Christina Tabet's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Some keys don't work in the Visual Studio IDE...

  Hi, I recently had to rebuild my PC and now whenever I open ANY piece of code the Home, End, Delete, Backspace, Space etc. keys don't work. I can write text but pretty much nothing else. The only solution I've found so far is to go to Tools -> Options -> Keyboard and press the Reset button which makes everything fine, but that is kind of a pain in the behind to do everytime I open the IDE. I saw (on Experts-Exchange) that this was a problem with the beta's but this is a fresh build with a final build... I've included the help->about info below. I tried reinstalling with no help, and I'd rather NOT rebuild my PC again if I can help it. Thank you Johnny Funch ----------------------------------------------------- ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies sometimes i can break through code in vs2005 to debug a site

  I build my debug version, install it in GAC, then I reset iisreset .When i place a breakpoint I get the message: breakpoint will not currently be hit. no symbols have been loaded for this document Have u had this before. I had the same problem and I used a simple fix. During development, don't copy the assembly to the GAC. Just copy the assembly and its debug symbols file to _app_bin folder of the virtual directory that WSS is using on the web server that is hosting WSS. You might see several of these _app_bin folders. If you're not sure which one it is, just copy your assy and symbols file to all of them. Remove them when you're done with development. Works like a charm. -Mike Sullivan, MCAD ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can't get most basic VSTO 2005 SE Outlook Add-In to load

  I have crawled all over the web to no avail. I have VS 2005, with VSTO 2005 loaded, and loaded VSTO 2005 SE. I try to run the basic 2005 SE Outlook Add-In template in debug mode from the IDE. I have not added ANY code, not even Hello World. On run, Outlook starts with a dialog box, Office document customization is not available. An add-in could not be found or could not be loaded. Clicking on the Details button gives no additional information. In Outlook under COM Add-ins, Load Behavior for the add-in states "Not loaded. A runtime error occurred during the loading of the COM Add-in." There are no other COM Add-ins (I don't have Newsgator or anything like it - already read that answer). I manually checked CAS, everything looks fin ...Show All

• SQL Server How useful to have a clustered index within a SQL Server database table?

  Hi, all, Would please any expert here give me any guidance for how useful a clustered index can be within a SQL Server 2005 database Thanks a lot for any guidance for that. With best regards, Yours sincerely, clustered index sort the data physically in the harddisk. Using Clustered Indexes A clustered index determines the physical order of data in a table. A clustered index is analogous to a telephone directory, which arranges data by last name. Because the clustered index dictates the physical storage order of the data in the table, a table can contain only one clustered index. However, the index can comprise multiple columns (a composite index), like the way a telephone directory is organized by last nam ...Show All

• .NET Development BiDi32.dll...

  On VB6 I used this function BiDiConvertOemToAnsi to transfer from "DOS hebrew" into "Windows Hebrew" I tried working with the function and dll on .NET but got this message: A call to PInvoke function 'Test1!Test1.Form1::BiDiConvertOemToAnsi' has unbalanced the stack. This is likely because the managed PInvoke signature does not match the unmanaged target signature. Check that the calling convention and parameters of the PInvoke signature match the target unmanaged signature. Can someone help me work this out Hmm, there's nothing special about those characters. Unless they are the special quotes that, for example, Word generates when the "smart quotes" option is turned on. Then the ...Show All

• SQL Server reverse parsing Stored Procedure

  Hi All, I wanted to make a .NET wrapper class that parses a database for a given stored procedure, and finds the name and type of each of it's parameters. to do so, i need to do the following: normally, you have a stored procedure and you know its parameters and their types (i.e. int, varchar, etc), based on that, you hard code a call for this storedprocedure on your backend code. I want to make a wrapper class that goes and finds out what the parameters for an existing stored procedure are, and based on them, create a GUI that allows people to fill them. after people fill this Form out, and click submit, i generate the proper procedure call. this would basically allow me to create a single class that i can just call to create a form for a ...Show All

• SQL Server Newbie Advice Installing SSRS

  Hi, I've decided to install SSRS (2005) on my windows XP machine. I'm not very familiar with IIS (i'm currently using version 5.1) and I think between IIS and SSRS, i've managed to break something. I've been looking at various articles to try and get some clarity on my predicament. However, i'm not getting any joy with them.s I have located the logfiles (which I can provide). Unfortunately, I have no idea how to intepret the information contained therein. Can anyone help Many thanks in advance Clint Hi James, thank you for taking the time to answer me. I will endeavour to provide the information that you requested. 1. The configuration window - This is what i'm getting when I view it. Picture held o ...Show All

