ahallowell's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System INstall WSS=> MDSE =>INstall VSTF =>UNinstall WSS Do While True

  WSS (STSV2.exe) automatically installs MSDE THEN Visual Studio Team Edition install complains about it saying "Uninstall WSS, drop MSDE and reinstall WSS", which automatically Installs MDSE without notice.. Do while True Install WSS Install Visual Studio Team Edition UNinstall WSS UNinstall MSDE EndDo 'Loop til you die.. Maybe STSV2.exe should ask if the user would like to use the existing SQL2005.. If I ever get Visual Studio Team Edition installed it better be good! How do I stop STSv2 from installing MSDE (and why would it ) Any ideas Pat Tormey PTormey@4square.net New Hampshire Dot Net User Group This is why we have you install Windows SharePoint Se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Migration from SVN

  Hi I need to migrate an old SVN repository to Team Foundation Server Version Control. Can anyone offer any advice on the best way to do this Thanks Chris I found another migration product that can migrate from SVN to TFS with all the history etc. Checkout http://www.kyrosoft.com/products/SVN-2-TFS.htm for details. ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting the Locale of Reports

  I am having a problem with date formats in reports. I have a two servers, one setup as En-US and the other En-UK in Windows. I have various reports that are rendered using the report viewer control in local mode. In my reports I have not set a language on any text boxes or on the report itself (using Default option in VS 2005). As I understand reporting services should therefore use the locale set in the browser, or else the locale of the report server. However, when viewing the reports, both servers display date time values in American mm/dd/yyyy format! I do not understand this as I am using the local machine to view the reports and the so the locale of the browser and the locale of the OS are En-US and En-UK respectively. Please could ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XBox 360 shader compatibility?

  As the XNA framework will be PC <-> XBox 360 I'd like to know what shaders are supported by the XBox 360. Afaik the ATI Xenos GPU of the XBox 360 supports every shader even up to the coming shader model 4.0 (160 operations per cycle), is this correct Thanks ^^ Will the XNA Game Studio Express contain information how the XBox 360 SM3.0 variation works and how SM3.0 shaders can be ported Or would itbe best to keep it on shader model 2.0 ...Show All

• .NET Development OleDbCommand.ExecuteNonQuery not saving a new row in MS Access db

  Hi, I'm writing a Windows forms app in C# using OleDbCommand and a stored procedure (an AppendQuery) in an Access DB. The command object returns a '1' to show a row has been updated/ inserted. But when I look at my table in the db, the new row isn't there. Please help! I'm working with a test example: my Access db has one table (Regions) with two fields: 1- region_id AutoNumber primary key 2 - region VarChar(50) [nulls OK] ... then a stored procedure called NewRegion: INSERT INTO Regions (region) VALUES ([ ]) note: I've tried ' ' and @REGION parameter names, both with unsuccessful results. Sample code: in an event handler: OleDbCommand insertCommand = new OleDbCommand("NewRegion", getConnection()); insertComma ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Send reminder mail through workflow and log History for each activity

  Hi, 1. I have attached a workflow to a sharepoint list. I want to send out reminder mails to people at specific intervals, say every 2 days, if a particular column in the list is not updated. My question is how do I model my above requirement of sending reminder mails If possible, kindly provide sample code. I have onWorkflowActivated activity as my starting activity and have also included onWorkflowItemChanged activity in my wf, which will trigger once an item is changed in the list. I considered using Listen activity (with delay activity in one branch and rest of the execution code in the other) or wrapping onWorkflowItemChanged event in a while loop but am unable to get it correctly. Can somebody assist 2. Another small quer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Disable automatic dataset generation from XSD?

