Mark Challen's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Certification for C#

  is there a Microsoft certification exam for C# on Visual Studio 2005 if not, whats the closest exam # that kinda covers C # Thanks For questions on .NET certifications with regards to Visual Studio 2005, take a look at the new generation of certs page. Also give that this forum is dedicated to programming and not certifications, I'd ask that you direct future cert questions to a place like the certification newsgroups . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions .SWF in VB 2005 Express Edition

  hey, does ny1 no how i can upload .swf onto visual basic. When i place the object "Shockwave Flash Object" onto the form.. an error comes up saying "Failed to import the ActiveX control. Please ensure it is properly registered" i then re-registered it properly in a way some1 told me to, but still the problem is on!!!! can ny1 help me plz.....as soon as possible!!!! The My.Settings.cfgPath is most likely due to not setting up the user setting... double click on the "MyProject" icon from the solution explorer...then open the settings tab...in the Name column type "cfgPath" type = String scope ="User" and leave the default value blank... The "Me ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System File/Directory Copies

  Does the version control system supports copying files or directories to a different location at the repository level, while retaining the history Thanks for logging this at Microsoft Connect. Anyone who wants to vote for this issue can do so at: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=155863 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Verifing local MSDN documentation from Visual Studio 2005

  I have 'help' set to 'local only' in Visual Studio 2005. how may I verify the help content source and version that I am viewing in VS 2005 I had expected to see the MSDN source vintage listed in the 'Combined Help Collection Manager' (perhaps as selected & grayed out, yet displaying versioning information). Did I miss it somewhere Thanks for any advice!:-) Thanks again for your reply. Its not logical that this general question be examined based upon a specific configuration. Such does not scale well. I have more systems, personally, than fingers and (almost) toes. Then there is the rest of the world, and then there are changes every day to these systems. If I could just know which MSDN library a given Studio 2005 ins ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Trouble downloading the "Express Edition for Beginners" Videos.

  I dowloaded all 16 or so of the first set of videos and found that only a few worked - the other came up and told me that I didn't have the right codec installed... but the videos are all WMV and I am using WMP11 (Vista B2). Anyone know what I can do I would love to watch these videos... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office RSS feed in Outlook

  How can I see if a MailItem is a RSS item using the object model // Johan It's actually quite amazing! I've never programmed Outlook before but I managed to get a working prototype of this working in just two hours. (I have programmed alot for Word, Excel and ASP.NET) Now I just have to get a nice UI to select where mp3-files should be saved and create playlists in WMP. Is it possible to get the actual rss feed from a folder in some way It would be nice to only hook up event handlers for feeds that really is a podcast feed and make sure that it downloads enclosures automaticly for just these feeds. ...Show All

• Visual C++ 'out' value-type parameters and managed/unmanaged references

  WOW the area of tracking references is confusing. I have a large unmanaged COM server (C++) to which I'm adding managed interfaces. Many of my methods provide output-only value results. For example, my Image class has a method that in C or COM you would declare as PixelRange(double* pMin, double* pMax), and in C++ you would declare as PixelRange(double& min, double& max) and in C# you would have PixelRange(out double min, out double max). It seems that I must declare this interface in managed C++ as PixelRange([Runtime::InteropServices::Out] Double% min, [RuntimeInteropServices::Out] Double% max). My problem is that for each such parameter I have to create an unmanaged variable to pass to the internal function, and I have to ...Show All

• SQL Server my problem also not solved yet

  Upper case sentece in normal case sentence Michael Hotek wrote: Of course you have to figure out what to do with exceptions such as O'Malley, acronyms, any sort of name and a variety of other things. There isn't a routine for doing this simply because there are a virtually unlimited set of exceptions to "proper casing" something. Thats what he was told in the other thread also... But I guess thats not what he wants to hear. He wants to convert a whole lot of CV text into propper cases, and the input is "only" uppercase. But i think the Word solution mentioned here is one of the best aproaches. (At least for a start... The result would still have to be proof read/edited) But if you want the text ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30040: The database is not correctly configured - After applying SP1

