Harry Pressman's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Installing SQL Express 2K5 on a domain controller?

  I want to install SQL Express 2K5 on a lightly used second Windows 2003 SP1 DC. I know about the warning not to do this type of install. However, the group is small and their budget does not allow for another server just for one application. With that being said, the error message I keep getting is "can't create local groups......" (I know that you do not have local groups with AD). So, is there a work around to this issue or can someone point me in the right direction as how to install on a domain controller Thanks in advance for your time!!! hi, please have a look at http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/1/0/f10c4f60-630e-4153-bd53-c3010e4c513b/ReadmeSQLEXP2005.htm , paragraph 3.10 re ...Show All

• Windows Forms caller ID c#.net

  hi developers... i want to do a windows form that showing caller id.. i ha ve a external modem which support caller ID so who can show me a way or example code The exact commands you have to send to the modem and the response it gives depends on its chipset. The commands shown in this webpage may work on yours. Try it out with Hyperterminal first, as indicated. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reset SelectionFormula back to 'all' - Now Working

  Hello, I've got a report that's almost working. I can change the selection formula based on a user selection from a combo box. However, when I try to remove the selection formula to show all entries in the report again, it always shows the entries from the previous selection formula. I'm setting the SelectionFormula property to "" to try to make it show all but it has no affect. Can anyone help me out on this Thanks OK - I got this to work through trail and error, and probably not in the intended way. I had to do the following to correctly display the report whether there is or is not a selection formula: crystalReportViewer1.SelectionFormula = m_sSelectionFormula; _report.Record ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Correct Answer to a HTTP-Post Request

  Hi, my problem is the response to a HTTP-Post request from IE. I wrote a webserver that opens a new socket connection on each request it handles. To be exact I am listening on port 80 and when a connection comes in, open a new socket, handle the request and then close the connection again. This works great using HTTP-Get. But -Post requests do have a problem. I handle the request, then send some data back an close the connection again. On closing IE doesn't show my page, but instead shows an error page "Page cannot be displayed". I even still see the Get request coming in from the document I send back but the site never shows. The browsers request looks like this: [code] POST /path HTTP/1.1 Accept: all types he accepts inc ...Show All

• SQL Server The user instance

  Hello, I have a problem with setting up a connection in visual studio 2005 professional. Sqlserver express is installed on the machine so I try to set up a connection by means of a microsoft sql server databasefile . When I click ok I get the error : The user instance login flag is not supported on this version of sql server . Can someone help me to resolve this problem. Thanks in advance Ilja zwolsman hi, User Instances are only supported on SQLExpress edition and only if the relative feature has been enabled.. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254504.aspx regards ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Extensions for Alias Maya 7

  When will the export X for maya 7 be released Or is there a way to convert 6 binary or 6.5 binary too work with 7 I have compiled maya 6.5 directx plugin sources from the august 2005 directx sdk release, without too much problems. Should be quite easy for any programmer. Just replace all links to libs and includes from "maya 6.5" to "maya 7.0" and then compile, it works straight out. ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Mail does not work from SQL Agent Job

  Receiving Message: [264] An attempt was made to send an email when no email session has been established Just installed Service pack 1 and that did not help. Did you perform the following 3 steps when setting up your database mail 1. Enable database mail, create a new profile and mail account 2. Right click SQL Agent>Properties>Alerts System>Enable Mail Profile 3. Expand SQL Agent>Operators>Create New Operator I got hung up a few times on this myself because I kept forgetting to do step 2, and I had the same exact error message you do. Once I did step 2, everything was resolved. ...Show All

• .NET Development Changing SQL 2005 user's Passwords in VB.NET

  Hi I have been working on a program that goes through and changes some of our SQL users passwords ever night using VB.NET everything is going well except i have this little problem when the following code executes: 'The following is what i would like to achieve in its SQL syntax. 'ALTER LOGIN [JU_BOOKMAN_WEB] WITH PASSWORD=N'ju' 'The code below is my effort to do the above task in VB.NET Function ChangeUsrPass( ByVal NewUsrPassword, ByVal OldUsrPassword, ByVal UserName)   Dim l As Login Try 'The username that is passed in is JU_BOOKMAN_WEB l = New Login(glb_Server, & UserName) ' read this in from table Console.WriteLine( " usernm = " & UserName) l.LoginType = Log ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Studio 2005 Windows Service Starts but Timer does not execute unless in debug mode

