Deldy's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Blank page in report manager

  When i load report manager everything appears to be running fine. The header, footer and nav bar at the top load correctly. Even the directory and file tree load fine. The problem is when you click on a report everything from below the nav bar ( where the report would be rendered) blanks out and load bar at the bottom just tacks at full. One way to fix this problem is to open the web config file for report manager save it then close the file. This is not a viable solution to the problem. I was wondering if any one else had the same problem . If so how to fix it We are having a very similar problem that is driving me nuts. My end users will get this situation - Report Manager banner and links at ...Show All

• .NET Development Converting a string into a variable name/instance

  Dont know if this is the right forum for this question, so sorry in advance if it is not. Im looking for a way to convert a string into essentially a variable name/instance. What im after is better explained with an example: I have a dll which provides static properties such as MyDll.HelpTexts.SomeTopicsHelpText which returns a help string on some pre-defined topic. Now say i have an xml database with elements containing attributes which reference these static properties. For example: <SomeElement helpText="MyDll.HelpTexts.SomeTopicsHelpText"/> is there anyway i can convert the helpText property, in this case a string with value "MyDll.HelpTexts.SomeTopicsHelpText", such that it can ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get the path to the install CD

  In a Windows Installer project, is there a way within a Custom Action DLL to find out the path to the install CD and its subdirectories (which might be on a network share) I need to perform various comparisons of the version of the new EXE versus the existing EXE. It's almost as if you need a completely different app that gets installed to another folder etc. Then the users can have both installed, and uninstall the old version when they're happy with the new one. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to: bind a single control to multiple datasources

  hi, im really new to programming and i was wondering if there's someone out there who's kind enough to teach me how to bind a single control (ex. a textbox) to multiple datasource's (ex. two or more table's). thanks a lot.. sorry, but i do a lot of bad programming habbit, like relying mostly on intelisense to do the coding, well please correct me if im wrong (for sure i am), what im tying to do is something like this: example1.text = datasource example2.text=example1.text when i assign something like that, the value doesnt appear.. another help please ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Email Notification in VSTS

  We have installed a visual studio Team Foundation (180 trail pack) on windows 2003 platform. The server is working perfectly fine with all the client able to access the server. But the problem is with "PROJECT ALERT" and mail notification. My project leader wants to have ticker mail to the developer when a new task is assigned to him or any changes are made to it. I am not able to generate any kind of mail nor are the project alerts working. Any help on the issue will be appreciated. Rohit, did you get chance to try Luis's suggestion There is more detail on checking smtp config and other things to check at: http://blogs.msdn.com/narend/archive/2006/07/27/faq-on-vsts-subscriptions-and-common-probl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SImple Calculator problems

  can anyone help me on how to make decimal point and to also perform the order of operations .. doing more then one problem at once such as 2+3*4 thank you SCott Rewrite your button code to concatenate the digit to the current Textbox display. For example: Private Sub btn1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btn1.Click Txt1.Text = Txt1.Text & "1" End Sub You can do the same for the Decimal button, but you will have to check that the Textbox doesn't already contain a decimal point. ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to convert double toDateTime

  Hello When i try to use the follow: Label6.Text = Convert.ToDateTime(AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.Ctlcontrols.currentPosition).ToString I recieve the following error: Invalid cast from 'Double' to 'DateTime'. Any help with this would be great. Thanks for the information Patrick Hi Alex Thanks for your help. The TimeSpan.FromSeconds was what I was needing. Label6.Text = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.Ctlcontrols.currentPosition).ToString Thanks to everyone for your time. Patrick ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to force a customization to close?

  Hi, I have the situation in a VSTO2 customization project that, under certain conditions, I need to force the customization and the document to close. Currently I call the standard Word api to do this - ie document.Close( ref falseObject, ref missing, ref missing); in C#. The problem with calling this inside my customization is that after the ' ThisDocument_Shutdown' event has fired the code stack that you were in before calling the document.Close line then continues to run and this leads to unpredicatable results and sometimes threading exceptions which cause Word to freeze up. Is there a cleaner way to force the customization to stop and the document to close from within the customization thanks. Simon ...Show All

• SQL Server One to Many Join distilling the Many to two columns.

