Robert F Bouillon's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Unable to drag and drop files to burn to a DVD

  Hi, sorry if this is listed in the wrong place but this seemed the most sensible place to comment. I am using Vista Ultimate and recently have been trying to burn some data files to DVD using the integrated Vista DVD burning facility. It seems pretty straightforward but I've still been having problems... When I place a blank disc in the drive, the automated windows pops up asking to format using the Live File System, so I continue until the drive window shows saying drag and drop files or folders here to burn them to a disc. I am able to drag files to the drive, but they don't appear there, and when I click 'burn' it says there are no files to be written to disc. As well as this using any Windows Explorer window, the links at the ...Show All

• .NET Development trouble installing the .net framework 2.0

  when I try to install the .net framework 2.0 I get a message saying"Error creating process <C:\DOCUME~1\"username"\LOCALS~1\Temp\IXP000.TMP\Install.exe> Reason: C:\WINDOWS\system32\advpack.dll" I've tried all the ways mentioned on the forum so far and I keep getting the same error. there is a 32bit edition of the framework, unsure if it will install - theoritically it should since you appear to have a 32bit OS SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=FE6F2099-B7B4-4F47-A244-C96D69C35DEC&displaylang=en x86 (32bit): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en x64 (64bit): http://www. ...Show All

• SQL Server Log Events is interrelated with Event Viewer Windows?

  Hi everyone, I was wondering how do for 'Log Events' info going to Event Viewer Windows visor. Is it possible or it's just only private info for you SSIS. Thanks for your input, Hello. If I follow, what your asking, its if in the SSIS 'Log Events' tab/window, you can see Windows Events, those not associated with SSIS If so the answer is no. The Log Events window will show only events that SSIS generates, though it does not matter if you are currently using a SQL log provider or a windows event log provider. Hope that helps. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Are PrivateFontCollections not usable as regular fonts?

  I thought I had a private font working in a textbox. Turns out that the font was installed on my PC, thats why it worked. Have not been able to get any other private fonts to work in a textbox. They only seem to work in 'paint/drawstring' situations. Is this their limit Imports System.Drawing.Text.FontCollection Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Public Class Form1 Public privateFontCollection As New Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection Public FamilyName As String Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Load ' ton of free TTFs at http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html ' Name embedded resource font file Circu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF service : Cannot browse the .svc file & hence the WSDL after hosting the service in IIS

  I have created a simple WCF  service as below. But after hosting it in IIS, I am facing problems as I am unable to browse the .svc   file, it gives ‘Page cannot be displayed’ error. But when I host the same service to some other machine, I can browse .svc file & hence the WSDL. Can anyone help me on this   My service contract & service code as below (GreetMessage.cs) using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.ServiceModel; using System.Runtime.Serialization;     namespace GreetMessageSolution {     [ ServiceContract ()]     public interface IGreetMessage     { & ...Show All

• .NET Development Protecting against characters that interfere with insert/update stmts

  I have an app in vb.2005/sql2005 that stores snippets of code, free form text, parts of web pages, anything. That's the problem. Some of the text that is dropped in as input to the table.column (nvarchar(max)), causes havoc with the insert or update stmts. error: "incorrect syntax near" usually followed by some random letter that when I track it down has some quotes around it. Particularly web source or lone sql stmts, (developers use this to store pieces of code they like). How can I encapsulate the input text in such a way as to not interfere with the finalized insert/update sql stmts A well managed text entry has no issues. Insert stmt : strSQL = "INSERT into Entries (myText, myDate, mySeq, keyWords, catalog, Path, p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB 2005 Express and C# 2005 Express on the same machine?

