Keith Chapman's Q&A profile

• Office Live Development Sharepoint login through URL

  I am trying to load sharepoint in an iframe, and I need to login from Drupal (PHP CMS) I got the <iframe src="https://username:password@share.mycompany.com> but this just brings up the password prompt and if I click Cancel it logs me in. How can I login to Sharepoint by passing the username/password arguement through the URL No, I'm trying to login into Sharepoint 2003 through the URL. I am building an intranet where we will have all our apps in one place, and I need to load each users sharepoint account in an iframe. Therefore I need some way to pass the login credentials to the Iframe URL, most likely in the form of https://user:password@share.url.com. Feel free to move this thread if this is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Show States in LinksControl

  Is there a way to show the state of linked workitems in the LinksControl It would be great to see all linked work items, along with their current states at a glance. ...Show All

• Visual Basic need to create an array of classes

  This is probably a fairly strange thing to want to do but it would sure simplify the code. I have many (10 so far and more coming) classes that all derive from the same base. The all process different types of files. The new operation currently is a little expensive and the objects are not small. What I was thinking about doing was creating a SHARED method in each derived object that can look at the input and decide if ir is a file it can process. That way New is only called after determining which of the derived objects will really process it. What I wanted to do was something like: dim processors() as filereader = {processor1, processor2, processor3) dim p as filereader dim realreader as filereader for each p in process ...Show All

• SQL Server Managing PK/FK Relationships with the Tools

  Ah, why doesn't SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or Visual Studio's Server Explorer permit me to set PK/FK constraints on the tables They're supported in SQL Everywhere (SQL Ev), but I don't see a way to set them up. Why don't these tools support scripting the database tables to SQL Is this planned Bill, Obviously Microsoft will have to address the why, but in terms of the how, there is a nice third party tool that might help you out. See www.primeworks.pt . You are correct though, the degree to which you can manage constraints on SQL Mobile databases in SQL Server 2005 Management Studio is limited unless you write the DDL yourself. VS2005 is even more limited. Darren ...Show All

• .NET Development Com Excpetion Bad variable

  Hi, I am working in vs2005 using vb.net. I am using the Com interop objects in my present windows application. I am storing the variables like settings of my usercontrol using the Cominterop object. At present i don't have the definitions of com objects. I just have the Interops. When i am able to store the values, but at the the time retrieving the values from the com interop object it's throwing Com Exception Bad variable. Can any body explain, which issues needs to be take care when retrieving the values from the com interop objects Thanks, Venu The typical way you'd get an error like that is when the COM interface takes a VARIANT (the ActiveX version of Object) and you pass it an object that has a type the componen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition does not support debugging the code specified by the project

  Hi, I have inherited a C# Windows application built using VS 2005 Professional or Team Edition, I am not sure which. I have built the solution successfully and the exe runs OK. However, I am unable to debug the application; whenever I try to debug or even press F5, I get the error: Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition does not support debugging the code specified by the project. By the way, I am calling an unmanaged C++ DLL from the application; I don't know whether this is relevant, but I thought I should mention it. Thanks Hossam Hi, This is the type of code that is used to declare the API functions in the C++ DLL called "LNIndexingDLL.dll": //Global Indexing ...Show All

• .NET Development Out of Memory Error - Framework 1.1

  I have a VB .NET 2003 application that updates (cycles) through image files and directx video files. After several hours of operation, the program 'bombs' with an out of memory error! ANY HELP would be appreciated! ------ Relevant Source ---- Private Sub InitVideoPlayback() Dim appPath As String appPath = Application.StartupPath appPath += "\video" Try Dim dir As New System.IO.DirectoryInfo(appPath) ImgVideoFiles = dir.GetFiles() NextVideo() Catch e As Exception MsgBox("Could not load video " + appPath + ". " + e.Message, MsgBoxStyle.OKOnly) End Try End Sub Private Sub InitProdu ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cascading combo lists

  Does any one know how to create cascading combo lists where in one combo list, you select a product and another combo list would display the sub-products/subcategory related to the product. How would the database design work so that the information can be correctly displayed in the combo lists. I have been trying to get my head around implementing this, but I have not found any suitable answers on the web. Any help would be great. Regards Dipendra Thanks for the details I have attached some code for the IT asset tracking system which I am developing. The AssetCategory contains information such as Computer, Printer, Software etc and the details are loaded into ComboBox3. The AssetType is ...Show All

• SQL Server How to specify datatypes for Excel columns?

