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• Software Development for Windows Vista Power icon problem

  Hello, I've just installed the Windows Vista Beta 2 (Build 5384) and so far so good, except for one thing: somehow i can't activate the option to show the power icon on the "notification are" of the "taskbar". When i go to the properties of the "taskbar", and then go to the "notification area" options, i'm allowed to select to always show the clock, volume and network icons, but not the power icon. Do you know what can i do to fix this problem Because of this problem, i never know when the battery is low. Thanks for your help!! If am not wrong it is because Vista do not have support for the smart battery system, as with linux,which is working very hard for ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Agent Job to refresh Analysis Services Cubes

  This was a very easy task in SQL 2000, but I can't figure out how to create a job that will process AS cubes in 2005. Does anyone have a reference for how to set this sort of thing up in SQL 2005 Edward, You are awesome!! That worked perfectly!! Thank you very much for your help! Alan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Emergency: Deleting Custom Work Item Type

  I played with custom workitem types and stuck in the middle. I created some workitem types that are irrelevant and they create errors everytime my team opens any workitem related interface or Team Explorer pane like "One form per Work Item"; we ignore the error and continue working; but it is annoying, undesired and some feature that VSTS must support as deleting a custom work item type if you are the TFS Administrator. I want to delete "the work item type" at all with no glue back. I deleted some unrecognized rows from SQL Database but still there they are. I found out from another team member (Sagar) that this could be due to mutliple forms getting added to one work item type. To fix this issue, you should tr ...Show All

• .NET Development cross thread exception in background worker_runCompleted?

  I have read about threading and know that updating GUI components in a worker thread is a no no. I thought when using a background worker on the runworkercompleted event that it was back on the main thread and you can edit the components. I posted my code, i get a cross thread exception when trying to update the labels in the switch statement. thanks private void bgwCurrentWorker_RunWorkerCompleted( object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e) { if (e.Error == null ) //background process successful 'e' should be xml string { string sWeather; sWeather = ( string )e.Result; if (sWeather.Contains( "Success" )) { XmlReader reader = XmlReader .Create( new System.IO ...Show All

• Visual Studio Ive installed SP1 for VS2005 but I have the same problems with report viewer in Firefox

  The report viewer still does not display correctly in Firefox. Am I missing something My border around the reportviewer control stops short and overlaps the data. Also, unless I place a textbox that extends across the whole width of my report, I still get the issue with data being shrunken. From what i read these items were supposed to be fixed in SP1 ...Show All

• Visual C# Exclude element from foreach index (MenuStripItem) HELP!

  Hello! I have a foreach loop. How can I exclude one of the elements from being indexed: I have a foreach loop setting a property for each of the items in a ToolStripMenuItem category, but one of the items is a ToolStripSeperator, and I would like to exclude it so the foreach loop would set the property for all of the items EXCEPT the toolstripseperator. How can I do that Matt Hey guys! Thanks for the answers: One more thing: How can I do this: foreach ( ToolStripItem item in favoritesToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems) { if (item.GetType() == typeof ( ToolStripMenuItem )) { if (item.ToolTipText == "1" ) favoritesToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems.Remove(item); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Search a DataBase

  In access you have a field search facility. I have a dvd collection database in VB 2005 now. How can i search the title field to see if i have already entered the title . Please point me in the right direction I'm new at thisThank you   Thanks for the advice lads. I now get a tool bar listed Title and a button Fillby. I can type in the dvd Title and it finds the record. However how do I get back to my program prior to the search. At the moment I have to stop the program and restart it. I said I was new at this so any advice would be appreciated.  By rhe way sorry I changed my name ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting MDX Compatibility property on the server

  In AS2K, you used to be able to set the 'MDXCompatibilityValue' property to 2 in the registry on the server so that every client would see ragged hierarchies display correctly, regardless of whether they had set the 'MDX Compatibility' connection string property (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/sql2k_anservregsettings.asp ). I'd like to be able to do the same thing in AS2005... but I can't find the property in the ini file or in the registry anywhere. Can anyone help Is this possible in AS2005 Thanks, Chris Chris, I think the properties you are looking for are included in the "Supported XMLA Properties", but I do not know if you can override the default behavior thr ...Show All

