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• Visual Basic Protected types can only be decalred inside of a class

  I am using VS2005Pro Beta2 to modify a program originally written in VB2005 Express Beta2. In the Express version it compiles just fine, but when I try to compile it in VS2005 then I constantly get an error saying "Protected types can only be decalred inside of a class". The error is found in the Application.Designer.vb file which is auto-generated. So my question is: Is this a general problem with VS2005 or is it me I'm also having troubles co ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem with "The Goods"

  All, I tried to install Windows Vista with Virtual PC last evenning, following Ben's (Virtual PC Guy) instructions.  I however got stuck early on, it asked for my 25 digit activation code to do the install but refused to accept the one I was given in the book accompanying the disks.  Any thoughts E. Did you burn the ISO to a DVD More information on that is available the PDC"TheGoods" wiki . ...Show All

• .NET Development ssl hell

  I've made a self signed certificate and private key to use for ssl If I go by browser : no problem. When I want to do add webreference I get following exception: (it opens the page in the left window and in the right window the exception: The document at the url https://deftje/services/service.asmx was not recognized as a known document type. The error message from each known type may help you fix the problem: - Report from ...Show All

• Visual Basic Converting String to double?

  OK i have a plain text file in a rich text box. This plain text file contains for the most part just text, but it has several chunks of data which are apparently stored as doubles For Example this string here: 33333oH@33333oH@26/01/06 I happen to know that the date field is a date of payment, and apparently, the data before this is the amount paid. The original program i am trying to read was written in quickbasic 7. I don't k ...Show All

• Visual Studio setup.exe "not a valid win32 application" - SOLUTION

  I'm trying to install visual studio on desktop with an AMD64 processor (but using 32-bit XP Pro), and when I try to install Visual Studio 2005, I get a "not a valid win32 application" in a dialog box. I get the error "D:\ is not a valid win32 application" when I try to use autoplay, and "D:\setup.exe is not a valid win32 application" when I try to run setup directly from the disc. Any ideas ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem while connecting to a remote computer using TcpClient.Connect()

  Hi there, When I try to connect to a remote computer using TcpClient.Connect(), I receive a SocketException with the following error: a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. It works fine when I use it in a LAN or try to connect to the same computer. But when I try to connect to another computer on the I ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Service and SQL Server and Authentication

  If the web service is talking to a SQL Server database and the authentication used is SSPI ( Security Support Provider Interface )/ windows authentication, does the ASP.Net user or machine id user need to be added to the list of allowed ids to the database server Or am I misunderstanding the security constraints If I run my code through an Nunit test conduit, I can retrieve data, but If I run it through my webservice it fails authentication. ad ...Show All

• SQL Server DataSet and Insert method

  hi, i created a query to insert a row in DataSet in Visual Studio 2005. i gave the method name to the query i created. as i understood it returns '1' if successful or '0' if not. is it possible to get the ID or the row instead Hi, are you using a SQL 2k5 There is a new ouput clause in the syntax, where you can get values back. Look in the BOL for more information about that, or raise a hand if you need further assistance. HTH, Jens ...Show All

• Visual C# Using TcpClient w/ Modem

  Hi everybody,   I am still learning how sockets, TcpClient and TcpListener work, in order that both sides to send and receive data, both sides must have a socket or TcpListener and a TcpListener right Is there a possible way to say just have a client side TcpClient application to send a message to remote server like sending a text file    Do TcpClient requires a Internet connection to connect say to remote server So, to con ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combo Box - Adding User Enter Text

  I have a combox box already populated with entries from an Excel worksheet, which I accomplished by setting the ROW SOURCE PROPERTY  of the combo box to a range of (IS1:IS255). The million dollar questions are: 1.  How do I get text that a user ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom activity inheritance

  Hello, all my custom activties inherits from a BaseActivity. My custom BaseActivity inherits from Activity. BaseActivity contains several properties and I need to have them bindable. I tryied to add the DependencyProperty into BaseActivity but when I add one of the child activities into to workflow VS freeze. What is the best way to inherit dependency properties Thanks, Pierre The prblem is solved. I have to register the properti ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reporting Services Error in Project Portal in TFS RC

  After creating a new project in TFS RC and doing a Show Project Portal..., I get the error in the IE web page: Reporting Services Error This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter 'IterationParam'. To run or subscribe to this report, you must provide a parameter value. (rsReportParameterValueNotSet) Get Online Help This is in the Remaining Work section of the report.  I can successfully ...Show All

• Visual Studio GetMarkerCommandInfo in HTML Editor

  I have a text marker that is implementing a marker context menu by implementing GetMarkerCommandInfo. This works great in ever text editor except the HTML editor, where it never gets called. Is this simply not supported, or are there additional marker registrations needed to have the HTML editor participate I'm trying a similar thing. Adding comma ...Show All

• Visual C++ Strange error with _fileno

  We're in the process of converting from visual studio 98 to 2005 (yes, we were a bit behind the times). Most of the changes are now dealt with, but there's one weird one that we can't figure out - it looks like a bug in the compiler. Here's the error we get: v:\frame\utils\.\preftext.c(104) : warning C4996: '_fileno' was declared deprecated C:\MSDev05\VC\include\stdio.h(219) : see declaration of '_fileno' Message: 'The POSIX name for th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Exception from HRESULT when using SPeechLib

  Hello all. I have been using the beta releases of VB .NET 2005 (I must say that theyre very good), and I recently switched over to the final build, complete with the .NET framework 2.0. Now, I was using the MS SpeechLib to speak using the Text-To-Speech engine thru the speakers. This was working fine throughout the beta builds, but when I switched over to the final, it has problems. See, randomly, whenever I call the speech library, my app cras ...Show All