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• .NET Development Deserialize Soap XML

  I was wondering if anyone could answer this question: I get a "xmlns not expected" error message when I'm trying to deserialize a XML document made using <SoapType()> metadata before the class definition. I have a compound class(one class depends on another) and I add a start element and end element to the XML doc so that it's well formed. Herein lies the issue. How can I deserialize the XML document with my code inserted start/end elements so I don't get my error message Anybody have any ideas I would be greatly appreciative for any help...Thanks!! The XmlSerializer will ignore the [Soap...] attributes, you need to use SoapReflectionImporter to generate the mappings, and then pas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Default MSI Property Value for Merge Module

  I'm using VS 2005 SP1 to build an MSI deployment project which consumes a pre-existing MSM merge module. This merge module requires a property (e.g. a path name) to be set, but I don't want to present a UI to get this property value from the user - instead, I want to set a default value for this property in the MSI for the merge module to use (i.e. hard-code the property's value in the MSI file). Does anyone know if it is possible to set default property values in a VS 2005 Deployment Project, or do I have to resort to building the MSI then manually adding the property and its default value using Orca (that's Orca the MSI editor, not to be confused with Orcas the next version of VS!) Thanks in advance... :D [Sorry if this is t ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem Changing SQL Service Account on Clustered Servers

  I've run into a problem attempting to change my service account on the clustered servers from an administrative account to a non-privileged account under SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. When I change the login properties in Configuration Manager I get the following error: "The user already belongs to this group" I'm then prevented from making any changes to the service account. I don't know what I'm supposed to do at this point to resolve the problem, so any assistance will be greatly appreciated. OK, with help from my friendly network administrator I was able to solve the problem. When I'd first upgraded the servers I'd specified the non-admin account as the execution account for SQL Server, but I hadn't given th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA - Microsoft lack of vision

  Its real sad that Microsoft, once again, shows this lack of vision for a games development tool: 1: Get visual: Don't force users to write such a lot of code to do just very little. It reminds the Charles Petzold's "Hello Window" hell of code days. 2: Provide visual tools: Let users choose the components, change their properties and write just the required code for the events. 3: Quick development means quick prototype and minimum learning curve. XNA has a lot of things to learn. Definetively it is NOT for students and hobbists. We will have to wait until someone encapsulates XNA framework into a group of visual components, that can be easily drag & dropped, inspected and tested very easily without having to learn lots of n ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Where is the download?

  It is 12:48 pm here (GMT + 1)... in Nuku'alofa (GMT + 13) it is tomorrow... So where the hell is my download link :-D EvilOneSD wrote: Hmmm... the holy grail is here on my desk. Btw... it's "tomorrow" now... What, you have one too :p It's been "tomorrow" here all day... heck, it's almost the day after here! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is it possible to get the uncoerced value of a coerced dependency property

  Hello, I would like to know whether it is possible to find out what the underlying uncoerced value is for a coerced value. Is the possible at all, even for the DependencyObject which owns the coerced DependencyProperty, or is the only solution to maintain a separate internal variable set whenever the CoerceValue callback is called Thanks, Alex In at least one circumstance there is. If you call .GetLocalValue(yourDPIDField) on the relevant instance, that method will return the local value as set before coercion. The rub with that is that GetLocalValue does what it says: it returns a value only if the value was specifically set through .SetValue by some means. That could include XAML attribute, in co ...Show All

• SQL Server Failed to Initialize CLR Errors

  This was running fine for two months and yestday we had to do a reboot. We then tried to execute some of our CLR functions and are now getting the below error What can I do to check that all is ok Msg 6511, Level 16, State 82, Line 2 Failed to initialize the Common Language Runtime (CLR) v2.0.50727 with HRESULT 0x8007000e. You may fix the problem and try again later. I am having a similar problem, but is actually with not manage code it is instead with procedure. I tried to post this message before, but it was deleted by the moderator for having a duplicate post. during search I could not find any duplicate post that was related to store procedure. I don't know where Mr. moderator found the ...Show All

• SQL Server Search for data inside a Recordset Destination

  Hi there, I need to develop a module and wondering what would be the best implementation... I get a list of files from a text file and store it in a Recordset Destination (object variable "CUST_INV_LIST"). I need to check that all the files in a directory are in the list. I can loop through the files in the directory using a ForEach container, but how do I check if it is in the CUST_INV_LIST recordset I thought about using another ForEach container to loop through the recordset, check if the physical file is equal to that row, if so set a flag, ... but it's neither elegant nor effective. Another option would be to use a Script Task to search for the physical file name in the recordset. I tried with the Data.OleDb.O ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I do simple Telnet actions?

