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SQL Server 2005 by default is not visible from outside

Luis Alonso Ramos11-Dec-07 15:00

Luis Alonso Ramos

11-Dec-07 15:00

By default and for security reasons, when you install SQL Server 2005, it cannot be accessed from computers other than where it is installed. You have to explicity allow this. To do it:

1. In your Start Menu, find "SQL Server Configuration Manager"
2. In the SQL Server 2005 Services node, find SQL Server Browser and ensure it is running and starts automatically.
3. In SQL Server 2005 Network Configuration, find the instance you want to allow (probably MSSQLSERVER) and enable TP/IP.

You'll probably have to restart SQL Server.

Luis Alonso Ramos
Intelectix
Chihuahua, Mexico

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GUI upgrade

epitalon8-Dec-07 6:08

epitalon

8-Dec-07 6:08

Hello,

I built for my latest application a GUI based on MFC menus, buttons, dialogs, etc..., using Visual C++.

It has a little bit of old-fashion look though I slowly upgrade it using graphic buttons with mouse-hoover beheviour.

I wish to change completely the look to a more fashion look. I do not know clearly what I want : I just wish to improve the look.

I wonder what would be the right tool for that, whatever the option I take : redesign completely the GUI or upgrade it.
What about Java ?
What about .NET ?

Thanks in advance for any hint.

Jean-Marie
Professionnal Software developper
France

Re: GUI upgrade

TJoe10-Dec-07 17:27

TJoe

10-Dec-07 17:27

WPF[^] is the next generation GUI framework, but the designer support in Visual Studio isn't as intutive as a Windows Forms application.

Take care,
Tom

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Re: GUI upgrade

epitalon211-Dec-07 7:11

epitalon2

11-Dec-07 7:11

Thanks, Tom, for your help.

Actually, by a fashion-look GUI, I think of a web-style GUI, with graphical buttons, hoovering mouse behaviour,....
Is WinForms the good tool to use to achieve such effects ?

I currently use MFC only and I read somewhere that it is possible to integrate a WinForm into an MFC application.

Jean-Marie Epitalon

Re: GUI upgrade

TJoe11-Dec-07 7:29

TJoe

11-Dec-07 7:29

You can think of Windows Forms as the MFC of the .Net world. It has controls like ListView, TreeView, Button, etc. Which map to the same underlying windows controls as CListView, CTreeView, CButton, etc.

With the Windows Forms controls, you get the default Windows look and feel. As with MFC, you can custom draw Windows Forms controls or customize their feel.

WPF on the other hand is the next generation. For example, with the TreeView (in either Windows Forms or MFC) your nodes can generally have an image and text (and multiple levels of nodes). If you want to display another image (say to the right of the text), then you have to perform custom drawing to add the second image. With WPF, the tree nodes can contain pretty much any other control. So I could create a "custom control" that has a left image, text, and right image. Then use that custom control as a node. If I want to add a button to my nodes, then I can update my custom control to include a button, and all the nodes that use that control immediately get the button. WPF is extemely powerful and flexible.

You can also apply styling or themes to any or all controls to customize their look or feel. WPF does have a larger learning curve though, so it may be a bit much to start with.

Windows Forms and WPF are really best utilized if you are using a .Net language. I'm not sure how easy it would be to integrate into a MFC application, and honestly I wouldn't recommend it. But you posted in the .Net framework forum, so I'm assuming you want to start using .Net.

Take care,
Tom

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Re: GUI upgrade

epitalon18-Dec-07 3:19

epitalon

18-Dec-07 3:19

Thanks, Tom, for your help.
Jean-Marie

/nostdlib + value type mismatch

Klaus8-Dec-07 4:16

Klaus

8-Dec-07 4:16

Hello,

the C# compiler has a wonderful option that allows you to build your application
without referencing mscorlib.dll in order to write your own System namespace (/nostdlib).
I am making usage of this feature but I have a problem.
I created a simple application with this feature that implements some core classes (Object, Attribute, Int32, ValueType, ...) in order to build the project properly. It works fine.
The only problem consists in the fact that I can't create my own value types and use them e.g:

<br />
using System;<br />
<br />
namespace Test<br />
{<br />
    struct MyValueType<br />
    {<br />
    }<br />
<br />
    class MainClass<br />
    {<br />
        static void Main()<br />
        {<br />
            MyValueType val;<br />
        }<br />
    }<br />
}<br />

This will throw the following exception:

<br />
Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Test.MyValueType' from assembly 'Test, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=nu<br />
ll' due to value type mismatch.<br />
   at Test.MainClass.Main()<br />

I would be VERY pleased if someone helped me.
Thanks in advance.

Best wishes,
Klaus

.NET Languages and Namespaces

.NET- India 7-Dec-07 23:30

.NET- India

7-Dec-07 23:30

Hello Friends,

Can anybody let me know how many languages and namespaces are supported by .NET 2.0

And also plz define "Type Safety"