ECHS BACHS's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Drag & Drop icons from Desktop onto control

  Hi all, I have written a menu app which I have to browse for files, to tell it the file name / path. I would like to Drag & Drop icons onto the form / control from the windows desktop. I have a basic understanding on how to drag/drop from 1 control to another (both on the form ofcourse), but when i try to drag an item from the desktop the mouse pointer changes to a circle with a line through it. I am assuming that Vb only lets you drag items from the form onto iteself. Is this correct Code sample would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. When you added the reference to shell32.dll, the IDE created a wrapper DLL to allow your .NET program to call an ActiveX object, automagically translating between the two very d ...Show All

• SQL Server Vista, 18452 and the remote domain

  Hello We have a setup of two very separate domains, they are connected via a couple of routers, we connect to the remote domain mainly for administration mostly via remote desktop. We setup the same user name & password on both domains, with XP as the operating system we can setup the sql link via odbc using windows authentication which works fine, a couple of PC's have now been upgraded to Vista but the increased security stops this from working, we now get error 18452 error code with the user name of "null" I assume vista has stopped the passing of local credentials to what it considers an untrusted domain, fair enough, does anyone know a way of either adding another trusted domain to Vista I do not want to setup an ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Bug in VEMap.GetLeft() ?

  If you call the function VEMap.GetLeft() before calling VEMap.GetTop() then GetTop returns zero. eg. alert("GetTop() = "+map.GetTop()); // ok alert("GetTop() = " +map.GetTop()); // ok alert("GetLeft() = "+map.GetLeft()); alert("GetTop() = " +map.GetTop()); // returns 0 This can be seen at http://maptest.eeens.com/getleft.html by right clicking on the map. GetLeft() also writes data to the status bar. Looking at the respective code in http://local.live.com/veapi.ashx we have - VEMap.prototype.GetLeft=function(){ var curleft=0; if(this.mapelement.offsetLeft) curleft=this.mapelement.offsetLeft; else{ if(this.mapelement.offsetParent) while(this.mapelement.offsetParent){ w ...Show All

• SQL Server Suggested Hardware spec

  Is there any documented hardware spec Alternatively I'd like to see some sort of spec on the phsycal architecture of SSAS.. some sort of I/O profile so that I can determine the machine spec for myself. I am developing using a low spec dev server (although I don't really know the full spec on this machine) and it is painfully slow, taking about an hour to process ~12 M rows.. just one small part of one days potential daily processing. Presumably processing can be done in parrallell so a multi processor machine would really help. Would partitioning measure groups in seperate physical disks would help performance, both for processing and querying Would adding stacks of memory help Is there an in memory cache of data used when serv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Real Xml debugger visualizer?

  Is there any way to debug an XmlElement/Document etc directly, without having to go through the cumbersome xmlnode.OuterXml hassle This limitation is severely slowing down my debugging process. I tried making my own visualizer, but apparently the Xml classes aren't serializable ( ! !) which is required for the process. Is it possible to insert a typeconverter somewhere in the process before an object is serialized for the visualizer If I were to write a snapin and create my own debugger visualizer API, would I still not be able to access the instances directly, only serialized instances I'm even considering writing a wrapper namespace for replacing System.Xml in order to get around this issue... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MenuStripItem on sys tray

  After looking at this topic here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=381830&SiteID=1 Anyone know how to add some Sub or something for handling each individual MenuStripItem yes, exactly as I said. try this: on your form designer add a notifyicon and a contextmenu then click on the notifyicon to bring up is properties and in the "ContextMenu" select the context menu you just added then select the contextmenu control and on your form will appear a context menu strip. add your items in there once added, for each item you added, double click on the item to make an event for that item you would click on your systray icon (When you right click) do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions EOF with Program Resource?

  I'm stumped. I'm including several text files in my program's resources. I'm trying to read those resources until the EOF. Here is my code: Private Sub fileRead() Dim txtLine As String FileOpen(1, My .Resources.abcd, OpenMode.Input) While Not EOF(1) txtLine = (InputString(1, 1)) strLesson = strLesson + txtLine End While MsgBox( "" & strLesson) End Sub But, I'm getting an error "PathTooLongException: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters." I found information on how to parse the path, and tried this: Pr ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Flat File Connection Manager Editor?

