birdo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions A small complaint from nobody

  I have long been a Visual Basic coder. I read C++ quite well but really struggle to write it. Primarily because nearly every "example" I try to compile, will not. This makes it nearly impossible to understand how things are put together. Most of the time I can't figure out if I am formating my code the wrong way or just don't have one of the many compiler or references set correctly. So if anyone at Microsoft is paying attention, or cares. Would you please figure out how to make an entry level IDE for VC++, that has examples that compile right out of the box. I don't understand why this has to be so complicated. As near as I can ...Show All

• .NET Development Failed to access IIS metabase, VS2005 RC

  I am developing a webservice in Visual Studio RC. I have just got a new pc and my problem is that I am not able to access this webservice. I have created a virtual directory in IIS, but if I try to browse there, I get a "Failed to acces IIS metabase" error message. Does anybody know how I can resolve this problem 1) Is IIS installed on the machine (From a command prompt NET START - Is IIS Admin service present in the list) 2) Is ASP.NET installed  - Run aspnet_iisreg.exe /lv from the VS command line prompt 3) For 2) is the default install for ASP.NET v2.0 as opposed to v1.1 ( the running version is marked with ...Show All

• SQL Server DataBase Connection

  hi everybody; my questions about when database connection : i am when connecting database latter receiveing exception error.Error is : An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeException' occurred in System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll codes : SqlCeConnection cnn=new SqlCeConnection("Datasource=\\My Documents\\Business\\LOREAL.sdf"); cnn.Open(); // Exception is here help me.. can i doing Mehmet, Try the code below instead - it fixes your connection string and provides you with a way to get more information about specific exceptions you may encounter using SQL Mobil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Migrate work items from Beta 2 to Beta 3?

  Ok, first of all let me state clearly for the record. I fully realize that MSFT does not officially support work item migration from Beta 2 to Beta 3.  I also realize Beta 2 did not have a GO-LIVE license with it, so I am officially on my own on this one.  Having said that, "un-officially" is there anything I can do to half-way get this to work When my team moved from Beta 1 Refresh -> Beta 2, we exported all of our work items to Excel, then created a new work item list within Excel for Beta 2 and then did a builk entry that way.  While this worked ok, we had to manually copy over all of the history text from th ...Show All

• .NET Development ASP.NET process identity does not have read permissions to the global assembly cache.

  VS2005 RC1 - XP PRO Sp2 + - App is a webservice and default.aspx. I'm seeing errors in the error log after a browser tries open the site. The browser sees an http 500. The server log shows the following: 03:04:48 127.0.0.1 GET /default.aspx 500 03:05:33 192.168.0.100 GET /test.htm 304 03:05:51 192.168.0.100 GET /default.aspx 500 03:06:39 127.0.0.1 GET /default.aspx 500 03:06:41 127.0.0.1 GET /default.aspx 500 I have opened up all the permissions root directory and the ASP user account and internet user account which has been know to be the cause of this error.  There is no usual way to set permissions in the GAC directory beca ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Different result between Code analysis (c++) run from Build menu and /analyze in project settings

  I get different result if I run code analysis (C++) set from the project settings as described in documentation On the Project menu, click Properties . The <project> Property Pages dialog box is displayed. Click Code Analysis . From the Enable Code Analysis for C/C++ drop-down list, select Yes (/analyze) and then click OK . In this case the project builds (no build errors) and generates a lot of code analysis warnings. I have also tried the menu entry, Build->Project Only->Run Code Analysis on Only <project name> In this case I get build errors, and no code analysis warnings. What is the difference betwe ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VB & VBA - page setup options completely disappear after merging a document

  Hello, I created a VB application which uses Word to merge documents. I used Microsoft office 97 to create these Merge Documents. With These merge documents, I was able to save the setting such as font and how it should print using tray 2 & tray 3. We have upgraded our Microsoft office to 2000. This is where the problem begins...now every time we use the VB application to do the merge---everything seems to work just fine until we print. The print setup is completely gone and no matter how I change the settings and save it, the settings completely disappear after merging. If I open the merge document, I can see the settings ju ...Show All

• SQL Server Query Designer in SQL 2005 Mgmt Studio a let-down?

