CRChambers's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio MSDN Installation target directory

  Hi, I need to create an unattended installation of MSDN and I need to put the files on an other disk (i.e. D:\MSDN\). I was unable to find the MSI variable to use to change the target directory. At one point I used "TARGETDIR=D:\MSDN\" and it only created the folder without copying anything to it. It put everything in "C:\Program Files\MSDN\". Can anyone help me with this Regards. Try using MSDN_QTR.3643236F_FC70_11D3_A536_0090278A1BB8. Note that some files are installed to other locations (e.g., Common Files). But that'll get the big files! ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Agent Job Variables

  Is there a system variable available to return the calling JobStep Name/Number that can be used as a parameter while executing a batch script in a CmdExec type step This would be similar to %JOBNAME% in TNG Workload or %~n0 in shell scripting. The job step token passing functionality should continue to work.  Check out http://www.sqldev.net/sqlagent/SQLAgentStepTokens.htm ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Getting the Avalon Viewer Sample up and running

  Hey all, My first post here, happy to see im not the only one obsessed with gettin stuck into a bit of WPF! Apologies in advance if this problem has been posted already, I cant seem to find a thread relating to it.Last night I spent hours trying to get viewer sample up and running on my machine. Im running XP SP2 and im using Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition... I've had no previous betas relating to Avalon installed on this machine. So far I've downloaded and installed: WinFX Runtime Components - BETA 2 Windows SDK (from this i've only installed from Developer Tools: "FxCop", "Windows Powershell", " ...Show All

• Visual Basic ComboBox loses Selected Index after Keypress

  Hi, I've ran into what I believe might be a bug with ComboBoxes. I found it trying to implement type-ahead functionality. It appears that when I set a selected index value in the text-changed event of a combo, I seem to lose that value after the event has been processed. I thought at first it was the recursive call back into TextChanged, but the value is still there at the end of the procedure. I'd appreciate some feedback before I submit it as a bug. One thing that I'd like for someone to try is to set a break when SelectedIndex = -1 is True. VB Express doesn't allow you do that so I can't see what internal event is causing it to cha ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems With SQL 2005 SP1 (x64)

  Hi, After installing SP1 onto our SQL x64 2005 box (running Server 2003 x64 R2), I have come across two problems. The first is that the install seems to fail for database services (and I see I'm not the only one), declaring the following: I haven't had a problem across a suite of x64 installs here at the bank. Disk space can be an issue as the SP install seems to require a lot. You can also run into problems if you have removed the security groups that SQL installs - there's another thread on this on this forum. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Studio Express Edition License

  I would like to know is the application Visual Studio Express Edition for personal use only. If I download it for free (in the designated period) , can I develop .Net applications for my company (does a company require a different license) or can I develop .Net application for other business use (does this require a different license). hi, you can develop applications and sell it even, but don't sell the vb.net EE IDE you can develop applications using plain text and inline command to compile your applications, the Express edition or any other edition just to make life easy for you and to give you supp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions If, If Not, Else, End If Expressions

  I am rebuilding a commercial application project that I built in VB6.0. The code is as follows: Private Sub imgPrevious _Click() datMusic.Recordset.MovePrevious If Not (datMusic.Recordset.BOF) Then lblRecordNumber.Caption = Str(datMusic.Recordset. _ AbsolutePosition + 1 Else MsgBox "Already at beginning of table", vbInformation datMusic.Recordset.MoveFirst End If End Sub New Code for 2005 VBExpressEdition as follows: Private Sub imagePrevious_Click(By Val etc....................) 'datMusic'.Recordset.MovePrevious If Not (expression needed) 'datMusic'.Recordset.BOF Then(not accepted!) ...Show All

• Windows Forms multiline datagridview cells?

  In beta1, datagridview cells could contain display multiline data by default. In beta2, the data is shown on a single line with some control characters. (1) Can I set the cells to display multiline (2) Can I replace the control characters with something else (eg a double space) to make it look a little more professional Thanks this is a real problem. multiline text looks so ugly with the control characters dispalyed as black rectanges. There must be a way surely!!! ...Show All

• .NET Development Speech

  Am i able to use System.Speech on XP Caz when i run: System . Speech . Recognition .SpeechRecognizer r = new System . Speech . Recognition .SpeechRecognizer (); r . SetInputToDefaultAudioDevice(); r . Recognize(); I get: Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)) Hello, I'm not intimately aware of the installation requirements of the latest MS speech recognition engines, however, the speech team is very responsive in the newsgroups. [Disclaimer: I spent my first few years at MS in the speech group, and that was almost 5 years ago]. I would recommend posting your ...Show All

• SQL Server report header: how do i have underline

  im using tablerow for header of my report and i want to have underline for the labels. how do i do that thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development replace webbrowser contextmenu

  greetings, how is this done   when i add a contextmenu(strip) to a form that has a webbrowser control and then set the wb contextmenu to it, the wb still uses the default.  docs don't mention any thing that this should not work.  a search doesn't turn up any additional info. toggling the  "iswebbrowsercontextmenu" property works fine. any ideas tia jas this works: in the Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted add-             AddHandler htmlDoc.ContextMenuShowing, AddressOf contextMenuSub create this Sub-   &nb ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Could you tell me how should I do to enable the work flow foundation can be used?:

  I have installed vs.net 2005 in my computer just now and there is no something which indicates the work flow foundation is available. So I downloaded the file of " Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2_2(EN).exe" from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5C080096-F3A0-4CE4-8830-1489D0215877&displaylang=en. But the product code is required to install it. could you tell me the product code or another way to have the wff available. Thank you! There should not be a need for a product code. Which version of VS 2005 do you have If you are getting an error can you please post t ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET COM and Remoting

  Hi. I handle a serious problem with remote connection from my Agent( writen on c#) module that is actually registerd as COM object and loaded by Executable that writen on C++, .NET Agent and Executable reside in different folders. I receive following Exception from my remote server: "Return argument has an Invalid type". Module Detailed explanation: 1) HostClient.exe - Executable for My .NET COM Agent(MyAgent.dll) . Simple c++ aplication that call CoCreate() method. Location: HostClient.exe is only one module in "c:\" directory. 2) MyAgent.dll - this module performe remote connection to my server application. .NET C# a ...Show All

• SQL Server need help designing database

  Hello I have a database which has to tables, Files and Sites. in Files i have a field called hash, which is declared as varchar. my question goes here, would it be better to declare hash field as binary or to leave it as varchar and if binary is better(faster) how can i search in binary field thanks. Say the Files table was Create Table ( id int primary key hash varbinary(200), ...) If your hash is really binary (like say CRC, MD5, SHA-1, etc), then I would make it a varbinary. Speed wise binary is a little faster since it does not have to evaluate a comparison according to collation rules. You can search binary fields like any othe ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI Application

  Hi , I'm Creating a MDI Application, so I try to acces to a Item Menu of My parent Form, befoere close A child Form, this becasue, When I Push the Button That create my child Form I disaebled that button in my parent form so when I close my child Form I want to enable again, Dim frmNewMDIChild As New Form2 frmNewMDIChild.MdiParent = Me BarButtonItem1.Enabled = False frmNewMDIChild.Show() Also what is the event that fire that action I dont' see any onclose event of my form. The code provided will work. However, the "better" way to accomplish this would be to have your parent form set enabled to false just before ...Show All