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• Visual Studio Express Editions Screen Resolution/Text Size TOO SMALL!!!

  Hi I would appreciate any help with this. I have just installed Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition on my pc. My screen resolution is: 1280x1024.   For some reason, the text looks all funny. Please see here to see what I mean:   Issue Pic ( www.mattgarnham.com/images/vb2005/issue.jpg ) The text is really small, and it is really hurting my eyes straining to see this (after only 15 seconds or so). You can see at the top of the image, the text I can read (the menu bar etc) but everything else is well small :-( I really want to start developing, but cant at the moment. Any help gratefully recieved. Cheers. Matt Check your text size settings in internet explorer. InternetEx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Database Project Question

  I've got a team of 10 developers and we'll be migrating to VSTS DBPro as soon as it's released. In the mean time, I've created a database project containing our database schema and have it under source control. At the moment, I am the only one of the 10 that has the project loaded on his/her laptop. My question is this. When other developers first retrieve the project from source control and load it on their own laptops, is there is anything else they will need to do to begin working on the project Will they be able to simply retrieve from source control and go Thanks - Amos. Should work. But don't place the proj.user file under source control. This file is individual for each box / user. Alle ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FTVC Renames

  How can I rename a directory that is not empty You should be able to rightclick -> Rename in Source Control Explorer, or tf rename at the command line. Are you getting an error ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CSD call at pOCKET PC Phone

  We want to develop a application on pocket pc , which will send the data to another remote GSM modem with the help of CSD ( Circuit switch data ) call of pocket pc. Is there any API for CSD call in pocket pc . Pls. suggest how we can implement above application Thanks. Hi I'd be interested to see a sample of: a) A GSM CSD call being set up to send data to an internet server. b) A GSM CSD call to send "data" to another 'phone, as an alternative to sending and receiving SMS to another 'phone.  In both instances a public carrier would be used.  Is it possible to specify "number of slots" or other QoS parameter to allow HSCSD ...Show All

• Visual Basic Catching and recovering from database exceptions

  Is this a reasonable scheme for handling datbase exceptions when the program must keep running and must perform the update If not whats the recommended method Dim Done AS Boolean While Not Done Try updatedata Done=True Catch ex AS OdbcException logwriter(ex.ToString) Thread.Sleep(250) End Try "' Without the Finally you need to either code the connection close ' in all catch blocks or your app will likely ' handle connection close, and object(s) disposal" Or your app is exposed to unclosed connections and may have continued problems, basically the exception is not handled correctly. Rgds, Martin. ...Show All

• .NET Development WebUSerControl

  Hi, I need some help to create a web user control, following is the Scenario: WebUserUontrol.ascx file: 1 text box, 1 button control I want to create a control which will accept color value from textbox and onclick event of the button control it will change the back color of the page on which that control is being consumed. Value of the color property should come from textbox example: red, green etc. Suppose control is WebUserUontrol.ascx and web form is webPage.aspx, when the control will be used on the web page it should function as describe above. For this purpose I also want to use properties in the webusercontrol. Looking forward for the valuable responce. Regards, Kapil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Migrating .diagram files to V1 (September SDK)

  Release of September SDK is great, thank you, guys for all of this. But, in migratiuon guide there is a step 17: "The layout will need to be re-adjusted manually",which I hate. We have for about 100 models with not simple layout and when I look on differences in .diagram files from August and September SDK, this is not so big - only xml element letter case was changed, maybe some serialization of Collections... Could you, please provide some XSLT to migrate this Or, at least, differences of these formats (XSD will be ok). Thank you... Jan ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL compataiblity for *= join syntax

  I'm looking at upgrading to SQL2005 and have found the following issue with some old t-sql we have. We have some views that are created using the old outer join syntax of *=. If I run the SQL in query analyzer, it runs fine...but if I create a view with the SQL, when I query the view I get the error: Msg 0, Level 11, State 0, Line 0 A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded. Msg 0, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded. I tried changing the database compatibility level all the way back to 7.0, and recreating the view (still using *=), but still had the same error. Is it possible to have a ...Show All