  The Import wizard was used to create a package. The package simply reads a flat file and writes the columns to a SQL table. The package was added to and opened in an SSIS project. I would like to make several iterations of changing the flat file columns and their names. Most commonly the wizard would be run with the column names defaulted to [Column 0],[Column 1] ... Later the name will changed when the proper name is known. I have been able to change the name of a column, but don't know how to synchronize the SQL table creation and the column mappings. Help please. The wizard creates 'Preparation SQL Task' that creates the SQL table. If you want different names of columns in SQL table, you need ...Show All

• Visual C# InterProcess Communication, .Net to C++

  AOA, I seek suggestions and possibly solutions to the problem stated below: I have an application written purely in .NET ( Windows Form Application) and another application that is supposed to be written in MFC(Visual C++) or Win32 GUI Application. The problem is to communicate data between the two applications. for example, If i click a button in .NET GUI application, the data(some text) shuld be sent to the VC++ GUI application. Both the .NET and VC++ application will run on the same PC. One option that seems applicable is to use sockets for data communication between the two applications. But since both application will run on the same PC, I thought if there were some other faster options available. Like inter ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem while navigating Report on server

  Deploying to http://localhost/ReportServer Deploying data source '/Report Project1/cnt_SDS_REQUEST'. The Report Server Web Service is unable to access secure information in the report server. Please verify that the WebServiceAccount is specified correctly in the report server config file. Solution to this problem is 1) Open Configure Report Server Tool 2) Update 'Web Service Identity' tab to reflect Asp .Net account on the machine. For Eg. machineName\ASPNET 3) Click Apply Button, This will update WebServiceAccount tag in your report server configuration file 'rsreportserver.config'. Hope this helps. Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual C++ CAtlHttpClient Navigate Failing in SOAP Call

  Hello, I'm running VC 8 and building an MFC application that is statically linked to MFC. I've created a SOAP proxy class using DISCO.EXE and SPROXY.EXE.  When using the generated class to access the remote Web Service functions, the function CAtlHttpClient::Navigate function is called.  This function is failing repeatedly on the call to CAtlHttpClient::ParseStatusLine due to an erroneous report of ERANGE after calling the strtol() CRT function.  I've examined the returned HTTP packet data and the HTTP status code is "200", which is small enough to fit into a long. When I actually step into the CRT library function for strtol, the error code is never being set (the conversion is successful).  However, in the CA ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office insert image

  how to insert image into word application from resource file. Only if you can put it on the Clipboard, then use the Paste method in Word. Word provides no interface to "stream" objects into a document. Ah, one other thought, since we are talking Word 2003. If you can convert the image to the Base64 used by Word 2003's WordProcessingML, then you might be able to "drop" the graphic in using the InsertXML method of the Range object. But I don't know of any documentation for this. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Basic class help......

  Hi, I'm trying to create a static int and I'm getting the following error... Error 1 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "private: static int moodyCritter::_threshold" ( _threshold@moodyCritter@@0HA) critter.obj Here is a snippet of code... class moodyCritter: public critter { private: int _angerLevel; static int _threshold; Any ideas The reason for this is that if it were defined within the object, it couldn't preserve its value after you instantiate and destroy objects. This way, you are defining the actual memory space for the variable globally, but limiting it to the scope of the class you want to use it. Now all instances of the class can use this same memory space to refer ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista GetWorkflowDefinition removed

  In a previous beta there was a method WorkflowRuntime.GetWorkflowDefinition(). I am now using June CTP and that method has been removed from this object (this happened in beta 2.2 I think ). The method is available on the WorkflowInstance, but this is not what I need. Is there a workaround for obtaining the WorkflowDefinition of a workflow type without using an instance of that workflow type The scenario: I want to iterate through a compiled workflow type and get all activities of a specific custom type so I can add records corresponding to these activities in my workflow engine database. So, at this stage, there are no workflow instances for me to GetWorkflowDefinition ... I need to perform this step before instances can be created b ...Show All

• SQL Server BatchUpdateException

  Hi, Im having a problem with the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver v1.1, when it throws a BatchUpdateException it is not setting the vendor-specific error code! It is always returning zero for the error code. The exception is being thrown due to a Unique key contraint. It should be throwing the error codes ( 2627 or 2601 ) which were thrown by the SQl Server 2000 driver. Can anyone explain Hi, Let me research this and get back to you. It looks like it may be a bug in the 2005 driver. What driver version are you using (output from DatabaseMetaData.getDriverVersion()) Thanks, --David Olix (MSFT) ...Show All