Greg D's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Errors installing VS 2005 Team Edition (DeleteTemp.exe??)

  Hi all, I downloaded the "VS 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers - DVD" as soon as it was released to manufacturing on Thurs.  Extracted it with IsoBuster, and tried setup. First thing I got was the error: 'Setup was unable to copy the file D:\VS\setup\DeleteTemp.exe to your temporary directory. Please make sure that the file exists and rerun setup.' Went in and found a 'DELETETE' file in the setup folder, renamed it, and tried again.  This brings me to the initial setup screen, but when I select 'install VS Studio' and I get the message: 'A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setu ...Show All

• SQL Server replmerg.exe

  Hello All, I am having problems with my merge replication job. I have recently upgraded sql server on of my test server from 2000 to 2005. Ever since I couldn't get this job to run. I keep getting the following error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date        11/30/2005 2:57:00 PM Log        Job History (TEST_Merge_Sync) Step ID        6 Server        TEST Job Name        TEST_Merge_Sync Step Name      &n ...Show All

• Windows Forms copyright

  Hi I wonder how I could write a copyright character in a messagebox as text Thanks Moorstream Thanx for all the answers... Of course I mean Word :) /Moorstream ...Show All

• .NET Development Advantages of the BackgroundWorker Class

  I work with worker threads using .NET Thread class, both in C++/CLI and C#. I use them to talk with hardware devices and for background calculations. To notify UI I use events or asynchronous delegates, prefering asynchronous notifications to prevent deadlocks. Every worker thread has associated EventWaitHandle instance which I set when I need to stop this thread. So, I work exactly by the same way as in Win32 programming, this gives good results and I am quite happy with this. The question: does BackgroundWorker Class have any advantages, is there reason to use this class instead of "plain" Thread class Some features which are imp ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Show busy state on mobile device

  Hello, in my C# program I’d like to show the usual moving busy symbol when program is busy on mobile device ( WinCE 5.0). But I can not find "How to" in documentation. This concerns .NET2.0 Compact Framework. Thanks for help, Jorg Hi Jorg This symbol is just the wait cursor. You can set this wait cursor as followed: Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor; The usage might look like this: void SomeEventHandler (EventArgs e) { Cursor oldCursor = Cursor.Current; try { Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor; // set the wait cursor //Do some work } finally { Cursor.Current = old ...Show All

• SQL Server best approach

  I've been banging my head for a while now, and it is sore! :-P I'm a best practice/Microsoft approach type of person and want to make sure I do things correctly. I have a database, kind of like a forum. Obviously executing multiple queries in one "batch" (stored proc) would have an impact on the performance. Now, I would like to give a more detailed/specific error back to the caller (either by aid of error code or whatever) with such situations like... "EditReply" Edit reply takes the threadID, replyID and userID. Before actually commiting the changes, it needs to check: 1) does the user ex ...Show All

• .NET Development Update record and change value from integer to dbnull

  i am updating a record and changing a value from 5 and would like to change it to be blank (dbnull).  When i attempt to do this now it spits back an error message.  What is the proper proceedure for entering dbnull into a field. ps. i am using vs 2k5 and an access 2k3 db.   rbreidenstein wrote: i am updating a record and changing a value from 5 and would like to change it to be blank (dbnull).  When i attempt to do this now it spits back an error message.  What is the proper proceedure for entering dbnull into a field. ps. i am using vs 2k5 and an access 2k3 db. What ...Show All

• .NET Development Discovery Credential

  Hi all! I am creating a WS to send information between 2 computers using Internet. We are trying to secure the Web Service, for that reason the Admin has created a user and password on his web server. If I go to the url where the WS is publicated via Internet Explorer i have to enter the user and password and I see the Description of the WS... The problem is when I create a Web Application and I wan't to add the reference of this WS... I have to enter either the user and password but also it asks me Discovery Credential... I enter the same user and password in this second screen but I can't Add the Reference... Anyone can help me Thx! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Convert Dialog to DropDown Menu Item

  I have code I am using in a Visual Studio addin that adds a CommandBarButton to the context menu of any code window of Visual Studio.  Currently, when selected, it invokes a dialog box with three radio buttons and the user selects their choice of further actions from there.  While this is workable, it has been suggested that a dropdown menu might be more appropriate and in keeping with the context menu theme.  How do I make this conversion   The choices being offered to the user are: Requirement, Task and Defect. I have attached the code I am using currently to let you know where I am at.   Thanks in advance for ...Show All

• Smart Device Development TextOut() in Smart Device Application (VS2005)

  It doesn't working... Help please, I'm a beginner. Hi Riven, The TextOut function is not implemented in Windows CE (the base OS on which Pocket PCs are built), there are two possible replacements: DrawText and ExtTextOut. Windows CE doesn't have the full API set that you are used to on the desktop, which can be inconvenient at times, but allows CE to run on very hardware constrained devices. I found the information on TextOut in an article by Paul Yao: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0598/wince.aspx . Windows CE 5.0 (Windows Mobile v5.0 for Pocket PC is based on this version of the OS, Pocket PC 2003 is based o ...Show All

• Windows Forms Zero touch deployment bug

  We have just developed a system where the client Winforms communicate with a middle tier via .NET remoting.  Everything works fine when running the client from Visual Studio or from a complied exe file.  However, when running the client app via Zero touch deployment we receive strange remoting errors.  The errors seem to be saying that our remoting channel has already been registered.  Why do we only receive this error when using the app via Zero touch deployment   Any ideas by Zero touch do you mean ClickOnce If so can you run your app diretly from the installed location (not t ...Show All

• .NET Development remote server problem

  hi, This is my problem.below System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to process request. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckFinalStatus() at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at ScripsWebService.Scrips.DownloadBulkDeals(String sflag, String dd, String mm, String yyyy, String ddTo, String mmTo, String yyyyTo, String dflag, String bulkblock) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ScripsWebService\Scrips.asmx.vb:line 139 --- End of inner exception stack trace ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL2005Express install error - bootstrap?

  The install fails and here is the log: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup beginning at Wed May 10 22:18:34 2006 Process ID : 2708 e:\c10e7008821f194f5b98\setup.exe Version: 2005.90.2047.0 Running: LoadResourcesAction at: 2006/4/10 22:18:34 Complete: LoadResourcesAction at: 2006/4/10 22:18:34, returned true Running: ParseBootstrapOptionsAction at: 2006/4/10 22:18:34 Loaded DLL:e:\c10e7008821f194f5b98\xmlrw.dll Version:2.0.3609.0 Complete: ParseBootstrapOptionsAction at: 2006/4/10 22:18:34, returned false Error: Action "ParseBootstrapOptionsAction" failed during execution. Error information reported during run: Could not parse comm ...Show All

• Visual C# How can i set DD/MM/YYYY for date time picker ?

  How can i set DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY for date time picker (dynamic in code, base on option that user choose) Pls help me, Thank you in advance Use the CustomFormat property of the DateTimePicker to specify the format you want to use (MM/dd/yyyy or dd/MM/yyyy), and make sure that you set the Format property to DateTimePickerFormat.Custom. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Domain model designer toolbox items disappeared

  Hi, I'm going through the DSL tools walkthrough 1, and things have been going pretty smoothly until suddenly my toolbox items for the Domain Model have completely disappeared.  Even if shut down VS or start a completely new DSL project, the toolbox items are still gone. Any idea why that might be or where I may have hidden them (and how I can show them again) Thank you, Notre I am also facing the same problem but doing a Toolbox reset only brings back the "Class" toolbox item in the Domain Designer. Can anyone please tell me as to how can I get the remaining items (like association connectors ...Show All