Ninerh's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Report Versioning

  Is there a way to add a version number to an rdl file If so can someone give me pointers on how to do it. Thanks -JW You can add custom properties to RDL under the CustomProperties element. We met a similar requirement by adding a Version property. However, custom properties are not surfaced to the UI (neither Report Manager nor SSMS) so you have to parse the RDL to get to them. Implementing a standard Version property could be a welcome addition to a future release. ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I check the dataset whether it has data which coming from Web Service

  Recently, my work is write a web application for web service. Just get the XML data coming from Web Service. The WS supply a method which return a DataSet. But I can't get its data in its return DataSet How can I check WS return a DataSet with data This is not my webservice, I work for a company. And this WebService come from another company. So maybe I will submit this problem to them, for the further solutions. Thank you very much! I meet this problem about one week ago, but can't solve it. Yesterday, I finally found that I never get data from WS. So want get the check method of finding data of WS returns. Thank you again for your patient answer! ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL on Appliance Edition

  Is it possible to install and run SQL server on Windows Server 2003, Standard, Appliance Edition The operating system came installed a storage server. Thanks! Hmmmm.... I'm not exactly sure, but my guess is that it isn't supported on Appliance Edition. Here's the page for SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition where it lists the supported OS'es and Appliance Edition isn't listed: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/standard/sysreqs.mspx Thanks, Sam Lester (MSFT) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System override BuildDirectoryPath

  Is it possible to put a condition on the <BuildDirectoryPath> property and pass in a parameter from TFSBuild.rsp to set that condition i.e.: in TFSBuild.rsp: /p: BuildAgent=Buddy in TFSBuild.proj < BuildDirectoryPath Condition = " '$(BuildAgent)'=='Nightly' " > d:\Nightly </ BuildDirectoryPath > < BuildDirectoryPath Condition = " '$(BuildAgent)'=='Buddy' " > d:\Buddy </ BuildDirectoryPath > I know there is an opportunity to override this value when running a build from the GUI , but for my Buddy (CI) and Nightly Builds I will be executing builds by calling the BuildController service What I'm trying to avoid is having multiple build types for Buddy, Nightly and On D ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot use the Performance tools

  Hi, I'm trying to use the Performance Tools built into VS2005 but can't. Nothing happens when I try to create a new performance session, use the performance wizard or even view the performance explorer. (i.e. I click the menu item and nothing happens.) I think, I may have accidently removed it. Can anyone please tell me how to get it back. Thanks. How are you opening the .psess file. From IDE File-> Open-> File-> select the .psess file and open. Are you doing the same Thanks, Anjana [MSFT] Microsoft Developer Support This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development iHD Script object Model in spec?

  Is the iHD Script Model detailed in the spec I cannot find it. Specifically I am trying to get information on the method signatures. " (P.S. I think you'll soon be the top "Answerer" in this forum :-) )" LOL! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) vote for extension properties

  I was playing with extension methods the other day, and I find it really exciting. The natural language expressiveness is great, epecially when creating a Domain Specific Language for an app or framework. Some uses were natural for methods, such as a Behavior-Driven Development style of testing method like: public static bool ShouldBeEmpty( this ICollection coll ) { return coll.Count == 0; } // var x = new ArrayList(); x.ShouldBeEmpty(); returns true Other uses were not so natural, where the parentheses get in the way. public static TimeSpan Months( this int number ) { var now = DateTime.Now; return now.AddMonths( number ) - now; } public static DateTime FromNow( this TimeSpan span ) { return DateTime.Now + span; } ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can't find solution ANYWHERE

  Sorry, but I'm about to rip my hair out... I have 3 machines..1.serverbox with xp pro and sqlexpress...2 laptop1 with xp pro visual studio 2005....3 Laptop2 with xp Home edition. I wrote an application in visual basic 2005 (Laptop1) that connects to an SQLserver on an xp pro box. I used Network Wizard to set up my home network on 3 machines. serverbox, laptop1 and laptop2 I set up user1 in sqlexpress with the db1 access...and password. conn.ConnectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=" & logServer.Text & ";Initial Catalog=" & logDatabase.Text & ";User ID=" & logUsername.Text & ";Password=" & logPassword.Text The application I wrote is on my ...Show All

