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• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Management Studio error when open connection to remote SQL server

  The PC is a Windows XP Pro SP2, with IE 7 beta2 7.0.5299.0 , Firefox 1.5.0.1 The following are currently isntalled, VS.Net 2003, VS 2005 team for software developer, SQL 2003 Dev Edition, SQL 2005 Ent Workstation Components, VSS 2003 and VSS 2005. Everything were happily working until last couple of days then this error started to show up whenever I double click a remote sql server fromt he regiested servers list and open it in the Object Explor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Debuging "Hello World" crashes VS2005 VC++ Express

  Hi VC++ debug experts, Last weekend I downloaded and installed VC++ Express. To test it, I created a CLR Consol App. The default app generated by VC++ is a "Hello World" example. I built it and ran it without any problems. I added a breakpoint and pressed F5. => Up pops two dialogs titled “hello.exe – Program Error” saying "Can not initiate program correctly (0x80000003)….” and then an “A fatal error has occurred and d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to import a .DLL at runtime?

  How do I import a library contained within a .DLL file at runtime, given its path Is this even possible in VB.Net 2005 Express Do you mean a managed or unmanaged dll If a managed one you can simply load the Assembly with one of the many load functions provided by the assembly class. If on the other hand you mean an unmanaged dll this gets a little tricky as you would need to know the name of the dll, the name of the function(s) you w ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005, MS Access Merge Replication?

  Hey there! In a nutshell, I want to do a merge replication with a SQL Server and several Access databases. I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation or 3rd party books. Is this possible Thanks! - Erik What version of SQL Server are you using This feature has been deprecated in SQL Server 2005. Here is a pointer to the old documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/def ...Show All

• Smart Device Development The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed.

  Hi; Im trying to make an smart device application but get this error:  The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed. What do I do PLEASE HELP. Thnx I have same problem, I update .net 2003 not solved, then unistall and install it again not solved, then i dowload an instal compact framework it is still not workin is there any one who can help me. I try to create an empty sma ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. LNK1104 and LNK2019

  I've been trying to compile a program I recieved from my professor but it has been giving me linker errors related to LIBCD.lib. I understand from reading around that this library package is no longer used in 8.0 but it would be a great help if there was a workaround I could use to compile the program. I tried using /NODEFAULTLIB: "libcd.lib" in my link list but this produced two LNK2019 errors. The output of compiling with the /NODEFA ...Show All

• SQL Server ODBC Destination in SSIS

  Hi! I have a problem that stops me from using Integration Services as THE ETL tool. My goal is to load a data warehouse type of a database. The database is MaxDB (former SAP DB), but this is not the point. Let's take ANY ODBC compliant DB and assume all I have is ODBC driver - no OLE DB driver. I figured out how to read from ODBC source (using Data Reader and ADO.NET provider for ODBC). Now my question is how do I output/write my data into ODBC ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005, multiple instances - what about ports?

  When multiple instances of SQL 2005 are installed on a cluster or standalone server, is it best to have each instance configured to listen on a different port or will one port for all do We don't use port 1433 and the port we do use is blocked at the firewall. I'd like to standardize on one port for all instances but I'm not sure of the ramifications. Any thoughts Thanks. You have to use one port per instan ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Forms VB.NET How Do you find out the next control which will get focus after a control_validating event?

  I have a form. I need to control processing during validating tabs to ask the user to save changes, also on tab_enter i need to reload data, to get current data from datasource. Customer Parent Record displayed in a detailed view customer no, name, address etc a Tabcontrol with a Master Child relationship: Tab1 = customer notes  datagridview Tab2 = customer letters datagridview Tab 3 = customer jobs datagriview ...Show All

• Visual Basic clearing a form for re-entry

  Hi all, Vb Newbie! I Have an application i am creating for which when i click a clear button the form textboxes are cleared for the next entry. My problem is that i have put the following code into my text_changed text box validations and therefore when clearing the form the below code is generated. Is there a way to disable this when my form clear is fired or is there a better way of validating user input that will not be fired when i cle ...Show All

• .NET Development Pressing enter key causes my web page to load again.

  Hi , I am facing a strange problem with the ASP.NET (with VB.NET) user controls. My user control contains only one text box web control and some other controls (but one and only one text box).  I put this user control on a webform (web form also does'nt have any text box control) and request that web form through "http:// " request. Now, when i put some text in the text box and press the "Enter" key (while the c ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Combo control in Grids

  Hi every body. can some body tell me the way that how to add combobox in grid. Thanks Marcia Akins has an article " How to Put a Combo Box in a Grid " posted at her website http://www.tightlinecomputers.com/Downloads.htm It covers the topic in more detail than we can here ...Show All

• Visual Studio MenuCommand doesn't fires event

  Hi,  I have created few menu commands. I am able to work with them in QueryStatus and Exec command but suppose if i register an event with them it doesn't works. the wizard sample is working file here is a sample code :- OleMenuCommandService mcs = GetService( typeof (IMenuCommandService)) as OleMenuCommandService; if ( null != mcs) { // Create the command for the menu item. //CommandID MyMenuCommandID = new CommandI ...Show All

• Windows Forms binding a combobox from a datareader

  Hi, I have a  of combo box that I want to bind from a Sqldatareader , how can I do this  thanks. the answer is...don't use a DataReader and just get a DataTable instead (using the DataAdapter) or if you still want to ...Show All

• SQL Server Upgrading from 'SQL Server Express 2005' to 'SQL Server Express 2005 with Advance Services'

  Currently I have following things installed on my Computer 1. SQL Server Express 2005 2. SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 CTP I need to install following things A. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services B. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit Do I need to uninstall any any of 1 or 2 What should be my path to upgrade these software. ...Show All