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• Visual Studio Express Editions install error

  Downloaded & installed OK on desktop.  On Laptop, still getting the Windows Installer 3.1 error.  The installation stops with the error message to send or not to send to Microsoft.  On the download to desktop, the Windows Installer 3.1 wasn't one of the items being installed.  However, when I did the install to the laptop, it was in the list of items it would install.  Both systems xp pro sp2. Any help Hi,   Could you try installing Windows Installer 3.1 from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;893803  and see if this succeeds If it does then you should be able to continue wi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Displaying more than one value per combobox line

  im populating a combobox with the following code: cmb.DataSource = ds.Tables(myTable) cmb.DisplayMember = "DrawingNumber" cmb.ValueMember = "DrawingNumber" I'd like the DisplayMember to display 3 fields from the DataSet next to each other. I tried the following but it didnt work: cmb.DataSource = ds.Tables(myTable) cmb.DisplayMember = "DrawingNumber" & " - " & "Description" & " - " & "ArticleNo" cmb.ValueMember = "DrawingNumber" Also, how can I make sure that the second fields are all aligned with each ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS.net2005 & VS.net2003 unknown error

  Im having this huge problem, I had VS.net2003 installed befour and it worked fine, but then I re installed my windows and then it gave me a "unknown error" att installation but it continued to install anyway, at the end of the installation it said that 0 errors occured. but then when I tried to start it it gave me first a Document explorer "unknown error" then a visual studio enviroment "unknown error" no ID or anything. so I re installed my system, updated to all the latest updates. installed VS.net2005 and then it worked!, but now a couple of weeks later (I havent done anything to my system) it gives me the same error again! please help. ...Show All

• SQL Server Connect Oracle10g from SSIS

  Hi All, Does anyone try to create a task in SSIS extract data from Oracle10g to SQL Server 2005 Regards, Nicol Have you gotten any response on this yet If not let me know and I'll put something together. ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to cast object of type 'System.Security.Principal.GenericIdentity' to type 'System.Web.Security.FormsIdentity'

  I am getting the following error when i request the page in iis. it was working fine. if anybody give any solution for this is greatly appreciated Server Error in '/' Application. Hi, First off, I think you'll find more info in the ASP.NET > Security forum. See http://forums.asp.net/25/ShowForum.aspx It looks like your website expects you to use Forms Authentication. This means the user is presented with a login form. When you fill in the form and login, a Principal object that contains the right Identity is then attached to the current thread. You have to configure your application correctly in order to use Forms Au ...Show All

• Windows Forms Server Install Error: The parameter is incorrect. (taskvisionsource_1.1.0.0.msi)

  So I am trying to setup a server of my own and was installin g the server piece has anyone found a fix for the "The parameter is incorrect." message during the installation I am running Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0 SQL Server 2000 I do have the .NET Framework v1.0.3705 also installed. Is there a way I can install via Source Any help would be gre ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFSDeleteProject.exe fails to delete projects which fail in their creation but are partially in existence

  I posted a bug for this on the bug reporting site: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=a02f3956-e1c7-43f3-99f4-0a6959ee81b7 MS say they have fixed it in v1, however, does anyone know how I can remove projects manually from source control or reporting services manually for an orphaned project We ran into one last issue in this process I thought I would share.  On some of the machines, the deleted projects were still appearing in the source control explorer.  (Even attempting to do a "New Team Project..." on those boxes and creating a project with the exact project name that had bee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System version control, savepoints and shelving

  I like the idea of 'shelving' in VSTS a lot (we'd use it mainly for personal savepoints). However my understanding is that each shelfset must have a unique name, they cannot be incremental In this case, I would have to create 'john1' then 'john2' etc to get some rollback facility. Not ideal. The alternative approach (that we currently use on SVN) is to have a personal branch for savepoints, commit to that regularly (it's personal, so broken code is fine) and, when finished, merge the work as one unit into the main trunk. If we use this on VSTS would we then be able to totally remove these branches from the server (and reclaim the space). T ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ASP.NET Best Practices

    What are the best practicies to integrating ASP.NET into the WWF   I would like to be able to do something like this...                   [Start]                        |                |-----|------|                A      B     &nb ...Show All

• Visual C# Writing directly to the console buffer

  First, my situation: I'm trying to make a simple 2d game using the Console and special characters. I need to update the map quickly, is there any way to directly access the characters and change them without having to do Console.Write I need to do it very quickly so it doesn't flicker :) Try playing around console API functions, as it will give you more control over console printing. Use GetStdHandle with -11 as its parameter to retrieve the standard console handle: [DllImport("kernel32.dll")] internal static extern IntPtr GetStdHandle( int nStdHandle); // Sample IntPtr stdout = GetStdHandle(-11); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Re-Registering

  I registered VB 2005 Express and i dont get a key or anything to put the key into. Now after a couple of days I get a balloon popup in my taskbar asking about registering it. I registered again. After starting it again it does it again. What do i do about it I got the same problem with VC# 2005 Express, I read a couple of threads and most of them say it will always happen until I time, I guess this is an annoyin' bug that should be notified to Microsoft's "know-it-all" guys... :-/ ...Show All

• SQL Server installation failure (just installing database server)

  Hi Everyone, I recently installed Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 2 which included SQL 2005 Community Technology Preview. After installing it all, I was no longer able to connect to my SQL 2000 instance in Enterprise Manager. The application opened ok but whenever I tried to browse the server or register it again, it was giving me an error relating to named pipes which really confused me since I was trying to connect to a SQL 2000 database through the SQL 2000 application. I was able to use the 2005 equivalent application (the name eludes me right now) to connect to the \SQLEXPRESS instance. All this time I could still connect to the default i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Slightly annoying Code Analysis/FxCop issue

  When code analysis is enabled for an assembly and you want to supress a specific analysis warning, you can right-click and choose suppress message.  The offending code is appropriately decorated with an attribute and the warning is striked out.  However, on future runs the warning returns and is not striked out.  If you supress it again then the code is decorated with a duplicate attribute.  I assume this is not the correct behavior.  Is there a workaround After some digging around, I found out that it will be fixed in the final release . ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binary serialization to a shared store, is it possible?

  Hi I am in the middle of writing the second part of my free control library that I hope I will post on my web site at the end of this week, if I solve this problem of course :) I am trying to create a common theme store component that can be used by the controls in an application; the main idea is to provide the component  ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to Display a Tooltip at a Different Location than the Mouse Cursor?

  I was wondering if it's possible to display a tooltip at a different location than where the mouse currently is. I'm making a map program, and when I go to a desired intersection, I want the tooltip to popup on top of it to sort of annotate it. If this isn't possible, does anyone know any other way to draw a balloon type message at a specified point on the screen Thanks for any help. I was trying to search on giving a recommendation to use something like the new Super ToolTips in Office 2007. I think I've seen an article describing how to make those when I happened upon an article describing OwnerDraw ...Show All