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• Visual Studio Tools for Office The deployment doesn't work always...

  As I finally succeeded to install the RC VSTO version on my machine, I decided to deploy and to make it available to all my users... However, I just received 3 messages: 2 have been finally able to install it...one not again :(... As I can read here , there are some cases where even VSTO may fail... Any news about it Any possible solution Thank you LastHope Yes, I did (however, somehow I'm not sure it works correctly, even if I followed th ...Show All

• SQL Server Relational to DataWarehouse?

  Can somebody please guide me in how to convert a relational database to a datawarehouse . Thanks Start with a good book (say,Ralph Kimball's  The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit : Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses ) to understand "how-to" and then read tutorials/samples from BOL. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setup failed on a Windows 2003 VPC

  Hello, I trying to install a single server VPC. Here is the sequence I followed: 1. setup of windows 2003 standard ed. 2. setup windows 2003 sp1 3. setup of IIS 4. setup of the AD and created TFSSETUP and TFSSERVICE domain accounts 5. setup of SQL 2005 CTP april (all services working) 6. setup of sharepoint services 2.0 sp1   trying to setup team foundation server but I get the following error message: "setup has detected that previous ...Show All

• Windows Forms Events and delegates

  Ok, I am having difficutly understanding this. Problem:  I have a windows form that contains a richTextBox and a method to append a string that is passed to the method.  What I need to be able to do is to call this method from an ...Show All

• .NET Development getting the username

  im trying to get the username from the system... i have read somewhere that the way u get this i s as follows... Environment.UserName(); but this does not want to work.... does anybody have any ideas. thanks flipmode Hi, What if I want to get the current logged on windows user Not the current process user. Cos if I use Environment.Username in ASP.net, it returns ASPNET as user. I've enabled ...Show All

• SQL Server backuping logins + passwords.

  I can backup my logins but without passwords....using SQL 2005 , generate sql scripts... any idea i can generate a SQL script with the passwords in cleartext i like to recreate them in my test database later. As MSSQL 2005 doesn't store passwords (it stores only password hashes), there is no way to get them in clear text. If you want to back up your logins, you should backup master database; if you want ...Show All

• Visual C# Adding Button on Window Title bar

  Hi, How do I add an extra button just next to the minimize button on the Window Title bar.   Adding buttons to the title bar is highly unusual. It can be done, I believe, but you may very well need to use the WinAPI through PInvoke to do this. ...Show All

• Visual Basic How can I do this operation in VS.NET 2005?

  I could filter the data in “Datagrid” by a textbox when “Dataview” tool was present in “VS.NET 2003” . I was using the following code (DVPerson.RowFilter = “Name like” & txtSearch. Text & “%”) Using this code, when I typed a letter in “txtSearch”, names starting with the letter I entered would be automatically displayed in “datagrid”. But I can’t use this code this code in VS.NET 2005 because there is no “DataV ...Show All

• Visual Basic Passing a structure with arrays of fixed length strings to a DLL

  Hi, I need to be able to pass a structure to a DLL that has arrays of fields of fixed length in it. In old VB6 this could be done by having types with types type repeatingRecord field1 as string * 2 field2 as string * 5 end type type maintype field1 as string * 7 records(10) as repeatingRecord end type In .NET types become structures and fixed length strings no longer exist. However the attributes 'VBFixedString' and Marshal ...Show All

• Windows Forms Don´t allow an application to be launched twice

  Hello, I have an application that i want to be sure that there is only one instance running. I don’t want the same application to be launched twice. How can i detect that my application is already running and if the users try to launch one more, it will not launch because there is already one running Can you help me I am using VS .Net 2003 and C#. Best regards Miguel Ferreira Portugal http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/SingleInstance.html ...Show All

• SQL Server ISNULL ( ) support in SQL Server mobile?

  Is ISNULL ( check_expression , replacement_value ) supported in SQL Server 2005 Mobile edition. If not, then why the following statement executes without any error: -  " select ISNULL(a,12) as test from tableA " Where 'a' is int column. However, even though i do not get an error, it doesn't behaves as expected. I mean the result which i get is : - a. If the column is not null, the value in 'Test' (resultset) is False. b. If the column is n ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to use Sybase ASE11 to a VB project

  Can somebody help me on how can I use Sybase ASE11 as a backend of a VB project Thank you! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need practical examples of row validation and error handling on DataGridView

  I need a practical example of row validating and error handling for the DataGridView.  My DataGridView is bound and some cells are required.  None of the examples I've seen on MSDN show 1) how to determine which required fields were not supplied and 2) how to give the user an intelligent message informing them of all the rows they need to enter and 3) keep the user on the row so they don't loose their edits. It seems&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project creation failed with error:"Initialization failed for plugin(s): 'Microsoft.Pcw.wss', 'Microsoft.Pcw.currituck'"

  During creation new team project from Visual Studio 2005 I get Project creation failed with error:"Initialization failed for plugin(s): 'Microsoft.Pcw.wss', 'Microsoft.Pcw.currituck'" message with log: 07/08/2005 10:43:00.938 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | URL for eLead web service retrieved as " http://as-cmp-1:8080/bisserver/EleadWebService.asmx " from the registration service | Completion time: 0 seconds 07/08/2005 10:43:00.938 | Modul ...Show All

• Windows Forms scrolling message

  Hi All, I have been tasked with adding a scrolling message at the bottom of an application.  Apparently, management wants to pass information to it's associates with this 'ticker tape'.  I think it's a distracting annoyance and hey, what ever happen ...Show All