Shadi Mari's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Static Data Management

  Hello, This is probably a stupid question, but I'm starting to play around with Data Generation scripts for unit tests in my database project, and I have a query about what I would call static or system data. For example, the data generation scripts take care of user data, but what about tables of types or the equavalent of enums for instance, a UserType table which contained data such as: UserTypeId | Description ---------------------------------- 1 | Standard User 2 | System administrator 3 | Editor Or similar The IDs would have to stay constant thoughout the system, so either I create a deployment script that creates the data or use the data generation tools. If I use a deployment script, will (1) the data ...Show All

• SQL Server Derived attributes in a dimension

  SQL 2005 SSAS - is it possible to create a derived attribute in a Dimension or does it have to be done in the underlying table. Specifically, I have a geographic location Dimension where the top level is "Area" (USGulf, USWestCoast, Caribbean etc). Now there is one part of the company that likes to group these together into Zones. I can see how to do this in SQL in the underlying table or in reports in SSRS, but ideally would like to do this in the cube. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions concerning media player

  renee where do I post pause button code   I think if you have Word, you should cut and paste your code into Word, and then cut and paste that onto the board. If you don't have Word, you have Wordpad. I really don't like reading code that not's formatted and if you noticed, I never answer questions where people don't format their code and I always format mine. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Recent projects

  Hi, My recent projects list in Visual Studio C# is always empty and I always have to click on "Open project" link at the bottom of the list. I checked the registry and it has the necessary key. I tried reinstalling but it is still always empty. Any way how to remedy this Thanks Hi Pedro, I'm not sure if this makes a difference but, are you saving your projects in the default location of "..\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects" or are you choosing a differnt location. I could be wrong, but it helps eliminate one thing it could be. Scott ...Show All

• SQL Server DateTime Format Conversion Issue

  Hello everyone, I came accross this problem where I can't change my stored date to: m/d/yyyy hh:mi:ss AM Seems to me like there is no code related to that particular conversion. I'm just assuming that because I've tried all the codes supplied with the convert, and the closest that I got was select CONVERT ( nvarchar ( max ), getdate (), 22 ) 02/27/07 12:24:40 PM m/d/yy hh:mi:ss AM So can any one give me a quick solution for this I'd appreciate it select RIGHT( CAST ( 100 + DATEPART ( MM , createdDate ) AS CHAR ( 3 )), 2 ) + '/' + RIGHT( CAST ( 100 + DATEPART ( DD , createdDate ) AS CHAR ( 3 )), 2 ) + '/' + CAST ( DATEPART ( YYYY , createdDate ) AS CHAR ( 4 )) + ' ' ...Show All

• Visual Basic To Dave299 about TAG.

  Hi, In:>> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1187698&SiteID=1 you say Public Property Tag As Object  i was referring to the TAG property of a PictureBox are you talking of when you might build a custom control or of the same thing   Regards, S_DS   ...Show All

• Windows Forms Delay in discovering updates

  I have a ClickOnce app that is being updated roughly every 2 months. All clients get the update eventually, but for some reason, many clients (including my own test clients) are not able to discover the update until anywhere from 1 minute to 3 hours later. I am almost certain that this is due to some sort of caching mechanism on the myapp.application file somewhere along the line. I have ruled out the publishing site, because some clients get it instantly. I find it most likely to be the company proxy server, although I've had clients who say they are not going through a proxy who are also getting a delay. Does anyone know what could be causing it, and maybe how to solve it Jesper. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Test activity doesn't work in Windows Live Messenger?

