Jason Conner's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Urgent: SslState throwing exception deep inside HttpRequest at random

  We have a class in our website that calls Fedex's web servers to receive quotes using an XML interface. (This is part of our check out processes). Over the past few days we've started receiving Disposed Object exceptions randomly during our HttpRequest. The class that is throwing the exception is actually in System.Net.Security.SslState, which is deep inside Microsoft's framework library and not called directly. We have never had problems like this before, nor can we find references to it on the Internet. Fedex recently upgraded their systems, but claims we have done something to break our code, whereas the only change we've made in recent weeks was moving from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0. We've been running on this code for over 2 years and hav ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro how to check for your prg running?

  heres my prob. when you launch my application and minimize it and then try and launch it in a second screen you get alot of errors. how can i check if the program is already running so i know to cancel the prg right away if it is alrdy running Yes I mean pre2K (and we have many customers using win9x,winNT it's frustrating for me to always seek a method that would work on those machines too - meaning even with winAPI I have to choose carefully:( ). ...Show All

• .NET Development Failed to access IIS metabase

  When connecting to ReportServices on a remote computer with the ReportViewer control I get this error. I am logged on as e normal user on my computer. When logged on as an administrator I can access the remote report... I don't understand this error. Can someone please help me with this Try the solution in this post and let us know if it works: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PageIndex=3&SiteID=1&PostID=116989&PageID=2 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how can i add gradient color to a usercontrol and or panel backcolor from my.settings

  Hi i'm new to programing. I would like to know how i can add gradient colors to a usercontrol and on a panel. i woul like to select the colors from the my.settings.topcolor and mysetings.bottomcolor. ahmedilyas helped me to set the forms back gradient color. how can i set the back color on a panel and usercontrol. see sample code below for the form gradient background color. i would like to instead of specifying the colors blue and white i would select them from the my.setting Protected overrides sub OnPaint(ByVal e as PaintEventArgs) Dim theBackground as System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush theBackground = new System.Drawing.Drawing2D.LinearGradientBrush(new Point(0, 0), new point(0, ClientSize.Height ...Show All

• SQL Server Passing NULL-value into package variables

  We have a package with a package variable. This variable is of data-type 'DateTime'. However, when i try to pass the value 'NULL' the package fails... i use the following statement with 'dtexec.exe' /SET \Package.Variables[MyDate].Value;"NULL" What's the correct syntax for passing null-values But maybe (because i cannot find anything on this) i should ask if this is even possible... I don't think you can pass nulls through the commandline dtexec or dtexecui simply because a DBNull is an object. One option you can pursue is to pass it using a console app written in VB or C#. This link shows one of the ways of doing that. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS for .NET 3.0

  Our company plans to migrate to .NET 2.0 and then immediately to .NET 3.0 Do we have any compatibility issues of VSTS on any of these versions eg. once I've migrated to version 3.0 will I be able to use the same VSTS configurations Thanks. - Johnson Well "Orcas" (or for the moment Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET 3.0), will be the next release of Visual Studio, and will be specially focused on Windows Vista (as far I had read), but there are the Visual Studio Extensions (you can download November 2006 CTP) which will allow you to develop .NET 3.0 applications in Visual Studio 2005. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums LOADING GEORSS not working

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/VEMapControl/HTML/WorkingWithLayers.asp The above page references the ability to load a GEOrss file. However the example only shows loading a "collection". I have followed the code correctly - however when I attempt to load a GEORSS compliant file - it says "0" items have been loaded. Could you provide example page of loading georss Can you please show the source code exactly like was used for the Interactive SDK (including the link to the geoRSS used - so we can see how the georss xml file was written), as well as how the icons were loaded and the popup layer was structured with pushpin hover. Thanks   I was facing similar problem ,it found the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Optimum solution required for creating multiple build types

  Hi The problem is : I need to create multiple build types for a Team projects and I have some 50 solutions to be build with some paritcular order.When I create a new build type,I need to select 50 solutions and then set the build order.I want all the next build types which are supposed to be created to have the same solutions to be build and the same build order and also have some extra task to be done.Now,after I am creating 2nd build type I have to again select all those 50 solutions and again set the order which is tedious. How do I avoid this selecting the solutions and setting the build order for every new build type creation I want to is there a way where I can reuse the master build type(which I created for 1st time) in my next b ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Drawing Antialiased Ink into Bitmap

