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• Visual Studio Team System Can't install in Vista Build 5384 (Beta 2) 64-bit

  I just installed Vista beta 2 on my AMD 64-bit x2 machine. Vista appears to be running find, but I'm not able to install Visual Studio 2005 Developer Edition for some reason. When I run the setup program and select the first option (install VS2005), it copies about 66 files to my hard drive and then ends. There's no error or anything. I think at this point it should be trying to run something that it copied to the hard drive from the VS2005 DVD, but I'm not sure what. Dos anyone have any ideas about this Thanks in advance... Eric While I haven't seen that particular bug, Vista / Office12 compatibili ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Help I cant find any docs regarding SendOrPostCallback delegate!

  Using wsdl.exe i have generated a SoapHttpClient(SOAP) proxy class. I turns fine, i had my .cs file but when i build my Pocket PC 2003 project in VS.Net 2005 Beta 2, it alwasy tell me this error: Error 129 The type or namespace name 'AsyncCompletedEventArgs' does not exist in the namespace 'System.ComponentModel' (are you missing an assembly reference )  Error 130 The type or namespace name 'SendOrPostCallBack' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference )  I have all the references but it still fails me. Am I just too sleepy or I am just missing something her ...Show All

• Windows Forms passing variables to form

  I made my textboxes on form1 public. I was able to access them through my form2, after I made a statement like form1 form2 = new form1();   Problem is, the text boxes are all empty on form2. Is this because I initiated a new form1 and therefore the textboxes are set back to their default as empty How can I access variables stored in form1 from form2 thanks. Awesome.. thanks.. that worked.. I have no idea why I never tried that. So all I gotta do is define my variables globally. I thought I tried that.. guess not cause I tried a few tests and it works great. Jeez this language makes it awkward to p ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista EnumPrinters on WinNT 4

  Hi there, I am having trouble using the EnumPrinters function to list network printers on WinNT. (I think its version 4). I am using PRINTER_INFO_4 and the PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL | PRINTER_ENUM_CONNECTIONS flags. What I want to do is list the printers the user has installed on the machine, be it local or remote. The code works on XP, but not on NT. Any suggestions Thanks in advance. It wasn't posted on the Vista forum, but a moderator moved it here for some odd reason. It's on NT ...Show All

• SQL Server Why getting (null) for all measures in cube?

  I thought I was starting to get the hang of Analysis Services, but have run into something I don't understand. All of a sudden every measure returns (null). I've looked at role and server security. I've reprocessed many times and tried all sorts of subtle changes to the dimensions and the measure groups, but to no avail. Even doing SELECT FROM [Cube Name] gives me (null). Any advice on how to troubleshoot this What parts of the cube's definition and the server's settings should I look into. Any advice would help a great deal... Try working through tutorial for Analysis Services : http://msdn2.microso ...Show All

• Visual Basic Overflow???

  This code is generating an overflow exception and I really don't think it should be: Dim u64HiBit As UInt64 u64HiBit += &H8000000000000000 or u64HiBit =   u64HiBit or  &H8000000000000000 In my understanding this is simply setting the hi-bit in an unsigned integer. It certainly shouldn't cause an overflow unless it's not really a 64-bit entity. There is a worse possibility which is that it truly isn't supported with the CLR. But this behavior is really sort of strange. Everyone needs some luck programming :) Anyway, what's going on is operator precedence - boolean and bitwise operators have lower p ...Show All

• SQL Server Maximum number of users for RS2005

  Dear Anyone, Does anyone know the maximum of users of RS2005 The reason I'm asking is that one of our servers is getting an error everytime we access the report manager. Below is the error message. "The timeout period ellapsed prior to obtaining a connection to a pool. This may have occured because all pool connections where in use" Thanks, -------------------------------------------------------- Joseph R. Ollero MCP, MCSD, MCDBA Senior Technical Specialist dB W i zards Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Busine ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Windows Mobile 5 Outlook 2002 contact storage location

