Hienphilly's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio HTTP Status 417: Expectation Failed

  Hi, Hope someone knows the solution to this problem as it's driving me insane ! I have Visual Studio Pro 2005 installed. I do NOT have the local MSDN installed. I want to use online version only. Whenver I go to the help I get "Information not found". Document explorer is configured to use "Online first, then local". If I hit the search button and enter a search string I get the error message below: Search Failed. The ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Login failed

  hideho mates, well could it be.... all SQL services r runnin, i created 2 sql logins with ALL rights!!!!! well now i want to use one of this accounts (which r domain admins too) too install VSTFS 2005 Beta 2...so far so good...but the first evetnlog entry after the begin of the install is always "sql server login failed - cannoct connect to the database"... the funny thing is > AFTER is event log entry ALL VSFTFS and ADAM Databases gonna  ...Show All

• SQL Server key_source parameter in create symmetric key

  Hi Laurentiu I was reading a blog entry of yours http://blogs.msdn.com/lcris/archive/2005/10/14/481434.aspx and in the section "How to prevent a symmetric key loss", you mentioned key_source. I am trying to understand how this is used because when you open a symmetric key, the only options for decrypting the key are password, symmetric key, asymmetric key and certificate. Thanks I just noticed comments were disabled for ...Show All

• .NET Development ASP.net File Upload

  I am having an issue uploading a file to specified folder on my harddisk. I get an error saying that Asp.net does not have access to write in this folder. I add the permissions to the folder and then remove the "read-only" designation from the folder. When I close explorer and look at the properties again, "read-only" is again checked. How can I get my changes to stick so I can allow ASP.net (1.1) to write to the given folder ...Show All

• Windows Forms Multiple installs, multiple versions, multiple sources

  We've got a situation where our consultants will go into multiple customer sites and have to run a specific application that's installed from servers at each site.  The customers may each be on different versions of the application, but the consultant will have one laptop and will need access to each version. Will ClickOnce set up different instances of the app in different folders automatically If not, how can the application, or man ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I evaluate textbox input?

  How can I evaluate what has just been pasted into a textbox, so that it may only contain numbers or a decimal point, and if contains other characters or letters, the pasting is undone. I would like to know how this can be done without listing every character and letter. Sorry I forgot to add that the event is: Private Sub txt_box_TextChanged( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles txt_box.TextChange ...Show All

• Windows Forms Large DataSets

  Any advice on dealing with large data sets appreciated. wouldn't make sense to bound around datasets 1000 records or more, so there would have to be some sort of paging implementation ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registering Express editions

  Hi,  Can I reuse my registration number for the Express Editions on more than one PC or do I need to register again Thanks The code that is provided at the end of the registration process is tied to the machine that you registered from.  You must obtain a new code to unlock copies of Visual Studio Express installed on other machines. Apologies for any inconvenience that causes, Scott Currie DDCPX ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you open an embedded resource?

  I am trying to make a program that will will make it easier for me to access some of my smaller frequently used program. I am new to Visual Basic and just discovered how to embed a .exe file into the project. I just dont know how to open it now. Basically there is a button and when it is clicked it needs to open up a .exe file, lets just call it 1.exe. I have looked around everywhere on how to do this and all I found was some resourcemanager com ...Show All

• SQL Server How to add reference in C# SQL Server Project (June CTP)

  Hi,    I'm using June CTP Visual studio .NET Framework. I have created SQL Server Project in C# language. In that i want to add external dll's to that Project. But when i click the Add reference in the References, it shows only two Tabs 1. Projects 2. SQL Server.   I cant able to add external dll's located in some other location to my References. How to do this Please  let me know if anybody know the solution. Thanks, Vino ...Show All

• .NET Development Select statement against dataset

  I want to execute a select statement with a group by condition against a table in the dataset. Is this possible in .Net Framework Ver 2.0 Thanks in advance. With Regards Ganeshkumar S Hi, I guess this feature would be implemented in C# 3.0 by the LINQ project... cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Symbols for VBA6.DLL?!

  Hello! Might be little off topic, but I don't really know where else to ask. I'll appriciate any help... I am in need of debugging VBA6.DLL(I have VS6+SP6) so I examined VBA6.DLL a bit and discovered that it contains debug information... Great, I'll finish in minutes, I thought, but I should have known better... So I fired up a WinDbg(6.4.0007.0) and tried to retreive symbols from Microsoft's symbol server(it's http://msdl.microsoft.com/downl ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to set the Custom Tool property programmatically from a VS package?

  Hi, I am writing a VS package using the cool new VSIP for Visual Studio 2005. My question is how can I set the custom tool property of an item It does not seem to be defined as a VSHPROPID_xxxx Thanks. There's another way of doing it. See the code sample below: ProjectItems projectItems = ( ProjectItems )ContextParams[2]; ProjectItem projectItemXML = projectItems.AddFromTemplate(( string )CustomParams[0] + "\\ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why the name "DLinq"?

  Any reason for why it's called "DLinq"   It seems that calling it "RLinq", with the R for Relational, or "SLinq", with the S for SQL, would make more sense. This is true.. However, as you allude, it need not remain so. I think it wouldn't take much to have a pluggable DataContext provider which would contain the logic for determining what to send to the server.  I'm guessing the translation logic is i ...Show All

• SQL Server conversation groups and processing in order on the target end

  Is there any way to ensure that messages sent on different dialogs have the same conversation group id on the target queue   I was attempting to set the conversation group id on the dialog before sending but learned that this only works on the initator end.   http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=174976&SiteID=1 I have messages that could be sent from different applications (and at slightly different times) th ...Show All