henri805's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Rebuilding System Databses

  I have just spent 2 days trying to rebuild my system databases after a crash. Each time I issued the start /wait setup.exe etc . command, the task would fail with the error: MSI (s) (80:10) [12:07:34:815]: Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 -- Error 1706. An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Server 2005 cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package 'SqlRun_SQL.msi'. The initial install of SQL was run from a network share. The rebuild was from CD. It seems that the original installation source paths are retained in the registry and are not ignored when attempting a rebuild. Searching the registry for 'SqlRun_SQL.msi' throws up ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems when moving from Beta3 refresh to RTM version

  Hi all, I've now worked with the source control part for quite a while in the Beta 3 refresh version of TFS. Now we're upgrading to a released version and want to restore our work on new HW. Both the Beta installation and the new released version are single-server installations that belongs to the same domain. I've followed the instructions 'How to: Move Your TFS from one HW configuration to another'. Here's the link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404869.aspx 1. The first problem I get into is when I move the service accounts using command: tfsadminutil ChangeAccount domain\tfsservice domain\tfsservice I'll get messages that changes were made to application pools 'TFS AppPool', 'TFSWSS' and 'TFSWSSADMIN', b ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) wcf starter question

  Hi, when i am trying to create a sample wcf application, i gets stuck either by SvcConfigEditor for creating app.config or svcutil svcutil /language:C# /config:app.config http://localhost:8001/testwcfService I could not find those files on my system despite installing dotnetfx3. I suppose that becasue i don't have windows sdk installed.Can somebody please let me know whether i can get and run these executables seperately without downloading the entire sdk. Any more executables which are required Also are these necessary for creating any wcf application regards yes, you can copy and run the sdk tools without install entire sdk, they only have dependency on the WCF binaries. Another useful s ...Show All

• Architecture Best practice using data types in data access layer?

  Hi, Well, couldnt quite find a valid group - hopefully this one will do. Im using the web service factory application tool with great joy ( http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx id=6fde9247-53a8-4879-853d-500cd2d97a83 ). But i have come up short looking for best practices about using (or not using) data types in the data access layer. The scenario: I have some service call that in standard way gets data. Data access layer working on business objects and the service returning the translated data types. Now theres the need for paging results. Thus I create some usefull data types for Paging. In this case a PagingIn and PagingOut data type (eg. the pagingout would hold the total number of pages etc). Now - is it " ...Show All

• Visual C# Accessing old(legacy)resource DLL in C#

  Hi, Need help on how I can use data from old resource only DLLs in my C# .NET app. I have a collection of about 5 DLL's generated in 1998 that contain strings, images and sounds needed for this new c# application. I've attempted the following.... 1) to use add reference->browse to add the DLL to my solution but get and error saying it cant add because it needs a valid assembly or COM component. 2) attempted to use System.Resources. ResourceManager .CreateFileBasedResourceManager to load the resources, but I seem to be doing something wrong because it does not load anything into the datastructure. 3)I've searched around for any examples for how to do this but cant find anything with C# and old resource DLL. I've used resh ...Show All

• Visual C# How to show all TODO items?

  When I open the "Task List -> Comments" not all TODO's from the project are shown. It seems that the IDE does only scan the open files. What do I have to do ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Screen dimensions for the 360

  I'm wanting to port my XNA Beta 2 games across to the 360 but before I start I have a couple of questions about the screen resolution. I'm wanting to be able to support standard def 4:3 and 16:9 as well as high def 4:3 and 16:9. Now, for the aspect ratio, I'm assuming I can just create a project matrix with the correct ratio, like: Matrix.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView(MathHelper.ToRadians(45.0f), 16.0f / 9.0f, 1.0f, 10000.0f); ...for a 16:9 ratio. But, what resolution would I have to set the screen to for the standard def and high def I'm assuming that it defaults to a standard def resolution but I'm not sure what or even how to go about changing it. Please help. Kurt Jaegers wrote: 480i (non-hidef) ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development A problem with IWebBrowser2:Navigate() under IE7

