Donald Farmer's Q&A profile

• SQL Server 2005 April CTP Install Failure

  SQL Server Setup could not conect to the database service for server configuration. The error was: [Microsoft}{SQL Native Client} Named Pipes Provider:  Could not open a connection to SQL Server [2].  Refer to server error logs and setup logs for more information. For details on how to view setup logs, see "How to View Setup Log File" in SQL Server Books Online. That is the error when attempting to install to W2003 run ...Show All

• Visual C# Get resource without knowing absolute path

  Hi all, I'm working on a C# windows application. I want to get access to a file in my application. This file is in my project and I want to access it without having to put the hard-coded full path. So, I want to do something like : <code> Assembly a = Assembly .GetExecutingAssembly(); Stream stream = a.GetManifestResourceStream( "KwenTest.resources" ); </code> But after this, I want to know ...Show All

• Visual Basic passing Null dates as parameters to functions

  Hi What's the best way of passing in Null / empty date fields as parameters to functions What's the best way of passing in a date into a VB function as a null/empty value - at the moment I am checking to see if it = #12:00:00 AM# , but this seems somewhat haphazard ! thanks Bruce Test if date variable is nothing: Dim testDate As Date = Nothing MsgBox(DateIsNull(testDate)) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Transparent toolbars and stuff

    ye i heard bout transparent stuffs in vista, im so srry if this isnt the right place to make a topic like this i heard u can make transparent bars just in windows from windows xp but i havent got the answer yet, so does anyone know If you're talking about alpha-transparency, that's been around since Windows 2000 (see "layered windows"). If you're talking about "glass", then you'll want to check out Jeff Pettiross's talk at the ...Show All

• SQL Server Return Job Status

  Although this should be painfully obvious, I cannot seem to figure out how to return the status of a job. I want to use something similar to the following to control the execution of a statement based ont he status of a Job. DECLARE @intStatus int EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @Job_Name = 'jobname' If @intStatus = 4 Begin <execute statement> End What I don't see in the above is how to set the variable @intStatus to the returned value ...Show All

• .NET Development Integrated help in professional edition

  Hi, I have got the Professional Edition for VS2005 and the help opens up in a separate form. Is this not integrated for the professional edition.. Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development Associating XSD schema with XML document

  I have multiple XML documents included in a Visual Studio project. I also have an XSD schema for each type of these XML documents. I want to associate the XML documents with its appropriate XSD schema. When I do this it adds my schema to a hard-coded central repository of schemas. What I want is to specify a relative path, so that when I check my Visual Studio project in, the associations and xsds are checked in a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Source code, server and future

  So as several of you have noticed, the source code for 1.2 hasn't been released yet.  I am trying to figure out what is the best approach for releasing the source code and the future of Terrarium 1.2.  Here are the current thoughts.&n ...Show All

• .NET Development ViewState

  I am getting a "The viewstate is invalid for this page and might be corrupted". This error only occurs occasionally. It seems to be when the viewstate is particularly large. It occurs more with datagrids than anything else. One more thing, it does not occur on port 93, but does on 80    I have seen lots of posts on this problem, but none fit my scenario and none have commented that it works on one port and not on another. Mark ...Show All

• SQL Server Ignore Null in a Column that otherwise needs a Unique Value

  In Access, when you specify a unique key for a column, you can also specify IGNORE NULL, in which case there can be more than one record with NULL, but if the field is not NULL, then only one record can exist. How do I do the same thing in SQL Server. I have a table with a column that identifies a Previous Entry. If the column is Null, then there is no previous entry - this may occur often. If the column is not null, then there is a Previous Ent ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) RichTextBox

  Hi, Does the RichTextBox by default contain all the toolbars available as in asp.net If so what are the properties you have to configure to get it E.g like the one I am able to type this message in Any help would really be appreciated. Nope. But I believe you can implement your own toolbars for RichTextBox very easily, since the RichTextBox control in WPF is quite flexible, you can embed Bold, Italic, Hype ...Show All

• Windows Forms nothing

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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. help with directx and visual c++ express edition

  I'm having trouble setting up visual c++ express edition with directx. The version of directx is the newest one, released in April 2006. Could someone give me a step by step explanation of how to set it up You are not being very specific, so I am guessing about what your problem is. Hopefully, you have already installed the Platform SDK and configured Visual C++ express to use it. If you haven ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Unable to invoke BCM(Outlook) events.

  I want to know that can I program the events in BCM(Outlook addin) like item_add event for adding contacts and updating them through item_update. Its not working for BCM at my end. Please guide me how could I achieve this task. Thanks in advance, Peeyush Agarwal Peeyush, I am glad you are working with BCM and Outlook. It is helpful to remember that this forum is mainly for issues that directly pertain t ...Show All

• .NET Development DirectoryEntry.Invoke("Groups") is inconsistent

  Hi. I have a fragment of codes that retrieves the groups of a certain user. A call to the DirectoryEntry.Invoke("Groups") is fine in domain at home but not in the office. I am indeed able to retrieve all the expected groups of a user. The domain at the office always throws an exception saying "There is no such object in the server". At first, I thought my binding is not successful but retrieving the properties ...Show All