Suman Ghosh's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Including Views in Replication

  I have a three server peer-to-peer replication setup that includes articles for tables and views. As I understand the BOL, scheme changes -- which I take to mean changes, amont other things, changes in the design of a table or view -- should automatically replicate to the other servers in the topology. Here are my quesitons: When including a view as part of the publication, what is it, exactly, that is getting replicated If all the tables supporting a given view are being replicated, and the view exists on all three boxes, whatelse, besides the view schema (and changes thereto) is being replicated Secondly, if in fact schema changes are replicated, why can't I modify a view that is part of a publication When I try to make a change t ...Show All

• Visual Studio XSLTransform: Specify at least one xsl file?

  hello i try to generate a documentation using the September CTP version of Sandcastle and a batchfile. The batchfile code is taken from different examples found in the www. copy "E:\Codes\myfile.xml" "C:\test_sc\working\comments.xml" MRefBuilder "E:\Codes\myfile.dll" /out:reflection.org XslTransform "C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTransforms\AddOverloads.xsl" reflection.org | XslTransform "C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTransforms\AddGuidFilenames.xsl" /out:reflection.xml .... running the batchfile leads to the error message that I shall specify at least one xls transform file.Could anybody help me I think it is a very small thing but I can see it ;-) ...Show All

• Visual Basic Checking if drive exist

  I got a few questions, maybe you might be able to help. I am needing to design a program that will check for a problem with another pc in my local network. We are not running a server type enviroment, but just a simple peer to peer platform. Any how on to the problem, We use one pc to act as a server, and the hard drives use a raid controller using 1(mirror). We ran into a snaffou yesterday, because no one in that building monitors thier pc's, they just use them, anyhow the raid broke and created 2 independent drives with the same shared folders, and the drive windows decided was bad wasnt the right drive, it renamed the volume and took everyone back to fridays data that resided on the drive that windows thought was bad. Anyhow ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Context menu in WPF/E

  Is WPF/E going to support customizable context menu on right mouse click Just b'cos Flash hasnt got it, does it mean Silverlight shouldnt as well That isn't the approach that we have taken. Flash's context menu is customizable -- you can add items to it. Has this been adequate for people -mark Program Manager Microsoft This post is provided "as-is" ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView and new rows

  I have a DataGridView that binds to an IList<T> collection of custom objects. The problem I have is that when I click on the new line, the DataGridView creates a new object using the default constructor (but I assume it doesn't get added to the collection at this point). What I would like to do is intecept this proceedure so that I can call a different constructor for the new object or else do some initialization before the DataGridView attempts to bind it. The reason is that my object implements ICustomTypeDescriptor and I need to set up all the rows to have identical properties so that they can all have the same columns. Any help here Thanks. In simpler terms, use the BindingSource.Add ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can Triggers affect elements they are not applied to?

  I have this program here that consists of a Label and a Button.  I have a Style that contains a trigger that says that when someone mouse overs the button the button background should turn yellow.  But let's say I wanted the label to also turn yellow when someone mouses over the button.  How can I have a Trigger applied to one element (in this case, the button) affect other elements around it   I know you can do this in code, but how can this be accomplished in XAML   < Window x:Class = " WindowsApplication3.Window1 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title = " WindowsApplication3 " Height = " ...Show All

• Visual C# oh dear... adding a namespace after...

  Evening everyone, I very stupidly developed part of my system before realising I ought to really add a namespace to all of my code (i am developing an ASP.NET c# app) in VS 2005. Does anyone know of a quick and painless way of adding a namespace to an entire project It contains a strongly typed dataset, i'm not even sure the procedure to add this into a namespace. Any help/tips/advice welcome. Apprecate any help. Yes I know im a silly boy :) Taz namespaces are already added by default, the default being the name of the project. You can change the default namespace if you go to the properties of the project, in the application tab there will be a field called "Default namespace" - ...Show All

• SQL Server Notification services failed to open a connection to SQL Server.Server name:ABC(Microsoft.SqlServer.NotificationServices)

  I am getting the above error when I try to create Notificatioin services new Instance. Additional Information is Failed to connect to server ABC(Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) An error occured while establishing connection to the server.When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under default settings SQL Server deoes not allow remote connections.(Provider : Named Pipes Provider, error 40 -could not open connection to SQL Server)(Microsoft SQL Server error: 53) Please help me I am new to SQL Server 2005.I can't able to proceed. Raul: Yes it is ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Will IE 7 supports Q tag/element?

