Nick Cardullo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Localizing Crystal Reports toolbar/export/print dialogs

  Hi, Looking at the feature in XI it is clear that Crystal Reports XI now supports localization of the viewer (toolbar/export popup/print popup) http://support.businessobjects.com/documentation/product_guides/boexi/en/crxi_WhatsNew_en.pdf I am using VS.NET 2005, CR XI, .NET 2.0 I have been unable to get CR to localize the toolbar/export popup/print popup. I have tried explicitely setting the page Culture and UI culture to "fr-CA" in Page_Init. I have also tried setting the thread: System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-CA"); System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-CA"); Checking the System ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Big Issue with Action Pane disabling textboxes

  Hi there, I have an excel workbook which on startup sets a login user control onto the task pane.  The user enters their username and password to login and then has access to some data.  This works fine normally. However, if Excel is already open with another spreadsheet (can be non-vsto) often the textboxes on the user control in the taskpane are locked/disabled.  I currently have been working on a different normal excel spreadsheet and have found if I try and run the VSTO-Enabled workbook with it open, 100% of the time the textboxes in the taskpane are locked.  Usually they are 'dim' showing disabled, but sometimes they look normal but just won't accept input.  And sometimes they even look as though they ar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Intellisense????

  I'm delighted and amazed that this product is coming however I already have one RFE....object Intellisense, the like of which is done by Prompt SQL (which has just been bought by Redgate). e.g. I type a table name followed by a period (.) and intellisense pops up a list of all the columns names. Any chance of getting that in Thanks -Jamie At this point, Intellisense is not in the product. Trust me, you're not the only one asking for it. Cheers, Brian Randell MCW Technologies ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Games OUT OF THE BOX??

  I cant make them work on a PC with just .NET 2.0 DirectX and the XNA Framework, it still needs the GSE and VC# Express, otherwise I get an error that the framework dll should have been installed into the Global Assembly Cache. First, there is no need for double posting. Are you sure you have the LATEST DirectX installed (the december 2006 version). Maybe you installed the XNA Framework Runtime for the Beta2 accidentally, or maybe the games you are trying to run are made in Beta2 or Beta1   ...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

• Smart Device Development How do I get System.Control object from a Win32 Handle?

  Hi, Is it possible to get control object from a win32 handle (like FromHandle() in win32) using C# Thanks, mv mv, The desktop .NET framework has a static function, System.Windows.Forms.Control.FromHandle() that behaves similarly to the MFC api (I'm not 100% sure you weren't referring to this desktop .NET api in your original message). However, the Compact Framework does not implement this function. If you want to determine which control a windows handle is referring to, I believe you'll have to manually compare to the handles from whatever set of controls you're interested in... something like: foreach(Control c in myform1.Controls) { if(c.Handle == handleImLookingFor) // do s ...Show All

• SQL Server PIVOT sql_variant into underlying dataypes

  Does anyone know of a way to PIVOT an sql_variant column so that the resulting columns will be their proper underlying datatypes I wish this to be done in a View. I currently do this by hard coding the conversion as follows: SELECT A, B, C MAX(CASE Letters WHEN 'D' THEN CONVERT(int, LetterValue) ELSE Null END AS D, MAX(CASE Letters WHEN 'E' THEN CONVERT(datetime, LetterValue) ELSE Null END AS E, MAX(CASE Letters WHEN 'F' THEN CONVERT(varchar, LetterValue) ELSE Null END AS F FROM Alphabet GROUP BY A, B, C I would like to take advantage of the SQL_VARINIANT_PROPERTY(LetterValue, 'BaseType') function so I do away with the hard coding. Any ideas You could probably do this with dynamic SQL, but why d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reseting IIS within TFSBuild.

  Hello, I am trying to reset IIS in my TFSBuild script, but unfortunately i have permission issues with such a command. I am customizing the target BeforeEndToEndIteration to EXEC command which resets IIS to kill the current dlls. I understand that the build itself is executed by the TFSSERVICE account, even though i am logged in as TFSSETUP. So after reading possible solutions, i have added the TFSSERVICE to the local administrators account (on the server i'm executing the build) and failing this also made TFSSERVICE a domain administrator. However, i am still getting the permissions error so i looked further into the issue. I noticed in the Event Viewer that there was a system error in the DCOM config when TFSSERVICE was t ...Show All

• .NET Development How to access WebServices from server?

