

  I have a dataGridView with many records. How can I change those cell values to red color that has been either added or edited by the end user This is to get the user a summary of changs made to the grid prior to saving the grid.   This is when the Value of the cell is null. just add a checker: object cellValue = dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[e.ColumnIndex].Value; if(cellValue != null) { _oldValue = cellValue.ToString(); } else   { _oldValue = string.empty; }   same thing on the other method. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Are there any drawbacks to this?

  Hi again! I had this freaky idea earlier today where I decided to render my entire GUI to a texture and render this texture to the screen. This way, I don't have to go through my entire GUI rendering process every frame, which seems to double my framerate in GUI intensive situations. I only update this texture when when the GUI needs updating. I can't shake off this dodgy feeling that this can't be a good way to do things though. Is there something I'm not aware of that could cause problems with this method, except the slightly increased memory usage and the fact that I have to manually go through the code and identify situations where ...Show All

• SQL Server Previous Row Calculations (sql server 2000)

   if anyone know a way that you can look up a value from the previous row in a View to do a calculation on (in sql server 2000) for example: expr1=PreviousRow.Expr1/30 + expr2 - expr3 =100 so the next row is expr1=100/30 + expr2 - expr3 =300 so the third row is expr1=300/30 + expr2 - expr3 =100 or tell me if it not possible please and special thanks to Umachandar Jayachandran - MS for help. the second line is the initial expr1: update #temp set pv = 0 where id = 1 ...Show All

• Visual C# Short name in taskbar

  Hi Is there an easy way to have a different name in the taskbar and on the form. I want a long name on the form where there is plenty of space but a shortened verison on the taskbar. Best Regards Alun Gwyther There's no easy way to do this, if there is one. The taskbar gets the button text from the window caption. ...Show All