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• SQL Server Need to setup correctly

  Need to setup correctly This will be a setup for my own desktop and laptop. I once setup sqlserver 2000 correctly.  But my setup of beta2 was not.  No icon showed in the icon tray. I couldn't install the sample databases.  I couldn't upgrade my Access databases. How do I made sure I have administrative rights.  I chose windows verification.  I'm the only user, under my name dennist685, with  no password.  Th ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linker problem in C++ Express 2005 Final Rel.

  Hi i recently got a hold of msvc++ express 2005 final version from work and i seem to have a problem here. When i try to compile a project i made in the beta2 version it seems to get stuck in the linking stage. I am compiling a win32 app btw. here is the output: ---------------------------- Linking... Generating code Finished generating code ---------------------------- and here the linker goes upp to 90% of the cpu usage and gets stuc ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading characters from a line

  I was wondering (DESPERATELY) how to read only certain characters from a line of text and how to define where the code will start reading and how far into the line the code will read.  and lastly - is it possible to store these specified characters in a variable   I've been messing around with "Mid()" but its not doing exactly what I need it to.  THANX Mid is going to strip your string, but y ...Show All

• Visual C# Can Generics solve problem of cross referencing?

  I have a solution which I encountered problem of cross referencing when I try to open forms(each other) located in two .DLL projects. Can I solve these kind of problem using .NET 2.0's generics If yes, how Thank a lot. No, generics can be used to create re-usable type safe code. I think you can't fox you referencing problem with it. To read more about generics, see this article. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged

  Hi all, please help me with this to format my textfield with databinding.. i use.. for example... Me .txtBirth.DataBindings.Add( "Text" , uBindSource, " Birth " , True , DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged, " Birth " , " yyy/mm/dd" ) 'it's work!!! okay!! but to format fo Phone number and ZIP Code Me .txtPhone.DataBindings.Add( "Text" , uBindSource, "Phone" , ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataGridView Delete Row Confirmation

  Trying to handle the deleterow confirmation, and i might be going about it the wrong way but here is what i have so far... problem is. it doesn't handle the delete key. i have tried keys.back, keys.delete and they both only respond on the backspace key, not the delete key. do i need to handle this even witht hte datagriduserdeleting row event instead Public DeletePressed As Boolean = False IF Private Sub CompaniesDataGridV ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel ScreenUpdating in VSTO

  Hi group, I am having difficulty in getting the ScreenUpdating property to work correctly. I have opened an existing Excel spreadsheet in VSTO and in the process of adding some additional functionality. The code essence: For i = 1 to 10 'There are 10 sets of ranges Range("MyRange" & i).Rows.Hidden = True Next i This produces screen flicker. I wrote this same code within VBA and it works well. Excel VBA syntax: ...Show All

• .NET Development The wrong name space was used for XSL headaches...

  I'm trying to transform the following XML: < xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8" > < works > < work > < index > 1 </ index > < title > Coeur d'Alene at Cataldo </ title > < description ></ description > < size ></ size > < price > $990 </ price > </ work > </ works > Using the foll ...Show All

• SQL Server FlatFile Parsing Problem - Urgently Need Assistance!

  We have a BIG problem that has been occurring for quite sometime. We have a RAGGED-RIGHT FFS (FlatFileSource) component which receives a FF and then transforms to XML. We define 10 FIELDS with the last field as {CRLF} per ragged right style. Simple right The source file is sent to us from multiple separate groups, some of which don’t use the last two fields and have early line termination, so they basically are not there. The problem is that wh ...Show All

• .NET Development Failed to access IIS metabase, VS2005 RC

  I am developing a webservice in Visual Studio RC. I have just got a new pc and my problem is that I am not able to access this webservice. I have created a virtual directory in IIS, but if I try to browse there, I get a "Failed to acces IIS metabase" error message. Does anybody know how I can resolve this problem Where exactly is the "Operators" set up in IIS   I see no dialog to do so in IIS. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Manual Test Authoring through Microsoft Office Infopath 2003

  If I wanted to use a Microsoft Office Infopath form instead of a Word or Excel document to author my manual test cases, what would be the best way to implement that I'm assuming that I would probably have to create a custom test type of some kind. Should I try to launch Infopath as an editor or something when the test is edited, or would it be easier to use the object model since there is already support for creating tests in Word and Excel f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System mstest with custom test type and metadata(vsmdi) file?

  I'm trying to use mstest.exe to run a test from the commandline. The test was created as a custom test type that I have created via the extensibility SDK. I've done a lot of investigation and here's the results: 1) inside VS I can run the custom test fine. 2) I can run the custom test fine using the /testcontainer: option of mstest.exe. 3) I can run a generic test using the same vsmdi file with mstest.exe. 4) trying to run the custom ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot import file from Mainframe

  Hello Everybody! Im trying to migrate my SQL 2000 packages that’s currently working in the company production enviroment to SSIS packages. So, in the 2000 version i got the flat file from Mainframe and i had to do a trick to transform all the columns to match the same size as the example above: 1432 1138734217 1144256628<CRLF> 1432 1138734217<CRLF> 1433 1136657788 1122441177<CRLF> 1433 1125554545 1122441177<CRLF> 1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Suppress email subscription for blank reports?

  Anyone know how to suppress a report server email delivery subscription if the report is blank / contains no records   Can't seem to find this option anywhere and currently my subscribers are getting blank reports in their emails....  Obviously I'd like to suppress the email message from ever being sent if the report contains no data.  Thanks in advanace!! Hi, rather than selec ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activity naming conventions and ActivityToolboxItem

  What's the convention for naming activities in WWF supposed to be In earlier betas, there was not a clear convention, but I did noticed that all WWF built-in activities are named XxxActivity (i.e. CodeActivity), which sounds like a good naming convention to me. I only have one minor issue with this: How activities are then represented in the Workflow Designer toolbox: For the WWF built-in activities, the "Activity" suffix is removed. ...Show All