  I'm using TFS Workgroup Edition, this box was built from the ground up with a virgin Win2k3 Standard installation when TFS went RTM, so it has never had any beta bits on it. Updated: SQL Server 2005 SP1 has been applied to this box. I installed the VS80-KB919156-X86.exe (Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Quiescence GDR) and then rebooted. I then installed TFS SP1 without errors. I rebooted again. I was able to get the latest source but when I go to add a new project or solution, I get the error: "Error TF30040: The database is not correctly configured." dialog. Using SQL 2k5 Profiler, I set a trace to see what was going on behind the scenes. I noticed this command towards the point where I get the error dialog : exec prc_UpdateLocalVer ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista About WorkflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow

  see Code1: WorkflowRuntime workflowRuntime = new WorkflowRuntime(); workflowRuntime.StartRuntime(); Type type = typeof(MyWorkflow); workflowRuntime.StartWorkflow(type); Code2: WorkflowRuntime workflowRuntime = new WorkflowRuntime(); WorkflowInstance instance = workflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow(typeof(HelloWorldWorkflow.Workflow1)); instance.Start(); question: why i can't find CreateWorkflow method of Workflowruntime in my SDK document, what is the difference between them Which version of WF are you using StartWorkflow has not been around since Beta 2 I think. You should probably upgrade to a more recent build. Go here for more information on CreateWorkflow. ...Show All

• SQL Server Backup Device vs backup command

  Hi, Will backup get completed quickly (the time taken for backing up large databases) on backup device or using backup command If backup device, why If SQL Server stripes physical devices that have different input/output (I/O) throughputs, SQL Server optimizes for speed. This means that faster devices receive more backup data that is written to disk than the slower device in the same period of time. In SQL Server 2000, regardless of the I/O throughput differences, SQL Server tries to distribute the backup data evenly to the devices. In this case, the slower disk may become a backup bottleneck in terms of performance. If increasing performance is your primary goal, you must avoid using the slow disk in striping and use disks with co ...Show All

• SQL Server Can OWC and ASP.NET be used to connect to an OLAP cube running on SQL Server 2005 ?

  Hello, I'm from Romania and I have a small problem. I recently found on MSDN an articol and an ASP.NET project showing how to browse an OLAP cube from a web page, using OWC controls. The cube was built using Analysis Services for SQL Server 2000. My question is can the same be done with a cube running on SQL Server 2005 (browse it from ASP.NET page using OWC) If so, can anyone please give a link to an tutorial or sample project Or if not, please offer a solution on how to browse an OLAP cube from SQL Server 2005 from ASP.NET. Thanks. For the client application using OWC all you need to do is to install new version of the AS OLEDB provider. OWC can work with both AS200 and AS2005. Same goes for Excel and ...Show All

• .NET Development Which class I should use in communication?

  Hello, I am a new user of this forum. I need some advice. In System.Net.Sockets namespace there are two class, NetworkStream and Socket Classes and in System.IO there is Stream class for using TCP/IP connection between server and clients. I have read their members, properties and events in MSDN, they are nearly the same but I wonder there are any advantages or disadvantages between them. For my program which class should I use I use TCP/IP and DNP (Distributed Network Protocol) for my application, some devices connected to LAN sends data to my application also my application can send commands to these devices. But I can not decide which class do I use. Thank you for your reply RizwanSharp :) I know these th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Change date format in DatePicker control

  I want to cahange the date format in the datepicker control to Eg:-1-Jan-06 I know the string is "dd-MMM-yy" i just dont know where to use this what's the exact code you used I cannot see this error during compile or runtime, with option explicit set to on   also make sure you added, just before setting the customformat value:   Me.theDateTimePicker.Format = DateTimePickerFormat.Custom Me.theDataTimePicker.CustomFormat = "dd-MMM-yy" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Rule for Finding Used Types (Classes, Enums, Etc...)

  I am looking for some help on creating a custom rule. 1. Can someone point me to a page with the basics needed for creating a custom rule 2. The rule I am creating is for testing all Types (Classes, Enums, etc...) in an assembly for usage. There are over 300 assemblies in all to be tested, not to mention their dependant assemblies. I know I need to check for constructor calls, parameter passing, and so on. But I am hoping that there is an easier way than checking for every possible type of usage. I want to check if the Type (Class etc...) is even being used before I go one to checking for method and fields that are being used. Ultimately I am checking for unused Members but it will be much quicker to find ones that are being ...Show All