tanmos's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Tweaking DataContract-generated schema

  Suppose I am building a WCF service using DataContracts. My service is working great, but I'd like to make some modifications to message schemas exposed by this service's metadata. For instance, I might want to set minOccurs and maxOccurs on some elements of the schema, or add some key/keyrefs to try to clarify some of the relationships within the data of these messages. (Note that I'm not trying to change the structure of the actual messages on the wire, just trying to enrich the metadata so consumers have a better sense of how to use/interpret these messages.) Is there a way of intercepting/injecting customized schemas in a service's published metadata ( WSDL or /mex) If you want that level of con ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Targeting WM 5.0 VGA?

  Hi, I changed the platform from PocketPC2003 to Windows CE from Project Menu to target VGA's of PocketPC2003 and WM5.0. After changing to WindowsCE it works fine with the same UI PocketPC VGA. but when I target WM5.0 It completely changes the UI. Specially when use Points for the controls through my coding. like button1.Location = new Point(58, 296); here again I changed the points according to the screen resolution. I have many forms to change like this to change. Its really painful process. But in PokcetPC VGA it worked fine with out any change. That is y i can same CAB for PocketPC and PocketPCVGA but where as I have to different CABS for Pocket PC and WM5.0VGA. In future to add any other features again I have ...Show All

• Visual Basic accessing information in an opend word document

  I am trying to create an application that will open a Microsoft Word document then be able to access what the user types in to it. I'm using visual studio 2005. I have opened the document in two different ways; using the shell method and creating a new variable as a process, but once the word document is open, I cannot figure out how to access it's information. If anyone knows how to make the ms word application save, copy/paste, or knows a way for my application to access its information let me know. I've created the application once using a RichTextBox built in to my application, but my client (I'm a college intern in over my head in software development) prefers to enter the data in MS Word. Any replies are appreciated ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Add reference to a separate team project

  We're building several libraries that we're going to use in many of our upcoming projects. One of them needs to use a library that is in a separate team project. What's the best way of doing this What I'd like is to be able to add a reference from the team foundation server's copy (because that'll be the checked-in release copy), and any time someone checks in a new version and builds a release DLL, it'll update that project. Is that possible Any other ideas Thanks, Johann MacDonagh We ended up solving this by standardizing the location of our local copies of team projects and adding references to DLLs built in the Release folder of projects. So although the "Path" to external reference DLLs i ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to convert input xml file content to a DataSet from DataSet Designer

  First of all, here's the error: Error 1 Unable to convert input xml file content to a DataSet. 0 is not a valid value for Int32. Input string was not in a correct format. C:\Documents and Settings\dolan\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\ReproProject\App_Code\DataSet1.xsd 1 Second: I didn't do anything other than drag a table from server explorer into the designer. Immediately I save it and try to build the website as a test and get the error displayed above. The server is a SQL 2000 server, because I was hoping I could use ASP.NET 2.0 to replace our production site without having to bring up a SQL 2005 server. I'm not sure if that affects anything or not, but it's not working, for sure. I also see a bunch of attributes that are ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sound Recording or Automated Speach

  I want to create a program to train for Quiz Bowl. It allready has most of the logic in place for timing and stuff but I want it to ask the questions. I tried to find a library for the microsoft program Narrator but I couldn't. I think that the best way would be to have the program record the questions and save them in WAV files. They could be played back when needed. I need to, somehow in my program, identify a sound recording device like a microphone or webcam, start gathering data from it, and stop getting data from it on cue. If anyone knows how to do this in VB, your help would ge greatly appreciated. Thanks Actually, the speech sdk will say text (pass a string of words and it will say them), and play sounds. Oh yes ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Another ArgumentNullException in SqlUnary

  I saw this reported previously, but wanted to report another occurence. When I run the query against an in-memory array, it runs fine. When I run against SQL, it fails: FAIL:System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. at System.Data.DLinq.ProviderBase.SqlUnary.set_Operand(SqlExpression value) at System.Data.DLinq.ProviderBase.SqlUnary..ctor(SqlNodeType nt, Type clrType, ProviderType sqlType, SqlExpr ession expr, Expression sourceExpression) at System.Data.DLinq.ProviderBase.QueryConverter.VisitAggregate(Expression sequence, LambdaExpression lambda , SqlNodeType aggType, Type returnType) at System.Data.DLinq.ProviderBase.QueryConverter.VisitSequenceOperatorCall(MethodCallExpression mc) at System.Data.DLinq.ProviderBase.Query ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how to enable Web Test template

