Oliver 123's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Using same name on xml file as assamble!!!!!!!!

  i just wanted to report..... well after pulling my hair for a couple of hours i figured out that one of my xmlfiles was called the same as my build, wich made .NET read like crazzy and making alot of wierd results ...Show All

• Visual Studio The Latest Version of Sdc Tasks and SBF Uploaded Today

  See http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx id=b4d6499f-0020-4771-a305-c156498db75e This latest version is v2.0.060707.000 and includes the following changes: Support for Team Foundation Server (Source control integration only) Support of Biztalk 2006 configuration (includes improvements to Biztalk 2004 support) Improved documention for the build framework A new tutorial project to demonstrate setting up continuous integration builds, automated deployment and testing. Many minor fixes and new tasks. Overview: Sdc.Tasks is an MSBUILD tasks library which provides more than two hundred tasks for driving continuous integration builds, deploying and testing applications and much more. The Solutions Build Fr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Newbie: Excel / Web Service calls / Background Process / Timer

  I'm a VSTO newbie attempting to put together a VSTO proof of concept but am running into, what is for me, some showstopper problems that I can't believe haven't been solved by others or are not really problems cause I'm doing it all wrong... The POC is to call a a webservice at say 5 second intervals and populate lists in the Excel sheet with the data returned. An important aspect of the requirements is the the user can work on the spreadsheet whilst data is being updated and so some form of background process is required for the potentially slow webservice calls. I've managed to get this working using a System.Windows.Forms.Timer instance and the BackgroundWorker component, happily updating the lists on the sheet (flickering away ni ...Show All

• .NET Development Primary key collision

  I am rather new to the web development but is currently working on a small project that would store the data on the production office output. As the part of it, the system will provide a form to insert the order placed. 1.The order is intended to have a unique OrderID key and would store several items with their respective qtys under the same OrderID. 2.This means that there will be two tables in the DB - Order and Order_Item in order to tie the order items to the orderID. I would be using a stored procedure to insert the data in the DB. 3. There is a need to identify repetitve orders within a certain period of time (i.e. 2 weeks) in order to avoid the duplicates. THEREFORE ------------------------------------------------------ ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Why are ListViewItem's and ColumnHeaders so limited

  I just got done creating a BindableListView control in the full framework with a full designer interface one would expect in a 2.0 bindable control. I wanted to port it to the compact framework (where i need it the most) and when doing that I find that 1. CF yells at all my deisgn time only attributes. 2. ListViewItemCollection and ColumnHeaderCollection both do not have constructors and thus I cannot inherit them to give VS the ability to add them via the designer. I can still use my BindableListViewItem and BindableColumnHeader classes but all programmatically and not visually like I wanted. I guess I'm just wondering why those two classes were given no constructors and thus made unable to be inherited The metadata lists a bunch of vir ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA framework for non C#

  One of the great advantages of the .NET framework is that developers can work on the same project in different programming languages. As I'm reading about XNA, it seems that this will not be possible with the XNA framework. Will the only programming language that has access to the XNA framework be C# As you probably ran across in your research, the XNA Framework demos we showed were in fact written in C#. We're still in the process of evaluating what languages we'll support as we move forward with the XNA Framework. Was there a specific language you had in mind I'll be happy to make sure the rest of the team gets your feedback. Thanks! ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Sever 2005 - creating alias names programatically

  Is there a way we can programatically create a SQL server Alias name (SQL 2005 - SQL Native client configuration) using either T-SQL, C# etc. - Manmeet Yes, you can use the SMO Managment Classes for that, there is a special class for this dedicated to those work items: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.management.smo.wmi.aspx especially: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.management.smo.wmi.managedcomputer.aspx HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Show or Hide icon decorator at runtime

  Hi all, I am looking for a way to show or hide at runtime an icon decorator on a shape depending on the state of the associated model element.  It could also be interesting to be able to change the image display by the icon decorator to reflect the state of  the model element. Is it possible Freddo   What about changing the icon "path" I can't find a way to do this... maybe it's impossible... Does anyone know how to do this Thank you, BCoelho ...Show All

