Tom Phillips's Q&A profile
SQL Server How to change instance ?
I did an upgrade to my MSDE on my machine, but i use a different name (Infinity) instead of SQLEXPRESS or MSSQLSERVER. I'm wondering if there is a way for me to change it back to SQLExpress There is no way to rename an instance in SQL Server. You'll need to install a new instance and move your database from the old instance to the new instance. Cheers, Dan ...Show All
Visual C++ mfc build problem in vs2005
I have been getting the following error messages whenever I try to build MFC programs, and on MFC programs that have previously built without error. I've tried compiling each file seperately, and, you guessed it, each one gives me these same error messages. I've tried rebuilding the MFC Include directory, reinstalling VS, and still continue to get these errors whenever I try to build or just compile. Again, they have previously build just fine. I've scoured the headers, and can find no issue. I've built, rebuilt, compiled, all to no avail. I'm currently using the trial edition of VS Pro that I installed on 8/1/2006 (though I fully plan to purchase the full version as soon as my financial situation allows). Is that an issue with this ...Show All
Internet Explorer Development Organizing IE7 Toolbars - Google hijacks toolbar layout.
I added Upromise toolbar to IE7 but every time I open a new tab it disappears How do I fix Hi kr, I downloaded and installed the toolbar to have a look at how it works. Unfortunately it is not currently compatible with tabbed browsers . I see from the download page that they expect to have a version for Firefox soon (which has tabbed browsing), but my guess is that they will have extreem difficulty circumventing IE7's enhanced security features. Please contact the site for futher informtion on an IE7 compatible version. I actually installed it on a Win 2K machine (for which it is not supposed to be compatible) where I can sandbox it. There are alot of calls home from this toolbar and I see from the s ...Show All
Visual Studio Properties Window
Is there a reason why, when you are in source mode, and you click on a control the Properties Window is not populated I am almost positive that pre SP1 this worked. Thanks, SLTDon Very helpful Thank you !! But for the <body> tag properties, why don't the "topmargin" , "bottommargin", "leftmargin" properties show up ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Build freezing?
I have run a build a few times now, and it is freezing. I am running a custom installshield task that I have wrote. I have to build about 12 merge modules using the ISSABld.exe, it gets through about 6 of them and then while building it freezes. Does anyone know why this happens Thanks. Looks like the problem is occuring in your custom task. I would recommend trying out your task logic by itself to ease debugging. That is, if your task just exec's some InstallSheild exe, try calling the exe from a command prompt with the same parameters and see what happens. -Aaron ...Show All
Visual J# Backslash problem
Hi there. I am programming J# in my high school computer class and I ran into a little problem. I am making a consol application and it is displaying text but the first displayed character after my quotation mark needs to be a backslash. Whenever I go to debug this program it tells me that the backslash is an invalid escape sequence. If anyone could tell me how to fix this so the backslash is not recognized as a escape key but as regular text this would be great. Thank you very much in advance Perhaps you need to do \\ in languages like C# and J# the \ is used to "escape" a character. For example if you wnated a carriage return yuou would put "\r\n"; Well obviously you have to es ...Show All
Visual C# cs 5001 No Main method suitable for entry point
I keep getting the following from code generated by VS2005: Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\BegCSharpDb\Chapter2_Examples\Chapter2_Examples\obj\Debug\Chapter2_Examples.exe' does not contain a static 'Main' method suitable for an entry point Chapter2_Examples Please see the code below: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace Employees { static class Program { /// <summary> /// The main entry point for the application. /// </summary> [ STAThread ] static void Main() { Application .EnableVisualStyles(); Application .SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault( false ); Application .Run( new Form1 ()); ...Show All
Community Chat Zune and the iPod
I've been following the Zune announcements fairly closely here at work. If you follow my blog, you'll see that I'm pretty passionate about media technologies, and recently went through the pain of migrating away from iPod/iTunes and onto Yahoo Music/Gigabeat S (Portable Media Center). Here the blog category where I talk about it: http://blogs.msdn.com/joemorel/archive/category/13772.aspx Now Zune is in the mix. It looks pretty neat, but I'm not sure if people are really going to go for the whole WiFi thing. I'm just not sure that I want to listen to the same music as the person sitting next to me on the bus. What do you think well remember, some of it may be based on customer requirements having a Wifi is a cool option ...Show All
Visual C# How do you se the default size of a custom control?
