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• Visual Studio Which VS2005.NET should I get

  IMy Background: 've been doing Access client/server development forever (almost). However, I am a total newbie to Web developement. I'm ready to purchase VB2005.net for use at my company. I will be working almost exclusively with data driven sites (which now I know is ASP). I've ordered my books to learn and study for .NET WEB and .NET Client/Server development certifications. My questjions: For long-term, heavy duty professional development - the express version is out of the question! Correct The major advantage of VS2005.NET PROFESSIONAL is that you can debug remotely. Another advantage is PROFESSIONAL's " Server Explorer Server's Node ".(I'm not sure what that is - Could you explain or is this something I will ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Browser incompatibility

  hi, can someone please help with browser errors in my classifieds site. It is telling me that the asp content is not permitted and uc1 is not permitted The only mod i have made to the site at this point is to install a jpeg logo in the header.. many thanks please do not duplicate post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=734302&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to get the file verion info in the same module as the versioninfo resource is added?

  We can use LoadStringResource function to load a string resource. Are there similar functions to load other resources such as VERSIONINFO. In that way, we do not need to use GetModuleFileName and GetFileVersionInfo to retrieve the version info defined in the VERSIONINFO resource. Thanks. You could use the FindResource(VS_VERSION_INFO, RT_VERSION)/LoadResource() functions to load a version resource (a VS_VERSIONINFO structure) manually and parse it yourself. However, the VS_VERSIONINFO structure is a beast to parse manually--it's a variable length structure which contains inline strings and padding bytes, and generally has unlimited size. The code required to parse a VS_VERSION ...Show All

• Windows Forms Default padding of TextBox control

  Is it possible to change the default padding (internal spacing, in pixels) of the contents of a TextBox control I want some space (internal margins) around my text in the TextBox. The MSDN library says that this is a Protected Overridable ReadOnly Property. Joey: Thanks for the explanation. I understand the basic concept of what you are saying - appying it at my skill level is a challenge. I have been studying the example that you linked to and will see if I can figure a way to use this approach in my application. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How should I save a file from richTextBox containing multilingual fonts ????

  I am writing a text editor for a mixed latin and multilingual fonts. However, when I save it it seems to loose the encoding of the multilingual fonts. Is there some who can advice me a way out the problem is with the encoding. Firstly, what happens if you do it this way... this.theRichTextBox.SaveFile("filename.rtf", RichTextBoxStreamType.RichText); ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Same here

  Hi, I have search everywhere for a solution and still I do not seem to find a solution. Outlook is not finding any emails (instant search). I think it is not really indexing anything. Vista search works perfect (seems like it). The index says it is done (outlook is included on it) As I receive emails, the list of pending items to index just grows and grows. I am using pop accounts not exchange. (I already checked the instant search options, the indexing thorugh control panel). Any ideas. I spent the last two weeks searching for a solution, and I have read and follow the suggested solutions from microsoft, but still is not really finding anything.. so frustrated!. Thanks for reading this, and I hope somebody can help me ou ...Show All

• SQL Server Textbox navigation: Jump To URL

  Hello, I have a textbox on a report that is serving as a dynamic hyperlink. When clicked it makes a call to a URLBuilder web service to retrieve a formatted URL to which I would then like to navigate. In the text box's Jump To URL section on the Navigation tab, I have built out the URL to the web service - so when the hyperlink is clicked on, a new browser window opens with [for example] http://servername/LocatorService/Locator.asmx/BuildURL UserID=John.Doe&AspectMethod=google in the address bar. The browser window will then contain the results of the web service call, for example < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <string xmlns=" http://tempuri.org/">http://www.google.com/sear ...Show All

• Visual Studio UnrecognizedOption

  Can anyone shed light on the folowing error produced by Sandcastle help file builder Transforming reflection output... UnrecognizedOption: /xsl:C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTransforms\AddOverloads.xsl,C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTransforms\AddGuidFilenames.xsl UnrecognizedOption: /xsl:C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTransforms\ReflectionToManifest.xsl    BUILD FAILED: Unexpected error in last build step. See output above for details. After more analysis the error originates in the TransformManifest.bat file show below @ECHO OFF REM Step 2 - Transform the reflection output "C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTools\XslTransform" /xsl:"C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTrans ...Show All

• Visual C++ Message at stopping the debug.

