Chris Nahr's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Crystal Reports and a Stored procedure with VSTS

  I am not sure if I am in the right place, but here we go. I am trying to develop a sample web site that uses the version crystal reports built into VSTS. I have tried practically all examples on the web but still cannot get the process to work. I am having issues with database logon failing, then the parameters not being accepted. The stored procedure takes one parameter and is stored on an SQL 2000 server. If there are working examples of using this type of scenario that I could investigate. I have tried dozens of so called working examples! I have even gone to the extent of asking MS if there is a bug with this version of VS. Help Anyone!!! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem in running build -error MSB3073

  Hi I am trying to run a build using TFS and I geting an error. It looks like it fail on some post events (md directory + copy) of a VS project. Is it a known bug in TFS build If I build the solution without using TFS build it works ! Thanks, Error: Solution: MasterSolution.sln, Project: Destinator.PC.Services.Local.csproj, Compilation errors and warnings C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets(3089,13): error MSB3073: The command "md C:\console_build\Destinator_IL\PCPortal Master\Sources\PCPortal\DestinatorPC\\Destinator.PC.App\C:\console_build\Destinator_IL\PCPortal Master\Binaries\Release\ copy *.* C:\console_build\Destinator_IL\PCPortal Master\Sources\PCPortal\DestinatorPC\ ...Show All

• .NET Development XML Validation Bug .NET 2.0

  Hello, In my recent experience with .NET 2.0 i faced a bug in of xml validation in .NET 2.0. I created a xsd that contains an simple element (of type xsd:int ) in one of its complex type, I passed few invalid alphabets and try to validate it, and it gets validate w/o any problem, Although the same xml file I passed to XmlSpy 2004, it threw validation exception. I know there in no problem in my code because the same thing worked for xsd:datetime type, when i passed invalid characters it threw exception (event ValidationEventHandler raised). here is my code string schemaloc = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SchemaAgentRegistration"]; string targetNS = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AgentTargetNS"]; agent.getDO ...Show All

• Visual Studio Turning off automatic addition of new files

  Hi, is there any way to stop VS2005 from "discovering" new files under my ASP.NET 2.0 project and automatically add them to my "pending checkins" and, in turn, to the project Our application writes files in lots of locations; these are log files, data files and so on, and they do not belong to the systems *logic* and I do not want them to be part of the project. Before we converted to ASP.NET 2.0 and VS2005 this was never a problem, and now it is driving me nuts! I cannot help myself but to ask how it is possible for Microsoft to become this creative and actually think this is a smart feature! There is nothing worse than software that tries to be smart when it really is dumb, and in particular when it cannot be ...Show All

• .NET Development custom plugin questions!

  Hi there. I have no idea but had a sudden urge to ask about things like this, I guess its good for the knowledge! I have an app created in .NET 1.1 I *may* wish to implement plugin's with the application, so developers can create their own plugin's for the application. Question 1) If a plugin was created in .NET 2.0, will it still work with the .NET 1.1 application (obviously assuming they have both frameworks installed) Question 2) How would one go about creating plugin's for their application Question 3) Is it possible for this plugin to implement/"subscribe" to public events exposed by my application, so when I raise an event, any of the plugin's who have a subscription to the event, is notified Th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Alphablending 3D

  I know when doing alphablending you have to draw objects in order. I believe you must draw more distant objects first. I assume this distance from the camera. Can anyone point me in the right direction as far as implementing this Doing perfect depth sorting is near impossible for 3D games. You'll have to draw your mesh by subsets at any rate and it may well be that a subset (or even a triangle) is both in front and behind another subset. This doesn't mean alpha blending is bad, but just that there's no perfect solution that will make alpha blending 'just work'. Because depth sorting may be hard and inefficient to implement, a typical alternative is to use alpha testing instead if you only need opague/t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Overriding an 'invisible' property

  UserControl has a property called Text which is hidden from the user at design time. How do I override Text such that the user can 'see' it Yeah, that's the attribute I was looking for last night when I posted my reply. I knew I had used it in the past, but I was doing a quick search of my various apps and I couldn't find it. I couldn't remember exactly what it was, and I since I couldn't find it, I didn't mention it. Glad you found it on your own! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to verify what is the version of TFS installed?