  Hello everybody, I have a question on a well-known situation: it was impossible to draw antialiased or transparent ink into a Bitmap using the Renderer-class. Is this still a problem My personal test's say yes, but maybe there is a work-around. One work-around I know about is using the DIBgraphicsBuffer-Class found in the Printing-Ink-Article here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms812505.aspx This worked fine under Windows XP. I copied a personal project using this DIB-Buffer to Windows Vista and it no more works. And I don't know why. Maybe it is because of the FullTrust-Situation I am absolutely not used to this, but I also had no explicit FullTrust-Environment under WinXP, did I Well, if someone could help me - ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Moving between Tabs - On click

  Development - VS2003 (VB.NET) Device - Symbol MC70 I have a form with three tabs. Each tab contains a listview (Detail view). When I click from one tab to another I would like the focus to be set on the first item in the listview of that tab. When I use a function key on my device to move from one tab to another I can keep the focus on the listview by using the code below within 'SelectedIndexChanged'. But when I use the stylus to click from one tab to another, the focus is no longer on the listview. How can I set focus to the relevant listview on clicking of a tab If TabControl1.SelectedIndex = TabControl1.TabPages.IndexOf(tabHistory) Then lstHistory.Items(0).Selected = True lstHistory.Items(0).Focused = True lstHist ...Show All

• Architecture Which Way to go?

  I have a project to make a Settlement Statement in this format. Column1 Column2 Column3 Colume4 Adv Deposits Guest City Monthtoday forColumn 3 Previous Balance 0.00 0.00 300.0 - Settlements ---The Settlements Section will be Manual Entry Net cash 0.00 0.00 0.00 450 Checks 0.00 0.00 0.00 600 Paid Out 200.00 0.00 0.00 500 F&B Paid Out 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Lockbox 0.00 150.00 0.00 150 American Express 0.00 0.00 150.00 150 Discover 0. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System View file in solution explorer

  That's odd, I'm sure I used to be able to double click on an object (in this case a stored procedure) in schema view and it would open for me to edit. Now I just get the menu item 'View file in Solution Explorer' which doesn't work. It just flicks back to the solution explorer and doesn't expand the correct folder or select the correct file. Am I mising something Weird, just tried it on my home PC on a table that has child objects and double clicking opened the SQL file fine! Also using the View File in Solution Explorer menu worked OK as well. The database schema I have on my home PC is very small in comparison to my work project. I'll try on a smaller project at work tomorrow. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) OCT ORCAS CTP and Class generation

  I am currently trying out the Oct Orcas CTP and i am a little unsure on how to procced in regards to the EDM stuff. I am also using the oct samples as a reference. I have created a project which contains the ssdl, csdl, and msl files. It seems that in order for me to make use of those files in another project i would need to run some tool against them to create the corresponding code. I have been using the individual CTPs(ADO vNEXT, EDM Designer and LINQ Preview)up to this point. I understand that the Orcas CTP has limited functionality in terms of the EDM tools. I was just wondering how i would progress to the next step. ie referencing the entities in another project. Or is the answer i need to create the class by hand too Or maybe there ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to use MemoryStream.Read Method

  Hi, I am learning to use the MemoryStream class, and having a hard time understanding the documentation in MSDN ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.memorystream.read.aspx ). I want to read the first 4 bytes of a byte array using MemoryStream, convert these 4 bytes to integer, and store them in a variable. Could someone provide a working example Thanks! Here's a working Reali life example: Using ms As New MemoryStream(Ba, False ) Using zipStream As New GZipStream(ms, _ CompressionMode.Decompress) Dim bc(3) As Byte Dim encoding As System.Text.Encoding = _ System.Text.Encoding.Unicode Try zipStream.R ...Show All

• SQL Server Service broker as job scheduler

  Hi, I have read that service broker can be used to manage and schedule jobs. but how is this more of an advantage compared to the current sql server job scheduling using the sql server agent. thanks in advance. Would appreciate if somebody can answer immediately Is there anything particular you don't like about Agent When internal procedure activation on queues is combined with conversation timers, the result can be a custom build job scheduler. As Adam said, the Broker was not designed as a scheduler, therefore it has no rich API to support job scheduling. There is nothing 'out of the box' that looks like a job scheduler, you'd have to role your own. The typical reasons people are looking at broker as ...Show All