  This is a very interesting one. I am able to deploy my VS 2005 Windows Service with a release configuration but when I do so, it does not begin to execute the timer until I am attached to the process. The timer is enabled and set to execute every 3 seconds but never does. I am using an account in which the same service works in VS 2003 so I do not think it is permissions. If anyone has any insight into this behavior I would appreciate it thanks... Ok I figured it out. The problem was with the timer I selected from the toolbox. The timer I selected from the toolbox was a windows forms timer. I pinpointed the problem to the fact that the timer was not executing, as previously stated, and compared it to the ti ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) text justification

  I am looking to justify text, left justified, right, centred etc. Do i use css, can i use css I need to put x and y of text and do the justification Rg nooneimportant is correct -- it would take a lot of code. WPF/E doesn't have text justification. Right justification could be done by using the new ActualWidth properties on TextBlock. -mark Program Manager Microsoft This post is provided "as-is" ...Show All

• SQL Server Create Package in SQL Server Management Studio Express?

  Our server currently has the following components installed for SQL Server 2005: 1. SQL Server Management Studio Express and 2. Configuration Tools (SQL Server Configuration Manager, SQL Server Error and Usage Reporting, and SQL Server Service Area Configuration). Is there a way to setup a package using the software currently installed (if not, what needs to be installed in order to setup a package) I'm looking to schedule running an executible, it was fairly easy with SQL Server 2000 (using DTS), but I'm unsure how to set this up using the software we currently have installed. It looks like you are using SQL Sever 2005 express Sorry but SSIS doesn't come with express, you'll need Standard edit ...Show All

• SQL Server dbcc SHRINKFILE gives me a a weird error

  I'm trying to run dbcc shrinkfile ( 4 ) /* File ID 4 of database ID 13 cannot be shrunk as it is either being shrunk by another process or is empty. Msg 0, Level 11, State 0, Line 0 A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded. */ The commented lines is what I get in return. There's nothing being executed on this file. I dropped a few indexes. I need the space back from the file. Backups and everything are run on it normally. Is there something I'm missing or is there something wrong with it I don't do 'AutoShrink'. Also, the file is not empty. Checkdb is working fine. Dbcc ShrinkDatabase also works fine but doesn't even recognize these files. It doesn't even show this ...Show All

• Visual C++ abcd

  what is actually it means This article may help you. You can post some programming foolishness here but these types are off topic to this forum. ...Show All

• SQL Server Is the operation CREATE MINING STRUCTURE and CREATE MINING MODEL really useful?

  Hi, I've tried those two operations in the Management Studio. Though we can create a mining structure and mining model in Management Studion, but we cannot process the analysis-service database. (1) I create only a mining structure through CREATE MINING STRUCTURE. No error reported. But if I process the analysis-service database in Management Studio I always get error 'Error : The '<mining_structure__name>' structure does not contain bindings to data (or contain bindings that are not valid) and cannot be processed. I then tried to create it by creating and running an XMLA script. It was successful. However, it's much harder to learn XMLA. If any of you created an analysis-service database in Mgt Studio, and create a mining structure ...Show All

• .NET Development Column Names

  Hi, I have an Excel data sheet that I need to read and select the pertinent rows to load into a dataset. The data will then be checked against a database and the new data will be added. I have several questions/problems, the first of which has to do with Column names: My Excel sheets have column headers, BUT the header names are not located in the first row, rather they are located in the 5th row of the sheet, always. I would ignore this issue altogether and simply use column position as a locator for the data, but the sheets do not always have the same number of columns (ie sometimes columns are missing). Therefore I need to know which columns contain which data. How can I specify the columns such that the correct data get inserted into ...Show All