davidbellot's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Error 3: the system cannot find the specified path

  Installed SQL Server 2000 Enterprise trial a week ago on XP Pro. Installed new Seagate 80G HD; used Seagate's utility to copy old C: to new drive as new boot drive. All seems to work fine, except, when booting up, SQL server doesn't start. When I try to start it manually I get the following: Could not start SQLSERVER service on the local computer. Error 3: the system cannot find the specified path. 1. What could be wrong 2. How do I fix ...Show All

• Windows Forms MERGING CELLS IN DATAGRIDVIEW

  Hi all, Is it possible to merge cells(rows) in DatagridView And How Thanx Hello, It is nice to see that people keep asking question on this issue and the small fraction of code I provided was helpful to some of you. But this is only small part of custom coding to get really nice formated and merged datagridview... Anyways I dont think that I might be very helpful, since in many instances you need to figure it out how to make thing ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System SQL Server 2005 Report Server Web site is not running

  I'm trying to set up an VSTF server. Beta3 When "System health check" runs, i get this error. I looked up if the web site runs, and Yes it runs.... How can i get rid of this error I'm using w2003 sp1 eng std, sql 2005 sep ctp ee, WSS 2.0. On the same machine i got Oracle server installed, can this be a problem Tnx Fieldhouse, putting anonymous access helpted me to get passed this problem... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Deployment Items not working

  Using the Deployment section of the Run Configuration page, I've gotten DeploymentItems to work for all of my solutions save one: a Web Service. This solution consists of the Web Service project and a Test project. The only way to get deployment items to deploy correctly is to define DeploymentItem attributes on every TestMethod with absolute paths (relative paths do not work). Is this a known bug Is there anything I can do to get relative pa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WPF Release Date

  Hi, I'm evaluating WPF for our next product, and I would like to know if Microsoft has commited or even commented on when they expect WPF to be out for Windows XP. WPF and the rest of the WinFX Runtime Components will RTM at the same time as Windows Vista.  Therefore, when Windows Vista RTMs, WinFX will be available for Windows Vista, Windows XP XP2 (and later) and Windows Server XP1 (and late ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office sending to excell with VB

  Hello all, I'm not at all sure how to send information into an excell spreadsheet. I have all of the variables lined up etc, i just need to know how to insert them, and what I should import. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much -Robert P.S. If you could just point me to a tutorial, that would be fine too, however, I couldn't find any information about sending information online. Thanks If you can get your hands on it (ie, MSDN ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help needed for beginner

  I am writing a program, of which part is to copy all files, folders and subfolders from a provided source location to destination. When I run the code as shown below, if there are more than 2 subfolders in depth, or the source is on a CD then I recieve the following error: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.UnauthorizedAccessException' occurred in mscorlib.dll." "Additional information: Access to the path 'C:\New Folder\Autorun.inf ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to find required file 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll' - VS2005-B2

  I thought I had managed to install Beta correctly from the DVD, but when I go to create an empty VB project I get the following error: "Project "Project1" could not be opened because the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 compiler could not be created. Unable to find required file "Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll'. I am able to create a web project, but not compile it ('compiler initializatin failed unexpectedly: Unspecified error'). Tried uninstall / reins ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can I draw something on the report?

  I want to draw sth on the report, how can I do that Thanks in advance. Long Other than using an images (stored in DB or http links) referenced from the report, the report control in server mode support something called custom report items. Take a look at the following post that explains how build one: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrishays/archive/2005/10/04/CustomReportItemSample.aspx Check out this post ...Show All

• SQL Server ReportViewer control

  trying to build a test page with a single ReportViewer control < rsweb : ReportViewer ID ="ReportViewer1" ProcessingMode ="remote" runat ="server"> < ServerReport DisplayName ="VSTestReport" ReportPath ="MyReports/VSTestReport" ReportServerUrl ="http: //pugrs/reportserver"/> </ rsweb : ReportViewer >   build fails with 401: Unauthorized. Not even sure where to begin troubleshooting this one. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Preprocessor directives gray out code

  When using preprocessor directives for conditional compilation in cpp file all code between directives turns gray. #include "Config.h" #if __SOME_CONDITION__ // some code here #endif __SOME_CONDITION__ defined in Config.h. This bug appears only in cpp files. Is there any way to disable graying out excluded code If it's grayed out, it means that it won't enter that block - which proba ...Show All

• SQL Server Sum is negative - showing #Error

  I have a SSRS (reporting services) 2005 report. In one of my table fields I have the expression below. I want it not to show #Error when the sum of this expression is negative, rather provide a negative sum if that's the case. (SUM((IIf(Fields!New_Old_CC.Value = 0, Fields!PDC.Value, 0) + IIf(Fields!New_Old_CC.Value = 1, Fields!PDC.Value, 0) + IIf(Fields!New_Old_CC.Value = 0, Fields!CC.Value, 0) + IIf(Fields!New_Old_CC.Value = 1, Fields!CC.Value, ...Show All

• SQL Server I encountered problem after .NET framework upgraded to 2.0 in the server

  I posted the question below to this website 6 hours ago, the subject was "SQL server registration failed". I couldn't find this question just now. This is my first time to post a question to microsoft website. Please let me know the related website if the question shouldn't be posted here.(I think it 's related to this site) URGENT, I need help, thanks. I installed .Net framework 2.0 in a Window 2003 Server and VS2005 in my PC a fe ...Show All

• SQL Server Read Write Variable Cannot access before PostExecute

  I have a for each loop on a directory of files, each file has to be imported with a unique surrogate key added.  For this I am selecting the max id that exists in the target table and assigning that value to a variable. Within a script transformation I am copying this value to a variable declared in a script task, and incrementing it on each row processed.  Obviously I now want to write this value back out to the higher ...Show All

• .NET Development Collection of DataSetTableAdapters?

  Is it possible in VS2005 (Visual Basic specifically) to get a collection of the DataSetTableAdapters in an application I have a strongly typed DataSet without about 30 datatables in it that I've generated DataSetTableAdapters for, and I want to loop through them to fill them. Maybe there'll someway using namespaces to iterate for each class there but I don't know about it. But you can use assembly class to l ...Show All