  Starting from HELP points to VS2005 ... but I am more interested in TFS itself. Thanks in advance. Do you want to know the version of the server or your Team Explorer client To check the client, look at the properties of the following assembly in Explorer (right-click on it, Properties, Version) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.dll (Or where-ever Visual Studio in installed on your client machine) To check the version of the server, log in and check the version of the following assembly:- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Web Services\Services\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.dll 8.0.50727.147 is the ...Show All

• .NET Development what's the pointer mean in MethodInfo.MethodHandle.GetFunctionPointer()

  it's a native pointer, what's this pointer mean jitted code address nonjitted code address confused about this :( thx Gael :) i will go on check this pointer. there's a very interesting thing about it: some time i set breakpoint (int 3) at the pointer, it brack ok, such as System.Windows.Fomrs.MessageBox.Show(). sometimes it fail, never breack, such as MethodBody.GetILAsByteArray. and for generic method, seems different parameters cause different address. microsoft's stuff always so mysterious and interesting :) ...Show All

• SQL Server reduce row spacing in financial reports - RS2005

  I am using RS 2K5 to develop financial reports, with plenty of figures that must fit in a page. I use tables for example. Fonts cannot be set smaller than 8pts. I have also tried to decrease row height and to disable the "can grow to fit content" option, but of course in this way the text gets cut of in its lower part. How can I do lines more compact I need to reduce line spacing and to make the data more dense. Currently it looks very sparse. Is it a known limitation for RS Any workaround available Any online example with dense reports Thank you. Unfortunately, currently SSRS doesn't support text truncating. As you've noticed, in both cases (CanGrow true or false) the text wraps to the next lin ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to reduce loading time of Report Viewer

  Hi I have created and rdl report in reporting services 2005. I use report viewer control to display that report on my windows application. But the problem is that when I load the report for first time, it takes almost 50 to 60 secons in loading report. Next time it loads in just 2 to 4 seconds. I want to know how to reduce time interval for the first time loading. Looking.......... This is urgent. Please tell me if it is possible to reduce loading time or not in Reporting Services. If possible then how ...Show All

• Commerce Server Retrieve ALL products best practices?

  I'm looking for the best way to retrieve all the products in a catalog. Currently, i'm running a CatalogSearch to retrieve all the product Ids and then calling GetProduct for each product Id to get the Product objects. Is there a better way to do this Michael. In that case you should be able to do something like ProductCatalog productCatalog; CategoryConfiguration cc = new CategoryConfiguration (); cc.ChildProducts.SearchOptions = new CatalogSearchOptions (); Category rootCategory = productCatalog.GetRootCategory(cc); ProductCatalogCollection products = rootCategory.ChildProducts; This will return you a ProductCollection ...Show All

• SQL Server output column in asynchrnous script component

  I created a output column in a script component with synchronousinputid = 0 in the output. But in the script designer, I do not see this column listed for the row. Whereas when this property is not 0, the column is listed for the row. What am I missing here Thanks Rviswa ...Show All

• SQL Server String or binary data would be truncated. (only for 1700 character string?)

  I am trying to insert a row into a table of Microsoft SQL Server 2000. There are various columns. [SNO] [numeric](3, 0) NOT NULL , [DATT] [char] (32) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , [DATTA] [char] (3000) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , [CODECS] [char] (32) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , The [DATTA] column is causing a problem. Even if I am trying to put only 1700 character string into [DATTA], the java code throws the following exception:- StaleConnecti A CONM7007I: Mapping the following SQLException, with ErrorCode 0 and SQLState 08S01, to a StaleConnectionException: java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][SQLServer 2000 Driver for JDBC]Connection r ...Show All

• Visual Basic Split Question

  I need splitting a file for get any info I wrote this Code:   Dim number As Integer = 0 Dim ParamSeparator() As Char = { "G" , "I" , "F" , "8" , "9" , "a" } Dim gif As String = File.ReadAllText(OpenFileDialog1.FileName) Dim i As Integer = 0 For Each files As String In gif.Split(ParamSeparator) If files.Length > 0 Then ListBox1.Items.Add(i & " " & files.Length + 6 & " 0" ) i = i + files.Length + 6 number = number + 1 End If Next TextBox1.Text = number   And it work but i have a problem with " ParamSeparator". My problem is that if i have a file with this Text: GIF89a11 G GIF89a32 The G doesn't go counted be ...Show All