  So I have Excel Source in my dataflow - so I do a simple transform and try to save it to db and guess what - a freaking error message: Columns blahblah and BlahBlah cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode datatype. I cant figure this MS stuff out - why the heck is this data from excel unicode to begin with & I just dont feel it is right to always use the derived columns to convert datatypes when dealing with Excel data. Am I missing something again or is it another one of those MS gotchas -- Note - all profanity in this post is replaced with words like freaking, stuff, gotcha and so on by the author Jamie Thomson wrote: Why not Because I would prefer to do my own data mapping instead of using deri ...Show All

• SQL Server (Select All) Checkbox As Default

  All, When creating a dynamic parameter list from a query, Reporting Services graciously provides a "(Select All)" checkbox. How can I select this checkbox by default so that when a user generates the report, all of the values are selected Thanks I don't know if this works But if my dropdown source is Query, and with "Multi-Value items" checkbox checked Under Default Values, If I choose "Query", pick the Dataset, put in the value field -> it will select all rows in the query by default When I go to Preview, all items from the query ARE checked in the dropdown. Even the "ALL" option I created myself (now the problem is, how do you uncheck them ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form Load

  Hi, How can I confirm that a specific form was loaded I have some ComboBox events controls that are fired when I fill the combo (SelectedIndexChanged), and I want o prevent this. Thanks, Pedro You could register the events for your controls in the Form.Shown event. private void Form_Shown( object sender, EventArgs e) { // Your code here. } ...Show All

• Windows Forms problem with the installed program

  hi! here is the situation: i created an installer of my program and installed it in the server..all is well here but when it is installed in a workstation it does not work. The setup/installation was finished with no errors but the program itself is not executed. the only difference that i see with the server and workstation is there is no sql 2005 and .net installed in the latter. i hope someone can help me with this. thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Basic Turning Beep sound off after enter text in the text box

  Below is code Private Sub txtAnHuman_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer) If KeyCode = 13 Then KeyAscii = 0 lblEng.Caption = SPI(txtAnHuman.Text) End If End Sub multiline = False. This is the way I have intented You'll have derive from TextBox and override OnKeyPress: Public Class NewTextBox Inherits TextBox Protected Overrides Sub OnKeyPress(e As KeyPressEventArgs) If e.KeyChar = ControlChars.Cr Then e.Handled = True Else MyBase.OnKeyPress(e) End If End Sub 'OnKeyPress End Class 'NewTextBox Or Handle the KeyPress event and mark it as handled: Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress( _ ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) _ Handles TextBox1.KeyPress If e.KeyC ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Trace Analysis

  Having just watched Laurence Melloul and yourself explain both the trace application as well as your live trace, I see a small (but none the less important) element that is missing (my view only BTW), I will explain: In my current arsenal of responsibilities, I have a bespoke middleware product (written in .NET 1.1 but migration plans to 2.0 or 3.0 - more than likely 3.0). I have had the solution re-architected twice to have a reasonable level of trace provisioning available. Now to the issue, during the demo, I noticed that the assumption (correct me if I am wrong), is that we (the customer) enable tracing of both the client and the server. This is great where the platform allows such behaviour, but what if (n this case), I ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Please help: "Interface Not Registered"

  I am computer illiterate and i'm trying to get help from microsoft and i know it's supposed to be free when you buy something but they're trying to charge me 30$ for one call or something... I know that someone (flecki ) already posted something about this error, but whatever they were talking about was way over my head and i don't think it was the same problem and i couldn't find any miscellanious board that i could post this in so this was the closest i could think of. I'm sorry. All I want is to burn a cd on a new laptop from dell. I'm trying to use windows media player and burn music that i've ripped off my cd's onto a CD-R. When I first put in a blank a CD it tells me that all of the songs i want to put on will not fit. So I ...Show All