Alexander Albornoz's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Already have sql 2005 sp1 want to install sql 2000 on same box

  Most of the posts here for co-existence of sql 2005 and sql 2000 are for upgrades to 2005 or installing sql 2005 on a box already having sql 2000. This is a bit different.. I have an application installed on sql 2005 sp1, on a default instance, no other instances installed. Because of issues the application is having with sql 2005, the vendor is recommending install of sql 2000 on the same box ('should not have any problems' they say), then script out the user databases in SQL 2005 and back in to the sql 2000 instance. Has anyone tried this (installing sql 2000 after install of sql 2005) or can point me to an article about it I've googled around and searched the knowledgebase to no avail. thx ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce - prerequisites update/install problem

  Hello We are doing a project where we are using clickonce and it works really well and has given us few problem. There is one problem tho that's very strange and we havent been able to find a solution for yet. as part of our clickonce we added one extra "prerequisites"; "Microsoft visual studio 2005 report viewer" but the problem is the same with all the "prerequisites" beside form the default .net one. when clients try too install the application they just get an empty error box.. there is no text at all.. just the red error symble and a ok button. If we remove all but the default "prerequisites" and redeploy it works fine.. we add it again and redeploy the same error again. We tryed to place the updates ...Show All

• Visual C# HELP, CANNOT WORK C#

  Enerythis cannot how to work from Recent Projects(all cannot to write/read). HELP ME! How to get for Recent Projects working!! How can to start C# Recent Project from Start Page All Recent Projects cannot to work, cannot get MainClass!! Eddy Ho Hsen wrote: Enerythis cannot how to work from Recent Projects(all cannot to write/read). HELP ME! How to get for Recent Projects working!! How can to start C# Recent Project from Start Page All Recent Projects cannot to work, cannot get MainClass!! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions NestedContainer problems

  Hi. I'm trying to create a usercontrol with a nested container. (Like the SplitContainer) I've added a panel to my usercontrol, made a public readonly property exposing it. Then I created a designer where I use the EnableDesignMode. All this is working fine. I can select my panel and drag and drop controls in it. They just don't stay there. They are not getting serialized and I think it has something to do with INestedContainer, but I can't figure out what to do with it. Can anyone explain to me exactly how to do it A sample would be nice Thanks Hi again.   I got it. I forgot the DesignerSerializationVisibility attribute.   Silly me...     ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS2003, How do you turn on XP Theme at design time?

  I'm looking for way to make VS IDE render the form/control being designed using XP theme. I'm not talking about Application.EnableVisualStyles() this renders at runtime. Thanks You can add a manifest file for '.../Common7/IDE/devenv.exe'. IIRC there were several problems that arise when doing this though, so I wouldn't recommend it. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA in Internet Explorer?

  I was surprised to find out that XNA doesn't work in Internet Explorer as a WinForm Control. I know I must be smoking crack, but somewhere a long the line I got the impression that XNA would enable a 3D environment in Internet Explorer. If we can put Ink on the Web, http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx quickid=0512062 , then I think we should be able to put a 3D environment on the web as well Anyone know of a way to get XNA or Direct X working as an element of Internet Explorer Thanks, Johnny Neither XNA nor DirectX are enabled to work in IE. There are significant security issues running a DirectX application (which has direct hardware access) from inside an Internet browser. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Adding child nodes to a tree view.

  I am trying to add child nodes to a treeview. I have to do this at runtime. Here is the code that I want to run: For each strFile as string in my.computer.filesystem.getname(dbLocation) if ctype(strFile, String).EndsWith(".cvc") Then dbTree.nodes.add(strfile) End If Next There are three problems with this. If I use my.computer.filesystem.getname(dblocation) it doesn't return any results, so I use getFiles, but that gives the full name of the file, I need to have just the base file name, which is a database (ie, test.cvc, test2.cvc, etc). The second problem is that I can't set these nodes as child nodes of the appropriate node. The third problem is that I need to add child nodes to each and every one of the added tree nodes. I understand th ...Show All

