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• SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP update now available

  There is a new Management Studio Express CTP download available at   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=82AFBD59-57A4-455E-A2D6-1D4C98D40F6E&displaylang=en . This update fixes the defect where installing the full Books Online documentation prevented Management Studio Express from starting.  With the update, Management Studio Express and Books Online no longer interfere with each other. To update Management Studio Express CTP: 1) Uninstall Management Studio Express CTP from your machine. 2) Clear your browser's download cache.  If you are using Internet Explorer 6, you can do this by starting Internet ...Show All

• .NET Development FQDN

  Hello, how may I obtain the fully qualified domain name of the computer on which the ASP.NET application is running, in string format I need to email a link to the webserver to people using my application. Thanks for any help Simple: Use this code to get the full path (including port number) to the current server string serverPath = Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority);   Hope this helps! ...Show All

• Visual C++ Resolution to Heap Fragmentation If HeapAlloc() Return STATUS_NO_MEMORY?

  My application utilizes a lot of memory and it runs in a PC of 2G RAM. However, running after few hours, the program encountered STATUS_NO_MEMORY when calling to HeapAlloc()! To handle the exception, the program's handler would call HeapValidate() to ensure that the heap is consistent and then did a successful call to HeapCompact(). Right after that, a repeat call to HeapAlloc() of that same size (3K) would fail again but a request of few bytes would succeed. (By the time, the tark manager showed that the application only consumed 200s M RAM and 200s M VM.) MSDN indicates that private heap could suffer from heap fragmentation. I would l ...Show All

• SQL Server WHERE includes all letters

  Hi I would like to perform a procedure which takes a string of numbers and searches for strings in a table which include all the given numbers in any particular order. problem is i can only return strings which include 'any' of the letters in the search string and not 'all'. this is how i perform it so far: @IncludeNumbers VARCHAR(50) AS BEGIN SELECT Phone AS [Telephone Number] FROM tbl_Person AS p WHERE (p.Phone LIKE '%[' + @IncludeNumbers + ']%') END (ive removed some unecessary bits but this shows the basics) As you can see currently it will return any phone numbers which contain any numbers given in the includeNumbers st ...Show All

• Visual Basic invalid parameter

  Can anyone tell me why this throws a system.argumentexception:Invalid parameter Imports System.Drawing Public Class form1   Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form # Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New () MyBase .New() 'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. InitializeComponent() 'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call End Sub 'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list. Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose( ByVal disposing As Boolean ) If disposing Then If Not (components Is Nothing ) Then components ...Show All

• Visual Basic User session logon time!

  I am inquiring about information on whether it is possible to determine how long a user has been logged on for. What I hope to accomplish is to determine if a user has been logged on for more than an 24 hours and if so, display a splash screen of some type to tell them to log off. I don't want to log them off, politics involved. Every where I look I haven't been able to come up with a solution. I did find a sample script to check event logs, but how do you calculate the time the event was written and the actual time to determine if it is more than 24 hrs. Can anyone offer any help. You might be able ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Publishing Error

  When I publish a Word VSTO project I get the following errors (details below): Following failure messages were detected:   + Exception reading manifest from file:///C:/Hold/Copy%20of%20SQLWord/SQLWord/bin/Debug/SQLWord.publish/SQLWord.application : the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.   + Deployment manifest is not semantically valid.   + Application reference identity must be strongly named. I have tried publishing to a website and my local hard drive.  Any ideas   PLATFORM VERSION INFO  Windows    : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT)  Co ...Show All

• Visual C# OLE Problem

  Hello,        I am working with COM interoperability. i.e, i am trying to access objects exported from unmaged code, from C# . But i am getting a Run-time error as "Specified OLE variant is Invalid" i go through many web-sites and forums. i failed to get my luck. Finally, i decided to post in microsoft forums, as this is belongs to microsoft product. Please help to solve this problem. Thanks in advance. Regards, Shaji Kumar.V.K Hi Everyone, I was trying to get a SafeArray from C#, which is exported by unmanaged C++ COM object. But I 've got MDA message “ An invalid VARIANT was d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Smart Tags in Outlook 2003

