Mahesh Srirangam's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms i need to open msoutlook in my project and a .doc file should be the body of the mail text

  i need to open ms outlook in my solution and the mail body should be a .doc file can any one help me HI, What do you mean by opening outlook in your solution Could you please be more clear in your problem definition do you wish to create any outlook objects from within your .net application Thank you, Bhanu. ...Show All

• SQL Server New to SQL 2005 Express

  I haven't used this software except locally on my laptop. If you have built a databased web app using this, how do you deploy the db Does it have to be installed and/or supported on your webhosting service If so, it seems to be of limited use, if not, very helpful. Thanks for the help There might be some confusion here. SQL Express is SQL Server 2005. Your hoster will need to support SQL Server 2005, but they don't have to have SQL Express installed. It's the exact same database file because they are the exact same products, just with different feature sets. If you're hosting company requires that you upload your database using scripts, we are working on a tool to help do that. You can find a CTP ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Refactoring Changing a column name

  We were just messing around seeing how CTP6 would react to certain scenarios, and we noticed that when you change a column name in the update script it doesn't add the new column name in the insert statement to reinsert the data. I understand it could be seen as an entirely new add on column but if you simply wanted to change that column name would it be possible to refactor it and maintain the data from the previous column within the new column We are trying to build a tool that generators sp_rename commands for rename refactor operations. After run those sp_rename commands, then run Schema Compare tool, you will not see that problem. ...Show All

• Visual C# One cell's data out of a TableAdapter

  Easy Don't know... Assuming a given TableAdapter (or even a DataSet or DataTable), how can a drill to one specific cell and get it's value I tried on got a lot of stuff like "Caption" or "DataType" doing this: Data.Tables[0].Columns[0]. But how can I get the actual DATA, the value if this cell Thanks, Finch. Well, pretty much. Here what I was looking for: MyTableAdapter TA = new MyTableAdapter (); DataTable DT = TA.GetDataByID(id); DataRow DR = DT.Rows[0]; MyTextBox.Text = DR[ColumnID].ToString(); Thanks, Mark. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) PeerChannel PNRP LinkLocal IPv6

  That's a lot of topics for one subject line, but then I have a lot of questions. :) I notice that when I use a net.p2p address with PeerChannel that it uses the Global cloud. If I want to register a mesh as LinkLocal only, is this possible with WCF If not, then it seems a possible solution (depending on the application) would be to publish a global cloud name that only a local subnet would be likely to derive. Not being an IPv6 guru myself, is there something I can use on a given link that every member of the link would agree upon without first having communicated with each other Perhaps a custom resolver would be a better solution Finally, is it possible to use a secure PNRP name with the PeerChannel or does it always prepend &qu ...Show All

• Windows Forms using datagridview bound to BindingSource (which is in turn bound to a datasource). Need to refresh datagridview automatical

  Hi, I am using a custom DataGridView (only difference between standard DataGridView is DoubleBuffered property is set to true, to prevent flickering while grid gets updated with data). I have a thread running a delegate to Fill my DataSet (that the DataGridView is bound to via a BindingSource). I have the following issues: The DataGridView needs to be updated each time there is a change to teh database table in the SQL DB. I have used DataSet designer to create my dataset, etc. Binding has worked well so far except for the following UI issues: 1. UI is frozen even though another thread is doing the work of FIll on the custom DataAdapter for my dataset.This happens very frequently. 2. Scrollbars are forced to the top each time. ...Show All

• .NET Development Help with TripleDES and RC2 cryptography.

  I have 2 questions - 1) I get the following Exception when I try to decrypt data using TripleDES. - "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: Specified initialization vector (IV) does not match the block size for this algorithm." How do I make things right The code is as follows - /* Provides TripleDES encryption and decryption using classes in the .net Framework 1.1 */ public class TripleDES_Cryptography { public static string Encrypt(string plaintext, string key, string IV) { TripleDES des3 = new TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider(); des3.Mode = CipherMode.CBC; byte[] by_plaintext = Encoding.ASCII.Ge ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Where is the Application database to be installed?

