SarasMax's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot Delete or Move

  I am using a Beta or Pre-release version of Team Foundation Server. The problem I am having is that I moved a directory to a new location and it went to the wrong directory: \DirA\DirA instead of \DirA. Then things got out of sync. The directories under \DirA\DirA, I tried to move to \DirA and then delete \DirA\DirA. It then gave errors that the directory already exists when I tried to do a move. I now can't do anything without getting ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error:"The Assembly could not be found or could not be loaded" .The problem is at even click to the word document

  when i click the document for the first time every thing works fine.The word document is loaded with all the required contnets as we coded in the word projects.After closing the document when i click the word document again then it gives an error- The assembly could not be found or could not be loaded.you can still or save the document.contact your administartor or the author of this document for further assistance .Then i close the document and ...Show All

• SQL Server failure installing SQL Server 2005

  I am trying to install SQL Server Sept 2005 on Windows Server Enterprise Ed. 2003 which was just freshly installed on a new partition. I downloaded files from a DVD and when I click on install.exe it checks the system configuration: everything is OK (all checks passed) but then I get a window/message: "The installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual source safe internet service on port other than 80

  I've got the VSS internet service working perfectly on my laptop on port 80, and I've even got my second computer accessing the database over the internet on the laptop. Now, the situation is that the server that I want the VSS database to be finally on is a server that has port 80 blocked, so I'd like to use 8080. I've got everything setup, and I can even access http://server.com:8080/SourceSafe/VssService.asmx The authentication screen c ...Show All

• SQL Server Slow Connection Problem

  I have a desktop and a laptop that connect to a SQL Server machine on our network. From the desktop when I run a particular query it takes 20 sec. to return 71000 rows. From the laptop it takes 5 seconds to return the same results. Both machines are running Windows XP Pro Sp2. I checked with others that I work with, and their results mirror my laptop (about 5 sec.). I checked the Client Network settings, ODBC drivers, etc. All are the same be ...Show All

• Windows Forms Export Unbound DataGrid To CSV File\Excel with WINDOWS FORM

  I've spent hours hunting around the internet to find out how to do this and i can't seem to do it. I've found endless posts on ASP.NET but im using WinForms/VB2005 I would prefer not to have to manuall configure each export process at the time as the DataGridView can be one of at least 4 different structures depending on the options the user selected to fill it. There must be a simple way of taking all records and layout and playing it in ...Show All

• Visual Studio contributing to the automation model

  Are there any managed examples of extending the automation model with our new Package.  The documentation on this is a little sparse and the few examples are all unmanaged. Thanks, Mike First you need to define an interface in .NET code with the methods and properties that you wish to expose from your package. You will also need to set two attributes on this interface, ComVisible(true) and InterfaceT ...Show All

• Windows Forms Displaying Int values as Hex in datagridview

  Hi all, desperation has forced me to my first post! I am writing a network analyzer and need the option to display my int variables as Hex values for a number of databound datagridviews, (a la) debugger. I can ToString("X") but it would mean having a string equivalent for all my ints! As I am binding to bindinglist of a managed class.(bindinglist<class^>) C++ Started using .Net only 4 months ago so am hoping that my ...Show All

• Visual Basic Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

  I'm receiving this error: "Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." In regards to this line of my code: ElseIf Request.Cookies("userid").Value = "" Then and if I comment out that line it also gives me the error in regards to this line: UserID = Request.Cookies("userid").Value Here is my code behind: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Partial Class ...Show All

• SQL Server Substitute portions of results

  Is there any way in SQL to substitute every instance of a particular string with another during a query Specifically, I've got "\n" stored in my database, but I wish to have it replaced with "<br />" (ahh - they say) when I pull it from the database... ...Show All

• .NET Development Returning single character problem

  I have an ASP.NET page that will receive some data using, string Data = Request.Form["Data"];, on the PAGE_LOAD event. If there are no errors I use Response.Write(“1”). The sending file can then pick up the “1” returned. I am finding the 1 returned has more than 1 character (spaces added). Is there a way I can just return 1 Thanks Danny Hi Danny, You should try posting to the AS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Timing issue

  I would like to find out if there is a way to add a bit of time for one line of code to complete before Starting the next. I would like my textbox to display the contents of an action as in: case 4 TextBox1.Text = "My Text" ---Do Somehting here to slow the system down for about 5 seconds TheAmount = TheAmount - 50 If TheAmount <= 5000 Then MessageBox.Show("Your Amount is: " & TheAmount) End ...Show All

• Windows Forms One or more errors encountered while loading the designer

  Hi, I was working on a simple Winforms C# project. I created a few of TableAdapters using the designer and attached them to datagridviews on my form. After realizing that i did not want one of the tables I went to the XSD designer and deleted it. After that the project still excutes ok but the form designer is unable to display the form in design view I get the following error: One or more errors encountered while loading t ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL DMO - Backward Compatibility Components Redistributable

  I need to update our applications install program so it installs the latest SQL DMO.  I've downloaded the "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components" MSI from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=D09C1D60-A13C-4479-9B91-9E8B9D835CDC&displaylang=en . This MSI will not install on Windows 98.  This is surely a problem   Client machines running Windows 98 can still connect to SQL Server 2 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Messagebox causes hang

  In a windows forms application I put up a messagebox to report an error condition.  This works on most installations, but on one box the application hangs after the user closes the messagebox.  It looks like the application still thinks the&nbs ...Show All