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• Visual Studio Team System Dynamic Configurable Items

  I'm having problems adding this item to a shopping cart. Its has custom dynamic configurations so that the user can select custom sizes or colors for a shoe for example. Here's a link to an example: http://qwww01.extra.americanexpress.com/Product.aspx uscshortcode=12204304&usclongcode=32870730&merchantid=0 As you will see for this particular item, you first have to select a width in the first drop down. When that is selected, the items for the second drop down ("Then Select ShoeSize") populates. When that is selected, the items for the third drop down ("Then Choose Color") populates. The VSTS 2005's recorder gets confused and tries to do a form post for all three. However that fails. Does anyone know how I can g ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Device running WinCE or Windows Mobile?

  Hello, in my program - Wisual Studio2005, C# - written for mobile devices, i need to determin whether the OS on device is WinCE or Windows Mobile. This seems to be necessary to conclude whether the menu appears on top of the forms or at the bottom. Is there a possibility to find whether WinCE or Windows Mobile runs on device Even better would be a way to find out whether the menu is at the top or at the bottom of the form/screen. IN .NET CF I could not find a solution. Please help. Thanks, Jorg Hi Alex, yes I tried it. But it doesn’t delivery enough information. No difference between WinCE and Windows Mobile. Thank you. Jorg ...Show All

• .NET Development Timer doesn't seem to last forever

  Hello. I have a timer in my app that fires every 15 seconds calling a function. It appears that after about 8 hours of running the timer stops calling the function even though the program continues to run. I define the timer in my main class like this: private System.Timers.Timer timer = new System.Timers.Timer(); Then in one of my init functions I set it like this: timer.Interval = 15000; timer.Enabled = true; timer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(UpdateStats); timer.Start(); The function UpdateStats is called for about the first 8 hours. Then it isn't called anymore. To confirm that it isn't called anymore I have a a file being written to in the function that appends the current to the file. After 8 hours the f ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can we label a particular file and pull only those files that match a particular label?

  How can we label a particular file and pull only those files that match a particular label Example: Label file \level1\level2\level3\john.h as "Label1" Get all files tagged with label1 from \level1. Only john.h should be retrieved. You have to manually loop over every item underneath level1 recursively, then try to fetch the labeled version of each item. (You could optimize this by checking subfolders for the label, then pruning those parts of the tree.) It's more of a workaround than a real solution, admittedly. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server does not exist or access denied

  Hi I have Visual Studio on XP SP2 and have just installed SQL Server 2000 (Dev Ed.) When I try to look at SQL with the server explorer I get the message: [DBNETLIB][Connection Open (Connect()).] SQL Server does not exist or access denied. Any ideas please Also followed THIS link and it appears to be working now: http://sqlserver2000.databases.aspfaq.com/why-do-i-get-login-failed-for-user.html ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Without Office Installation

  Hi All, Is it possible to use VSTO without office installation in the production machine. Office can be installed in the machine during developement. but when deployed there is not office installation in the server for some security reasons, so is there a way to use VSTO without office installation. thanks sathya Hi Cindy, Thanks for the reply, we need to open an existing excel template on the server pump the data inside and export it to the user. which will have some dropdowns in that excel file. user will key in some data and make selections in the dropdown and then upload it back to the server. This fille need to be read and upload the data into the database. Regards, Sathy ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Black Screen / Freeze after first reboot

  I have spent many hours the past week trying (unsucessfully) to install Windows Vista. I have downloaded and installed all the most recent drivers and BIOS updates for all of my hardware. I have run the Vista Upgrade Advisor and it says that my system should be good to go and that there are no serious issues. The only item on the "Task List" is to download Vista drivers for a wireless networking adapter I have in the system to be installed after. I have tried to do an upgrade from Windows XP and a Full Install of Vista with the same results. I start the install and everything goes smoothly (installer unpacking files and getting ready for installation) until right after the first reboot. The system restarts and tries to boot in ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Language help

  how do you change the language on sn messenger beta if you know please email me on XBOX3601409@gnmail.com ...Show All

• SQL Server Step validation

  Is it possible to avoid SSIS steps validation to be performed during execution of a package It slow down execution time to much. Thanks! it sounds as though the modules are both loaded for the duration of the parent package in debug mode so the validation only happens once. It sounds as though you should redesign your process so that you process your data as a set rather than piece by piece. ...Show All

• Visual C# IDbConnection and get data in a dataset

  Hello Everyone, I'm using IDbConnection to connect to database and that works perfectly fine.... I can do something like this as well...and this is good too.... IDbCommand command = conn.CreateCommand(); command.CommandText = "Select id, description from lot"; IDataReader dr = command.ExecuteReader(); while (dr.Read()) { string some = dr[1].ToString(); } The problem I'm facing is how to return it in dataset, as I directly want to bind my controls....or somebody can suggest a better way to do it... Thanks, Harsimrat Here is a usefull link for you: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vsgenerics.asp Sorry if this ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Std Ed SP2. - Lock Pages In Memory

  How do I determine if Lock Pages In Memory is applied I have the Policy to the Service Account. Thanks - Covi not that I know of USE: DBCC MEMORYSTATUS From: http://blogs.msdn.com/slavao/archive/2005/08/31/458545.aspx “When you enable Lock Pages In memory, DBCC MEMORYSTATUS’s output will show that AWE mechanism is in use” ...Show All

• SQL Server Date values in dimensions

  I need to clear up a bit of confusion I am having about how AS 2005 works with dates.  Say I have the following in the dimensional structures as set up in the relational database (pre processing): sales_fact  --->  promotion_dim And the user wants to be able to break down sales based on the start of the promotion (promotion_start_date). So I could go two ways: promotion_dim           <--- sales_fact   (both tables related at the fact table level) promotion_date_dim <-- or sales _fact  ---> promotion_dim --> promotion_date_dim (actually a synonym of the base date_dim table) I know that the first scenario will work great.& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Question: How to intercept Compiler Errors and Warnings?

  Hi all, I've tried asking questions on the "Extensibility" portion of the forum, but no one is answering, and I'm running out of ideas. How can I get access to the raw compiler error information I'd like to be able to keep track of the error numbers along with information such as the line, the file, and the description of the error. It looks as if the Engine class allows you to register a Logger class with it, which would give me access to the error/warning events I'm interested in. However, after I register a FileLogger or my own Logger class, I do not receive any of the associated events. My custom logger does enter initialize and shutdown, and the filelogger does create an output file, but neither seem to be getting other events they ...Show All

• SQL Server Executing DTS PAckages in SQL 2005

  Hi, I have a few DTS Packages in SQL 2000. Now I have migrated them to 2005 and I am running the packages as embedded 'EXecute DTS 2000 package task'. But it takes a very long time than it usually takes in 2000. Also I tried using Linked Server with Open Query in the DTS Packages. Even then it takes longer time than it takes in 2000. Can anybody help on this please ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Alpha Level Question?

  Hi all, Below is my programming, ======================= renderer.Device.RenderState.SourceBlend = Blend.SourceAlpha; renderer.Device.RenderState.DestinationBlend = Blend.DestinationAlpha; renderer.Device.RenderState.AlphaBlendEnable = true; ======================= i can use this code set my material Alpha. How to set Alpha level For Example, iwant set alpha 70%. Best Regards, That is not the proper way actually. Frame buffer alpha blending is done with this formula: Final Color = ObjectColor * SourceBlendFactor + PixelColor * DestinationBlendFactor Blend.DestinationAlpha means read the alpha value from the existing pixel on the frame buffer, which is not the right option for setting material translucency.. ...Show All