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• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Team Foundation Client: "Invalid license data. Must reinstall"

  After much trial and tribulation, got all the server components of TFS installed sucessfully (single machine installation, workgroup authentication). After all that, installing the client should be easy, right Well, install ran OK, but when I try to run it, get message box saying "Invalid license data. Must reinstall". Need I say that reinstalling didn't help Installed and attempted to run using same tfssetup a/c used in server installs. Any s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamically loading MDIchildForms in runtime

  Hi all, I would like to create an application where i can easily add / update components (e.g. inventory component, customers component) to the application without modifying the main project. I tried to design the architecture based on a MDI-application where I define the components in MDIchilds. The MDI-parent is then the main project. Each MDI-child has to be registered in a database and subsequently based on a user's credentials ...Show All

• Visual C# move form by dragging control

  How can I move/reposition a form by dragging a control on that form with the mouse I want to make a form with no boarder and a transparent background with a few progress bars on it. I want the user to be able to move the form by clicking and dragging one of the progress bars in the form Hi, Try my Pick and Drop method if it works for you: First, add this code to your Form: private bool _dragging = fals ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to connect to Analysis Services

  Hi, I've just installed SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (trial). I can't connect to Analysis Services via SQL server management studio (on localhost). I have the following error : cannot connect to <server_name\instance> : A connection cannot be made to redirector. Ensure that 'SQL Browser service is running. (Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient)   When I check the SQL Browser service, the service is running fin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error in installing msdn and VSS in Visual studio team system

  I have installed visual studio team suite successfully.I also have sql server express on my system. When I am installing VSS then I am getting this error In VSS 2005. The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2337. This is only the case with my systems in our software house. When I try to install DVD on other system perfectly (e ...Show All

• .NET Development Autonumbers and currency

  I was wondering if currency only applies when you are editing a record as opposed to adding or deleting a record. For example, say there are 2 users that are using some disconnected database software. Each of them starts to add records to their respective datasets at the same time. When they run an update to push the values back to the server, will the autonumbers collide I'm still learning the basics, so any information will help out grea ...Show All

• Visual C# How to make an ekstra column in database?

  Hello Someone to helt how you add a column in a datagrid without the column is in the database, a column to example linklabel or checkbox Some syntax help. spot that in Visual C#2003, not ASP. Still works in C# Template Column Syntax ...Show All

• SQL Server "Current day" MDX

  Hi, is there any "update" on how to do the "current day" as a set in MDX with SQL 2005 based on the actual system date If you don't want to base that on the system date is this still the "best practice" to introduce some "flags" in the time dimension to identifiy the actual day, last week, ... Just the way it was introduced with the BI Accelerator tool... Thanks, It's an interest ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding a domain user account to a TFS group after a "local" installation

  I installed all three tiers of VSTS on a single "development" PC. I used local user accounts. Now, I would like to add my everyday domain user account into the TFS security groups. I cannot because I can only connect to TFS using a local user account. As such, I do not have the credentials to query AD when I want to add my domain user account. And, I seem to be stuck in this chciken and egg scenario. I read the installation guid ...Show All

• SQL Server Task Expression Evalutation Time

  I have designed a package whose first step initializes several variables .  Other steps in the package have expressions based on those variables. Example Expression for MyTask:    PropertyName = "Disable"    Expression = "@DoMyTask" Given this example MyTask will be enabled/disabled solely based on the value of @DoMyTask at the time the package execution begins.  Changing the value of @DoMyT ...Show All

• SQL Server trigger issues

  I am running a trigger on a table (cusomfields) that is to fire when the table is updated or inserted. The trigger takes the new data and moves it to another table called search_products. Search products is made up of 5 columns (product_id, search_terms, name, vendor and keywords). The search_terms column is a combo of the name, vendor and keywords columns. When the trigger fires, the column in the customfields table that updates the keywords ...Show All

• Visual C++ output format......

  Hi all, I dont know if I am in the right section or not....any way, let's try my lock .. I wanna write a program that compute a formula which depent at the value I will enter.....  this is too easy but I want the output be as vector on the x-axis & y-axis ... how I can do this format . Thanks alot Reta Please be more specific. Give an example of what you want to see as an output Do you ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WinFX RTC December 2005 Not working with December Vista SDK

  There's a problem with the WinFx RTC download for December 2005.   The links on the page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=BD3BA2D5-6ADB-4FB2-A3AA-E16A9EA5603F&displaylang=en There's a link to download the entire WinFx RTC package instead of the "smart" installer. http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/9/949EEA41-364A-45DC-8F4E-47E7AC147D25/winfxrc.exe I checked the time/date stamp in the downloa ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add text to a text box from a module

  I'm upgrading a program I wrote in VB6 to VB2005 and am having a problem with updating a text box. I have a module that manages serial port communications. When data is received in the serial port buffer, it should update a text box (txtSerialIn) on a form (frmSerialInOut). Here's the code: Public Sub Handler( ByVal strInMessage As String ) frmSerialInOut.txtSerialIn.Text = strRXData & vbCrLf & frmSerialInOut.txtSerialIn. ...Show All

• SQL Server Access Denied Error while Configuring

  Hi, I Installed SQL Reporting Developer edition on Windows 2000 Server. After Installation, While Typing the Path http://localhost/Reports on the Browser, I am getting Access to the Path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\Reportmanager\bin" is denied Error. What could be the Problem The User your IIS is running with doesn’t have access to the binary directory for the Re ...Show All