Brian Kramer's Q&A profile

• Windows Search Technologies Need some help

  I bought my PC in Italy and my Windows XP Media Center 2005 is in Italian language. how could I change it to English. I don't think you can change the language to English if you have the Italian OS. Thanks, David Peng (MSFT) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Users / Logins (CTP7)

  I'm experiencing some issues regarding users and logins in the CTP7 version. The story: At first, there's no database or login available in the SQL2005 instance When I create a user named testuser in the Schema View , it is nicely added to the users folder as testuser.user.sql . Since it is created without login , I change the piece of the script to for login [testuser] In the Pre-Deployment folder I change the Logins.sql script to create a login if it does not already exist. Why is the testuser sometimes included correctly sometimes included with without login (although the script says for login [testuser] ) sometimes excluded when building the database project Also, I'm not able to just create a login with password=N'wachtwoord' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Some basic C# questions

  In the process of learning C#, I have a small project that I am using as a learning excersise. So far, the project uses 2 forms: A login form A project form The Login form gets launched via the Main entry point with the Application function that VS created. On my login form, after the user has clicked submit, the form validates the user against a SQL database and once it has verified this, it instantiates a user credentials object that contains user name, authority (from the DB) and some user preference data (also taken from the DB). Following this it loads up the Project form like this: ProjectManager formProjects = new ProjectManager ( ); formProjects.Show(); formProjects.BringToFront(); this .Hide(); th ...Show All

• SQL Server xp_instance_regread whitespace escape character

  When I try and run the following: exec master.dbo.xp_instance_regread N'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', N'Software\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServe\ExtendedProcedures', N'Xp_regread&Allowed&Paths', @SmoDefaultFile OUTPUT SELECT ISNULL(@SmoDefaultFile,N'') AS [DefaultFile] It returns an empty result set - but it WORKS if I choose something in the registry without whitespaces. Does any one know what the escape character is or if it is & why doesnt this work Found workaround, used Andrew Novick's xp_regread wrapper displayed here: http://www.novicksoftware.com/UDFofWeek/Vol2/T-SQL-UDF-Vol-2-Num-41-udf_Sys_RegReadStr.htm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unhandled Win32 Exception after installing Visual Studio

  I've been using Office 2003 to do work on a Sharepoint site. Everything was working fine until I installed Visual Studio 2005. After that I could no longer edit Powerpoint files. It would throw an "Unhandled win32 exception" then the Just-in-Time Debugger window pops up. After some testing, I found that Frontpage fails too and even going into Windows explorer and clicking on the site under My Network Places does the same. I did some web surfing and found a post that someone said that the .NET 2.0 framework screwed up the .NET 1.1 framework that those applications use. It didn't sound like a difinitive answer. I reinstalled .NET 1.1, the hotfix, repaired Office, repaired Visual Studio but I still get the crashes. Has anyo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Timer Question

  What I am trying to do is change the color of the background of a picturebox after a certain amount of seconds have elapsed. The code I am using works well the fist time you run the program but if you try to hit the button to fire the code again it does not change the color again either with the same value in the textbox or a new value. What I am trying to achive is after you first run the time you can use the same value in the textbox or have a new value and the timer starts again without restarting the program. here is the code I am using. Public Class Form1 Dim time As Integer Dim value As Integer Dim status As PictureBox Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums map.GetRoute() Problem

  The code included below works fine in Firefox but I'm having trouble in IE. When I load this page in IE and then click "Display Route" the http response is HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:37:31 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 P3P: P="BUS CUR CONo FIN IVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo" X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Expires: -1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 --------------: ---- Problem is that no route info is returned and therefore the map doesn't display the route. In Firefox the complete route info is returned and the route displays. Am I doing something wrong Anyone else having this problem Thanks again! B ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MSDN webcast. C# game programming

  I'm new to all this so I need someone to go ahead and tell me what's what. I am wondering about the Webcast section on game programming at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnvideodev.mspx Is this stuff free, or do I have to have a subscription to something I can't figure it out. Whenever I go to download one of the webcasts in the 3d programming section, I can't download any video but the part 1 of 11. Yeah scott, kidwidahair was right, i'm just an idiot and was confused by the names of the files. They all download as downloadMM.wmv, and that's it, so I thought I was down ...Show All

