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• SQL Server installing sqlExpress (Advanced Services) will this break existing sqlExpress?

  hiya, I have sqlExpress and sqlServerManagementStudio on my XP pro box. Will the installation of sqlExpress (Advanced Services) cause any problems IS thereanything that I shold be aware of in advance many thanks, yogi hi, it should not cause problems, as up to 16 different instances can be installed side by side, and at different service pack level as well.. so you can install a new instance of SQLX + Advanced Services as long as you provide a different instance name.. regards ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Outlook 2003 Email Headers not Printing after IE7 upgrade

  Does anyone know if there is a fix for this yet It seems to be major issue without any reliable work around other than hitting forward button then printing the email. Help! Wahl04 Jumping to the same boat as the rest. External emails formatted as HTML are not printing headers. As luck would have it, the first person in my organization to discover this was the CEO - Doh!! Hope Microsoft is listening. ...Show All

• SQL Server Trigger on Select

  We have an access front-end and sqlserver back-end. We need to log all selects to a key table (i.e. patient data). Since there is no trigger on Select, does anyone have any suggestions or has implemented something to work around this (not on the front-end). With another front-end, we can put this in the stored proc and log, but this is Access front-end and I would like something done in the back-end. Thanks. Leanne. Ouch. My only suggestion would be to create a SQL Trace Job that would log to a table. This is a stinky idea, though due to the performance hit. Does access have to access the table directly Could it go throught a Stored Procedure to retrieve it's data. If so that would be a better option. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cannot publish project

  Hi there. I am trying to publish a project that is 100% working, so that people can use ClickOnce to install it. Despite the project building and running fine, I am unable to publish it. Here is a cut and paste of the error message: Error 2 SignTool reported an error 'Failed to sign bin\Release\VED1.publish\\setup.exe. SignTool Error: Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1 or higher. Please copy the latest version of CAPICOM.dll into the directory that contains SignTool.exe. If CAPICOM.dll exists, you may not have proper permissions to install CAPICOM. '. VED1 Now, before anyone asks, I have done EXACTLY what is says, I found CAPICOM, checked it's version, and copied into the TWO directories that I found that contain signtool.e ...Show All

• Visual C++ Interaction with an application running in CMD

  Hi all, I have written code for an appliation which needs to interact with another application which runs in CMD. I want to receive all the information produced by the application running in CMD so that I can manipulate them and at the same time I should be able to provide input to that application. Please suggest me somehting regarding this. Thanks, You can use RPC, named pipes or sockets, to name a few. For RPC, see http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms719418.aspx . For general information about inter process communication, see http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms690478.aspx . ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using RGB values with the colorkey property

  I'm using the following bit of code to set a transparent color for a 2dTexture TextureCreationParameters tcp = TextureCreationParameters.Default; tcp.Format = SurfaceFormat.Color; tcp.ColorKey = Color.Black; tile = Texture2D.FromFile(graphics.GraphicsDevice, "../../tile.PNG", tcp); What I want to do is specify a color using RGB values, I presume it's done using the line tcp.ColorKey = Color.Black; But I cannot find a way to get Color to accept RGB values. Could some help, please Cheers ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS WorkItem Tracking : Error

  Hello all, i am getting the error in TFS WorkItem tracking in the event viewer like this: I am using Single server deployment of TFS. Event Type: Error Event Source: TFS WorkItem Tracking Event Category: None Event ID: 3000 Date: 12/1/2006 Time: 2:48:40 PM User: N/A Computer: <server name> Description: TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): 12/1/2006 9:18:40 AM Machine: <server name> Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/2/Root/WorkItemTracking-5-128094383134804186 Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Server.DataServices, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Primary Interop Assembly question: how to access Quit event?

