Ljhopkins's Q&A profile

• SQL Server EXAM 70-431: Anyone planning for it?

  I would like to collaborate with others who are taking the exam or who took it ... advices, sample exams, study guides, hints etc. Reply and share email etc. Hi , Please mail me at @ pawan_kv@hotmail.com . I have study material for this exam (70-431) and successfully completed MCITP. Regards, Pawan Kumar ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista displaying an icon on windows desktop

  Hello all, I am wondering if it is possible to display an icon at a specified location on windows desktop using windows APIs. Thanks a lot Parvin This depends on whether or not you want to actually place a shortcut icon on the desktop, or just draw the icon there. If you want to just put up a shortcut icon, you'll have a hard time placing it at a definitive location. Other than placing the shortcut in the desktop folder, there's not much to do. Drawing the icon on the desktop, on the other hand, will require you to either subclass the desktop, or hook messages destined for it. There are plenty of articles about both at e.g. www.codeproject.com and www.codeguru.com , so give those a try (and include the wor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report Viewer with Report(SSRS)

  Hi, I am using reportviewer in my web page with some filters.Filters are working fine.....if there is no data.i am gettign javascript as "object required".Only when in web Application... If u didn't get me..plz ask doubts what ever it may be..... thanks in advance.... ...Show All

• Windows Forms Opposite of PropertyInfo.GetGetMethod()?

  Hi, Does anyone know if Reflection provides a way of querying the MethodSemantics table (ECMA p.II, pg. 149) I'm looking for the opposites of PropertyInfo.GetGetMethod(), PropertyInfo.GetSetMethod(), EventInfo.GetRemoveMethod(), etc., in other words i want to find out what Property or Event a particular method is associated with. I think MethodBase.IsSpecialName() tells me whether it is this kind of method but it does not help me find which member it belongs to. Do i have to test all the members in the type regards, Colin ...Show All

• .NET Development save not working ...... please help

  Hi Everybody, I am writing an application using the bindingnavigator and the oledbDataAdapter. I am not able to save the changes to the actual access database. Please help me. The code follows. What do I mean when I say that I am not able to save the changes I mean that they are not reflected in the database when I reopen it. Does an error occur No error occurs. If not then how am I determining that the save operation didn't work No changes are reflected in the database. What value does Update return It returns zero. So, there might be a problem with the update function. I am binding the richtext box with the bindingsource. And the bindingsource is the datatable. Are the values in the datatable automatically updates when I chan ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Blue Screen of Death or System Restart

  I have XNA installed on my home computer, and on my laptop, and it happens rather often (a few times a day) that when I try run the project, or click the Save All button, I get a system reboot or a BSOD. It happened once too when I tried to move a file to another folder, in the Solution Explorer. Since it happens on two different computers, I was wondering if someone else has had the same problem. Any known bug/solution Thank you! Maybe it's not the BSOD but the XNA default Cornflower blue (I think David Weller calls this the "Blue Screen of Happiness") running at full screen ;) Yeah, this does seem a bit odd that he's getting the same behavior on both the laptop a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is the account crmUser

  When creating a build script, within the script are generated the following: CREATE USER [crmUser] WITHOUT LOGIN WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA=[dbo] GO CREATE USER [NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE] FOR LOGIN [NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE] WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA=[dbo] GRANT CONNECT TO [NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE] GO Does anyone know why this user crmUser is created Also why is a NT Authority\Network Service user being created Thanks P R W. My *Guess* is that you have [NT Authority\Network Service] as a user in your model database, so when your designdb database is created from a copy of model it'll pick this up. Presumably crmUser would be the same issue. Look at the instance of SQL Server ...Show All

• SQL Server How to create large report?