• SQL Server Using a sproc as a source within Dataflow

  I was wondering what has worked for all of you in regards to using a sproc as a source within a dataflow.  I have had limited success doing this, but maybe there is a workaround I'm unaware of.  Basically, using a SQL command in an OLE DB Source, I run an EXEC statement that returns a resultset from a stored procedure.  I've noticed that depending on how the sproc is structured, I will either get metadata info in the columns tab of the OLE DB Source or not.  Without this metadata of course I can not link it with a destination, since the destination believes that no data is being returned, even if this is not the case.  This all seems to depend on the "final" select statement in the sproc being at the very top of th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Is it possible to have an application-level plug-in continue to run after closing the active document?

  The subject says it all: Is it possible to have an application-level plug-in continue to run after closing the active document Essentially, what is happening is that I want to take a document and save it as an html file, then close it to do some manipulation of the .htm file, and then re-open the original word document. Unfortunately, everything stops once I close the document. I can understand this behavior on a document-level plug-in, but is there any way to continue executing code with an application-level plug-in This would make my life so much easier.... Thanks in advance for your input. It turns out that the problem was due to an uncaught exception that caused the whole program to stop running. No e ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS 3.0 Beta 2:Scanning network drives

  Hi, In WDS 2.6.5 it was possible to scan network drives. In WDS 3.0 Beta 2 this is not possible. When will this feature be returning. As it stands, due to My Documents being redirected and other files being stored on network locations WDS 3.0 isn't much use in a corporate environment. Cheers Janson Hi Paul, Thats excellent will go try that out right away! Have been waiting for this for a good while Will similar follow for Vista Cheers Janson ...Show All

• .NET Development Differences in Threading

  hello there! im very confused in threading topics even if im looking and reading at MSDN libraries. the authors just give too much code on their samples. i just need straight-to-the-point explanations. so heres what im asking. hope somebody can answer this. Q: What are the differences of Monitor, Mutex, AutoResetEvent, Semaphores ok, this it. so hope somebody answer this question. thanks! ;-) Hi, JerberSoft I recommend you read the whitepaper that Albahari Joseph wrote on Thread Programming in C#. You will find a lot of information about the different lock mechanisms and more background information: http://www.albahari.com/threading/threading.pdf Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Studio IE plugin, symbols not loaded

  Hello. I built an Internet Explorer plugin that is installed on the customer machine via a cab file, it is loaded as any IE plugin. The plugin generates, in case of a crash, a dump using MiniDumpWriteDump, the dump type is DUMP_MINI. The symbols file is generated on a XP Pro machine, with VS 2005 compiler. The scenario is the following: I receive the dump file, generated on another XP machine (it seems that it does not matter if Home of Pro edition), generated under IE6, I open it in VS 2005 and the symbols are not loaded. First I thought it's the same problem as I had before (please see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=763981&SiteID=1 ) and copied the dll and the cab file in the same folder with the sy ...Show All

• Visual C++ list boxes and data sources...

  Here is what i am trying to do: listBox1 displays information from a database. when I click on an item in listBox1, listBox2 displays information from another table. However, i try putting this code in: private : System::Void listBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) { if (listBox1->SelectedIndex.Equals( "Elves" )) { listBox2->DataSource = "gamestaBindingSource2" ; } else { listBox2->DataSource = "gamestaBindingSource3" ; } } The program runs, but when you get to this section, the following error appears: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll Additional ...Show All

• SQL Server Weird toolbar

  I have just installed my server with server2003 enterprise edition, everything is working fine. However, after I make it online for awhile, I found a weird thing on the tool bar just beside the clock. There are 2 hidden icons, when I move the pointer to these 2 icons, it shows the IP address of my server. Just wanna know if there is anything wrong with that. Thanks! tom here is the screenshot, http://www.geocities.com/tomatofatboy/problemsystray.gif You may see that there are 2 empty spaces, my server's IP will be shown if the pointer is on them. There is no such problem when I was configuring the server at home, however, after I installed the box to my DataCenter, it happened. This is not the ...Show All