Reeba's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Failed SQL 2005 SP1 installations (Hotifx.exe crashes)

  I am seeing repeated failures installing SP1 database services with crashes in hotfix.exe being reported and the following appearing in log files: Property(S): SqlUpgradeMessage = SQL Server Setup has encountered the following problem: [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Cannot find the object 'dm_exec_query_resource_semaphores', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.. To continue, correct the problem, and then run SQL ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can we NOT Delete local files etc

  Im migrating a small project from Source Safe to team system and having major headaches using the source control explorer.  Deleting files from a source control node deletes them from the local directory also - not great if you are just trying to re-arrange you source cotrol folder layout etc.  It should definitely be prompting before deleting ANYTHING from a local directory.  Is there a way of configuring options to prompt for su ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Move Event for a FrameworkElement?

  I'm trying to detetct a change in the position (ie Canvas.Left Canvas.Top)  property of a few FW elements. UpdateLayout is usually tripped (not always) and the sender is null in the UpdateLayout event.   Is there any other way Thanks Ron If you are binding in code, then as suggested on the other reply you should bind to the object directly.  binding.Source= fromObject; if you wish to use Elemen ...Show All

• Visual Basic SQL Help !

  I have a store Procedures and vb code as below. The problem is i just can't get the data out of this parameterised storeprocedures. Does anyone have any idea about this Or is there something wrong with my code below After few experiment, I found that I got no error on returning numeric value. But problem with returning character value. Is there any other way to do this CREATE PROCEDURES GETTest     @TESTID BIGINT, &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adapting source control to non-conformant directory hierarchy

  Hello, I am investigating using Team Foundation in our organization and am looking at the source control portion of it. We have a directory structure that looks like this: c:\root\Solutions\ solution_1.sln solution_2.sln solution_n.sln c:\root\UI\ project1.csproj file_1.cs file_2.cs file_n.cs c:\root\Logic\ project2.csproj file_3.cs file_4.cs ...Show All

• SQL Server Please help: how to convert database to unicode?

  I already posted this question some time ago but I didn't get any answer, so please forgive for posting it again. We plan to support Unicode in our next software version. This means that we will need to upgrade many (> 200) databases from our customers from single byte collation to Unicode. Is there an easy way to do this with SQL Server With Oracle we can dump the current database, create a new instance that supports Unicode and then ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Page

  How can I set the page size and other PageSetup parameters when creating and printing an XpsDocument PrintTicket pt = printQueue.UserPrintTicket; pt.PageMediaSize.PageMediaSizeName = PageMediaSizeName .ISOA5; seemed like the obvious thing but it is readonly. Thanks Michael penny finally dropped. :) PrintTicket pt = queue.UserPrintTicket; pt.PageMediaSize = new Pag ...Show All

• .NET Development Missing Files in Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

  Norton System Works' WinDoctor has found the error of C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ missing files and I believe Windows should address the issue. When I run Norton WinDoctor on my home PC, the following problems appear, with no repair capabilities: Missing program files (10 Problems): C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\AppLaunch.exe C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet.reiis.exe C:\Windo ...Show All

• Visual C# Security exception unhandled when using DirectoryServices

  I've recelty started writing c# code so I'm still kinda new at this. Anyway here is the problem. I installed visual studio 2005 and I'm trying to do an active directory bind statement. Here is my code for the bind: DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry ( LDAP://mtmercy.edu ); But when this segment of code executes I get the debug error below: Here is the error: Request for the permission of type 'System.DirectoryServices.Direc ...Show All

• SQL Server Configure Report Server with SQL Server Express with Advanced Services.

  I'm having a world of trouble with the Reporting Services Server. The install went fine. I went in to configure the Report Server and when creating the Report Server and the Report Manager virtual directories I get the following error: "The virtual directory could not be created. The previously set virtual directory will still be used." The problem with this is that I have not previously set a virtual directory. When clicking on the li ...Show All

• Visual Studio Internet Connection in VS 2005

  Hi,       I just installed VS 2005 on my machine, but my online help cannot be accessed. I keep getting the message: "The request failed with Http Status 407. Proxy authentication required". IE on my machine does have proxy authentication. Is there a fix for this   Thanks, Arshad Hmmm... not really.  We're using HTTP POSTs to make our web service calls.  Are you able to do HTTP POSTs (not ...Show All

• Visual C++ Latest compiler creating XP-only compatible .exe files

  [had no luck on the Visual Studio Express forum...] Has the compiler for this new release version of VC++express changed since the beta On a different forum, the following posts have been made: " I always use UPX to compress my binaries, and it seems that compressing the output of the new compiler produces something that doesn't run." "Is there any managed code in it UPX butchers that as I recall as it is not actual valid machin ...Show All

• Visual Basic unspecified error

  I donno why but whenever i try to pass parameters to the procedure iam calling its giving me an error saying -2147467259 - unspecified error Can anyone tell me what this means The error is when i try to pass parameters oComm.Parameters(0).Value = uHeaderInfo.sProjNumber thanks for the reply cgraus the problem is its giving the same error to all values that iam passing. even in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Data source-based web test does not run with test load agent

  I have made a Web test based on a database table where information such as userid and passwords are fetched to simulate several users. This works fins on my machine, and also when running a load test. Now I am trying to make a real test using the test load agent, but the test fails with an exception on the agent. This is from the log file on the agent. [E, 224, 10, 2006/05/18 07:37:38.222 109036049731] QTAgent.exe: WebLoadTestAdapter: Shut ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't resize ToolStripTextBox

  I'm trying to make a ToolStripTextBox that will take up all available space (like the address bar in IE). I tried to translate the C# code found in another thread to C++. Here is what I came up with: private : System::Void toolStrip1_Layout(System::Object^ sender, System::Windows::Forms::LayoutEventArgs^ e) {     int width = toolStrip1->DisplayRectangle.Width;     for ( int index = 0; index < toolStrip1-& ...Show All