Bill Partridge's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Uninstalling VS 2005 RC1

  I have an issue with uninstalling SQL Express Edition CPT as part of uninstalling VS 2005 RC1. I have used both the Add/Remove programs and the vs_uninst.exe tool. In each case, I am leaving some residue of the program which triggers an error which does not allow VS 2005 install to configure SQL Express Edition. Any ideas Thanks. Just the framework. Its under \wcu\dotnetframework on your RC media. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Handle TargetInvocationException (Vb.NET Beta2)

  Hi Guys: When debuging my program, an error occurred: "System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException was unhandled". It did not point out where the exeption was thrown from. Does any one know how to handle this exeption or provide an example. Thanks. Hi, I solved the problem. This exception is thrown when the target object is not initialized or not READY when it is called. For example, when you update a progress bar when it is not visible or its max range is not set. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need help with combo box

  I'm new to VB .NET, and I'm having trouble making a combo box do what I need. I'm sure you've seen this before. I have a table of US states called "tbl", containing the columns "ID" and "StateName". I have a table of company addresses, and a dataview based on it called "dvCompany". The dataview column "State" contains the  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Modifying Agile Template from TFS RC

  When I download the MSF for Agile Software Development - v4.0 process template from the Team Foundation Server Release Candidate the Source guidance directory is not included like it was in previous releases. Where can I find the latest source files Thanks! __________________________ Sarah Cameron - InCycle Software Hi Sarah, Download the process guidance only. It is there. You may want to wait until the end of the week. There will be an update then. Cheers, Randy MSF ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Has anyone else noticed EID is now unusably slow?

  Since installing Beta 2 of WPF and MayCTP of EID, doing anything in the designer is slow to the point where it is unusable. I am seriously thinking of going back to the Feb CTP! For example, clicking on the file menu takes about 10 seconds to fade in! Anyone else noticed this Cheers Simon I don't have this issue...   I'm using WinFX Beta 2 on Windows VISTA   Are you using a antivirus or something else which can slow EID ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to create project/manage security/users on VPC version

  I am trying to play around on the VPC version of TFS (the Nov 11 d/l from MSDN -- the beta 3 / VSTS RC version). I logged in as darren, but when I open up team explorer, the options to create a new team project are greyed out.  When I go to try to manage the server users, that's greyed out too. It seems that the darren user, while a local/domain admin, is not in an appropriate TFS role.  What user in the VPC image is in the correct TFS role   I'd like to experiment with TFS users/security/projects, so I need the correct user id on the image. Thanks, --Oren Darren can create new team proje ...Show All

• Windows Forms making DLLs and using COM to pass values

  Hi, Can someone suggest me some article about how to make and work with DLLs in C# and using COM to pass values between DLLs  Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual Basic cannot find file needed for lesson02

  Anyone who's gone through the video lessons, please tell me where the 'Lesson Resources' are located/downloaded from...I'm not sure whether they were supposed to be included with the initial download or if they're available elsewhere. Thanks for any help Hi, If you can, please include appropriate links to what you're refering to :) My guess is that you're talking about these http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/beginner/  and the resource for Lesson 2 is listed in Download section http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/a/3/fa3d3b3e-993b-47f3-89a2-1a5a09f8b13e/02%20-%20VBasic.exe . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Unexpected token was encountered" error after schema import

  Greetings, After importing a schema from a SQL Server 2000 database to a project targetting SQL Server 2000 the parsing engine seems to have some problems with specific constructs... IF dbo.fnIsBillPullError() = 1 "Unexpected token was encountered" error being generated for User defined Functions. RAISERROR ( '%s (%d)' , @Severity, 1, @sMsg, @iErr) "Unexpected token was encountered" error being generated for some RAISERROR calls. ALSO if an error is detected relating to a UDF then some stored procedures are showing "Unexpected token was encountered" errors relating to the END part of a B ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Use Visual Studio 2005 or use VBA in Access or Excel?

  I am looking for some direction as to how to begin a new project. I am wondering if it would be better to try and use Access or Excel along with VBA to do this project of if I should use VS.NET 2005. What I would like to do is make a proggy similar to QuickBooks. When I downloaded QuickBooks and ran it on trial, I noticed it looked like someone took Access and created a custom form for it. I want the program to be able to keep track of an inventory that will be able to handle being updated. I would also like it to create reports and send them out to either be printed or maybe into another app like Excel. The program will need to ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. October 2005 DirectX SDK is available!

  The DirectXR Team is pleased to announce the release of the DirectX 9.0 SDK October 2005 Update! The October Update includes the first public release of the XInput SDK.  This SDK will allow game developers to fully support Xbox 360 Controller for Windows.  To download or learn more about this release please visit http://msdn.com/directx/sdk .   Features added in the October 2005 DirectX SDK update - XInput XInput is an API that allows applications to receive input from the Xbox 360 controller for Windows. Controller rumble effects and voice input and output are supported. For a quick start guide to using the XInput API, see ...Show All

• .NET Development Forcing .Net 2.0 client to use SOAP 1.1?

  I have a simple WinForms application built on VS C# Express 2005. I am accessing a Java web service that support SOAP 1.1 only. I know that .net 2.0 support SOAP 1.2, but I want to disable SOAP 1.2 and force all outgoing SOAP messages from the client to the web service to be generated as SOAP 1.1. Is this possible There must be a configuration setting to handle this. Thanks, Raffi OK, I figured it out on my own, but it does not seem to change the SOAP message being sent from the .net client. In your .net-generated web service proxy class, add the following statement to the contructor to set the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MSDN Chat: DLinq, May 18th @ 12:45pm Pacific Time

  Show up and tell us what's on your mind! People from the C# and DLinq teams will be there to listen. We're still in the planning and development stage, so rest assured - we can react to your feedback. The official chat schedule entry . Add a reminder to your calendar. The chatroom itself . All upcoming developer chats . Have some time zone questions Check chats category on my blog for the next C# chat. See you there!  Scott Nonnenberg Scott Linq is really powerful tool. It allows query manipulation in comfortable, transparent manner. But it seems the power is not used fully. Does DLinq allow data mo ...Show All

• SQL Server remote connection problem with sql server express

  Hi have sql server express 2005 installed on a laptop running XP sp2 with IIS installed. installed sql express during the visual studio 2005 install having problems with remote connection errors messages when using aspnet_regsql.exe as well as when trying to view pages with sql db involved. in most tests to fix this i disable my firewall, still getting error messages tho sqlBrowser is running as is sqlexpress in services both on auto in the surface area configuration tool, the remote connection is set to local and remote connections is using both tcp/ip and named pipes. in sql config manager- shared memory, tcp/ip, and named p ...Show All

• Windows Forms Will a 1.0 app run on 1.1?

  I have an app built with 1.0.  I want to test it on a box with 1.1 installed, but it is not working.  How do I configure it to run a 1.0 app on 1.1 box    Do I have to build it in 1.1 for it to run on the 1.1 framework Jon If the app is configured to use the v1.0 runtime (in the app.config file ...Show All