  I have a problem with ie7, the method Navigate of interface IWebBrowser2 can't work as before. My application is a C++ one, there is a Browser control (BrowserObj1) which is created in the main thread, hosted in the main window. The browser control will direct to a html file ( index.htm ) using method Navigate of IWebBrowser2. There is a custom control (MyControl) embeded in a table of the index.htm. My control is a visible one which hosts another Browser control (BrowserObj2). Till here, all the codes work fine under both ie6 and ie7. Then, invoke method Navigate of BrowserObj2 in main thread, to load another html file (page1.htm). Now, the method Navigate fails to navigate page1.htm under ie7, and the return value is "the requ ...Show All

• SQL Server Instances

  How to see the no of instances created for my server. if it is sql server 2005 sqlcmd -L : it will list all the instances in the network , you can identify by machine name what all the instance in your machine for SQL 2000 osql -L ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Schema Crawling Question

  Hey there team, If I wanted to get the names of fields that comprise a key, what's the preferred way of doing that :) I've been crawling around in the MetadataWorkspace, and boy there's a lot there. Might be beneficial to have some sort of post that outlines the big concepts with this namespace... Thanks! Mike You need to look for the type in "CSpace", not in "OSpace" (of course, those terms are not supposed to surface in the API :), so you may need to tweak the function a bit in order to find the entity type. Pablo Castro ADO.NET Technical Lead Microsoft Corporation ...Show All

• Windows Forms Vista Text On Glass

  Hi, I am trying to make the glass margin on the bottom of a form be larger than on the rest of the form so I can have a glass status bar. It's worked so far, I have the text drawn but when the form moves partially off the screen, the text gets cut off. If i put the code to render the text in the form_paint procedure, evey time the form moves partially off screen, the text gets bolder and bolder, because it gets painted over. The only way I have found to delete the text and write it again, is to refresh() the form, which makes the app slow / flicker. What I'm basically asking is this: is there anyway to delete the text and draw the text again <b>without</b> refreshing the form here is my code: GraphicsPath fontpath; Graphics ...Show All

• Visual Basic keeping current Date

  I am writing to a file, and on the file name I would like to have the date that it was created like fileName3/3/2005 how would i go about doing that when i do Private const File_Name = "C:\FileCreated" Dim runningDate As Date = Date.Now Using writer As Streamwriter = File.CreateText(File_Name + runningDate) writer.WriteLine("_______Hello___________") writer.Close() End Using i get a invalid path name exception.....any help on how to fix this You need to remove invalid chars from the date string try following Dim runningDate As Date = DateTime.Today using writer as StreamWriter = File.CreateText(fileName + runningDate.Replace("/","") ...Show All

• .NET Development Quiet Dialog Box

  Is it possible to use MessageBox.Show without any sound effects, but only for this application Set the 4th argument to MessageBox.Show() to MessageBoxIcon.None or MessageBoxIcon.Question to keep it quiet. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development default folder

  I don't know if this been ask before but when I open *.cab file in the pocet pc it install the program in the default program which is c:\program file\ that will lower my RAM I need a way to make it install the cab program in SD folder I want to change the default folder is there is any way by the way my pocket pc is hp iPAQ 6515c and it has mobile windows 2003 ce please help me You can set default folder to whatever you need in your CAB file INF. It obviously can not be "C:\program file\" since devices don't have drive letters, but any other valid path can be set. If you use InstallDir macro, automatic redirection to storage card will be offered upon installation if storage card is avail ...Show All

• SQL Server ReportService2005.asmx

  Does anyone know of any good documentation for using the Reporting Services Web Service I am having difficulty figuring out a few things, even with Google. pjp See SetDataSourceContents() http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.wssux.reportingserviceswebservice.rsmanagementservice2005.reportingservice2005.setdatasourcecontents.aspx ...Show All