  Hi, all. When I stop debugging my app I'm getting a massage in output window: The program '[10484] FibIm.exe: Native' has exited with code 3 (0x3). What does it mean and now to deal with it Is the program terminating or are you aborting the debug process. In the first case you have control over the returncode, in the second case the returncode is set by the aborting procedure and need not to be 0. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Organizing project files

  I'm trying to clean up unused files. Over the years my.pjt has piled up about 400/800 files of all sorts (.prg, .scx, .vcx, .mnx, .bak, .ini, .xml, .vbr, .err, .dbf, .fpt., .txt, etc.): located in 10 directories ... which is just cluttering up those directories. Is there any suggestable (lazy) way to re-organize and/or clean up (discard old unused files) or copy out only the my.pjt vital files (other than excluded report files, help files, and picture files). Thanks in advance, Having used both schemes (Tamar's and David's) with minor alterations (Sunday evening) I was able to track down and *dissect-out* most unwanted project inclusions (via David) and most unwanted files (via Tamar) with little sequela. Thanks again for your help. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions "It's for the children..." drawtext erase remove

  Howdy, New program for the kiddies... This time, I'm creating a small graphics program where the alphabet letters appear, move, resize, recolor, sort, etc. I'm just getting started...I've got the first letter to move around the screen, and using the font size, color etc, I can get the "A" to move along in a path. I'm using: TextRenderer.DrawText(GraphicsFun, "A" , Me .Font, New Point(point1x, point1y), SystemColors.ControlText How is it that I can erase/remove the letter just before or after the new one appears I don't want to clear the screen/form/etc...just the last appearing letter. Thanks in advance...this site has answered what would appear to me to be hundreds of my questions for the two programs t ...Show All

• SQL Server Multivalue parameter textbox size

  Hi, In my report,I have multivalue parameter for this parameter the Available values are from the Dataset.Suppose the dataset contains Names like this: 'AL - Alabama Center (Tuscaloosa)', 'AL - Regional Control Center (Birmingham)', 'AR - Arkansas & Rock)', 'Arizona Department of Health' But my problem is the Multivalue parameter TextBox is of fixed size.Now i want the size of the text box to the size of the name which is of length long in the Name. Whether it is possible or not. How to achieve this. Sorry for high jacking this post but I can’t find any other reference to this issue. I heard a rumour that this would be fixer in SQL Server 2005 SP2, is this the case ...Show All

• SQL Server sql server agent service failure

  Hi all, I'm new to sql server administration so please show some understanding! I installed sql server 2000 personal edition (upgrated to sp4) on an windows xp pro OS, but I cannot get the sql server agent service  running. I get a message " the service did not start due to a logon failure". The server is my local pc , I'm using windows authentication and the login is "domain/loginname" where domain is my pc name. Does it have to be installed on a server OS to have this service running   Thanks George Hi, ensure 1). User Account used to start SQL Server Service have correct password! Do you change the password in recent 2). The Domain and Workstation (your pc) have trust ...Show All

• SQL Server HTTP 401.1 invalid credentials

  Trying to access a website, got reply error code HTTP 401.1 invalid credentials. Can someone please help me resolve this I am using IE6 on XP. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C# Method Overloading

  I am new to .Net and am learning as I go. The .Net framework guidelines (and a few articles) encourage the usage of method overloading and ParamArrays. What is the motivation for this  I have found that overloading makes it difficult to provide new functionality in systems... for example, lets say some interface has a single method that takes an integer arument interface ISomeInterface { void Foo(int bar); } Some time later we need to add an additional parameter, a string... interface ISomeInterface { void Foo(int bar); void Foo(int bar,string ooh); } Using ParamArrays seems ambiguous to me. What is it about using structs/objects that is discouraged   ...Show All