• .NET Development failed to connect to an oracle 8i database

  Hello everybody, I hope someone would be able to help me… I need to programmatically talk to an Oracle 8 database located in a remote server. I have installed the client oracle 8 + Toad into my computers (Windows XP) and I have no problem connecting to this database by using toad. Then I added the System.Data.oracleClient dll to my project, imported it and tried to connect via my application, and had the ORA-12560 error. I can’t open the connection. My connection string is : “BaseName. UNIV-PARIS.COM (from the names.default_domain in the sqlnet.ora file); user id= ; password=” Have you any idea of what my problem is Thanks you for your help, Susana The T ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Some Questions About Making a DX10 App with a DX9 Fallback

  I'm working on a DX10 app with a DX9 fallback, and I have some questions. Right now, I simply have it setup so if DX10 initialization fails, it will use DX9 instead. Of course, this causes problems. While it may work in Vista, all other versions of Windows don't even have the DX10 DLLs, so the app simply doesn't even run long enough to know if DX10 failed. How can I have the app load the DX10 DLLs if it can, but if it can't, load the DX9 ones instead. Also, many functions in D3DX9 and D3DX10 go by the same name. Right now, whichever library I link first, it will call that version of it. For example, if I link d3dx9.lib and d3dx10.lib in that order, and call D3DXMatrixPerspectiveFovLH, it will be called using d3dx9_32.d ...Show All

• Visual C# OOP - Keywords down now?

  Hey all.I wanted suggesstions on whether i have the whole methodology of OOP down, here i'll explain it in my own words: OOP: OOP was designed to make coding alot easier and more maintainable. The methodology of OOP is to base code on real life objects and their properties and attributes. For example, a Dog may properties like Color,Size,Age,Gender, etc. Some of its attributes that it does can be Bark,Fetch,Eat,Sleep etc etc. Classes: Classes are known as a "Blueprint" or "recipe". You could think of a class as a recipe to making cookies, or a blueprint on building the house. In each of these cases, the recipe is NOT a cookie, and the blueprint is NOT a house,thus Classes are NOT the objects they make. A class is made up of Prop ...Show All

• Windows Forms can't retrievethe connectionstring from the app.config file

  Hey can please somebody help me!!! i added the following code to the app.config file <connectionstrings> <add name="connectionstring" connectionstring ="valid connection string" /> <connectionstring /> in visual studio 2005 i use the following code i'm using c# using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection( configurationManager.connectionstrings(connectionstring)); but i'm getting a error which actually i don't really understand thanks for answering so fast againg the app.config <connectionStrings> <add name="simpleConnectionString" connectionString="valid connection string" providerName=" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Is Excel a partial trust caller?

  Hello, I have a ExcelWorkbook solution where I call a WCF Web Service. Then I have this error: “{"An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for system.serviceModel/client: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers. (C:\\xpto\\bin\\Debug\\ExcelWorkbook1.dll.config line 30)"}” Well... I already put the ExcelWorkbook1.dll assembly as a full trusted on the “.NET Framework 2.0” on the “Administration Tools”. What more can I do Tanks, Patricia Sobreira. Hello, I just have an assembly that is the code behind. With the SCVUTIL.EXE create a output.config an Campaingservice.cs. I created a simple ExcelWo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Where is physics???

  XNA Framework = MDX Where is game library ! Actors, Scenes, Physics, Reactors, Particles, AI, etc... I think the best physics engine for 2D games in XNA is now: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx ProjectName=FarseerPhysics "The Farseer Physics Engine is an easy to use 2D physics engine designed specifically for Microsoft's XNA platform. The Farseer Physics Engine focuses on simplicity, useful features, and enabling the creation of fun, dynamic games." It is fast and really good! ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Deployment Utility - Package Configurations doesnt show up??

  Hi: After moving my deployment folder to the Target Server, I run the Installation Wizard. As I move next, I am missing the window which is supposed to allow me to set package config values as stated in MSDN: "If the package includes configurations, you can edit updatable configurations by updating values in the Value list on the Configure Packages page." Source: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141802.aspx Does anyone know why I am not seeing it In my deployment bundle which I have moved over has currently 3 files: 1) SSIS Deployment Manifest 2) SSIS Package 3) SSIS Config File Again, I double click on SSIS Deployment Manifest, and it starts fine. I go thru the steps for File System Deployment, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Accessing parent project from invoked child project

  When a project calls msbuild on a child project - is there any way to access anything in the invoking/parent project Is there any way to determine the project filename, or anything about the parent project This could be either via the msbuild XML or from a custom task, ie via the object model. I've been looking at the object model and at the internal classes but haven't found anything appropriate. /marcus I get an error if I use %. I'm using the default DefaultTargets="DesktopBuild" and I'm not real sure what you mean about setting the outputs in an item in the Build target but I'll play with that idea some. ...Show All