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• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects CDs download

  Hi, I have MSDN subscription (volume license) for VSTS team suite, and I'm trying to download the the product CDs but I'm unable to find the download link anywhere on the MSDN Subscriber Download site. Is the CDs available for download at all If you have Visual Studio Team Suite with MSDN Premium, you should be able to download the VS and TFS discs from subscriber downloads. If you don't see them in your list of available downloads, you need to talk to MSDN to resolve the issue. ...Show All

• SQL Server Number Of Business Days

  Hello, Without creating an additional table and with the least amount of code, I'm looking for a way to determine the number of business days in a given month. Thanks Synergy: Your question contains a huge amount of subjectivity. What is your view of what constitutes a business day Do you mean every Monday through Sunday Exclude New Years day Ground Hogs day More information in this case is necessary. Dave ...Show All

• Windows Forms Skins in Windows Forms

  I want to use .png or some other image files to Skin my controls in Windows Forms. I have seen the commercial offerings but they are not useful to me as performance is a huge factor. What I am looking for is not a solution but for someone for point me in the right directions. Example, I want to change the button on the ComboBox with a .png file which has better asthetic look to it. Where do I start, do I override onPaint or something else. I am having a tough time pinpointing this. Another one is the TrackBar or Slider, How do change - Just the little widget or maybe the background. Where can I look for this I am seen the many Article on CodeProject. SOme of the better ones are for MFC which indicate that one should trap WIndow ...Show All

• Windows Forms Uninstall removes files and leaves executable running

  Hi, I have used VS2005 to create a .msi package for my software. The problem though is that when I uninstall the software either through "Add/Remove Programs" or through running the uninstaller again, the uninstaller will remove all of the files but leave the executable running. Is there anyway to have the Installation project stop the executable, both when the application is in window form and in the system tray Thanks, Adam I'm thinking about doing the same, but the .exe doesn't seem to be deleted on uninstall (Probably because it's running ) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Localization Spell Checker

  Hi Guys, I am a sri Lankan. I want to plug a sinhala Dictionary and validate the spellings, written in sinhala. So when user right click on the spesific word the word i select from the data base has to be shown in the spellin list insead of english. if you have any code or resource which can help me to do this please tell me. Tharindu (Sri Lanka) Dear Sir, I am develpoing a Microsoft Word 2007 Add-on. So users should have word 2007 installed in there machine to get this feature. Pleas help us if you have any details or experience about this. Thanks Tharindu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Get Latest Version is too slow!!!!

  Hello, I have a problem in my company, when some developer wants to get latest version from source control, it's take about 5-15 seconds to complete the action for a small file, but if he does the same for some solution that is a little bigger – it can take even an hour. I don’t think it is normal. What the problem could be Thank you. Yes, I've seen a couple client configuration issues that could cause this. - what are your proxy settings We use the settings from IE. Normally leaving all the boxes unchecked is best, but if in doubt I'd copy the settings from computers where the problem does not occur. - is your NIC set to autodetect or not We've run into strange ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clearing a Windows Forms panel containing a DirectX movie

  To Whom It May Concern I am finalizing an application that uses .NET 1.1 and DirectX with a mpeg or avi movie displaying a video of a particular road and section. When I navigate to another road section the panel is not cleared unless another movie is selected. I have tried the dispose method without any luck. My current code is as follows: // dispose of the old video to clean up resources if (video!= null ) { video.Dispose(); //video = null; //videoPanel.Refresh(); videoPanel.Controls.Clear(); //videoPanel.Dispose(); //videoPanel.Update(); } // open a new video video = new Video(file); // assign the win form control that will contain the video video.Owner = videoPanel; ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Title Bar Appears on Splash Screen

  I have followed David Kline's example of a "Non-Modal Splash Screen" in a PocketPC 2003 application under .NET CF 2.0 SP1. All works well except that during the initialisation of the main form, before it is shown, the top Title bar containing the "Start" menu overwrites the top of the Splash Form bitmap. The Splash Form has the following properties set: ControlBox = False WindowState = Maximised Menu = None How do I prevent the title bar showing up on the Splash Screen Tim, I've just spent an hour or so browsing the PocketPC and mobile device forums. There's a number of articles on creating full screen applications that cover hiding the taskbar that look relevant but all of the code i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Executing DB creation script with help of SqlCommand

