Konrad_IX's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Where are the tools and documentation?

  Where are the tools and documentation I have sqlserver installed in beta2.  I've never before used sqlserver, only microsoft access. I see nothing that I would expect from sqlserver.  No graphical tools, like access, to help me design tables , queries and stored procedures.  No books online.  No tools to covert my access database to sqlserver. In programs start menu, there is only configuration manager, which tells a novic ...Show All

• SQL Server Incorrect syntax near 'HelloWorld'

  Hello, I'm testing a CLR SP in SQL Server 2005 using Visual Basic .NET Express The code is : Imports System.Data.SqlServer Imports System Imports System.Data Imports System.Data.Sql Imports System.Data.SqlTypes Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Server Imports System.Data.SqlClient Public Class SQLCLR    Public Shared Sub HelloWorld()        SqlContext.Pipe.Send("Hello World from SQLCLR !!")     E ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Error when trying to create vertexbuffer in managed directx

  Hi there, I'm a novice c++ / .net programmer with some experience in Java programming. After playing a bit around in VC++2005 i decided to have a look at managed DirectX. I found a tutorial that i thought was pretty good at explaining it to a rookie like myself. Everything went fine until i tried to create a vertex buffer   I used this line to create it : VertexBuffer ^buf = gcnew VertexBuffer( CustomVertex::TransformedColored::ty ...Show All

• .NET Development Code runs but database doesn't update

  All, I'm new to ADO.NET (used to work in ADO and am really struggling with the concept!)... I've got a web form, which has a dataset and connection attached with 2 text fields that I want to use to add a new record to a table. The code runs fine, but the database does not get updated... the db is Access. Here's the code - I know I'm doing something stupidly wrong, but I can't work it out! Thanks in advance. Dim strPN As String Dim s ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) What the method EntitySet.RemoveAt is for?

  When I remove an entity with this method, the entity is removed from the collection. But when I then call SubmitChanges, no commands are send to database.   Vitali Lesheniuk wrote: > Removing an item from an entityset does not cause deletion.  It merely breaks > the link between the two entities (foreign key is set to null.) I didn't write only about deletion. Broken l ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with Installing Sql2005 Developer Version.

  Hi, I'm in desperate need of some help. Upgrading from the Beta2 version of Sql2005 and VS2005, I've apparently made some mistake. When trying to install Sql2005, I keep getting the message that previous components are still installed, so use Add/Remove to uninstall them. I've done this, and completely deleted any references to Sql2005,Vs2005 and .Net Framework 1.1 and 2.0. I am still getting the same error message. Looking in the re ...Show All

• .NET Development Killing a ThreadPool thread

  How can I safely kill a thread from a ThreadPool That is, how can I kill/abort the thread resulting from queueing like this: ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem( new WaitCallback(someMethod), someObject); The problem is as follows: 1. Once in a while (much more often than we can afford for the critical production application!..) the Image.SelectActiveFrame(...) method hangs, consumes 98 to 99 % of CPU, and we have to reboot the server... ...Show All

• Visual Studio My news channel on start page gone

  My news channel on the VS2005 start page now can not be displayed. It says the news channel is unavailable or no internet connection, but the fact is I connnected to internet and I checked the link of the news channel is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=45332&clcid=409 and I can open this link in internet explorer. Anyone know what's wrong BTW: I have opened the windows  XP (SP2) and Norton 2005 internet firewall for devenv.exe & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel Data Binding question

  I'm trying to figure out how to bind my DataSet to the Excel spreadsheet using the ListObject. I found this article: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.tools.excel.controlcollection.addlistobject.aspx I can't figure out this line of code: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.ListObject list1 = this .Controls.AddListObject( this .Range["A1", "C5"], "list1"); What is "this" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Why there is a fork icon in my report folder?

  Hi all, I have a test project and I am the one to create the team project and the test project. In the Team Explorer, I find that there is a fork icon on the Report folder, and I cannot use the Report functions. What's wrong How to solve it Thanks, Leon Could you confirm that this is TFS RTM Are you accessing TFS within the network or over the internet Are other users able to see the reports Can you see your reports when you ...Show All

• Windows Forms Code conversion help (C# .NETto VB .NET)

  Here is the code that was posted earlier for how to perform a click event.  I need help changeing it to VB .Net code.  I understand most of it but from "void PerformClick()"  on I'm stumped.  Please help! using  System;  using  System.Windows.Forms;  using  System.Runtime.InteropServices;  using  System.Diagnostics; class  MyForm: Form  {  Process no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System XML report doesnot show excluded and absent messages.

  Hi all, I have an FxCop project with certain active, excluded and absent messages but while I save the report, the excluded and absent messages are not saved in the XML. Only active message are saved. The option in project default for excluded and absent messages are checked still the report doesnot contain excluded and active messages. I want all the messages in the report. Please anybody help me in solving the problem.Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Windows Forms howto set "display" text of dg Column headers @ design time?

  hi, I have a datagrid that pulls data from the database. the fields in the db are as follows: 1) companyId 2) companyName etc This casues the headers to appear as: 1) companyId 2) companyName etc ...not very neat :-( I want the column headers in the datagrid to&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem when deleting and adding a new project from source control

  Hi we have Solution S1 in C:\Software1 S1.Project 1 ...S1.Project 6 Solution S2 in C:\Software 2 s2. Project 1... S2.project 6. There is one solution S3 which integrates all projects from S1 and s2. This is in folder C:\Software3 . This solution has no project on its own. but it uses projects from other solutions. so we have ---Software3.sln ---------S1.Project1 ---------- ...Show All

• Windows Forms System.BadImageFormatException executing Custom Action in setup project

  We recently migrated from VS2003 to VS2005. We have an installer project that calls a custom action from our setup project. It used to work great in VS2003 but VS2005 is giving the following error when the MSI attempts to execute the custom action portion of the setup (occurs at the very end): Exception occurred while initializing the installation: System.BadImageFormatException: The format of the file "XXCustomAction.dll" is invali ...Show All