roundthebend's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't register for activation key for Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta

  When I try to register from the Activate Product... option in the help menu, I fill in the web form at https://profile.microsoft.com/ProductActivation/ProductActivation.aspx , but when I click on the Continue button, I always get the error message shown below.  I have been getting this same message for a number of weeks now.  Anyone got any ideas Rab Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 Sorry for the confusion caused; for brevity I didn't add all the variable details from the at the end of the URL. Yes, the link is automatically populated from my machine when I click on the register now link from the help dialogue in Visual W D 2005 E E Beta. I get taken to a web page to enter all my details ...Show All

• Architecture Disable "connect when this network is in range"

  I need to be able to disable this when a new network is created. By default this is checked in the wireless network pane. Any ideas simonshort wrote: I need to be able to disable this when a new network is created. By default this is checked in the wireless network pane. Any ideas has any one been able to achive this ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linker problems LNK2001

  Hey people, im trying to get an old EVC++ to Visual Studio, fixed the /MDd problem and the W_Char problem. but when i try to compile i get over 300 linker errors. ive got the idea im missing lib files or something, but i added the old lib directory's and stil i cant get it going. Linking... RTCView.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: int __cdecl CListCtrl::InsertColumn(int,unsigned short const *,int,int,int)" ( InsertColumn@CListCtrl@@QAAHHPBGHHH@Z) stateview.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: int __cdecl CListCtrl::InsertColumn(int,unsigned short const *,int,int,int)" ( InsertColumn@CListCtrl@@QAAHHPBGHHH@Z) Tablog.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ...Show All

• SQL Server RAISERROR in CLR Routines

  When I use the following code to execute a RAISERROR from within a CLR Routine (Stored Procedure), and I call this CLR stored procedure from T-SQL within a TRY/CATCH block, the error is not caught in the CATCH block. Why is this happening try { SqlContext .Pipe.ExecuteAndSend(cmd); } catch { } I have noticed that if I throw the exception out of the CLR routine, then the T-SQL stored procedure begin catch .. end catch does catch it. But of course, there is a lot of .NET information sent back with it, so the error message is quite messy. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. ERROR

  Hi I have had an error and it says, "This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid windows installer package". Could someone please help me out with I would really appreciate it, and this occurred when I tried to install the VS_setup file in the XNA build folder/50727.42/vs_setup. It keeps giving me the same error. Hi just an update the vs_setup file I had was 0kb so I deleted it and I tried clicking this link file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Kash/Desktop/XNABuild/PPE/50727.42/Vs_Setup.msi but now it is saying windows cannot find the file, can anyone help me please ...Show All

• Visual Studio AddNamedCommand2: Menu items disappear on first use

  Following the model suggested in sample code, I've been able to add to the main menus in the Visual Studio development environment with my Add-In. Curiously, however, my menu items disappear after my first attempt to use any of them. The menus don't, nor do submenus. Only the menu items do. Here's how I am creating them: IdeCommand = IdeCommands.AddNamedCommand2( _ _addInInstance, UniqueName, MenuCaption, Description, True, 0, Nothing, _ CType(vsCommandStatus.vsCommandStatusSupported, Integer) + _ CType(vsCommandStatus.vsCommandStatusEnabled, Integer), _ vsCommandStyle.vsCommandStylePictAndText, _ vsCommandControlType.vsCommandControlTypeButton _ ) IdeCommand.AddControl( _ ParentMenu.CommandBar, _ ParentMenu.CommandBar.C ...Show All

• Visual Basic Sending text to another PC

  I am now trying to test the TcpClient and TcpListener, but the program just crashes every time. Is this something to do with the prgram or my computer If either, what is it! Ant_59 wrote: I am now trying to test the TcpClient and TcpListener, but the program just crashes every time. Is this something to do with the prgram or my computer If either, what is it! Without seeing the source code there's no way to tell. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to determine if a form IsDirty

  Let's say you have a form with a bunch of text boxes bound to a binding source. The form also has a "Save" button which you want enabled only if the user has made changes. The Save button will call bindingSource.EndEdit() and will then instruct the dataset to update the database. Other than catching the text control's EditValueChanged event, is there a simpler way that applies to the whole form It would be nice if the binding source had a IsDirty property that is set to true prior to the EndEdit(). Thank you. I was hoping to do it by handling an event of the binding source. However, having 1 handler that covers all will suffice. Jim ...Show All