  I am having a problem with syncronizing my contacts with ACT! the pim.vol is taking up too much memory and I cannot move it to storage. I can only get around 4000 contacts to sync. My old Palm would sync all 9600 contacts. Is there a way to keep from running out of memory by moving the pim.vol file I've found the same problem! I've moved from a O2 xdaIIi WM2003 to a T-Mobile MDA-Pro running WM5. My synchronised pim.vol file is 10Mb, and it renders the MDA-Pro useless due to low memory with attendant hangs, crashes and error messages. This problem didn't exist on WM2003, so the "upgrade" to WM5 has ...Show All

• SQL Server Querying a really badly designed table

  I am working on an application with a number of tables (which I can't change) that have data of the form a1, b1, c1... a2, b2, c2...a3, b3, c3... The tables contain 5 to 10 sets of data in each row. I want to create a stored procedure to return a cursor with a row for each set of data for a row of the table. I know I can use unions: select a1 as a, b1 as b , c1 as c... from sometable where pk=@pk union select a2, b2, c2... from sometable where pk=@pk union select a3... Is there a way that is more efficient (eliminates requerying the table and all the unions) I am guessing you are p ...Show All

• SQL Server sql7 @@identity and triggers

  How do I get the identity for a row I just inserted   When using @@identity and there are triggers inserting rows into other tables I get the wrong id. I know sql2000 has scope_identity but I'm stuck with sql7 for legacy reasons. The trick is to use identity() funtion and select/into. Here is a quick demo: create table t1(i int identity) create table t2(j int identity(10,1), i int) go create trigger _t1 on t1 for insert as declare @saveident varchar(8) select @saveident=cast(@@identity as varchar) insert t2 select * from inserted exec ('select i=identity(int,'+@saveident+',1) into #tmp') go insert t ...Show All

• Visual C# Where can I place a bug report?

  I found a bug in VS2005. Where can I place bug reports In particular: static void Test() { sbyte[] sbytes = new sbyte[]{-2,-3}; byte[] bytes = new byte[]{4,5}; Console.WriteLine("(object)sbytes is sbyte[]: {0}", (object)sbytes is sbyte[]); Console.WriteLine("(object)bytes is sbyte[]: {0}", (object)bytes is sbyte[]); Console.WriteLine("(object)sbytes is byte[]: {0}", (object)sbytes is byte[]); Console.WriteLine("(object)bytes is byte[]: {0}", (object)bytes is byte[]); } produces this result: (object)sbytes is sbyte[]: True (object)bytes is sbyte[] ...Show All

• .NET Development Excel workbook to XML

  I have basically a calendar as a sheet in Excel. I want to conver that data to XML so I can use it in a web page, attached to a DataGrid, as the built-in Calendar control seems to be limiting. Is there an application add-in or a utility that will take the columns and convert them to an XML file so that I can then have the DataGrid display it out as a Calendar Or is there something I am overlooking in Excel, when I attempt to export it to XML it says I need a map, but I don't understand what those map's are, I assume they are basically a template. Maybe someone can point me to an "Idiot's tutorial on XML" Thanks for your ti ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I run SQL 9.0

  Hi there, I've installed SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 side by side. Now when I open SQL Server Management Studio it runs the SQL version 8 that belongs to SQL Server 2000. How can I start with SQL Server 2005 (SQL 9.0) to create new database under the new features thank you. Register the 2005 server manually by typing its name in using the format <server_name>\<instance_name>. If there was already an instance on the server at install time then you will have had to specify an instance name. If you can still not see it and you are not on the local box then it may well be that the server ...Show All

• Visual C# Call .bat files

  Hello All, I have set up a way to script iTunes through .bat files and was wondering if it was possible to call a batch file from a GUI C# program. IE Button1 user clicks button1 along with doing the other things button one does it runs my bat file. If anyone would like to point me in the right direction i would be rather appreciative. Thanks Thomas Process.Start will attempt to execute any sort of file, for example if you pass it a .doc file, it will open in Word. It will run a batch file for you. ...Show All

• Visual C# Unable to load class library

  I wrote a managed wrapper in C++/CLI and compiled it under AMD64. Now I wrote a client in C++/CLI too and this works well. Trying to do the same in C# I got everything to compile but when I run it it says: Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E) at MyClass.Main() This is weird though. I compiled the C# file for 'anycpu' but trying to set the platform to x64 did not do any difference. The class library is even located in the same directory.  It was compiled using the RC:         csc /out:test_cs.exe tes ...Show All