Horea Soanca's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Combining Output PDF files

  Is there a way to output reports to the same PDF file. Basicly Appending several reports to the one PDF. Without combining the reports using subreports, I think you would use code & custom PDF components, unless you want to jump into writing a rendering extension. Softartisians Officewriter & abcPDF.NET are two possible options. You can also try automating Acrobat. http://www.planetpdf.com/forumarchive/84747.asp One alternative may be to export to a different format and then convert to pdf afterwards. cheers, Andrew ...Show All

• Visual C# IDbConnection and get data in a dataset

  Hello Everyone, I'm using IDbConnection to connect to database and that works perfectly fine.... I can do something like this as well...and this is good too.... IDbCommand command = conn.CreateCommand(); command.CommandText = "Select id, description from lot"; IDataReader dr = command.ExecuteReader(); while (dr.Read()) { string some = dr[1].ToString(); } The problem I'm facing is how to return it in dataset, as I directly want to bind my controls....or somebody can suggest a better way to do it... Thanks, Harsimrat The method you provided works if I'm using SQLCommand and SQLadapter.....but if I need to use IDbCommand and IDbDataAdapter....that doesn' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Credentials of the SubscribeEvent WebService

  I'm using the WorkItemChangedEvent and subscribe the Event to a WebService. The Credential of this WebService is the credentials of the tfsservice account. Normally you can change the Credentials of a WebService: service.Credentials = System.Net. CredentialCache .DefaultCredentials; But how can I change the Credentials of the WebService which is subscribed on the Event I want to connect to TFS without having to set credentials in my webservice code. So I added to the web.config: <appSettings> <add key="WorkItemTrackingCacheRoot" value="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\TFSWebService\TFSCache" /> </appSettings> <system.web> <identity impersonate="t ...Show All

• Visual C++ Combo Box in 2005 drop list

  Hello all, How does one add items to the Drop list on the ComboBox. In the VC++6 I just added it to the Data field, but int VC++2005 it just seems to wipe it out, and not allow u to add items. What am I missing ...Show All

• Visual C++ new to programming

  hey i'm new to progreamming, in doing some windows apps it is better to use c# or c++ (i have little knowlege of C) i like c# productivity, but C++ power (speed). what u recomand Terrax wrote: to use c# or c++ (i have little knowlege of C) i like c# productivity, but C++ power (speed). There will be no significant speed difference between applications created using C++/CLI or C#. As for power, it means different things to different people. To me power means the ability to do the things I want to do. In the context of a managed application that ability is about the same. One additional thing you get with C++ is the ability to create unmanaged applications, but the occasion for an unmanaged application comes very rarely ...Show All

• SQL Server Error 209 Ambiguous column ..Transaction count after EXECUTE indicates .....

  i'm getting following exception when i try to execute stored procedure. {"Ambiguous column name 'MemberID'.\r\nTransaction count after EXECUTE indicates that a COMMIT or ROLLBACK TRANSACTION statement is missing. Previous count = 0, current count = 1." } I know why i'm getting "Ambiguous column name 'MemberID'" exception but i dont know why i'm getting "Transaction count after EXECUTE indicates that......" In my stored proc i'm checking if error occured goto :Error_handler where i do ROLLBACK TRAN /* Its failing at MemberID = tTempResult.MemberID bcoz of Ambiguous column name. I know i have to use RebateInstanceItem.MemberID=tTempResult.MemberID */ here is my stored proc CREATE PROCEDURE ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Window AllowsTransparency="True" brings up error for Design view in VS2005

  Just been coding with WPF, and I always get this error when trying to look at the Design view when I have AllowsTransparency="True" for the window. I get the Whoops! screen, and more specifically I get an error in the Error List. Error: Property 'AllowsTransparency' was not found or is not serializable for type 'Window' To allow viewing in Design View, I have to get rid of the AllowsTransparency attribute. However, I can compile it and it runs fine with the AllowsTransparency property. And It also renders fine in Expression Blend's Design view. I know this is beta software we're looking at... but is it fixable BTW, Happy New Year from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia :-) Chris I ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnced app exe path always the same (after updates)?

