BobH's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Service Pack 2?

  Any news on when RS 2005 SP 2 is due out What will be in it The only information I know at this moment is the blogentry of Russel Christopher( http://blogs.msdn.com/bimusings/archive/2006/07/30/683196.aspx ). He post a review of a meeting with SSRS team. ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies MOSS 2007 Stand-Alone upgrade/migration to Web Farm

  We currently have a "stand-alone" deployment of MOSS, which was oringinally going to be used for development/testing, however it appears that has taken a life of its own. The development site now has production data and we need to migrate the data (or DB) to a server farm deployment, which will housed on different hardware. Is there a way to get the data out of the stand-alone edition and place it into a farm "production" version Any help, direction or insight is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. Thanks, JZavala We also had problems with DB migration - everything works fine, but when trying to access a site (no matter which one) you receive an error http 500... It's very f ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Draw Gradient Background (LinearGradientBrush)

  Hi all, I'm trying to draw a gradient (linear) background on my devices. I've found some stuff using System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush but for some reason my application doesn't seem to be able to find it. I can get System.Drawing.Drawing2D but that's as far as it goes I also can't find SystemGradientColors and ControlPaint which are things I need. I'm using CF2. Any help would be much appreciated. Kind Regards, Grant. The .NET Compact Framework does not support the LinearGradientBrush class. Windows CE does support an API called GradientFill you can use instead. Here is a sample how to use this API: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229655.aspx Michael ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Project level imports in C#

  I'm trying to do a project level import on a C# using Visual Studio 2005. What I want is simply having all classes in project A know about namespace B without having to add a "using" statement to every class of A. If I remember correctly, there was a feature to do that in VS2003 through project properties, but I can't find the equivalent in VS2005. Can anyone point me to the right place to do this in VS2005 Thanks for the suggestion, Hans, but I do insist on keeping different namespaces in my solution to indicate a clear architectural division. ...Show All

• .NET Development Is it possible to run several instances of an EXE as new threads in the same address space

  I would like to share the address space (objects and static classes) between several instances (maybe a hundred at once) of one EXE (or several EXEs sharing a set of classes). Each program instance should run as its own thread in the single global adress space. The first instance (or some other mechanism) should keep the "address space" and hence the datastructures "alive" until it is explicitely terminated (Similar to the Module concept in Oberon for example). This would allow the implementation of complex CGI applications without unnecessary overhead for internalizing data-structures while at the same time simplifying synchronization. I know several workarounds with traditional IPC for the problem at hand, so the ques ...Show All

• Visual Studio CutePDF Writer as the printer

  I've got a report thats 22" x 48". In crystal I've set the printer to CutePDF Writer with this paper size. In Development the Crystal Viewer opens fine, showing the full report and saves the report to a PDF file with the proper paper size. On Test and Production servers the Crystal Viewer opens with the report sized for Letter with 5 times the number pages. The CutePDF is the default printer on these servers and I've set the paper size on the Printer Properties to 22x48. Where is this Letter size paper coming from and how do I keep the size the Crystal rpt file specifies ...Show All

• Visual Basic Replacing forms

  In my program, It will be organized into forms that you can click a button and take you to another one. However, I can figure out how to make it so that when I click the button to take me to the next form, to make the original one disappear. This will be a major part of how you get around in my program, but if anyone can help, please do! Thanks Hi, Not sure this solves your problem, but there are 2 ways to should a form (without closing the original one. One is calling for Show() method and another is ShowDialog() method. These are slightly different. Let's say you have to create a new form call Form2, then you will have some code similar to this. First example is to show Form2 while Form1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms problem regarding keyDown Event handler

  I want when I press “ A ” button “B” is printed, and when I press “ B ” button “C” is printed, and so on ….. I did by handling keyDown event handler as following switch (e.KeyCode.ToString().ToLower()) { case "a" : textBox1.Text += " b " ; break ; case "b" : textBox1.Text += "c" ; break ; case "c" : textBox1.Text += "d"; . . . . . . . . case "z" : . . . . } textBox1.Selectio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What Am I Doing Wrong

