stallion_alpa's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office10 directory and weirdness

  (Cross-posted to the SDK forum.) This is very weird. When I install Windows Server 2003 SDK R2, a directory called Office10 shows up on my C: drive. Here's where it gets really weird. I have a very old Visual Basic application that I and dozens of others have used without incident for about 7 years. If I delete the Office10 directory, then whenever I open that old application, a dialog pops up that says, "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Platform SDK (R2)." It then starts whizing through progress-bar type stuff. If I put the Office10 directory back, the old application runs as it always has. What the heck is going on I have seen this before I think some of the common components installed in t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Find what server a DFS link points to.

  I am writing a script to find out where a user is logged in. the script first looks at the users profile path and then passes that to code which queries LanManServer that the users profile is on for the sessions and looks for the users session on there. But this does not work with the DFS path i need to be able to convert the DFS path to the Server and share that it is on. Please help. You could use the NetDFSGetInfo Win32 api function. Check out its documentation here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/stgmgmt/fs/netdfsgetinfo.asp -Scott Wisniewski ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Including request in response message

  Hi, does anyone now how can I configure Indigo to insert request in response message headers. you can use MessageInspector class to modify incoming and outgoing messages http://blogs.msdn.com/madhuponduru/archive/2006/07/19/671922.aspx we might have more samples on wcf.netfx3.com http://wcf.netfx3.com/files/folders/transport_channels/entry3782.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Aggregate Function task issue

  We have a Data Flow Task. Inside this, we have a OLE DB Data Source which calls and executes a stored procedure. We use a Row Count Task to count the number of rows returned by the OLE DB Data Dource Task. Then, we use an aggregate function task to get the sum of all the rows of one particular column that is returned from the OLE DB Data Source. The issue here is that we want to assign the sum value returned by the Aggregate Function Task to a User Variable named User::Variable. We have tried to assign this by using @User::Variable and User::Variable, but neither of those return the expected value. If there is any other method to do the same then let us know. We have checked the that the row count is greater than zero. Any help would be ve ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services Third Party Utilities

  I was wondering if anyone knows of a report utility that works with Reporting Services to enable end users to create their own reports A utility that is user-friendly enough for end users to modify reports without the aid of a developer. SQL Server 2005 ships with an application called Report Builder that does this. It is bundled with every edition (except Express, Mobile, or Anywhere). It is easy to install on end-user machines, it even deploys with clickonce! ...Show All

• SQL Server File System Task exhibits strange behaviour ?

  Hi All, I've been doing some further testing on SSIS and come across what I consider strange behaviour of the FileSystemTask. This is set to delete a file, using the file name input from a variable. If the file doesn't exists I would expect the task to fail, but instead it does not. It succeeds ! I would expect this to fail if the file it attempts to delete is not found. Can anyone duplicate this strange behaviour Regards, P R W. https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=250600 Voted and Validated. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Reading and Writing image "Rating" metadata

  I'm looking for a way to read and modify "Rating" metadata that Vista uses to rate image files. I'm able to read the rating although I noticed that the rating is written in several places in metadata... and I'm not sure which Vista is using... it looks like all of them are changed at the same time and are kept in sync... so do I have to modify all of them to keep them in sync /xmp/Rating / xmp/xap:Rating /app1/{uint=0}/{uint=18246} When I'm trying to modify the rating... nothing happens... I'm using this code Stream fileStream = new System.IO. FileStream (path.LocalPath, FileMode .Open, FileAccess .ReadWrite, FileShare .ReadWrite); BitmapDecoder decoder = BitmapDecoder .Create( this .fi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Show data from ms access in a textBox

  Hi there, I need your help with something you may find easy but it isn't for me, sadly. I need to show data from my MS Access database into several textBox-es just showing no modifing. I have a sample from my program : OleDbCommand nameCmnd = new OleDbCommand("SELECT name from Customer WHERE customerID = "+ enteredID, myConn); OleDbDataAdapter nameAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(nameCmnd); DataSet dsName = new DataSet(); nameAdapter.SelectCommmand = nameCmnd; nameAdapter.Fill(dsName); I try this: nameTextBox.Text = dsName.ToString(); but its wrong! And I have to do the above for every customer details such as name, mobile number, home number ..etc So you can see I need a solution plzz. ...Show All

