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• SQL Server 70-431 (MCTS - SQL 2005)

  Hi, Somebody can speak (tips) about exam 70-431 Tips Amount Questions Time ....   Hello everyone, I would like to let you all know and be aware of the fact that microsoft has changed its exam pattern for 070-431 be very carefull as microsoft has changed the exam pattern and due to which i failed the exam today. Its now based on simulations questions which comes after the multiple choice questions i got 15 simulations separately apart from 35 multi choice questions along with exibits. I wasnt aware of this fact and it wasnt mentioned anywhere about simulations questions I think no one knows about it I am the first to face this type of exam.. The exams comes up with 2 sections the firs ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS2K5 SP1 Beta

  After installing the SP Beta I now have code that does not build and I get errors in MS files: Error 21 error C2446: '<' : no conversion from 'MSXML2::IXMLDOMElementPtr *' to 'MSXML2::IXMLDOMElement **' c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\atlmfc\include\afxtempl.h 553 Eddie and I work for the same company, so I'll catch this reply for him. There are two different errors. Error 21 error C2446: '<' : no conversion from 'MSXML2::IXMLDOMElementPtr *' to 'MSXML2::IXMLDOMElement **' C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\include\afxtempl.h 553 and Error 23 error C2446: '>=' : no conversion from 'MSXML2::IXMLDOMElementPtr *' to 'MSXML2::IXMLDOMElement **' C:\P ...Show All

• Visual C# How to make apps startup faster?

  Hi! Ive written an app in C#. The overall performance is great but the starting up of the app is really laggy. How can I make the apps startup smooth Matt See all the assemblies that are loading on start. Try to avoid some of them at least on startup, especialy to big ones. If you have a big job on start, you can put it in a separate thread and the main app will start faster and job will finish later. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Reports for .NET 2.0 - Failed to open report

  We are generating reports on II6 (.net 2.0). Most of the times everything works just fine, but from time to time we get following exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800003E5): Failed to open report. at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc.ReportClientDocumentClass.Open(Object& DocumentPath, Int32 Options) at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportClientDocumentWrapper.Open(Object& DocumentPath, Int32 Options) at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportClientDocumentWrapper.EnsureDocumentIsOpened() When this problem occurs the pool needs to be restarted. The wndows server event log doens't have any trace of this exception. What could be the problem How could we analyze the problem. Man ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 installed fine, MDSN library having trouble reading a file? Help!!

  I am recieving the following error while installing the first CD of the MSDN library that came in my VS 2005 standard edition box. Error 1305.Error reading from file: D:\Program Files\MSDN\MSDN8.0\Common\1033\_vsmsdn.hxq. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it. If I hit retry it just keeps popping up with the same error. The file does exist on the CD. what should I do take a look at this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=778624&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. pop up box? in game

  Hi newbie problem, i am trying to create a few options for the player to choose from like: 10 x 10 = 100 10x10 = 1000 10x10 = 10 i was going to do this as images as i cannot think of a better way of showing on screen is there an easier way then if the person clicks on a certain versinity like x = >10 it will display a message if wrong box selected explaining the answer how can i do this can anyone help thanks You could also just have each answer represented by a keyboard button or by a button on the gamepad. Then, rather then trying to detect where the user clicked. Just check to see which answer the player selected via the button press. So if your question is "What is 10 x 10 " ...Show All

• .NET Development BC30456: 'InitializeCulture' is not a member of FIXES

  Windows 2003 Server SP1, ASP.Net 2.0 BC30456: 'InitializeCulture' is not a member of Have a bug in your code but throws this error instead of the actual error Or getting this error randomly Or a similar error complaining that an asp.net method is not a member of a class like 'Page' when it is! and mashing refresh a few times sometimes makes it go away... After 2 Days of extensive search on the internet and finding plenty of people with this error and very little replies and resolutions, I took upon myself to get to the bottom of this (unacknowledged ASP.net framework bug) and list some steps to help all of you work around it. 1. If you use Visual studio to publish your site, during the publishing stage ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista New USB Devices not recognized in Vista

  I have run into a strange problem that I need some help. I am running vista ultimate on a ibm t43p laptop. All of my current usb items including keyboard, camera, printer and others work fine. When I try to install a new usb device plug and play is not recognizing properly. The found new hardware wizard comes up and tries to install the driver. When searching it cannot find the driver and does not install properly. I have tried the devices on other computers and they do work. Anyone have any ideas why these items won't install The specific item now is a canon pixma pro9000 printer. The driver is on the computer but plug and play will not install the device. Thanks, Jim The problem can be so ...Show All

• Visual Studio Table group : Header-Detail-Footer execution sequence. Bug??

