MarcBey's Q&A profile

• Commerce Server Orders System-Business Desk-based management UI functionality

  Hi Everyone, we were using Business Desk-based management UI in commerce server 2002 and now we are migrating to 2007. we have tried to locate this functionality in 2007 commerce server but it seems it has been either replaced or removed. If it is still there in commerce server 2007 then please let me know how can i use it. Regards Ijaz The (rather buggy) BizDesk has been replaced in CS2007 with separate web service based smart client applications including the Catalog and Inventory Schema Manager, Customer and Orders Manager, Catalog Manager and Marketing Manager applications. These applications may be installed by running the Commerce Server setup program. There is also a Partner SDK available if you decide to exten ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Requiring parameters in messages

  If I have an operation like: int AddIntegers(int int1, int in2), it seems like I can invoke this message by sending a message that does not have the int2 parameter, i.e. a message that looks like: <soap:Envelope><soap:Body><int1>2</int1></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>. WCF will assign the default value to int2 (= 0) and it will work as if nothing was wrong. What is the best way to make parameters required I find it strange that parameters are optional by default and not required. I know that the DataMemberAttribute has a IsRequired property, but how do I make the method parameters themselves required I was hoping to do something like: [OperationContract(RequireParameters = true)] int AddIntegers ...Show All

• SQL Server Can we change the name of the instance ..

  Can we change the name of the instance (SomeSQLInstance1, Some SQLInstance2) to be "SomeSQLStdInstance" while upgrading to SQL 2005 from MSDE 2k or SQL 2000 hi, Rubal Jain wrote: Yes. You can change the name of an instance as long as the server is not clustered. For more information, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/instsql/in_afterinstall_5r8f.asp the feature you reported is only able to resync the server name to a SQL Server instance and not to just "rename" an installed instance.. if you installed a local named instance of SQLExpress, usually named (Local ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding to a DependencyProperty of type XmlNode

  Hello everybody. I am trying to bind my custom DependencyProperty public static readonly DependencyProperty xmlNodeProperty = DependencyProperty .Register( "xmlNode" , typeof ( XmlNode ), typeof ( XmlEditor ), new PropertyMetadata ( null )); public XmlNode xmlNode { get { return ( XmlNode ) this .GetValue(xmlNodeProperty); } set { this .SetValue(xmlNodeProperty, value ); } } to a XmlNode identified by a XPath query with the following code: //Configure the binding and set it : Binding b = new Binding (); b.Source = this .FindResource( "xmlAppOptions" ) as XmlDataProvider ; b.Mode = BindingMode .TwoWay; b.UpdateSource ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Regarding "CheckWord" method of "SpellChecker" class

  Hi, I am using "CheckWord(string, bool)" method of "SpellChecker" class. This method has an "if" block which traps the strings having length lesser than three characters and simply returns "SpellerStatus" as "NoErrors" for such a string. My requirement is to check for strings which are of two characters length or greater. To achieve this, I am concatenating few extra spaces to my string if it's length is less than two characters before passing it to the "CheckWord" method because of which the "if" block is skipped. But I am looking for a better and safer solution. If anybody knows the solution to it, please let me know. Thanks Regards Syed Junaid ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Next CTP Version for Orcas Tools

  Does anybody know when the next CTP versions are coming ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting services hangs

  Hi, someone doing some reports for me using Reporting Services is getting some problems. This is what he stated the problem as: "There is a ASP.NET service which eats up all of the memory until the report system crashes" By removing as many of the views as possible and using tables directly, the report successfully ran (in a bit over two minutes, processing 300,000 records), however, when doubling the amount of data to be included, the report wouldn't run again. Has anybody come across a similar problem and have any advice Thanks, Frank Rather than sending 600,000 rows across the network, I'd suggest filtering/aggregating on the database side and using Reporting Services mainly to format/display. Take advantage of th ...Show All

• Visual Basic generate id...

