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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Linq To SQL class designer problem

  I watched Scott Guthrie's video on http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu where he demos the new Linq To SQL class designer. He mentiones that one can create classes and let the designer create the tables in the database, which is great. I was trying to do that and failed. Does anyone have a link to a walk-through demo or something I created a very simple class diagram with 3 associations and 2 derived classes, 5 classes all together, I set the primary keys and the table names on all the classes. I then right clicked the diagram in the solution explorer and clicked "Run Custom Tool", then nothing... Any ideas Best regards Klaus Enevoldsen There is nothing to stop you from creating your ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Customize the look and feel of a webpart

  Hi there. I would like to change the look and feel of my webparts. For example, change the font,colour,background color,text decoration etc. I have looked through the core.css file using Sharepoint Designer however I'm not sure which element to change in the css file. I thought maybe it might have been something like ms-WPHeader. Does anyone have an ideas how I can customize the webparts . .ms-WPHeader is the class of the title bar of the webpart. There are other classes used in the web part content, but the exact classes and IDs will vary from webpart to webpart. Your best bet is to use the IE Dev toolbar to identify the particular elements, like Han said. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Worksheet.Copy causes execution to stop

  Hi I am experiencing an odd behaviour from my VBA code in Excel. I have some code that has worked until recently. We have gotten XP instead of win2k, which i could suspect is causing this in some strange way. My problem is that i have the code below. In the line where i say Worksheet.Copy, the execution simply stops. No errors appears, nothing. <CODE> On Error GoTo ERROR: Worksheets(SN_MonthYearAct).Copy After:=Worksheets(Worksheet.Count) .... ERROR: MsgBox(Err.Description) </CODE> The variable SN_MonthYearAct is a constant containing the string "MonthYear Act", and a sheet with this name does exist. Worksheet.Count returns currently 8, and there are 8 sheets in the workbook. I have trie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how to start the defect id from 1?

  Good Morning everyone my group has finally finished testing everything and im just wondering after we blow up our playground projects is there a way we can restart the defect id count back to #1 also what file has all the ID's stored   Thanks for your time and help The ids are created in backend sql and I donot see a way to reset the value without mucking with database. Many tables store work item ids and WorkItemsAre may be the one you are interested. ...Show All

• .NET Development [[ Strong name validation failed for assembly ]]

  First of all, I am sorry for posting this two times. I have posted this in MSDN Forums Visual C# Visual C# General but it seems that no body is interested in this subject or i have posted in the wrong forum. I have used ExeShield to protect my application. ( http://www.exeshield.com/ ) - There is no problem when i try to protect Application writen in C# .NET 1.1 - But when i try to protect Application writen in C# .NET 2.0 i get this error Strong name validation failed for assembly 'c:\lab\xshld875.tmp'. The file may have been tampered with or it was partially signed but not fully signed with the correct private key. Any help on how to disable the Strong Name Validation Kind Regards ...Show All

• SQL Server Blank fields in Excel file

  I am trying to validate and import a Excel file into the database table using script component. The file contains some blank columns in the sheet. How can I handle the blank spaces while validating the file in the Script Component The code is as follows: Dim excelcmd As OleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand("SELECT Item,TaxCode,ItemDescription FROM [Input$]WHERE LEN(Item)>=0 AND LEN(ItemDescription)>=0 AND LEN(TaxCode)>=0", excelConn) Dim excelreader As OleDbDataReader = excelcmd.ExecuteReader() Dim row As Integer = 0 While excelreader.Read() NameValsBuffer.AddRow() NameValsBuffer.ItemCode = CStr(IIf(excelreader.GetString(0).Length = 0, "#", excelreader.GetString(0))) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to extend compiled workflow through XOML?

  Two questions if any body can help then thanks in advance. 1. I've seen many posts which says that it isn't possible to pass parameters to a xoml only workflow, why does the CreateWorkflow signature accept a dictionary object for parameters I'm guessing there has to be some way, that I have yet to be seen and might be answered in question 2. 2. I was wondering if possible and how to extend a compiled workflow engine that takes parameters by creating a new xoml only workflow. I need to pass parameters to a xoml only workflow that is of a compiled workflow engine type. Now I am getting this exception for my SequentialActivity. error 347: Could not deserialize object. Serializer for type 'MyNamespace' threw an exception during d ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to backup or restore SQL 2005 database to desired drive

