Evan Mulawski's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Locks not working

  This problem is very annoying and has already been the source of data loss, thus I want to solve it once for all. I set the project to work in exclusive checkout mode. Fine, most of the time it works correctly not allowing a user to checkout a file that is already checked out by someone else. However it does not always work. In particular I'm having one user that sometimes checks in and is prompted with the Auto Merge dialog, because his local file is different from the server version. This should definitely not occurr, it is making me loose confidence in the system because I'm writing code and feel that another user may delete my changes in a few minutes just hitting the wrong button without bothering to think twice. Not a good feeling. ...Show All

• Customer Care Framework Is it free to write and deploy a CCF application?

  Hi, Is it free to write and deploy a CCF application or is there a license cost I already have Visual Studio. Thanks Giles CCF is a Licensed product,  You can contact your Microsoft account rep for pricing. Matt B- MS   ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to set DropDownList first record is blank?

  How to set DropDownList first record is blank I know one solution is add one blank record in database, but cannot use this method, anymore solution thanks!! If you add a blank first item to the ddl, then set the AppendDataBoundItems to True (on the DDL properties), then perform your databinding, this should solve your problems (do not bother adding a blank record to your database). I hope this helps. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions One Question

  If I download the 101 examples of Visual Studio 2005 , I could use them in Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition you should be able to run most of them, however you may find issues with some of the data and networking samples due to the limitations of express ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Making the mouse visible

  I am trying to make my mouse visible, and I tried doing what it says to do in the Faq. However, when I try to do "Game.IsMouseVisible = true;" it gives me the error "An Object Reference is required for the nonstatic field, method, or property 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.IsMouseVisible.Get'. What do I have to do to display the mouse Try put the this .IsMouseVisible = true ; inside the protected override void Initialize() { this .IsMouseVisible = true ; } ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies No context menu for Reporting Services

  I installed the RS add-in on my MOSS site and was able to publish reports to my Report Center site. So far so good. However, the right click context menu for my reports does not show any entries for Reporting Services admin. My MOSS site is AD authenticated and I'm using a domain admin account for all installation and testing. I used Windows Authentication for RS integration. Doing the same on a standalone MOSS server works as expected. What am I missing How do I enable the RS context menus Any pointers This was the steps I use to install: 1) SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition -Mixed security mode -Latin1_GeneralCIAS -D:\SQL Server\ as Data Folder -http://localhost/reports og http://loc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual web Developer 2005 Express edition configured with IIS

  Hello All, Is it possible to configure the WebDeveloper Express edition to make use of IIS when running, i dont want to make use of personal web server. If it is possbile can anyone provide me with the details of how to configure VS WebDeveloper Express edition to IIS. Thanks in Advance, Sriram 29. Do I need IIS to build applications with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express No. Visual Web Developer 2005 Express comes with a built-in Web development server that enables you to build and test applications without a dependency on IIS. The server only accepts local requests and is only for build and test. Web applications built with Visual Web Developer can easily be deployed to IIS or your fa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista - how to hook keyboard strikes such as CTRL+ALT+DEL?

  Hi, I recently upgraded my machine to Vista, and am loving it! Finding it nice and light, and the UI is really great so hats off! At the moment I'm prototyping a kiosk type Windows Forms application to run on Vista. I can start the application running on O/S load by modifying the following reg key to point to my application rather than Explorer.exe: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell The next thing I need to do is to stop the User breaking out of my application once it's running, so I'll need to disable key combinations like ALT+F4, CTRL+ALT+DEL etc... I found a great article on how to do this on XP here: http://www.codeguru.com/columns/VB/article.php/c4831/ The code allows you to ...Show All

• .NET Development how to convert image formats

  Hi all I need to be able to convet images beteewn format on my web server. Can anybody help me as how best to do this Paul Sure,   you may need to take a look at the Image, Bitmap and perhaps graphics classes: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.graphics.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.bitmap.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.image.aspx   Basically you read the Image into Bitmap object and then save it to the format you wish to save it in. Here is a small  example:   Image theImage = Image.FromFile("someImage.jpg"); theImage.Save("diffFormat.bmp, ImageFormat.Bmp) ...Show All

