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• Alex Farber Variations and CurrentUICulture problem (MOSS 2007)

  Hello, We use variations in order to support multiple languages in a site. We have en-US and nl-NL variations. Then we have page layouts with couple of <asp:Localize /> tags where we want to show texts loaded from resource files. We also have two resource files - MyRes.resx and MyRes.nl-NL.resx. When we are in nl-NL variation I see that <asp:Localize /> do not load correct resources for nl-NL, but instead use the default ones (from MyRes.resx). When I check Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture, it returns nl-NL. On the other hand, Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture returns en-US, which is not quite correct. I use MOSS 2007 RTM with no language packs installed. So, my question is - is it normal to have CurrentCulture different ...Show All

• Chimme Data Synchronization with Client/Server

  Normally, client/server applications are developed with the client requesting operations on the server (e.g. AddCustomer, ModifyCustomer, DeleteCustomer, DoSomethingWithCustomer, etc). There's usually also a client side cache so lookup and other frequently used data are loaded into the client. Moving towards developing smart clients, the cache is made robust so it handles synchronization of data with particular synchronization strategies, handling offline mode, etc. With the introduction of SQL Express and assuming all future machines will be preinstalled with SQL Express, could we not write the client as though it's a 1-tier application reading/writing straight to the local SQL Express database and somehow configure SQL Express to d ...Show All

• rad9k 2-Tier Problems Accessing Remote Data

  I have a 2-tier architecture question. What are the problems associated with accessing data remotely in a situation where a client application is directly accessing a SQL Server database over the internet There are obviously security issues related to preventing unwanted access to the database, but what about performance issues Are there connection reliability issues, network limitations, etc., related to the effectiveness of a direct remote connection to SQL Server An alternative architecture we are considering is a 3-tier model with a middle-tier application server (web service). Thanks. if u r developing a serious application, go for the 3 tier model, and her is why: - More secure, beca ...Show All

• Josh Montgomery To use DevForce O/RM or Datasets?

  Hello, I am wrestling with the decision on how to design a new (Order Entry) application. I am using VB 2005, and it will be a Windows Forms app. I have about an intermediate+ level of expertise. In the past I have used VB DataSets and the whole dataset designer which connects to the database. Since then I have learned about O/R mapping tools and am considering using DevForce from IdeaBlade. It seems to work well, so far connecting to the database and generating the classes that relate to the tables. I like this concept and think it makes sense. This seems like a big change, or is it My question is, is this a good direction to go Everything you read from the VS documentation refers to typed Datasets as well as the examples. Wha ...Show All

• edukulla BDC and Table maintenance (editing data)

  Good day all, It is a common requirement in our business to create table (SQL table) maintenance web pages to maintain data associated with inventory planning processes (for example).  In our latest project we were planning to extend our custom ASP.Net pages to support more tables.  As architect, I wanted to influence the team to move this facility from custom code into our portal platform (MOSS 2007), and BDC seemed the ideal option to replace the custom front end.  However, BDC only goes halfway since it doesn't support updates.  I've spent the last couple of hours researching this on MSDN and TechNet, and although many folks refer to the idea, there aren't any real-world examples out there.  There see ...Show All

• John1620 Separate Association and Initiation forms

  Hi, I have a workflow that uses three forms, one for association, one for initiation, and one for edit task. When I first associate the workflow with a list, the association form opens correctly with the pre-defined association data that I passed to it. The problem is, when I try to instantiate the workflow on a particular document in the list all I get is the message, "The form has been closed." When I looked in the logs it looks like the Initiation form is looking for the association schema and not finding it. I know the association data is passed to the initiation form, but if the schema is available for opening the association form why isn't it available to open the initiation form Is there something I'm not specifying in ...Show All

• windflower Creating DataBase

  I am re-writing a single-user, local application that supports MS-Access to a multiple concurrent user application that will support MS-Access, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, and XML. In the current application, a Microsoft Access Database (*.mdb) file (with structure but no data) is distributed with the application. When the user wants a new database, the distributed file is copied. With a move to SQL Server, etc. most users will likely not have the ability to create databases on the fly (I assume most companies keep that in the hands of IT). What is the best or at least accepted method of distributing the database structure with an application SQL Express is the solution MSDE will not be supported under Vista Actually, the b ...Show All

• PCSQL66 Cannot complete this action error on certain sites?