  Is there any way to (programmatically) extend the list of Smart Tags in Outlook 2003 I have an application where a kind of link to specific information will either be sent in mail messages to Outlook clients or directly stored in Calendar or ToDo entries in the users Outlook client. Think about http:// or ftp:// links. They will appear in blue and you can open them with a double click. My links are much similar but use another application. They look as follows: myapp://server/path/id e.g. myapp://castor/parts/0023456FAB345216 If I copy this link into a browsers window the application (myapp) starts and opens the docu ...Show All

• Windows Forms NullReferenceException in Unknown Module when binding 2 checkboxes.

  Hi, I am getting a nullreferenceexception in Unknown Module, additional information: Object reference not set to a instance of an object when databinding 2 checkboxes in my form. This form is a secondary form called modally from the startup form. When I step through the code slowly, I don't get this error, I also don't get this error when I call show instead of ShowDialog. When I comment out one of the binding statements, I also no longer get this error. What am I missing It seems like there is a validation event occuring somewhere but I can't find the actual code that is running Any help would be appreciated. Kevin ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using Visual Studio VB with Access 2003 -> General Questions

  So how is this done I have an access DB made up with the forms and stuff already in the .mdb file but trying to program vb in Access has it's draw backs and I'd like to be able to make the forms, etc, in visual studio vb and then have them connected to the Access Database. I have several tables that are connected to different forms, so it's not going to be just one table needs to be linked to the whole project. Can any one point me in the direction of some good reading material Most of the programming books I have are seperated by either VS VB or Access development and don't have anything about Access development with VS VB. ...Show All

• .NET Development File Not Exist Though it is exist!!!

  In a web method im checking for a file is exist or not , using the path for sFolder = "C:\image\1.jpg if (Directory.Exists(sFolder)) {    //Do something } the sFolder is really exist for the specifed but the Directo.Exist return false why This is not relevant to WebServices but to the Directory class implementation: it only returns true for directories (not files), you have to use File.Exists() method if you checking for existence of a file.   Thanks, Elena ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums excel vba

  Hello, I plan to extract the document's pages. but it's not working properly: Dim wsList As Word.Application wsList.Cells(rowList, 8).Formula = wb.BuiltinDocumentProperties(wdPropertyPages).Value when when i run the code, all word documents return "2" instead of the real pages number; and some excel file don't even return the number. What's wrong with the code Try this: First set a reference to the Word Object Library. Sub ReadWordDoc() Dim appWord As Word.Application Dim objDoc As Word.Document Dim objWS As Worksheet Set objWS = ActiveWorkbook.Active ...Show All

• Smart Device Development IMailRuleClient : SMS arrive notification

  Hi alls, I try to use IMailRuleClient  in my application for intercept SMS notification, but it doesn't work, I can't get any notification.  OS : Mobile 2003 4.21.1088 / VS2005   Is it a right key \\Software\\Microsoft\\Inbox\\Svc\\SMS\\Rules     Any idea Thanks Hello Paul, Could you please tell me how to use SmsSetMessageNotification(...). I want to invoke my class (say sample.parse to parse the sms) to process SMS and see what is the content type of the SMS (simple text or binary). Thanks in advance, Ramana ...Show All

• Visual C++ pin_ptr and jagged arrays.

  I can't seem to find any specific information on pinning jagged arrays. For example: void SomeMethod(array<array<Byte>^ >^ data) { // ... pin_ptr<Byte> pinnedPointer = &data[0][0]; //... } Does this have the effect of pinning the entire data object or only the array data[0] The docs for pin_ptr only specify that it pins the entire array; but array<array<Byte>^ >^ is an array of arrays. I read in MSDN, it isn't really clear but this is what I understand it does. The sub-object is the item in the array in the array, so the object that gets pinned is the array in the array. The array containi ...Show All