  This isn't a VSTO question per se, but this is where the People Who Would Know hang out... I am trying to create a Quit event handler so that I am notified when Outlook is quitting. If I create an app object like so: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. Application app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. Application (); I see a StartUp event, NewMail event, NewMailEx event, etc., but Quit is a method, not an event. Based on an example I found using Word, I tried this: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. ApplicationEvents_11 appEvents; appEvents = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. ApplicationEvents_11 )app; appEvents.Quit += new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook. ApplicationEvents_11_QuitEventHandler (HandlerQuit); ...Show All

• Visual C++ Possible bug with [field:NonSerialized] with C++ / CLI

  I think I may have found a possible bug with the [field:NonSerialized] attribute in C++ / CLI. The following is reproduced on my blog in case the formatting goes funny. I've been working with a number of classes that expose events. These classes are marked as serializable so that they can be saved to the disk. However, I don't want the events to be serialized, as the built-in serializer will try to serialize all the subscribers to these events, and not all subscribers will be serializable (windows forms, for example). So, following the guidelines I've tagged the events of these classes with the [field:NonSerialized] attribute to prevent the subscribers to these events from being serialized. Unfortunately, this attribute appears to have ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to close an application from another application

  hi. simple question I hope how to close an application from another application ps. I made them both It's the same in VB as C#: use one of the many tools to convert, if syntax is a problem for you, for example: http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/CodeTranslator/Default.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic windows forms

  Hey, I've only started using Visual Basic tonight, and I've never touched any previous form of VB and/or Visual Studio. So this is probably the newbie-ist question you've seen for a few years if not ever. Anyway, I've got a task set out whereby I must create a testing program as such, with multiple choices. I've created a form for every question, along with a welcome form and a grade form. My question is simply, how do you link the forms, so that a user can click the button labelled "Continue1" and it opens up form2, within the same space and so on and so forth. Any help would be more than gratefully received. Thanks! Ooops, I'd hidden a question in there I think you missed, sorry. ...Show All

• SQL Server Unistall unsuccessful and can not see Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in installed programs list

  I went through the install of the MS SQL Server 2005 Std Edt only to find that I can not open up the "SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio" since I was missing the exe to run it that should have been located at "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe".  Due to this happening it seemed to me that some of the install failed, so I went about trying to uninstall the SQL Server setup.  Within the "Add or Remove Programs" tool I selected the "Microsoft SQL Server 2005" from the list and clicked on the button that said "Remove".  This did not seem to do anything except for remove the "Microsoft SQL Server 2005" selection from that tool selection list.  It went way to quick an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FXCOP XML is not getting generated properly

  Hi all I am facing an issue with fxcop, whenever i will try to generate a XML with XSL i am getting an unformatted xml getting opened after all. i have pasted the same here. Kindly let me know what is going wrong... < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ><html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"><head><title>Analysis Report</title></head><style> #Title {font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-weight: bold} .ColumnHeader {font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; background-color:white; color: black} .CriticalError {font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; color: darkred; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle; } .Error ...Show All

• Visual C++ Member template function which takes member function pointer as non template parameter.

  I am looking into detail of a fastest C++ delegate posted on codeproject. ( http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/ImpossiblyFastCppDelegate.asp ). It seems the suggested implementation is at least a hundred times faster than boost::function in the case of copying and calling member function. However, as it is stated in the original article, there were found to be several issues when compiling the suggested code in VC71 and VC8, while the same code compiled and run fine in gcc 3.4.2 or Intel C++ 9.1. I discovered the following two issues are mostly causing compile errors in VC71 and VC8. 1) templater parameter can not be passed correctly into member template function as a portion of the signature of member function pointer of a non-type t ...Show All

• .NET Development Unique Machine Identifier

  Can anyone suggest a mechanism for gettting a reasonably unique machine identifier. I.e. a value that is reasonably unique on a machine by machine basis. I looked at using a Security Identifier, but these seem only to be unique for a particular system. How about the MAC address of your network card public static void DisplayTypeAndAddress() { IPGlobalProperties computerProperties = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties(); NetworkInterface[] nics = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces(); Console.WriteLine("Interface information for {0}.{1} ", computerProperties.HostName, computerProperties.DomainName); foreach (NetworkInterface adapter in nics) { IPIn ...Show All