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• Visual Studio Team System can VS2005 Team Suite and VS2002/2003.NET co-exist?

  We are in the process of evaluating VSTS Beta2. May I ask all developers to install VS2005 without uninstalling VS2002/2003.NET without conflicts Disclaimer: This is my personal perspective, hopefully others will speak up as well. You should be able to *install* both. I actually ran into some weirdness when I installed 2003 *after* 2005, but as far as being able to use both, you should be fine. Remember that both want to 'own' filetypes like .cs and .csproj though, so if you have 2003 and 2005, the double-click behavior for the various filetypes will change, for example. The other more general thing to cons ...Show All

• SQL Server Import Export Wizard - ODBC to SQL

  Hi all, we have recently purchased a server with sql 2005. One of the things we are looking to do is pull our entire informix database over onto the sql box. I have tried using the import/export wizard however when it comes to the copying I the option to copy all tables is greyed out. I have been able to do this sql to sql but not when i select the source as odbc and destination as sql. I need to try and resolve this quite quickly and any advice/help would be appreciated. Please bear in mind that im relatively new to this stuff. I have had a look at other posts, and am getting the impression that this cannot be done simply. My initial ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why is LINQ seperate from WinFX?

  Why is LINQ seperate from WinFX, whereas WinFX includes WPF, Windows Workflow and WCF They're all next generation .NET APIs coming out about the same time, so why doesnt LINQ fall under the umbrella and with Orcas there propably will be next WinFX incarnation (WinFS included ;p) ...Show All

• .NET Development NullReferenceException: object Reference not set to an instance of an object

  Hi, I am using Vb.Net and XMl.My application works like this:I have to connect to a remote server(not on my network)thru a username and password given and check for login credentials. Once, the credentials are verified, I should be able to proceed. When I compile the program, I get a warning that the fn SendXMLRequest doesn't return a value on all code paths. NullReference exception could occur at runtime. I appreciate yr quick response and thanku in advance. The 3 main functions I am using are: Private Function SendXmlRequest(ByRef xml As String) Try 'new Dim xmpRequest As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Crea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Invalid drive or drive not ready: Error when checking in using shadow folders

  We have a VSS 2005 installation running on a Win 2003 Server box. Everything works well execpt the shadow folders. When checking in a file under a project that is setup with a shadow folder we recieve the error 'Invalid drive or drive not ready' in the VSS client. Using Visual Studio there is no error but the shadow files are not updated. When creating the shadow for the first time, all the files and folders are copied over successfully. We have tried setting the shadow folder under different directories to check permissions but even giving all permissions doesnt seem to work. Any ideas Thanks Rich What is ...Show All

• SQL Server This SMO transfer script doesnt transfer ?

  Hello, this takes a lot of time  but when I got to sql server management studio there are no objects there!! What am I missing private void button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { Server sv = new Server ( "ESTACION15" ); Database db = sv.Databases[ "GescomDllo" ] ; Database db2 = new Database (sv, "PRUEBA" ); // db2.Create(); Transfer xfr; xfr = new Transfer (db); xfr.CopyAllObjects= true ; xfr.CopyAllTables = true ; xfr.Options.WithDependencies = true ; xfr.Options.ContinueScriptingOnError = true ; xfr.DestinationDatabase = "PRUEBA" ; xfr.DestinationServer = sv.Name; xfr.Destination ...Show All

• Visual C# ToolTip Control on HelpControl Button Click??

  Hi..All, I want to show tooltip for each control in my Form..when i Click on Help Button on the corner and i want to show tooltip on every control i press it..with that button Best Regards Bassam Basamad As far as i understand your problem, when you click on the help button, tool tips for all controls in form gets activated, i.e. when you hover mouse over the control tool tip is displayed. Well you can handle this on click event of help button. In event you can define tooltip control and assign to desired controls in forms. How to declare and use tooltip can be found on http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I persist a login?

