chare's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office disabling repainting while writing to many cells

  Hello, How do you disable and reenable repainting I have an AddIn that writes out alot of data to work sheets and I am experience a slow down because excel is repainting every time a cell changes. I am trying to disable repainting, write out all my infomation, enable and invalidate the sheet. Thanks The solution is to set ThisApplication.ScreenUpdating = false and when your finished writing, set ThisApplication.ScreenUpdating = true. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Order update issue

  Hello adCenter team, Here is the problem we just encountered today: We want to update the names of some orders, but it doesn't seem to be as easy as calling the updateOrders method. First of all, it seems that adCenter does not support partial updates (at least not for orders!). We have to fill up almost all the fields in the AdCenterOrder even if we wanted to modify only the name of the order. In particular, we have to provide a new starting date for the order. But, if we do this and the order belongs to an active campaign, we get error -100837 ("Can not update the alive Order" - "The start date or budget type of an order cannot be changed once it has gone live."). Pausing the order and t ...Show All

• .NET Development Versioning Issue

  Hi EveryOne, We have Unit Test Scripts that were written in C# for.NET 1.x Environment. We were Using NUnit for Exceuting these Scripts and everything was running fine. Now we migrated our scripts to .NET 2.x Environment. We build our project on .Net 2.x and tried to execute it on NUNit. Now in this case result are abnormal and Inconsistent. A script may pass for the First time but on the second run it may or may not pass. Also in NUnit once a Test Fails, it comes back to NUnit Screen and after that any form Instances created is in Minimized state even though we set it to be Maximized. We are just unclear about the reason behind this. Does anyone have any idea. Please reply as soon as possible. Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Joining Problem

  Hi I am having some problme with a join There is two tables a customer and orders The customer table has a unique list of customer The orders table fills up as they come in Customer Table ID Name 1 Cust1 2 Cust2 3 Cust3 Orders Table ID Customer Product 1 1 Tea 2 1 Coffee 3 1 Milk 4 2 Tea 5 2 Coffee So there can be multiple orders for one customer How would I show a list of customer who have never ordered 'Milk' This usually does it for me: select c.ID, c.Name from Customers c left join Orders o on c.ID = o.Customer wher ...Show All

• Visual Studio Nested Designer Surfaces

  Is it possible to nest one design surface within another I want to design a language that enables hierarchical modeling where one design surface has high-level shapes that represent other models which have their own language and design surfaces. Ideally, I'd like the user to be able to double-click on a high-level shape and open the nested design surface, etc. How would I approach this using the DSL tools If my gut is correct, the best way to do this would be by selectivly hiding and showing nested "children". They would still be there on the diagram surface, just not shown. You would probably have to write some shape logic code to handle layout as well. How close did I get Gareth ...Show All

• Windows Forms beep generates no sound

  the Beep method generates no sound, the volume is on i checked Remco try this: Dim a As System.Media.SystemSound = Media.SystemSounds.Beep a.Play()   Even though Beep() should work ok, the reason could mainly be (and ive just tested it) is that you need to make sure that the default beep sound is set in the sound settings of sound devices! Otherwise no sound is given. ...Show All

• SQL Server Missing Integration Service Template

  I have installed SQL Server 180 day evaluation as well as SQL Server Express but I cannot add a new SSIS project because the template is not there (- in the non-express instance - only Reporting Services). When I try and redo the SSIS part of setup(Add/Remove programs) the report tells me that it is already installed correctly. I have searched for others having this problem to no avail... What do I need to do to fix it Not a silly question but I had checked already and the SSIS service was installed and running and I had checked everything to install. I tried to install the parts of sql that I could to D: rather than the default of C: and I installed SQL Express before the SQL 2005 EVAL (which I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installing GAT/GAX and factories under Windows Vista

  Now that Windows Vista is here, I know a lot of people are going to want to run GAT/GAX and Software Factories on the new OS. While it is possible to run these on Vista, there are some known issues with the June 2006 CTPs of GAT/GAX, especially around installation. In order to install GAX, GAT or any current patterns & practices Software Factories on Windows Vista, you should follow these steps: 1. Download the appropriate MSIs (GAX/GAT/factories) and save them to your hard disk 2. From the Start Menu, click All Programs and Accessories 3. Find the Command Prompt icon, right-click it and choose "Run as Administrator". Then accept the User Account Control prompt 4. Change the command prompt ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Only 32 primitives drawing correctly.

