Chriswo2's Q&A profile

• SQL Server with new hard drive- Error 3: the system cannot find the specified path

  Installed SQL Server 2000 Enterprise trial a week ago on XP Pro. Installed new Seagate 80G HD; used Seagate's utility to copy old C: to new drive as new boot drive. All seems to work fine, except, when booting up, SQL server doesn't start. When I try to start it manually I get the following: Could not start SQLSERVER service on the local computer. Error 3: the system cannot find the specified path. 1. What could be wrong 2. How do I fix it Looks like some files are missing. Does your old disk contain only C: dirve What do you see from system event log and/or sql server errorlog ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) binding to a function call instead of property?

  Hi, If I have following function class LanguageHandler { public static string GetString(string key) { } } Is anyway I can binding a textblock - text to the GetString function thanks/chong I thought you could specify a MethodName in ObjectDataProvider, no < ObjectDataProvider x:Key = " Code1DSKey " d:IsDataSource = " True " ObjectType = " {x:Type MyNameSpace:Code1} " MethodName = " MyFunction " /> .... < TextBlock Text = " {Binding Source={StaticResource Code1DSKey}} " /> Thanks, -Unni ...Show All

• Windows Forms Big Problem, I think it's bug

  -VS2005 RC -Framework 2.0 release When I close a form with bindining datasource on it, I have this error.   An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll Additional information: Sort string contains a property that is not in the IBindingList. Yes,I have the same problem. It only happened on my first table in my DataSet. If I remove the sorting string,the problem disappeared. who can help us My Email: wxwok@163.com ...Show All

• SQL Server Why does the index lock my updates in SQL Server 2005?

  When one process has one record locked in Update-Mode then an other process can't update any other records on that table with some queries, other queries that access the same records (but with a different WHERE statement) will execute. This problem occurs with SQL Server 2005, but it didn't with SQL Server 2000 (or any other database). The problem: -Process 1 locks a record in the table, and keeps it in Update-Mode, because the user is editing it. (Using OLEDB Pessimistic Cursor-locking) -Process 2 wants to update an other record, buts gets a "Lock timeout" when using one query but not with another. For example this que ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Studio Integrated Help?

  I'm looking at creating some documentation/help for some components that I have written. Professional is a top priority for me.  I'm wanting to have my documentation integrated with Visual Studio ... such that it will handle F1 and intellisense will show descriptions of the methods/properties ... etc. I have been looking at MS Help2, I was curious of what will probably be the best application to use to build my help files Thanks for any insight If you just want documentation of your API then it is already built into .NET.  C# and VB (as of 2005) support documentation of the code API through XML.  Refer to XML Documen ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Services Publishing Issue in VS 2005, testing on Windows XP, with Winforms Client

  I'm working on a simple Web Services example on Windows XP calling the service from a Winforms Client. The application works perfectly when run inside the Visual Studio IDE. When I publish to http://localhost I the application will hang calling the service. When I publish to a secondary XP laptop, I get a Index out of Range error. I have steped through all the code in VS and everything works fine through the IDE. The solution is composed of a Service project, the Windows Client project, and a supporting Library project. When I publish the code, I can access the service but when I pass a simple string parameter I get back and Index Out of ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Overload possible

  I need a way to overload a fox function like Empty with a UDF of my own called Empty. Is this possible If Fox doesn't support overloading, is there a class I can inherit from and override the empty function I need help ASAP. Thanks, Let me ask when you try to avoid this Is this a legal requirement If not, check out the Code References utility on the Tools menu. It's a project-wide search and replace tool with support for regular expressions, etc. It should be easy to replace all occurrences of "EMPTY(" with "MyEmpty(" ...Show All

• Visual Basic Writing to a notepad

  When keyboard key is pressed, less say key A then a message " you have clicked A" should be entered into a notepad in the applications path. If the note pad already has messages, new messages should be entered after them, not in another new notepad I think you are confused.  Notepad is an application that reads and writes text files.  If you're talking about specifying a path then I'd say you mean a text file, i.e. a file that contains plain text. ...Show All

• SQL Server Pie Chart

  How do i specify the slice percentages on a pie chart when i dynamically generate an RDL file Edit the datapoint labels: * right-click on the chart and open the chart properties dialog * "Data" tab: click "edit" the "Values" - this will open the "Edit Chart Value" dialog * click on the "Point labels" and select "Show Point labels" By default the pie slices would show the values of the data points drawn (e.g. =Sum(Fields!Sales.Value)). If you want percentage values, then do the following: * add a data label expression, e.g.: =Sum(Fields!Sales.Value ...Show All

• .NET Development SerializationException: No assembly ID for object type

  Hello, I get an exception like this when I try to deserialize an object: SerializationException: No assembly ID for object type '1444949090 MyNameSpace.MyClass'. See the complete stack trace below. Does somebody know what this means and how I can solve this This exception is not documented in the help, and I find nothing about in on the web. The context is like this: I have a library1.dll that serializes MyClass, and a library2.dll that deserialize it. Both have a reference to library3.dll were MyClass is defined. Library1.dll runs as part of a webservice, library3 as part of a windows application, both on the same PC. MyClass contains a ge ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Code behaves differently on 3 different computers. ???

  I have a C# application that displays fairly simple 3d models (mostly lines and a few faces).  I am using Managed DirectX 9 August 2005.   On one computer (the development machine) the program runs fine.  On another computer, the lines don't draw (it's a call to drawIndexedPrimitives, type lineList) but the meshes do draw...and on two other computers, when I open the Form that has the 3d control, the computer freezes (before the form ever opens) and must be shutdown with the power switch.  I know this is a question with not much detail...but I'm not sure how much detail is needed to be helpful.    It's ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums show vba application

  Hi! Guys.. i am using Excel 2003 with VBA 6.3 and i need when user click in excel file at windows explorer, show my VBA userform and not show excel application, like a executable. Anyone know how Thanks very much!! Joao Carlos Hi Derek Your code resolve immediately my problem. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual C++ mfc + Design view?

  OK, I just installed and got up and running the VS2005 Beta 2 Standard/Team Suite. Sorry for the stupid newbie quesiton, but I'm trying to get familiar with the interface and settings. Is there a "design" view for creating a windows app. with MFC the way there is with the .NET Windows Forms Designer I created a nice little app with the >NEt, and would like to recreate or convert it to the Win32. Could it just be converted Or is there a designer for MFC Thanks. This could be done by creating a new dialog based mfc application. Just create a new mfc application, enter the project name then click next. ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to debug with VS on Compute Cluster Systems.

  How do you get past the job scheduler on the (new) compute clusters I've been trying to debug an application which is launched on CCS, but can't get the debugger to cooperate. I've seen the parallel debugger white papers but these concentrate on MS MPI. What if my app isn't an mpi app (Which BTW, I can get MSMPI apps to launch w/ the debugger just fine.) I've also extended the job time and checked the box to not stop the job. Still no luck. To keep it simple, I have a serial application which is accessing the cluster API to query it's job resources then start a simple hostname task on each node. What do I have to do to debug this ...Show All

• Visual C# DataGridView control with databound and non-databound columns

  I am trying to use a datagridview control to display images associated with a given record + some text about the image. The data table contains the text, technical info and the location of the image file. (I considered storing it in the database but it is stored as a byte[] meaning that databinding it to an image column does not work anyway. My datagridview has the text and image location and bound columns (the image location is hidden) and a thumbnail column, unbound and defined as a DataGridViewImageColumn. I can step trough each row and set the value property of the required cell to an imgae without a problem but nothing is displ ...Show All