• SQL Server Calling SqlDependency.Stop() in class destructor

  Hey guys, Have you ever tried to call the SqlDependency.Stop() method in a class destructor (C#) It seems like the finalization process hangs after the call to the SqlDependency.Stop() method (for example the assignment after the SqlDependency.Stop() method call is never executed). ~Program() { if (!_finalized) { SqlDependency .Stop(NocConnectionString); _finalized = false ; } } I tried to use the ADO.NET 2.0 tracing, and it shows that the SqlCommand.Cancel() method call throws an exception during finalization, but it’s not possible to intercept it. Do you have any clue about it or have you ever experinced the same problem Regards, ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL Security Error

  A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 0 - The system detected a possible attempt to compromise security. Please ensure that you can contact the server that authenticated you.) I get this error at random times on a certain database. Any idea what causes this Steve Hi Steve, The error is being returned directly by Named Pipes and I'm sure it has to do with the SSPI authentication that Named Pipes does under the covers. I'm not certain what the likely causes are but it's possible that it's related to a Kerberos/Domain Controller issue or perhaps the userid/passwords aren't synchronized on the 2 machines (if NTLM is being used). One workaround is to u ...Show All

• .NET Development Data connection failed to open

  Hello, I'm attempting to install a Worker Service responsible for performing regular operations and communicating back and forth to a SQL Server 2005 database on a remote machine. I have a thin client that allows the user to make configurations, and although the first connection can take 20 seconds or so, the client succeeds at communicating with the database. The worker service, however, fails to do so every time. On startup, I attempt to communicate with the server three times: 1) send the current time as the service's boot time, 2) send the current time as the service's "heartbeat", and 3) get outstanding items to process. The first two return the following error in the Application service log: Data connection failed ...Show All

• .NET Development AppDomain Unload does corrupt Thread Pool

  Hi, I was just trying to run a simple scenario: 1. Create AppDomain 2. Use up all Worker threads from Thread Pool 3. Unload AppDomain before the worker threads have finished. 4. Try to queue another WorkItem in your default or some other AppDomain Result: The .NET thread pool is dead because there are no threads left for the other AppDomain. ThreadPool Threads are not given back to the thread pool when an AppDomain.Unload is performed. I think it is ok to not kill the threads (reliability) but what is not ok is that there are no threads left for other AppDomains. An AppDomain unload should increase the number of worker/io completion port threads which are currently running inside the to be unloaded AppDomain to ensure that you do not run o ...Show All

• SQL Server formating integer

  hello. A question please. I am new on Sqlserver. Could anyone say me how must I format an integer to string. example I have: 0001 (integer field of 4 positions) and I'd want to see it "0001" (string) Thanks... An example of adding quote characters into the string variable: declare @myString varchar(6) declare @quoteChar char(1) set @myString = '''0007''' -- Loads '0007' (including quotes) into @myString variable set @quoteChar = char(39) -- Loads a quote char ' into @quoteChar variable set @quoteChar = '''' -- Loads a quote char ' into @quoteChar variable select @myString as [@myString], @quoteChar as [@quoteChar] -- ---------- Output: ---------- ...Show All

• Visual Basic updating data grid connect to ms access database.

  I have a ms access database with a table consisting of the fields user_id and password. i have a datagrid binded with this information that is displayed in a vbform. i have added an "add" button. when i press this i want the new data entered in the datagrid to be updated in the msaccess database as well as the datagrid. so far i have the following code: Dim connStr As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _ "Data Source = C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Telephone.mdb" Dim con As New OleDb.OleDbConnection(connStr) con.Open() Dim objcommand2 As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand objcommand2.CommandText = "INSERT INTO Users" & _ "(User_ID, ...Show All