MA2005's Q&A profile

• SQL Server installing the sample databases and documentation

  There are two instances: SQL2005 and SQL2005Express on two different units. While there is Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition also installed on the units have not attempted these component installs through either yet. Have spent the better part of two days, following all the directions having searched help locally, online, technet,and applied their advice respectively. While I've taken out the old instances, downloaded updated ones in both my SQL Server instances they do not show as installed under Programs->SQL Server (whichever instance)->Tutorials ...However they do show installed in Control Panel and they can be found via Explorer (AdWorks DBCI+AdWorks BICI and Express instance on the other unit. Have also download SP2 and installed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Technique to reduce the Documented file size!!

  Hi, I am successfully generated Chm file for my application. I am very glad to tell you that, Sandcastle is simply superb. Can you suggest me for Issues I have. #1. What is the technique to reduce the size of Chm file(documentation). #2. What is the technique to reduce the compilation time. #3. Is there any way to change the Style of documented file. Look forward to see the reply. Thanks & Regards RamaGudimetla Hi Rama, I can help with item #1. A utility in Helpware FAR HTML is the best tool I know of to remove dead space in a .chm and reduce the .chm file size. It's produced by Microsoft Help M.V.P. Rob Chandler. This address will take ...Show All

• Visual Basic Adding a right-click function to a control

  I hope someone can help me out with this. I'm trying to add a function to a button when it's right-clicked , but I can't find any way to do it. Thanks (in advance!) for helping. this is also known as a contextmenu. From the controls I have seen such as combobox, textbox, listbox, there is a property in designer view called ContextMenuStrip. Simply add a context menu control on the form, add menu items to it, program it and finally assign the control in question to the contextmenustrip you have just created does this give you a head start ...Show All

• SQL Server Small necessary changes missing in SP2. Any idea if this is in pipeline

  1. i find it hard to believe that I cannot use stylesheets for textboxes or for that matter anything. I have to manually go and edit every textbox. 2. I have to define at t global level if a link opens in a new window or same window. Anyone has ideas if this is even in the pipeline to be done . I had asked the same questions on the release of SQL Server RS and that time it was thought that it would already be there in SP1/SP2. But i do not see it. Or anyone has ideas how to achieve the above ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Organizing Team Projects

  We develop software for several customers. Most customers have one or more completely independent projects with other persons, dokuments, tasks etc. My question is now, what would be the best way to organize my projects in Team System. The only wayI found by now, is to create a new Team Project for every of my projects. But there are a lot of them and I'd prefer to group the Team Projects by customers. For exmaple in Visual Source Safe we had a hirarchy Customer / Project / Module which was very handy. But I found no way to create a structure like tghis in Team System. I found a possibility to create different folders in a Team Project, but I cannot create a Team Project for every customer and then place the differen projects in d ...Show All

• .NET Development Out of memory exception (c#, .net 2003, large images)

  Hi, I am developing an application (c#, .Net 2003, Framework 1.1) that deals with large images. The application captures multiple image frames and stitch them up into a large hige-res image. We are looking at 50+ frames and sometimes more than 100 frames of 1024x768 color images. I am also using double buffers for edit purposes. To get an idea of what this application does: beyond the image acquisition and stitching, it is very similar to Paint.Net ( http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html ) in providing tools to draw on top of the image. The program is hitting out of memory exceptions -- sometimes even with smaller images. Documentation on LOH seems to explain this observation well, especially with memory fragmentation a likely cause of ...Show All

• Windows Forms Print Preview problem(Bug)

  Hey, I have this code in the PrintDocument control under the PrintPage event: private void printDocument_PrintPage( object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e) { RtextboxUC thisrichtextbox = GetCurrentTextBox(); //Start printing text and store last letter... checkPrint = thisrichtextbox.Print(checkPrint, thisrichtextbox.TextBox.TextLength, e); //Check if there should be more pages if (checkPrint < thisrichtextbox.TextBox.TextLength) { e.HasMorePages = true ; } else { e.HasMorePages = false ; } } There are no errors, but when I test it on my program and click print preview...when it opens the PrintPreview dialog It shows the dialog that is telling you how many pages it is det ...Show All

