charles C's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Convert VStudio Team Suite 2005 Trial to VStudio 2005 Professional

  I have the Team Suite 2005 180Day Trial version installed, my company decided to go with the Professional version instead. The Trial will be running out and I need to switch to the Professional version. Do I have to uninstall the trial version Can it be downgraded I tried to upgrade using the VL key for the professional version but that did not work. Sorry, you can not downgrade VSTS 180 day trial to a retail ve ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can be DirectX 10 support Windows XP?

  Windows XP32, XP64,ME,98,NT and 2003 Directx 10 support there are old system There is no DirectX 10. I am sure you mean Direct 3D 10 instead. Direct3D 10 needs a WDDM driver to work and WDDM drivers will be only supported on Windows Vista. Because of this there will be no Direct3D 10 for any old system. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Install problems VS 2005 Beta on Clean XP install

  I've been trying for days to get VS 2005 installed.  I've tried on two different machines and reinstalled XP Pro three times.  I've spent over 60 hours on this. All I want to do is install VS 2005 and use SQL 2005 Reporting Services to get started on developing a large project over the next nine to twelve months. This has been, so far, a pretty difficult experience; having to blow away machines trying to get the beta installed.  ...Show All

• .NET Development form is lost

  Hi. I am trying to do simple graphics here using 2 forms: 1 main form which executes form 2 (graphics) in a seperate thread. form 2 on load basically has a for loop and in it will increase the opaticy of the form by 0.01 to give a fade in effect however once this is shown, the form is then lost! if i do not put this in a seperate thread created in the application it's fine, the form is there. but since this type of graphic "freezes" the previous ...Show All

• Visual C++ Automation server can't create object.

  Hey, whenever I try to create a MFC Application (C++) project, I get an error saying "Automation server can't create object". It does not open any type of project workspace, although it saves an empty project. I've just installed it (Full Installation) and this happened the first time I tried to create a project. Any ideas about this Thanks What version & Edition of Visual Studio are you using ...Show All

• Smart Device Development SIP keyboard icon dissapears after MessageBox.Show

  Using .Net Compact Framework 2.0 and Pocket PC 2003, once I have used MessageBox.Show() the keyboard icon for the SIP is removed. How does one get it back again I don't see this. The msgbox appears, the sip icon hides, the msgbox closes, the sip icon reappears. If you have a sample that demonstrates otherwise please post it. Cheers Daniel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Creating Windows Service

  can i create windows service with visual basic express if yes, are there any examples i need to create service that will parse text files, and put it in sql server... where visual basic 6 app and php app will access it when needed... tnx in advance... Yes you can create services with the express products, you just have to build them manually. What I did at first was to go through the Quick starts on www.gotdotnet.com and built it up fro ...Show All

• Visual Basic textbox selectall not working

  Neither of the two code pieces are working for me... Private Sub TextBox1_GotFocus( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.GotFocus TextBox1.SelectionStart = 0 TextBox1.SelectionLength = Len(TextBox1.Text) End Sub -= OR =- Private Sub TextBox1_GotFocus( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.GotFocus TextBox1.SelectAll() ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linking error

  I am using vc++ 6.0 for an application which uses nmake tool to build the required files. During the process it is giving an linking error LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "mfc42u.lib" NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x450' Stop. Please tell me a way to resolve this. thanks in advance It looks like you are missing a directory from you LIB enivronment variable: I would fix this by finding out where mfc42u.lib is ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error in Data Source Configuration Wizard (VS2005)

  When I try to bind an object with the wizard I get the following error popup: An unexpected error has occured. Error message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   It works fine for other projects in my solution. I have references to Infragistics assemblies.   Thanks for your help. Hi, Can you provide more details about how you got this error When you said it worked fine for other project ...Show All

• Visual Studio How do I get Reporting Services 2005 with Visual Studio 2005?

  Hello: I am trying to find what to install to add the Reporting Services (Business Intelligence) project type to the Visual Studio August CTP. I checked the DVD and couldn't find anything there to install reporting services. Is there a version of the 2005 Reporting Services that can go on the same machine as the Visual Studio 2005 August CTP Thanks, Rob Thank you very much for your help! I'll try it out when the ...Show All

• Visual C# VS2005 UI

  Hey howzit I would like to have a slide and pin type UI for my application, similar to VS2005 e.g. the solution explorer and properties windows can slide in and out and be pinned down and also they are part of a collection of vertical tabs on the right on the main window...how can I achieve this level of UI functionality Regards, David There are a lot of 3th party controls available. The greatest i know it SandDock . But there are a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Process continues to run after Application.Exit()

  When the user clicks on my Exit menu command I call Close() followed by Application.Exit(). The GUI goes away as expected but the process is still listed in Task Manager. What do I need to do to really terminate the process Do you have multiple calls to Application.Run() or other threads running You might need to abort running threads and call Application.Exit() for every Applicat ion.Run() ...Show All

• SQL Server How to add SQL statements to the package created by Export Data wizard?

  How to add SQl statements to the package created by Export Data wizard I need to add SQL coming from file, the flow would be like this: 1) SQL would drop all objects: (views, tables, stored procedures) etc 2)  SQL would create all objects: (views, tables, stored procedures) etc 3) Export Wizard SSIS package would execute Also is there a dynamic way to add more tables do the package once created in SQL database I w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Pointing at the .net 2.0 framework?

  Hello, I just upgraded to the 2.0 framework, and have tried within VB.net 2003 to point at the windows.systems.forms.dll that is in the 2.0 framework path (after removing reference to the 1.1 version). Studio responds with an error saying it's not a valid reference. I know I'm doing something wrong, there is probably a more top level setting to reference the new framework instead of the old. Any help Thanks in advance, ...Show All