  Hi, I have a Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 site that up until today was working perfectly. Now, only certain sites are receiving this error: http://server:30476/default.aspx --> Cannot complete this action. Please try again. What's interesting is that, without the default.aspx: http://server:30476/ --> 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR Some subsites are working: http://server:30476/services/devsvcs --> works http://server:30476/services --> does not. There are various nastygrams in the logs, but I can't tell a symptom from a cause. Some examples: 03/01/2007 14:41:45.88 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0D64) 0x0DA8 Windows SharePoint Services General 8e26 Medium Failed to open the language resource keyfile comppr ...Show All

• TPECI OCR iFilter and SP2007

  Hi, Since the TIFF iFilter with OCR capabilities in SharePoint 2007 is not available, how could we proceed to achieve the same result I've heard that the reason was related to the performance but even then, it does not remove the need of this feature. More and more, organizations proceed to digitalization of incoming mail items to reduce/eliminate paper-pased processes. It sounds awful to me that an ECM platform such as SP/MOSS 2007 do not provide this feature, especially considering that it was available in SP 2003. Apart from writing our own iFilter, anyone has an idea on how we can achieve OCR recognition of TIF file in a SharePoint 2007 environment Thanks in advance, Alain L. please le ...Show All

• lemmi I need help with application arhitecture?

  Hi! I'm working on my first "big" C# and net framework application. I need some help with deciding how to plan the apllication, that it will use elegant C# code in make most out of net framework. Let me first describe the application. The application will consist of 4 important parts: 1.) Data acquisition driver part This part wil receives input data and store it in a buffer, when the buffer is full, the driver will notify the second part and continue with its work. This probably wil be a seperate windows driver. 2.) Data processing part This part will do some data processing on the input data. It will have many calculation intensive functions, which will execute based on the settings in part 3 and 4. When a functi ...Show All

• akram badr Loading to Excel Services

  Hello I have a question about loading to Excel Services. Is there any way that I can load data from a Project Portfolio Server 2007 or Project Server 2007 to an Excel Service and display that data in SharePoint Server 2007 Thanks and best regards, Mystique And can't you use the BDC to load the data from Project Server Not out of the box, though if Project Server provides an SDK where you can programmatically query for data, you could write a UDF to get the data through the SDK, and return it to the workbook loaded in Excel Services. I don't know much about Project Server, but you can check out this post on how to use the SharePoint SDK to get SharePoint ...Show All

• Amelie s Welcome!

     Welcome to this new forum, which is part of the SharePoint forums group that contains a comprehensive set of forums designed to cover all aspects of SharePoint Products and Technologies. I’ve held off on having these forums created for over a year because we already had a handful of newsgroups in place, but the benefits (search, moderation, filtering, stats, flexibility, planned enhancements, etc.) and the recent surge in usage have convinced me that it’s finally the right time to embrace forums as the de facto channel for community Q&A and discussion .      This particular forum is for topics about Search capabilities in SharePoint. Before posting a question, please review the wealth of infor ...Show All

• cougar91 Setting values between the page and masterpage (button click event) in MOSS 2007

  hi all according our requirements , i put some of the lable in the sharepoint site(put some asp.net server controls label in master page through sharepoint Desiner) . So now i want to set some text in the lable while i click some buttons in the page. the button is placed in basic page and the lable is in master page. how it possible Please its very very urgent for me. and give the elobrate procedure to do this. thanks in advance... ...Show All

• hanumanth Sequence diagram for classes of different projects

  Using Dev.Studio 2003 and Visio 2003. I have a solution that consists of about 8 interrelated projects, I could reverse engineer one of the projects to generate a specific sequence diagram but some of the classes from other projects weren't grabbed with the targeted project. e.g. Project named P1 includes classes called C1 & C2, Project P2 includes class C3 which instantiated the classes C1 and C2. reverse engineering the project P2, in visio sequence diagram C3 exists with its function, C1 exists but without any of its functions and C2 doesn't exist at all. Knowing that C1 & C2 are similar and defined in the same way in P2. Any clue Thank you for your time ...Show All

• hazz Accessing a SQL Server table using sql authentication as opposed to windows authentication

  I have created a pivot table based on a sql server 2005 relational DB connection, with the userid and password stored in the ODC (sql server authentication). The ODC is in the data connection library (DCL) and is approved. I created an Excel sheet with a pivot table based on the ODC. I can refresh this pivot table in Excel 2005, and I have deployed the sheet to the documents library. When accessing the sheet via Excel Services Web access, it displays properly, but refuses to refresh, errorring with : "Unable to retrieve external data for the following connections: xxxxx The data sources may be unreachable, may not be responding, or may have denied you access. Verify that data refresh is enabled for the trusted file location and ...Show All