  I am writing an application that does not necessarily require a user to login (some features available to unauthenticated users). I want to be able to persist a couple of custom objects, like the 'User', some 'Roles', and whether or not they are authenticated. When a user starts the app, the get some screens, but must authenticate to get others. What would be the best way to persist that info. I am an ASP.NET guru ;-), but not a Windows Forms genius. Thanks. No, it would not be inaccessible, it is just that if you have multiple threads which try to write to that object, you should synchronize the access. And no, in a sta ...Show All

• Visual C++ 'cli::array<Type> ^' to 'void *'

  Hello Everyone, thats how it looks cli:: array < unsigned char > ^passwordHash how can I convert to void *, I'm passing to a function which looks like this... int sha_hash( const void * init_data_ptr, int data_length, void * buffer_ptr, int buffer_length, void * prefix_ptr, int prefix_length ) Its gonna get sent as (void * buffer_ptr) Any help really appreciated... Thanks, Harsimrat I figured some stuff out....device checks passwordHash.... but once I do this.... still it doesnt pick it up.... virtual void OnChallenge( int at ...Show All

• SQL Server link SQL 2005 server

  Any body tryed to link SQL2000 to SQL2005 or other way arround. add sql2k to sql2005, and vice versa, as linked server is a supported scenario. for example, from a connection to your sql 2005, run the following commands to add sql2k as a linked server: sp_addlinkedserver 'sql2k' sp_setnetname 'sql2k', <machine name>\<instance name> where 'sql2k' is the linked server name of your choice, <machine name> is the hostname of the machine where your sql 2000 is installed, and <instance name> is the name of your sql 2000 instance.  If it is a default instance, then simply sp_setnetname ' ...Show All

• Visual Basic Determine a DataTable Row index from a DataGridView

  I have a datatable with 10 records linked to a datagridview. When i intially load the datagridview, row 0 in the datagridview = row 0 in the datatable - based purely on the order they load, and the datatable's default sort order. I then filter my datagridview and am left with 5 records. Is there a way of determining programatically, the actual datatable row number of a row displayed in a datagridview, considering that row 0 in the datagridview is now not necessarily row 0 in the datatable Cheers Mc It may or may not be what you want but the DataGridViewRow.DataBoundItem Property http://m ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems Executing Stored procedure OLEDB

  <sigh> been doing all kinds of stuff in SSIS and then I get to what I thought should be simple: Running a stored procedure, and I've had nothing but headache: OLEDB connection, ResultSet None SQL Statement: EXEC dbo.pStoredProcedure , , , , , , OUTPUT Parameters Mapping page: User::gvSourceName Input VARCHAR 0, User::gvDestinationName Input VARCHAR 1, System::UserName Input VARCHAR 2 etc.. etc.. UserlvDataImportID Output NUMERIC 6 I've emptied my stored procedure out... but that doesn't seem to matter it doesn't ever run the procedure. If I try to parse the Query I get the error "The Query failed to parse. Attempte ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Bug in RichTextBox

  Calling ClearValue for the background does not update the RichTextBox <Window x:Class="BugRichEdit.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" > <StackPanel> <Button Click ="ClearColor">Bug, should clear the background color</Button> <RichTextBox Name ="edit"> <FlowDocument> <Paragraph> <Run Name ="run" Background="Yellow">Hello</Run> </Paragraph> </FlowDocument> </RichTextBox> < ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Compiling Single File

  I'm trying to compile a single cpp file. I'm migrating a project from someone else's source to my way of doing things a few files at a time so I don't get lost. The source I'm currently working with is Borg 2.28 from http://caesum.com/download.php You've left us to guess what the problem is First of all, you need to create an empty project that you can add files to.  Then, I wish you luck - the whole point of a bunch of files being in a project is that they work together, and tend to be somewhat reliant on one another.  It's unlikely there will be too many classes you can compile and run  ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Search Portable Media?

  Is it possible to search portable media such a DVD using Windows Desktop Search, if I don't copy the content to my desktop For example, can I put a DVD in my d: drive and index it Also, are indexes portable Could I create an index on one computer and copy it to another Thanks, Larry Hi Larry, If you're question is "Can I do this " the answer is Yes. The bigger question is will this be useful Probably not. If you use a USB drive where the same files will be available from the same media source every time, then probably yes. Here's the problem... When you index or add a path to the inde ...Show All