  What I would like to do (would be a dream, actually) is to create a little program that would check my current IP from time to time, and if the IP goes out of the 201.47.###.### range (due to my IP being dinamic), it would restart the modem as many times as needed to get an IP that would be in that range. I know the codes to reboot my modem through telnet are only these: telnet 192.168.1.1 **** (user) **** (pass) reboot Now I need to create a program that would check if my IP is in the range I want, and if not, it would run those 4 lines above, I just don't know how to input those simple telnet commands in VB . I've searched throughout the forums and Google and only managed to find large codes of stuff that wouldn't work and I wouldn't ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there an equivalent of NUnit's Category feature?

  Just wondering if there is a way to categorize unit tests I was poking around the TestView tool window and didn't see anything. Moving this to the Team System - Test forum, as they will be able to help you. Thanks, Dave Lubash - Visual Studio Team Developer ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Drawing on top of DirectShow - desperate

  Hi, I am working on a project in which I need to draw rectangles and points on top of a playing videoclip. First I did this with a DexterLib function library which exported frames to images. But because exporting images was too slow and because it did not support enough video formats I had to switch to DirectShow (which supports both AVI and MPG). DirectShow is new to me but I was able to make it run videoclips. However it slipped my mind that drawing on top of DirectShow is a nearly impossible task. Earlier I tried to draw on top of them with DirectDraw 7 but that gave me all kind of flickering when it was finally integrated. It made me lose several weeks. I read something about a video mixing renderer, is that what I need to use I found ...Show All

• Visual Basic writing bytes to a file

  I have a program which generates data which I want to write to a file so that I can access it later. How do I open a file to append data and later open it to acess the data Sure the my classes are new in vb express/2005 an interesting article http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/VisualBasic2005/ as will a search on the my keyword in help - they are in essence shortcuts to other .net framework functionality. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help with Coding

  I am trying to view data in a combo box with the following code however it always appears blank. Imports System.Data.OleDB Imports System.Data Public Class frmCreateSched Dim Lname As String Dim Fname As String Dim strEmpid As String Dim shift As String Dim scheddate As Date Dim deptname As String Dim ds As New System.Data.DataSet() 'create module-level variable to hold connection Private m_cnADONetConnection As New OleDb.OleDbConnection() 'declare m_cnADONetConnection ohbject, DataAdapter Private m_daDataAdapter As OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter 'create CommandBuilder module level variable Private m_cbCommandBuilder As OleDb.OleDbC ...Show All

• SQL Server visual basic 2005 problem

  Hi i am trying to trying to delete a reocrd from a Microsoft Access Database in Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, but come up with this error with the following code. I'm new to vb 2005 and I'm no expert. Appreciate any help given. ----------------- InvalidCastException was unhandled Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to class type 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox'. Instances of types that represent COM components cannot be cast to types that do not represent COM components; however they can be cast to interfaces as long as the underlying COM component supports QueryInterface calls for the IID of the interface Dim db1 As Connection Dim rs As Recordset db1 = New ADODB.Connection db1.Provider = "Mircosof ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Using the DashBoard Control from v3 in v4

  I noticed that the dashboard navigation control in v4 looks different than the one in v3. Does anyone know of an easy way to get it back to the original format without having to implement my own custom version of the dashboard (navigation arrows, etc...) Regards, Beezle From my knowledge there is no way to go back to the V3 dashboard. You'll have to hack up the current V4 dashboard to make it look like the V3 if your really daring ...Show All