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• Visual Studio Team System Lost Source Control Output Window in RTM

  I've seemed to have lost the source control output window using the RTM version of TFS. It was there at one time but no longer present. After opening my VSTF bound solution, nothing is in the "Show output from:" combo box in the Visual Studio 2005 output window. Can someone help me get back the "Source Control - Team Foundation" item Thanks. Next time something writes to that window, it'll ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems with arythmetic operators

  Hi, I`ve got many problems when I want add,increment,... integer,doubles,... variables I`d like know how I do in visual C++ express edition these simple operations int^a;int^b;int^c; //or Double^a;Double^b;Double^c; or Decimal a....... a=b+c; a++; Thank you very much. Please be more specific. Those statements should work fine. Please provide a very simple example of the problem you are having. Do you have ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF Beta 1 cleanup tool ?

  Is there a cleanup tool to get rid of WWF Beta 1 from a machine I've uninstalled WWF and VS workflow extensions via control panel, but installing VS2005 RTM then had package load failures - seemed to be WWF bits left over somehow. There was a NET SDK WWF directory still left around - deleting that seems to allow VS to start up now, but WorkFlow tools still shows up in the VS splash screen. How can I totally cleanup WWF to get rid of beta 1 T ...Show All

• Visual Studio CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument

  Hi friends, i have deploy a VB.net application which have crystal report in it. the application is running well but when i open the form with Crystal report its giving me error. Please help See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.InvalidOperationException: An error occurred creating the form. See Exceptio ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Positioning DialogSheets

  I have been updating a rather old excel template which contains many dialogsheets. Most of them I updated to userforms. I need a couple of them to remain as dialogsheets because of the simple functionality they offer. The problem I have is that the dialog sheet position always moves to where the cursor is on the spreadsheet behind. This usually covers the area where the user needs to select an area of the spreadsheet transfering this information ...Show All

• SQL Server Ignore Null in a Column that otherwise needs a Unique Value

  In Access, when you specify a unique key for a column, you can also specify IGNORE NULL, in which case there can be more than one record with NULL, but if the field is not NULL, then only one record can exist. How do I do the same thing in SQL Server. I have a table with a column that identifies a Previous Entry. If the column is Null, then there is no previous entry - this may occur often. If the column is not null, then there is a Previous Ent ...Show All

• .NET Development Access Denied Error on PerformanceCounterCategory.GetCategories(string machineName) call --- URGENT

  Hello to all: I want to get the performance counter categories of the remote computer and i am using the PerformanceCounterCategory.GetCategories(string machineName) method to retrieve the required information from the desired machine. But every time i recieve the "Access Denied" error. I don't know why i am getting this error. I have even turend all the firewalls off but its not working. Please if any one have a solution to this problem, ...Show All

• .NET Development active application handle

  I am trying to transport a vb6 program to vb2005.  In vb6 I could use API's to do things like get a handle for the active application (enumWindows), get the location of the active application ( GetWindowPlacement ) , and the title text of the active application ( GetWindowText).  I have spent several days looking but have not been able to find anyway to duplicate thes functions in vb2005.  The API's don't want to wo ...Show All

• .NET Development No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

  Trying to connect to a local host TCP port 3380 (the port number chosen arbitrarily): 10.1.10.176:3380 I got this error message: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it What shall I do to convince the target machine not to refuse it the next time I used a sock.Connect(serverEndPoint); statement. Thanks This means that there is no TCP Port *LISTENING* for requests at the port 3380 you mentioned. It cou ...Show All

• Visual C++ copying a dialog box

  I realise this if for 2005 but hopefully you can help, i have visual studio 2003 and i'm using the c++ sharp,  i have a dialog box in one old resource file (rc file) that i want to put into another resource file (rc file).  How do i copy over just the dialog, i have tried the old copy and paste etc but it doesnt work, and there doesnt seem to be a way to import just a dialog any ideas thanks When ...Show All

• Visual C++ Getline () error in VS 2005

  Hi, I am running into an error with getline. I am a student and I am using Visual Studio c++ 2005. I am writing a Secert Santa program so we dont havce to pick names from a hat every christams. The progam I am runnign into is that getline is skipped the first time through the loop. Here is my code- place=1; do { cout<<endl<<"Enter the name of the Santa - "; getline (cin,name); santa_name [place] = name; tem ...Show All

• Windows Forms Naming conventions for form Controls?? i.e. btnExit vs. frmExit....HELP

  Hi there - we are trying to come up with some standard naming conventions for our controls.  I was taught to prefix the name with the control type.  Ex.  Exit Button would be btnExit Ex.  Name Label woulc be lblName I have also seen prefixing the control name with "frm" Ex. frmName. I'm not sure where the industry is moving....but would greatly appreciate some feedback on this. Thank you! Kelley Bryant ...Show All

• Visual Basic Runtime Error 5

  Hi all, I was wondering if anyone can help me out with a problem I am having after compiling my Visual Basic program. I'm using Visual Basic 6.0 and when I run the program I wrote within Visual Basic I do not receive an error message. However, after compiling the program and trying to run it, I get the Runtime Error 5. Any ideas on how to solve this Hi, This forum only discusses the .Net Framework and its languges (VB.NET). VB6 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Polling Access Database

  Hi there, I have an access database that is used on an online ASP system to book holidays, now I'm wanting to create a VB application that can look at the database and as soon as a new record appears have the display update and a message window appear. Problem is that I can get the program to look at the database and display the content, but I don't know how to get it update and refresh the screen automatically, or even to get a message de ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office What is the different between this 2 set of code

  I have try out both set of codes and it seemt that if i do while to add in the event handler i will only be able to trigger the event once only and subsequently there will not have any other result But i use the code set B the event will trigger N time. Code SET A: LinkedList<MAPIFolder> selectedfolder = getConfig(); IEnumerator enu = selectedfolder.GetEnumerator(); while (enu.MoveNext()) { MAPIFolder mp ...Show All