• SQL Server LEFT OUTER JOIN

  Hi All, Greetings! I have a problem converting *= to LEFT OUTER JOIN. Here's my code that will retrieve a single record when executed: SELECT * FROM ar_t_memo_hdr A, ar_r_trbal_cust_tmp B, common..fs_currency_master E, ar_reval_history rev WHERE A.company_no = 'RAM' AND A.company_locn = 'BANG' AND E.fs_company_code = 'RAM' AND E.fs_locn_code = 'BANG' AND A.currency = E.fs_curr_code AND A.memo_type = 'DM' AND A.cust_no = B.cust_no AND A.so_locn = B.so_locn AND B.host_id = 100 AND A.memo_dt <= '2006-09-25 00:00:00.000' AND A.unapplied_amt >= 0 AND ( (CONVERT(varchar,A.reversal_dt,101) > '2006-09-25 00:00:00.0 ...Show All

• SQL Server could not deploy the cube

  hi, i have created the cube , i am trying to deploy the cube which was not possible it is giving an error as follows: Error 1 The project could not be deployed to the '192.168.1.2' server because of the following connectivity problems : A connection cannot be made. Ensure that the server is running. To verify or update the name of the target server, right-click on the project in Solution Explorer, select Project Properties, click on the Deployment tab, and then enter the name of the server. 0 0 can any one help me with this hmayer wrote: could you ping Is the service running is it a named instance you have to specify servername\instancename if named instance is SQ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions no subject

  can anyone give me an example as to how to connect and control something from a serial port.....something really simple like a light bulb..... hey maybe this..... I have a teddy bear which runs on batteries when you squeeze his foot he snores.... I would love to connect and control him by the pc any ideas...please If you don't have a voltmeter you don't need to buy one. In that case, you just need a little more surgery on the teddy bear. You need to find out how the sensor is connected by following the conductors from the battery. It is probably just a simple switch from one side of the battery to the electronics and the head movement motor, but it can be more complicated. You are lucky that the voltage on the t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Flashing controls?

  How to make a flashing control(buttons,labels...whatever),i.e. to change his BackColor property on some interval.How to do that You could user a Timer control, setting the Interval to the number of milliseconds to how often you want it to flash, handle it's Tick event and change the BackColor back and forth between your two colors. ...Show All

• Visual Basic VS.Net 2005 Standard - missing Database Project

  Hi. I just installed the above (along w/ SQL 2005 (all bits))... In VS '03 I used the Database Project type.... I don't see this project type when I click on Add, New Project... (I checked under all nodes, including Other)... Does this version of VS have this project type Any ideas Thanks!! For VS 2005 I assume you want to create a SQL Server Project The following shows the features in each. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b4z62wxz(VS.80).aspx You'll see the specific SQL Server Project type is not available in standard edition, in pro and above. The SQL Server Express included allows you to create a SQL server Express file which can be used for database work but it has some lim ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSS to TFS

  Hi, my name is Patricio Fernandes from Primavera BSS (www.primaverabss.com) We have a lot of VB6 source code files in VSS and we want to migrate to TFS Source Control. We want to use TFS MSSCCI Provider for VB6 developers and VS2005 to .NET developers. We are facing the following problems: How to deal with all the shared files in VSS TFS doesn’t support shared files and the branch/merge mechanism is not a good solution for us. In VSS when a share file is locked (checked-out) by someone, this file cannot be changed by any other user, we want to keep this behaviour! This feature in VSS is very straightforward comparing to the branch/merge mechanism in TFS Any help is welcome... ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to create DLL's?

  Hello, I was formally known as kn1123, but I forgot my password so, I decided to register again as kineticAnimation.... Anyways, I was wondering how I can create DLL's... Right now I just want to know how I can make one... I found out that this is the code in the DLL Public Class Common 'Functions and other stuff End Class What option do I choose when I create a project Can anyone provide a step by step direction on how to create a DLL Thanks When you create a project - use the Class Library Template. File - New - Project -> Class Library and then place you classes in here. When you build the project it will create the output as a DLL which you can then reference in other projects. ...Show All