• .NET Development Changing the IP of a WebReference at run time

  Hopefully a simple question, but I can not find the answer. I have a vb windows application that references a web service, but the end user is supposed to set the IP and port of the web service. Both settings are stored, naturally, as User Settings in the application. From what I see it appears that the URL of the webreference is set in code and can't be changed - is it possible to set it at run time, and if so how Thanks in advance You can also flag your web reference as dynamic (in the properties section of the web reference). The you can change your web service url at runtime. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Exception throw by FaulthandlersActivity

  I hava ask some question about fault handling in http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=367543&SiteID=1 now ,another problem puzzled me,when i use faulthandlersActivity to hander my Exception ,I drop my Custom Activity on faulthandlersActivity ,but if this Activity throw an Exception,how shall I do the fact is the workflow is terminated,I don't  want  workflow like this. another question,when the workflow was terminated,I must make a new start,or I can resume it   anyone can give me some suggestion. Thanks! Look at Joel's posts on this thread. ...Show All

• SQL Server Dumb, but necessary, question on SSIS feature completeness

  We have never built a data warehouse. We are not even sure what the required features are to do this. Nontheless, our developers are exploring two ETL tools: SSIS and Sunopsis. They tend to like Sunopsis because it has been around a few years, has the equivalent of source-code modules (libraries) in the tool, has a highly granular security system, has 500 companies using it. and therefore must have survived several ETL projects. (We don't know if, or how many, real-world projects SSIS has been used for.). Sunopsis is Java based and uses its own authentication scheme (no support for Windows Active Directory yet. Bummer) To the best of your knowledge is SSIS, out of the box, missing any of the standard functionalites needed to populate ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem in accessing data from DataGridView cells

  hello every one! well I got this query here, I'm really stuck in this error. I'm working oin a master detail form in .net 2.0 C# in Windows Forms. its a System.ArgumentException that I'm getting here. I've these dataGridview on the form. I've made a typed dataset for it. the tables are these PurchBill(PurchBillID, VendID, Bookno, BillDate) Purch(purchID,purchbillID,Serial, ModelID, PresentAt,PurchWarranty,PurchPrice) ProdLine ProdModel and vu_manNames thats a view I've set up seperate dataGridViews for Purch, ProdLine and ProdModel and for selecting the manufacturer name here. Look at this code private void saverecord() { try ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Need to Insert values for Multiple Fields

  Hi , I have a document template which had around 30 fields in it. I need to update these fields with the values which are related to my application. So is there a way to loop through these field and check if the field name is equivalent to so value and then update the field. i am looking for something like this... foreach( Fields in myWordDoc) { if(field.name == objField1.name) { field.text = objField1.value; } } and it should loop through all the fields present in the Document. thanks -Amrish Hi Amrish As I said, you should search the newsgroup I pointed you at and this forum for discussions, as the question has come up many times. See if this discussion helps you get any further http://forums.microsoft ...Show All

• SQL Server Question to ytd()

  Hi, Ihave a Time-Dimension with 2 hierarchies: (a) Year - Semester - Quarter - Month and (b) Year -Week. Than I have a calculated member in my Cube like: CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE .[MEASURES].[Sales Volume KG (kum.)] AS Sum ( ytd (), [Measures].[Sales Volume KG]), FORMAT_STRING = "#,#.00" , VISIBLE = 1 ; When I browse the cube and I use the (a) hierarchy on the colums, all works fine; I get the accumulated sums over Semesters, Quarters, Month. When I use the (b) hierarchy, in each cell I get the normal week-sum and not the accumulated. What's my mistake Thanks Hans   Not sure whether you've read the " Time calculations in UDM: Parallel Period " entry in Mosh ...Show All

• Visual C# assembly file

  Hi everyone, I have again some doubts about assemblies. Suppose that w ecreate a class and then use some classes from different packages in this class. So, when I examine the references section about my project, I see that the all packages that I use is added into it. My question is that when I execute my program in the same class(in other words , my main method is located in the class that I use), do the assembly file, which is createn at the compile time, consist of the reference section and my own class Menawhile, I know that assembly file also contain metada and manifest but I refer to the IL part. Thanks Thanks for your clarifications. Now I think I kept the idea. References are different concept from Assemblies. They are like ...Show All