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• SQL Server Can't Open Encrypted Package After SP1 applied

  I have a problem where after applying SQl Server 2005 SP1 to my workstation, where it presumably updates Visual Studio, I cannot open a package that is password protected and was created before applying SP1. My colleague has not applied SP1 and can still open the package, but I don't even get prompted for the password. Has anyone else come across this Hi, What messages do you see when you try The package ...Show All

• Visual Basic IP/DNS resolver

  hey people out there :-) i've just started a new project i VB xpress. however i have encountered som problems: 1. none of the my.computer "info" things have anything about how to find the computers IP adress. how do i make the program show that 2: is it possible to make the computer convert a raw IP adress to a domain name/url adress sa that 999.999.999.999 can be converted to, google.com for instance and how about r ...Show All

• .NET Development BUG: VB 2005 Debugger preventing incoming Web Service Response from remote web server

  Here's a bug that I've been trying to track down for several days and cannot find anyone with this issue anywhere. So here it goes... I'm converting a working application from VB 2003 to VB 2005. I have upgraded from WSE 2.0 to 3.0 and corrected the code. The first time I run the application in the IDE, it works just fine. The login button calls the web service on the remote web server and I get logged into the application. If I then close ...Show All

• Windows Forms MdiWindowListItem oes not reflect changed form text

  Just started using the MdiWindowListItem property, but the list does not refesh the text when the text property of the forms changes, until the focus leaves the changed form. Is there a simple solution to this Thanks The Window list is refreshed when either the Visible or Active property of the child form is changed. Toggling the child visibility works, but has an (assumed) undesired visua ...Show All

• Visual Studio Potential bug with MSBUILD / VS Output

  In the IDE (Aug CTP) I went into Tools | Options | Projects and Solutions | Build and Run and set the MSBuild verbosity to Normal.  After I was through I set it back to Minimal but the output window still displays the build sequence number before every line like so: 8> blah 8> blah 9> otherblah 9> otherblah I even exited VS and restarted and verified that the verbosity is set to Minimal but I still get these numbers pr ...Show All

• .NET Development WSE 3.0 problem

  I am developing a web services app in compact framework and want to use only MTOM feature of WSE 3.0 for dending data but if possible would love to use other features also I enabled WSE 3.0 in my web services app but as soon as i built my code I got a lot of errors. So I tried msdn and found foll article . This did a great work and most of the errors were removed except one "The type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtoc ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Possible to make working WWF runtime on Windows 2000 ?

  I very need to make my WWF program Windows 2000 compatible, but in WWF compatibility list Win2000 is not presented... Is it Possible by some patch to make working WWF runtime on Windows 2000 even only for runtime - for client users compatibility, not visual studio WWF tools, that I can use under Windows XP for development. Thanks you Unfortunately Windows 2000 is not a supported operating system. Please d ...Show All

• Visual C# Property to retreive value from the ArrayList object which supports the .NET frame work

  hi, I thought i can use Item[] property to retrieve the value of array list at a particular index. In my case, I have created an object to ArrayList class and added some values to it. What i want is to retrieve the values randomly. The only problem is, I am unable to use the Item[] property as i am working with my project on .NET frame work. Please help me and solve the problem very soon. return (Room) listRooms[random.Next(listRooms.C ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem when creating custom control

  Hello everyone.  This is my first post here.  I just joined today. I created a custom windows control with a Tree View inside of it.  On the load event of the control, I fill it with categories structured as a tree from a MsSql database.  I created also a OnClick event for the control, and pass it to the OnClick event of the Tree View.  Then I use the control in a web form like a directory structure, so when the user cli ...Show All

• SQL Server MAX dont know what type is returning

  Hi guys, I'm doing some function in the SQLExpress using the max func and I cant figure out if its returning null or empty string. It always return null even it's returning index. Please help. Here's is the sample data of the table that I'm manipuilating code name code name code_1 name_1 code_2 name_2 tues_2 name_4 code_4 ...Show All

• Visual Basic OpenTextFileWriter

  Hello.  The OpenTextFileWriter method is supposed to default to "ASCII" encoding, but it looks like it defaults to UTF-8, which results in unexpected characters at the beginning of a file.  Please see the example below.  Am I doing something wrong   To fix this, I had to explictly set the encoding to ASCII, which is was supposed to do. Dim file As System.IO.StreamWriter ' to create a .TXT file Try ' NOTE: seems t ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Instalation Error!!!

  hello everyone, it's first time for me to write here and also to use SQL. While i was installing SQl 2000 i got Setup Message said: " Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition server component is not supported on this operating system. Only client component will be available for installation." Hope to know what's wrong, and please guide me. Thanks alot ...Show All

• Windows Forms disk space

  i dont know if this is the appropriate forum for this but here goes. I have a problem i recently reinstaleld windows XP on my computer and after i did that i found that i only had 2 GB so i deleated a few things that did not get deleated in the reinstallation and i also compressed old files and did a disk clean up and now i only have 10 GB out of a total size of 27 GB so i should have a lot more than 10 GB and i dont think that there is any thin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using activitiy menu in a embedded workflow

  Hi. I have a Win32 application with a workflow embedded. I would like to know if I can use somehow the context menu that an activity has (an IfElse or a Code, for example), so I can configure it's properties visually, and not programatically, just like I can do when I'm inside VS. Hi Matt, Please take a look at the sample ( Workflow Designer Control Example)  posted here  by one of our developer ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Formatting Question

  Hi, I've been having a bit of trouble trying to format a column of my DataGridView control.  I have a column named "Price" that I want to format as currency.  I used the Visual Studio 2005 editor to set that column's DefaultCellStyle's Format property to "C2".  However, when I enter in a number such as "1" into a cell in the column it doesn't format it.  I haven't overidden any of the formatting anywhere else.  Doe ...Show All