Geraint Davies's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQL server 2005 Beta 2 Uninstall Hell

     Ok, I have tried everything I can think of, but I am still getting errors to do with SQL server 2005 beta. Since the beta expired on all the VS.net 2005 I thought it would be a good idea to uninstall the lot to save some hard disk space...how wrong I was!!    Everything uninstalled just great except for SQL server 2005 Express. I manged to uninstall everything, but whenever I used the computer management in Windows XP, I g ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help: Binding DataGrid Dynamically

  I create a datagrid "dgMsg" and two tables, i.e. table1 and table2. I also create a treeview to let user decide which table the datagrid connect to at runtime - something similiar to Outlook. But I sometimes encounter the form hangs while& ...Show All

• Windows Forms Crystal Report 9(CR) and visual basic.net window forms

  Hi I am new to new to this area. I am currently on a project using Crystal Report 9(CR) and visual basic.net window forms A brief introduction to my project PlanA 1) I have 2 labels ( PatientName and DateOfVisit ->eg Cindy and 01/10/2004)  and&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build Succeeded, but no output.

  Hi, I'm just trying to build my simple web application with Team Build. I was managed to create new build type. But when I'm running the build project, I'm getting only 3 files (BuildLog.txt, ErrorsWarningsLog.txt, Mixed PlatformsDebug.txt) in my drop location. My build log says, 1 Warning, 0 error. What can be the problem Here is my build log: Build started 6/15/2006 10:33:38 AM. ______________________________________________ ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems installing vista

  No doubt this is the wrong place for this, but I am going mad! I recently got invited to the vista beta party and have downloaded it a couple of times, burnt it and still get the same issue when installing it. After the first reboot, the installer starts up again faithfully and then the screen goes black (to a dos like prompt) and the cursor just flashes in the top-right corner. Nothing happens! What am I missing here as I am going mad ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Extending the Personal Web Site Starter Kit

  I have read the article on extending the Personal Starter Kit  by Bill Evjen. There are 3 image files that he makes a reference to, that I cannot find.             <table width="90%"><tr>                   ImageUrl="../Images/button_sitecontent.gif"    &nbs ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista HOW DO YOU GET VISTA?!

  I am an beta experience tester, not an MDSN. Somebody invite me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jag.matharu@hotmail.co.uk ...Show All

• SQL Server VWD Express - In Website - Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server

  Hello, I am having a terrible problem trying to create a f#$%!n simple sql server .mdf data directory under the website and do not know what the issue is and it is driving me crazy. It is a very basic setup. I have Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server Express Installed. I can access SQL Server Express with no problem from SQL Server Management Studio Express and can create databases there. My system is a dev box, Windows XP SP2 a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) can't generate proxy classes for WCF SDK samples with svcutil

  Hi, I tried to generate a proxy class for GettingStarted service yesterday with FEB CTP svcutil.exe on FEB CTP Vista. But svcutil failed after reporting a few warning messages. The GettingStarted Service was running OK and I didn't modify it in any way. Does anyone know what is it I've read some known issues concerning FEB CTP svcutil. They do not seem to be relevant to the case. Can you send the ...Show All

• Windows Forms binding two BindingSources

  I have two user controls. Each control has internaly a BindingSource. I want that these two controls will be syncronized - will share the same data source and position. How can i do that Thanks Asaf Unfortunately we do not have that feature and you will have to write code to synchronize the BindingSource positions.  I agree this would be a good feature to have.  Please log this as a suggestion here: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Learning VB and .NET

  Hello... I've invested in Books 24/7 to have access to a lot of IT books to learn various things. I really want to get a good grasp on VB.NET 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0. I have VB.NET 2005 Express and VWD Express and I know enough to be dangerous. But I feel that without practical examples, I am spinning my wheels. Also, the books that I try to use to learn the languages. They end up going off on tangents that I don't want to go on. I like the format ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do you make an invisible OCX?

  Hi, I'm using VB express and I cant seem to find a way of making my usercontrol invisible I can do it with VB6, its easy, But I want to make a control that doesn't have location and other visual properties, I've seen them but I cant make them. Am I missing something PS. Please dont post the obvious set visible to false, thats not what I want, lol, I want the ocx to only expose the methods and properties I set. Thanks. Sounds to me li ...Show All

• .NET Development Using XSD in Reporting Services

  Hi All, I want to know how can we use an XSD file inside the RDL file. Is it possible If so can you give me the details and links related to it. Regards, Sinha. I'm not sure what you mean by "an XSD file inside the RDL" but here is a link to the XSD schema for RDL: http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2005/01/reportdefinition/ReportDefinition.xsd -Albert ...Show All

• Windows Forms Changing ClickOnce update/publish location

  Is there any way to make deployed clients change their update location (through code) Apparantly ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.UpdateLocation is readonly, which is a major annoyance. I am doing updates checks and download through code, which is working ok, but I really wish I had some way of controling the location - for several reasons: 1) I'd like to make an update check to a secondary location in case the primary site ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to format e-mail address in the report RDLC file as a clickable mailto link?

  My report file has a table. One of the table columns is the customer e-mail address. How can I format the e-mail address value as a mailto link I tried "<a href=mailto:" & Fields!ContacteMail.value & ">" & Fields!ContacteMail.value & "</a>" in the textbox and that is displayed as coded instead of a mailto link. Thanks! You need to make the disti ...Show All