  We use VSTS DP for different tasks, one of them is a generateing full DB script which is supposed to be installed with help of appropriate MSI, which parses SQL scripts, extracts clauses between GO and executes them. But our script has SQLCMD commands such as :setvar and others, and when such command is being executed with help of SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery, we receive SqlException (Incorrect syntax near ':'.). The following code produces mentioned exception: using ( SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection ( "Data Source=HOME;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;Integrated Security=True" )) { using ( SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand ( @":out C:\testoutput.txt" , connection)) { connection. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to write a T-SQL script to replace Val() in MS Access?

  I am converting an MS-Access DB to SQL-Server, and one of the queries I'm converting uses the VB Val() function in the ORDER BY clause. Is there any T-SQL function that can mimic this CAST and CONVERT return errors because some of the data is non-numeric. The column I am ordering is a varchar(5) with ID number 'ZZ0001', 'CC0002', 'AA0003' etc . I would like the dataset to be sorted by number only : 'ZZ0001' 'CC0002' 'AA0003' Thank you Thanks for the reply I agree with the idea of spliting the ID into Numeric ID and Prefix. Split the character and digit when writing into db; join them togehter when read them from the db. This way the client share the load not the sql server ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VS 2005 Express Deployment

  Please help, Built a simple "helloworld.exe" windows applications with "Form". Then tried to run it on the different Windows PC, it fails with *.DLL errors. "The dynamic link library MSCOREE.DLL could not be found in specify path...." By the way, the other PC has NO .NET installed. Could this be the problem If it is, then is there a way to run my new app without .NET installed. Thanks in advance, GXO Unless you are writing the app using VC++ and using only native code, you will need .NET to run the application. All managed applications created in Visual Studio leverage the .NET runtime when deployed. ...Show All

• Visual C++ InterOp:wrapping an observer pattern - or: how can the wrapper be notified if the native class changed

  Hi, I’m trying to write a managed wrapper in c++/cli that wraps a native library. This library implements an observer-pattern (like described in http://sern.ucalgary.ca/courses/SENG/609.04/W98/lamsh/observerLib.html ). The Subject implements a method “void Attach(Observer*)” that establishes the relationship between Subject and Observer by attaching the input Observer to the _observers list. But how can I pass a managed observer to a native method Or how can the native Subject notify my managed Observer Normally I would derive from the abstract observer or observer-interface. But a managed class cannot be derived from a native class, can it By the way: I only have got the header file and the DLL-file. I think is a general prob ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to send SMS on compact framework

  how to send SMS on compact framework Hi huzaifa, in this case, you don't need compact framework. You will need to connect the phone to the PC by USB or serial port, and then from your desktop application connect to the phone and use it as GSM Modem to send the SMS you want, but you must know how to connect to the phone by means of AT commands, or just use a 3rd party free component from the internet to do this for you. i did this before with my Nokia 6150 cell phone before, and it worked. Regards, if this post was helpful, please press "Yes". Ahmed H. Waly ...Show All

• SQL Server Which one is better, XML-DML or normal update

  I want to save xml data with the following structure in the database <root> <static>...</static> <dynamic>...</dynamic> </root> Each subnode, static and dynamic, can contain a lot of child nodes. The static part will remain unchanged once created, but the dynamic part will change with each update. I have two solutions, 1. save everything in a single xml column, then use xml dml to update the dynamic part, but for each update, two actions are needed. update mytable set @xml.modify('delete ...') followed by update mytable set @xml.modify('insert...') 2. store static and dynamic into two separate columns, and use normal update statement to replace dynamic column as a whole for each update I would like to ...Show All

• .NET Development An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server

  Hi, When I connect programmly to database to load there an image and then to take it out of there i have exception: SqlException was unhandled by user code. An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server). Page code: Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonSaveToDb.Click Dim con As New SqlConnection("Server=local;uid=sa;pwd=;database=Database1.mdf") Dim da As New SqlDataAdapter("Select * From I ...Show All