  Hi, I have been tasked with trying to re-create out in-house reporting solution, based-on powerpoint and SQL Server, using Reporting Services 2005. However when trying to create a demo report I find a number of problems: 1) I cannot make the page layout long enough or insert extra pages in order to caointain all of the test, charts and tables that we have in our reports (typically around 100 powerpoint slides) 2) I cannot find a way to set any global report styles for text or charts 3) I cannot find a way to have a flow layout instead of a grid layout - which does not allow me to insert items into the middle of a report Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated, Thanks, Denham H ...Show All

• SQL Server Inserting Symbols into Fields (like ?)

  I am attempting to insert a trademark symbol into a database field but it is not working. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this properly Any help would be very appreciated. ...Show All

• SQL Server Finding a Member

  Hi, I try to evaluate a functionality to find a date-Member. Wath we need is, we search the first existing Date in our Time-Dimension, which is, say 11 days before the actual-date. Since such a Member maybe not exits, the function should return the smallest existing Date bigger then the one we are searching for. MEMBER [MEASURES].[date1] AS DATEADD("d", -11, CDate([Zeit].[Zeit].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_CAPTION)) MEMBER [MEASURES].[mydate] AS FILTER([Zeit].[Zeit].[Datum].members, cdate([Zeit].[Zeit].[Datum].value) >= [MEASURES].[date1]).Item(0) It doesn’t work in that way. Can anybody give me some Help. Thank you very much. Bahram. Looks like the problem here with the use of .Value f ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Copy an Excel File and Update some of it's cells

  I am adding this to my app that I made yesterday that creates new project folders and copies files over. Now I would like to beable to edit the excel files as I copy them over. I have started to play around with the excel stuff for VB and I got it to create a new file, but I need help on editing it as I copy it. Ideally I would like to be able to only change some cells. Like tell it to delete everything in one cell and replace it with something. Thanks The logic of your operation: Open Excel File Make Changes Save File Copy FIle ... Try it out in code and post back the code you are having issues with ...Show All

• SQL Server Displaying the dates in a column.

  Can someone help me with this. I've been trying to produce it this way but still unsuccessful. I'd like my table to look like this: Month: January Day wkDay ------------- 1     Mon 2     Tues 3     Wed 4     Thurs 5     Fri 6     Sat .     . .     . 31    Wed I want to display the whole month.. Please help.. Thanks.. Create a calendar table and use it rather than writing code. It is much more flexible, robust and can handle more scenarios easily (different types of calendars - fiscal, yearly; holidays; language settings etc). Search the WWW ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions mscoree.dll

  Hello, I would like to install Visual Web Developer Express. I get errors saying that the mscoree.dll file has a problem. I still try installing, but the install fails. I tried renaming the dll to another name and it still doesn't work because now it's looking for it and can't find it. The installation fails with an error '2908'. What should my next step be thank you very much. My apologies, I didn't know you were referring to MCE (Media Center Edition). Try the instructions here to see if they work: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/11/10/491653.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team System reports are crashing Visual Studio

  All of a sudden clicking a Team System report inside visual studio is crashing VS. I can run the reports without problems via IE using the reporting site. The only big changes on my system lately are installing of VSTS SP1 and IE7. Other people with the same change in my team do not have this problem. Has anyone had the same kind of problems or know the solution Well, for now my workaround is to just use the report server site directly... And when I have time somewhere in the near future, I think I'll try reinstalling the whole thing.. hopefully that will fix it. Thanks for your replies anyway. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Programming/Analysis Problem

  Hi All, I'm writing some code for a football league run by volunteers. (Fines administration, Players Registration etc) The problem is the administration is not done from the same location(ie Different towns) and they all need access to the same data.There is no server in place or planned. The question: How do I keep the various databases in sync. Any help/ideas would be nice Greetings Jan jankonijnenberg@blueyonder.co.uk Thanks, For your information. I've adapted it slightly: - I set up a email address for every user - Any changes are written to a csv file - Every 10 minutes I send an email to everybody (if there are changes) - Also check if there are any emails to receive (with changes in it) - If so I ...Show All