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• .NET Development This Error Appears: Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0.

  I have saved the database connection string to a key named 'ConnectionString' allowing to access it by calling 'configurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionString") But a red line comes under the configuration in the part of the : 'configurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionString")'. When i run it this error appears: Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0. and says: Line 4: Public Shared Function GetCategory() As SqlDataReader Line 5: Dim connection As New SqlConnection(connectionString) Line 6: Dim command As New SqlCommand("GetCategory", connection) Line 7: command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure Line 8: connection.O ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Bin Directory

  I have a large solution that contains around 15 projects. One of those projects is a Service Project that has an PostBuild event that copies it's dlls from it's bin\debug folder to a global BIN folder availible to all projects (about 4 directories up). I have a web service that references those dlls in the same solution. I am trying to get this to work with TFS Build and not having any luck. Question: why is the BIN directory non-existant on my build server (where this solution is being built) Should it be there I am only seeing the "obj" directory under the project directory If you right click on a project in VS and select properties, one of the tabs will be Build Events . Here you can s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System make code analysis rules from warnings to errors

  Hi, From Server How can force to make code analysis rules from warnings to errors while compiling the code . Thanks in advance You can enable check in policy, and then set the policy to enforce a set of warnings to be treated as errors. For information on this start with: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182075(VS.80).aspx Thanks, Dave Lubash - Visual Studio Team Developer ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ping client before sending message

  In the publish subscribe scenario, is there a way for the host to ping the client before sending out a message Specifically, if the host is trying to invoke a method that resides in the client's service, is there a way to find out that the client's service is actually running before invoking that method thanks, that forum was very helpful. Is there an example of how to "hook the .Faulted and .Closed events on each subscribed channel to proactively remove them from the collection if the channel goes bad" BTW, I'm using wsHttpBinding and wsDualHttpBinding for my services. ...Show All

• .NET Development Custom Debugging

  Hello, In my application I have included the VB compiling services which allows my users to write code snippets at runtime, which are compiled into a .DLL into memory. What I would like to do is allow them to debug these code snippets. At a minimum I would like to be able to step each line of code. Is this possible If so could somebody please advise me on the steps I need to take. Thanks, Rob Panosh Advanced Software Designs Bottom line is that you need to ensure you've got a PDB for the generated code. You can verify this in VS's module window. This may be a bug in the codedom. I found with C#, you need to set the CompilerOptions property explicitly to "/debug:pdbonly". I would have expected that setting Includ ...Show All

• Commerce Server Products requiring user information for ordering

  In an old catalogue I have based on Site Server 3 we modelled services as products which required the user to answer multiple questions before ordering could take place. We created question sets which could be applied to individual products and asked these questions when the product was added to the basket. A simple example of this could be a product called 'Physical workstation move' which we require to know answers from a question set of 'Where from' and 'Where to'. Can anyone suggest a way I can model this using CS2007 Is there a way I can extend the catalog/product system such that the Business Manager Applications can administer the question sets, applying them to products Endeavor supports CS 2007 ...Show All

• SQL Server Why is SQL 2005 Express much slower than Developers Edition?

  I'm working on upgrading VB6-based application to employ SQL Server 2005 Express (it currently uses MSDE). I'm using the following connection string - Provider=SQLNCLI;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=my_user;Password=my_password;Initial Catalog=my_database;Data Source=my_pc;Packet Size=8000 The application runs exceedingly slow. As soon as I uninstall SQL Server 2005 Express edition and install SQL Server 2005 Developers edition speed increases in 5 to 10 times. Once I uninstall SQL Server 2005 Developers edition and install SQL Server 2005 Express edition the application's speed drops again. I have repeated this "cycle" several times: install express -> running slow -> removed express, installed developers -> running ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Saving Word Documents without Actions Pane and Bookmarks

  I'm sure this must be doable, and I'm just not asking the HELP files the correct question. But let's consider this scenario. An application is built with VSTO in which an Actions Pane helps User A to pull data from an SQL Database and paste the results into a Word Document. User A does this every year, so each year he puts in the current year and gets the correct results entered into his document. User A wants to keep his file like it is, with the Actions Pane, so that he can do the same thing again the next year. BUT, he would also like to save a copy of the final document each year containing the correct values for each year for distribution to User B, his client (without the Actions Pane and bookmarks or any reference to these). ...Show All

