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• Visual Studio Team System The same web test runs once and fails the next one!!

  I have a web test that I need to run iterativelly on my application I configured the run count to be 100, the first time I run the application only the first run inserts data successfully the other 99 don't, the next time I run the test even the first run fails. The problem is not with the data because there are no special validations made on the data to be inserted the system accepts all sorts of data even duplicated. Please note that when I say fail I don't mean that the web test stops or give a fail status for this case I mean it fails to run the recorded actions somehow because I don't see the data that should be inserted into my database one more thing: if I insert the exact same data manually it is inserted into my system. A ...Show All

• Visual Studio I have a problem in step Visual Studio 2005

  I have tried installing Visual Studio 2005 but the report gives the model name as vsscenario.dll. operating system: xp pro 5.1,build 2600 what can I do for it Do you have any suggestion for this problem I hope that I can see the solution as soon as possible I have a professional DVD and I tried to installing. There is a falut massage as I told you. I will inclose file that I take it from the temporary file from %temp%. this link http://rapidshare.de/files/25493538/dd_vsinstall80.txt.html ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Polygon Layer

  How can I create custom polygon layer (e.g. ZIP, Census Tract etc.) in VE Can I fill the polygon with different color to produce thematic map Here you go: http://www.calebthompson.com/projects/gpx2ve/vepolys.htm ...Show All

• .NET Development Using regex to right pad / justify numbers

  Hi all I have a set of numbers as string input and I want to pad them out with leading zeros. Basically I need them to sort correctly with text sort as well as numerical sort. so I want to convert: 1 10 11 2 to: 01 10 11 02 I am trying to use a regex object to do it but I can't work out how to get the padding. Can anyone help Cheers Jero Thanks for the reply. In fact the search part of RegEx is only part of it. It does have quite a desent amount of replace functionality in it. But I think you are right. I'll have to use String.Format(). That just means that I need to do it in a 2 step process. :-( ...Show All

• SQL Server How do you search for textvalues with wildcards in xml?

  What I want to do is search for a text string inside a xml tag using my own wildcards. For example: The following xml is stored in a column in the database. < MetaData > < MetaFields > < MetaField Id = " 20 " Key = " x " > erwrw </ MetaField > < MetaField Id = " 23 " Key = " x " > Foxvalue </ MetaField > < MetaField Id = " 24 " Key = " x " > adsas </ MetaField> < MetaField Id = " 25 " Key = " x " > Varde1 </ MetaField > </ MetaFields > </ MetaData > How can I search the xml to see if any of the /MetaData/MetaFields/MetaField values contains Fox* In xquery there is ...Show All

• Windows Forms MaskedTextBox doesn't display leading zero for datetime column from SQL 2000 table

  I have a MaskedTextbox with a mask set for Short Date. The problem is when bound to a column in a SQL 2000 table with a type of datetime, It doesn't display the leading zero for the month. When I try to validate the control it fails. Any ideas Thanks You need to handle the binding.format event and make sure the datetime is in the right format for this to work. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data.SqlClient; using System.Reflection; namespace CSPubs { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { ...Show All

• Visual C++ Areas which act like button in OLE

  I've noticed that in OLE containers and in flash there are areas which act like buttons. but they don't show up as buttons on windows spy programs - they don't show up at all ! i guess there must be a window rect area set up and when it determines the mouse is over this area, it animates a bitmap, or actions some code if mouse clicks within the area. my question is, how do i determine the 'hit area' of the button if i don't have the source code. any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated ! thanks For such issues, please use the newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups OTP Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom UITypeEditor Is Ignored After Activity.Bind called :(

  Hello Everyone, I've created my own custom PropertyBindDialog because the one that Microsoft provides is pretty deficient. Unfortunately my own custom PropertyBindDialog will not be used after I call Activity.SetBinding - after I do this for a given property my own custom PropertyBindDialog is ignored and the Microsoft BindDialog is used. Here's some of my source code... The problem occurs when I call SetBinding on the property Test. After I call SetBinding, my PropertyBindDialog is no longer used when I want to edit the Test property - the Microsoft BindDialog is used and my custom PropertyBindDialog is ignored. Anyone out there have any ideas namespace MyActivityLibrary { public partial class MySpe ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How IEUser.exe and IExplore.exe communicates each other