  Is there any way to stop Visual C++ from automatically generating a dataset from my XSD's You can exclude the .xsd files from the build. To do this, right-click on the file in solution explorer and select "Properties". In the "Properties" page, select the "General" pane and set "Excluded from Build" to "Yes". Thanks, ...Show All

• SQL Server MICROSOFT JET OLEDB 4.0????

  hi i have another question.. is this connection provider supported on servers running under 64 bits if not which provider should i use instead is there any service pack or upgrades for this i think this is the problem running my job.. there's no other option left.. it is not permissions.. the path of the connection manager exists, the file destination does exist as well.. the curious thing is that my dts runs fine from SSIS but fails using the job.. do i need to have installed excel in my server to do this or any other component Hi Michael, Thanks for help. Connection to Excel works. Can you take a look on another problem bellow I use Flat File Connection manager in different package. The package creates ...Show All

• Visual C++ UI thread dialog???

  Hi everyone, I like to write a MFC program where files will be copied from one place to another. While worker thread is copying the files, I like to show users a window with file copying (the copied files will be displayed, then the some other file operations that worker thread will be processig at a time, are also to be reported). But the thing is that I don't know what kind of class would be used to implement that reporting window and UI thread to have the program with this feature. Can you please help me with that Thanks!!! MTRECALC sample shows progress information in the satatus bar. You can create your own dialog and show progress information by any way you want - progress bar, text etc. Specificall ...Show All

• Visual Basic Call to Dos Operating System

  how do I make a call to the dos operating system For instance, I wish visual basic to type this at the command line: "wordpad myresume" Um, is this post answered It sounds like you still have a problem, but the thread is marked answered. Did you put the parameter in 'quotes' e.g """C:\test.txt""" ...Show All

• SQL Server Seconds getting dropped in DateTime field

  Hello all, I am loading a bunch of data from VS 2005. Everything works fine save for the Time being reported as 2:29:00 PM instead of 2:29:38 PM. I have debugged my code and the seconds are not being lost there. I have even changed the column type to smalldatetime with no change. TIA, Jason SQL Server Management Studio...no query...just opening the table. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Why is Game not a singleton?

  I'm a bit puzzled by this  - why is the game class not a singleton, i.e. there is and can be only ever one instance of it. I can't quite see any sensible reason to have more than one of them, but as it doesn't seem to be a singleton, I have to hold a reference to it anywhere I want to access game services from. Otherwise I could have just written Game.Instance.Services when I wanted access to them. Or perhaps I have missed something obvious (I know I can make my class that is derived from Game use this pattern, I'm just curious as to why it wasn't done like this in the framework in case I shouldn't be doing it either). I wouldnt even begin to worry about it, you can always refactor if i ...Show All

• Visual Basic n00b - Compiling Code

  Hi there, I am a newbie to VB.NET. And have just started learning from a book. I've gotten part way through the book, when I realised that I can no longer run code that I have saved and closed out of. I can't even get back into the designer. Also, how do I compile code that I have written so that it can be run on someone else's computer without having to have VB.NET Express Edition installed and only the VB.NET runtime All help much appreciated. in order to run your app on the other computer, it MUST have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed. Either install it manually or perhaps create a clickOnce or setup and deployment project to distribute your application which will download the .NET Framework automatica ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Help - releasing WinWord instance at end of process.

  Hi, I have 2 questions relating to the above. 1. I have been getting the following warnings: Ambiguity between method 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Document.Close(ref object, ref object, ref object)' and non-method 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.DocumentEvents2_Event.Close'. Using method group. Ambiguity between method 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Application.Quit(ref object, ref object, ref object)' and non-method 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationEvents4_Event.Quit'. Using method group Having searched I found answers on this Forum (a) The warnings went when I used the example code provided by dhtroy, 18th July 2006 - Thanks (b) However the code example from section 2.4 on url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C++ Question

  hey i got a question with this visual studio C++ 2005 express program. i have been trying to create 3d images using c++ code but i keep getting an error. i want to know if this is a problem with the progam i wrote or if this visual program is unable to identifie the code need for 3d images. if it is a problem with my code could some one give me an example code of a simple 3d image. thanks. You should post all of your C++ oriented question to http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx ForumGroupID=8&SiteID=1 ...Show All