Dan Waters [MSFT]'s Q&A profile
Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Derek and/or Cindy
Hello Derek/Cindy, Would you mind having a look at thread : personalized command bar disappears when minimizing excel by Herkus and let me know what the cause might be. I found a solution but would still like to know why and you are the people that could possibly have an answer. Many thanks Chas ChasAA, I like your attitude towards this forum ma man. You got a blog You want a blog over at dotnetslackers.com I had a look at the post but my brain hurts right now. I'll try again in a couple of days but I think duckthing found the problem but I'm wondering if there's a solution. ...Show All
.NET Development WebBrowser control in a service
I know this is an incredibly crappy design, but the only way I could figure to solve my problem. I need to use the webbrowser control in my service to navigate through a set of pages, maintain session, follow redirects, submit forms, all that. For those reasons I can not simply use webrequest. This all works great in a windows app but when I try to port it over to a service then problems start. The major one right now is in my document complete event I am not able to read any of the properties relating to the document, everything throws an invalid cast exception. The control actually will navigate to page but on completion where I would normally parse through the html document, nothing can be done. Does anybody have any ideas on how to ...Show All
SQL Server planning a replication
hallo we have a sql2000 in the headquarter, and 3 new remote branches opening in few weeks with no sql servers installed yet. We plan to setup a merge replica. The headquarter will have the highest activity on the replicated tables. Shall we use all SQL2000 in the remote branches Or could we use SQL2005, using a 2005 as a publisher and distributor TIA ok thanks. we're not going to upgrade the only sql2000 server we have, but i'd prefere to use sql2005 in the remote branches: in this scenario, i could set one of the 2005 as distributor and publisher. This would be in contrast with the network topology, that centers everything in the main plant; BTW there will not be a big traffic of replicated data: a theor ...Show All
SQL Server SSAS KPIs not showing up in Excel 2007
OK, I realize this isn't an Excel forum, but this is at least somewhat SSAS related. I've defined some KPIs in Analysis Services. However, I can't seem to get them to show up in Excel 2007. All the other measures and dimensions of the cube are there. The KPIs show up in the browser in BI Studio. Is there something I'm missing here It should just work, right Are you working in "compatibility mode" in Excel by any chance I don't think the pivot table field list will show KPI's if the spreadsheet is in compat mode. If it is, try creating a native Excel 2007 workbook and then adding a pivot table and see if the KPI's appear in the list (should be a folder for them right under the last measures fol ...Show All
Visual C# Professional C# Games and Appz
Are there any professional games developed in C# Are there any professional apps developed in C# Can you link to some examples I want to see what's capable in C#... Microsoft are working on the XNA framework ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/ ) which is aimed at developing amateur and professional games in (initially) C#, without lost of performance compared to C++. ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions wide characters in program
#include "stdafx.h" #include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { std::cout << "Please enter your first name: "; std::string name; std::cin >> name; std::cout << "Hello, " << name << "!" << std::endl; return 0; } wchar_t where do i put this in for wide characters like japanese thanx You should note that wide-character strings != Unicode. While wstring, wcin, wcout, etc. work with 16-bit wide characters they do not work completely with Unicode - surogates are a perfect example of something that will trip them up. ...Show All
.NET Development Driver ODBC:Error
you excuse me for my English I hope that someone understands to me.. I use a Netbeans IDE for my Web Application(I am inexpert) for the logon to the database access I have added the db jdbc:odbc:MYDB but when I try to visualize one table i see the error: "Unable to view the data base structure, connection is broken;(Microsft Driver ODBC Caratteristica opzionale non incrementata )". my web applicatione have a servlet that interrogates the db and a jsp that visualize the resultset) give me the error 'sqlexception: no data found'. thanks for the attention! ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Confused, what is the relation between MSDTC timeout and System.Transaction Option?
What I seem to be seeing is that when I create a System.Transaction with: transactionOptions.Timeout = new TimeSpan (0) but keep the COM+ Explorer MSDTC timeout at 60sec it timesout at 60secs. I don't have have Enterprise Services attribs on my code. What's happening or am I just going mad! The plot thickens. I've now spotted that the timeout occurs after 10 mins! Regardless of the number in the DTC timeout or the .net code. Where does 10 mins come from [Edit] One possible source is the SQL (2000) remote query timeout that's set to 600s. However, I've tried setting that to 0 (no timeout) and I still get the same 10 min rollback. I'm really puzzled by this since I've had a number of very long running Txs in the past ...Show All
Visual Basic VB Express target x86 Platform?