  I am migrating a software that was running in IE (in XP, Win2k, ... but not in Vista). What this program does is to basically intercept (using API interception by modifying the iexplore import table in memory) the ShellExecute API. This is a compressor/decompressor soft. The problem is that when IE is in protected mode, it does not call ShellExecuteEx, but it "tells" IEUser that a given file will be executed. I would like to know how iexplore tells ieuser that a file has to be launched.... I've used several tools like Process monitor (from sysinternals) but I don't see any event neither file that is used... Thanks! Hello. Probably a good place to find out this type of information ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multiple Cores, etc... on the 360

  Hello everyone, Like practically everyone here, I'm truly excited about the idea of being able to run my own games on the 360! I've long been interested in the concept of running my own code on a console and it's always annoyed me that systems needed to be locked down so heavily because of the pirates who spoil the fun for all of us. So I just want to say thanks to Microsoft for giving us hobbyist/one-guy game developers the chance to develop for the console like this! It's like my prayers have been answered! Now for a couple of questions: 1) I'm just wondering how the multiple cores in the 360 will work Will the managed code automatically utilize all three (well, in effect, six) cores or w ...Show All

• SQL Server Client Statistics / Network Statistics

  I am trying to track down a slowly preforming query and am looking at the client statistics tab; specifically the Network Statistics and Bytes received from server. I have two servers one running SQL Server 2000 and the other running SQL Server 2005, 64-bit. The data on the servers is similar, some schema differences, some record differences -- but nearly 32 million records in one table. The same query is taking longer on the new SQL Server 2005 machine. The main difference that I see on the client statistics tab is the bytes received from server is almost always triple on the new server. Were there any changes in the information SQL Server 2000 and 2005 reports back Could the 64-bit be the cause for the increase (might make s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Little help with DataGridView please

  I have a dataGridView and an arrayList. I bind the arrayList to my DataGridView with: dataGridView.DataSource = arrayList; dataGridViewMessages.Refresh(); And my dataGridView displays correctly. Later in my code i wish to clear my dataGridView, so i go: arrayList.Clear(); dataGridView.Refresh(); but it reports an error. Whats the correct way to clear my DataGridView Later I wish to fill my datGridView again. Thanks. Paul. I've been trying this for a while now, and here's what i got: It seems that when you detach the DataSource property, all columns and column styles are cleared, so to repopulate, you will have to recreate the DataGridView control's st ...Show All

• Smart Device Development create is not a member of system.xml.xmlreader

  I try to develop an application on smartphone 2003 I have a create is not a member of system.xml.xmlreader when I code this Const DOC_XML As String = "D_Overlending.xml" Dim DocXml As New XmlDocument() DocXml.Load(DOC_XML) Dim readXML As XmlReader = XmlReader.create( "D_Overlending.xml" ) Someone can help me Make sure to add reference to correct version of System.Xml.dll. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to encryt a Date field??

  How do we encrypt/decrypt a datetime field For e.g. Date of Birth Hi Ks, I'm not sure if I understand your question. Encrypted data will be varbinary so the encrypted text should be stored in a varbinary column.  As for decrypting the data, I am copying and pasting Raul's response from before: DECLARE @mySecretDateBlob varbinary ( 100 ) -- To decrypt, do teh same trick, after decrypting, convert/cast to datetime SELECT Convert( datetime, DecryptByKey( @mySecretDateBlob )) as 'datetime plaintext'   This should convert the encrypted text back into a plaintext datetime format.  Please let us know if this helps you out and please post any further questions you may have. ...Show All

• Windows Forms AxWebBrowser Changed?

  Hello, for some reason i started using the axWebBrowser coltrol about a year ago, i got the Visual Studio 2005 and the axWebBrowser has been changed to just WebBrowser and all the control calls have been changed, for instance AxWebBrowser1.LocationURL; is no longer available, its changed to WebBrowser1.URL; Also Im having Compilation Errors with the MSHTML.dll this line mshtml.IHTMLDOCUMENT2 doc = new mshtml.IHTMLDOCUMENT2 as WebBrowser1.Document; this line tells me that it fails to convert Document to IHTMLDOCUMENT2 because it has to implicit Conversion. Can anybody explain what to do how to use this new webBrowser...or get the old one back to get the text (html) from the website ...Show All