• Visual C# help with Settings

  hi all. in my application i dont use any Settings. BUT - i have a reference to a webservice. in the web.conffig i wrote the connection string to the DB. now, strangelly i found out that the .net add's a new Settings with the connection string. why what should i do to disable this setting Hi, When you add a a Web Reference with Visual Studio 2005, by default it sets the "url behavior" of the webservice as dynamic. Meaning that an entry is added to the settings part. You can avoid this by setting the url behavior to static. But, the advantage of this setting, is that when you change the url of the webservice, you don't need to change your code. To remove the setting: Go to the Web References f ...Show All

• .NET Development Deserialization Error: "Unable to find assembly"

  I get the following error when I attempt to deserialize a structure on the client software. What does this mean I have the declaration of the structure exactly the same in a module named exactly the same in both peices of software. Unable to find assembly 'Server v1.0, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. Notes: I have my structures delcared in a module The serialization and de-serialization takes place in a class And I have made sure System.Runtime.Serialization is imported on both the module and the class ...Show All

• Windows Forms displaymember lookup on other table

  Hi, I have a dataset with 2 tables Table 1: ID_TABLE1 field DESC field. Table 2: ID_TABLE2 field, ID_TABLE1, ... others fields My question: I have a listbox and I want to add data in Table 2. Value are all added correctly but I want to display the DESC of Table 1 (by the way of a relation between ID_TABLE1 ) How I can do that Thank very much... How about this Dim strConnection As String = "Provider=microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0;data source= **DB Path** " Dim conn As OleDb.OleDbConnection = New OleDb.OleDbConnection(strConnection) Dim strSelect As String = "select table1.ID_TABLE1 as table1_id, table1.DESC, table2.ID_TABLE2, table2.other" _ & " ...Show All

• Visual Basic Threading

  I have a vb.net windows application which opens and reads files for records to store in a database. It has a system.threading.timer running that does the following every 5 seconds: Goes to a sql server database and loads the next file record that has a status indicating it needs processing. It updates the status of the record to indicate it is ready to be processed and then it queues a thread from the thread pool with the following call: ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem( New WaitCallback( AddressOf ProcessFileContents), file) 'file is a class representing the file record I just loaded from the db ..which should execute a function to process the file (ProcessFileContents), and passes the file record to it. Once 10 files have been fou ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem with (SDK Samples)DynamicUpdateFromWorkflowSample

  Hi everyone, i study the SDK Samples "DynamicUpdateFromWorkflowSample" but the dynamic update workflow not work correctly. the code. Hi, Did you configure your SqlPersistenceService database per instructions associated with this sample please Please check http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741713.aspx for the required steps. Let me know whether this fixes your problem. Thank you! ...Show All

• .NET Development impersonate without LogonUser

  Hello. I develop three-tier system. It contains application service, user client and database server. Database server, sql server are registered in the domain A and application server connects to database server with windows authentication. Clients computers are registered in domain B. When clients are logged in they supplies username and password from domain A. Application server executes LogonUser and saves token. When client send request to save or to write data from/to database, application server impersontaes using previously obtained token and run sql query. All works fine. But this algorithm requires that users from domain A should have right LogonLocally on the server where application service is running. And our system sdmi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CTP5 - Uninstalling CTP4

  I was told in an earlier post that it's necessary to uninstall CTP4 before installing CTP5. When I go to my Add or Remove Programs dialog to remove CTP4, I see an entry titled 'Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals - ENU'. I assume this is the CTP4. What I would like to know is if I select this and then select 'Remove', am I going to uninstall just the CTP4 portion of VS Team Suite or the entire VS Team Suite I have Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Professionals installed and don't really want to uninstall the whole thing and then reinstall just to remove CTP4. Thanks - Amos. ...Show All