I need to target the X86 platorm to use quartz.dll and directshow filters in the syswow64 folder of my XP X64 system. If I start a project in VB5 and then upgrade to VB Express, I get "Configuration:" and "Platform: drop down list boxes. If I start a project in VB Express, I don't get these boxes. How can I get to choose platforms in VB Express Quite a document. Here's the answer to my question: 1.44 References to 32-bit COM components may not work in VB and C# Applications running on 64-bit platforms Most existing COM components are only available for 32-bit platforms and will not run in a 64-bit process on a 64-bit platform (although they will run co ...Show All
Windows Forms DFS & FRS
I am in the process of setting up an additional server which i want to use to replicate information between both machines. my question is can dfs or frs be used within a workgroup environmet specs are as follows Servers running Windows 2003 sp1 IIS 6.0 MSSQL Both have 2 Nic's In a workgroup environment. ...Show All
SQL Server Trouble Installing SQL SERVER 2000 SP4
Any help "Greatly" appreciated. When trying to install SP4, I do not receive any notification of the install i.e. click on setup and then nothing. Checked *.out log and receive the following: 2006-08-08 10:40:57 - [100] Microsoft SQLServerAgent version 8.00.194 (x86 unicode retail build) : Process ID 3616 2006-08-08 10:40:57 - [101] SQL Server 1LTZ0Q version 8.00.194 (0 connection limit) 2006-08-08 10:40:57 - [102] SQL Server ODBC driver version 3.81.9031 2006-08-08 10:40:57 - [103] NetLib being used by driver is DBMSSHRN.DLL; Local host server is (local) 2006-08-08 10:40:57 - [310] 2 processor(s) and 1016 MB RAM detected 2006-08-08 10:40:57 - [339] Local computer is 1LTZ0Q running Windows NT 5.0 (2195) Service Pack 4 2 ...Show All
.NET Development Displaying text as XML on a web browser
How can I change this code to make it display the contents of xmlString on the browser in XML format instead of as ordinary text as now Private Sub Page_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load If ( Not Page.IsPostBack) Then Dim xmlString As String = "<CiscoIPPhoneText><BR>" xmlString += "<Title>Arrests</Title><BR>" xmlString += "<Text>C# XML text</Text><BR>" xmlString += "<SoftKeyItem><BR>" xmlString += "<Name>Next</Name><BR>" xmlString += "<URL& ...Show All
SQL Server Chinese garbled in MSSQL2000 - by ASP
Hi experts, Here I got some problems with my application. (ASP & English Version SQL Server 2000) As we are using English MSSQL Server 2000, we got some new functions and we have to facilitate support of Chinese characters in the DB. I have set the collation for those Chinese fields already and those queries or Stored Procs for Chinese are working fine, ONLY if I execute them in Enterprise Manager. Chinese characters can be displayed in the relevant tables. However here comes the big problem and I got really frustrated. As we will provide user interface in ASP pages, we 'll let users to insert the information which will be sent to the DB. If there's Chinese characters in the query string, the Chinese characters added in the DB ...Show All
SQL Server "Advanced search" query in SQL Server2000
Hi query-experts, I have an application that connects to a db running on SQL server 2000. I want the user to be able to do a google-like search, which returns all records containing all given keywords specified by the user in any of the fields, example: Table has the fields: id, fruit, color User enters: apple pear green The query should return all records that contain apple AND pear AND green in any of the fields. Now I do it like this: SELECT * FROM table WHERE (fruit LIKE '%apple%' OR fruit LIKE '%pear%' OR fruit LIKE '%green%') AND (color LIKE '%apple%' OR color LIKE '%pear%' OR color LIKE '%green%') this query works fine, but since my actual table contains about 10 fields that have to be searched, the query get's ...Show All
Windows Forms Service Events Issue - Not Firing
Hi, I have a service that has a timer that will kick off every 5 minutes. The code withing the first try method works fine and executes correctly. The problem is that the code within the second try never fires. I do not understand why. The machine also has McAfee antivirus running on it. Below is the code: Imports System.Diagnostics Imports System.Timers Imports System.ServiceProcess Imports System.Net.Mail Public Class RebootMon_Service Inherits ServiceBase Private tmr_Check As Timer Private tmr_FileCreate As Timer Protected Overrides Sub OnStart(ByVal args() As String) Try tmr_FileCreate = New Timer(300000) AddHandler tmr_FileCreate.Elapsed, AddressOf FileCreate_Check With tmr_FileCreate .AutoReset = True .Enabled ...Show All