  Hi All, I have a simple (web) report running in localmode. The table needs to display multiple groups, each having a header, detail and footer. IN THE GROUP part of the table, I need to print 1. Paint the header text 2. Paint the detail rows ( which has a cost column ). 3. Paint the group footer ( which will include the sum of all the cost columns in the detail rows). Each of the group detail row basically causes an update of a shared "Code" variable, and the footer simply prints this code variable. The header and detail print the correct data, but the footer shows the total cost as Zero. So I did some research and what I found was that the sequence of execution for the group was 1. Header --- 2. Footer ---- 3. Detail rows i.e th ...Show All

• SQL Server How can i find 'broken' records ?

  Version: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2040 (Intel X86) Problem: Server: Msg 8964, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Table error: Object ID 515532920. The text, ntext, or image node at page (1:377289), slot 1, text ID 897099563008 is not referenced. Server: Msg 8964, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Table error: Object ID 515532920. The text, ntext, or image node at page (1:377447), slot 1, text ID 897100939264 is not referenced. <... and 4 same errors> DBCC results for 'CC_Document'. The repair level on the DBCC statement caused this repair to be bypassed. <same messages> The repair level on the DBCC statement caused this repair to be bypassed. There are 192 rows in 6 pages for object 'CC_Document'. CHECKTABLE found 0 ...Show All

• SQL Server TableViewBase.EnumFragmentation & Index.EnumFragmentation

  Hi, TabeViewBase.EnumFragmentation is described in MSDN as '... Enumerates information about fragments of data stored in a table or view ...', and Index.EnumFragmentation is described as '... Enumerates a list of fragmentation information for the index using the default fast fragmentation option ...'. Both these methods return a DataTable (whose columns are not specified), and on debugging+inspecting what is returned by each, I found two surprising results: Cols 1 & 2 for both are Index_Name & Index_ID. The DataTable returned by both contains an identical row collection. In other words I have not observed any difference between the two levels/types of fragmentation, so I'm wondering if there is indeed one Any ...Show All

• SQL Server Configure Report Server with SQL Server Express with Advanced Services.

  I'm having a world of trouble with the Reporting Services Server. The install went fine. I went in to configure the Report Server and when creating the Report Server and the Report Manager virtual directories I get the following error: "The virtual directory could not be created. The previously set virtual directory will still be used." The problem with this is that I have not previously set a virtual directory. When clicking on the link I get the additional error information: "System.IO.FileNotFoundException: at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at System.Management.ManagementObject.InvokeMethod(String methodName, ManagementBaseObject inParameters, Invok ...Show All

• Visual C++ Explicit Interface Method Implementation

  In MC++, I can do the following: - __gc __interface ICloneablePerson { Person* Clone(); }; public __abstract __gc class Person : public ICloneablePerson { private: String* _name; protected: Person() :_name(String::Empty) { } Person(String* name) :_name(name) { } Person(Person* source) :_name(source->_name) { } public: __property String* get_Name() { return _name; } }; public __gc class Student: public Person { private: String* _id; public: Student(void) :Person() { _id = String::Empty; } Student(String* name) :Person(name) { _id = String::Empty; } ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DependencyProperty throws error

  Hiya I am currently playing with a trival workflow that contains a single custom activity. The workflow has a dependancy property which is initialised from the workflow parameters. I also have a dependancy property on my custom activity with the same name and type. If I make the type of the various properties a string it all works fine. I then make the type an object defined in a seperate class library referenced in both the workflow/host project and the custom activity library. When I try to bind the property in the custom activity to the workflows property I get the following error: Path resolved to Referenced activity Property 'CurrentObject' whose PropertyType 'MyNamespace.CurrentObject' does not match with the Target Type 'My ...Show All

• Visual C++ Multithreading and DoEvents.

  Hi, I have a dll in VC# (Visual Studio 2005). The dll was created by me and it has threads for sending and receiving data over sockets. ( Actually it was a server code I was working on and now I needed to integrate with a third party tool which is in VC++, so I created a dll). As the threads had infinite while loops in them I was using Application.DoEvents before calling the while(true) statements in the VC# server. When I created the dll I had to remove the doevents part ( as there are no forms in a dll). Now when I use the dll in the VC++ code, it really slows down the application ( I am normally rendering frames at 40fps but when the sockets start sending and receiving I only get 1 or 2 fps). So my first question is that is there ...Show All