Willempie's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Disable HideDuplicates from Report Builder

  I have some business analysts (I guess Microsoft would call them Information Workers) using Report Builder to design reports, but also as a querying tool. They often times dump the results of their reports/queries into Excel, do some crunching, and then come back to write a better report. When the Report Builder builds groups, it inherently turns on the HideDuplicates property / element so that it only displays distinct values on the group by fields. This looks great on a report, but is impractical for Excel, where the data is going to be manipulated by row. In the .rdl, I found the element "HideDuplicates" http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152916.aspx controls this behavior of the report. However, I cannot find an ...Show All

• SQL Server Same Event Handler for all the tasks in the Package

  Hi, We want to develop an error handling process that will log the errors into multiple destinations (eventlog, text files or sql database) depending upon a variable set in the package. Also we want that this errror handling process should be initiated by all the tasks in the package on error. Is this possible Can the same event handler be called from multiple tasks in the package Also in the event handler can we call another package which actually does the error handling. This way we have only one place to change our error handling process in case required. Thanks in advance for your help. $wapnil But how can I add the same event handler to 2 executables in a package. I can see the event hand ...Show All

• Visual C++ problems in rebuilding msdn/sample/1566 (win32 hooks) sample application using makefile

  has anyone tried to build the sample file 1566 (about win32 hooks by Kyle Marsh) using make file I encountered LIBCMTD.lib(crt0.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenc ed in function ___tmainCRTStartup hooksdll.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN\l ink.EXE"' : return code '0x460' Stop. does anyone know the problem thanks I am not familiar with the sample but if the sample is a DLL then your project is incorrect. If you don't know what I mean then you should become more familiar with VC before trying something that advanced. Doesn't the article say that you should ...Show All

• .NET Development VB.NET regular expression

  I need to create a regular expression to match the following strings: <ul> or < UL > or <uL > etc..... the first character is < followed by any number or no spaces, followed by upper or lower case character u, followed by upper or lower case character l followed by any number or no spaces, followed by character > thanks... And, if you are trying to parse HTML, I guess this parser built in full C# would help: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx ProjectName=htmlagilitypack Even if you are trying to build your own, looking at the code would help give you some ideas for implementation... ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding To a User Defined Dependancy Property

  I'm still new to WPF so I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense. I have created a control that inherits from UserControl called MyUserControl. I want to use this in another project and have that working. I then created a dependency property called TestText that is a string. This will get displayed in the text box via data binding in MyUserControl. If I explicitly set this it works just fine. I want to be able to bind to that property from the window that is hosting the control. However when I try to bind in XAML it doesn't seem to update the field. When I bind using code it works. I'm fairly sure my XAML is okay because I can bind the to a label's content alright. Here is the code I am using: MyUserControl.xaml.cs: namespace CustomControlLi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Read data from App.config

  Hi how can read data from the configuration files, in VB2005 and VB2003 Is there a specific seciton you are looking to read in Check out this link for a general overview http://ryanfarley.com/blog/archive/2004/07/13/879.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Changes or Fixes in VS 2005 SP1 Beta?

  Does anyone have the release notes of the new beta service pack I'm trying to find out if any fixes have been made to ReportViewer control Kevin We have made a number of fixes to both the winforms and webforms report viewer controls. I don't have a complete list compiled yet, but I will be publishing one when we get closer to the final release. If there is a specific bug/feature you are curious about, let me know. ...Show All

• .NET Development ms exchange alldayevent error

  hi everyone, i am having a problem in exchange that i cant seem to figure out. i am adding a new calendar item via vb scripts. the calendar item gets added just fine and views just fine from owa on the exchange box. however if that calendar item was an all day event it does not show up as an all day event when viewed from outlook or owa on the clients machine, but views fine when on the exchange box. the only way i have managed to get outlook to see the all day event is to open up the appointment through owa (client or exchange side) or outlook (client side) and re save the appointment as an allday event. i ran a sql dump of the ADO.RecordSet object for the appointment and they are completely identical before and after the save, so i dont ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express 2005 Edition SP2 and Vb express 2005

