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• SQL Server SQL Express with W98

  Dear friends I have a question, SQLExpress are function with W98, because i had install SQLExpress in W2000 server, but the users with W98 can't connect the DB, this show a error, y tried connect by ODBC but i can't, what is the problem. Thank you Which error do you get If you use SNAC ou have to keep in mind that this not supported in Win95 / Win98. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error as "Falied to import the ActiveX control. Please ensure it is properly registered."

  Hello All, I always get the error as as "Falied to import the ActiveX control. Please ensure it is properly registered." when I try to embed the Microsoft Office SpreadSheet 11.0 ActiveX control from the Toolbox to Windows From with VS 2005 Bate2 My configuration : VS2005 Beta2 Team Edition. Office 2003 SP1 full installation. office PIA2003 is installed. And I also installed the Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components. But if I I try to embed the Microsoft Office SpreadSheet 11.0 ActiveX control from the Toolbox in VS2003, it is working fine w/o error.  Anyone knows how to solve it I really have a headache for it. Thank you ve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Updating a Typed Table

  I have a form which has a combobox and a collection of textboxes. The combobox is bound to one table and the textboxes are bound to another. However the value displayed by the combobox is also a field in the table to which the text boxes are bound. I have not been able to find a satisfactory way of updating this latter table after setting the required values on the form. The only way I have been able to do it is to put a dummy textbox onto the form and to bind this textbox to the table to which the other textboxes are bound and to set the text of the dummy textbox to a value which corresponds to the displayed value of the combobox in the ...Show All

• SQL Server Error in the login process when establishing connection

  Hello, I am trying to connect to a database through a web service. I am being able to connect to the databse through the server explorer in Visual Studio 2005, but when I try to do it with code in my application this is the message I get: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.) My code looks like this: SqlConnection thisConnection = new SqlConnection ( @"Data Source=vse1092;Initial Catalog=CurrituckDB;Integrated Security=True;" ); //User id=;Password=;"); thisConn ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can I set or simulate a RowSpan for my images in a table?

  I want to span my image across multiple rows in a table. Cannot get it to work, and cannot find any properties to accomplish this. Any suggestions Thanks in advance Only ColSpan (through merging column cells) is supported in a table. Sorry, RowSpan in a table data region is not supported at this point. -- Robert ...Show All

• Windows Forms INI files

  Hey, I searched MSDN for this but I could not find anything on it... How do you have the program recongnize a .ini file I have called it load.ini and this is what it is inside of it: [firstload] firsttime = 1 I am trying to make it so that in the Private Sub Form_Load it will look for the ini file and read it, is firsttime = 1 then it is going to open up a dialog, otherwise it will do nothing, I can do all of that, I just need to know how to have it find the ini file... I placed the ini file in the project's folder... Thanks :) ummm ahmedilyas... ... ...I am making a new class for this XML ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VWD Couldn't be extracted

  Hi, I receive an error during extraction of the vwd.img file, it asks me to retry, ignore or quit. I try retry but same prompt re-appears, when I click ignore, files are extracted but installation encounters problems. Please let me know how to fix the issue. Thanks Zubair Yes, the problem was with the download size of the file, re-download solved the problem. Thanks Zubair ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions When will Visual Studio 2005 ship?

  I place an order on November 7 with Amazon for VB2005Pro and still they have not ship it yet because they have no receive stock from Microsoft.   Does anyone know when Microsoft will start shipping the new version I have ordered my copy of VS2005 standard for about 3 weeks now, the delivery date from the supplier has been postponed twice already. Microsoft in Australia says that there is stock available but by looking at the various retailer's sites it does not seem that they have it in stock. 1st delivery schedule was for Nov 23rd, then it went to Dec. 3rd currently ETA Dec. 10th...somehow I don ...Show All

• .NET Development Pretty XML? should be easy can't find how!

  OK, so I have a System.Xml.XmlDocument. How do I output pretty xml Shurely this is easy, but I just can't how. Alternatively, can you get just the text of a node i.e. all the text from "<" to ">", and I can do the rest myself ta Sure it's easy, when you know how Private Sub WritePrettyXML() Dim xmlWriter As New XmlTextWriter("XmlTest.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8) Dim iCnt As Int16 'the following three lines makes the program do indentions xmlWriter.IndentChar = vbTab xmlWriter.Indentation = 1 xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF is going be absent in First Vista Release

  Hello all, I am reading on some news groups that WPF is not going to be there in initial release of windows vista. Does anyone knows more about it I cannot imagine vista without WPF. Any thoughts from experts Thanks Basav Until it is final, it is not final. That said, the last I heard (At the Mobility group partner briefing this week), is that WPF will be on the Vista CD, but will be an optional component that the user must select to install. It will not be installed by default. This is largely because the WPF and WCF components install together, and WCF has a large security surface. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development deploy a smart device application on

  I am using VS 2005 beta, and created a smart device windows CE 5.0 project in C#. to make a test run of my application I want to test it on my pc using MicrosoftR WindowsR CE 5.0 Device Emulator which I downloaded and installed. the problem is that device emulator does not show in the window for different deployment applications (only "Windows CE 5.0 device" and different "pocket pc" options shows) when I press F5. I have a copy of Visual Studio 2003 installed, but from my point of understanding that should not be the problem. Further, I installed the following components in my trial to make my application run: ActiveSync 4.0 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Need help...noob

  Hey guys This is my first time ever using msdn for support and why not right, using Microsoft product, makes sense to get support from fellow users and pros. So here is my dilema, I'm more of a C and C++ guy but only know the basics of that (only 1 year into my 4 year degree program at college) but at work I was asked to create a report which connects to and Access 97 database (dont ask, I have no control over this its a government standard thing) and pulls data I need. So we ordered Crystal Reports XI and I had no clue on how to use the program. But with some playing around I eventually got a good, buggy, but good report done and m ...Show All

• Smart Device Development anybody plz help me on media centre

  I unable to configure channels on my meda centre pc. Some channels come in black and white and others in color. anybody plz help me with this . Hi, This forum is for Device Emulator related questions only. Please post this question to the Windows Media PC General Forum. Thanks Vladimir ...Show All

• .NET Development Looking 4 "Dataset provider"

  Hi, I'm looking for a ".Net Dataset Provider" to use in (old) ADO connection (VB6), so the connection will work with the Datset instead working with some DB. I've searched the web, and all I found was such a provider but for Delphi. Has anyone came across such a thing thanks, Oren. You might be interested in the assembly I've been working on at http://www.queryadataset.com .  Besides INNER JOINS, it lets you perform complex SQL SELECT statements including UNION, OUTER JOINS, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY, sub-queries, etc against the tables in a dataset. Its not a .NET provider for DataSets, but it woul ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Capacity Planning

  Hi We are about to deploy TFS in a single-server configuration using the following hardware: - Dual Xeon CPU - 2GB RAM - 2 X 73GB HD's - mirrored - for the OS - 3 X 73GB HD's - in RAID5 - for data Now, even though right now there will be about 50 users working with the system, I'd like to know how much can that number grow, based on current configuration. What is the maximum number of users that can be supported by this server configuration Hey, If you are refering to the basic published number it is 500, and since your config meets the requirements, that should be okay. ...Show All