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• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration won't accept my email address

  I am trying to register for VB express but the it won't accept my email address. I get a message that says something like "private domain, use another email address". This is my only email address, so what can I do You need to create a passport account in order to receive registration benefits. You can create a free email account at www.hotmail.com and use that. Let me know if that helps! ...Show All

• SQL Server [DBNETLIB][ConnectionClient(SEDC.ClientHandshake().]SSL Server error

  For some reason, I'm no longer able to connect to any database on SQL Server. If I click on the + sign before a Data Connection in Visual Studio Server Explorer, a Logon dialog opens. Whatever I enter in the dialog results in the following error message: Connection failed. Sql State: '0 80001' Sql Server Error: 18 [DBNETLIB][ConnectionClient(SEDC.ClientHandshake().] SSL Server error Help please. Is there an error in the server errorlog Look into MSSQL\Log directory for the latest ERRORLOG files. If there is an error there, please add it to this thread. I'll move the thread to the data access forum, where someone might be able to help with this issue. Thanks Laurentiu ...Show All

• SQL Server How to get correct element flow layout in report?

  Did anybody have problems with organizing report elements in free flow layout. I generate RDL from a template based on input parameters. The report consists of variable number of header text boxes, matrixes or tables, several footnotes, and several charts. Obviously it is impossible to predict where exactly (Top) each element will be positioned on a page. Problem is that if not specifying Top attribute result is hardly predictable. Matrix may come first, then header. Sometimes to get the correct output, elements inside RDL should be placed in reverse, which is bizzare. Same template is used for Report Viewer, export to Excel, PDF and printing. To work that around I'm artificially putting sequential values for Top attribute of e ...Show All

• SQL Server Percentage/Proportion

  I'm new to Analysis Services 2005 and MDX. I'm trying to create a calculated member that contains the proportion of cases (using [Measures]. ) for each dimension in the cube. The following code gives me the percentage of the total number of members in each dimension. This is what I need for attribute hiearchies (single-level), but for user-defined hiearchies (multi-level) I want the percentage of the above level. For example, in a time dimension, I want the proportion of cases in each year (this works) and the proportion of cases in each quarter of a given year (this doesn't work). CALCULATE ; CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE .[MEASURES].PercentCases AS CASE WHEN IsEmpty ([Measures]. ) THEN NULL ELSE (( [DimLocati ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Storing game data in database

  I am a casual programmer and have recently, since express was launched, started using SQL databases in my app. These have been very convenient to store and manage datatables etc. I understand that with XNA we can also access other VS components, such as networking, but these components might not be available on the Xbox. Is database integration a purely VS component or can we use it for Xbox applications as well I'd be willing to bet the only databases accessible on a 360 are those on MS's network and that through some type of Live networking API, not the regular Data namespace classes (since .NET isn't on the 360 yet ). Binary or XML files are much easier to use. What would you need a database for on the 360 ...Show All

• SQL Server "One or more DataSources is missing credentials"

  Get this when selecting parameter value in Report Manager Report is working fine in preview Up to me, it has nothing to do with credentials I have some analysis server reports. I have a single value report parameter, the report runs fine with the default value, when I select another value than the default one, I get above message immediately. I got the error since I rebuild the report with SP2 CTP. Strange thing is that the other single value parameter of the report works fine (year) And that I get the error also with other reports, and on the same dimension (Organisation) And that I do not have the error when I change the parameter to multi-value (but as the report is not written for multiple values. ...Show All

• Windows Forms setting superscript and subscript text in a rich text box

  How can I programmatically set a character into superscript or subscript in a system.Windows.RichTextBox I control, I can easly type it in using the same way I do in Word, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it programmatically. Hi and thanks a lot for the reply, the problem with SelectionCharOffset is that it controls the offset level of the character without making it a true superscript or subscript (it doesn't become smaller for instance); if you look more closely to the rtf, you will see that it sets \upN rather than \super, so you could have both \super and \upN set. I'm almost convinced that the RTB implementation does not have a property to control the super/sub behavior, so what I will do i ...Show All

