Vincent Rainardi's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio ADO.NET (XML) Datasource Missing

  After I installed SQL 2005 Express I lost the ADO.NET (XML) datasource option, I am using Crystal Reports v9.  Does anyone know how I can get it back   I have tried unistalling SQL 2005 Express, Crystal Reports, and Visual Studio(2003), and then reistalling Crystal Reports and Visual Studio. Thanks I found out this is caused by the .NET Framework 2.0.  Once that was unistalled the ADO.NET (XM ...Show All

• Windows Forms ToolStrip / Image Question

  This may be more of a graphics editing issue than a ToolStrip issue, but here goes... I'm using a ToolStrip in ManagerRenderMode with XP themes turned on, so the ToolStrip background is the light blue color with the gradient as you get close to the bottom of the strip. When you roll the mouse cursor over the ToolStrip buttons, the background color of the button under the mouse cursor changes to highlight the button. The problem I'm having ...Show All

• SQL Server REPORT SERVER COULD NOT FOUND http:\\localhost ????

  Hi Gurus; How can Start Report Server At my local Machine I installed Reporting Services and Reporting Services SP2, Sql Server 2000 and Sql Server 2004 SP4 ,IIS and VS.net 2003 and 2005. And Another Question f you not busy :) How can show my report in my programs welll your english a little difficult to understand. 1. Did u already install it 2. It seems that you installed sql server without reporting services becau ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading a "text" File

  Im trying a read a "text" file that is a storage file for a proprietory software package. I can open the file up in notepad and read it all fine, all the data is there and visible in a plain text format, and i can also import the file into excel or basically anything else.. My problem is that when i attempt to read the file into a VB 2005 richtextbox, or textbox it won't read the whole file. (doesn't matter if i use read, rea ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro SELECT statement is showing unwanted display of data and is not passing data to a table.

  I'm using a SELECT statement to pull out data from a table... that is working great. What I'm trying to do is feed the selected data to a different table using REPLACE so that it can be used by a report. All of this is triggered from a command button on a form. Here's the code for the CLICK property of the button: SELECT store, stock, year_1, make_1, model_1, auction1, transport, recon, sold_for, fees, net_check, result ; FROM wholes ...Show All

• SQL Server I use the newest version JDBC, but still return no suitable driver error

  Hi. I am using the following statements to connect my SQL Server 2005 database: Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver").newInstance(); con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:sqlserver:172.16.0.5//:1433; DatabaseName=Security", "pasw", "pasw"); These code works for couple months, and later on, it returns "java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver" Error. Th ...Show All

• Visual Basic How can I Reboot Computer Using Visual Basic 2005

    How can i reboot, shutdow, log-off my computer using Visual Basic 2005 Can you help me please:( I tried the code listed here to do a restart of Windows. I get the warning screen that Windows is shutting down (I used a 10 sec delay), but at the end of 10 seconds, no reboot. I am running Windows XP professional and have admin priv's. Any ideas Thnx ...Show All

• Smart Device Development .NET Compact Framework Version 2.0 SP1 Beta is now available

  List of new features and bug fixes: http://blogs.msdn.com/netcfteam/archive/2006/04/21/580901.aspx Download location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=6548dd53-a418-42d9-a481-19ba3ceca1a6&displaylang=en Finally! I've been holding off using CF2.0 because I need to support WinCE 4.2. I just installed VS2005 the CF2.0 SP1 Beta but now I'm not sure how to create a wince 4.2 project. The Sma ...Show All

• Visual Basic Standalone application

  Hi, I am looking to produce a standalone application supplied on a cd, which will be given to sales reps. They in turn will open this program from the cd or their computer. The program will have the facility to choose different powerpoint slides from different powerpoint presentations represented by thumbnails. Some of the powerpoint presentations contain numerous sections with numerous slides in each section, so it would be best if there was a ...Show All

• SQL Server Flat File Source Column Parsing Error

  Hello All, I have come across this issue with the Flat File Source when the delimiter is set to a comma. """KAILUA KONA,HI""","CA", In the data snippet above and with the setting of using a comma as a column delimiter and a " as the text qualifer. the data will be parsed in this fashion: """KAILUA as a column: HI""" as a column CA as column ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Receiving WMI configuration error. SQL Server System Configuration cannot be executed due to that

  Hello PPl, I am getting this error again and again. The SQL Server System Configuration Checker cannot be executed due to WMI configuration on the machine mymachine Error:2147749896 (0x80041008).   I uninstall all version of Visual Studio 2005 just kept Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.  Still I am getting this error when I am running SQLEXPR.exe to install the SQL Server 2005 Express.   PLEASE HELP!   ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Double buffering a panel in c++.net

  Hi Im fairly new to c++.net and im writing an application which models little creatures represented by coloured squares which move around in a panel. Ive been having problems with screen flicker, and reading around it seems double buffering is the answer. Unfortunately though, I cant seem to find any help on implimenting it in c++ (seems to be lots in c# which I tried to adapt but it didnt work). Any help would be appreciated, especially if i ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataTable Expression Column

  My DataGrid is bound to a DataSet, with following columns: Description, CashExp, CreditExp,Frequency  On run time, I am adding two new DataColumn “AnnualCash” and “AnnualCredit” and defining Expression property to give product of two columns, as follows  Dim dc&nb ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Battery level

  What is the correct way to detect battery level on PocketPC 2003 and Mobility 5.0 I have tried using GetSystemPowerStatusEx and GetSystemPowerStatusEx2 and they both fail. Any ideas Thanks http://www.opennetcf.org/CategoryView.aspx category=Home this library has componets that allow you to check the battery status ...Show All

• Windows Forms Coloring Datagrid rows based on value inside of dataset

  Hi I am developing a windows application that connects to a sql database.  I have a datagrid that has a datasource of a dataset.  I am trying to color the rows of the datagrid based on a value inside of the dataset.  I have  ...Show All