  I have a one to many relationships each claim we bill for a client has many status. Things like claim sent, claim received by insurance company, claim rejected. There are 80 different statuses all stored in tbl_status and I need to distill into three columns. I currently have the query below that returns only accepted claims and the date claim was released to insurance company. I am struggling with how to have multiple columns released; paid, rejected each column can be represented by one or more of the 80 status in the status table. So I want something like this Select Case status ‘135’ or ‘111’ then Y else N AS Accepted Select Case status ‘123’ or ‘444’ then Y else N AS Released Select Case status ‘435’ o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problems with VSTO 2005

  Hello. I'm trying to look at some samples of using VSTO 2005 ( e.g. Microsoft's VSTO - Outlook Hands on Lab ) but am getting the following error when loading the solution: The project file 'C:Program Files... ...\HandsOnLab.Lab1.csproj' cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation. I've got VS 2005 Professional Edition Version 8.0.50727.42 and Office 2003 Professional Edition SP2 installed. Also i've installed the Office 2003 PIA's and VSTO 2005. Any ideas on what i'm missing Thanks, Paul It's not opened ( shown as unavailable - The project file cannot be loaded. ). I'm pretty sure the issue is with my VSTO installation rather than the labs. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Trying something new

  Hi all. Im trying something new. Something yesterday gave me an idea that i could use it with more than one source file. So i created 2 source files and 1 header file to do all the including and bridging communication between sources. Here's what i have so far. Source 1 #include "include.h" int main(){ const SIZE = 100; char msg[SIZE]; printf("Enter a file you'd like to read: "); cin.getline(msg,SIZE); if(!msg){ printf("File %s doesnt exist.\n",msg); } else{ printf("Reading file %s",msg); readfile(); } return 0; } Source 2 #include "include.h" void readfile(void){ char buffer[100]={'\0'}; ifstream file("test.txt"); while(file ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums How to show PNG with Transparency?

  Hi folks I'm trying to display a PNG Image on top of the Map. This is no problem. But how can I reach that that transparency of the Image is preserved I tried with adding a pushpin and also with adding the image as an element (AddControl). Awesome darick, the javascript function was the only thing I had found to do it. I would much prefer a css method. Thanks for posting, my method is very wastful and had intermintant failures in IE6 (that is it doesn't work sometimes) John. ...Show All

• SQL Server Running Cognos 7 series with SQL 2005 Enterprise

  I know this question is more suited for Cognos but the problem that I'm faced with is simply that I have a Microsoft SQL 2005 Enterprise server which has cubes written in Analysis Server 2005 (AS2005) and in the frontend, I have Cognos 7 series retreiving those cubes. Now here is the problem. Cognos series 7 does not support AS2005 and now I have to somehow figure out how I can get this working. Any suggestions Hello Edward. This is off topic but the new SSAS2005 book that you are a one of the writers of,where can I find more information about what this book is about Your publishers marketing department have been a little bit to slow. Regards Thomas Ivarsson ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sharepoint Integration

  My company currently already has servers setup for Sharepoint already and want to try to use those for Team System. Does anyone know if its possible to point the Sharepoint integration to another server Or, does anyone know if its possible to move over data from an existing Sharepoint site to the one created by Team System I'm glad I could help! I'll post a link to the whitepaper when it has been published. I'm not sure when that will be, though... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Microsoft Document Explorer Index

  I installed Visual Studio Team 2005 on my WinXP with no problems. For some reason (perhaps the order of my installation) my help index in the Microsoft Document Explorer only has SQL server help in it. I have gone to the control panel and tried to reinstall and add new products but everything is already installed and there is no section for install VS help that I could see. The problem with this is all errors for any language (like C#) in VS usually have a link associated like "Click here for more help on this error" and when you click on it the document explorer says No help was found for this error. When I start document explorer the "index" window "Filtered By:" drop down only has SQL Server 2005 stuff list ...Show All