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• Gadgets rss feed

  Is there a gadget somewhere that gets a rss feed from a site I enter and updates itself Here is a simple gadget which takesh the RSS feed from dilbert website http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/DailyDilbert.asp ...Show All

• SQL Server using native-code COM from Unsafe CLR Stored Procedure?

  Hello, everyone. I have to make a gateway to access third-party closed-source native-code COM objects. As an interface, SQL Server stored procedures are absolutely perfect for my needs. I decided to use SQL Server 2005 CLR rather than using deprecated extended stored procedures or accessing COM objects directly through SQL Server. (This decision is aided by the fact that the third party has plans to make a .NET version of their COM objects "really soon now" (i.e.: not soon enough). Backporting their new interface to my abstraction layer will be very simple.) I'm having problems using these COM objects from my SQL Server 2005 CLR stored procedure. When I try to run my stored procedure, I get the error below. It appears that ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Simple Menus (Download)

  As our first sample we have created a simple menu system that loads from xml. The menus can resize, move, and write text to the titlebar. Check back for the variable width font sample coming soon. Please let us know what you think Submit@XNASpot.com Download: http://www.xnaspot.com/Sample_SimpleMenu.aspx lushdog: We are compiling tutorials on our site. Send something to submit@xnaspot.com , and if it is useful we will post it up. Please send em in!     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Share a file to a folder?

  Hi, Is it possible in TFS to share a file between folders. For example I have an xml file that gets managed in one location but I also need it to exist in one of two other physical folders. I tried in VS to add existing item, select the file and click "Add as link" but it does not get added. Any ideas Thanks Donal only way out is branching , you can branch and update periodically , you can write code for this also . I had same situation and here is my question to Brian Harry http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2006/09/26/772371.aspx#1053904 Does SP1 support something like "linked files" in VSS We are working on a multi-location parallel development projec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help disabling Just-In-Debugging

  I installed .net 2.0 yesterday and now Just-In-Time Debugging has taken over my apps I work on outside of VS.net. I have followed all steps I have found to disable JIT with no results. So then I uninstalled 2.0 and reverted back to 1.1. Still, the JIT dialogue pops up. The pages I am working on are classic asp pages and the last thing I need is these JIT popups. I have been unable to find any information beyond the checkboxes in VS.net. Could anyone shed some light on this If it matters, I am on XP Pro and run VS.Net 2003. Thanks. Thanks for the help bandolex, but this setting is already on. However, the problem persists. I have formatted my PC and i'm certain that the only way to solve this prob ...Show All

• Visual C# Overriding equals

  Hello, I was reading “Guidelines for Overloading Equals() and Operator == (C# Programming Guide) <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173147.aspx>”. As a general rule should the derived.equals(base) yield true I guess if derived IS-A base then it should yield true According to their example the answer is yes. Thanks Houman Thanks for the respones. If you follow thier example closely, here is what you'd get: ThreeDPoint threeP = new ThreeDPoint(1,2,3); TwoDPoint twoP = new TwoDPoint(1,2); //initialize... bool thisIsTrue = twoP.equals(threeP); //returns true because you can cast threeDPoint into a twoDPoint bool thisIsFalse = threeP.equals(twoP); //returns ...Show All

• .NET Development Just first access, SerializationException: Unable to find assembly

  Hello, I have seen different flavour of this problem in different places, but as far as I concern none of them has a solution for it. I am using Remoting, .Net2.0, and C#. The server components are running as Windows Service. Whenever the service gets started (restart or install) Only the first access to the service throws the following exception. SerializationException: Unable to find assembly The subsequents access are working fine. Any idea why this happens Many thanks, I am not quite sure if I understand you correctly. I am accessing the server component by marshaling the argument of the server methods, this way I only need the proxy object of the server in the client side, not the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Controls are not visible when the test plays back

  We are using component art web controls in our project, but I notice that when I observe a webtest playing back controls seem to be missing from the page. The control I have noticed this with is the TreeView. It has 2 properties that seem to hold all the information on the structure of the tree and it's contents. These are the "Data" and "Properties" When I record the web test these are populated with very large amounts of information. If I leave this information in place and play back everything is fine. However, I need to automate the process so it runs with various values from our data base. Getting the values from the database and populating the test where needed is not a problem. The problem is that the conte ...Show All

• Visual Studio Alternative locations for Project Templates

  Is there an alternative location to place my project templates other than C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates I want the Project Templates to be available at machine level and not only for the user that installed the Project Templates. My Installer presently copies the Project Template Zip files into the current users My Documents shown above. Is there a location in the Visual Studio installation where they could go instead Cheers LP. found the solution and it's also documented http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y3kkate1(VS.80).aspx copy the project templates in the VS installation dir under ProjectTemplates e.g C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\Projec ...Show All

• SQL Server WHERE clause does not work. Why?

