Ronalld's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express and SQL 2000

  Can VB Express 2005 ( and Web Express 2005 ) be used to created applications and webs that interface and work with SQL Server 2000 or is SQL 2005 Express ( and/or SQL Standard 2005 ) required Thank you. yes, you can. However, you will not be able to create/modify the database through the IDE (Use your existing management tools, or use SQLServer Management Studio Express, available as a free download). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Active Directory and NT4 mix

  Hi, I would like to evaluate the trial edition of TFS, but reading through the installation instructions, it does not support running on an NT4 domain. At present, I have a 2003 server build to install the software on. Unfortunately, My area is stuck on an NT4 domain for the forseeable future, so I want to know what my options are. The following three options spring to mind, but are they workable/supported Note: I'm not a network specia ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem displaying state machine wf in the workflow monitor

  The Activity layout is a mess when diplaying a state machine workflows in the workflow monitor sample (sdk). Is there a solution If you have rehosted the designer then you must have used the WorkflowDesignerLoader class to load/save the contents of the Workflow into the designer. Your loader class can call protected methods LoadDesignerLayout/SaveDesignerLayout to load/save the layout in either file or string. These methods take XmlReader ...Show All

• Visual Basic PLEASE HELP - Can't Deploy Interop.Excel.DLL

  PLEASE HELP. I've developed a vb.net app which works great on my dev machine, both within the IDE and as a compiled executable. But when I deploy it to a user workstation, I receive the following: Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately. Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft Of ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using 1.0.21.288 being a firewall as the DMZ?

  I have been running with version 1.0.22.290 of the terrarium which seems to work successfully behind my firewall since I am configured to be the DMZ, but almost no one is using this version.  So I wanted to be able to use the older 1. ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting XML web page in SQL 2000

  Hi All,. I am trying to open and read an XML web page directly from SQL Server 2000. I have found various articles on preparing and opening an XML document ( http://www.perfectxml.com/articles/xml/importxmlsql.asp  and http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-9592-5796532.html #) but both presume the XML file is local. Is there a way of getting the data direct from a web page (e.g. http://www.bnz.co.nz/xml/currencySelect.xml ) in SQL co ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. i need help! pls I want to begin to write games

  I need documents to learn to use directx in c++ or vb, to not knoweverything about directx, thanks for its attention and hope can help me, and sorry for mi english Of course one simpler route would be to use a pre built game engine. Say you want to start building a first person shooter (which is a very big job to do it properly), look at one of the game engines built for this type of game. Whilst you will have plenty of programming still t ...Show All

• Visual C++ Matrices?

  Hi I'm fairly new to C++ and I was wondering if there is a matrix class that can be used. If so, how is it imported I'm using visual studio 2003 Thanks Lots of them. Take your pick. http://search.msn.com/results.aspx q=C%2B%2B+matrix&FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Opacity and Transparancy...

  Hi I'm workin on a Splash screen (Yet another one.. :) )... and the idea is as follows. 1. When starting its completly transparant.... nothing is seen on the screen.. 2. It shall fade up until completly "solid"  (sorry about the language) 3. After a period it shall fade down until inviseble and then closed. This sequence is handled by a Timer and Opacity property.... During 2 (Splash is visible) the Splash window displays a bitmap as a back ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Reusing Window Objects

  Quick question: I have a XAML/C# Window object which is a WPF dialog box. When I want to show the dialog I call the ShowDialog function. Then when the user presses Ok, Cancel, Escape, or presses the Close Button the window disappears, and ShowDialog returns the dialog result. Is it then possible to resuse this object to show the dialog more times, without creating a new fresh object. It seems that once Close has been called, the windo ...Show All

• SQL Server Error Message "Key Sequence columns are not supported at the case level"

  Hi group, I was trying to build a sequence clustering model in MSAS. I could deploy the model. Then while building the model, I end up getting an error with message "Key Sequence columns are not supported at the case level". Can some one tell me what it means and how i can avoid it Thanks in advance to any kind of help here. The Microsoft_Sequence_Clustering algorithm requires the sequence informati ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Purchasing Load Agents/Controllers

  Hi, I am looking for getting team test load agents/controller software. I see that no evaluation copy can be downloaded. Is this correct The price for purchase seems to be around $5000+. Can some one confirm this Thanks, Praveen Hi Praveen, You are right, Team test load agent is not available via MSDN Subscription or MSDN Downloads. It is only available for retail. Pricing depends on sever ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PocketPC trap volume button

  I am trying to either disable or trap the volume button on a Symbol MC50. If the user accidentally hits either the vol up or down, the focus momentarily changes to the volume menu. Since this PocketPC has a scan button just above the volume button, the user might hit the scan button while the volume menu has focus. Any help would be appreciated. You can try to use the RegisterHotKey API with the VK_APP_LAUNCH5. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploying Extra Files Preserving Folder Structure

  Hi gang, My application requires a bunch of support files in the form of text files in subfolders beneath the exe. I understand that I can add a file to my project and flag it as "Content" so that it will be deployed via ClickOnce with the exe, but can I preserve folder structures by doing this For example, can I create a folder structure in my project, add "content" files to a subfolder, and expect those files to be deployed within that folder ...Show All

• Visual Basic Higlight (select) text in data entry dialog box

  Hello, I have what must be a simple issue with VB2005: I have a window form label control click event that opens another form as a dialog. The dialog box is a simple numerical entry keypad where user enters a number by clicking on a keypad formed by command buttons labeled 0-9 etc. The calling form's code is as follows: frmKeypad2.tbData.Text = lblRunSpeed.Text ' Copy old value to data entry text box on dialog frmKeypad2.ShowDialog() ...Show All