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• SQL Server Can't Connect to SQL 2005 Express Edition via Server Manangment Studio

  I have installed SQL 2005 Express Edition on a Windows 2003 Web Edition server. Everything installed correctly, no errors to be found. I also have: Local & Remote Connections using TCP/IP only turne don SQL Browser is running as well. I have tried connecting with the most recent CTP of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 9.00.1399.00 When trying to connect using the SA account I recieve: 'An error has occured while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. ( ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployment: Installation Project

  I can create an intallation program using the wizard but that is about all I know. The installation program created from running the wizard requires that you uninstall the existing program first using Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. How can I change this to allow the install program to remove the program I have found it to insist on& ...Show All

• Windows Forms Localized Deployment, localized .NET installer

  Hi, I want to localize the deployment (Russian and other languages) of my Win Application. I know how to localize the MSI (localization dropdown option), but how to localize the .NET installer I read in the help article : ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_deploy/html/eee53da5-bc30-454f-9271-ff35f02313a8.htm that one can download localized merge modules (dotnetfxredist_x86_language.msm) from the MS website, but I can't find where. Thank you for your help. Gidon The short answer is no, you can't do that. The dotnet frameworks is built on a core+langpack approach... so n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error in inserting my pc localtime into database

  hello i have a button on my form which inserts the local time on my pc into table called testdate which contains a field called fromdate of type smalldatetime and  contains the following code  Dim cn As New SqlClient.SqlConnection("server=localhost;database=testdate;uid=sa;pwd=;")         Dim qry As String = "insert into testdate(fromdate) values(" + D ...Show All

• .NET Development Importing To Tally Using ADO.Net

  Hi I would like import data from my database [SQL server] to Tally using ADO.Net. Is there any third part dll or anything that can be used for the purpose Thanking In Advance Check if this helps http://www.torontoug.net/Discussions/ADO.NET/982.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control development tricks & traps

  Hello, I'm very new to writing controls from scratch. Can somebody tell me, what I should be aware of, when developing controls  Are there any traps or tricks For example, what about overriding the OnClick event handler in a custom control derieved from control. The only way to make sure, that the hosting form gets noticed about the Click is to call th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System BUG Found - Registry entries used for URLs!

  Hi everyone,    I've found a show stopper.  Our situation is that we need to be able to use the TFS across domains.  As-is, the web portal is basically broken.  The problem is with files tfsredirect.aspx and others that draw upon the local system's registry for the web server's name, or use the local host name without the domain name appended.  Here is example code from tfsredirect.aspx where the value is taken out of the registry. --------start------ string c_ReportServerKey = @"Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation\ReportServer";  string s_reportServerUrl = "";  string red ...Show All

• SQL Server Mailing Labels - Reporting Services 2005 - Multi-Column format

  I created a report to print Mailing Labels in 3-up format via mulitple column (3) Report Layout. Problem I am having is third column will not print. Print Preview mode shows all three columns just fine .... Whole Page, 100%, etc. I adjusted Column Width, Text Box Width, Report Body Width, everything. I am printing to fairly current HP LaserJet printers - LaserJet5 and LaserJet 9000n models. The only way to get third column to print is switch to Landscape format ... I need Portrait. My overall page layout is 8.5 x 11in. My Column widths are 2in and my margins left/right are .2in currently. Should work for Portait mode ... plenty of room. A ...Show All

• SQL Server Customize Error Messages

  Is there a way to customize the error messages returned from SSRS2005 I do not want error messages like "Access deined for <computername>\<username>' But a more user friendly message returned. How can that be done Thanks. Have you looked at Books Online under the error handling (Reporting Services) section ...Show All

• Visual Studio Uninstall error when removing VS2003

  My work PC is a Gateway PC with WinXP SP2 installed. When I try to uninstall VS.NET2003, using my MSDN install disk, I get this Error message "Setup is unable to determine a valid ordering for the installation. See the error log for further details." I cannot locate this error log file, don't know what folder it was written into. Looked in a few likely locations and then did a desktop search on "*.log" but to no avail. Frankly, I should not have to search at all, the VS2003 uninstall program should TELL me where it wrote the error log file. I do need to get VS2003 off my PC so I can install VS2005, because of a lack o ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Activities Menu Unavailable

  I've noticed a number of instances with users not being able to access our P4 application because the Activities menu is consistently unavailable.  I have witnessed this situation myself over several  home broadband connections and the Activity list comes up with the following message: "List of games or activities is temporarily unavailable. Please close and try again later." I initially thought this was due to a restriction on the client machine's network, but this has happened to me in my own home after a recent move.  I've changed nothing...even my provider is the same, but the Activities menu is inaccessible from home. ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing Cryptographic Tokens

  Hello! I am not sure in which forum this question fits best, so I post it in the General section. I don't mind if you move it to another place where it fits better. I need to access Cryptograhpic Tokens that contains Certificates like USB sticks or SmartCards (I need "only" read access). It looks like there are (at least) two ways to do this: - PKCS#11 (also known as cryptoki) - CAPI (Cryptographic API) I can't find informations or examples about PKCS#11 in .NET. Isn't this implemented in .NET 2.0 / VS 2005 CAPI seems to be a "thing" from Microsoft. Can I use this to access USB sticks and SmartCards Is it implemented in .NET 2.0 / ...Show All

• .NET Development Reinstall MDAC on XP SP2

  Hi, how reinstaller or to update the MDAC on Windows XP service pack 2.  Thank you in advance Found information at http://www.pqsystems.com/kb/question.php qstId=521 . I cut & paste the relevant info below - MDAC 2.8 SP1 (2.81.1117.6) - 2.8 Service Pack 1. The same version of MDAC that comes with Windows XP SP2 and SQL Server 2000 SP4. The MDAC 2.8 SP1 stand-alone release is not supported on the Microsoft Windows XP operating system or on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. To update the MDAC version that is installed together with Windows XP or with Windows Server 2003, you must use operating system s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Microsoft Speech Server and SAPI 5.1

  Hello, I'm interested about SAPI 5.1. I did some application for it but I found Speech Server with SALM. This xml parsing for TTS output looks great ! Probably this SALM will not be working under SAPI 5.1 but I also found SSML, it looks like XmlParsing for SAPI 5.1 but it's not same. What version is working with this SSML  By the way, w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Warehouse errors

  The trials with Beta 3 are still going well, but I've spotted the following in the Application Log. Apart from watching TFS Version Control, TFS Services, TFS Warehouse and TFS WorkItem Tracking stopping and starting themselves, we've been getting hourly errors. It has settled down now to be: ERROR MSSQLServerOLAPService : Event 3 : OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.; 22007. WARNING TFS Warehouse : Event 3000 : An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component (etc.) Process Details: Process Name: w3wp P ...Show All