PromisedOyster's Q&A profile

• .NET Development ByVal or ByRef

  Hi, I have a array of objects of a class (written by me) in my program. When i try to do some manupulation i make a function for that within the class and call the function with parameter as ByVal soemthing like private function NameofFunction(byval x as clsMyClass) as boolean ... End function Now, When I test my program it is giving error (logically)  as it changes teh object of my array inspite of that I am just refering to it ...Show All

• SQL Server pagesize of report is much larger than expected when printed

  I created a report with RS in VS.NEt and set the width and height to 8.5in by 11in from the property window. When I designed it , everything fit on one page nice and neat. When printed it prints on two pages and the font size comes out much larger than expected. The whole document seems to have been blown up bigger and the right side of the document has been cut off. Why is this Do I need to configure vs.net to print Am I missing some se ...Show All

• Visual Studio SolutionExplorer click event

  Hello I've found almost every event in the book that the AplicationObject.Events has to offer. However, I can't find theClick event. I want to do some code whenever an item is being clicked on the solution explorer. Is it possible Avi Avi, You can use the EnvDTE.SelectionEvents. The Onchange eent is fired whenever the selection in the SolutioExplorer changes. HTH, Chetan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Nearly a complete solution

  ========================================== Update: Please see the post dated 9/28/2006 for a new request for help.   =========================================   I have a need to report developer hours by work item by week. I am attempting to use the warehouse filed "Current Work Item Microsoft_VSTS_Scheduling_CompletedWork" and add a "Date Week" perspective to it, but obviously that will only return the value of the " ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Binding data - how to find and replace inside each web test

  Hi Given that I am still trying to reduce as much as I can my code generation, I need to make this process quicker: - I record a WebTest (composed let's say by 10 requests) - I bind a specific parameter (i.e. documentID) to one of my table rows - For doing that, I have to open manually each of the HTTP requests, finding where documentID is present and substitute the recorded value with the bound value. Is there a way to "f ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error in Statement

  Hello.. I convered a VB .NET project to VB 2005 and it is giving me an error: Error 1 End of statement expected. C:\Documents and Settings\bawolters.HERCULES\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\PointsFinder\Form1.vb 172 77 PointsFinder Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click If CInt (TextBox1.Text) <= 4 Then Label2.Text = ( CInt (TextBox2.Text ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Understanding the Windows Workflow Foundation WF: From a Business User's Perspective

  Hi to all The following article explains Microsoft Workflow Strategy from Business users prospective, it also provide overview of how WF seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Office Products And made it easy to design and implement workflows. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/UnderstandWWF.asp Hi Well SPS 2003 can leverage WF but for that thier should be a layer(may me an application / windows service / webse ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Error Installing CF 2.0 on CPU ARM-Intel(r) PXA255 with CE 5.0

  Hi, I have problems installing the CF 2.0 on a Client with the following Data: CPU : ARM-Intel(R) PXA255 OS : WIN CE 5.0 Error Message at the end of the installation process: "Installation error. Stop all applications and processes, maximize available storage space and run instllation again. Support info:4" Here is the installation protocoll : 17/01/2006 15:00:52: Entered Install_Init(). First Call: Yes Previous ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.NotAvailableException why?

  Hi all, I get a: Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.NotAvailableException from the following line of code: device = new Device (0, DeviceType .Hardware, this , CreateFlags .SoftwareVertexProcessing, presentParams); I guessing that its because the HW video is saying it isn't available or is not compatible with DX9 Am i doing something fundamentally wrong or is this the case Cheers very much for your time Felix You can't ...Show All

• SQL Server The SQL Server Service Broker Challange

  Can't believe no one has commented on this in here yet. If you're into SQL Server Service Broker (and you are if you are reading this forum), you must go over and take Rushi's Service Broker Challange . See you in the Broker Hall of Fame!! Niels Thanks for the information Niels.  As the forum owner, I will get dunning mail on this entry until you mark the question as answered so please consider this an an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer doesn't support filenames with characters [ or ].

  Just as a heads up. I have run across a bug in Team Explorer/TFS Beta 3 Refresh: Team Explorer Beta 3 Refresh- If trying to add a document to a project via Team Explorer and the document name contains certain characters a non descript error is displayed. The known characters are [ or ] . There are likely other characters. These characters are fine within Sharepoint Services and opening of the file via team explorer works fine but uploading such ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions changing screen resolution for two monitors

  Basically, I am trying to find an efficient way to write a simple app (only for myself) that can change the resolution on my two monitors without having to go through the GUI for each monitor. I have an HP laptop that I plug into to a Targus dock (w/VGA) for a second monitor and plug into a primary monitor through the laptop's VGA port. I use this configuration at both work and home. The monitors I have at work support 800 x 600 and 1024 x 76 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Casting Error

  Dear Team    there is a field ' Date' in the db allow null...    On the form after binding and adding NewRow to insert ......    if the user left the textbox empty an error will raise    " Casting "" to Date is invalid "    How to solve this error       Thank you very much Thank you very much HuyN_MS Thank you very much Mr Yer i am looking ...Show All

• .NET Development Updating Data Via Web Service

  I have a database on SQL Server that contains a table called USERPROFILE. I also have a web service that has a method called UpdateUserProfile. The web method may update only parts of the user profile at a time, and not necessarily all of it. How should I go about doing this 1- UpdateUserProfile calls a data layer method which returns a UserProfile object populated with data from the USERPROFILE table. UpdateUserProfile then updates only the ne ...Show All

• Visual Studio Extend DataSet Designer ?

  Is there anyway to extend the current DataSet designer in VS2005 I would like to add a few properties to tables and columns.  The properties should show in the properties control and then be persisted to the xsd as extended properties (msprop attrribute). Seems simple enough :) If I have to create a designer by hand - it just wouldnt be worth it. Thanks As far as I know the DS designer is executable code th ...Show All