• .NET Development app_code folder

  Hi, I have placed a class under app_code folder like this Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Public Class Class1 Public Enum CWS MyCID = 2297 enquiry = 1 CALENDER = 2 proposal = 3 confirmation = 4 staff = 5 User = 6 library = 7 Account = 8 bills = 9 transport = 10 driver = 5 trainer = 10 consultant = 14 attendance = 11 reports = 12 leave = 15 invoice = 16 worklog = 17 vendorS = 3 cwsclient = 2 End Enum End Class Now in vb code file I want to access this something like this if id=cws.vendors then do this else do this endif how will this be possible S, if you are going to use this enum as a common type in your project I r ...Show All

• .NET Development Querying a XML file with XPath fails

  Hi, I wrote a VC# application targeting the .Net Framework 2.0 (source code below). It uses a System.Xml.XmlReader to load a file (the file is well-formed); a XPathDocument built from the XmlReader object; a XPathNavigator gotten from the XPathDocument to process XPath queries. When testing this program with a simple query ( //s/@epsilon ) it returns an unexpected object : MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathSelectionIterator . The result should be 1.5 . Any help would be appreciated. Intenion The problem you had was that the XPath returned a node set (the 'epsilon' attribute node) so the 'Evaluate' method returned an object representing a node set - XPathSelectionIterator. If you know the XPath will return only ...Show All

• Visual Basic Static Variable Does Not Retain Value

  I am working with VB 2005 Express Edition. Coming from VBA, I have used static variables before with success. However, today I included Static declarations in a private non-shared event handler sub and had to discover that the static variable values were reset every time the sub was invoked. The class that contains the event handler is instantiated only once. I read the online help (ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/MS.NETFramework.v20.en/dv_vbalr/html/19013910-4658-47b6-a22e-1744b527979e.htm), but to no avail. It may help to point out that the event handler sub is responding to the SelectedIndexChanged event of the CheckedListBox . I also noticed that whenever I click on any of the checkboxes that the event handler is invoked twice, w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Dynamic data source at runtime?

  I've created some reports and deployed on Report Server 2005, and I created a winform application using ReportViewer control to display the reports. Can I assign data source to report during runtime like logon database in Crystal Reports, because I've several database with the same structure, I want to use one report file for all database by switching the data source in my winform application. Does anyone know how can I do this Thank you very much!!! The DataSources property is readonly, which means you cannot assign to ReportViewer.LocalReport.DataSources, but you can change the members of this collection. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Displaying MIDI files on a musical staff

  Any one know how to display a midi file on a visible musical staff I see programs like "Anvil Studio" that do this. Can this be done in visual studio I am most familiar with visual basic. Would like to create an application that would help me improve my music practise time by playing and displaying a midi file. Hi dugley well I am a musician and I think I am becoming quite proficient in vb but I would not even attempt it there are just too many things involved..like note length...pitch...velocity...timing...etc as I said, I think you would have to be a mathamatician and a computer whizz and a musician.....major task to be honest...I doubt if there is anyone in this forum ...Show All

• SQL Server issue with dts.taskresult from script task

  have a script task that checks for existense of a file if found it sets Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success and moves to next task and if not found it sends an email then sets Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Failure but when I run the job to test for failure I do get the email but the job continues to be in yellow state it never turns red. I have to terminate it myself manually. Is there anything else I need to set Thanks in advance I find that it is easier to set a boolean variable indicating success or otherwise. you can then check the value within a conditional precedence constraint. -Jamie ...Show All

• Windows Forms \r\n problems with textbox

  Hi All, I'm making a program which has a textbox, when I try to set the text of that textbox it seems to not allow \r\n to work, a small square box appears in the text instead of a new line being started. I've set the properties of the textbox so that multiline = true and scrollbars = true Does anyone know how I can resolve this please Any help would be gratefully received. Many thanks in advance and kind regards, Rich string text = "Hello\r\nWorld"; textBox1.Lines = text.Split( new char[] {'\n'} ); ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow properties when debugging

  Hi, I am debugging a workflow winform application in Visual Studio, and was expecting to be able to monitor the values of workflow properties as I step through. This does not seem to be the case though. Does anyone know if this is by design or not Thanks and regards, /Valur I'm running the workflow debugger by setting the workflow library as startup project and pointing to my winform executable. I see the top call stack activity properties in the Locals window, but the Properties window only shows initially assigned values for currently selected activity. Got SQL Tracking service running. ...Show All