sleepx3's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Failover design for TFS deployment (was What data lives on the app tier)

  Anyone have a walkthrough of failover design with TFS if there exists any I'm in the midst of trying to design a distributed development system with TFS dual server layout in the backend and 2 different proxy servers and need more information. /Andreas Documentation for AT failover and DT clustering is not available yet, but should be included with the documentation update in the upcoming RC release. TFS su ...Show All

• Visual Studio can't install VS2005 - "not a valid win32 application"

  I'm trying to install visual studio on desktop with an AMD64 processor (but using 32-bit XP Pro), and when I try to install Visual Studio 2005, I get a "not a valid win32 application" in a dialog box. I get the error "D:\ is not a valid win32 application" when I try to use autoplay, and "D:\setup.exe is not a valid win32 application" when I try to run setup directly from the disc. Any ideas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Printing from a Datagrid in VB.Net

  I'm trying to print the contents of a Datagrid, any ideas on how i do this   I've looked at the other threads to do with this and none of these actually answer the question, or they are in C#. Thanks Thanks, i managed&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Nvchar fields do not replicate

  Hi This is my first post ! I have a database running on SQL server. It's setup as a publication and replicated to a subscriber by a pull subscription. All my records seem to replicate accross - all new additions and deletions work fine as do most updates. The problem is I have two fields - both declared as nvchar that do not replicate - they do not update when the published database changes. Has anyone got any ideas what may be ca ...Show All

• .NET Development AutoInstallation of framework

  Hi. I want to make a setup for my application that automatically and in background installs .Net Framework 2 with my application. Can you help me, please Best wishes Something like this: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/dotNetInstaller.asp or this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=cd11be5a-c735-48d9-9cdd-a6d211c2e1c1&displaylang=en     You can't put the framework install as part of you ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mouse Hit Testing when primatives used not meshes

  I did search the existing threads and have read them - those that I can understand - but they do not seem to apply - at least with my limited understanding. I have a "2D" card game started in DirectX3D using managed C#. I read Tom Miller's book as the basis and starting point. I have several "playing" cards rendered as CustomVertex.PositionedNormalTextured that I add to a VertexBuffer. I draw them with the DrawPrimative ...Show All

• Visual C# MessageBox

  I kno I have posted this before, but I didnt get the response I was looking for. I have a messagebox, and when it pops up, I want every part of the computer to be inaccessable until the user presses ok in the messagebox. Can someone tell me how to do this I'm faily new to c#, but from what I've learned you can only make your application inaccessable with a messagebox not the entire computer. Thats what managed code is all about, so that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installation problem - reboot required before installing pre-requisites

  whenever i tried to install the prerequisites for Visual Studio.NET, it prompted up an error saying "Setup has detected that anohter program requires the computer to reboot. You must reboot the computer before installing Visual Studio .NET Prerequisites..." Even after i reboot my computer, it still gave the same message. Anyone knows why and what should i do in order to install the software. Thanks, Raymond I woul ...Show All

• SQL Server Query the Full-Text Words List?

  Hi Guys. I’m doing searches in a DB and am using the Full-Text Indexing. CONTAINS() will only process strings (words!) three letters or more in length. Even though it can do substring searching, it will only do this if it recognises the parameter as a word . So take this code for example:           Dim mySQLStatement As String = "SELECT TOP 100 Description, Price, Stock FROM Products W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Delete a textline containing a certain string from a text file .

  hello I am new to vb and i cant not seem to solve this problem .What i am tring to do is very simple . I have a simple form with a textbox and a button , i use it to add a line of code into a textfile. This works just fine . My problem is that i want to create a simple form that will delete a line that contains a certain string . i do not want to delete the whole file just a certain string . here is the code i use to add a line t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions PSDK install fails

  Error 1329. A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file C:\Windows\Installer\MSI504.tmp is not digitally signed. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. (C:\Windows\Installer - not a valid directory btw, must be part of the PSDK install ) This was the march 06 x86 build. Running xp sp2 build 2600. error was thrown while installing this file... C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 20 ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Equivalent of SqlDataReader.Item

  I'm new to C#, moving over from VB... Is there an equivalent to VB's SqlDataReader.Item   Here's what I'm trying to do: SqlCommand cmdSelectedRecord = new SqlCommand (SQLStmt,conn); SqlDataReader SelectedRecord = cmdSelectedRecord.ExecuteReader(); txtLastName.Text = SelectedRecord.Item("lname"); txtFirstName.Text = SelectedRecord.Item("fname"); SelectedRecord.Close(); Obviously I have defined my SQLStmt and conn as the connection.&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server how do you query or run a trace on a cube?

  ive just inherited an olap analysis reporting app at work. i want to know can i query a cube, or run a trace to see what data is being called from the cube Use SQL Server Profiler and create a new trace and connect to the SSAS db. You will see all the MDX being executed. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Extending ComboBox

  Hi all, I have inherited the task of maintaining C# code that was developed on NT. I am currently trying to build and run it on XP. It is building fine but isn't running. The problem is down to a combobox. The developer has extended the standard ComboBox to add some functionality but it appears that this extension has broken the ability to assign a datasource to it.   When I try to assign an ArrayList to it the value of DataSource is = ...Show All

• SQL Server Applying the updates to SQL Mobile Server?!

  Dear MSDN Support, Here i am back with an inquiry about the last process of Merge Replication between SQL Mobile 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Well i have performed all the steps found in the tutorial of the SQL Mobile Edition Books Online, and everything went on so fine and smooth. Now when i deploy my application on the Pocket PC emulator all possible SQL queries work and modify the data only in the emulator, i had installed ActiveSync 4.0 a ...Show All