  I am asking for help to resolve this simple problem. It is a stored procedure. It is supposed to return a single row from a table. The table may have max 300 rows but now there is only one row in it. When I execute the query in SQLEXPRESS in the New Query Editor Window with the correct parameter it returns empty row . set ANSI_NULLS ON set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[CentrCtrl_SelectStats] @symbol varchar (10) = 0 AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; SELECT * FROM dbo.CenC_stocksStats WHERE symbol = '@symbol' END Now, I varied this simple statement this way and that way. I changed it into SELECT * FROM dbo.CenC_stocksStats WHERE symbol = @symbol with the same negative result: empty rowset . If I remove the WHERE clause ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. The new Color object and Fading out sprites?

  How are we supposed to fade out sprites In MDX1+2 I used the Color parameter of Sprite.Draw() and slowly decreased the Alpha component. In XNA the Color has no FromInt, no FromArgb, no ToArgb... It kind of sucks.   - JSedlak   EDIT: Figured it out, I have to construct a new Color object and use the overload. LOL, I'm glad I'm not the only one who got confused by that. I came in here about a month ago asking how in the heck I could generate a random color now. It actually took me a while to explain to people what I was even trying to do because the answer was so obvious to them they thought I must be asking about something more difficult. Nice job on figuring it out yourself though, I had to duck my head s ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot connect to the SQL 2005 Express

  I created test project and want to use SQL 2005 database inside. 1. I created Test database with DEFAULT rights 2. I go into server explorer, press Add Connection. Shows message box for connecting to the server: <PCNAME> using windows authntification. But NO database allowed to view :(. Which setting should be set for SQL server database to i could connect and work with it In Visual Studio, click Connect to Database in Server Explorer. Under Choose Data Source, select Microsoft SQL Server. Under Data Provider drop-down list, select .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server and click Continue. On the Add Connection window, in the Server Name drop-down list, either you type .\SQLEXPRESS or select it in your list ...Show All

• SQL Server Framework 2.0 changes - TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

  If you connect to a server and open a query in SQL Managment studio (2005) and looses connection and then regain the connection, when you try to run the query it gives me a "TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host."   This happens against both 2005 and 2000 servers.   If I re-run the query it works.   However, this happens in our VB.NET app as well for clients with Wireless connections.   So, something has changed in Framework 2.0 regarding this, does anyone know how to tell the client to not throw this error and just try connecting the server instead which will work   If I remember correctly, the same procedure should work for RTM bits. Is it not workin ...Show All

• SQL Server IN function syntax - how do you delimit set members?

  I am using the IN function in an expression. Can someone tell me the delimiter for members in the set I tried semi-colon but that doesn't appear to be working. My expression looks like this: IN(Status1, "Issued;Entered;Closed"). It always returns false even though the value of Status1 will always be one of the three listed values. The Help files describe it this way: IN Determines whether an item is a member of a set. Syntax IN (item, set) I should have made the point that this is not the SQL IN operator although it shares the same name. It is the IN function that is available when creating expressions within Reporting Services. I guess this might be consi ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums dtpicker MicrosoftWord Template

  Hello, I am new to VB, but have general understanding of other programming languages. I am trying to create a Microsoft Word Templete document which incorporates the dtpicker control. I would like the users to be able to select the date they made changes to the form. This form will be passed via email from rep to rep until all data is collected. Problem: 1 - when a document is created from the templete and saved; Upon openning the document at a later date the date picker does not hold the value of the last date selected. 2 I tried using text box along with the date picker and some code behind to assign the value of the date picker to a text box upon date changed. Problem when this document is passed over email this functiona ...Show All