  txtStaffID.Text = "S" & dsStaff.Tables("Staff").Rows.Count + 1 i m currently using auto generate id as above...but after i deleted record in the table, the id number will duplicated..... eg. i have record S1, S2, S3, S4, S5.......S44.... if i deleted S3 row ...then i wanna add new record will be S44...which already had in my table.... if i deleted 2 rows then new id will be S43.... how can i generate id after last record no matter how many record i deleted ...(S45) thanx... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA - Microsoft lack of vision

  Its real sad that Microsoft, once again, shows this lack of vision for a games development tool: 1: Get visual: Don't force users to write such a lot of code to do just very little. It reminds the Charles Petzold's "Hello Window" hell of code days. 2: Provide visual tools: Let users choose the components, change their properties and write just the required code for the events. 3: Quick development means quick prototype and minimum learning curve. XNA has a lot of things to learn. Definetively it is NOT for students and hobbists. We will have to wait until someone encapsulates XNA framework into a group of visual components, that can be easily drag & dropped, inspected and tested very easily without having to learn lots of n ...Show All

• SQL Server Subreport throwing an exception when placed in a group footer

  I ran into this a few weeks ago and found that several others had as well, but no one had yet found an answer. I found the answer (at least one of the answers) this weekend and wanted to share it. I had recently added a subreport to a group footer in a table and started getting an error. Depending on the data, the error wasn't always present. I didn't have a problem when I moved the subreport to any other area in the report. Here is the error I was getting: An error occurred during local report processing An internal error occurred on the report server. See the error log for more details. It was a local report (rdlc), so naturally, there was no error log <g>. I added an event handler for ReportError and collected this inf ...Show All

• Visual C# Reading regional settings

  I create automatic file names with current date and time, but I need to replace date and time separator characters with underscore ("_"). How can I get the "Date" and "Time" separators set by the user in Regional Settings in Control Panel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System assemblies missing when running unit test

  Hi, When building a project in visual studio the project build fine and all test are run and passed. But when i run the build from TFS the test run fails due to missing assemblies refences. These are included as references in the unit test project. Has anybody had some experience with missisng assembly refences when running a build from TFS .  All references are under source control. Under the same solution. If by work folder you mean TestResults\xxxx_PCxxxx 2006-12-02 16_08_43\Out. Then the work folder includes all referenced assemblies exept for 2.  I can solve the issue by refernecing the dlls instead of the project that creates them but, its a dirty workaround and & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Security Problem when exporting a work item to TFS

  Hi... I wrote a simple application that creates a work item of type "Bug" and export this item to a specific Team Project in TFS this application runs fine in the development server but the security problem appears when I try to export the work item using IIS I have the following error: Security Exception Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file. Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: TF50309: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS 2005 Smart Phone Tool and SDK Mobile?

  I have been developing apps in VS2005 for Mobile 5 Devices. There are a lot of tools in the toolbox for mobile devices. Now I am trying to create apps for Smart Phone Devices Mobile 5. I have noticed the toolbox is pretty empty when it comes to tools for smart devices. Is there a place I can find tools that work with VS2005 for smart devices (phones like treo 700wx). I see a lot of really cool apps out there for them and carious what people are using seems like VS2005 lack a lot on tool and complexity. I have installed both en_windows_moblile_50_Dev_resource_kit.msi and en_Windows_Mobile_50_Smartphone_SDK.msi. I suppose I am so use to a lot more tools and a lot more functionality with PPC and normal app development. Thanks for the pos ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to identify if the entered data in text box is a string or a integer

  I am making a small program for maintain the employee records with their ID numbers and their names. For this i have created two text boxes one for ID number, and another for the name. Now if the user enters a name in place of number and a number in place of a name in the relative textbox , i want the program to send a message back to the user to identify his error and to make the necessary corrections. How do i do that . Kindly help. This will make my program more accurate in its use. The following will check for numeric entry and could be included in a button click event. If Not IsNumeric(TextBox1.Text) Then MessageBox.Show("Please enter a number") TextBox1.SelectAll() TextBox1.Select() End If ...Show All