al2torres's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions removing CTP editions, installing SQL 2005 Express

  I have C# express installed, BUT the SQL 2005 Express does not install. I have tried all the brute force methods, the test software from several blogs of Microsoft people, and nothing seems to remove previous editons. They no longer show in my registry, on the add/delete software pages. How can I get it to work Hi, Have you tried the manual Installation Or manually downloading SqlServer Express as a separate c ...Show All

• Visual C# Updating Database

  Hi I am receiving an error message "Error 1 'System.Data.DataRow.DataRow(System.Data.DataRowBuilder)' is inaccessible due to its protection level ",when i try to update the database programtically through datagridview control placed in my from. I want to edit and update a database at run time while changing the corresponding cell values of my datagridview control. Please,provide me the appropriate code snippet w ...Show All

• .NET Development System.IO.File.Encrypt do not work

  Hello, I been searching the forum and web and can not find any answere to my question so i am hoping someone can give me a clue to why this simple function do not work for me. Problem i am facing is the function: System.IO.File.Encrypt(path); gives me a exception with -->"inccorect function" i have tryed the following code : System.IO.File.Encrypt("c:\\temp\\TestFile.txt"); System.IO.File.Encrypt(".\\TestFile.txt" ...Show All

• .NET Development WSE / DIME File Transfer Performance

  I'm working on an file transfer gateway using WSE with DIME for file attachments. Our goal is to replace our direct file repository access (via windows network folder sharre) with the Web Service gateway for security purposes.   As it stands now, all workstations have direct read-write access to the file repository share. The Web Service gateway will secure this for us. While the web service gateway is more secure, it doesn't perform anyw ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista how to make default browser in my vb application ?

  hi everyone,  i programmed a web browser and i would like to use it as my  default browser, how would i go about that im looking to make it run as  default its in vb.net express 2005 regrads alex After you created your application, you will have an exe file. Just right click on the any HTML file on your computer, and select 'open with...' with your EXE. To open the selected file in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How would we go about converting an agile project to a CMMI project

  How would we convert a project from an agile method to a CMMI project without losing all of our work items Amy, Is there any downfall using your approach versus the approach stated in the previous reply from Martin Woodward. We are fairly new in our use of TFS and began with Agile about a month ago. We have about 500 work items, many of them completed or closed. We are not concerned yet at this point in losing history since our developm ...Show All

• Visual C# Image Transparency & Image Files

  I am attempting to create a pong remake. I am using graphics i made for the images. The images are surrounded by black. I would like to make it so black in an image shows up transparent. In game speak this is called "Sprite Transparency". I would like to make it so the pictureimage control loads the images from disk instead of "binding" it to the executable. That way my players can simply replace the files with their own to create d ...Show All

• SQL Server Supporting Multiple Character Sets

  Hi Currentely i am using analysis Services with SQL SERVER 2000 OS:- Windows 2000 Server Datasource:-Oracle We need to show the data in the cubes for multiple countries. But we are not able to show the data for diferent languges at the same time becoz in windows 2000 default language on the server can be set to only one language and the data in the cube can be shown in same language Ex Let say we wud liket ...Show All

• Windows Forms ArgumentException in DrawString

  I have some code which worked fine in framework 1.1 but is giving me an ArgumentException in 2.0.  The code follows: using ( Font fntDraw = new Font ( "Arial" , 16, FontStyle .Regular)) {    Rectangle rcLayout = new Rectangle (0, 0, _cpixCell, _cpixCell);     StringFormat sfmt = new StringFormat ();    sfmt.Alignment = StringAlignment .Center;    sfmt.LineAlignment ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions [2005] Positioning DatagridView "Center in Form" at runtime

  hi i have a DAtagridView that gets loaded on the execution of SQL query each time the WIDTH of colums are diffrent... so after execution of the query i wnat the DGV control to align itself in the center of the form i donot want to use Dock=Fill..as i am also having other controls also thank u all very mcuh I am using Visual Basic Express Edition 2005 use anchor property to anchor it to the form http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Removing Code and Action Pane from Excel

  How can I save an existing excel workbook that has code and action pane as a normal excel workbook with no code nor action pane. I can't see how "removecustomization" is useful. because i want to do that when the user presses a button from within the workbook lets say a submit btn. when pressed the workbook should deliver data to an external database and be saved as a normal workbook with no code nor action pane. how can i accomplish t ...Show All

• .NET Development Easy way to change control type

  In MS Access, when you had a control already on the form, you could right click it to change it to another control type (ex. textbox to combobox). Is there a similar function in VB.NET (ex. textbox to maskedtextbox) Thanks! The refactor support may do this for you in the code view. Or, you can always change the type in the code view, and see what happens :-) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Coming from vb6

  Just coming from vb6. I have put off going to .net untill recently. Saw the 2005 beta2 out and did some reading. Sounds like a good time to make the jump. At least get started before the release... Question: I always preferred the older SDI enviroment. I seem to see references in places to this in the documentation, but can't find where to set it. If there is a place. old dog learning new tricks... stubs.. Paul, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Accessing Test Fixtures from Team Policy

  Coders, I am trying to write a Policy for Visual Studio Team System. From my policy I need to be able to access the Test Fixtures for the currently loaded Solution in Visual Studio . I can probably think of a few hacky ways I can do this myself but I would assume there to be some sort of elegant object model that I can take advantage of. If there was some sort of programmatic access to the Test Manager widget this would be ideal. ...Show All

• SQL Server DECODE Statement

  Is there something like the DECODE Statement in ORACLE also provided for SQL-Server Thanks in advance Raimund You can also use it to have any expression in the WHEN section i.e. CASE WHEN col1='Fred' THEN 'SIMON' WHEN col2='Smith' THEN 'Jo END which means its very flexible. it will only process the THEN for the first WHEN that evaluates to TRUE ...Show All