akshah's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Volume Shadow Copy

  Hi all. I assume that this is not the correct place to post this question. If so, please point me to the correct place. Here is my question: I want to create an application that will backup files. I want to prevent locking the files during the backup. So, I want to use Volume Shadow Copy service. This is what I need to do (I think so): - implement a requestor that will tell VSS to create a shadow copy of the specified files - get the location of the shadow copy of the files from VSS - backup the files from the shadow copy location. Can I make direct calls to the VSS API from c# (using PInvoke) Or I need to create a C++ library that will implement the requestor Any examples that can guide me Or maybe another a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Inter-application communication via shared memory

  Hello all, How do I get a C# application to read/write to a shared memory variable that is also visible to a VB.NET application Here's what I'm trying to do bear with me guys; I have two applications running in parallel: one written in C# and one written in VB.NET. The C# application is a background windowless application that simply monitors the keyboard and mouse for activity (using a workaround of .NET's no global hooks policy - see previous post for reference); should there not be any user activity for a specified time period, then the C# application should write to a boolean stored in memory. On the other hand, the VB.NET application has a background form with a timer that every x seconds should check the aforementioned boolean ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Categories for other users Outlook 2007

  Hi all, I have an VSTO Add-in Outlook 2007 application that is accessing other user's shared calendars and created appointments for them. We also have a set of custom colored Categories that must be applied to these appointments. So I create the Categories by updating the Application.Session.Categories and the appoinments show the correct colors in my calendar, but they don'ts show up in the other user's shared calendars. So here's the question: How can I create these Categories programmatically for other users I know that Microsoft has removed the Master List that was stored in the registry for Outlook 2007. I've been searching for this solution high and low, tried many different approaches like using CDO, etc.. nothing works. Thx... Ale ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual 20005 Professional

  What is the difference between Visual Studio 2005 Professional and Visual Studio 2005 Professional.net I have seen both terms and I really don't understand what the differences are I haven't seen both terms, but I think they are the same as there no professional and professional.net versions, the versions are the express version, standard version, professional version, and team systems flavours. ...Show All

• .NET Development InvalidCastException from ComObject to IRemoteDispatch

  I had built a COM+ object in VB.Net using EnterpriseServices. The COM+ object runs fine and interacts with the ASP.Net pages fine. I do get a weird error about once a day: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.__ComObject' to type 'System.EnterpriseServices.IRemoteDispatch'. at System.EnterpriseServices.RemoteServicedComponentProxy.Invoke(IMessage reqMsg) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type) at BethelWeb_BO.clsBO.GetUserId(String email, String localIndexPath, String page) at ASP.forgotpassword_aspx.btnEMailPassword_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in D:\Bethel Woods Live\ForgotPassword.aspx:line 19 We have 2 load balanced web servers ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF Beginner Question

  our user base currently uses an ASP.NET web application. they are really happy with the 'look and feel' of the web pages. we want to move our users over to a .NET smart client application. however, my main concern is that our users will view the user interface as taking a step back from the existing web page layout. is it possible to build a .NET 3.0 application which has a friendly, scrollable user interface which looks closely akin to our existing web page layout, so that the users will not be put off or is this not recommended practice is this not standard practice where can i look at some demonstrations showing some recommended practice user interfaces for .NET 3.0 apps thanks These links ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drag and drop in data grid view

  Hey ppl, the code which I found in the FAQ of Datagrid view for drag and drop was for a single line I was wondering if any one can help me with drag and drop (reordering the rows in the data grid view) for multiple rows and when the datagrid view has a vertical scroll bar and if a perosn wants to drag the selected row to a row index location which is inaccesible without scrolling up or down, how would i do it so that the scoll bar would automaticaly scroll up or down depending on the location of the down mouse drag anyones help would be highly appreciated.... cheers, ...Show All

• Architecture Enterprise Service Bus

  Hello all, our goal is to start building a service oriented architecture. So we are going to provide functionality of our existing applications as web services. We don't want point to point relationships betweend consumer and provider. So that is the point where something like a entprise service bus comes up. What is the enterprise service bus product of microsoft Is it the UDDI server Thanks in advance Hennesey Have you taken a look recently to the MSDN Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) page (It's at http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/soa ) Some days ago they published there a webcast on ESB over the Microsoft platform: http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/b/e/ebe3b63f-1aab ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System List all labels attached to a file/folder?