• .NET Development TableAdapter missing the update method

  Hi all, I am trying to call the update method of my table adapter that was automatically created by dragging the table from data sources view. However, it appears that the update method doesn't exist Only Fill and Getdata. Even on single tables this happens Is there a known bug here. I am currently using VSTO 2005 and excel and it is extremely frustrating! I have followed this code (using my database instead of northwind) and no update method on my tableadapter http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4esb49b4.aspx Cheers Damien That was it. The primary key was not set in the database! I can't believe in this day and age that software houses would not set primary keys in their database (not ...Show All

• Windows Forms Formatting a string for a RichTextBox

  In my windows form application I have a rich text box that displays the cpu usage every second. If the cpu usage rises above 90% I want to display a line of text in **red font color**. I just don't know how to format a string to give it color. I know the rich textbox supports this because it supports the coloration of links, ect. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. In this case, I think you'll have to use the RTF codes (look here for specification) to build a RTF text. To see, how this looks like, paste and run the following code: richTextBox1.Text = "** This is the error line **" ; richTextBox1.SelectAll(); richTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color .Red; MessageBox .Show(richTextBox1.Rtf); Andrej ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL SERVER 2005 Desktop Engine Version avaliable?

  hi dear developers; i just finished my program and i am making a setup for it but the db is MSSQL SERVER 2005. the home users how will they use sql server 2005 is there any thing like sql server 2000 desktop engine something like that... shortly the user don't have to know sql server and settings of it so how will we do it thank you very much... hi thank you very much. i have seen that connection string i tired and it worked Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename='D:\databases\test_Data.MDF';Integrated Security=True; so how can i add  sql server express edition to my setup  one more question; can i use sql2000 files with sqlexpress 2005     ...Show All

• SQL Server Repeat charts in every page

  hi guys, In reporting services i have a table and below which i have a chart. The table has lot of values so the report spans multiple pages. I have set page breaks such that the table displays only 10 records. After all the values have been displayed in the last page the chart is displayed. I want the chart to display in each and every page of the report. It is the same chart that i want to display. How do i do this plz can anyone give me ideas. Thanks, Sai Abhiram Bandhakavi Include a new upper group in the table object and check the property for "Repeat on every page". Place the chart object in the new area. Done. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server matrix query

  I have the need to create queries that contain dynamic columns as in a matrix for example. a town cash report. columns are Jan05,Feb05,Mar05.... rows are town1,town2... data is lets say QTY for town1 during jan05 etc Depending on the beginnig month and ending month will determine the number of and name of the columns. The same is true of the rows (beginning town and ending town. Another example is this. employee paycodes. columns are paycode1,paycode 31,paycode32... rows are empl1,empl2... data might be earnings for that empl in that paycode category. The paycode columns are to be dependant on the activity in those paycodes during the range of dates that the report reflects. in my case, different paycodes are ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to launch Windows Explorer with a special path

  I want so launch an Windows Explorer Window wich shuld show a choosen directory and select a file in this directory. But how To lauch explorer with the specific directory showing. Process.Start("Explorer", "D:\school") This will loaded windows explorer with the directory d:\school as the default directory. ...Show All

• SQL Server Clustered SQL Server freezes & restarts itself in Enterprise Manager

  Hi, In our large organisation we have SQL Server 2000 running on a 2 node cluster using Windows 2000 Advanced Server Clustering. Each node has 2GB RAM. The server has about 10 databases only one of which is significant size at about 1GB. Our website accesses this database via ASP. The website receives between 10000-40000 hits per hour. The problem is that periodically (not necessarily during high load periods at all) this single database 'freezes' (not the whole server - the other databases seem fine) and refuses all login attempts from the website. This happened again on the weekend when the database was down for about 6 hours. When we go into Enterprise Manager and click on the instance, there is initially no activity for an unusual amou ...Show All