  Greetings, all. Thanks for all of the great postings in this community. However, one question I have doesn't seem to have been addressed. In SQL 2000 Enterprise Manager, a user could right-click on a table, and choose Open Table>>Query. This option brings the user directly to a query designer very similar to the query designer available in SQL 2005 Management Studio. However, I have been frustrated by the following: - The Open Table option in SQL 2005 returns data immediately where the SQL 2000 Query option did not, meaning it opened faster and did not risk locking any records in the table - In SQL 2005 the user needs to click ...Show All

• .NET Development Named Pipes in C#

  I need to pass data from one process to another.  In the "Visual C++ Version 6" world I would have used a global named pipe for this task.  I'm developing in C# and would like to know what construct there is for either creating named pipes or for a "new" technique to pass data from one process to the other. One other specific is that the process producing the information, i.e., filling the pipe, is a service created using C#.  The service, when it receives a command needs to reply with a small amount of data to the process that sent the command to the service.  I was planning to do this via a pipe.  The ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions A nifty but NOT working image slideshow (from resources)

  Hi there people. Of all things I'm having problems making a lousy slideshow type program. First off, I've deleted the code I've made in frustration so don't ask for any :) I imported my pictures into the resx file and know how to access them individually but what I'm trying to do is to simply make back and next buttons. I can't seem to figure out how to get the pictures from the resource file to a string array so I can call it with an int (Picarray ). I've tried many things, now I'm just looking for a link or project that has one already built so I can learn by example, anyone got a link like that I have Google'd for it ( ...Show All

• SQL Server SSMS equivalent of "Poll server to find state" ?

  In SQL Management Studio, is there a way to turn off polling among the registered servers I liked this feature in SQL 2000 because it caused less network traffic, and fewer entries in the target machine's Event Viewer. More strange behavior... SSMS polls standalone default and named instances, but not cluster default and named instances. I would like a way to turn off polling, either an undocumented setting in the Registry or my local-profile RegSrvr.xml file Perhaps a service to disable I have found I can register a server name with a ",<port>" suffix to prevent polling (eg. ...Show All

• .NET Development ...and still cannot see the server from Visual Studio

  I've got both SQL 2000 and SQL Excess, er, Express on my PC doing C# Pro development. If I try to Add Connection to get a data source, I can select an Express database MDF file, and operate on the data OK, but cannot select the Express server - it does NOT appear in the server list. I added the server SQLSERVER.EXE to the Windows firewall 'Exceptions' list, along with Vis Studio - no change. I CAN select the SQL 2000 server OK. I can get into and use the Express Management tool OK. Properties for the Express server are Network connection (versus Local Service and Local System, both of which don't work), network connections a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Question about newForm with progress bar inside it?

  Hi guys I have designed a Win Form application and have some events in my application. I want to have my application open a new (very small) Form, with Progress Bar inside it, when some even is raised, and keep the progress bar running until another even is raised. Is there any idea, example, or links on the internet about how to implement this Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to force content to fill window on maximize

  I've got a viewbox, and everything resizes fine when using the drag handle, but I'd like the same behaviour on a maximize is this possible Simon By default the Window will size it's content to fill itself, so unless you put the ViewBox inside another element it should "just work". Care to share your window's markup Maybe we could help u figure it out. Later, Drew ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to hide a Shell command window

  I have the below code in a VB Console project. The AppWinStyle function is not hiding the window as expected Module Module1 Sub Main() ' This script uploads a clients gaitScan database to the ftp server Dim sFileName, fso, oFile, sCustNmbr, oExec, ScMD ' get the customer number fso = CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" ) If fso.FileExists( "C:\Program Files\App1\Settings\custnumb.txt" ) Then oFile = fso.OpenTextFile( "C:\Program Files\App1\Settings\custnumb.txt" , 1, False ) sCustNmbr = oFile.ReadLine oFile.Close() If Len(sCustNmbr) = 2 Then sCustNmbr ...Show All