  Hello, I just finished updating my application to use ClickOnce deployment. My app used to contain a setting that would enable the users to just use a checkbox to "Run this application on Windows startup", and what it did behind the scenes was to save the application's full path in the Run key in the registry when the app exits. My question is, when ClickOnce updates an application, does it replace the original executable or does it save it locally with another path So, what I am currently doing, will it keep working Thanks in advance, Luis Alonso Ramos ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployment Projects include .net framework

  how can i Deployment Projects include .net framework, please help me, thanks For VS 2005, building a setup project will create a bootstrapper which will install the .NET Framework. For VS 2003, you can use the new Bootstrapper plugin: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx id=2f8f0a23-f529-4158-8e0a-d187d16f41f1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Assembly with Web Service is created differently b/w compile methods

  Hi, I have an C# assembly that has a web reference for a webservice call. What is the main difference between compiling this in Team Build vs compile with the VS 2005 IDE. I know that Team Build uses csc.exe to compile. How does the VS2005 IDE compile this assembly I thought it was MSBuild then calling csc.exe. My issue is that the webservice calls, with the assembly generated with Team Build, throws an exception of "Unknown Error: InvalidOperationException : There was an error generating the XML document." However, if you compile the assembly with the VS IDE is runs fine. What is the big difference It should be exactly the same. Regards, md Hi Chris, ...Show All

• .NET Development ActiveX controls in server objects - Is this possible?

  Hello one and all, We have an n-tier app built using .NET Remoting. The server objects are hosted in IIS. Whoop-de-doo, everything is working just fine. Now, it comes to pass that I need to modify one of these server objects to use some external (3rd party) functionality. And, this 3rd party functionality is hosted in, yes, ActiveX controls. They have no user interface (except for a square box to let you know it's there) and were, I suspect, designed this way so that users of legacy VB can easily use them. However, I have found by trial and error that there is no way to interface to these controls unless they are sat on a Windows Form. This fact is borne out by this related article: - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Hide inactive buttons

  By default, buttons with an inactive command are gray. Is it possible to hide them instead you can style them < Style TargetType = " {x:Type Button} " > < Style.Triggers > < Trigger Property = " IsEnabled " Value = " False " > < Setter Property = " Visibility " Value = " Collapsed " > </ Setter > </ Trigger > </ Style.Triggers > </ Style > ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rotate the viewport

  Is there any way to have the display in an XNA game project be rotated 90 degrees clockwise or counter clockwise I need the entire display to do this, so if there is a simple way(aside from setting the windows display rotation) please let me know. Thank you, Daniel Gary If it's a 2D game, you could create your own class inherited from the SpriteBatch class and override the Draw methods to do the rotation and use your new sprite batch class to do all of your rendering. The benefit of this is you wouldn't have to change any of the other code. ...Show All

• Community Chat Possible logo for the upcoming zunephone

  you guys will most likely not like this at all, but its something that came to me when i was watching television. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/dephy/zunephone.jpg Hi there, Made this for ya just for fun... http://www.alastairq.co.uk/zune.png Regards, Alastairq ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mesh built at runtime?

  Is it possible to build a mesh at runtime I don't necessarily want to use the content pipeline to load anything. Suppose I want to randomly generate an arbitrarily sized terrain at runtime. The only way I can see of doing this now is to use a VertexBuffer. Is this correct or is there another way I've read the threads on using MSBuild to use the pipeline, but I don't want to go that route. If I wanted to access DirectX directly inside an XNA project, what is the best way to go about this Basically, is it safe to continue using MDX (from what I've read, it's not in the long term) or should I just use interop to directly access it For a terrain, you should not use MDX, and you should not use MSBuild. You c ...Show All