MGM54's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions What are the risks with including a SQL Server Express Database with VB Express Application

  Greetings, I am in the beginning process of building my first VB application in years, and my first time using the "Express" editions, and my first time with the .NET framework. My question really boils down to one thing: Will bundling a VB Express application with a SQL Server Express Database cause complications for novice end-users. When someone installs JosBoysApp.exe and it does the 'silent' installation of SQL Server Express, do ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express default username and password

  Hi all, Can someone help me pls What is the default username and password for SQL Server 2005 Express I'm not able to login. I've tried username: sa, root password: <nothing>, <sa>, <root> all to no avail... Pls helppppp... Thanks. SA is disabled by default.  You need to connect with an account that is a local administrator in the first instance (windows authentication), then configure other accounts. May I suggest ...Show All

• Windows Forms can't catch exception if winform is run from commandfile

  Hi, I made a Windows application with C#. If you start the application directly from the Desktop, and while running the application, I raised a SecurityException and catched it in my code. So far so good. If you start the application from commandline, and&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using SymSrv Wrongly Downloads Files Locally

  We were using the following _NT_SYMBOL_PATH to download symbols from Microsoft's Symbol Server: srv*\\ourNetworkMachine\debug_symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols This seemed to work great, until one day I discovered that any compressed symbols we received from the Microsoft site were being stored compressed on our downstream server (ourNetworkMachine in the above example), and decompressed locally onto whatever machine was being u ...Show All

• System Center The outgoing agent queue is full

  HI, I can't find the agente queue to verify if it is getting full or if it is already working fine. How can i know if the queue is normal Thanks, Belmiro Hi Belmiro - if you're referring to our modeling of MOM queues, we don't directly expose that in the interface (although we do account for it under the hood). Let me know if you need more help. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Movement in Terrarium

  I've been playing with making an Herbivore and have quickly leaned that one of the most fundamental parts of this game is also one of the most difficult.  I’ll make this brief so I don’t start sounding too whiney.  Can one of the  ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Sparkle Beta

  Microsoft Plan to release a beta for msdn subscriver of Acrilyc Sparkle Designer where is planned the official release bye Sebastian To the best of my knowledge no dates have been announced. I expect there will be a Sparkle beta but have seen nothing to indicate when. Andrew Watt MVP - InfoPath wrote in message news:a35a9efd-8bfb-4a4b-af74-75ef981ed132@discussions.microsoft.com... > Microsoft Plan to release a beta for msdn ...Show All

• Visual C# Killing an Excel process in debug mode

  Hi all. I have an application I’m working on and it has the standard VS generated InitializeComponent() and Form1 load() methods. I have a main() which has a try-catch-finally block like so: try { Application.Run(new Form1()); } catch(Exception e) { MessageBox.Show(e.Message.ToString()); } finally { if(excelObject != null) { excelObject.Quit(); excelObject = null; } } I have ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add combox in Datagrid 2003???

  Dear Team   DO you have a simple code for adding a combobox in datagid   Thank you very much I have added a text file with some extra comments... The code I have sent assumes you want a databound combobox in the datagrid Let me know what you think and see if you can follow my code... ignore the bits where I build a DataTable... it's just so that you can see data in the table and comboboxes when you run the Form... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Direct Printing to LPT Port - Please Help

  Hi,   This a request for some seriously urgent help please...   I have an application that needs to print 2 crystal reports directly to 2 printers attached to a PC. The one report goes to LPT1 and the other to LPT2. The Print needs to be direct ie: the user is not presented with a preview or a print dialog box. The pc is standalone and not connected to any network.   Printing a crystal ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS2005 IDE changes to component model breaks my code.

  I use component model services quite a bit, and require a custom container in windows forms and components but still like the ability to drag and drop custom components in design time, which can access each other during both design time and run time. Although I attempted a different method in my code a short piece of code below illustrates the problem I am facing in the new Visual Stuido If I replace the following line: private System. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP

  When I try to install "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP" via the "Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta 2" installer I get an error saying: The Following Component Failed To Install: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP I also cannot test my pages in Internet Explorer, I get the error "Unable to connect to Visual Studio's Localhost Web Server" Is this something to do with the Microsoft SQL S ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Interdev

  I am on windows XP. I installed visual interdev and have a problem opening new project. When I type the computer user name when prompted to select a server, the error msg is 'unble to contact server' What am I supposed to do please help  Please post this on the Microsoft Newsgroups. These forums are for Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 posts only. ...Show All

• SQL Server Retieving ODBC Settings.

       I'm having some issues grabbing ODBC Settings. First off I need to present a user with the options to select thier DSN, Server, UID, PWD, and Database settings. I have come up with a way using the SQLBrowseConnect function to obtain the Server and Database information I need. Therefore, I have a semi working version of the program.      I just need a way to make the program a little more user friendl ...Show All

• Visual Basic Audio Spectrum

  Hi, i'm writing an app, and i would like it to have support for the windows media player activeX control, but i would like it to be hidden, and my application will show all the information, and custom buttons. Now i have all that done, but i would really like to get an audio analyzer put in my app, that is to say a graphical representation of the frequency of the sound on each channel. I am no audio guru, so i'm not entirely sure, what i'm ...Show All