• Visual C# Numbering convention on drag and drop controls in IDE

  I have a situation where when a user creates a new Foo object using the default constructor, a name is automatically created for this Foo object internally. The purpose of the name is because this Foo object will be immediately added to an internal Dictionary, and the name that was created for it will end up becoming the key of the Dictionary, whereas the Foo object itself is the value. These names obviously have to be unique, otherwise they wouldn't be able to be added to the dictionary. Ok, now the first thing that came to my mind on how to solve this situation was being in a .NET IDE, and I drag and drop a new TextBox onto the form, the name that gets created for this textbox is "textbox1". Now, at first I figured ok, maybe it just a co ...Show All

• SQL Server TOP 5 returning 10 ???? :(

  Okay here is my delema.. I have a embedded chart in a table that returns that is set up to return the top 5 of it's sub-children... got me So if i look at info of the datas' children i see Parent Data Infoasd Count Pdataasd,asd,as,d 123 134 Get these top 5 for chart -----------> Child Data Count Infower 56 Infower 43 Infower 23 Infosadew 2 Infoasd 2 Infoasdui 2 Infoasda 2 Infodasdas 2 Infoqweqw 2 Now as you can see at row 4 on the child data the count is 2 and then 2 and then ...Show All

• Windows Forms Launch Condition Haze

  Hi. how we could reinstall the installation itself after a launch condition setup In a Visual Studio 2005 setup, use the Prerequisites button on the properties to build a setup.exe that will install the framework then launch your MSI file. The MSI itself also has a check for the framework, but that will be satisfied and the MSI file will just install. You probably don't mean the ".net framework sdk". You mean the redistributable for apps to run, not the SDK fopr developers to use. ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to pass a dictionary(of) to a generic procedure?

  I have this procedure header: Public Function Register( ByVal dict As Object , ByVal ElementName As String ) As Boolean The "object" is always a Dictionary(Of String, something). The something is a business class. There is a limited number of possibilities, so I could constrain them, but I'd rather not. I want to write something like the following but I can't get any variation to even compile: ' Public Function Register(Of t As {IDictionary(Of String, Dataface.DataSource), IDictionary(Of String, Dataface.AConnection)})(ByVal col As t) As Boolean ' Public Function Register(Of t As Dictionary(Of String, Dataface.BaseClass) (ByVal col As t) As Boolean In the body, I want to be able to write co ...Show All

• SQL Server Connect to a Novell NDS Datasoource via LDAP

  Hi All, Is there a connector in Connections Manager that can access a Novell NDS tree and help to pull data in an SSIS package Thanks, BIG S Would simply like to pull user object data back from eDirectory to MS SQL without having to implement the Novell Client, which I think is needed for the Novell ODBC driver. This can be done with a couple of lines of perl... Isn't there an easy way to make this connection and pull this data from within SQL Server It's just an ldap query.... ...Show All

• .NET Development Interop-problem between .NET-WebService and Java (HTTPS)

  Hi all, does anyone know how i can see the SOAP-messages plain which are sent and recieved over HTTPS The communication is between Windows Server 2003 with .NET 1.1 and Java-Axis. The Java-system is the consumer of my web-service. I have problems whit recieving the message, so i want to diagnose the messages. I have all the certificates i need for the communication. Does anyone know appropriate tools for accomplishing this task Is there a chance to see the messages with the .NET-Framework (The WebService hosting machine returns at some incoming messages http-500, so my WebMethod is not beeing processed.) Thank you very much in advance, Kristijan M. Hello Kristijan. Microsoft offers a free tool ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to get hardware IDs of system

  how to get Hardware ID,serial no,model no of pc Harddisk,Processor,motherboard etc.... you could use WMI for this approach. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=845223&SiteID=1 be sure to add a reference to System.Management and import the namespace. I would also suggest downloading this cool tool which allows you to go through the WMI engine and go to specific classes and get information you want and it also generates VB.NET/C# code for you: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=2CC30A64-EA15-4661-8DA4-55BBC145C30E&displaylang=en ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 icon Problem

  Firstly, let's clear up the icon definitions. Favicons are those that are downloaded from the linked website and show the websites logo or whatever. The icons that we are all concerned with here in this fourm that are in error are the windows icons. These icons along with an array of others are usually contained in system dll files. Indexes into these files are kept track of in the registry and in the shortcut or favorite itself under properties. For example if the dll has 256 icons and windows calls the dll as shell.dll, 255 the 255 is the index into the icon file. In this case the last one (base 0). The problem here is with IE7. The registry entries under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (url and internetshortcut) appear correct. I ...Show All