Pak Lui's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio VS2005 and VSS6: VS needlessly prompts to check-out solution

  Using VS2005 Team Edition for Software Developers and Visual SourceSafe 6.0d (build 9848) I have observed that VS2005 is prompting members of my development team to check-out our solution files from sourcesafe for no apparent reason. My team has several solutions and projects that are organized within SourceSafe thus: $\project1\project1.sln \project1.vcproj $\project2\project2.vcproj $\project3\project3.vcproj The project1.sln includes $\project1\project1.vcproj, $\project2\project2.vcproj, $\project3\project3.vcproj, the latter two being dependents of project1. Every time one of us opens project1.sln, Visual Studio prompts the user to check-out project1.sln. The comments in the check-out dialog say: & ...Show All

• Visual C# need help with void method

  I need help with developing an output menu of the retail items below. I would like it to include a part where if you type zero, it will include all items, or if you hit 99, it will exit the menu. It should also include a way to prompt the user to make a selection. Any ideas class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { //Gum Retail Item string ItemName; decimal ItemCost; decimal ItemPrice; string Category; string ItemCode; decimal ItemWeight; //figure out the values ItemName = "Gum" ; ItemCost = 0.32m; ItemPrice = 0.50m; ItemWeight = 2.0m; Category = "Candy" ; ItemCode = "345A" ; //Snickers Retail Item str ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Children.remove Performance

  I was just wondering if calling children.remove actually removes the xaml from the control or if it is doing something else. The reason is that if I have a control and I add and remove lots of xaml it seems that after some time it causes IE some issues (for instance, it takes awhile to close the browser or navigate away). So it made me wonder if remove items actually removes them or if they are still left in some way. Thanks. I create the xaml tree using javascript. It is created for each add. I've posted an example of it here: http://blogs.sqlxml.org/wpfe/matrix2/ The javascript is at: http://blogs.sqlxml.org/wpfe/matrix2/matrix.js Xaml at: http://blogs.sqlxml.org/wpfe/matrix2/matrix.xaml ...Show All

• Community Chat videos on the zune marketplace

  i was reading about the zune marketplace, and i didn't hear anything about a video store. i think that this is essential for the success of the marketplace. itunes has a video store, although they just sell TV episodes. it would be extremely beneficial if the zune marketplace sold full movies as well as television episodes. ...Show All

• SQL Server SharePoint Integrated mode

  Hi! I wonder where in Reporting Services Configuration i can change the mode to Share Point Integrated Do i need to create a new database, or can i change the mode for the one i use //C To add to what Sharmila mentions, please also refer to the following topic in the updated SQL BOL for more details: " How to: Create a Report Server Database for SharePoint Integrated Mode (Reporting Services Configuration) " thanx, Prash ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Strange Results From a Smoke Test

  Hello Everyone, I have a little problem that is puzzling me, and I have turned to the superior minds here for help ! I have only just started working with VSTS and am setting up a load test for a website being created by my company. One of the first things I wanted to do was to smoke test VSTS with a very short "mock-up" test against a very small "mock-up site". In particular I was interested to find out how many users I could simulate on a single machine before I maxed out either the processor or memory. So........ I set up a load test starting at 10 users, and adding 10 users every 10 seconds all the way up to 2000 users. Thinking that a very long way before that point I would exceed the resources availabl ...Show All

• SQL Server Error creating Report Model based upon Oracle Database

  In MS Visual Studio, when creating a new Report Model Project, after defining a datasource to an Oracle database (and successfully testing it), and a simple datasource view (1 table), when I click "Run" in Report Model Wizard, I receive the following error: "ORA-02179: valid options: ISOLATION LEVEL { SERIALIZABLE | READ COMMITTED }" It does not appear that one can create Report Models from an Oracle database (since the SQL being used to query the Oracle database cannot be edited and contains syntax errors ). Is this the case Thank you. Report Models for Oracle 9 and above will be supported in Yukon SP2. Public SP2 CTP is on its way. Keep an eye on  http://micros ...Show All

