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• SQL Server Logical functions in SELECT clause

  Hi, this ought to be elementary: I want to select the logical inverse of a bit type column. The online help tells me Syntax [ NOT ] boolean_expression Arguments boolean_expression Is any valid MicrosoftR SQL Server Boolean expression. Result Value NOT reverses the value of any Boolean expression. The way I read this I should be able to then simply SELECT NOT bit_col, yet I get a syntax error when I try to do simply ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLServer and SQL Browser fails to start with an Event ID 7000

  I just finished installing SQL Server 2005 Express including the Toolkit. During installtaion I selected instance name as SQLExpress. I cannot start SQLServer nor SQL Browser services and reports Event ID 7000 with a message Path not found. Although, the entire installation ran error free. I am running Winodws XP Professional w/SP2 and up-to date patches. Please help! yaj Hi, could you please post the entire messages on the er ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS2003 + Visual Source Safe upgrade question

  Hi, I'm in the process of looking at upgrading our development environment. We currently run Visual Studio .net 2003 Professional Edition and use Visual Source Safe for source control. What version of Visual Studio 2005 should i be looking at and what is happening with Visual Source Safe Is there a new version or is Team System the replacement All of our development is for web applications and web services if this affects the advice. Also we ...Show All

• SQL Server import hierarchical data

  hi folks, I have to import hierarchical text files like: 32;country;city;postalcode;street 21;name;firstname;salutation;title;age;nickname 21;name;firstname;salutation;title;age;nickname ... additionally I have to eleminate doubles. what is the best way for this problem I have set up a flatfilesource with two columns and a conditional split on the first column so now I have an output with [country;city;postalcode;street] and one with [name;firs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Copy Folders/Subfolders, Backgroundworker, and progress bar

  I was wondering if someone could point me in the correct location. I've read the documentation for backgroundworker and I'm familar with doing folder/file copy but I can't seem too bring this all together and make it work with a progress bar any chance someone could give me a hand would be greatly appreciated. I'm currently using VS05. I have a button to copy the files with a progress bar right above it. It also requires the copy to copy ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FxCop and VS2003

  First let me say that I really appreciate all the work done on FxCop. Its a very helpful tool. However, the integration into VS2005 needs to be back-ported to VS2003. it does not have to be "exactly" like 2005, but it can come close. Here are a few ideas on how this can be accomplished. 1) Provide an AddIn that gives the user a context menu for the projects so code analysis can be run. Sure, you can put it on the "Tools" menu, but that is ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Close button on Print Preview toolbar

  Can you modify the Close button on Print Preview toolbar in Visual Foxpro 6.0. I need to remove the picture of Close button and put the text "CLOSE" on the button. can you do this in VFP 6.0 Please help. Thanks, Sanj. c y h wrote: I use foxpro 5.0, is there any way to remove the system toolbar by writing a short program I am not Christof, but here goes: LOCAL lnCount, LOCAL ...Show All

• .NET Development XMLInclude attribute abd Webservices in VS2005

  I am using vs 2005. When i apply xmlinclude attribute on webservice, it gives me compile time error. I dont know y Hello Shahzad, What compile time error do you get Where exactly are you applying the attribute Could you please post your code Thanks! Daniel Roth ...Show All

• Visual C# Internal Frame

  Hi, Is there a way to work with internalframes with Csharp Any sample Thanks If you are talking about Java internal frames then yes, see the following thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=293194&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Run-time,design-time component

  I am interested in dividing my components into run-time and design-time components. I want to do this so that code I only need for design time is not included in the run-time component, which is shipped to an end-user. The design time component ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Multiple Data Files (SQL Express) can be used in one application ?

  Hi to all of you, In VB.NET 2002 I was using Multiple MS Access files to store data. Is it possible with VB.NET express 2005 and SQL Express 2005 Parminder This is a limitation of Visual Basic Express. SQL Server Express is similar to the old MSDE - it has certain limitations compared to the full version of SQL Server 2005. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/  for more information. As me ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems in Marshal.PtrToStructure

  Hi all, I'm having problems when using Marshal.PtrToStructure and passing a structure type to it with structure array as one of its members. The exception i'm getting is ' can not marshal field ComnPara of type DeviceDialog.CgfFileStruct This type cannot be marshaled as a structure filed. ' This is my structure  [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] public struct CfgFileStruct {  [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray,SizeConst=Co ...Show All

• Visual C# Docking objects in PowerPoint with c#

  I've got a program that takes Excel tables and puts them on PowerPoint slides. The problem is that I want the objects to dock to other objects. You can do this through PowerPoint by going to View->Grid->Snap object to other objects. My question is, how do I set the "Snap object to other objects" (There is a snaptogrid property that I can set, but I can't find a snap object to other objects property) Thanks for any help ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I get different colors of text in a RichTextBox?

  How do I get the following to display "Light Blue" in light blue letters and "Black" in black type RichTextBox1.Text ="Light Blue " & "Black" Module ColorText Public Sub ColoredText( ByVal ParamArray saElements() As Object ) Dim A As Integer For A = LBound(saElements) To UBound(saElements) Step 2 With Form1. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Sub Procedures

  Hi Folks, Can you call one sub procedure (clearButton_Click) and use it on the same form in another sub procedure (clearToolStripMenuItem_Click) without coding it all over again. Thanks.......Eric Depends on what their event arguments are - if they are the same, it's a matter of having a "handles" clause added to the one method you wish to be invoked with each of the events it should handle. ...Show All