Drew Marsh's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Open report in landscape

  Hello, I have a few reports that have this same problem. The items in the report are to long so it makes the row take up twice the width. Is there a way to show the report in landscape so that this problem will not occur Or is there some other solution. Thanks Yes, but i had some problems with the paper size like A3. I read that this problem with papersize is fixed in the SP1 of VS.NET. Next week I can test this problem... You must use the ReportViewer Asmmebly with the version no 8.0.50727.762 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Run Application or BATCH file before desktop is shown

  I have just been wondering this for a while, how do you run code before windows completely starts up, like when you tell Xp to defragment and it does so on next reboot. For a while I thought this was a Microsoft product exclusive, however when I saw Norton Partition Magic (TM) repartition my HD the same way (Loaded up the same screen as defrag but wrote out different text) I started thinking this could be done by anyone! I just want to know how to do this, if possible. Thanks a lot, Jessy D. Exum This forum is smart device development related. Since your question is not related to smart device development, it's off topic here. If you’re having a hardware issue, please contact hardw ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Custom Root Element

  I have a page class (PageRadioWide) in which I want to inherit from UiPageFeature but I'm getting the following error: PageRadioWide.xaml(2,5): error MC3074: The tag 'UiPageFeature' does not exist in XML namespace 'clr-namespace:ACPUi'. Line 2 Position 5. Can anyone provide some assistance Thanks in advance. Here's some additional information: XAML File: <MyACPUiNS:UiPageFeature x:Class="ACPUiTempTestApp.PageRadioWide" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:MyACPUiNS="clr-namespace:ACPUi" xmlns:ACPUiNS="clr-namespace:ACPUi;assembly=ACPUi" xmlns:ACPUiTempTestAppNS=&q ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding new column to an Access database

  My application works with an Access database that contains valuable production data. I need to add a couple of new columns to one of the tables, but don't want to trash the user's data. At startup, I would like to check the existing database for whether or not it has been modified and, if not, add the new columns. What is the best way to do this PeterJMoore wrote: Good answer, and it does work! Now the question is how to tell whether or not the field is already in the table. it will throw an exception if the column already exists. To check a column before adding the column, I guess you would have to obtain the schema information first, check to see if the column exists then a ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Security token without authentication

  Hello, I would like to know if it is possible for the user to use a managed card (get a security token) without requiring the user to authenticate himself Thanks for your help, Hi, All managed cards in CardSpace v1 require some authentication. We’ve had some discussions about being able to do token retrieval w/out authentications, but haven’t come up with a very compelling usage scenario, since it would allow anybody to retrieve the token from the endpoint, thus losing any association with a particular user. The easiest auth mechanism (from a usability perspective) is to use a self-issued card to back the managed card. The self-issued card is automatically selected, so just needs to select the managed card. If you ( ...Show All

• Windows Forms ceate executable file !

  Hello all I have made a windows forms project and i want to make an executable file (*.exe) file out of the project ( from the solution file *.sln i suppose!). How do i do it I am using visual studio express edition 2005. Cheers! you simply press CTRL + SHIFT + B to build the solution, or go to build > build solution. The project will be outputted to the bin\debug folder (or bin\release if in release mode) in your project folder in your documents :-) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem with dynamic report generation

  I have designed report with A4 size paper and landscape orientation. I have also inserted 10 parameter fields in this report. And then I have entered field values and field titles dynamically with coding. it is working find till now. But I want any no of fields (may be 50, 100 etc) to appear in my report and I should be able to insert these fields dynamically. Also i want only 6 fields on each page, other fields should appear on next page and so on.... Can anybody help me out.... Thanks in advance... I can not help you.. but I've a problem with dynamic report generation. On Form_Load I write this code: Private Sub FormReport_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .L ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamically passing a Parameter Name to Custom Code

  Hello, I'm trying to create a custom code function for Reporting Services. I would like to have it user-friendly and give the user the ability to pass a report parameter name into the function (so it can be a generic function that can be used for many reports). Is there a way to do this so inside the code I can have access to other properties of the object I envision something like: Function Blah(ParameterName as String) as String Dim MaxNum as Integer Dim ParamValue as String MaxNum = Reports.Parameters!ParameterName.Count - 1 ParamValue = Reports.Parameters!ParameterName.Value etc... Is this possible I can't figure out how to do this. Using dynamic SQL you can do this very easily by concatenating string values toget ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Header and Content Template

