Wodahs's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Is SQL Server 2005 still using Named Pipes ?

  I keep getting errors.  It all started when I enabled named pipes on my SQL Server 2005 server.  Ever since then I've had connection problems up the butt. Most recently I got this error so does this mean that SQL Server is still trying to use named pipes even if I only have TCP/IP enabled in SQL Server Configuration Manager Error: TITLE: Connect to Server ------------------------------ Cannot connect to BG-SQL2005. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.  When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista InvokeWorkflow

  If InvokeWorkflow is used inside a workflow can I tell from the outside via an event who the parent of the new workflow is TrackingParameters has the CallerInstanceId ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums NEW

  I WAN THE NEW MESSENGER BUT IT'S HARD TO DO this post is a little off-topic for this forum, but try this Messenger FAQ: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316660/en-us -brenda (ISV Buddy Team) ...Show All

• Visual Basic When the grandkids can't inherit from their supposed parents.

  I'm doing something stupid or have screwed something up. Base is parent to DialogBase If you create new forms to inherit from Base they inherit fine. BUT if you try to inherit from DialogBase (by clicking on it) I get Base instead. So the kids get grandpa instead of pa. Suggestions please Regards, Al My feet are soooooo full of holes. I hope others are learning from my stupidity. Somehow or another the standard piece: Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer was missing from the designer.vb code. Returned it and all was ok. The kids can now get their hands on grandpa's family jewels ...Show All

• .NET Development Please tell me where can I get a code example about Web distributed application.

          I am learning the .net remoting technology lately.I have made a distributed winForm application . but I don't know how to configure a webForm distributed application base on IIS.If you can help me or give some material . And I want to know the details about Remoting. Thanks! Unfortunately, Ingo's book does not completely cover remoting 2.0. The app.config paramaters have changed and I have been unable to sort them all out. I am still trying. Most of the samples are written for 1.1. I have not seen a good sample for connecting an ASP app to a remote server, and that is just what I need. There are ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Question about variable decleration

  This maybe is a stupid question. Sometimes I see variables declared like int _Counter; What is the _ stands for can someone give me an example why you have to declare it like that. Thank you. You can declare variable with any name . But you some times see variables declared like that because of naming convention . The _name usually used to represent static variables so that they can easily be identified when browsing through code. Thanks. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ngen on CF

  can we use ngen by any way in CF APPs Hi, No NGEN is not supported for the CF. The reason for this is size. The JIT Compiler produces native code that is larger than the managed code. Having both on your device would take up too much space. Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Visual Basic Package and Deployment Wizard

  Hi All I have created a deployment package using the package and deployment wizard. However, when I run the setup package I get two errors: 1. c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll - The destination file is in use. Please ensure that all other applications are closed. 2. An error occurred while registering the file 'c:\windows\system32\msado20.tlb' If I ignore the errors the program still installs and runs without any problems but it is hardly asking users to ignore such errors. Can amybody point me in the right direction to generate a clean install Regards Neville I have had the same problem. It ...Show All

• Windows Forms Opening multiple children

  I have an issue where I cannot open multiple MDI children. Does anyone have a clue what's going on Jason I fixed this issue. I accidently had the MDIList checked for my Open button. Duh!   :}  ...Show All

• SQL Server How to use user defined function in stored procedure?

  Hello friends, I want to use my user defined function in a stored procedure. I have used it like , select statement where id = dbo.getid(1,1,'abc') //dbo.getid is a user defined function. procedure is created successfully but when i run it by exec procedurename parameter I get error that says "Cannot find either column "dbo" or the user-defined function or aggregate "dbo.getid", or the name is ambiguous." Can any body help me Rgds, Kiran. Hi, guess you created the function not with the owner / schema (depending on which version you are working with) "dbo". S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Urgent please help

  My client is using Team Foundation for about 8 months (when beta 2 was released), but they only used one source control branch and only one workspace per developer. He would like to create a process where they can have different branches, for example having a main development branch, a test branch, a version 1.0 branch, etc. Therefore he would like have a workshop to cover the following areas: How to set permissions for branch How to identify the branch when creating new work items How to use different workspaces pointing to different branches How to create customized check-in pol ...Show All

• Windows Forms Databound ComboBox + Adding "Select" Item

  I have a combo box which is databound to a dataset coming from my database. When the control loads I want to the selected item to say "Select Item" so that the user is forced to pick something other than the first value returned from the database. On the web i usually data bind and then just insert an item into position 0 but t ...Show All

• SQL Server Default Values not Selected on Report Manager

  I have a report with quite a few parameters, both multivalue and single, all populated from a query.  In the Report Designer I have set up default values and everything works great.  When I deploy these reports the default values are not being set.  Am I missing a step The server has  behavior that it keeps the old parameter defaults that are set, even after republishing. Try deleting the report and republishing. ...Show All

• Windows Forms convert object[] to ArrayList? (C#)

  Is there way to convert  object[] coll  to ArrayList Maybe somebody knows <i>> as far as I know the array doesn't implment System.Collections.ICollection ... </i> Yes, it does. So you can just use: object[] o = ... ArrayList a = new ArrayList(o); ...Show All

• Windows Forms listbox control

  how do I manually add in listbox items in at runtime that act like they have a databinding. example ( I know this is incorrect) ListBox1.Items.Add("display",value) basically how do you add an item with a name/value pair would  I have to create class or is there one that I dont know about  lol  I feel ya on learning the quirks. ...Show All