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• SQL Server Installing Sql25k client without using CD/DVD?

  Hi everyone, We've found some problems when trying such thing. It seems that is compulsory to do via own CD/DVD. Any comment would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance, enric How are you trying to do the install If you share out the DVD/CD to a network drive and maintain the folder structures from the media, you should be able to install just fine. Thanks, Sam Lester (MSFT) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Cancelling Workflows Spawned From InvokeWorkflowActivity

  It seems like there must be some way to cancel workflows spawned from an InvokeWorkflowActivity. I currently have two sequential workflows set up such that one workflow performs a set of intialization activities and then at some point, in a ReplicatorActivity, I execute an InvokeWorkflowActivity for a given number of times. The InvokeWorkflowActivity operates asynchronously such that as soon as it executes, it completes (does not wait for spawned workflow to complete). Once the ReplicatorActivity finishes, I have a WhileActivity with a HandleExternalEventActivity which receieves notifications from the spawned workflows that they've completed. In some scenarios, though, let's say only one of the spawned workflows needs to comple ...Show All

• Visual Basic Recent Projects List on Start Page is not being Populated

  The Projects List on my Start Page is not being populated with the Projects I open. It's empty. Does anyone know what could be the problem I can see the entries being recorded in the Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList But VS isn't reading them in for some reason. I'm running Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Thanks. Right, I had to modify the group policy for my users: User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Start Manu and Taskbar Do not keep history of recently opened documents -> disable or no config. This policy had been set long ago and I pretty much forgot about it. So, here is a follow-up question: Where can I find a document ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Asp.net & WWF solution architecture advise???

  Hi Everyone, I'm a newbie with WWF and am looking at using it in a web app. I've got a standard solution architecture for apps where i have the client layer (webui project), a shared domain (c# lib project with domain objects) and a facade (lib proj, which contains ref to bl, also do some AOP for transactions etc here), bl(lib proj which in turn refs the dl). so: Webui--->facade--->bl--->dl--->database <-------------------domain-----------------------> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e.g. getting a list of vans's page_OnLoad(){ List<Van> vans = Global.Facade.VansGet(); } in the facade method i do so ...Show All

• SQL Server Is anyone using ActiveCipher by RedCraft Software?

  I am considering this third party encryption tool for use on SQL Server 2000 and would like to hear from someone who is using it in a production environment. Thank You There is none that I can find. I'm just looking for another SQL Server Professionals opinion on the software. Could you recommend another Microsoft Forum that might be more appropriate ...Show All

• .NET Development how to build selectCommandText for OleDbDataAdapter when filepath has a space in it?

  I have a method that returns a DataTable based on the contents of a CSV file. There are times when the filepath to the csv file is going to have spaces in it and I am having a problem accommodating that case when I build the selectCommandText string for the OleDbDataAdapter constructor. Given my method: public static DataTable GetDataTableFromFile( string dataFile){ try { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder ( "SELECT * FROM " ); sb.Append(System.IO. Path .GetFullPath(dataFile)); OleDbConnection conn; conn = new OleDbConnection (( "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OleDb.4.0; Data Source =." + "; Extended Properties = \"Text;HDR=YES;FMT=Delimited\"" )) ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Getting DLINQ to work in existing projects

  Hi Is it possible to get DLINQ working in existing projects or do I have to use the special DLINQ template evrytime greets Bastian DRaiko wrote: I'm also interested in this question (actually, in an answer). Wouldn't it be possible (as the simplest way) to hold all LINQ classes/etc. in a separate assembly (created with the std linq template) and to call them from where they are needed Well, this adds nothing to understanding the problem, but still considering the practical aspects ... . Dima. My problem is that I have a windows forms project with many forms. There I want to use the new query language. All other things such as methods for database connections or the complete DLINQ datamod ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Data binding a DataSet with a many-to-many relationship

  I have a database with the following schema: ___________ ______________ _____________ | PluginTable |-->| PluginExtension |<--| ExtensionTable | ------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------ | PluginID | | PluginID | | ExtensionID | | PluginName| | ExtensionID | | ExtensionName| ------------------- ------------------------ ----------------------- I used the VS2005 DataSet generator to create a typed DataSet with this schema implemented. It is straight forward to create a ListBox with all the Plugins listed and then controls displaying the data in the PluginTable. I would like to create a secondary ListBox with the Extensions that are related to a particular Plugin an ...Show All

• Visual C++ What does this icon mean?