  This is a question about the movie collection starter So here it is: I am running Vista RC1 (Build 5600) and vb express 2005 I downloaded and install SQL Server Express 2005 Edition SP2 - Since SQL Server Express 2005 Edition SP1 does not work with Vista But when I try to run the collection app or if I try to download and install the Amazon version I get the following error message: There was a problem loading data: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be cause by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Inst ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions PC - MAC

  A friend of mine tried to download my games from my website but it wont work. I think it is because he has a MAC and I use a PC. It wouldn't even work when I took the files over to his house on a flash drive! I think this is a big problem and I would like to know if there is a way to publish your programs for use on a MAC instead of a PC. Thanks! CrazyEngineerKid There is no sure way to be able to install a .NET application on a Macintosh today and have it run natively. The virtual machine route is always an option... although possibly rather slow. One outside option would be to use Mono ... assuming it has a sufficient level of compatibility for your app... unfortunately I’ve never had much ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how do i stop/exit a sub by using another sub i.e a button click?

  how do i stop/exit a sub by using another sub i.e a button click I presume you want this because you are trying to escape from a loop which is running in a sub. One way is to use a flag, probably declared at module level, which is set by the button click and checked within the loop, which can then exit if the flag is set. ...Show All

• Visual C# Using a progressbar when loading SQL-data

  Hi, Is it possible to show a progressbar when you are loading SQL-data Now I'm importing +2000 rows so I wan't to give the user an idea how long it will take. Grtz Annihil8 AFAIK there are no events or other methods called while the data is being transferred. It really depends on how you are loading the data though. If you are using a DataReader then the data is not actually transferred until you call Read (). Each time you call it the next batch of data is sent. Therefore if you wanted to provide a semblance of progress notification you would load the data using a DataReader and then each time you called Read () increment some progress indicator indicating the status. Unfortunately I believe the total ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MS - CreateBuffer - Init Limitations

  It seems that D3D10 unnecessarily limits your options for initializing buffers. You can't partially init a buffer, as there is no size for the init data. It must assume that you're filling the entire buffer. Also, placing multiple resources into one buffer is hindered by the fact that there is only a single data source. For example, if I load 5 meshes, odds are I have 5 pointers to data. If I want this in an immutable buffer I either have to make 5 seperate buffers, or string together the buffers first, then pass that off to CreateBuffer. It's trivial to append the data myself before CreateBuffer, but it just seems unnecessarily wasteful to do an alloc and set of copies, just for D3D to copy it yet again. How are other people appr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Making Drawing.Color by seting RGB values

  Hello, I'd like to know how to configure new System.Drawing.Color by seting RGB values. I need to make color from 3 ASCII converted chars. Following: sam = 115, 97, 109 to clolor is color.r=115 color.g=97 color.b=109 then I can set to the bitmap pixel with color made that way Now the only problem is, that r,g,b parameters are only readable :/. Is there any way to SET values of color.r, g & b Color.FromArgb method is very useful in this kind of situation. And I think that this works in the way you want it to.. :) Dim myColor As Color = Color.FromArgb(r, g, b) Regards, Timo ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to get windows

  Hi again, How could i get the window of a process I got the process and i know it has a windows, called mainwindow. now how could i show it the a user if he clicks on a button associated with the name of the mainwindow of the process thnx there are a couple of thread on these forums...try looking at these: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=643672&SiteID=1 unfortunately for yourself, that code is in C# but a VB.NET translation would be:   'Me.theSystrayNotifyIcon = new NotifyIcon(Me.components) Me.theSystrayNotifyIcon.Icon = new Icon(Me.Icon, Me.Icon.Width, Me.Icon.Height) Me.theSystrayNotifyIcon.Visible = true 'AddHandler theSystrayNotifyIcon.DoubleClick, AddressOf Me.theSystrayNoti ...Show All