Myrkky's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Tip: use Reflector!

  Hi all, I wanted to share another great tool with all of you. I'm sure many of you use it already, but I have also seen quite a few people that are not familiar with it yet: Reflector ! It is my number one .NET tool, especially when using WinForms. Using Reflector you can disassemble executables and DLLs. It does a very good job and comes up with readable Delphi, C# or Visual Basic code (and IL, but I doubt whether IL code is readable for ...Show All

• Visual C# Nuisance - Changing default properties for the Start Page from VB to C#?

  Our IT staff recently installed the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2005 on my laptop. The problem is that the default settings for the start page are associated to VB. For example, the 'Getting Started' pane has links associated to VB: "What's New", "Learn VB", etc. My question is this; Is there a way to change the default settings of the start page so that the info/links displayed are associated with C# specific data ...Show All

• SQL Server OLEDB Connection Dynamic Password?

  Hi, How can i set a oledb connection password dynamically The password option doesn't shows up in the expressions options.... So how can this be done   My idea was to use the Package Configuration to set some variables with information and set afect some connections with that variable values...But the password is the only place i can't seem to find a way to change it's value.   Best Regards, Luis Simoes ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Express registration: going crazy...

  I searched the whole forum, I found 32 links with th e"activation key" None of them helped me. I just installed Web Express. I go to Help->Register Product (Many post states that there is an "Activate product" in Help. No, there is nothing like thios. It is "Register product" instead.) I get a web page, I log in with my passport. Finally I receive a web page that looks exactly like this: Thank you for registering! Your e- ...Show All

• Visual Studio AvailableItemName - unexpected behaviour

  When I add a new Build Action entry via the AvailableItemName Item, the text "AvailableItemName" also shows up in the Build Action's drop-down list.  I added this entry in my .csproj file: <ItemGroup>  <AvailableItemName Include="JScript"/> </ItemGroup> These were from the instructions provided here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171468(VS.80).aspx How can this behaviour be av ...Show All

• .NET Development How to install SQL Server Express as a ClickOnce prerequisite?

  Hi, Besides just checking it in the prerequisites list, what else I have to do to properly install the SQL server. I have somehow : - specify instance name - set authenfication to "SQL" - setup users - configure network protocols - etc I have found information how to configure the server through command line, etc. But can not find anything how to do it during ClickOnce installation. Thanks PS. I already have a ...Show All

• Visual C# How to get system's informations

  I want to design a simple application that show system's informations such as CPU's informations, RAM's informations and some thing like that. Can you instruct me how to do this. Thank you very much For starters, you can get the machine name, OS version etc. with System.Environment. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL SERVER & Coldfusion connection problem - server newbie

  I've just updated my XP and installed SQL Server 20005 Express but can't connect to my Coldfusion server. I opened up Studio Express and created a new database. I tried to go to Administrative Tools and establish an ODBC connection there but can't get a validation. The Coldfusion Admin won't validate it either. Where do I start to solve this problem. Thanks for any help! Rob Painful! - well I think I have good ne ...Show All

• .NET Development GC.Collect() freezes for several seconds on gen 2 collection

  I have a server application which manages a few hundred thousand objects in a Hashtable. Each object has to be in memory for fast lookup and access. The keys are not changed so the Hashtable itself is fairly static, but the objects are constantly updated via incoming data and read to serve user requests. The problem is that every 5 minutes or so the GC kicks in and freezes the entire process for up to 4 seconds. This is regardless of whethe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions no option for C# in visual Web Developer

  When I create a new web site, it is auytomatically created in VB no screen to choose type of component or to select c# as the language. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. BTW this is Beta 2 Try the answer from the following post: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=3811 ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Installation Problems with your product

  ok, so i decided to install your desktop search (WDS) thing. all good, it installs. think it is MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search . so, i go for coffee and i feel brave and decide to install you latest beta. this is Windows Desktop Search 2.6.5 beta (KB911993) and guess what......... It un installs MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search and the tries to install the beta and fails with error about Update.i ...Show All

• SQL Server Conflict Management

  Hi, I developed an ppc application, where i am using web service for synchronisation, but here i am getting lot of problem while handling conflict management. Please suggest me how to manage conflicts, using web service. Thank you, Prashant it's pretty hard to implement your own column level tracking of a single row that can be in multiple states across a population of mobile users. Merge replicatio ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Developer CTP Edition - Setup Error

  I am getting the following error message when I try installing the SQL Server 2005 Developer CTP. Can anyone please help me out. Thanks in advance. SQL Server setup could not connecr to the database service for server configuration. The error was"[Microsoft][SQl Native Client]Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server[2]. Refer to server error logs and setup log for more information. For details on how to view setup logs see ...Show All

• Visual C# How to handle the Apostrophe when inserting into SQL

    Hello, I am using VS 2003 connecting to SQL 2005 database. What is the best way to deal with users who enter apostrophe's in their text I don't want to completely block them from using the apostrophe, but again it crashes my program when they type it in and attempt to enter data.  What do I need to do to allow them to seamlessly enter it whenever and it still does not crash my program Thanks, zero ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sub-report will always prompts for database password

  Hi, I got a new problem. When I prints the report with sub-report inside it by .Net Code (ReportDocument.PrintToPrinter), a prompt window will always show up to ask for database password. The Crystall 11 report is using SQL Server OLEDB provider to connect to database. If I prints another report without sub-report, no problem at all. Any idea Thanks! Hello, Does the subreport use the same database connection ...Show All