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• Windows Forms Installer Problem

  SITUATION I am trying to follow a walk-through that teaches how to build a winodws service in MSDN at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vboriCreatingConfiguringWindowsServiceApplications.asp Everything goes fine until I finish building the application and trying to  ...Show All

• Visual Basic MDI problem

  Hey NG I have an MDI-Application. - For easy entering in to the forms I have created a "Start Form" - In this Startform(mdi-Child) I have some Buttons which I use to open some different MDI-Childs. - The Startform is opening during starting the project. It works fine! - But only on my screen. - when I have an ohter screen, the Startform will be displayed to little. Startform has to have: No BorderStyle! - When I set the WindowState to maximized ...Show All

• SQL Server SELECT INTO OUTFILE?

  Hi, how do I redirect the output from a SELECT to a text-file, or Excel-file It is possible in MySQL, but what about Transact-SQL Thanks YOu have to use the OPENDATASOURCE method or a linked server to insert data in another destination than the local SQL Server. More information (including a sample can be found in the BOL) HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server GUID

  Hello, I'm working on a smart client app that has an offline sql express store and needs to work with several types of central databases (support for multiple products - ms sql, DB2 etc) While trying to put together some offline functionality that needs the user to create records on the offline sql express data store, we've run into the need of being able to uniquely identify records so replicating the data in the offline store back into t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activity naming conventions and ActivityToolboxItem

  What's the convention for naming activities in WWF supposed to be In earlier betas, there was not a clear convention, but I did noticed that all WWF built-in activities are named XxxActivity (i.e. CodeActivity), which sounds like a good naming convention to me. I only have one minor issue with this: How activities are then represented in the Workflow Designer toolbox: For the WWF built-in activities, the "Activity" suffix is removed. ...Show All

• SQL Server New features/bug fixes in Sept CTP?

  Does anyone know where I can find a list of new features/bug fixes in the Sept CTP   I've been having a hard time tracking down this info.  If someone could post it that would be great! Thanks, Adrian It would be very hard to combine a list of all the changes SSIS team did in 3 months (plus all the changes .NET & Visual Studio teams did in 5 months). Mostly the changes are bug fixes, stab ...Show All

• .NET Development access permission probelms. HELP ME!!!

  I have two computers, a desktop and a laptop, both running win xp home. Both are wirlessly enabled and connect wirelessly to the internet through a belkin router. The desktop will happily see the laptop and share files, and everything seems to work just fine. The laptop, however, refuses to see the desktop. I have shared all folders properly, both are part of the same workgroup, and I have run the network set up wizard, and tried to connec ...Show All

• .NET Development Establishing a connection... TCP/IP ___

  Hello friends , I am new to vb.net and need help in sockets. I need to create an application (console) which will act as a server. Then I will have clients that will connect to the server and send data to the server.    1) Client connects to server 2) Client sends data to server 3) Server processes data 4) Server send back data to specific client (as there will be more than on clinet at the same time) My problem is how to establish ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to cloak some node in source control explorer?

  In VSS, I can cloak some node so I could ignore some folder. How can I do this in TFS SC Thanks! See this blog post. http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal/archive/2005/10/13/480584.aspx --MikeH ...Show All

• Visual C# serialization to file

  im trying to serialize some object to a file. The problem is im trying to add non serialized data to the file also. Now when i wirte out the file, i write out a count of how many objects are to come that are serialized. When i go to load the file how ever, its as if things were saved int the wrong order! so i opend my saved filein notepad and sure enough, all the objects were at the start of the file, while the rest of my data was dumped at the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sharepoint Permissions error When Creating New Team Project

  I'm having trouble adding users as TFS Administrators.  From what I understood in the documentation, a TFS Administrator needed to be added to the TFS Security Group as a TFS Admin, an Admin for Sharepoint at the top site level and a content manager for sql server reporting services.  I have done that however, I still receive the following error: Error Insufficient permissions on the Windows SharePoint Services at ekta to create ...Show All

• .NET Development Newbie-What is the proper way to handle special characters in XML?

  I'm having a problem with single quotes in my XML document. I have Xml that resembles something like below: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <root> <MyText>Text contain's a single quote</MyText> </root> This content resides in a file and when I extract the xml and pass it to a stored procedure, instead of the entire xml being sent to the stored procedure, it is being truncated because of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office specified cast is not valid error when tryning to create new word template project

  hello, i am trying to create new word template project in VS 2005 this is after I created few word project on the dev computer, and done some deployment practice on the same computer like : set framwork security, using publish wizard and setup project and such things. Now every word project(document or template) I am trying to create I getting this error: specified cast is not valid and the create project failed if it is excel pro ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net data could be simpler than this!

  Back to my sporadic learning project in ASP.NET I have a dropdown on a page populated at runtime from a table with country names to select a country, returning the corresponding country code. Everything works fine so far. I want to add a top record to show as default in the dropdown saying "-- Select Country --" DataSet oCountriesDS = new DataSet(); string sSQLCommand = "select ctry_name,ctry_code from countries order by ctry_name"; // Execut ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How do I Pass Values from an Event Sink

  Hi, I have an event sink which has passed into it custom event args (similar to the statemachine sample). That event sink invokes a Code Activity - my question is what is the syntax for extracting the parameters out of the event sink for use in the Code Activity. private void SendMailCode_ExecuteCode(object sender, EventArgs e) { //TODO:pick up parameters from event sink and pass to this code to ...Show All