Lisa9740's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio QuickStart Tutorials installation fails

  Hi I have installed VS.NET 2005 VSTS Beta 2. I am now trying to install the QuickStart tutorials but it fails; the log is shown below. I have installed IIS and APS.NET 2.0 manually followed by IISRESET according to the Configuration Details document but the setup insists on attempting to reinstall ASP.NET 2.0 and failing. No instance of Visual Studio of any version has ever been installed prior to installing VS 2005. I am using Windows 2000 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions registration thank you email suggestion

  is missing product key it would be nice if it was included How did you install the product... Remember that if you did install the product by using the CD Image ISO or IMG you will not get a registration key in the email as the system does not require one (Item 7 on the Registration FAQ). The other option is to connect to the registration benifits portal and select the product keys option, this will displ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Tutorials build but will not run

  I figured I would give DirectX programming a try since I've been finding myself frustrated with the old school ways of OpenGL.  I downloaded the October SDK and installed it, I am using Visual Studio 2003 Professional on a Windows XP Professional operating system.  This is running inside a VMWare machine.  I can run the example executables just fine, albeit in software mode, but it does work.  Now for some reason when I load ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding a Team Server

  I have just completed an installation of Team Server Beta 2 and am trying to connect to it from VS 2005.  I get an error that says I am unable to connect to the selected Team Foundation Server and gives a varity of reasons, none of which seem likely to me.  Is there some magic I have missed here Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can i create my own server?

  I am trying to play Terrarium within a LAN with proxy and failwall :(.  i want to create my own server so that i can work with it. does the server code is publiced If anyone still has any version of the .Net Terrari ...Show All

• Visual C++ Shellexecute?

  Hiya all, i'm kinda new too this and need some help, i thought this would be the best place to ask so here goes.. i'm trying to get shellexecute to run something, just say i wanted to run/open a old text document "C:\test.txt" i would use this ShellExecute(handle, open,"C:\test.txt", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL); or ShellExecute(handle, open,"C:\test.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL); correct if so it doesn't work.... it complains about the handle ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DLinq vs ObjectSpaces

  I wonder what are Microsoft's plans about ObjectSpaces now that DLinq seems to be the official O/R mapper for .Net for the near future. I see there are a lot of differences between the two, but will ObjectSpaces be supported in the future Cheers, Gabriele Isn't ObjectSpaces slated for VS.NET 2005 and DLinq unsupported and slated for Orcas ...Show All

• Visual C++ Array + debug

  How can I see the value of the array using the project CLR/Windows Forms Application #include "stdafx.h" #include "Form1.h" using namespace Xcard_MDB; #include <iostream> using namespace std; #define TST_UC 12 unsigned char Tst_auc_m[TST_UC], i; [STAThreadAttribute] int main( array <System::String ^> ^args) { // Enabling Windows XP visual effects before any controls are created Application: ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Service problem

  Hi I wonder whether windows service can actually have gui interface or not, because I read from MSDN that Windows Service is usually service runing at the background and has no user interface associated with it, however I just wondering whether it&n ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataBinding vs Event Handler

  I have a Checkbox when checked I want to enable a Panel. The current Code that I have: pnlSeries.DataBindings.Add("Enabled", chkSeries, "Checked"); This works fine. My question, is it better to use DataBinding or make the change in an Event Handler. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) NetTcpBinding + service under IIS

  Hello, Is it possible to host a service under IIS and have its endpoint configured for NetTcpBinding I am trying to use svcutil.exe to generate client configuration file from the service URL, but the problem is I don't know what URL should I specify for a service hosted under IIS and configured for endpoint with NetTcpBinding. I would like to allow duplex communication between client and service. If this is possible, could anyone post a cl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Need help with serial communication project

  Hello,            I'm using VB 2005 on a serial port project and need some general guidance on how to get started. I need to make a program that has no user interface and runs as a background process that will listen to a specific serial port, and when data is recieved interpret it and act accordingly.          I am familar with VB and object ore ...Show All

• SQL Server Maintenance plan job unable to send Mail Alert

  Our configuration : SQL Server 2005 June CTP Enterprise Edition version : 9.00.1187.07 OS : Windows 2003   The Problem: After configuring Database Mail account and profile, maintenance plan or job generated with the maintenance plan Wizard is unable to send mail.   The SQL Agent error log contains those messages pointing on a bad profile name.   Error Messages [264] An attempt was made to send an email when no email session has be ...Show All

• .NET Development Refactoring Web Services Interfaces

  Does anyone have suggestions on refactoring web services interfaces I am interested in best practices for not only versioning interfaces, but for gracefully deprecating methods as well. For example, SOAP does not permit overloaded methods; each message name must be unique. If I want to create an overload for a method Foo() such as Foo(string), I would need to alter the message name of the latter. Also, if I want to indicate to my service's cons ...Show All

• Visual C# "a" and "§" --- What's this ?

  Hi PPl, Have any body got Idea about the special character "a" & "§".what's the usage i found this in a Web Service. It goes here, { strReturn += PwdReader["STAFF_ID"] + "a" + PwdReader["EMPLOYEE_CODE"] + "a" + PwdReader["FIRSTNAME"] + "a" + PwdReader["LASTNAME"] + "a" + ...Show All