clintonG's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Nov 7 GA Installation

  I know SQL Server 2005 is to be released on November 7 and I hope that date is truly realized, but I would like to start planning now.  We are currently running SQL Server 2005 from the Beta 2 of VS 2005 and was curious if we will be able to upgrade that version directly to the GA release on November 7th or if it will require a complete reinstall Thanks in advance, Steve Hi there situation: .NET Framework  v2.0.50727 installed MS Matrix installed and running beta versions (.NET Framework   and SQL Express) installed in the past times and now uninstalled the problem: running SQL Server Setup file version 2000.90. ...Show All

• SQL Server ODBC Provider for DSN through connection object?

  Is it possible to find out Name or description of the ODBC driver using connection object I am not setting up the provider in the code. Only thing I set as connection string is the name of DSN. This DSN could point to any database, I need to figure out which databse it is (As in SqlServer or Oracle)! Hopefully I can do this using a connection object. Can someone please direct me to the property that is can use for this An exaple would be helpful, any help is appreciated. --Shilpa I know through non-managed code you can access this information through SQLGetInfo calls. For example: SQLGetInfo(..., SQL_DB ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changing from Workgroup to Domain..

  Hi, I have a suspicion that this isn't possible, but I'll try a question here about it to make sure... Is there any easy way to switch TFS from a workgroup setup to a domain setup Since the database contains SID's for my local users, I would like to switch these to the corresponding domain user to ensure that all history is ok... Is this possible --Rune Hi Rune, Yes, you will be able to move your workgroup machine to a domain. We are putting together the instructions for this process for RC. You should be able to upgrade your server to RC bits and use these instructions for switching it t ...Show All

• .NET Development Returning a custom class object

  This is my first time creating a web service ... so I'm hoping this is an easy question  Basically, I have a normal windows class (call it myNamespace.myService). This class has a method that returns a serializable class object (call it myNamespace.myClass). Now, I've written a seperate web service that's really just a thin wrapper around myNamespace.myService. (I call the web method, and behind the scenes it calls into myNamespace.myService, and returns an instance of myNamespace.myClass). Now, all that works ... sort of - the problem is the return parameter. Instead of coming back as a 'myNamespace.myClass' object, it comes back ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Microsoft XNA

  Anybody know when XNA is supposed to come out I've seen demo's of it and know the stuff was set to come out at some point but it seems it hasn't totally yet There ya go, PIX , XACT , XInput , OK fair enough, but this isn't really what people are waiting for when they talk about XNA. CDX/CDXUT , DXUT/DXUTGUI.... also the newer Visual Studio 2005 ones as well.... DirectX 10 there's 14 tutorials Nothing to do with XNA, just logical progressions of the API I really wish there was something new and better like DirectShow again for handling video input devices , minus the need t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Problems Using DirectX 8.0

  ok, What I really would like is to download visual basic 6.0, but I cant find anywhere to do that.. My problem with visual Basic express edition, is I cant seem to get my reference to Directx 8 to work, I have reinstalled directx 8 and VB but it still wont work for me, any ideas> I am programming in BASIC and am very new at it... if anybody could help me I'd be very thankfull, you can contact me by emailing me at Lukeskiwalker@bellsouth.net , or posting here... Thank you very much, Wesly OK VB6 is not available to download. Its an old product which is probably 8 years old and was rep ...Show All

• SQL Server June CTP

  I have this installed, I LOVE the virtual session stuff. Very nice to get up and running. I see it expries in 14 days as of 10/14/2005. Why is that. Will you provide trial editions of the final product in this format. Is there a way I can trick it to keep going. I don't want to lose 'all set up learning environment'. Suggestions Can I change a system date and not get the session to sync Thanks Matt -- we've met before at PASS 2004 when my last image expired I think :) ... this time much better around. I have to tell you guys this is a great thing. Cheers. (Good articles as well). ...Show All