  Hi - I had been working on an activity that was working fine in Messenger 7.5. My msgrp2p.xml file was installed in the MSN Messenger directory on both machines that I was testing on. I upgraded to WLM and now can't see any way to get to my activity to test it. Is there something new I need to do Thanks, - rajat I met the same situation and the solution is, to save the xml file as "MSGRP2P.xml", not "msgrp2p.xml". The menu came out again! This is really strange. ...Show All

• .NET Development Programmatically change UpdateMethod of ObjectDataSource

  I want to change the UpdateMethod of an ODS. I've tried changing it but it keeps going to the method initially defined. The parameters are the same between the two methods. The docs indicate that you can Set the property and you don't get a compile error. Any thoughts I looked at that but it only sets it in the page and doesn't change it in the code behind. In the page, let's say I have: <asp:objectdatasource           id="ObjectDataSource2"           runat="server"           updatemethod="UpdateCustomer"         &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic msgbox when a tabpage is selected

  As the title says, this is what i'd like to do. When a user selects a certain tabpage, I'd like a msgbox to popup. sounds simple, but i've been racking my brain over how it's done, as it seems that the tabpage methods don't support it I've given this a read through: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/28785371/re-of-tabs-and-pages.aspx But I don't think it helps me very much in the end. Any suggestions are appreciated - thanks guys! -Pete Thanks all! I used Frank Carr's way, and it works like a charm. -Pete ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to create a Custom Form that appears in the Toolbox and is droppable on the Design Surface?

  I like to create a dll with a custom form that contains other controls (buttons, check boxes, etc). I am using vb.net or c#.net (2005). I like the form to appear in the Toolbox and be able to drop it on the design surface. This behavior is the same as the provided dialogs such as FontDialog. Searching the web showed that I need to add a designer attribute of ComponentDesigner: "Set the Designer attribute for your custom dialog to be ComponentDesigner (instead of the default ControlDesigner). That should make it droppable in the design surface as a component." But I have not been able to make this work. Can someone help Thanks, Rene You can also also design a UI-less component and hav ...Show All

• .NET Development Not able to use GetDataTableSchema

  hi, .Net 2.0 has added a new method to the DataTable class, GetDataTableSchema ( ). Not able to use it though. Even msdn docs dont provide an example. I will really appreciate if you can provide me with any simple example. Thank You. hi DMan1, thanks first of all !! syntax wise this method is OK. even i did this. but how to manipulate the returned WSDL from the returnValue varaible (which u have used). I m also not very sure wat goes as input to the method. Wat i did was took an xsd file and added that to a XmlSchemeSet object, passed the object to GetDataTableSchema. ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 SP1 Beta doesn`t want to install

  I`m not commenting the decision to use windows installer patching system right now (long story short: 1GB of memory wasn`t enough), but after an hour or so the installer doing who knows what atm just died with a very informative message: The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2908. The number was different the first time I think, when I ran out of free space. And as I click OK it just keeps poping again and again. Oh, wait... it`s stopped after 40- or 50-something clicks. Now, after some time, we have this: Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'CppCodeProvider,Version="8.0.0.0",PublicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11 ...Show All

• Connected Services Framework StockQuoteAppIdm sample (CSF 3.0) is not working..

  hi i'm trying to run the sample. i did all steps in sample document. but sample didn't work. so i checked EventViewer, i got some info about SSO... sample doc doesn't explain SSO setting. however, using SSO and IDM management, i registerd Application info and Secondary Credentials. Now... i got this error. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timestamp: 2006-12-18 8:23:48 Message: An internal server error occurred. Your call was not processed. Contact the site administrator for details. (System.IndexOutOfRangeException: .    : Microsoft.ConnectedServices.Connector.IdentityManager.SsoUserMapManager.Read(Read ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Struggling with svcutil

  hi I have several services in my solution. There is multiple data classes that get shared across these services. When I try to use svcutil against several of my services at the same time, the proxy that's spit out, in addition to many parsing errors, does not handle the namespaces well, and there just seems to be an abundance of problems getting the different service proxies to play nice. I tried using the namespace switch, but it didn't like the following: svcutil [service1] [service2] /out: myproxy.cs /namespace: Value.Value.Val The svcutil chokes on the namespace. I've resorted to using WSDL to build the proxies, and that seems to work fine. But the problem there is that the /sharetypes switch doesn't seem to work wit ...Show All