Will Merydith's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Off Topic- Forum Function ?

  Is it just me or when replying or creating a post at the bottom when the checkbox is checked for Alert Me does it not actually turn on the subscription. I have to hit the alert me button after I post. Is it just me PS - gripes about bugfix rates aside, you can get pretty good response to these questions in the "Site Feedback" forums at the top of the list. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Office integration throws Assertion error when we export from TFS

  For some unknown reason we are now getting an" Assertion Failed" error when we attempt to export our tasks from a specific TFS project (rt+click on work items and choose "Add work items with Microsoft Excel" or project) or connect to TFS from our existing MS Project that used to previously synchronize with this project. The error says "Rule 6824 refers to a non-existing field." at WitExporter.FindaddTargetElement(PSRuleMetadataRecord* pRule) .... etc(more not listed here)... Anybody ever seen this before As far as I know my colleague and I have done nothing to the schema or rules for this project. (He had updated some rules on a different project.) I'm looking in the obvious places of the task and b ...Show All

• Visual Basic Upgrade and Version Question

  I have an application where I have stored some user information in the My .Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.CurrentUserApplicationData Folder. When there is an upgrade to the product I would like to carry the data from the older versions folder to the new versions folder. I have code that upgrades the my.settings but nothing for the user data. I know I can easily copy the data files from one folder to another but how do I know what the previous version is Is there an easy way to get this information or does anyone have an idea how to calculate the previous version I found out that the in the assembly information the file version controls what "version" library the users files are save ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Timer interval

  the systemtimer interval only goes to 1/1000 of a second if I understand it correctly. IS there a nother timer source that goes further My issue is i have an sub that calls the paintbox.invalidate every tick. But with the timer interval set to 1, it still seems slow. TImer1.interval = 1 sub timer1_tick() handles timer1.tick time = time + 0.001 ** my time source for calculations *** perform velocity calculations **** paintbox.invalidate() I can set my time to increment by 0.01 which will speed it up, but will also mess up my calcualtion timing. any ideas Does directx have a clock/timer I have the June sdk2006 You could look at the System.Threading.Timer class or the System.Timers.Ti ...Show All

• SQL Server Top 10 orders by production

  Hi All, Got a question. In table Production.Product of AdventureWorks database, is there a way I can get a list of top 10 orders dates by product. It is not the lastest 10 orders of all product. I want to get the lastest 10 orders' date by every product. Let's say in that table, we have 5 different product. Then I want to get 50 records back. Is this posible without looping Thanks, George use derived table make a join , hope you will get what you wanted. I can do it for you if you provide me sample data ...Show All

• SQL Server SPLIT AN ARRAY!

  dear friends, I have a stored procedure that receives a parameter like ' 123#67#1#89#52#' I need to insert each number (123, 67, 1...) in a table... How can I do it using the best performance Thanks!!! Cheers!!! Jean, But I need is to extract each field in a while, and insert each extracted value in one table. The example you gave me is not too long for my case Thanks!! ...Show All

• Visual C++ string to float

  Hi, I have a string "4.19 X FLA" from which i want 4.19 i have used atof but that is giving me a value 4.0987876 some value like this. how do i manage this.. Regards, Couple comments: /fp:precise is already the default.  It won't help on the representation of floats though. It just restricts the compiler from making optimizations on floating point expressions that can result in deviations from those produced by unoptimized code. To an earlier poster, C++/CLI is not intended to replace C++ in VS2005 nor is Microsoft recommending people drop C++ in favor of C++/CLI. C++/CLI is intended for those who wish to create managed/.NET-dependent code in a language that closely resembles C++ (rather than using the other .NET ...Show All

• Windows Forms TableAdapter Configuration Wizard Question

  Hi, Why can't i use the "Create methods to send updates directly to the database" Can somebody tell what i'm doing wrong... My query is verry simple like SELECT * FROM table.... Moving from .NET Framework Data Access and Storage to Windows Forms Data Controls and Databinding . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how can I just load form1 without show him from other form(form2)?

