Bret Pehrson's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 incorrectly claims I don't meet minimum service pack level requirements?

  This doesn't make any sense. I am trying to install SQL Server 2005 on SBS 2003 with Service Pack 1. According to Windows Update, there is nothing left for me to install. However, I am getting this error (while installing SQL Server Express and the Developer Edition): "Your operating system does not meet Service Pack level requirements for this SQL Server release. Install the Service Pack from the Microsoft Download Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=50380 , and then run SQL Server setup again." When I go to the link, there is nothing there to download (it takes me to the main Microsoft download page). I meet al ...Show All

• Visual Basic Fastest way to create a Region from a bitmap and transparent color

  I have two related questions. But first some background: I am working on controls that set their shape and region from a passed image. I found an example (somewhere on MSDN) that read each pixel in the image, compared it to the transparent color, and added a 1-pixel rectangle to a GraphicsPath for each pixel that is not transparent, and then generated a Region from the GraphicsPath. It worked, but was reeeaaalllly slllooooow for larger images. I don't mind when it loads slowly in design mode, but it is equally slow at runtime and that is just no good. I tweaked it to find stripes of contiguous non-transparent pixels and store them i ...Show All

• .NET Development Simple remoting program throws system.security.securityexception

  I am fairly new to .NET and am having trouble getting my head round all the security aspects. I have written a very simple remoting application in C#. The server exposes a method which returns a string. The client calls the method and displays the string. I have a two PCs on my LAN: my main desktop running XP SP2 and a laptop running W98 with .NET1.1 added. I can run my app on these two PCs either way round and it works fine. The server consists of a host .EXE and a server.DLL. The client is a standard windows .EXE form app - all standard stuff (the remoting is configured programatically not using XML so there is no config fil ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Biologon in Vista?

  Hello, we develop the fingerprint security software. I would need to log the user on without his interaction with logon UI - the user simply places his finger on the sensor, our software retrieves his username and password and... and would call InitiateInteractiveLogon() from biologon.dll in Windows XP. But in Vista this doesn't seem to work. Does anybody know the solution Thank you in advance. You will not be able to faciliate this.  The SAS ( Secure Attention Sequence ) Alt+Ctrl+Delete cannot be bypassed.  I filled a bug on this in regards to SmartCards, they have in Window ...Show All

• Windows Forms all i want to do is draw a circle on the form

  All I want to do is draw a circle on the form!! ! ! i used to do it in qbasic like so: circle(x,y), radius... or something like that... can anybody point me in the right direction!!!! Thank You Ryan You might also want to look at PlatteCanyon's drawing control. http://www.vbtrain.net/productDisplay.aspx id=1 Graham ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO.NET/Access DB Insertion Exception

  I’m working with an Access Database and ADO.NET. I have a record insertion routine that works on some tables and not others. The exception is “syntax error in Insert Into Statement” and it’s from an improperly constructed string. Public Function InsertRecord( ByVal NewRow As DataRow, ByVal Table As DataTable, Optional ByVal Update As Boolean = True ) As Boolean 'works NewRow(DataRecords.ciRecordNum) = Table.Rows.Count ' Autoincrement Table.Rows.InsertAt(NewRow, Table.Rows.Count) If Update Then Using CmdBuilder As New OleDbCommandBuilder(Adapter) Try ...Show All

• Visual Studio error installing visual studio 2005

  hi.during installing of visual studion .net 2005 below error ocuured. "Suite Integration Toolkit Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." i checked all requirements such as sp2 or etc but yet i have problem. moreover i downloaded a software from msdn which checks all possible inconviencies but it didnt find anything so help me please ...............................!!!! try some of the steps in this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=344986&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Debugging error - Operation Could not be completed

  Hello, I am running on the VB8 and expirienced an error during debugging after some changes in "My project" area. I have noticed (on two different machine) that after change for example Startup Form or Security Area, I am not able to debug program any longer. An error appears, telling me that: The Operation Could not be completed. After clicking OK (nothing else is available) and next try of debugging, another error message appear: Visual Studio could not copy a support file to this location: "path". Please verify the path exists and is writeable. After that, I have to close Visual Basic and restart it. Tha ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Indigo Features Specific to Vista?

  Hi Team, As mentioned in many SDRs, there were going to be some features of Indigo that were specific to Longhorn/Vista In particular, I remember the WAS subsystem. Can anyone eloborate on this and/or point me to any materials In addition, I have installed the CTP on top of Vista 5219 successfully but Vista 5219 does not seem to have IIS anywhere!! In Vista Beta 1, as it should be, I had to enable the World Wide Web Publishing Service but that service isn't even there in 5219! It's pretty hard to do a lot of my Indigo work without it. Am I missing something All the best, Hey Sam, As you probably know, the vast majority of WCF featu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Priting Project

  I am trying to figure out how to print the code in the entire project, and so far have been unable to find a procedure to do it. Is is possible Thanks for the help Pat Not sure if it's available in the Express Editions, but, all in all the other editions, all you have to do is: File: Print........(and be in the code Editor at the same time) james aka:Trucker ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Windows Directory

  How can I find the full path of the Windows Directory in VFP No matter what version of Windows I am using and what drive it is installed. For example: Windows 2000/XP/2003 could be C:\WINNT or D:\WINNT_OS or other Windows 9x/NT could be C:\WINDOWS or F:\WINNT or other   You can use this function : GETENV ("windir") or GETENV ("SystemRoot") ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Recomendation for common external assemblies?

  I use shared open source libraries in a multiproject solution (eg. lib1.dll, lib2.dll referenced in projects 1 (maybe a DLL), 2 (another dll) and 5 (an exe) of solution x). 1) The first problem I have using TFS version control is how to handle these assemblies so everyone else can get a copy of the source code and start to work without worrying about missing/not found assemblies, changing the assembly reference path and so. Ideally visual studio could have a common/shared bin folder in the solution that holded these assemblies (the physical file not just a link) and all projects could reference the assemblies in that location, so when som ...Show All

• .NET Development how to extract valid urls from a web response text

  how to extract valid urls from web response text and put them in a string array. should i use regular expressions for this. what would be regular expression formaula to find links starting with httP:\\ to find http links in a web response. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/apmilhtml . You can try this ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Service Data error checked?

  Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me with his. Is the data that is passed between a client and an ASP.NET Web Service checked for transmission errors at any point Thanks a load! Josh Hi, Yes. When getting a soap request, the web service must parse it first. If the parse fails it will throw an exception. ...Show All

• SQL Server "Send Mail Task" Error.

  I setup a "Send Mail Task" task and an SMTP connection objection. I ran the package and got this error: >>> SSIS package "Package.dtsx" starting. Error: 0xC002F304 at Send Mail Task, Send Mail Task: An error occurred with the following error message: "Failure sending mail.". Task failed: Send Mail Task Warning: 0x80019002 at Package: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (1) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors. SSIS ...Show All