• SQL Server uninstalling sql server express

  i installed sql server 2005 express by running SQLEXPR_ADV.EXE....now i can not uninstall it because the exe created a temp file to unpack the install files....of course those files are cleaned up after install or whenever i cleaned up the temp files on my pc.....so how do i uninstall Hi, here are steps to perform Manuall uninstalltion of SQL Express Edition http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909967 http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/09/13/465401.aspx Hemantgiri S. Goswami ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Setting project up to be cross platform

  Hello Any advice on what's the best practice for setting up your game to run on both PC and Xbox Even better if there could be an included example of this. I'd like to develop my game on the PC and only running the 360 version periodically. In the past I've set up seperate builds so I'd have a release\debug versions for PC, PS2 and Xbox1. I've seen posts mentioning creating one solution with two projects in and then adding the source to the other project as a link. I have my project like this but I find I'm having to add any new source files twice, once to the PC version and once to the 360 version. The same goes for any data I decide to add. This doesn't seem the best way of dealing with it so has anybody come acros ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista bitmap

  I want to include the bitmap(*.bmp) file in XPS. However, there is no corresponding Type in ContentType. Is it impossible If you are looking for the logic on adding the image to the package. The example can be found in the 5384 WDK samples for adding raster water mark. regards, Karthikeyan. ...Show All

• Visual C# The "Target" property is reserved, and cannot be modified.

  Can anyone explain this error message. It first appeared when attempting to build a project from a command line. It now appears anytime I attempt to create a new C# Windows application. Peter, Thank you for taking the time to actually read my question. As I said, simply creating a new project causes the error. It turns out that we had an environment variable named "Target" in the system. Removing that cleared up the problem. Frank ...Show All

• Visual C# System.Diagnostic.Process.GetProcesses()

  Hello, I have a quick question about the process array being returned from the GetProcesses(). Specifically, why does the process array contain an entry for explorer.exe but I can not get the title of any of any explorer windows open. For example, I have 3 explorer windows open each viewing a different directory. But, none of them show up when I bind my list of a grid control. So, do I need to ignore what I get from the GetProcesses() call and just enumerate all top-level windows that are visible Is there another technique that would allow me to continue to use the Process[] without having to resort to interop Thanks for your time/help! .jdt. using ...Show All

• Visual Basic msxml6.dll failed to register

  Hello, I am writing a very small application in VB.Net 2005. I added a reference to Microsoft.SqlServer.ManagedDTS so I can use a SQL Server 2000 DTS package on SQL Server 2005. I have one form with an Import at the top: Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime ' needed for the DTS package to run and under a start button I have: Dim oApp As New Application Dim oPkg As New Package oPkg = oApp.LoadPackage(g_DTSx_Directory & "AOC copy Generic1 CSV to AOC_verify_file_1.dtsx" , Nothing ) Dim oResults As DTSExecResult oResults = oPkg.Execute oPkg = oApp.LoadPackage(g_DTSx_Directory & "AOC copy Generic2 CSV to AOC_verify_file_2.dtsx" , Nothing ) oResults = oPkg.Exe ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS Save Package dead end

  Hi, I have a DTS package that I created. It exports data to a .csv file to my c:\ drive. This filepath is not always the path I want it to save the file to. How can I configure the package to ask for the save location of the file being exported I am at a dead end and even an answer saying it is NOT possible would be greatly appretiated.   Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Remoting/Saving Pickle

  Dear all, This is my first attempt at writing a distributed application in .NET using the C# language and I’ve now run into a hurdle that looks to be a little to high for me to leap over. It is for that reason that I’m hoping some kind soul may offer me a springboard from which to jump. Please let me apologise in advance for my ‘wordiness’ – I am the least concise, and most verbose, person I know. J This is what I want to do: Save an object’s data to a SQL Server 2000 without writing code that I’ll regret later. I have the following physical system architecture: A. - 1 server; B. - Many client machines. The application I’ve wrote so far is broken up into the fol ...Show All