  Hi, I have an application that take 6 second to load and then to appear on the screen (in the 6 second you can see the form but he look like stuck and after 6 second it is working properly). I want to do a progress bar while the application is loading. So I thought maybe to make another form(form2) with a progress bar and to load the first form (form1) while the progress bar fill in ( in form2). but I didn't find how can I just load form1 without show him I be glad to hear other ideas if you have Best Regards, Yaniv doesn't work... I have form1 the main program ( that take a while untill it show) and form2 with the progress bar. Private Sub Form1_Loa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista install infoPath workflow application on sharepoint server 2007 problem

  i had follow the ECM workflow example - HelloWorldSequential demo and construct a simple infoPath workflow app. that contains two infoPath form. After the project compiled and feature.xml, workflow.xml, install.bat were defined, when i run the install.bat, it shows "The XSN can not be used on server." But when i run the demo install.bat, it could complete the setup successfully. Anybody can help after trying to verify my xsn form, i got this error, "FatalErrorNoThrow : This form template has not been correctly published to be br owser-enabled. Open the form template in InfoPath Design mode, and click Publish Form Template in the Design Tasks task pane. Follow the steps in the Publishing Wizard to republish the f ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WindowsFormsHost and AllowsTransparency makes all win32 controls transparent

  If I set AllowsTransparency=True on a form, all of my WindowsFormsHost controls become invisible. These controls obviously don't have an opacity property, it there anything I can do to get these controls visible (June CTP) Mark Hello I have this problem http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1073648&SiteID=1&mode=1 is it the same if it does can u give some code to demonstrate the solutions for those of us who have not familiar with what you written Thanx Itzik  Solved my problem thanx anyway ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 30 day Free Trial

  I am adding "30 day Free Trial" code to my app. I want to write out a file to a secret location with the first run date, etc. Would C:/Windows/System be a good place to put it >Trying to write stuff into this location would fail on Windows Vista , although thats looking to the future as its a protected folder. THANKS FOR TELLING ME THAT! I was planning to write out a file to c:\windows\system! I have to write out a file to a secret location, because if the file does not exist that means that it is the start of the 30 day free trial. Otherwise, uninstalling the program and re-installing it would start the free trial all over again. It is only the presence of the secret fi ...Show All

• SQL Server Accessing conditional values in Groups

  Hello I am trying using following in a group footer and it gives me an error! =Sum(IIF(Fields!COSTCENTRETYPECODE.Value <> "B1502",Fields!BUDGETAMOUNTOYR.Value,0)). Can anyone please shed some light Thanks Thanks Robert. Casting the value to double solved it! But I still think this is a bug. As this only occurs when the contidion satisfies at some value, otherwise it works fine. For example: Sum(IIF(Fields!COSTCENTRETYPECODE.Value <> " B1502 ", Fields!BUDGETAMOUNTOYR.Value, 0.0)) - Give an Error in the text box But Sum(IIF(Fields!COSTCENTRETYPECODE.Value <> " XXX ", Fields!BUDGETAMOUNTOYR.Value, 0.0)) - Would sum all the amounts. Data set contains value B1502 a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Axecontrols and Base64 Strings

  Hi all, I am building an app that uses an axecontrol which lets people sign their names electronically into said axecontrol and a method which takes the image of their signature and turns it into a Base64 string. I'm trying to save it into an access database, but it's not working. When I try to save it as the base64 string, it tells me I need to change the field type (in the database) to Base[ ]. Alternatively, when I try to convert the Base64 string into a normal string to save in as a string in the database, it gives me the error message 'Invalid character in Base-64 string'. Anyone have any ideas on how to proceed from here Please Ok, They are using DAO not ADO and this is not a discussion in dyslexia. There are lo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where do I store a .bmp file for use in a usercontrol??

  I've made a usercontrol that uses a .bmp image. It works fine when i'm testing the control in the test container, but when I add the control to another project an error comes up and says the image cant be found. Image xyz = Image.FromFile("xyz.bmp"); is what i'm using (the actual .bmp file is in the release folder where the .dll is). Do I need to use another method, or store the file somewhere else Hi, cdx1 Nice to see you again. The statement Image.FromFile("xyz.bmp"); will load the image xyz.bmp in the recent directory of the current project that is being executed. So, put the image in the place. Otherwise, you'd use a complete path of the image file. ...Show All