  Apologies if this message seems really dumb. I'm an absolute beginner to this technology. I successfully downloaded VB2005 Express Edition and I'm looking forward to learning how to use it. I also wanted to download the Express Edition of C#. However, as I am about to click to install it there is a message..... "Before installing, you must uninstall any previous Beta, CTP or Tech Preview versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0" Does this mean that only one product can exist on my machine at one time Many thanks in advance for any advice........... you should be ok, it's just a friendly reminder just in case you are upgrading from ...Show All

• Visual Basic hiding the startup form

  Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to immediately hide the startup form on startup. The Me.visible = False and Me.hide() Methods don't work. I am trying to make a simple program that has a login form and the main form. When my program starts i want the login screen to appear and the main form to immediately disappear, then when the user clicks OK the login screen closes and the main form shows. Everything works except when the program runs both the login and the main form window appear and i can't seem to make the main form disappear, and for other reasons setting the login form as the startup form is not an option. Hope this is a simple fix. Connor You are right, it is complicated. You don't need it t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Getting default Mso labels

  Hi, I'm sure that during developing with VSTO 2005 SE I saw somewhere functions like "getMsoLabel" and "getMsoImage"...but I can't find them anywhere now... anybody knows about them I need to get string of built-in control / group / tab... in order to handle localized versions of office... and I hope a little this functionc could do that work.. Thanks Isn't that possible If such methods don't exist I'm probably going mad a little bit... :) What about some trick like reflection on the ribbon ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I get the last record?

  Hi guys, Greetings! I would like to know the last record from my table let say "Inventory" What I want to do is to get the record from a certain field "referenceNumber" This field is in the form of "YYYY-N" "2007-1" . If I can find the last record I can then increment it by one like "2007-2" will be the next alloted referenceNumber... How can I do this Please give me a code starting from the connection... I'm very new to this technology. Thank you very much to those who will respond. Regards, do you have a datetime filed or a identity filed. in that case, you can use max function to get the id of the table. then you can get the record/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) BindToEnum example in expression

  Hi I've just tried opening BindToEnum example from Beatriz Costa in expression and I get an odd error "Unexpected value typp. Expecting IList." with a reference to the ObjectDataProvider Opening the same app in VS gives a different warning (see below) and this one I'm particularly interested in because I'm getting the same warning in my other apps that use methods on an ObjectDataProvider. Is this currently expected behaviour or am I missing something Warning 1 The element 'ObjectDataProvider' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation' has invalid child element 'ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation'. List of possible elements ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Tweak work completed query to account for changing bug ownership

  ========================================== Update: Please see the post dated 9/28/2006 for a new request for help.   =========================================   I have a need to report developer hours by work item by week. I am attempting to use the warehouse filed "Current Work Item Microsoft_VSTS_Scheduling_CompletedWork" and add a "Date Week" perspective to it, but obviously that will only return the value of the "Completed Work" field at the end of the week (and is actually a sum of all Completed Work thus far.).  I need to report the change in completed work by developer by work tiem. I attempted to enter a formula in the report using Report Designer to subtract the current  value of "Completed ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can Windows workflow foundation be used in the non Microsoft products like Java etc.

  I want to know if WF is compatible with non microsoft products. If Yes, then let me know that product also. In order to host and execute WF, you would need to have a Microsoft Platform with .Net 3.0, however, you could then expose it's functionality in any manner you saw fit. As a web service for example. So the short anwser is that you can use WF from almost any product on any platform, assuming you have an available protocol to access it, such as HTTP for web services etc. Regards, Dave ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions filter the capture of users the character " or char(34)

  hi. Please helpme, i development in C# whith ASP.NET , how do i filter in the capture of users the character ( " or char(34) ) in one textbox. thank you. Agc, private bool valida_caracteres() { int icol = 1, icount = TxtCaracteres_permitidos.Text.Length; string scaracter = null; char schar34; schar34 = '"'; if (icount == 0) { return false; } while (icol < icount) { scaracter = TxtCaracteres_permitidos.Text.Substring(icol,1); if (scaracter == schar34.ToString()) { return true; } icol = ++; } return false; } ...Show All

• SQL Server SELECT Query duplicating rows

  Hi, I have a small problem that i cant seem to get my head around regarding the results of the following SELECT query. The result set contains two rows for every Employee - one for Annual (EntitlementID = 1) and one for Long (EntitlementID = 2) Where have i gone wrong Thanks in advance. --Tables: Employee (EmployeeID, EmployeeCode) -- EmpEntitlementValue (EntitlementID, EmployeeID, Balance) -- Entitlement -- Department -- Position -- Contact (FName, LName USE Employees go SELECT EmployeeCode As 'Employee Number', FName + ' ' + LName As 'Employee Name', Department .[Name] As 'Department', Position .[Name] As 'Position', CAST(DAY(DateStarted) ...Show All