How do you se the default size of a custom control For some reason my buttons always get the default size 200 x 200 pixels. Is that size inherited /Lars No that isn't the default for a button but it is probably the default for your user control. You can set the Height and Width properties in your constructor (or more like InitializeComponent method) to change the default values. Note however that ultimately your clients will set the size of the control. Michael Taylor - 9/28/06 ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista [RuleWrite("somefiled")]
Hi Can you give me a good example how to use [RuleRead/Write/Invoke] with PolicyActivity I don't get example from manual... I want some pratical real life example how to use and when :) Jedrzej This should get you going - http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/rules_samples/entry309.aspx http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/rules_samples/entry819.aspx http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/rules_samples/entry8431.aspx All the resources in here also should give you good pointers: http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/rules_samples/default.aspx THanks, Kushal. ...Show All
Visual C# petzold's .Net Dot Zero
This sticky here will be used for people to post their C# book recommendations. It will help us keep the forum a bit cleaner than making several topics about book recommendations and also helps everything to be in 1 "spot" and alot of people can see the book recommendations that you have given everyone else in this topic. So please, feel free to post your book recommendations here for developing in C#! :-) If possible, include any links where the person would be able to obtain the book from, and it's ISBN number which would be a big help to everyone! Here's a free online version of the Effective C# book. I'm have the print version (and I still prefer print versions just because the knowledge seems to stick with me a little more ...Show All
Visual C++ Cursor with a number
Hello, I want to make a mouse cursor that is a number that is varying with the position of the mouse. How to do such cursor Thank you, Christophe, Hello, It is for making a distance measure on an image. I Click to the first point, and then I choose another point and I calculate the distance. Before the second click, I would like to see the distance. Regards, Christophe ...Show All
Visual Studio VSS2005 crashes several times a day
Hi, Visual Sourcesafe 2005 is crashing repeatedly for me at these places: Faulting application ssexp.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x000122ba. Faulting application ssexp.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x000111de. Faulting application ssexp.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x0003426d. Faulting application ssexp.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x00043345. All of these seem to happen if I scroll/click the mouse immediately after performing DIFFs. I think all of the crashes are caused by the same bug so I'm ho ...Show All
SQL Server What does it take to update a SQL Everywhere db?
[VS2005, SQL Everywhere in a VSTO Outlook addin, Typed Datasets] Is there some special flag I need to set in order to update a SQL Everywhere db table I am able to fetch the table via a typed dataset but when I try to update it (using the overload that passes in a row OR the overload that passes in column values as params) it executes successfully but never updates the the SQL Everywhere table. public void PullData() { RemoteTableSyncTableAdapter adapterRemoteSync = new RemoteTableSyncTableAdapter(); RemoteTableSyncDataTable dtSync = adapterRemoteSync.GetData(); foreach (RemoteTableSyncRow row in dtSync.Rows) { row.LastPullDateTime = DateTime.Now; row.LastPullFailed = true; try { ...<some RDA code her ...Show All
Visual C++ native WIFI -- wlanapi
Hello there, I am trying to write a small software that manipulate the wlan configuration in windows XP. I download the beta version of Wireless LAN API for Windows XP SP2. While I am trying to give it a shot, I read somewhere that WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is not supported in this API. Since I am not 100% sure, can anyone give me any information about it Thanks a lot. Hello Misoulee, I got vista SDK RC1 and I`ve got still the same problem with the header files. (l2cmn.h , windot11.h and wlanTypes.h). Would you know what could I try . Thanks very. ...Show All