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• Visual Studio Express Editions Random Numbers again!!!

  Hi there, i think i have gotten into a bit of a fix... here is the problem: i have used the random obj to generate random numbers between 1 to 90. some times when the application runs, it picks a number twice. for example an output would be 2,8,34,2,67.... is it possible to make sure all numbers picked are only selected once that is if i request for 10 ranadom numbers, each 10 digits would be unique... this is driving me nutts!! ...Show All

• .NET Development Transaction for two database connections

  I am not sure if this is possbile. I have a request to develop a 'method' to do transaction over two database connections. Basically the requirement is, one connection updates a database and the other updates another database; but they have to a transaction. I know COM+/DTC may be the the solution to this problem, but I do not have any experience with COM+ except some basic understanding of COM+ concept. Can someone please give me some ideas on ...Show All

• Windows Forms Thumbnail an html page directly from IE programmatically?

  I would like to grab an HTML page from a WebBrowser control and thumbnail it to a picturebox control.  Anyone out there know how to do this    The only way I can see to do this is to use shareware or a commercial product to& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C# Keeps asking for Registration

  As of this moment I already have 2 "Thank you for registering Visual C# 2005 Express Edition!" e-mails in my inbox and just now, Visual C# asks again to register I'm OK with registering, but not if it keeps asking for it every day or two. What could be the problem Eric On further investigation, it appears that installs from the .img files do not require registration. ...Show All

• .NET Development Unexpected program closure

  I am working on a large application written in VB.Net 2003. Sometimes the application just closes for no reason, without any warning or error messages. The application does not go through the standard closedown code - it's as if execution just stops. Does anyone know of any circumstances where this could happen, i.e. possibly framework bugs Or point me in the direction of debugging help! Thanks! Mark Are you sur ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro How to upgrade a menu from FoxPro for DOS

  I'm a very old, retired, CCOBOL and ASSEMBLY programmer with some experience with dBase and FoxPro from the command window. A charity has asked me to get an old FoxPro for DOS program working on a donated used computer which contains VFP6.0. I have gone over the data files and they seem to be OK. The indexes have been converted to CDX type and that works. The old DOS program worked by relying on append and browse commands which all work. The nee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Displaying columns as rows and rows as columns

  I would like to display all the data in a table on one sheet of paper in a report.  I know it will all fit if I have each row of data go down the page like a column and set the paper to landscape.  Unfortunately I cannot get it all to fit by having each row go across the page with the paper set to portrait.  Otherwise this task would be simple, I could set the column names in the page header field an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build unable to Run Auto Builds now

  For some reason today, when I run a build type (automated build) thru the VSTS Interface. I get the following message back: "Failed to retrieve data from the server. Please verify the network connection and try again." I have no problem building the Solutions manually. Only encounter problems thru the Build Type. I see the following in Event Viewer on the Team Foundation Server log: " An unexpected condition h ...Show All

• Visual C# Typing in Visual Studio 2005 Text Editor is extremely slow

  Has anyone else noticed that typing in Visual Studio 2005 is extremely slow   Whey I type it seems that the screen is always 2 words behind where my hands are.  It makes it extremely frustrating to get anything done. I'm mainly referring to C# code.  It seems like Intellisense is going nuts trying to guess every word I'm going to type and never actually prints the characters to the screen. Has anyone else experienced this   I ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem grouping data using CollectionViewSource

  When I try to group data using CollectionViewSource I get an error. Am I missing something or is this a bug BindingExpression path error: 'Groups' property not found on 'object' ''null''. 'BindingExpression':Path='Groups'; DataItem=''null''; target element is ''TreeView' (Name='')'; target property is 'ItemsSource' (type 'IEnumerable'); Cannot find mentor for target element. 'BindingExpression':Path='DisplayCollection'; DataItem= ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System In Create Unit Tests dialog partial class members are not there

  I have a typed dataset class in which I include custom members in a partial class. When I select a custom function name in the dataset partial class and select create unit test after right clicking, the custom function in the Create Unit Tests dialog is NOT present. Hi, This is a known issue with the RTM version of visual studio. We are looking to fix this in a future version of visual studio. However, there are a number of work aroun ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MSSQL 2005 Express Install Problem

  After 30 or 40 install attempts, I'm further than I've ever been.  Now I'm at the point where I get the following error logged: msg=[Microsoft][SQL Native Client]Encryption not supported on the client. I get this at the point of installing the SQL Server Database Services, i.e., the native client, MSXML6 etc. pieces installed without incident.  Prior to installation I rampaged through every piece of previous MSSQL stuff and cleaned it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO 2005 Infopath project template missing

  I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition (release version), Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office 2005 and Office (and Infopath) 2003.  In the "Visual Studio installed Templates" for Office, I have templates for Excel, Outlook, and Word (and they are all working fine), but I do not have a template for Infopath.  Do I need to install something else to get the Infopath templates and be able to create Infopath projects in V ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection to SQL Express ONLY with integrated security but WITHOUT domain

  Does anybody know if it is possible to establish a connection to an sql express instance only with integrated security when this express instance is running on XP which is NOT part of a domain Thanks, Klaus If the SQL Express machine isn't connected to a domain then I don't believe Kerberos authentication will work but NTLM authentication should work.  If the client application is running on the same machi ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I assign a ContextMenuStrip to a ToolStripMenuItem?

  The title says it. Please help. Check the links... http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/system.windows.forms.toolstripdropdown.opening.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.contextmenustrip.aspx ...Show All