  I've been trying to work out what this little stop sign icon attached to the file d3dx9d.lib in the image means: http://members.gamedev.net/mattnewport/vs2005-icon.png . Can anyone enlighten me Is there somewhere that explains all the icons in the MSDN docs I spent a while looking around and all I could find is docs for the source control icons. It means the library is not included in the project. Right-click it and choose "Include in project" to turn it back to normal. ...Show All

• Visual Basic load form

  as a newbie to vb 2005 I created a password form where the user enter the usual data i manipulate the data etc etc at the end when the password form ends I want to call frmMain.... how do  I do that   Private Sub OK_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OK.Click Dim Name As String Dim Password As Integer Dim OfficeNumber As Integer 'Dim frmMain As New Form   Name = UsernameTextBox.Text Password = PasswordTextBox.Text OfficeNumber = OfficeNumberTextBox.Text all the data stuff will be put in here    Me .Close()  frmMain.ShowDialog()      End Sub ...Show All

• Community Chat Windows Vista Gaming Performance

  I just read over on Neowin that gaming performance in Vista will be 10-15% slower in Vista. Can someone tell me whether or not this is true Thanks! - James My gaming performance is 80% slower in Vista with 7800GT. So what's wrong ( CS:S 100fps in XP and 15 in Vista ) ...Show All

• Visual C# STL.NET with type parametrization in C#

  Hello, As I can see, at present there is no way to use STL.NET (cliext) in C#. We can only develop some typedef or class wrapper (with exact type instead of template!) in managed C++ and reference it in the C# project. And no type-parametrization can be organized due to STL.NET classes are templates, not generics. Or is there any tricky solution Thanks, Mae Here are some hopefully helpful articles: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379600(vs.80).aspx http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3524096 http://blogs.msdn.com/branbray/archive/2003/11/19/51023.aspx Your back-door, how would you go about that I see a problem with emitting parameterized generics, you usually want the ...Show All

• Windows Forms PDF to JPEG

  is there anyway that I can convert pdf to jpeg within the microsoft office, and if so, is there an addin that I can download You can go to www.irfanview.com to download the Irfanview program and the the plugins. Next you can go to www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get853.htm to download the file gs853w32.exe of AFPL Ghostscript 8.53 for Win32. Install Irfanview, plugins and Ghostscript. Run Irfanview, input your PDF and save as JPG. They are all freeware. ...Show All

• .NET Development Downloading Collection of Images from Remote system to Local System using Windows Services,C#

  Hi I am Govardhan new to .NET Technologies.I have some problem in Windows services,I am trying to download Collection of Images from Remote sytem Folder to Local system Folder. I have done this from Local system folder to local system Folder using DirectoryInfo Object.But it is not working when I give "Remote system path like http:\\test\FolderName",There are 3000+ Images in this folder. I need solution how to download these images from Remote system path Is is possible or not Can any body help me Regards Govardhan Hi Thanks it is working fine,And I need small help on how to install this web service in remote system. Can u plz give me step by step process how to do it Regard ...Show All

• .NET Development RFID Reader Project

  Hello, I'm currently working on a project which involves a serial port RFID Reader. I have connected the Reader to COM2 of my PC and i'm trying to get the signals from the RFID Tags. I'm using Visual C# and SerialPort class. The problem is that i can't read or write to the port. I even tried to write something to the port using port.Writeline("string") and then read it with Readline() but it seems that nothing is written and nothing can be read. When i set the RtsEnable to TRUE the BytesToRead property changed from 0 to 9 no matter what i did and still i couldn't read anything. I also wanted to ask you if you have any code samples to send me or if any of you has written a similar program that works. I need to fix t ...Show All