Doutaz Michel's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Anonymous methods serialization

  Anonymous methods are really useful to leverage methods such as  AppDomain.DoCallBack . Actually, when the anonymous methods does not rely on the context, the produced delegate is serializable. For example, the following code do work class Program {     static void Main( string [] args) {         Foo( delegate () { Console.WriteLine("42"); });      }   &n ...Show All

• .NET Development New 'Code group' is named 'Copy of XXX' ???

  Each time i create a new Code Group with the '.Net Framework 2.0 Configuration' utility, it is name 'Copy of XXX' instead of 'XXX'. I tried to reset all my security policies, but it didn't changed anything... When i try the 'Evaluate Assembly' command on one of my assemblies (after having created a new code group), the 'Evaluate Assembly' crash ... Anyone have an idea Thanks. Ben The "copy of" naming is a known issue ...Show All

• Windows Forms simple reinstall

  I am just beginning with Setup projects. I created a setup project that works fine for my app. I as develop the app and release new versions, I would like to be able to install the new version directly over the old of by having the installer simply overwrite the files it installed in a previous version. As of now, it says another version is already installed and to use Add/Remove programs to remove it first. Is there a simple way around this ...Show All

• SQL Server Win installer 3 is installed - Sql Server install says not!

  New installation of XP pro -with SP2. Installed .Net 2. Went to install Sql server 2005 express - complains Win installer 3 not installed Tried to install win installer 3 and says it is not needed What do I do next We actually require Windows Installer 3.1 for SQL Server installs. Can you install WI3.1 and try again Here's a link to it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=889482FC-5F56- ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can I set a timeout duration when connect to a wcf service?

  In my demo I connect to a wrong service endpoint to test the client exception. When I connect to the service for the first time, the client connects for a relatively long time before it returns a error message. But when I try to connect again and again, it then returns error message immediately. So whether can I set the timeout , say 60 seconds, so that the connection can return error in a fixed duration Thank The connection timeouts ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error on Check In

  After upgrade checking out a file works fin. When I check it in a couple of error dialogs appear saying checkin failed. Output window shows: YesNoRadioButton.cs has been automatically checked out for editing. Changeset 240 successfully checked in. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Looking in the Source Control Explorer shows the file checked in! But in the Solution Explorer it still shows as checked out. On restartin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Questions About WebBrowser and Compile

  1. I was using VB 6.0 before i tryed VB 2005, In VB 6.0 there was "click" in the WebBrowser (WebBrowser.All.Item(ItemName).Click but i can't find any command in VB 2005 that does the same thing (well, my english sucks, that may be the problem) 2. How do I compile I was told that the "Build ProjectName" is it, but I can't find the compiler program... Thank you Ayal not sure about point 1, but po ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Sound Card - December CTP

  I've been trying to get my sound card working on the December CTP, but I can seem to do it. It installed it automatically but that wasn't working. Then I tried to install it with the driver from Dell.com, but that didn't work either. It also worked fine on previous builds (October CTP, for example). Any ideas my only sugguestion other than what you tried is to use one of the older build DVD's and browse to t ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS.NET 2005 / CR 8?

  I have a few older reports written in CR 8.0/classic ASP. Is the version of crystal reports included with VS.NET 2005 Pro able to open/edit these reports Thanks, Josh Answered my own question, for future searchers see here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/ms225478.aspx VS.NET can migrate all previous versions of CR reports. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployment Installer issue/problem

  This was working fine with VS.NET 2003 on one of my big projects. I was able to configure the installer to remove a previous version of the software and that worked fine. Even if told it not to, it would still work fine. In VS.NET 2005, if the application is already installed and i set the "RemovePreviousVersions" flag to true OR false, when running the setup file, I get this error: "An error occured attempting to installer [AppName]" D ...Show All

• SQL Server Unattended installation woes

  Hi, I have tried to do a new SQL 2005 install via an unattended install script. I have tried both a modified version of the template.ini and just from the command line. The installation starts and successfully installs some of the components I have selected through the ADDLOCAL option. Unfortunately it then reports an execution error and exits. The errors I find in the install log files are as follows... SQLSetup..._Core.log: Erro ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC extension DLL project with /clr option causes link error on _DllMain

  I get link errors mfcs80ud.lib(dllmodul.obj) : error LNK2005: __pRawDllMain already defined in DllMain.obj mfcs80ud.lib(dllmodul.obj) : error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in DllMain.obj The project options are MFC extension DLL /clr option (except the source file with my DllMain implementation) UNICODE character set   I am using VS 2005 Std Ed. and after building a couple of times started ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to tell the version of MSDN Library?

  The "What's New" section of the pre-VS2005 of MSDN Library identified which version of MSDN Library was installed on the system. Ex: MSDN Library October 2005. In MSDN Library for VS2005, how can I tell which version is installed on a system Hi Gaetan, You can correctly identify the MSDN Library version installed on your computer by going to: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or ...Show All

• SQL Server Does anyone know how to fix this?

  hi this is my problem : SELECT * INTO Sales FROM Sales1 WHERE 0=1 ON [MyFG1] the problem is in filegroup MyFG1, rest works fine So if anyone can help, i'd like it to work this way, to copy only first column names from Sales1 to Sales but in this filegroup. thanx ;) [select into] does not allow you to specify the filegroup for the new table. The new table will get created in the DEFAULT filegroup for the database. So, you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is Ocracoke going to be relased?

  Is it along with Visual studio or saperatly ok .. lets confirm this all On November 7, all of the VS 2005 family (Pro, Std and Express) will be available. This also includes the Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite products (Team Edition for Software Tester, Architect and Developer) These products will RTM (release to manufacturer) shortly before then. Team Foundation Server (part of the VSTS - Visual Studio 2005 Team System), will RTM in Q1CY06. ...Show All