  Hey all, According to the Windows Vista Software Logo Spec 1.0.doc ( Version 1.0.0006 ), Item 2.3 "Install to Correct Folders": Applications should be installed to Program Files or the user’s AppData folder by default. For per-machine installations, user data must be written at first run and not during the install. Since the install potentially elevates to a different user account during the per-machine install, there is no correct user location to store data at install time. Our multi-user application is intended to be installed "per-machine", so any user of the machine (or network) could share the application data. That said, can anybody explain in plain English, where should the application ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to display staus for a very long process..

  Hi, am an asp.net programmer very new to Windows forms development.. I am developing an application that process large number of records from database. I have to excecute lot of very lengthy SQL queries. Some of the queries will take more than an hour to complete. When the application start excecute something very lenghty it is not responding to anything else, even if i minimize it I cant maximize before completing the process. I need to give some feedback to the user that the application is not dead. How can i do it Please help Anzer You should run your lengthy process in a seperate thread. The mainthread is then able to update the UI, while the performs, for example, the query on the database. An easy way to do this is by ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Debugging Webservice Workflows

  Is it possible to debug Workflows exposed as Webservice I'm trying to understand the webservice workflow example at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/10/WebServiceWorkflows/ However, when I try to set breakpoints on the activities, the Visual Studio debugger doesn't break into the activity. Is there any other way to debug without hosting the workflow in a console application Thanks for any help. If you have published your workflow in ASP.NET development server you need to attach to weddev.webserver.exe and to w3wp.exe if it is published under IIS. While attaching make sure you select "workflow' debug engine from the attach to process dialog. Here are the steps to debug any asp.net ...Show All

• .NET Development error in form

  when i start my methnd i get this error {"Configuration system failed to initialize"} public void Start( int portNo, int MaxPendingCon) { try { // checks if the server is already stated .. if (!isStarted) { //creates teh cocket that the server will use for managing connections mainSocket = new Socket ( AddressFamily .InterNetwork, SocketType .Stream, ProtocolType .Tcp); // ... if (AsynConnect == null ) AsynConnect = new AsyncCallback (OnConnect); // ... if (AsynDataRecive == null ) AsynDataRecive = new AsyncCallback (OnDataRecive); // starts to listen for anyip at the specified port mainSocket.Bind( new IPEndPoint ( IPAddress .Any, portNo)); / ...Show All

• Visual Studio generating a build number automatically

  Hello, I have project with following structure: SolutionA Project1 Project2 SolutionB Project 3 I would like to build the project and then transfer the output to a folder. The folder should be constructed by incrementing a number from last build and then create a folder Want: Output <bldXXX> solutionA project1,dll project2.dll solutionB project3.dll Everytime the project build I want get the next build number and create the dir. How do I dod this using msbuild. Thanks Output I did something similar for my project. First of all, all of our projects use the same AssemblyInfo class so tha ...Show All

• Commerce Server Commerce Server 2007 Catalog Query BizTalk adapter

  Hi, Is this XMl below correct to query the catalog for a prodcut by VariantId <CommerceServerCatalogQuery ProductCatalog="Default" SearchClause="CTLG.VariantId = '123456789'" /> I am not sure if the search clause is correct. I am using CTLG as catalog and then VariadId as the field to search on. Thanks Dom Hi Alan, Thanks for the advice. I am still having the problem with inserting the LongDescription. I am able to insert a custom property fine named Colour. I have the XML below. I have added LongDescription to the Catalog and Inventory Schema Manager under Assigned product Properties and selected it as being Multi Lingual. Is there something I am missing .c9Y6TC { color:#0000ff; } . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Missing TfsReportDS and TfsOlapReportDS

  Some time ago I noticed that the Reports folder in Team Explorer had a red x in the lower right hand corner and would not expand to show reports. Since I was not really using them yet I just ignored this error. Today I tried to create a new project and received this error. Error TF30004: The New Team Project Wizard encountered an unexpected error while initializing the Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Reporting plug-in. Explanation TF30171: The Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Reporting plug-in used to create the new team project could not be initialized and returned the following error: TF30222: The New Team Project Wizard could not find the data source TfsOlapReportDS on the SQL Server Reporting Services server k ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to make a control transparent

  Hi please tell me how to make a control like panel or label transparent so that it shows an image which is a background of the form that contains the controls thanks in advance You already have this code in VB. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=2290716&SiteID=1 Please follow up with questions to your own post, in the thread that you started. If the answers that you are given are not helpful, then say so. ...Show All