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• Visual Studio Shared Memory Provider: No process is on the other end of the pipe.

  I'm unable to install SQL Express 2005 on a windows 2003 server.  I have installed it on several 2003 servers, but for some reason, the one I need it on will not install.  I have tried the manual install, and the command line install.  Both give the same error.  Setup gets to the point where it is configuring the server, and then I get the following error. SQL Server Setup could not connect to the database service for server configuration. The error was: [Microsoft][SQL Native Client]Shared Memory Provider: No process is on the other end of the pipe. At this point in time, I can go to services and see that the SQL Service is running, so it has started.  However, upon failure, when I hit cancel, the process ro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Acheive fast bevel effect

  I am trying to build a custom button template to emulate the bevel bitmap effect.  I need to do this because the bitmap effect does not use HW acceleration and is very slow.  Using 2 rectangles and a linear gradient on the back rectangle, I can acheive the look I am going for.  The problem is when resizing the button, I need to dynamically change the angle of the gradient.  Here is the button as it looks before being resized. Button before resizing     So, as you can see, the linear gradient needs to change as the button changes size. Button after resizing   The desired result is: Desired Button look after resizing (Note the difference in gradient angle around the edge) &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio .NET 2005 slows down while loading and building on Intel Core 2 Duo

  Hi, I've got a new Dell Inspiron 9400 system running with intel core 2 duo and a clean installation of Visual Studio 2005, and everything seems to be okay except when i try to load a visual studio solution, and start debugging it. When it starts building the solution (by pressing F5), the build process runs fine, but it is when the embedded web server starts that the whole ide freezes for about 2 or 3 mins. The same happens when I close the navigator (IE6) and visual studio autommatically tries to stop debugging. It just freezes a long time, and I also tried downloading Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 but the same behavior after this. My complete system specifications are the following: Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 (@2 GHz) 1GB ...Show All

• Gadgets How do I do this: ?

  There are several things I want to do. First off what I am doing is reworking a gadget that was made to play mp3s from WMP, this gadget also displays the song track, artist & album. The problem I have is that I don't find it flexible enough and it's just ugly looking to boot, I have so far reworked the interface so that it is much nicer looking visually tho still needs some work, got rid of the album art in the interface BUT I still want to be able to display the art but in a flyout which while I can get the flyout itself to work it does not display the album art and would like to know how to reference the working javascript that was in the parent window/gadget to display the image in the flyout. I am also trying to add functi ...Show All

• Visual C# insert a bitmap item to email body?

  hi, I'm creating a bitmap dynamically, and i want it on the email body as a picture, can it be done Hello Tomer, Sorry but I can't find a satisfactory answer to your question.  About writing to a memorystream...I've never actually worked with the MemoryStream class. Maybe you could find a solution if you do some googling on working with MemoryStreams. Otherwise, lets hope someone posts an answer to this question soon. You can also try posting your question on some other forum if you don't get an answer quickly. Hope your question gets answer soon, Ashish ...Show All

• Windows Forms Editing (specifically deleting) from hosted designers

  Hi there If anybody can help me, it will be greatly appreciated. I've used the DesignerHosting sample from the MSDN magazine (article "The Perfect Host...", and I'm trying to combine that with a TestUndoEngine example I've also found. My problem is that even when invoking StandardCommands.delete after a click on my menu, nothing happens. Now I've noted that all the edit functionality is disabled when you aren't working with a CodeDOM loader in the DesignerHosting sample, but I can't figure out what I need to implement in my BasicDesignerLoader so that deletion works, or even why this functionality needs to be disabled. I'm also not sure what happens behind the scenes when you delete something in a CodeDOM loaded form in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Future Modeling of Integrated DSLs

  Though the following might not always be true (because it needs to be domain specific) are you planning following kind of Multiple DSL models organization If not, what would it be I provide hereby some similar UML modeling structure to clarify (I hope it does :-) UML DSL UML Model (e.g. RSA emx or Rose mdl files…) Visual Studio Solution (sln file) UML Package Visual Studio Project or Folder in that project UML elements in the package Elements spread across one or several DSL model files in a folder. Any diagram in any model can provide a view on an element in another model (with a presentation that is specific to the model/DSL that contains the diagram) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Strange error when loading workflow from sql persistence service

