mvalpreda's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Which is first

  I am installing Visual Studio.net and Visual Basic.net. Does it matter which is install first Thanks Terry If you are installing Visual Studio there is no need to install Visual Basic Express because Visiual basic is in visual studio. There is no such separate product as Visual Basic. ...Show All

• SQL Server Recommendations please

  Hi all, I'm fairly new to Analysis Services. I've been working through Brian Larson's "Developing Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005" which has been a great starting point. I wonder if anyone can recommend a more advanced book which covers Analysis Services in more depth and/or acts as a reference manual. I'd also be interested to hear which front-end tools people have found most endearing. Thanks Hello Sean, I'd recommend the following two books to take you to the next level: (1) Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX (Programmer to Programmer) by Sivakumar Harinath and Stephen R. Quinn (Paperback - May 30, 2006) Amazon link: < http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Server-Analys ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I am trying to use the printDocument toolbox event and I am getting an overload statement

  I am getting an overload statement for my printdocument. It says overload resolution fail because no accessable 'DrawString' accepts the number of arguments Structure ProductData Dim strName As String ' Product name Dim strDesc As String ' Description Dim intProdNum As Integer ' Product number Dim decPrice As Decimal ' Unit price Dim intUnitsSold As Integer ' Units sold End Structure ' Print sales data for each product. For intCount = 0 To intMAX_SUBSCRIPT ' Calculate the unit revenue. decRevenue = products(intCount).intUnitsSold _ * products(intCount).decPrice ' Accumulate the total revenue decTotalRevenue += decRevenue ' Print the uni ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System running unit tests causing build to fail

  so i've looked at this for a while now, and i'm stumped. I am trying to run a set of unit tests as a part of my nightly build. When the build runs, everything works great until it gets to the point of running the tests. Then it fails, seemingly without explanation. The relevant portion of the build log looks as follows. Target RunTestWithConfiguration: TestToolsTask MetadataFile="c:\TeamBuilds\TruAssets\TruAssets Nightly Build v2\BuildType\..\Sources\TruAssets Solution\TruAssets Solution.vsmdi" TestLists="Unit Tests/Domain Unit Tests" SearchPathRoot="c:\TeamBuilds\TruAssets\TruAssets Nightly Build v2\BuildType\..\Sources\..\Binaries\Mixed Platforms\Debug\" PathToResultsFilesRoot="c:\T ...Show All

• .NET Development AccessViolationException with C# Ping class

  I have a "watchdog" program, c# console application, coded with VS 2005. Program runs every 3 minutes. And one part of program checks pings to ~20 ip's. I'll give that function code: static private bool ping ( ref String ip) { bool success = false ; Ping pingSender = new Ping (); if (pingSender.Send(ip).Status.Equals( IPStatus .Success)) { success = true ; } else { success = false ; } return success; } Usually this works.. but sometimes (once a day on the average) it throws an exception and program crashes: Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. I checke ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Stack overflow in calling Range.InsertXML()

  I'm using Range.InsertXML() to display an xml blob on a particular area on the document. The xml blob comes from the database and I use recursion to insert all records on the word document. I'm getting a stack overflow error when the records gets too big (50+ pages). I saw a thread on stack overflos in excel and it suggests using Application.EnableEvents set to false before calling a method. Word don't have this event. Any ideas how to prevent this error In that case, report it as a bug, here http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/reportbug/search.aspx Be sure to provide a very detailed problem description, including steps to reproduce it. ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies how to quote content

  I am new to moss. I encounter a problem: Say i have an Calendar in my site. And I want to quote the Calendar in another page. How to do Any suggestion hi sondergaard A error occure when I do the last step (11. Click OK in the tool pane) The error message is :Cannot save the property settings for this Web Part. The site URL is not valid. The site URL should refer to a site in the current site collection and should be specified as a server relative URL, as in "/sites/MySite" why Specifie a relative URL ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to disable Virtual Directory Textbox in Web Setup project?