  1>------ Build started: Project: Homework, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1>Compiling... 1>Homework.cpp 1>.\Homework.cpp(16) : error C3861: 'printf': identifier not found 1>.\Homework.cpp(19) : error C3861: 'printf': identifier not found 1>.\Homework.cpp(20) : error C3861: 'printf': identifier not found 1>.\Homework.cpp(21) : error C3861: 'printf': identifier not found 1>.\Homework.cpp(28) : error C3861: 'printf': identifier not found 1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Lorne's School Work\Random\Homework\Homework\Debug\BuildLog.htm" 1>Homework - 5 error(s), 0 warning(s) ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ======= ...Show All

• SQL Server Security Question - Please Help! :-(

  Hi all, If anyone could help me with the following scenario, I'd be VERY grateful. I have a website using Forms Authentication. It's a public website with lots of user accounts stored in an SQL Server database. Each user of the site needs to be able to view a report thats specific to them. I've got a page within a website that's hosting a Report Viewer control. The Report Viewer control is configured to use my report, with the URL to the report passing the user's id as a parameter. The problem is, the report viewer is returning " The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized." I think this is happening because the Report Server is set up to use Windows Authentication. Can anyone tell me the easies ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to export all work items from a TFS to another TFS

  hi guys, i just set up a new TFS, and i need to copy all work items from old TFS to the new one, but i really don`t know how to export them. so can anybody tell me how to do it ,i appreciate~~ Hey Brian, Kathirvel is correct. There is no simple way in V1 to export all work items from one TFS to another TFS. You can use Excel to do this, but there are restrictions. There is a physical limit to the number of work items that you can copy (Excel 2003 limit of 65k rows - I believe this has increased in Excel 2007). Another major limitation is that none of the work item history/revisions or links can be copied using Excel. Other options include: Taking a backup of the current server DBs and restoring to the new server. Of course ...Show All

• Visual C# 'System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings' is obsolete

  Hi,.. I have created a windows application using c#. when i execute my application, i am getting an warning message as: Warning 29 'System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings' is obsolete: 'This method is obsolete, it has been replaced by System.Configuration!System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings' I have wriiten the code as : lblMessage.Text = System.Configuration. ConfigurationSettings .AppSettings[ "InvalidLogout" ].ToString(); What should i change to clear the warning message please help check this out http://blogs.covarius.com/PermaLink,guid,4b1fe1b7-883e-444b-92f9-f8c4758d6c79.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions mutipe pages?

  im trying to use a button to load a new page in the same window can someone give me some device Try this: Public Class Form1 Private mForm2 As Form2 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click If mForm2 Is Nothing Then '--- Form doesn't yet exist, create a new one mForm2 = New Form2 AddHandler mForm2.FormClosed, AddressOf Form2_Closed mForm2.Show(Me) End If mForm2.Focus() End Sub Private Sub Form2_Closed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As FormClosedEventArgs) mForm2 = Nothing End Sub End Class ...Show All

• SQL Server Availability during ETL processing

  Hi, I am in the midst of designing a new Data Warehouse system. As we get further into the design of the system, the more we are realising how complex our ETL is going to be and that the amount of time it will take to run could be significant i.e. a few days! My question is obviously I don't want to have a down time in my relational system for this long and prevent my users from accessing the data for days at a time each month. So what functionality should I be looking at to allow me to maintain a working copy of the data that users can query whilst I perform database updates and then perform a quick promotion of the updated data to users for querying If you can point me in the direction of the right functionality in SQL Server 2005 ...Show All

• Visual Studio External link checker for HxS Help system

  Is there an external link checker for HxS help systems If so, can someone please direct me to it. Thanks There is nothing currently available from Microsoft, but I am aware of one 3rd party solution - Helpware has a tool called FAR that contains Help 2.x related utilities including link checking. http://helpware.net ...Show All