• .NET Development Upload Data To HTTPS via Proxy problems

  ok.. I've seen quite a few questions about this issue but no responses, so let me try again. I'm trying to upload some data via the request headers to a page on a secured site, the page is accessed through the office proxy. Through IE and the appropraite proxy settings I can browse to the page just fine. When I use a webclient to call downloaddata on the page I get the webexception "The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server." which has an inner IOexception of "The operation is not allowed on non-connected sockets." from what I could trace out of the headers I can see that IE sets this when requesting the page Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive But when I call it th ...Show All

• Visual Basic register a file type

  So when I deploy a program I write, how do I register a custom file type such that when I try to open a file a program starts automatically ie a txt file starts notepad, doc starts word, etc... I want to mac a .m file start scilab's matlab to scilab conversion process. See if this thread helps: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=503095&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Microsoft Cautions Developers About Visual Studio/Vista Conflicts ?

  http://ddj.com/dept/windows/193100342;jsessionid=QVOCPBYPBOZZGQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN It means we cannot use Visual Studio 6.0 Is this True it may well be. VS6 is already old and outdated...best to move to bigger and better things. You can use the FREE Express editions of .NET, with some limitation of course but not time constraints. About time you moved on up ;-) ...Show All

• SQL Server Communications to the remote server instance failed before database mirroring was fully started

  command in principal server ALTER DATABASE database name SET PARTNER = 'TCP://<mirror_server_name>:5022' return: Msg 1413, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Communications to the remote server instance 'TCP://<mirror_server_neme>:5022' failed before database mirroring was fully started. The ALTER DATABASE command failed. Retry the command when the remote database is started. This problem is only in production database any testing database include adventureworks mirroring sucessfuly. Why is problem: size database > 9GB slow HW Principal database Intel D 3Ghz,4GB RAM, 4x 15k RPM HDD RAID 5 / Mirror database 2x Xeon 3Ghz,4GB RAM,6x HDD 10k RPM RAID 10 Slow LAN both servers connect 1Gb/s please h ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smart Device CAB Project will not rebuild after closing and reopening

  Hello, I created a VS 2005 .NET CF application that uses some third party controls and additional assembly DLLs that I created, some are in the GAC and some are not. When I add a Smart Device CAB Project to my solution and add the primary output of the application project the list of referenced assemblies is properly included into the File System Editor in the CAB project. Then if I close and reopen the solution and look at the CAB projects File System Editor the referenced assemblies will be missing from the list of files to deploy. At this point I can not remove or re-add the primary output of the application project to the CAB project. I have to delete the entire CAB project and create a new one from scratch. If I view the deployment ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to update my outlook 2203 address book?

  Hi! There is my problem. I need a way to update the address book of my version of Outlook (2003) in several pcs (almost 60). My idea is the creation of a script developed with visual basic 2005 that load the new addres book obtained of another location (A server or something) How can I do it Is there any other solution to my problem PD: I need this for my entreprise and nobody here wants an exchange server :( Please, take it in consideration before giving me an answer ...Show All

• Visual Basic upgrade failed: application has caused an exception

  I was trying to upgrade a large vb 6 project to vb 2005. I've already installed SP1. After more than a couple of hours, I got a crash message: "visual basic upgrade tool has encountered a problem and needs to close." I clicked cancel and got the following error msg: upgrade failed: application has caused an exception. I could see that it crashed on a certain form although the form was actually converted successfully. Now that form was removed from the project and another conversion was attempted. Several hours passed and it crashed on another form with the same error. This form was converted too. My question: is there a size limit for the conversion why did such error happen how to fix it Is there a ...Show All