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• Windows Forms Confounding Error Message...

  See for yourself: http://www.charliedigital.com/content/binary/annoying-error.gif "An error occurred: Unable to cast object of type 'X' to type 'X'". Weird thing is that: This error in no way impairs the functionality of the Windows Forms app... This error is displayed in a modal dialog for VS, not the application form... This error is only displayed when the application form is launched from VS (no debugging), and not when it's launched from the standalone .exe... This error makes no sense... Gah!  It's not stopping me from moving forward, but it's so annoying to hear that XP "Critical Stop" clip every time it pops up.  Throw me a bone, Microsoft, at least tell me what line the error is on! I'm ...Show All

• Visual C# Maintaining an Activity Log over multiple classes

  Hi all, i have a class called ActivityLog.cs and this basically creates a log of whats going on in my console app. i construct it like: ActivityLog Activity = new ActivityLog(); then you use it like activity.log("this is one entry"); and when the program is done you can mail out the log like activity.Email("me@me.com","me@you.com","the log file"); My program uses three different classes, right now the activity log only works with the first, well it will work with all three but only if i construct a new log file for each class, i was hoping someone could help me figure out a way to pass the log back and forth during the execution of the different classes. I am familiar with the ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Windows Vista Search Compared to Windows Desktop Search

  Currntly we are testing Windows Desktop Search by configuring it with Group Policy and the Notes addon. Is the Vista search going to support the Notes Ifilter and other filters Is it going to support control from Group Policy like the windows desktop search does Thanks Hello Cerw1n, Vista Search is built upon the engine that is currently the heart of the WDS 3.0 beta preview. 3.0 is different in that the indexer runs as a Windows Service and not a user-mode application. This means that each system requires only one index - regardless of the number of users. Group policy support will not be provided with the release of WDS that will come packaged with Vista as Vista Search. It will, however, be supp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Access Databases, Queries and Reports in VB 2005

  Hi all, I've got a project which uses an Access database. The database is used to store times when people come into the building and when they leave. I've been asked to put an 'emergency print' button onto the form which will print a list of names of people still in the building. So far, the table saves data when people come into the building. This will save their person number, name, date, and the time they came in. When they leave though, I'm a little stumped. Basically, what needs to happen is the row in the database created when they came in needs to be updated to store the time they left. I figure the best way to do this would be to use the person number (since it is the primary key for the database) to find that persons record ...Show All

• SQL Server convert 180-day version of sql

  I need to find out what steps to take to convert the 180-day version of sql server 2005. My server has Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Premium installed. What do you want to install instead Make sure you have the correct licences in place. Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Error in svcutil

  Hi all, I successfully created a simple service hosted in the managed application (console application) or can be called a self-hosted service. Now w hen i create the proxy for service using svcutil its says " Error: An unexpected error has occurred in the tool. Error: Method not found: 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2<System.String, System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding> System.ServiceModel.Configuration.Metadata Element.LoadMetadataExchangeBindings()'. " And SDK is not installing in my machine. it shows "Debugger error" while installing. So, i just copied the files under Microsoft SDKs in c:\program files and pasted in my system's c:\program files. I came to know that there is programm ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro form in formset are displsayed just once

  Hello, I use vfp 6.0 and win xp as o/s. I have a fornset with a main form that contains push buttons to show another subforms in the same formset. My client has win 98. when i installed my program on his computer, and clik a push button to display a sub form that works fine just for the first time. if i try it next time it wont work. I have used show and hide methods to show and hide the subforms not the release method. pl help. -ravindra ok sir i will not use formset anymore. but the problem is that it is working fine on my system but not on the client's. what happening is when i click on the command btn to display subform with its show method it is displayed for the fi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Serial Port on real PPC device

  Hello, Have no troubles with data transfer through COM port using my app running on WM50 Emulator from one side and Hyperterminal on other side's PC. For some reason having problems with the real PPC device. COM port gets opened but when I try to write something over it looks like WriteFile hungs for a specified write's timeout and after expiration returns that everything was just fine but I see no data on terminal or analyzer. Any comments, ideas May be I have a conflict with ActiveSync It attempted to do Sync over the COM at the beginning but failed because there is no ActiveSync on the PC. TIA. You are right the parameters were essential. I still have no clue what was wrong with hardware fl ...Show All