• SQL Server Can you help pls? trouble using a variable @myvar in a script

  Hi I have this script: use mosaikDB761 exec sp_MSforeachDB ' use [ ] declare @myval char(150) set @myval=(select collation from syscolumns where id=object_id(''syscomments'') and name=''text''); select text collate @myval as mytext from syscomments print @myval; ' But i get an error near @myval like this: Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 5 Line 5: Incorrect syntax near '@myval'. If I run the script without select text collate @myval from syscomments I get no error. I get the good results: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS Latin1_General_BIN SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS ...etc But If I run the script by replacing @myval with a real value like this: SQL_Latin1_Ge ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem rendering font

  As part of my application, I wrote an user control using Visual Studio 2005 w/SP 1 running on a Windows XP Pro w/SP2 installed. In my control, I drew some text on a bitmap which was then set to a PictureBox.Image property. The font I used was Verdana, 10pt Bold. (I also tried Arial with the same results.) The resulting output looks just fine on the development machine. I did a xcopy deployment of the application to couple other XP machines and the resulting rendered text looks crappy! ! Like a bitmap font enlarged. It's nothing like it looks like on the development machine. I checked by going into the Control Panel | Fonts applet on those machines and Verdana Bold is listed. The Fonts applet will even display the sample text. Her ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development namespace support

  Hello Everybody Can some one (from microsoft i suppose) guide about the extent of namespace support they have provided or will provide Thanks I'm not sure exactly what you are asking, but here is some general info. HD DVD requires that XML documents are well-formed and valid, but players must IGNORE any custom schemas location information, so they won't download and validate against a schema. The only schemas it "knows" about are the ones in the spec (core, state, style, etc.) that are hard-coded into iHD. This allows you to define your own attributes etc. in your own namespace (assuming you add the right prefix in the root node) without clashing with any pre-defined attributes. The XML APIs are all namespace-aware ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System 'Merging' new solution

  This is probably a bit of a n00b question, but here we go: We have three branches, a Production (trunk) branch, a QA (testing) branch, and a Development branch for day to day work. When the time comes to merge changes up to the QA branch, if I just want to merge my one new solution, how do I do it without merging the whole base folder For example, I add a solution that has the .sln file in $/Project/AppName, one project sitting in $/Project/AppName/src/MyNewSolution, and another project in $/Project/AppName/test/MyNewSolutionTest. In the above example, I can't merge the solution file and then the new folders (MyNewSolution & MyNewSolutionTest) as they do not have branch links to QA. Does this mean I have to branch the solution ...Show All

• .NET Development InvalidateRect user32 function declaration in vista?

    Hi,  I am working in vs2005 using vb.net. I would like to know the declarations for the following vb functions in .Net to support in 64 bit windows vista environment too..  Private Declare Function GetDeviceCaps Lib "gdi32" _             (ByVal hDC As Long, ByVal index As Integer) As Integer Private Declare Function GetDC Lib "user32" _             (ByVal hWnd1 As Long) As Long Private Declare Function ReleaseDC Lib "user32" _             (ByVal hWnd1 As Long, ByVal hDC As Long) As Integer            ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Checkpoints

  I have a package that uses ssis checkpoints. It works well. However, when I try to setup transactions for some task, the chekpoints aren't used. I read BOL and It states: "If a package is configured to use checkpoints, Integration Services captures the restart point in the checkpoint file. The type of container that fails and the implementation of features such as transactions affect the restart point that is recorded in the checkpoint file ." But, how checkpoints are affected by transactions what relation exists between this two components Hernan93 wrote: I have a package that uses ssis checkpoints. It works well. However, when I try to setup transactions for some task, the chek ...Show All

• Windows Forms different fore- or background - colors in a datagridview cell

  Hello, i have a databound datagridview; in each datagridview-cell there are 1 to 5 Items (all only text) which I want to view in different fore- ore background colors, user defined. Is there any possibility to format something like a HTML-table to be displayed in a datagridview-cell Do any solutions for "cells in a datagridview-cell" exist thanks a lot, Markus Thank you, this code works fine. Now I can draw my strings in different colors, if a string is empty I simply return from this method and the cell is drawn in the default style. The only thing which is left to do is to care about the cells`borders, in which the strings are manually drawn; they are not disp ...Show All