• Visual Basic Replace text(string) w/ TextBox

  Hi. I have bunch of text in a database and I need to replace part of text (strings from db) with textbox. For example, if I have " How are ____ ", I need ____ part of the string apear with TextBox so that user can fill it in. I was thinking of using displaying the text with Label control, and "___" part with TextBox. Not every sentence is going to have ____ at the end, so the program needs to know where to put the TextBox properly. Is there easy way to acheieve this programatically Thank you. Hi, If you typed Textbox1 then a dot you will see all the options. X and Y i think are two of them but that makes it complicated as you are not going to know the screen posi ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Live Spaces - flash and RSS

  I am wondering, if FLASH documents can be inputted into blogs Or is it a restrictions It prevents/stops others from inserting videos from YouTube (a very bad choice, as many other blog hosts allow this function!) Images which user has created and wants to share it on his/her blog is also not allowed And I am also asking if, RSS feeds actually has a limit...as I have a couple in myspace, and if there's a limit then maybe I have reached it, if there isnt then there's something wrong over here...... hope to get a reply soon. thanks, cheers~ it is really a bad news, but i think you can try to use windows media player 10 in live spaces, change flash.swf to flash.wmv, then you can use media player 10 to play ...Show All

• Community Chat Firefox 2

  Yay! firefox 2 is being released at 8pm today!! Hooray! just thought i would let you know... Brian Kramer wrote: http://toolbar.live.com/ Is more slowly :( ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Sending a transaction only once over a wireless network.

  I've got a transaction, that I want to be sent only once via a wireless network. Does anyone have some thoughts on what the best way to ensure that this transaction is sent only once is What do you mean by "I've got a transaction" As in System.Transactions.Transaction class It's not supported on devices. If you need to send a message in transactional manner (delivered once and intact or not at all) , you could use MSMQ. If you need to update a database in transactional manner, you should use provider's transactions, e.g. System.Data.SqlClient.SqlTransaction. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ARMV4I emulator

  Hello All, Thanks Mohit but I finally got the Device Emulator to start up. I would like to say to the Microsoft team, Thanks for all the help J . With that said, there are a few more problems that I am currently facing. I am trying to connect to the Device Emulator that is running using Platform Builder from Visual Studio 2005. I can connect to the Device Emulator from Platform Builder by following the steps outlined by Barry. I can also connect to another instance of the Device Emulator from Visual Studio 2005 using the SDK. When using the device emulator from Platform Builder, the image is distorted. Can this be fixed If so, how However from Visual Studio 2005, can I connect to the same Device Emu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to get selected item from ListView?

  Hello.How I can get the selected item from a listview.for example if I wan't to delete it..... 2 - I have a Folder Browsing Dialog.How I can search file (.txt or .mp3) in the selected path is not working Error:Error 1 'System.Windows.Forms.ListView.SelectedItems' is a 'property' but is used like a 'method' ...Show All

• .NET Development Exporting contents of Grid View to excel spread sheet. Is AJAX possible?

  Hi, How can the contents of a Grid View in ASP.NET2.0 be exported to an excel spread sheet. Currently I have a search screen, where there is a facility to export to excel sheet. The Grid view uses pagination to display the records depending on the user preference(say 10 records per page). But while i export to Excel, I need all the records which match the search criteria to be in the excel sheet. Can someone please give pointers to how i can do this Also can I use AJAX for this GridView does not have direct functionality to export data into Excel, so you would need to add extra efforts on your side to do this job. There are several ways to export data into Excel and preserve format 1. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development simple phone call

  Hello, I am using TAPI: lineOpen,..., lineMakeCall to make a simple phone call almost like sdk samples. When connected to a third party, I do not have earphone working (a PPC phone ed WM5.0). What did I miss (something with TAPI phone functions ) tapiRequestMakeCall is not an alternative as it does not allow call state management. Do you have a clue Olive2 hello, I am using TAPI LineOpen, ... lineMakeCall to make a simple phone call like the sdk examples. When connected to a third party I don't have the earphone working. What did I miss (something TAPI phone functions to implement ) do you have a clue Olive ...Show All