Boris Vidolov's Q&A profile

• .NET Development connections over internet

  i have been trying to implement a server and a client little program that will be connecting with each other over the internet. i written the server application to open a port on my computer and listen for tcp connections with tcplistener. the client i used tcp client and gave it to a friend over the net to try and connect to the server on my computer. i gave him my IP address, he putted that in, and the port as well, and tried to connect, ...Show All

• SQL Server Table Name Drop Down

  First off, I am still on the April CTP. We have a lot of tables and views in one database. I would like to be able to type into the drop down to get myself quickly to the range of tables I am looking for. For example we have a set that are prefixed with sis_ But when I try, I get seemingly random results. Is there a fast way to get near what I want with the keyboard When adding the connection manager choose "N ...Show All

• SQL Server how to find out the names of the currently running SSIS packages in a stored proc?

  Hi all,i want to get the list of running SSIS packages in a Stored Proc.Is there any way i can do it ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to add Visual studio data source wizard in GAT

  How to add existing visual studio wizards on my GAT application, like "data source configuration assistant" wizard What do you mean by existing VS wizards Those built-in VS Existing wizards from other recipes If it's the former, you have to find out if any of those wizards are exposed for direct invoking through an API. It's possible that they expose a VS command, although not necessarily. You shou ...Show All

• Windows Forms screenshots

  Howdy folks!  Is there any way using .NET to get screenshots   If so, how   Thanks! ...Show All

• SQL Server DATEDIFF question

  Uses: SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition with SP3, Windows XP Pro; Hi, Is there any possible way that I can differentiate 2 different dates and get in a format inclusive of hh, mm, ss part altogether, rather than only getting one part Like this: if StartDateTime = 10:15:01 AM and LastDateTime = 11:20:01 AM then the difference of LastDateTime and StartDateTime will be = 1hour and 05 Minutes and 00 seconds (I need like this). So ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30063: You are not authorized to access Microsoft-IIS/6.0.

  I receive the above error when doing a Get Latest (recursive) from the Source Control Explorer.  It occurs when I'm on a remote client (with a fairly high latency) to both a Single Server install in domain or workgroup mode.  If I acknowledge the error and continue to do Get Latest Recursive I do indeed get all files, but I may have to do it multiple times to complete, it seems the more files that're updated in source control, the more ...Show All

• SQL Server Join to select a 'weighted' column

  Perhaps is just brain drain but i cannot seem find an efficient query to join two tables (inv and supplier) such that an inv item can have multiple suppliers and i would like to choose the prefered supplier based on the current 'weight' column. declare @inv table ( item varchar ( 50 ), supplierid int ) declare @supplier table ( supplierid int , weight int ) set nocount on insert into @inv values ( 'item1' , ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista and UI Automation

  Can someone point me to the UI Automation resources for Vista I'd like to determine if I can abandon Visual Test for UI Automation. I'm hearing a lot about having "automation" built in to Vista, but I'm not getting the message. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Why VSTO doesnt work on WinXp and it does work on Win2k?

  This is on open question  So any ideas are welcome in order to get a VSTO solution working in WinXp that works on Win2k. 100% sure it has to do with the dlls, but which ones and can they be updated manually   The two main errors HRESULT x800A03EC or  COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used ...Show All

• .NET Development Namespace Conflict while accessing webservice.

  Hi,   I have an interesting problem pertaining to webservices. I have a component (say TestCompLib) which is being returned by a webservice (say TestWebService). Now when I consume this webservice in my asp.net application and try to typecast the object return my webservice to my component i.e TestCompLib. I get can error of namespace mismatch. Actually the component has the namespace TestCompLib.Utils while when the webservice when it ret ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with CertAdm.dll

  Hi, I am developing a web app on .NET (VS 2005) which uses the certadm.dll interop type library (exactly, the ICertView interface) to make connections and searches on a Certification Authority database. The searches are made "one behind another one". That is, there is no need to have lot of connections opened at the same time. The problem is that when I have made lot of searches, I get the following exception: "An atte ...Show All

• Visual Studio More details on VSL

  The Visual Studio Library (VSL) is a new addition to the Visual Studio SDK 2005-10 (VS SDK), and was not previously available in the VSIP SDK.   VSL is a C++ source library, primarily targeting the Visual Studio Platform, which extends the Active Template Library (ATL).  A Power Point presentation given at the VSIP dev lab can be be found here .   Thus far the contents of VSL have been solely driven by the needs of th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio 2005 Team System User Registration Benefits: "Have no access"

  I just recently registered my copy of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite and I got an e-mail verification with a message about "Registration Benefit Portal" where there was suppose to be more professional icons, components, e-learning and one e-book. But the URL does not seem to work: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=52054 All I'm getting is this error message: Error: The page you have requested is unavailable or you do no ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagridview and AcceptChanges

  Hello I am using a databound datagridview. When I call the acceptchanges on the dataset that the datagridview is bound to, the current highlighted cell changes to the first cell in the row, but the actual focused cell stays where it was. My question is, is there anyway to get around this odd behavior So is the only way to clear the .Getchanges dataset through .Acceptchanges Thanks ...Show All