DaveL5's Q&A profile

• SQL Server User Instance...

  ok just letting everyone else I am getting the Failed to Generate A User Instance error. I had no problems with my sql server and C# application on my own computer ( windows xp sp2) but once I moved the program to our terminal server and setup sql express on there I had nothing but problems. I get the failed to generate a user instance error on connecting to the DB from within my C# application. So far I have tried deleting the local settings fo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Target Windows Mobile 5.0 without VS 2005?

  Is there any way to target devices running Windows Mobile 5.0 without using VS2005 Unfortunately, the UI of VS 2005 doesn't work for me because of the way it entirely ignores my visual preferences (and the compiler, apparently favoring 'security' over anything else, isn't of much interest to me), so I'm forced to stay with previous version of VS. I attempted to install the SDK despite not having VS2005, and it seems to enforce that req ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problems uninstalling Trial Version of Visual Studio 2005

  I am having problems with installing my new copy of Visual Studio 2005. First of all, I can not seem to uninstall a 90 day trial version of the software. Here are my steps: First I uninstall the 90 day version. When I install the new licensed version, it still says that I have zero days left to try out the product, even though I enter the serial # and register the product. What gives Other than re-installing my operating system, ho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Print PaperSize?

  Hi,    How are we supposed to set the paper size when printing a LocalReport with the windows forms ReportViewer I mean the Printer PaperSize, at printing time, not the Report's Layout size. Thanks, Juan If you are asking about the toolbar, there will be a Page setup icon in the final version of ReportViewer. If you are asking about the API, you can pass paper size via deviceInfo when exporting to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Toolbar strip and TextBoxes

  Dear All,     Does Toobar strip now allow addition of controls like TextBox, buttons & combo-boxes Thanks & Regards Sunil Additionally, you can inherit from ToolStripControlHost and provide strongly typed properties, methods and events - this  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Difficulties in getting Code coverage information

  I am testing ASP.NET web controls and am facing difficulties in getting code coverage information from my tests.  For testing our web controls, I am using the [HostType("ASP.NET")] and [UrlToTest(" http://localhost/TestSite ")] attributes in my test projects to either test a website that has these webcontrols, or dynamically add these controls to a empty test website and test their properties and methods. So my project structure is like t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Visual Studio 2005 doesn't show the panel for XAML Design on one of my user logons ?

  hi i finally got all those things needed to start developing applications for XAML and i saw me stuck with the screen without a designer on one of my logon id's in my home machine. Whenever you open a xaml file from a WinFX application, it will show "Design, Xaml, and Source" in a tab. but one of my other logon id's show just the source and no option for me to switch to UI and design it is there anything i messed up with my vi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Databinding & Currency Manager

  Hi,    I am going through David Sceppas book "Microsoft ADO.NET (Core Reference)" and I am working through one of the examples he gives in the book.  I tested it in Visual Studio 2003 and it works with no problems.  However when I try using Visual Studio 2005 it does not work as expected.  In the sample application he creates a Windows form with 4 text boxes that uses Databinding to bind to a Data Source which point ...Show All

• SQL Server Large amount of text pushing to separate page after PDF Render

  I am having a small problem. When I generate a report with a large amount of text data (Paragraphs) the report will not split the text between two pages. It will move the entire text box to the next page leaving a large amount of space on the previous page. I tried every control on the page to render this. I tried textboxes, tables, lists, rectangles, subreports, etc.. The data is stored in a SQL table using a text data type (there c ...Show All

• SQL Server Error: "no report servers were found on the specified machine"

  Error: "no report servers were found on the specified machine" I get this error when launching the Reporting Services Configuration Manager...I've never seen this error, usually it can talk to my local servername but unfortunately it's not. This is a new test server and the first time I've come across this message after setting up Reporting services on 2 machines sucessfully in the past. NoEgo wrote: ...Show All

• Windows Forms listbox selected index background color

  How can i change the listbox selected index font and background color. You need to create a derived class from ListBox (technically you don't have to but it would be best).  In the constructor for your class set DrawMode to OwnerDrawFixed to tell Windows that you'll handle the painting.  Implement OnDrawItem as follows: protected override void OnDrawItem ( DrawItemEventArgs e ) {     &nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Snapshot Agent cannot start Server execution failed

  Hello, I've configured SQL Server 2000 for merge replication and am trying to start the snapshot agent for the publication and after about 20 minutes of it trying to start, it gives up with this error. Server execution failed There is no more information in the event viewer. I've tried it with a bunch of different subscriptions. SQL Server and SQL Agent are running under a local account which has access to the replcation data directory. S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to uninstall and clean old vbexpress

  I would like to install .net beta 2. However I had previously installed beta 1, and worse, vbexpress beta 1. Then I must have really messed up and uninstalled those products in the wrong order. So now I cannot install beta 2.  I found and ran the Beta 2 Cleanup Tool, and it successfully cleaned MSDN for me. I had already hand-cleaned the registry as best I could.  However, the tool errors out when trying to clean vbexpress - the error ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Register a dll on windows ce

  I use a com dll with my project on windows ce but I must register it.I try to do this with adding cab project to my project and I add the dll to the cab for registration but it didn't work it can not register it. And I didn't find the regsrvce.exe file on my system to register the dll. Is there any way to register the dll on windows ce. Second post in this thread explains how to register DLL on de ...Show All

• Windows Forms Public statusstrip in base winform is not accessible in derived form?

  I have a base form that contains a StatusStrip control that is marked as Public. There are also some buttons on the toolstrip that are also marked as Public. I have a derived form and I can see the statusstrip including the buttons. When I click on the status strip the properties are greyed out. However, if I scroll down and look at the modifier property I can see that it is Public. The is quirky behavior. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 T ...Show All