  I was trying to create a Test project for load and stress testing for web app. When I tried to record a web test via Test --> New test --> "web test" template was missing. Please advise me how to configure or Add "web test" template so it will available as above Thanks in advance, CNP Hello, According to your description, it seems you have Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developer. Can you check that for me. WebTest features comes with Visual Studio Team Suite or Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers. If you have one of those product mentioned above and u cannot see the webtest template then we can troublshoot the issue. Thanks, Anjana ...Show All

• Windows Forms Runtime Errot

  Can someone please tell me how to fix this problem Runtime Error! Program: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 10\WINWORD.EXE The only way word will open is in safe mode. Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development Porting part of a large COM+ application to .net

  I'm a litle currious that I can't find anything on this subject in the forum. There should have been written lots of COM+ application, and it's very unlikely that they all are trown away, just because .net is the current technology now. Anybody have any experince with using COM+ component in a .net application (It's simple enough - in teory - but reality usally is not so simple. Is this the right forum to ask such a question BTW you should be able to add any com assembly as a reference and call it's methods directly (i thought). When accessing .net through com it's a little different, i think you have to expose your .net to com and use the TLB tool to generate interfaces for com. Graham Wihlidal's Game engine toolset ...Show All

• SQL Server Connections to SQL Server Files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005

  When ever I click on an MDF file in VS2005 I get the following message. Required Components Missing. Connections to SQL Server Files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to function properly.  Please verify the installation of the component or download from the URl: http:go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkID=49251. I think this may have been due to the install order and options I selected. 1. VS2005 Pro, without SQL Server Express 2005 as I was planning to install SQL2005 Developer. 2. SQL2005 Developer. I then noticed the above problem and installed SQL Server Express 2005 from the VS Pro DVD.  I still have the problem.  Any ideas how I can fix this Here I mean same problem. I installed ...Show All

• Visual Basic Adding Controls Dynamically

  Hello, I am going to try and explain this to the best of my ability. Within a form I am going to be using probably (open to suggestions) a TableLayoutPanel to split the header section and the diffrent controls. The unquie part about it is, whenever the header is clicked another whole header and the diffrent controls are added. So for example this is what it looks like when the form initially loads: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Header - Header - Header - Header - Header - Header - Header -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Controls within a panel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After the form is loaded an ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro gMinFilter

  Hello, I'm new here and with using FoxPro. I'm trying to modify an existing query from within my database. When I open the query it is asking me to locate the .dbc file. I located that with no problem but now it's asking me to "Enter the value for gMinFilter". Can anyone shed some light on what this means >> Any idea why I have to enter these parameters in every time I want to modify a query Look up Parameterized View in the help file. The reason is that the query is using a 'view' which is basically a query stored in the database. That view must have been defined with parameters (gMinFilter and gMaxFilter) and if they do not exist, VFP prompts you for the values. If you created the values before trying to run t ...Show All

• SQL Server Update: can I catch the return message and act on it?

  I use a storeed procedure to execure a dynamic sql string sent from an application. This string often contain a simple update. An update with anyting but one row affected is in this case to be considered an error/problem. As ut use the primary key in the where clause the and I want to store away the update values in anoter table I want to act on the "(0 row(s) affected)" message. Is there a way to do that or do I have to query the database before I do the update In SQL2000 you could: select * from inserted or in SQL2005 output inserted.* To get back all (or none) updated rows. Or: select @@rowcount ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to CreateProcess NOT as administrator

  One of our modules is an executable that will always be run as administrator (after getting permission from user). One of its screens allows the user to run a different executable, which the code currently does by CreateProcess. The problem is that since the first process is running as admin, CreateProcess has the second process run as admin also. This is undesirable because it is a security breach (the second process can open browse dialogs that should not have admin privileges in this scenario). How do I get the second to run without admin privileges I do NOT want attach a manifest to the second exe that says it does not want admin privileges because under certain circumstances (not from the first exe), it SHOULD be run with admin privil ...Show All