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• SQL Server Error with install of sept CTP Enterprise edition

  Does SQL Server 2005 Sept CTP not support installation on XP   When I am installing, it gives me a warning that some things may not work with this OS, then when I get to the next screen I can't install anything. I figured that was the problem.  However, the download site does list XP/SP2 as a compatible OS for the enterprise edition.  The bullet below was copied directly from the download pag ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Life cycle of a workflow

  Is there a diagram describing the life cycle of a workflow I see that we can monitor bunch of events from the workflow (such as WorkflowLoaded, WorkflowPersisted etc.) but it is not clear what exactly do these events mean. For example, I thought that WorkflowLoaded would mean workflow has been hydrated from persistent store, but I don't see that event being fired (though I see WorkflowPersisted events during dehydration). ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using GetAsyncKeyState

  How would I get the function keys using this As of now i have the following code: Function GetPressedKey() As String Dim cnt As Byte For cnt = 1 To 128 'Get the keystate of a specified key If GetAsyncKeyState(cnt) <> 0 Then GetPressedKey = Chr(cnt) Exit For End If Next cnt End Function And the following call: Label8.Text = DeclareAPI.GetPressedKey() where DeclareAPI is a module. While u ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project level lists

  Hi, How can we define project level lists for work item field values I don't want to use local work item lists (for reuse). Allowed values for field in question should differ from project to project. May be we can use some sort of when condition in conjunction with global lists Thanks in advance. Leon Yes, it does. Glad I could help. Thanks, Amit Dev-Workitemtracking ...Show All

• .NET Development C Style char array returned by an event from a DLL COM

  I am using a DLL (COM interop) in Visual Basic 2005 and can not get the correct values returned from an event. The last argument is a variable length array of char that is returned as a pointer to the first element in the array. The only thing I get is the first byte no matter how many characters are to be returned. For exampe, if the returned value is 257 in two bytes, my value I get is 1. This is the event handler: Private Sub ads_device ...Show All

• Visual C++ convert project built with vss2003 to vss2005

  I have a Managed C++ project built with VS2003.net which is built successfully and running well, but when I try to open it with VS2005.NET(beta2), it just give many compilation errors. Could you please suggest what should pay attention to when migrate project from vs2003 to vs2005 Thanks for any advices! Regards, Kevin Hi, Please post a list of specific errors that you see returned from the compiler. You can al ...Show All

• Windows Forms AutoRun from CD

  Hi I have developed a VB.NET application which needs .net framework  installed on the machine to run. I created autorun file on the CD to enable the customers to run the application from the CD directly . I provide the dotnetfix with the& ...Show All

• .NET Development Will AnyCPU cause binaries to run as 64-bit on x64 machine

  I used VS2005 professional to compile 18 .Net assemblies using the AnyCPU platform setting in configuration manager. I also have a startup executable that calls into one of the GAC libraries to start/run the program.  I compiled both the program and all assemblies on at 32 bit Windows 2000 OS using the "AnyCPU" platform setting On the 64-bit computer running XP-Professional(64)... All assemblies were successfully loaded a ...Show All

• .NET Development Starting processes from a Windows Service fails after a certain number of processes

  Hi! I have a Windows Service which is responsible for starting multiple instances of an application. The first 30 processes are started without problems, but nearly all following processes crash. The Service then tries to restart them up to five times which also fails miserably. When running as a Console Application instead of a Service, everythings works fine. The Service is running as Local System and the problem occurs on both Windows XP Pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Rendering dynamically into a ASP:Content control?

  Hi, folks, I'm in the process of replacing an ASP.NET 1.1 Composite control to the Master page/Content page model in ASP.NET 2.0. This composite control rendered a table with contents directly into the page in ASP.NET 1.1. I've created my Master page and content page, and am trying to render into the content control, which references the ContentPlaceholder on the Master page. The Master Page ContentPlaceholder is in an ASP.NET 2.0 Form on ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions sorting a list of file using their last modified date-time

  Hi guys! I have a simple (not for me) problem. I use this line: Dim fileEntries As String() = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles("c:\dirname") to list all files in c:\ dirname directory. Then I have an array (of strings) sorted by ascending filenames. Now I need that array sorted by each file's last modified date-time. Is there a simple way to do this Is there a way to have an array of all files (listed by last modified date-time ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode

  I keep getting the error message below when attempting to import a text file (flat file) to an SQL Server Destination using SSIS. This database has recently been migrated from SQL Server 2000 (where I used a DTS Package that worked fine). I plan on doing further manipulation to the file after importing but have so far tried to keep one step at a time. I have tried using a smaller files and different tables but still get a similar response. I bel ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to print a simple JPEG ?

  I am just want to print a very simple jpeg from my hard drive using the report control How can I do The jpeg path may change up to different record You can create a report with an image control that gets the image bytes from a data source. At runtime, you can construct a single column, single row data set that contains your report bytes and pass it to the viewer. But I'd like to understand your scenario a little better. If the only thi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Search function

  Hi! I need help to make a search function to my program. I want to search after Spyware (my program is an antispyware program) So then i need help with the search thing. I thought that maybe I must make a file or database with all the spyware names in. Then my program reads the names fro the file\database and search after it. Just think about a anti virus program that search after viruses. Could somebody help me with this you have to do s ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS to VS2005 - it did work, now it doesn't

  Starting last week my VS2005 SSRS project stopped being able to interact with VSS. The first issue I noticed was VS2005 crashing when i made any change to a dataset. I'm being literal here... Open a report, click on Data tab, click to position cursor, hit space bar, get error and VS2005 restarts. Sorry, I don't have the exact error, it was related to VSS though. This behaviour doesn't happen currently since I've now monkeyed with it enough that ...Show All