Chris I's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Manual installation of VC# Express Beta 2 is a joke

  To be able to manually install the Beta 2 one needs to get non-free  3rd party products to make a virual drive for the iso .img file. Whats the big idea, why couldnt just be settles with good old zip How is one to install if cant buy the 3rd party products just to install VS Is there an open source free alternative Thanks Thanks for the feedback . Based on your comments, we're currently investigating for RTM (the final release ...Show All

• Visual C# using keywords

  Hi everyone, I have some doubts about the usage necessity of using keywords. Instead of using this keyword, it is enough to only add the packages into our Assembly(DLL files), so inspite of this, why do some programmer do both of them(add the packages into Assembly and also use using keywords for these packages). Thanks, Mert Regardless of your having added a package to your assembly, you need either a using statement, or a complete namesp ...Show All

• Smart Device Development getting error "value does not fall within the expected range" on pocket PC 2003 emu

  Hey all,   Im stumped at this seemingly easy task. I need to ask a user for a file name. thats it. But im getting the above error. here is the code: (Where UserInput is a basic form with 2 buttons and a text box) UserInput ui = new UserInput(); ui.Parent = this; if (ui.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) <-- ERROR HERE {     fileName = ui.FileName;    ...Show All

• .NET Development System requirements for VS 2005

  Does anyone know what the runtime requirements are for solutions developed in VS 2005 Thanks, Eyvind. Never mind, I found it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=7ABD8C8F-287E-4C7E-9A4A-A4ECFF40FC8E&displaylang=en " Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows ME, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP" Yay! Eyvind. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 incorrectly claims I don't meet minimum service pack level requirements?

  This doesn't make any sense. I am trying to install SQL Server 2005 on SBS 2003 with Service Pack 1. According to Windows Update, there is nothing left for me to install. However, I am getting this error (while installing SQL Server Express and the Developer Edition): "Your operating system does not meet Service Pack level requirements for this SQL Server release. Install the Service Pack from the Microsoft Download Center at http://go.m ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Infopath and WWF

  Hi, I was wondering if/how WWF can be used to manage the state of Infopath forms so that certain elements of the form can be hidden/shown depending on the state. From the tutorials that I've looked at, most of them use a Windows form to input the data rather than an Infopath form. I appreciate the help. You actually dont need the InfoPath Visual Studio Toolkit for the kind of scenario you have mentioned. You cou ...Show All

• .NET Development Regular Expression for character combinations or strings that should NOT match

  Is it possible to specify a regular expression pattern for strings that should NOT match something. For example, I get a string that specifies a number of codes like: VV, VVP, PVT, XXP, G, BB. I would like to select all codes from the string that differ from VV or XX (so XXP is a valid code!). Is there an easy way to do this using regular expressions ! Best regards, Philippe Thanks, that works indeed! But I ...Show All

• Smart Device Development using bit values in VS 2005 database manager

  Hi, Here's my problem : I'm using the server explorer to manage my sdf database, some collumns are in bit format, when I put some data in it (using the manager), I got checkboxes (to put the value to 1 or 0 I figure). But if I don't edit the checkbox (meaning : if i don't put the checkbox to "check" value) the manager let the collumn value do DBNull. I guess I can check then uncheck the cell... but doing so on more than 10 collumns in 5 separate ...Show All

• .NET Development Is assignment to ServicePoint.ConnectionLimit thread-safe?

  Hello. Is the following code (sample from some Microsoft article) safe enough to be called from multiple threads. Do I need to synchronize access to it Uri uri = new Uri("http: //www.contoso.com/"); ServicePoint sp = ServicePointManager.FindServicePoint(uri); sp.ConnectionLimit = newLimit; While I could do this one-time during start-up, I've read that ServicePoint objects get removed once they become idle. So I would like to be abl ...Show All

• SQL Server More installation woes

  We have releases a shrink wrapped winforms application that uses SQL Express as its backend. The product has a fairly large take up, and consequently it is being installed on a large numbre of different machines and configurations. We seem to be having quite a common problem with the installation of SQL Express, we launch the installation from our own installation package with the following command line SQLEXPR.EXE /qb ADDLOCAL=ALL SQLAU ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot run job created by SMO

  I've create a SQL Agent job using C# SMO to process an Analysis Service Database (see code below).  When I tried to start job from Management Studio, I get the following error message...any ideas TITLE: Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo ------------------------------ Start failed for Job 'Schedule Job OLAPProj'. For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1314.00&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Man ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions New Project Pane

  I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. I've seen several references to a 'New Project Pane' but I don't have it. I'm not sure if this is a holdover from a prev beta or what. I'm using Beta2. When I look up documentation on writing ASP.Net code on the web it says to open a new project and select the new Web Forms from the New Projects pane. I also ran into this problem when researching how to deploy an app which is in the current documentation ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DxDiag and DirectShow error, please help

  as i figure out there is no "real" reliable source of information (or at least not very trustworthy) out there. i came here to seek a solution.   when i was trying to run DxDiag, it popped an error message up telling me that there was a problem accesing DirectShow, the cause of that might be previous improper use of the DxDiag. and it asked me if i want to skip loading DirectShow.   i have no idea what caused this prob ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Connect to active directory

  i need to connect to active directory by specify a user name and password in asp.net ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Changing PDA's memory

  Does anyone know how to change the Emulator's memory in a flexible way for a saved state A e.g. convenient way would be to change it in the Emulator's properties-> General but the tab is greyed out except the shared folder for the external memory and the hotkey. Please let me know! Thanks Chris The emulator's memory cannot be changed while the emulator is running or when you have a saved state.  The only way to change it ...Show All