  Does anyone know why I would only be able to see 1 drive out of the 4 on the SAN from within Management Studio I am on Windows 2003 and SQL 2005 sp1 installed on a cluster. My sysadmin set up 4 drives (S:Data, R:Backup, L:Logs, T:Temp) and claims I am using a domain account with all the privileges I need to be able to see these drives. However, when I log in as sa and try to create a backup I can only choose the S drive. Oddly, I can type in the R drive and it will write to it but I am unable to see it. When I try to restore from the R drive I get the error: Could not resolve specified location. Either the location does not exist, or current login does not have access to it. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Than ...Show All

• Visual Studio Stepping through Error List

  Hi In Visual Studio 6 when your compiled program had errors, they were listed in the Build window. Pressing F4 it would jump to the source code where the error was. Repeated pressing F4 stepped through the error list jumping to the source code each time. VC2005 uses the Error List but is there a short cut key to step to the source code as before. David Hi Dave, Glad to offer insight! If all is done, mark the post(s) that helped you as the answer(s), so when others search the forums, they might be more inclined to look at a successful post than a non successful one...also answered posts bubble to the top. Thanks. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Atlas Web Messenger

  Hi I am Hokgiarto. I am looking a way how to make a yahoo, msn, and a local messenger using Atlas. Can somehome help me how to make Atlas version of www.e-messenger.net I use it to make my final assignment. Thank you for your help. Hokgiarto wrote: I want to know what class to send a data to what address and port. I mean first step is to login. I have to send user name & password to server. How I do that using .net 2.0 atlas send to where (the server address and port) How do I catch the response (the user & pass is right, getting buddy list, buddy online, offline, etc) using atlas Thank You. You can see my component if you know Delphi. It will show how MSNP work here. I think you will so easily cr ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Recommendations for physics

  Hi, I know XNA doesn't include physics. Does anyone know of a good C# physics engine If there isn't a C# one around, how about a C++ or Java open source one that can be ported... Thanks, T You might check out this 2D physics engine for XNA: http://www.codeplex.com/FarseerPhysics ...Show All

• SQL Server Perfomance tuning

  Dear friends We have one problem in our existing system.We are expecting some expert comment on this.We have one corebanking system back end as MS SQL server with IIS server.Our system is always very slow in the peak times of tranasactions.We are planning to optimize this with a short time plan .So pls give some suggestions that our DBA team can implement in a short time with SQL SERVER 2000 Thanks in Advance Filson A possible course of action is this: Try to check your IIS's and SQL's processor during the peak times to see if the problem is with your SQL or IIS If your problem is not in IIS: Try to see if your sql server's processor is 100% or near. If it is, then your queries are probab ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2D fade transitions

  I'm attempting to do a 2d fade in/fade out effect on the screen, but I have no idea how to get that rolling. I've never played with .fx files or anything before. Could someone lend me some ideas Thanks! Jason Essentially, you need to the change the alpha value over time. You can do this by using the Color modulation argument in the Draw method. So something like this: mySpriteBatch.Draw(overlayTexture, destinationRectangle, new Color(0,0,0,alphaValue)); You need to change the alpha value from 0 to 255 (or vice-versa for a fade in) over the period of time you want the fade to last. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office BCC Check

  Hello - I wrote a small function that recursively checks the AdressEntries of a MailItem.Recipients in order to determine if the Outlook user is in the the Recipients collection, or a member of a Distribution List that is part of the collection. I have two questions regarding this: 1. Do you think this is the most efficient way to determine if a message was received with the receiver in the BCC field 2. What would a user-friendly way of notifying a user be once they open up the message. I like the style of the "You responded to this message on..." bar that appears when you reply (So it would say "You received this message as a Blind Carbon Copy...", but can't figure out how to do this. I am currently just using a Messa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Exception thrown getting just created ListObject control

  I am getting an exception when trying to add data to a range within a list object. The strange thing is that I ran my installer on 7 different PCs, all with the same version and features of Office installed, and ran the same test scenario. The exception is only being thrown on one of the 7 machines. On the other 6 PCs, everything works wonderfully. The code is like this: myListObject = myWorksheet.Controls.AddListObject(myRange, myListName); myListObject.DataBodyRange.set_Value( Microsoft.Office.Interop .XlRangeValueDataType.xlRangeValueDefault, dataArray); The Exception is being thrown in the line of code when I try to set the data within the object (the second line of code above). Here is my exception: This document mig ...Show All