  Hi, I'm curious about this Q tag after I read this article: Long Live the Q Tag ANd it's quite interesting that the article is true! I have Firefox 1.5.0.6 installed and I get the example <The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog> right and with quotes. But on IE 6 and IE 7, I can't get it right. I can't see the quotes anymore! Is IE 7 will support this Q tag is important to me, since it's closer to semantic context than using blockquote. Can I get more explanation on this I can't find elsewhere even on MSDN IE team blog. Eriawan Dave, I read on the MSDN Library of VS 2005 and VS 2003, Q tag/element is supported. CMIIW, but I think the support for Q tag is still buggy, as I no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build extensions

  Hello! I need a perform some custom operations if build solutions in my Team Build Type completed succesfully and all tests was succseeded. How can i do this What variables or build properties should I use in the choose conditions Thank you in advance, Olga Ouch - sorry about that. I was mistaken about this - the GoodBuild property was added to the BuildData class subsequent to RTM and is not available in Team Build v1. There is, in fact, no way to retrieve the GoodBuild flag from Team Build in v1... We will certainly address this issue in a future release. For now, however, there is a workaround for this particular problem (i.e. programmatically determining whether tests have passed for a par ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Downloading and starting XNA Game Studio Express

  I accidently downloaded XNA Game Studio Express first without having Visual C# Express. I would like to know how do i find the XNA file to install it. If you tried that and still couldn't find it on your computer then you will most likely have to re-download the file. You can get the XNA download from Microsoft here . ...Show All

• SQL Server Restore failed database is in use

  My restore fails with a message saying the database is in use, which may be true. How do I identify and kick out the user(s) Thx, Liston Put the database in single-user mode In SQL Server 2005 you do this by right clicking on the database - > properties and changing the relative attribute from multiuser to singleuser Cheers ...Show All

• SQL Server Import/Export data with SQL Server 2005 Express

  Hello folks! I have installed SQL Server 2005 Express and SQL Server Management Studio Express. Everything looks ok and works fine, but I can't find the Data Import/Export Wizard.  Can anyone tell me how to Import/Export data Thank you!!! I really want to find out what the missing feature is, there was no GUI for importing excel files in MSDE and there is not one in Express, which is the equivalent SKU. You can use the eval version for free to eval features, or if it is just for development then the dev edition is < 50 USD. ...Show All

• SQL Server Error message 913

  I've been having intermittent issues with SQL Server 2000 server on Windows 2000 Server. This server acts as a development server and is on the same network as our production server which runs Windows 2003 Server. Spare me the lecture about running different OS's on production and development servers, I wasn't the individual who setup the environment, just the one who got saddled with the responsibilitiy of making it useful for our staff. Anyway, the issue I've been dealing with is intermittent 913 error messages similar to what follows: Server: Msg 913, Level 16, State 8, Line 1 Could not find database ID 80. Database may not be activated yet or may be in transition. I have several tools I've developed which I use to backup the pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) NotifyIcon and WPF ToolTip

  I am using a notify icon in a WPF app. As we all know the notify icon is back in the win forms era so it's pretty useless for hosting any WPF controls. I am trying to emulate the hover windows in the vista notify icons. (When you hover over the network icon on the system try you get a nice little window above the taskbar with some icons and text in it.) I have eveything working pretty well except for the fact that I don't know how to determine what display my notify icon is being hosted on and where the taskbar happens to be docked to display the window. If the taskbar is docked up to make my tooltip show up in a different location. Any suggestions You can derive enough information to figure this out by cr ...Show All