  Hello, I'm currenlty developing a workflow within an ASP.NET web application. All steps are working fine (creating the workflow instance and storing it in the SQL persistence service). But when I try to reload my stored workflow instance using the following code: Dim objWorkflowInstance As WorkflowInstance = objWorkflowRuntime.GetWorkflow(guidWorkflowInstanceID) Then I receive the following error: Object of type 'System.Workflow.Activities.ListenActivity' cannot be converted to type 'System.Workflow.ComponentModel.IActivityEventListener`1[System.Workflow.ComponentModel.QueueEventArgs]'. What am I doing wrong My workflow consists of three steps: 1. a CallExternalMethod activity 2. a Listen activity containing a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need some help with an Enum TypeConverter, I think

  Hello all, I have a simple enumeration exposed as a public property in a component. I have defined Reset and ShouldSerialize methods but they are never getting called. The default RightClick menu shows a Reset item but when I click it I get an Error saying that Object type cannot be converted to target type. To me, that seems to point to a type converter but I have not been having much luck getting one to work. Can someone point me or get me started Thanks in advance for any ideas and/or suggestions! sorry, here it is [code] using System.IO; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Reflection; namespace EnumTest { #region TestClass public class ComponentTest : System.ComponentModel.Com ...Show All

• Visual C++ MessageBoxW and converting to LPCWSTR

  Hi MessageBox(NULL, "Hello World", "Message Box Title -- Hello World", MB_OK); Error: error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [12]' to 'LPCWSTR' IDE:VS2005 I don't understand why it gives this error. Can you please tell me what the problem is and how i can solve it. Thanks Vmaster wrote: Hi, thanks for the reply, but i am having a problem, when I include the 2 headers, I get the following Errors:- \atl\atliface.h(2023) : error C2065: 'GUID_NULL' : undeclared identifier What should I do Please help thanks! I don't know... I have tried the code on Visual C++ 2003 (a.k.a. 7.1) and ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Is Windows SDK final version or RC1?

  The download page for the Windows SDK (publish date 4th Nov) says nothing about it being RC1, yet the license agreement (viewable on running the web setup file) relates to Windows SDK RC1 and states the SDK agreement expires 31st Dec. Can someone please clarify Jason, thank you for replying, it is most appreciated. It's looking great for the SDK, and roll on VS2007! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Inivsible Button

  Hi, Could someone tell me how to make a button that isn't seen to the user, but still can be pressed If i use button1.visible = false then you can't press it. Thanks in advance, Josh lol , I like your thinking, but too bad it doesn't work...(label thing) Its the same problem with the button-IT STILL SHOWS UP Please help... ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to not get combobox SelectedIndexChanged be executed on load

  Hello, As what the subject line is.... What is the method to not allow combobox SelectedIndexChanged to be executed on load... and only make it to be executed when a "USER" changes the selection value. Thanks doing the bool thing could be a temp solution but not best practice. What is this thing you are doing onload perhaps you can do this process at some other point If you can explain more in depth on what your code is doing onload, perhaps I/we can give you a better solution - if you would like :-) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Live webcam viewer

  It might be a big job, but I'd like to know the (basic) code for a program that displays my webcam video (live), and what control to display the webcam video. nate-d-o-double-g wrote: I've tryed the code you recommended, but the "Marshal" variable is not declared according to VB. I tryed to declare it myself, but I couldn't decipher what data type is was. have a look at this (the errors are bold, underscored, and italicized): code { Public Class Form1 Const WM_CAP As Short = &H400S Const WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT As Integer = WM_CAP + 10 Const WM_CAP_DRIVER_DISCONNECT As Integer = WM_CAP + 11 Const WM_CAP_EDIT_COPY As Integer = WM_CAP + 30 Public Const WM_CAP_GET_STATUS As Intege ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista best approach to get a property value on a workflow from an activity

  currently I do a recursive loop through container until I get to the root where the poperties I need are set. Is there a better way then the way I approached this private void getPipelineWorkflowID(System.Workflow.ComponentModel. Activity container) { if (container== null ) return ; IConfirmationContainer bp = container as IConfirmationContainer ; if (bp != null ) { this .PipelineWorkflowID = bp.PipelineWorkflowID; this .PipelineMode = bp.PipelineMode; } else { getPipelineWorkflowID(container.Parent); } } Try the following to get the workflow from within an activity: Activity act = this ; while (act.Parent != null ) ...Show All