• Visual Studio SETUP FAILURE!!! VS.NET 2005 Professianal

  Hi all,   I installed VS.NET 2005 Standard 2 days ago, then downloaded the Professional from the msdn subcribers site. So I uninstalled the standard and tried to install the professional, but I get the following error: [11/02/05,09:41:18] Microsoft Document Explorer 2005: [2] Error code 1603 for this component means "Schwerwiegender Fehler bei der Installation. " [11/02/05,09:41:18] Microsoft Document Explorer 2005: [2] Setup Failed on component Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 [11/02/05,09:41:29] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper() with HRESULT -2147023293. [11/02/05,09: ...Show All

• Visual C++ link-error with VC8.0

  BeeThreadGroupStatic.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp___CrtDbgReportW referenced in function "public: __thiscall std::_Vector_const_iterato r<void *,class std::allocator<void *> >::_Vector_const_iterator<void *,class std ::allocator<void *> >(void * *,class std::_Container_base const *)" ( 0 $_Vecto r_const_iterator@PAXV$allocator@PAX@std@@@std@@QAE@PAPAXPBV_Container_base@1@@Z ) hello, I get a link error, the project was good in VC 6.0 which I used. we are on the migration from VC6.0 to VC8.0, I got the error. I was trying to solve it, but I failed. would you help m ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView vs DataGrid

  Hi I'm struggeling to manipulate the columns of the DataGridView when bound to a dataset. I've used ' DataGridViewCellStyle' to set some properties, but I also need to hide some columns on the grid (ID's etc.). The various MSDN samples uses dataGridView.Columns(0).Name = "Recipe" dataGridView.Columns(0).Frozen = True but this only works when you add the columns in code (i.e. unbound DataGridView) Any ideas Hi, found that dataGridView.Columns(0).Name = "Recipe" dataGridView.Columns(0).Frozen = True can only be done AFTER the form has loaded when the dataGridView is bounded to a Dataset. Not so n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to read records from Childtables ?

  Hi Forum, I'm writing this program that loads a 3rd party XML file.  In a simplified version, the XML data would be as follows. <Customers>    <Customer>      <Name>Microsoft Corp.</Name>      <Number>MS001</Number>       <ProductTypes>          <ProductType>Software</ProductType>          <ProductType>Hardware</ProductType>          <ProductType>Litterature</ProductType> &nbs ...Show All

• Visual C++ Opening Files

  HELP ME! I have looked everywhere for how to simply OPEN a file for reading but haven't found anything. The in-program help said do this:- System::String ^fn = openFileDialog1->FileName; const char _sopen(fn); but it just errors at me Error 1 error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'System::String' to 'const char' c:\documents and settings\callum\my documents\visual studio 2005\projects\mgp\mgp\Form1.h 126 PLEASE! What is the answer There is no direct conversion from a 'System::String^' to a 'const char *' you need to use PtrToStringChars which is defined in vcclr.h #include <vcclr.h> v ...Show All

• Visual C# Multiple language support?

  Does Visual Studio C# Express have support for multiple target languages (ie program displays English, but I want to also distribute a German version of the program). Would you believe that I had to sign in again using Passport, and lo and behold, there they were... sorry 'bout that... ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error with file mapi.h

  Hi I am Javier, I am making a validator certificate and i have to include the file mapi.h, but when i compile everything there are a lot of errors 307 for being strictly accurate and these errors are like missing { before *, missing ;. I cant understand where is the problem. I suppose that this file must include another file to solve these problems. If someone can help me. Thank you very much! This is a bit closer to what we need. As two people told you before, you need to post some of the actual errors in order for us to work out what it is that you've failed to set up on your machine. Wha ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums vlookup on unions

  I have two ranges on a sheet; rngOne and rngTwo, they both contain 2 columns and 5 rows of random numbers I want to run a vlookup in VBA on the union of the two ranges so I run the following code:   Sub test()     Dim a As Range, b As Range, c As Range, d As Range     Set a = Range("rngOne")     Set b = Range("rngTwo")     Debug.Print Application.VLookup(0.520112065214368, a, 2)     Debug.Print Application.VLookup(6.37957410868775E-02, b, 2)         Set c = Application.Union(a, b)     Debug.Print A ...Show All