• .NET Development Deploying a Web Service (VS 2005 Beta 2) Problem

  Hello, I am having the most difficult time trying to deploy a web service created with Visual Studio 2005, Beta 2.  I'm hoping that I'm just missing one small detail and that someone can point it out to me. I have stripped this down to the most basic "Hello World" web service.  In fact, all I did for this was create a new web site, ASP.NET web service and left everything as is.  Here are the steps to reproduce: 1) In Visual Studio 2005 beta 2, create a new web site, ASP.NET web service and leave everything as is.  The HelloWorld web method will work fine. 2) Compile the application/Build the website.  Right click on the service.asmx file in the Solution Explorer and select View in Browser.  Verify that ev ...Show All

• Windows Forms C#; Serial Communication and Threads

  I am trying to write a Kiosk application using C# and the vista operating system. What I want is for the application to be controlled by both the user-interaction AND the input from a proprietary serial device. I created an application that uses the StateManager to iterate through multiple screens due to mouse clicks and button clicks. The problem I am having, however, comes from the SerialPort class. Because the communication takes place on a separate thread, I am unable affect the state of the GUI. Yes, I can create a delegate and use Invoke (or BeginInvoke), and the proper delegate is called with the proper data arguments being passed. The problem comes when this delegate actually tries to do something in the GUI thread. If the d ...Show All

• Smart Device Development 2nd try: What DLL are wave routines in?

  I'm having trouble getting access to some wave routines: I have been using these routines to access sound under Windows XP using the winmm.dll DLL. I would like to know which DLL these routines are in under WM5 (if at all) [DllImport(DLL)] public static extern int waveOutGetNumDevs(); [DllImport(DLL)] public static extern int waveOutPrepareHeader(IntPtr hWaveOut, ref WaveHdr lpWaveOutHdr, int uSize); [DllImport(DLL)] public static extern int waveOutUnprepareHeader(IntPtr hWaveOut, ref WaveHdr lpWaveOutHdr, int uSize); [DllImport(DLL)] public static extern int waveOutWrite(IntPtr hWaveOut, ref WaveHdr lpWaveOutHdr, int uSize); [DllImport(DLL)] public static extern int waveOutOpen(out IntPtr hWaveOut, int uDevi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Filters without a Message?

  I would like to keep the implementation as simple as possible. I would rather not implement an "All messages" interface where I have to deal with the raw Message class. But at the same time I would like the control of filters. Can I have both Can I keep the interface at the object serialization level and then behind the scenes implement some sort of filter I am guessing this would be inserted into a custom channel of some sort. Any ideas Better yet any examples Thank you. To start with I would like to just log the Xml message that is sent. So I guess I would like a behavior that will be called on each message. I would like to know how to specify the object that is called and what its argu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Visual Studio Express and WPF

  Can you use Visual Studio Express Editions to create XAML/WPF apps I do have netfx3 downloaded but not installed. Am using XP Home edition at the moment. Martin. Yes WPF is a part of .NET Framework 3.0. The file you have linked is almost a year old. There are three components requied to build WPF applications: runtime, sdk, and VS extensions. The final runtime is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=10cc340b-f857-4a14-83f5-25634c3bf043&DisplayLang=en The final SDK is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx na=40&p=3&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=10cc340b-f857-4a14-83f5-25634c3bf043 The current VS Extensions preview is here: http://www.micro ...Show All

• Visual Basic Office Interops

  Hi, not sure if this is the correct forum, but here goes: My VS2005 VB application uses excel interop 11.0 library to communicate with excel 2003. In the publish settings I have interop.dll as a required prerequisite (auto). The problem I'm having is that some users naturally have different versions of excel & I'm not sure how to get over this. The application will not run without the assemblies - it gives an error: "The application requires that assembly ...interop excel version 11.0.0.0 be installed in the GAC first". Where they have excel 2003 it's a simple matter of running O2003PIA.msi, but I now have users with 2002 & 2007. Can I change the publish settings to include the dlls Will this then instal ...Show All

• SQL Server Amateur :: Connections

  hi to you all... i need some help with SSIS... i need some examples to transfer data from one server to another via web ... can anyone help with this ' thx to all Start with this - build an extract process to pull the data into a flat file, run a FTP process to send the flat file to a new server, and then a load process on the remote server to load the data in the flat file. ...Show All