• Windows Forms Update UI Thread

  I am trying to update the grid on my form as it processes the information in a datatable. It works when I run it in Visual Studio 2005, but it hangs when it gets to the update code in Windows Server 2003. Public Delegate Sub UpdateUI( ByRef newDT As DataTable) I call this inside a Do While Loop Dim updateUIDelegate As New UpdateUI( AddressOf Me .UpdateGvResult) Dim args As Object () = {dtProcessedResults} Me .Invoke(updateUIDelegate, args) Private Sub UpdateGvResult( ByRef newDT As DataTable) If Not (newDT Is Nothing ) Then gvResult.DataSource = newDT gvResult.Refresh() Me .Update() End If End Sub Why does it work in Visual Studio and hangs in Wind ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Breakpoints causing connection loss on debug

  What started out as a random problem has become a full-time issue. Attempting to run a WM 5.0 app causes a "The Connection to the Device has been lost, blah, blah, blah" error. Deleting ALL breakpoints allows the app to deploy and run perfectly. Breakpoints can then be set for debugging. Setting a SINGLE breakpoint before deploying, however, will now cause this problem. The larger the app became, the more prevalent the problem became until some critical point was reached...now it happens every time. VS2005 and ActiveSync have been removed/reinstalled. I've tried VS SP1 Beta and ActiveSync 2.5 Beta. I've tried several different devices along with the emulators. No change. Has anyone heard confirmation of this ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to tweak the OutputPath on a Visual Studio .NEt 2005 solution

  Hello. I know that this kind of question has already lead to much writing on this forum. I've been digging, with no luck. I explain my need. Context and requirements I am compiling a MS Visual Studio .NET 2005 solution on the command line via a 'msbuild.exe' call. This solution contains several C# projects, with a dependancy graph. By default, each project output path is set via the MSBuild ' OutputPath ' property, defined with the value ' bin\$(ConfigurationName) ', which imposes the output artifacts to be created related to the Visual Studio C# project location on the hard disk, in the directory ' bin\Release ' related to the directory containing as a child the project, in release mode. What I need, is to set this ' OutputPath ' direct ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS closes

  I'm not a developer, but couldn't find another forum to post a question. here's what happens: I type in search words in the WDS deskbar search box. A list of choices appear I click on a file or on "more" WDS application opens Then immediately closes. I have completely uninstalled and re-installed 2 times, following all the instructions I could find on this forum. Here are a few of my "specs": Windows Deskbar Search--02.06.5000.5378 XP Pro 2002 SP2 IE V6 Seprice, I'm sending this over to some people on our test team to see if they can help troubleshoot the issue. I hope to be back to you soon. Paul Nystrom - MSFT ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) NetTcp with RM not being kept alive

  Hello all, I have been trying to get a client/server channel in WCF that is kept alive even when inactive. Basically, I want to have a pool of connections open that will be shared on my application. I have written some sample code that looks like the following: Service: [ServiceContract(SessionMode = SessionMode.Allowed, Namespace = " http://tempuri.org/Services/IServiceContract ")] public interface IServiceContract { [OperationContract] string DoSomething(string arg); } [ServiceBehavior(Namespace=" http://tempuri.org/Services/ServiceImplementation ")] public class ServiceImplementation : IServiceContract { #region IServiceContract Members public string DoSomething(string arg) { return str ...Show All

• SQL Server What to use in place of MS Access to view SQL Server tables?

  Our business application is running SQL Server in a remote data center and we had been using MS Access from a local PC to occasionally fix data problems in the data base. As the tables continue to grow, it's painfully obvious MS Access just can't handle the volume of data. One of our tables we need to get into is about 200,000 rows, another is over 100,000 rows. We need to be able to change individual rows, and perform search and replace commands across one or more columns in select tables. What software can we install on local desktops to allow viewing and editing of SQL table data MS Excel would probably be worse than Access - I seem to remember a 65000 row limit in Excel when importing large .csv ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute multiple statements at once...

  I am not even sure if this is possible but I want to be able to excute several statements (or SPs) at once from inside a SPs (or any other method). What I am doing is a I am taking data from a single column, multiple rows and making it into one row (i.e. data1 + data2 + data3....) But I am doing this to a total of 2.1 million individual rows and the result will be about 204k rows.... what I have written is basically a nested loop and it works fine but very slow... slow as in it has been running for 24 hours now and it is about 60% done... I need this to finish in under 36 hours preferably... If I could handle more than one set of data at once (there will be no duplicates) I could speed up the process by how ever many I feel like work ...Show All