  How can i find when the Header or Content Template are applied I want to get a control from my template but if I try in OnHeaderTempalteChanged i get this exception : This operation is valid only on elements that have this template applied. Is there a solution this doesn't work very well The thing is that I have a TabItem and I have 2 HeadeTemplates, one for default and one for selelected. When the TabItem is selected I have saome buttons on it And i need to acces them somehow. But i don't know when they are loaded. I've tried OnSelected but it doesn't work. I can't retrieve the buttons. Any ideeas ...Show All

• Commerce Server Basic Pipeline Questions

  I'm totally new to pipelines and I've read the documentation, but I have a couple of basic questions that aren't answered that would help point me in the proper direction. Say I have a custom product property indicating whether a product is active or not... and I am currently running the Basket pipeline whenever the user brings up his/her basketed order. I want to modify the QueryCatalogInfo so that if the product has been inactivated since they added it to their basket it will notify the user of this and remove the product from the cart. My question is, can I update the QueryCatalogInfo component or do I have to write a completely new component and add it to the basket pipeline after the QueryCatalogInfo one Also, should the Basket ...Show All

• Visual C++ Smartbridge Alerts

  I too am receiving the "entry point not found" message. I have very little technical knowledge and would appreciate assistance in any fashion. thanks. Helen McLaughlin Jonathan....thank you for your interest.  The error message is: The procedure entry point GetProcessImageFileNameW could not be located in the dynamic link library.   I have absolutely no idea what it means. Helen ...Show All

• Visual Studio OutOfMemoryException

  Unless I've made some major mistake, my msbuild file creates items containing some 15000 files. Could that be the cause here Or should I try digging for some recursion problem /axl error : MSB4014 : The build was aborted because of an internal failure. System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. at System.Collections.ArrayList.set_Capacity(Int32 value) at System.Collections.ArrayList.EnsureCapacity(Int32 min) at System.Collections.ArrayList.Add(Object value) at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.BuildItemGroup.AddExistingItem(BuildItem itemToAdd) at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.BuildItemGroup.AddItem(BuildItem itemToAdd) at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.BuildItemGroup.Clone(Bool ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System source language

  Hello, does somebody know if it is possible to determine, if a particular assembly was created from a cpp file Or, more generally, to determine in which language the sources were written I thought i could get the information from the sourceContext.Document.Language (or by analysing the filename) but it seems not to work properly (or I'm trying to do it the wrong way). However the Document object is allways null (Pdb's are there).  Best regards, Anton Papst. CCI (the binary reader FxCop uses) was orginally designed to raise AST's from source file, however, FxCop only uses the binary reader, SourceContext.Document.Language is not used (or known). I believe this has been ripped in ...Show All

• Visual C# Not able to find references in GAc in the reference window of VS IDE

  I have a problem which I need the help you guys figure out. I have to create a dll and deploy the same in GAC. And I need to add reference to that dll I deployed using the addreference window of the VS.net IDE in other projects, but even after I successfully installed the assembly I am not able to see in the refernce list of VS.net IDE. Let me explain the steps I done 1. Created an SN Key . sn -k "c:\Keys\ver1.snk" 2. Create a dll, and in the assemblyinfo.cs, I have given [assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("c:\Keys\ver1.snk")] 3. Deployed the assembly using gacutil -i <Mylocalpath of assembly> . I checked for this assebly name in c:\windows\assembly, its present there, so the deployment is successful 4. o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSS Migration Errors - TF60096

  I just attempted to migrate a larger source control project from VSS to VSTF and am getting the following types of errors: TF60096: Unable to migrate due to Team Foundation Error: The item $/ECAT/Databases/MEDECAT/ddl/Packages/Web/p_web_shoppingcart.sql could not be found in your workspace. This file in VSS has 228 versions, but after the migration it only shows up as one version in VSTF: 4725 add hr90117 7/7/2006 7:39 AM Tip Version match Checkin---- DO NOT MODIFY. VSSConverter comment. Verification complete ---- Why aren't the other 227 versions of this file being migrated to VSTF source control Jason, I'm sorry to hear you are running into issues converting this file from VSS to TFS. There are several known issues ...Show All