  Here's another question from a customer that I couldn't answer. 1) How do you list all labels attached to a particular file or folder eg, if I'm curious about the file "foo.cs", how do I tell what labels have been applied to that file 2) Is there any way to show labels integrated with the version history for a particular file or folder I can certainly view the changeset history for "foo.cs", but what about its label history Isn't that a part of the overall source control history for that file I looked in the UI, and at the command line "TF LABEL" and "TF LABELS" as well as "TF HISTORY", but I couldn't figure out any way to do this. Thanks, Jeff ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Data Encryption Issues

  I read a couple of articles related to encryption topic in this forum and I feel that's really helpful I don't know if anyone has some knoeledge about the encryption issues in replication and clustering environment. I read some documents from Microsoft web site that explains how to move an encrypted database from its original server to another new server instance. That cause a lot manual works, if the database master key has been encrypted by the original service master key and you still want to enjoy the auto-open feature in the new environment. As we know the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has a hierarchy encryption key structure and its top level service master key is really service oriented. For what kind of mechanism or set up, Microsoft ...Show All

• Visual Basic EMAIL

  I am using this code in vb.net 2005 to sent an email but an error FAILURE SENDING MAIL is allways appearing. Can someone show me where I am duing wrong. Try Dim SmtpClient As New System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient SmtpClient.Host = "localhost" SmtpClient.Port = 25 SmtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = True SmtpClient.Send("glennzarb@gmail.com", "glenn_zarb@hotmail.com", "Test", "hi") MsgBox("sent") Catch ex As Exception MsgBox("Send failure:" & ex.Message) End Try I haven't installed any other programs or smpt's the code is pretty much the same as you have done, except replacing the email add ...Show All

• SQL Server First and Last record in a set

  Anyone have an effecient ideas on how to do the following: For example lets say the data is Temperature over time.For example lets say the data is Temperature over time. DataSet (from a file) comes in sequentially (I've even added a "RowNumber" column). I then drop some temperature records that I determine to be bad.. so the RowNumber sequence would typically look like 5,6,7,8,10,11 etc.. (often the first few readings are bad). What I need out of the set is a bunch of aggregates, High, Low, Average, Count of Readings etc... all those are easy with the Aggregate object in SSIS... however, I struggle to get the starting temp and ending temp. What I have done is multicast the data into the following streams 1. Goes thro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Does the .NET 3.0 July CTP include ADO.NET 3.0?

  The .NET 3.0 July CTP can be downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=62057A6F-185F-41DB-ABE5-678F6FC388F0&displaylang=en Does this include ADO.NET 3.0 If not, when ADO.NET 3.0 is released, will it be part of a .NET 3.0 CTP ...or a standalone CTP Michael. Since the LINQ forum has announced that there won't be any more LINQ CTP's, what is the prognosis of a LINQ to Entity CTP Are we really going to have to wait for Orcas Beta 1 Jim Wooley http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley ...Show All

• Visual Studio Difficulty to ste parameters

  Hello, here is my code: string sReportServerURL = http://sqlserver ; string sReportPath = "/Report/User_by_state" ; Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms. ReportParameter [] param = new Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms. ReportParameter [1]; param[0] = new Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms. ReportParameter ( "State" , this .ddlState.SelectedValue.ToString(), true ); reportViewer.ProcessingMode = Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms. ProcessingMode .Remote; reportViewer.ServerReport.ReportServerUrl = new Uri (sReportServerURL); reportViewer.ServerReport.ReportPath = sReportPath; reportViewer.ServerReport.SetParameters(param); reportViewer.ShowPromptAreaButton = false ; This does not work. I ...Show All

• SQL Server Jet.OLEDB.4.0 and Linked Servers (SQL standard 2005 on Win2003 SP1)

  I have been trying to figure out for some time why Linked Servers do not continue to run.  I start up my SQL Server Database service, and then using SQL Server Management Studio I create one or more linked servers to Microsoft Access Databases using the Jet Provider.  I then run some queries to that access those linked servers without any problems.  (One currently is called 'THE') After some time has passed, possibly minutes, hours or days, I can no longer access any of the linked servers.  No data, queries, tables, or anything is accessible to me anymore.  I use this command "EXEC sp_testlinkedserver N 'THE' " to test the linked server and get the following error msg. OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OL ...Show All