  I've made a program that draws multiple triangles on the x-z plane. My eventual goal is a hight map but I'm having a problem with the DrawUserPrimitives call. It works fine if I set the number of primitives to draw up to a maximum of 32, but any greater number and I get some very strange random triangles all on top of one another. I looked through the API and found that there was a MaxPrimitiveCount method but that returns 1048575 so I don't think thats a problem. All the values in my array seem fine, if I copy the end triangles to the beginning of the array they display fine (until 33). If I put the loop that fills the array in my draw method and draw one primitive at a time (by just writing to position 0, 1 and 2 of the array) it works ...Show All

• Smart Device Development communication problem!!

  i can't surf the internet from my pocket pc that connects to my pc through a usb cable or bluetooth connectin while my pc is connected to the internet through a dial-up connection i could do this on windows xp using active sync but now it's not allowed to install active sync on windows vista so please help me your problem here isn't a smart device problem, and certainly not a smart device emulator problem. it's a vista/activesync issue. vista uses "vista mobile device center," not "activesync." I'm not sure if it's out of beta yet ... this is the latest download I can find: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=C23C8E6A-A72D-4AEF-9663-31CE2FEF ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista passing object to workflow

  I have several objects which I want to pass in to the workflow at runtime and be available to any activity run in the workflow. For example, I have a data managment object which the activities should use for database interaction. (I don't want to create a new instance in the activity). Is this possible So, say my data layer was the "MyObject" object from the source above. I used the AddService method workflowRuntime.AddService(MyObject); How would I pickup and use MyObject from within the workflow ...Show All

• Visual Studio vs 2003 vs 2005

  Guys, New to this forum. I am working with VS 2003, and now my company asks me that they would like to move to VS 2005, and I need to provide them comparision between VS 2003 and VS2005. Is there any link which illustrate those differances Many Thanks Rik Hi Rik, This forum is for VS extensibility (macros, add-ins, SDK packages, etc.). That said, see this link: What's New in Visual Studio 2005 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/88fx1xy0(VS.80).aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System msmdsrv using 50% cpu for minutes

  When running reports with cumulative account response time because extremely slow. Msmdsrv on the server starts using 50% cpu for minutes. Hi Mauli, Yes, reports using Date dimension and CumulativeCount are slow and are using a lot of cpu power. When I remove all columns (Year and Date) except for the Week-column from the detail pane, then report generation speeds up. So I guess calculating the cumulativecount on a daily basis just takes a long time. Maybe I need to run cumulativeCount reports over night and just publish the result in stead of allowing them to be interactive. However the Week part of the Date dimension returns a string in the form of "Week of Septermber 17".  I can not use this ...Show All

• SQL Server Specify Destination 'on the fly' for ETL

  Hello Experts: I am trying to find a way within SSIS either automatically or manually/programmatically to allow an application to call the SSIS package for ETL and output the results to a destination specified 'on the fly' by the application. Any ideas.... Thanks for your help,Karun One thought that just came screaming across my head is to setup multiple dataflows, each handling your different destinations. Then, in the control flow you check a variable (set at runtime by the application) to decide which data flow to execute. You can use package configurations to further expand the destination handling. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Demo IV: Offline Application – Conflict Handling

  Hi all, I just posted the forth demo in the series. This demo extends the previous demos and adds conflict handling logic. Conflicts are fact of life in occasionally connected synchronization scenarios. As a sync developer, you need to find a way to deal with this type of changes that if applied without too much thought will lead to data loss and unhappy customers. Synchronization Services for ADO.NET provides the necessary infrastructure to enable you to detect, surface and resolve conflicts. In this demo, I show you how to register to receive conflict events, dissect the information in SyncConflict object and surface it to the user, and the different options to resolve each conflict. I encourage you to read the full description of ...Show All