  I have a server where web services are running.I have a client application which consumes the webservices of the server.If I run my client application on another machine(other than server) and try to use web services running on the server, then I am getting 'WebException : The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorised'.But if I run my client application on the server, then I dont get this message. Is there anything to be configured before getting my client application to work on machines other than the server Thanks nhd To return to this and bring up and old thread. I have a similar problem just now. When you say the Credentials need to be set what do you mean For instance, IE ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Comm ports

  Hello I need a bit of help. I am trying to use the emulator to send data onto a port which I am monitoring on my pc. I can open the port in the emulator but it freezes when I send data. I am a bit confused over mapping the pocket pc 2003 emulator ports. Do I have to do this I have added a port that connects to COM1 in the device appication. I am then simply executing the code: if (serialPort1.IsOpen == true) { serialPort1.WriteLine("blah"); } I am wanting to see the text blah in a port monitoring program on my pc. thanks Hi Mohit, I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand your reply. Do you mean that COM2 is *now* available as a COM port Because that is not the case for me. T ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies IE crashes when i click on a link to open a word document.

  I have IE 6 SP2. When users click on an MS Word document URL, some machines running IE will see IE crash while on some microsoft word automatically shuts down. If i copy the URL for the word document and paste it in the browser the document opens up without any issues. I think saw this behaviour after a MS security update was automatically updated on the machine this week, but i am not sure. The event log contains the following error, the machines are scanned for spyware etc and they seem to be clean. Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2945, fault address 0x00012a5b. any suggests to fix this would help. thanks We s ...Show All

• SQL Server creating composite primary keys via sql management studio??

  Hi, How do i create a composite primary key through sql management studio I have two tables: Section : SectionID , Name Rooms : RoomID , SectionID,Cost , MaxPersons I know its unusual but i have sections in this hotel that have rooms , a section is alsmost like a seperate hotel in itself. Only the management for various sections is common. I need to store rooms that belong to a particular section , yes there can be Duplicated RoomIds. How do i make a compiste key in SQL mStudio , or is there a better solution hi , I rephrased my question. By edit i mean , once i've created the database in VS , i want to add tables etc .. in SQL management studio. But i tried and i get an error.And what about (2) my second question Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Debugging Word addin Startup

  I've got a Word addin that loads within the debugger, but not when installed from an .MSI  I'm using similar registry and CAS entries to an existing Outlook addin that's loading successfully, but the Word addin does not seem to be running. I've got VSTO_SUPPRESSDISPLAYALERTS=0 in my environment, but I'm not getting any prompts, not seeing any errors in the event viewer.  No evidence of my addin in the Tools/Templates and Add-ins menu or the disabled items list. How do I debug the failure to load   Naturally, I suspect CAS, but I'm not getting any feedback at all during Word startup.  The same addin works fine from the debugger, or from the desktop following a build operation in the IDE.  It must have som ...Show All

• SQL Server Can Code be used to define parameters in a subscription?

  I am trying to create an email subscription that runs every Monday for the previous week. To do this I was trying to set the start date parameter to dateadd("d", -7, today()) and the end date parameter to dateadd("d", -1, today()). However, every time I change it to anything but a static date value, the screen refreshes and changes the code back to the default date. I know I can set the defaults to the previous week in the report itself but I already have another subscription that runs the same report as MTD so the parameter defaults are set to that. The only other way I can think to accomplish this is to create a copy of the report with the only difference being parameter defaults (which I don't think is a good sol ...Show All

• Visual Studio Automatically exclude undocumented classes, methods, properties etc.

  Is there any way to automatically exclude undocumented classes, methods, properties etc. I understand that the <exclude> tag will be supported in the future. This is not really want I want here but I can see where it would be useful. Any idea when this feature will be available I don't remember that option in NDoc.  Do you know what option it was   There is no Sandcastle documentation for the extra tags.  However, I think most of the requests have been to "make it like NDoc" so if you have NDoc, you can probably use its description of the tags in its help file for the time being.  They should be quite similar in behavior. Eric   ...Show All