Bill Sabey's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System What happened to Beta 2 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads?

  It looks like everything has been pulled. Is that because the April SQL Server is missing Some of my downloads were right in the middle That was meant to be a joke given the context of the rest of the message ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Access Problem

  Do I need to add my developers to any specific group in the TS server in order to make the login prompt go away Usnig integrated windows auth (default)...do I need to add them via the Team Explorer If so, I can't seem to add users to <Serverv>\Team System Users...the box is greyed out...   Anyone Bueller Hi, You can not add users to the Users group, you must add them to one of the project groups in TFS (for instance [project]\Contributors). Brad ...Show All

• Visual Studio Setting image on a CommandBarButton

  Hi, I am trying to use the ImagetoIPicture method on one of the resource icons I have in a C# project. However, I get a Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)) as soon as try to assign the the image to a CommandBarButton. I am using VS2005 /.Net2.0 and referencing stdole2.tlb from the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\Lib folder. Thanks, -S make sure that all parameters are valid and in the expected range. i spent two weeks chasing a catastrophic failure to find out that when i was adding a commandbarbutton to a popup, i was using an index t ...Show All

• SQL Server how can I add a unique key column to a table and generate its values automatically?

  Hi, all, I have a question about adding a unique key column to an existing table. what i trying to do is that: I have already created a table, now i wanna add a ID column to this table, and generate the values for ID column from 1 to the existing row number. How can I get this done Thanks a lot in advance for any guidance. Here is an example of how to add an identity column create table TestID (SomeField varchar(49)) insert into TestID values ('1.1.9') insert into TestID values ('2.2.2.10') insert into TestID values ('2.2.2.8') insert into TestID values ('2.2.2.9') insert into TestID values ('1.1.7') insert into TestID val ...Show All

• SQL Server unclean uninstall of beta, can't install SQL Server 2005 Std

  Hi All. I had the Beta versions installed of both Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Developer - the Beta 2 versions.  I recently attended the big LAUNCH event and as such am trying to install the new software I received.  I uninstalled everything that the readme told me to, and when I now try and install the SQL Server 2005 Standard software, it throws the "you didn't get rid of all of the beta install" error [apologies - if you need the specific error, I'll post it].  There's nothing left in my Add/Remove list for SQL Server, and I've taken everything out of the registry that I could find. Sugg ...Show All

• SQL Server rsInvalidDataSourceReference Error

  Hi, I have published the data source and the report on the report server programmatically. When i open the report either using URL redirection (programmatically) or from the Report Manager screen, the following error message is displayed. The report server cannot process the report. The data source connection information has been deleted. (rsInvalidDataSourceReference) If I change the report properties manually using Report Manager screen and bind the data source to the report, it works fine. Is there any solution to bind it programmatically Thanks in advance. It sounds like the RDL is not set co ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Management Studio Express

  Can someone tell me where I can find help on how to use the SQL Server Management Studio Express. I am reading the "SQL DeMYSTiFieD" book (learning) and would like to follow the examples but don't know where to type the SQL statements. How to create database and add tables to it using sql statements. Thanks in advance Baldev Baldev, You can download SQL Server Books Online from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=be6a2c5d-00df-4220-b133-29c1e0b6585f&DisplayLang=en . Though this hasn't been updated specifically for Management Studio Express most of the Management Studio ...Show All

• .NET Development Trying to run Win app over the network throws error.

  Hello. Your help is very much appreciated. I try to run .NET Win application from a network server, but it throws the followwng error: " System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission". If I run the application from my PC it will works fine. The detailed error is: See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.Exception: Request for the permission of type System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 failed. at ConfFileManager.Conf ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using Excel with VB

  Is it possible to call an Excel file from a VB form ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions .mdb logic problem

  Hello all again, one of them days when things dont seem to be working out for me,.... I'am using a dataset with access.mdb and when I add something to the dataset i have to accept changes so this is my code... Private Sub btn_Add_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btn_Add.Click Me .BindingContext(ds_Customers, "tblCustomers").AddNew() ds_Customers.AcceptChanges() End Sub Well this works only for the Dataset, though nothing is added to the database, why have I done the logic wrong ... or permissions no error, so dont know what is up with it... any help would be great need sleep mi ...Show All

• Visual Basic setup.exe question

  I created windows app with vb 2005, ready to install on a user machine by running application’s setup.exe, I get application warning Application Install Security Warning – Publisher can not be verified. Don’t know any other way to get publisher name to appear. Was using solution’s property window – Publish/options to set up publisher name and product name, it takes product name, but not publisher name, anybody has an answer for that. thks Hi, babakl, All that warning means is that the installer could not prove you are who you say you are. Do you have a certificate/key which is part of the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Programmatic label edit in C# ListView

  Anyone know how to programmatically start a label edit in a ListView   I want to enable users to start a rename by pressing F2 or choosing rename from a menu. Say you want to start a label edit when you click a button. Wire up the Click event of the button and in the handler for the click event you can say somethin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Reusing SysIPAddress32 in WinForms, problem in Win2K

  Hi all, I created an IPAddress control that reuse the system's SysIPAddress32 class, this is based on some old C++ tricks, here's what I did: public class IPAddress : TextBox {   public IPAddress()  {   SetStyle(ControlStyles.ResizeRedraw, true );  }   protected override CreateParams CreateParams  {   get   {    CreateParams cp = base .CreateParams;    cp.ClassName = "SysIPAddress32";     return cp;   }  } }   The control above work just fine on WindowsXP and Windows98, but not in Windows2000. Windows 2000 keep ...Show All

• Visual Basic opening cd drives

  I suppose you are seeking information on how to open a cd-rom door/tray using VB.net code.  It would look like this:   <DllImport("winmm.dll")> _ Public Shared Function mciSendString(ByVal command As String, ByVal returnCommand As String, ByVal returnLength As Integer, ByVal hwndCallback As Integer) As Long End Function Private returnstring As String = "" Private Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)  Form1.mciSendString("set CDAudio door open", returnstring, 127, 0) End Sub Private Sub button2_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)  Form1.mciSendString("set CDAud ...Show All

• .NET Development Make a Project Management Forum

  I wanted to ask if anyone else runs into the problem of not having a skilled project manager as I posted in this Blog here , but couldn't find a forum here for it. I have reported the bug here. It has happened three times now. Bug Post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=214839&SiteID=1 ...Show All