diluted_water's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Converting back to VS2003

  Hello all, I am sorry to say but we have wasted a week and 1/2 trying to get to VS 2005 and we have to go back. I have been developing software for over 15 years now and this MS release is the worse I have seen. We are having very bad performance issues, source safe thinks it needs to check unrelated files out, the IDE simply crashes, etc. Has anybody went to VS 2005 and then back to VS 2003 If so, what types of issues did you run ...Show All

• Windows Forms Comunication between two forms

  Hi at all,    i need to set the DataSource of my grid situated in FormA from FormB. How can I do Is it possible thanks i'm a newbie mikunos Yes its possible to pass values between 2 forms. There are many ways to acheive the same, depending upon your scenerio Are Form A and Form B part of the the same application If they are you can write a new Event on Form A and Fire It when the user selects a new data source. Form B w ...Show All

• SQL Server Error locating server/instance specified

  I am trying to connect to the AdventureWorks database while using Visual Basic 2005 Express. I am currently using the SQL Server 2005 trial version. Here is the error message: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL server 2005 this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, Er ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ADO.NET Entity Framework documents are back

  The original articles about the ADO.NET Entity Framework didn't stay online very long, but this time, two official documents are available: The ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview Next-Generation Data Access (Making the conceptual level real) These documents will give you an overview of what is coming in the next version of ADO.NET, mainly the ADO.NET Entity Framework, which is Microsoft's upcoming solution for mapping data to objects. In t ...Show All

• .NET Development Error on TableAdapter's output parameter

  I'm using typed DataSet and TableAdapter. The TableAdapter has an update method with output parameter using SQL stored procedure. When I compile the code, I'm getting an error message "cannot convert from 'out int' to 'out int ' I can't find what is wrong. Below is the code that I'm using private void button2_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { int iGroup = 0; GPTDBDataSetTableAdapters. QueriesTableAdapter ta ...Show All

• SQL Server Using SMO to backup / restore a SqlExpress database

  Hi all, I have seen several threads on using SMOto backup & restore sqlexpress databases but am having trouble getting my code working. Does anyone have a snippet available Current problem is connecting to the sqlexpress database file Thanks, Nick I am having the same problem with regards to the initial connection throwing an error.... Did you resolve this If so can you post the solution ...Show All

• Visual C# How to call an .exe from a webservice\ASP.NET?

  Hello folks, How do I call an executable from c# webservice, ideally with parameters The webservice is running on IIS and I want to call an executable on the local drive, e.g. notepad.exe Here is my code: ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo (); psi.FileName = @"notepad.exe" ; psi.UseShellExecute = false ; psi.LoadUserProfile = true ; psi.UserName = "SYSTEM" ; Process .Start( "N ...Show All

• Visual Studio AddNamedCommand still not working?

  We are using AddNamedCommand to add commands to our command bar.  This is running fine in 2003.  It did not work in Beta 2 -- another person iquired about this and was told it was a known issue (see: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=4221 ). Has this been corrected in the RTM for VS 2005   I have tried it and still get a failure when calling AddNamedCommand. Thanks There we ...Show All

• .NET Development location of cached files of enterprise library 2.0 (i am using isolated storage)

  I got an a System.Io.FileNotFound exception whenever i try to use any caching functionality of the caching application block of entlib 2.0 interim (i choose isolated storage in the config tool) {"Could not find file 'POS\\-739517346\\Key'.":"POS\\-739517346\\Key"}   It doesn't happend on other machines. I thought of deleting the cache from my computer but I can't find the real location of the stored files. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problems with maya x-file converter.

  I've been able to successfully convert maya 6 models into .x files using the maya 6 plugin however when I try to substitute these files for the .x file in the basicHLSL sample it fails when loadMesh calls computeNormals. All the .x files from the samples media folder work fine but anything that I create myself fails. These files work fine in the .x viewer. Is there something I should know What is the difference between these files Any help wo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Target reuse

  I'm trying to learn msbuild and it looks like it will be a good replacement for the system we currently use, but I can't figure out how to do the following: < Project xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003 " > < Target Name = " steps " > < Exec Command = " nmake.exe /NOLOGO $(Target.Parent.Name) " WorkingDirectory = " .\src\dir1 " /> < Exec Command = " nmake.exe /NOLOGO $(Target.Parent.Nam ...Show All

• SQL Server SSMS-EE: Creating and Using Stored Procedures - Error Messages 111, 156, & 102

  Hi all, I tried to use the SQL Server Managemet Studio-Express Edition to execute the following code statements: --- SQLQuery.sql--- USE testDB DECLARE @procID int DECLARE @procName varchar ( 20 ) DECLARE @procType varchar ( 20 ) CREATE PROC sp_getRecords AS SELECT * FROM Inventory CREATE PROC sp_insertRecord @procID int , @procName varchar ( 20 ), @procType varchar ( 20 ) AS INS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta2: Cannot create a Team Project

  I am not able to create a new team project. I'm logged in as a domain user with local administrator membership. On the last screen of the wizard I get this Process creation failed with error: "Initializaton failed for plugin(s): "Microsoft.Pcw.wss"" Here's the log content: 04/22/2005 01:48:54.478 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | URL for eLead web service retrieved as " http://syd-3rtest:8080/bisserver/EleadWebService.asmx " from the registr ...Show All

• Visual C++ Floating-point models in VS2005 vs VS2003

  We have found out that a new floating point model has been introduced in VS2005 where the programmer has the option to choose any of the modes Precise, Strict or Fast. According to the document http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/floapoint.asp : "Microsoft has selected fp:precise as the default floating-point mode because it creates both fast and accurate programs." In VS2003 we were us ...Show All

• Architecture Windows Zip

  Hi Is it possible to use the windows zip function on the command line I want to incorporate this into my program. I know there is an add on for win zip but was wondering if its possible to do with the windows own version... Cheers Hi! You mean using Compressed Folders I think it's possible if use Shell API, because Compressed Folders incorporated into Windows shell. ...Show All