caligula's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Saving a database into an importable file format

  I am brand new to SQL. Have limited coding experience w/ Visual Basic and database ops w/ Access. I have come into possession of a SQL 2005 database. The problem is that the designer tried to re-invent the wheel and code a very very poor LMS back end for tracking and reporting. I would like, if possible, to save the database and as far as I am aware - should be able to import into Access and generate statistics and reports to my hearts content. I have tried w/out success to save the database going through SQL Server Management Studio Express. Any help or information that could be provided would be appreciated. Any additional information that I can provide, please let me know. Thanks - Will You can n ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums MSN Display Picture

  Has there been any API released to access the image for MSN I'm testing the new Windows Media Player 11 beta 2 and was looking into MSN functionality to update my display picture. Thanks. James lambeauguy wrote: Has there been any API released to access the image for MSN I'm testing the new Windows Media Player 11 beta 2 and was looking into MSN functionality to update my display picture. Thanks. James HMM Why do you test Windows Media Player to access image for MSN You ought to search "MSNC2" in google. You will get what you want. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio 2005 Software Input Panel Icon disappears

  I am using .net 2.0 and I'm using instances of the software inputpanel on various forms on my Pocket PC application. Sometimes the input panel icon is no longer visible on my cradled PDA to click on and I'm trying to work out how to make it visible again or to 'increase its zorder" and bring it to the front. The inputpanel lies at the bottom RHS of the PDA screen on top of a toolbar. Has anyone experienced this before The input panel still responds to enabled commands to show and hide it programatically. Has anyone any ideas on how to fix this   To me it sounds like that when you upgraded your project to VS2005 - it kinda messed up the designer generated code and additionally the behavior of the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Small Business Server

  How compatible is VSTS install on Small Business Server 2003 ...Show All

• Visual C# Generating a random string of letters

  Hi, this is probably a stupid question, but I cant seem to find the answer. My problem is this: I want to make a program that generates a random string of letters when the user clicks a button (I'm going to use it as a sort of name generator). I was thinking of maby having a string variable, and then a loop that generates a random letter and adds it to the string, until the string is at the desired length. My main problem will probably be getting it to only generate letters of the alphabet. Anyone know how Hi, use the Random object with Random.Next(minValue, maxValue) to get random numbers between two values. Use the ascii value of a for the minValue, and the ascii value of z as the maxValue. All generated numbers will be ascii ...Show All

• SQL Server Connect to Database in SQL 2005 Express

  I am trying to connect to the sample databases in SQL Express. I am getting this error. 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: Name Pipes Provider, error: 40 - could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 53) I have downloaded and installed AdventureWorks, Northwind, and Pubs. If I have to allow remote connections how do I do that I am a studen and I am brand new at this. An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Move to cell in previous row?

  I need to write a code to move to a cell in the previous row. I have looked at (offset) , (currentcell) & (currentcelladdress) but i can't quite get the hang of it. This is what i have so far in a button click event:      Me.MaintableDataGridView.CurrentCell.Selected = False      Me.MaintableDataGridView.Rows(0).Cells(0).Selected = True This works great but i just want to move 1 cell up, not by coordinates. Is there some way to utilize code to mimic the arrow keys (sendkeys, etc...) Any help would be great.  Thanks Jeff     you need two member variables called rowindex and columindex  = both integers.  you also n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where to keep User ID and Password if the user choses to check remember my user name and password

  Hi all, In a C# windows Application I have a login screen which will ask the user id and password. It also provides a check box "remember my user id and password". So when ever the user checks that check box, I have to store that information (user id and password) some where so that the user need not to enter again and again. So where should I store this information Which is the efficiant and secured way. Is this information should be stored in cookies or some where in windows registry or should I write a windows service for this or should I store in a file or database Please do me favour by your valuable answer. Thank you, Raviner Reddy.K ...Show All

• Visual Basic Hiding the hard disk

  how do i hide the hard disks of the pc to prevent user's from accesing them using vb.2005 you cant really do this in .NET im afraid, its a Windows thing. do you mean not showing it within your application via say a folderbrowserdialog/openfiledialog/savefiledialog classes ...Show All

• SQL Server Remote access with Reporting services

  I downloaded SQL server Express w/ Advanced services with the intention of using reporting services on my webhost server and SQL on a seprate data server. I made a report in VS2k5 which ran perfectly off of a local server but when I tried to deploy my reports to the web server it informed me that The feature: "Remote access to report data sources and/or the report server database" is not supported in this edition of Reporting Services. Can that be so! Is it as it seems, that Reporting services for SQL Express simply cannot connect to a remote DB, or did I simply fail to configure my service properly and if it wasnt built to remote connect then is there a work around for this issue Thanks in advanced Andrea is correc ...Show All

• Visual C++ How can I add a bitmap(png fomat) into 3D view( OpenGL)?

  How can I add a bitmap(.png fomat) into 3D view( OpenGL) If you have some source code for this, please give it to me.   Thank you very  much! For general how to issues, please use the newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups OTP Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Windows Forms Set Datetime Value - Datepicker

  Hi, I have a datetimepicker control, that when I define a value to save in the datebase it's save correctly, but when I get result to set to the control, it does not shows the value that I selected but the default value ! I've already get the value that is query from the database and it's getting correctly in datetime type How can I solve it Thanks (PS: Sorry for my english) yes, here is the code dtDOB.Value = addressdata.DOB; and the addressdata.DOB returns "30/9/1983 00:00:00" as datetime... but if I change the value, and reload from the data base it does not get the new value... It's the same funtion that does the work... private void LoadCurrentItem() { if ( grdAddress.CurrentR ...Show All

• Visual Studio Accessing IVsTextLayers?

  Hello, I'm trying to support word-wrap and folding/outlining better and with better performance in my vi/vim emulation addin. In order to do this, I'm trying to access the different layers in an IVsTextView directly. I've been successful in getting the 'topmost' layer (IVsTextView -> QI(IVsLayeredTextView) -> GetTopmostLayer() -> IVsTextLayer), but I can find no sensible way to get the next layers. The real need is to get to the layer that comes before word-wrapping, which I'm guessing is the last layer. I'm guessing there is one or more layers that applies the outlining/hidden regions. Accessing this layer, I can quickly map buffer coordinates to non-word-wrapped-but-outlined coordinates. The only thing I've found that return ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Prevent overriding checkin policy?

  Is there a way to disable allowing the user to do this Perhaps via a security permission Otherwise what good is the policy Thanks You're right, we'd have to move policy evaluation to the server. That would limit a lot of the UI interaction that's possible with today's framework, but has some advantages: in addition to adding security, it opens the possibility to things like keyword expansion. To be honest, though, customer demand for these features has been low. Feel free to open a feature request on Connect so that people can vote. ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development how open a window in new tab?

  I used a function window.open(). Now I want to open a window in a new tab window. How can I do that Please show me the way. ...Show All