  Hi, How to disable the Virtual Directory Text Box in the Installation Address Dialog of Web Setup project as I do not want the user to change the Virtual Directory name during installation Please help me in the regard. Thanks in advance. This thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1263534&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Conditional column select

  Is there a statement to change the column in a select clause For example: select Groups, sum ((if group like '%total%' then select TotalHours else if group like '%Direct%' then select DirectHours endif endif)) as Hours, count(*) from tblGroups. group by Groups. Examples A. Use a SELECT statement with a simple CASE function Within a SELECT statement, a simple CASE function allows only an equality check; no other comparisons are made. This example uses the CASE function to alter the display of book categories to make them more understandable. USE pubs GO SELECT Category = CASE type WHEN 'popular_comp' THEN 'Popular Computing' WHEN 'mod_cook' THEN 'Modern Cooking' WHEN 'bus ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Opening XML File on Pocket PC

  I'm trying to load an xml file in Pocket PC, but its giving me DirectoryNotFoundException. I know why the exception is occuring becaue Pocket PC file structure is not like the local Drive system we have in windows. I'm trying to do the following to resolve the exception but it still does not works: String path = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Programs) + "\\MyPocketCal2003\\QuantitiesUnits.xml"; String path = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Programs) + "\\MyPocketCal2003\\MyPocketCal2003\\QuantitiesUnits.xml"; Please suggest a solution. You absolutely can. In fact that is the common way to solve the issue f hard coded paths. There’s even “ho ...Show All

• Visual Studio A walk through for Project Sub type sample

  Hi - I am currently using the August 06 - Visual Studio SDK. I am trying to understand the Project Sub Type sample and was wondering if there is some walk through that can help me me understand as to how the project was built. Thanks, Kushal. Hi Dmitry, Actually I am trying to create a flavor on top of the already flavored project. As of now I was successfully able to change some GUIDs and templates within the project sub type and have a flavor on top of our flavor. However I want to create something from scratch - see exactly what steps need to be followed in coming about the final flavor. Hope this answers your question. Thanks, Kushal. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems with QueryLabels

  Hy, here is a sample of my code. TeamFoundationServer tfs = TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetServer("tfs2005"); VersionControlServer versionControl = (VersionControlServer)tfs.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer)); VersionControlLabel[] labels = versionControl.QueryLabels(null, null, null, false, "filePathInTFS", LatestVersionSpec.Latest,false); The Query is not filtering the labels only applied to the latest version of the "filePathInTFS". I'm getting back all the labels that were applied on the file. My file is part of two changesets : 33, 55 so I'm getting back labels that were applied on 33. What I'm a doing wrong.... Thank you James To clarify, this is ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services printer problem

  I have a windows NT service, which prints to a laser printer programmatically using MSRS 2K. It works fine with a HP printer however when I try printing to a Lexmark Printer it does not always print. Somebody help. Microsoft please release a latest patch for MSRS 2K, its been so long since we had one. ...Show All

• SQL Server The product level is insufficient for component...

  Hi. I'm using SQL Server 2005 Management Studio to try and run an SSIS package. One step blows up with this error: "The product level is insufficient for component "data conversion 1"". I checked out the thread here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=112469&SiteID=1&PageID=0 However, after installing SP1, the program is still giving me the error. I'm running the package from my WinXP Pro SP2 workstation. What am I missing Thanks. You need to run the setup again, so you do need the installation CDs. One of the first install pages asks which components to install (SQL Server, OLAP Server, SSIS, etc) - you need to check SSIS (likely only SQL and Workstation Com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System we are getting “302 Found” http status while redirecdting to Regsys URL

  Today we tried scenario 1 using VSTS in whicch we encountered following issues related to passport authentication: We were able to record scenario 1 but while executing/playback we are getting “302 Found” http status while redirecdting to Regsys URL. (The data requested actually resides under a different URL, however, the redirection may be altered on occasion (when making links to these kinds of document, the browser should default to using the Udi of the redirection document, but have the option of linking to the final document) as for "Forward"). For further details please refer to the attached screenshot. We are still looking into this issue and will be updating you as per the progress. Please can any body help me ...Show All