Tony Maynard-Smith again's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Deployment Project

    I have the results of a large deployment project that have to be installed. The prerequisites are: To test and see if the V2.0 framework is installed and if not install it To test and see if the MDAC V2.8 is installed and if not install it To test and see if SQLServer Express is installed and if not install it Also the customer project comes with a .MDF database that has to be added to the newly installed SQLServer Express in order for the program to function. How would this be done It is highly desireable to include these packages in the .MSI file. How do I include these files in the MSI ...Show All

• SQL Server Subscription Missing

  We are seeing a problem with the users of our application. If the user closes our application from running programs (as best as we can tell as we cannot repro in dev) and SQL Mobile is in the middle of an async sync, sometimes when the application restarts it fails to load the properties for replication from the database. We are using code that is nearly identical to the samples provided by MS for performing replication async. Basically, the database still exists on the device and the application can use it just fine, but when a sync starts, the database is already there, so it tries to load the properties at which point we get a message sta ...Show All

• Visual C# Background Thread

  Hi, How do I start a background thread. For example I've called the background thread, draw2, but  draw2 dr = new draw2()  wouldn't work. Thanks, Bruce ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS web search results in Firefox

  I'm having trouble getting WDS to provide web search results in Firefox. I understood this function was simply supposed to load up my default browser (firefox) and pass it " example query". This should go to my default search page and list results for "example query". However, I'm taken to the page "file:///C:/ %20example%20query" instead. If I type the string " query" into the location bar in FF directly I get the search results page as expected. Any ideas I realise this could just as well be an issue with Firefox as WDS. I have Windows Desktop Search Enterprise version 2.6 (without MSN toolbar), and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Identify that an old library is used.

  Hi I am new to creating FxCop rules, however I have got to the point where I have written rules for our corporate naming guidelines which test for any violations. My question is as follows. I want to add a rule which checks whether a class is "using" a library and advise to use the new recommendation. Has anyone done this one before and can provide me with some pointers to get started Thanks for any help Brendan The jmp and calli instructions are other ways (although not verifiable) of calling (jmp actually transfers execution to) methods, although I don't believe C# and Visual Basic use them (C++/CLI may) other l ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro DO FORM does not work in exec (for me)

  I have close to 50 clauses, it turns out, DO FORM in my application. They all work perfectly well in interactive mode with the browser but do not work at all in exec after I built it. By "do not work" I mean that I do not even get an error message. Those statements are completely ignored. What I've done so far is trying to find a formula under which I could call outside forms. As I mentioned, when a statement DO FORM <formName> is placed inside a method it does not work. I tried to place them in a prg file--the same negative effect. Or rather no effect. The next trick was to invoke a form in my startup (main) prg file a ...Show All

• Visual Studio printers in a network

  Please let me know how to fill out a combobox with the information of the printers available in the network. I am developing in VB 2005. Where can I find these information in the Windows Operating System Thanks and regards, Benedito Santana ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ May 2006 CTP Install Problem

  Hi, When starting the installer, I get the message: "administrator has set policies to prevent this installation" I do have Visual Studio 2005 Professional installed. What can i do Hi, It happened to me first time when I tried to install "May CTP". I have downloaded the package without download manager again and then worked fine. Not sure was that really problem with download manager or in mean time .msi package was replaced with another one. Regards, Zoran Jovanovic ...Show All

• SQL Server Database is read-only.

  Hi I have been learning on how to use the new features of the .NET 2.0, and Well I using VS2005 and everything is pretty straight foward. I did a Membership webform where you log in and create users and roles etc. I installed the SQL Server 2005 express as my Data provider and thats where my Tables are. I used the aspnetsql_reg comand to integrate the server to this application. Anyway my problem started when i decided to copy my project to my IIS server and well when I run the app from the Browser tells me that he Database It's set to Read-Omly and therefore it cant update it. This happens right after log in. but then I open ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Systems Question

  How does Microsoft Team Edition for software testers stack up against Mercury Winrunner Is there a side by side comparison of the two My company is debating on which one we should purchase Maybe it is a difficult question because the product is still in beta. Thanks Brian VS Load Testing compares favorably on this chart, but we do not want to post a head-to-head comparison here. VS strengths are: VS integration: Use a real language and debugger to develop your tests. Easy to use: Many features just work after recording: correlation of hidden fields (including VIEWSTATE), redirects, fetching page content (images, etc.), cookies, a ...Show All

• Visual Basic fade to black and white

  In XP when you go to shut down, windows fades to black and white. I think that's a nice effect. How would i go about fading a color image (image box stretched - like a screen saver) to black and white... Has this ever been done Is their a code snippet that already exsists Any thoughts A push in the right direction www.codeproject.com has my image processing articles. They show how to access the bits of an image directly, how to do a greyscale filter ( although it's quicker to do one using the color matrix, my approach is more generic ), and you could easily make a grey copy of an image, and animate the s ...Show All

• SQL Server Need Reporing Server Options in VS 2005

  I installed VS 2005 for one of our better users so he can start using VS 2005 for Report Designer. Because I'm a programmer, I installed Reporting Services with SQL 2005 so I automatically see the option in my VS 2005 to create a new Reporting Services project but he doesn't. What do I need to install to give him the Reporting Services Project options in VS 2005 You need to install the client tools of SQL Server 2005, particularly the Business Intelligence Development Studio. -- Robert ...Show All

• .NET Development Can't find System.Transactions namespace

  I want to try the transaction scope within my app, but the System.Transactions namespace can't be found! I simply type Imports System.Transactions right below the Imports System.Data.SqlClient (which is found). How come the namespace is not recognized Do I need to do something within the vs.net 2005 environment to enable it I've been using the ado.net 2.0 framework on my pc for a while now --- no problems. Imports System.Data.SqlClient Imports System.Transactions (Squiggly line under it saying namespace can't be found). Please do not reply to old threads with questions that are not directly related to the original topi ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums help me

  hi every body i want to know how to write the macros to access the data base form sql server using vba for excel .please help me You want to look into ADO. There is FAR to much to cover in a post but ADO but it's what your looking for. ADO are objects that let you communicate with a data source, including Access and SQL Server. To be honest your best buying a book on it. D. Sceppa - Programming ADO (MS Press) looks good. You DO NOT want to look into ADO.NET, which a google search of ADO will mostly list !! Learn the basics and then post again. All the best. ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with web services in VC++ 2005

  Hello, I tried to add web service reference (through "Add web reference" context menu item) into my newly created windows forms project, I listed WSDL file in editbox, clicked "Add reference button" but I got these errors immediatelly after the wizard window was closed: ------ Build started: Project: WSTut, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Compiling... stdafx.cpp d:\mywork\source\vc++\wstut\wstut\contextProvider.h(196) : error C2059: syntax error : 'public' d:\mywork\source\vc++\wstut\wstut\contextProvider.h(196) : error C2027: use of undefined type 'contextProvider::contextProvider'       &nb ...Show All