Michael Boniwell's Q&A profile

• Architecture One Server AD, Exchange & MS-SQL

  Hi All, Is it possible to run AD, File Sharing, Exchange and MS-SQL all on one Xeon server with 2GB RAM Beside the obvious that all the eggs are in one basket. This is for a small environment with only 30 users. My concern is that there are some conflict running all those application on one server. TIA I am not an infrastructure expert - but I would expect them all to install I would say tho ...Show All

• .NET Development common language run time error

  i developed an application using vb .net with database connection and i tried to run it unde windows 98 with .net framework 1.1 but i get a common language run time de... error can any one help please you have to describe the error and when it occurs as detailed as you can in order for someone to help you. For instance, it occurs on connection.open! ...Show All

• Visual Basic combobox text error

  Hi all, I am absolutely stumped. I have a MS .NET 1.1 program that is running fine on numerous machines at different sites. However, a couple of machines get a Critical Error on the VB code line below: MyCombobox.Text = "Value" The combobox list has already been created and the text is being assigned for the first time. I know for sure that "Value" is in the combobox list. The machines are XP SP2, have the lat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Does .NET Express Edition Support Sqlserver 2000?

  Hi, Does .NET Express edition support sql server 2000 I am new to .net 2005, I want to learn Visual Basic Express Edition 2005.... Where I can start with....... Does anyone have simple a to z example or article or website to start with ami There is some good introductory material on VB Express at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/beginner/ .  VB Express also comes with SQL Server Express 2005 which you can use to create database ...Show All

• Windows Forms Best way to setup a UDL file?

  I have converted a VB.NET app from 2002 to 2003. Once converted, I am recieving build errors on my connection command. Me.OleDbConnection1.ConnectionString = "file name=rass.udl" Err: Unable to load the UDL file. I have the UDL file created in the same f ...Show All

• Windows Forms dynamically creating a ContextMenuStrip

  ok, I am wanting to dynamically create a context menu strip using an existing menustripitem from the form, I used to do this by creating a context menu and merging the differant main menu item i need to the context menu then when the user click the context menu it just fired the main menu item code. The problem I am having is that if I use context .Items.Add( this .child2ToolStripMenuItem); then the main menu strip item is removed from the main ...Show All

• Visual C# Is it possible to add separators to a StatusStrip using Visual Studio's Designer?

  Hi all, is there a way to add separators to a StatusStrip using Visual Studio's Designer The designer only offers StatusLabel, ProgressBar, DropDownButton and SplitButton to add to the StatusStrip.   However, if I add a ToolStripSeparator manually in the *.designer.cs file, it works fine...     Best Regards Bernd Ritter It should work just fine. StatusStrip derives f ...Show All

• Visual Basic Intellisense Problem

  I have a problem with the autocomplete feature of Visual Studio 2005. When I use VS2005 for an extended period of time the code editor starts to behave very strange. When I'm writing code it starts to autocomplete my code when it should not. Example, if I want to write: Dim sName as String it can ends in: d(ims) nameas String Dim s(name) as string Dim sn(ameas) string etc. As it was loosing focus and it autocompletes while I'm writing (I write v ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem running package with 'larger' amount of data

  Dear, I created a package getting data from files and database sources, doing some transformations, retrieving dimension id's and then inserting it into a fact table. Running this package with a limited amount of data (about a couple of 100.000 records) does not result in any errors and everything goes fine. Now running the same package (still in debug mode) with more data (about 2.000.000 rows) doesn't result in any errors as well, but ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Iterations and versions

  Hi, i am confused about how to plan the iterations and the version. My first question is: Each iteration ends on a new version or i can have more than one iteration for each version . Second question: I can't find a document when i define functionality that i will do in the iteration. A document where i define the use case i will consider in this iteration In the plan iteration excel i have the start date, the end date, etc but i don't see ...Show All

• Visual Basic XML Help Needed

  I am working on a project that requires data being read from an XML document and put into a database. I am having a problem figuring out a specific area of my code. I am able to retrieve the data that is in the base part of the document, however, there is a section with repeated data that I am unable to get the data from. I would appreciate any help in resolving this. I have tried a number of different methods with no success. Here is my code ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Passing an unknown type of a menu in a method.

  Hi All, Can somebody help me with the following issue. I want to pass a menu item to a method of a class. What happens if I do not know the type of the menu in advance (could be Visual Basic's menu or a menu item of a third party manufacturer ( Xceed or Sandbar etc). I think the only way is to pass it as an object and handle it in the target function. But as I do not know the type of the menu, it is not possible to manipulate ...Show All

• Visual Basic ComboBox Click Event (Vb.NET2005)

  I want to handle the Text_Changed event ( Changed by user click, not by code ) in a ComboBox. I use Combobox_click in vb6. It works fine. But in .NET, the ComboBox_Click event doesn't make sense (It fires the event just when the control is clicked before any change is made). I tried ComboBox_ SelectedValueChanged and ComboBox_SelectedIndexChanged. Both of them fire the event when the text is changed by code. I alse ...Show All

• Windows Forms capicom error when trying to publish winapp onto local IIS

  i have win xp sp2, vs2005 RTM, and i have a simple win form app. it compiles ok, but when trying to publish it into my local IIS i get those errors: 1. Cannot publish because a project failed to build.  1 1 WindowsApplication1 2. SignTool reported an error 'Failed to sign bin\Debug\WindowsApplication1.publish\\setup.exe. SignTool Error: Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1 or higher. Please  copy the ...Show All

• Visual C++ vs2005 and the C runtime library

  Hello, I've got VS2005 and I'm producing a standard C application, not using .NET/clr or MFC, ATL, etc. I wish to simply produce an executable without any manifest or reliance on any files other than the executable itself and the C runtime. Do I need to set 'Allow Isolation' to No (/ALLOWISOLATION:NO) in the Linker/manifest configuration section and in the Manifest Tool/Input and Output set 'Embed Manifest' to No (this changes the flags to /o ...Show All