Chris Forbes's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Store/load form settings with a generic Settings class?

  Hi, I have a form containing graphical components such as textboxes, checkboxes and radiobuttons. When the program closes I want a Settings class to handle the state of these components and Save/Load them to/from a text file. I want the Settings cl ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql Reporting Services problem

  Hi, I use sql reporting services in a C# windows form application. I made 3 reports which i use in the application. I tried to use each report several times during the application, i.e. - I filled in the report with parameters and DB data at first during the running of the application, and created a mhtml file from the report. when I tried to use the same report in the same running time of the application , but with different data and diff ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office COM Addin, in frame work 1.1 , C# and outlook 2003, it wast wroking fine i can able to send the mail with customised form , bu

  HI i have developed COM Addin,  in frame work 1.1 , C# and outlook 2003, it was wroking fine i can able to send the mail with customised form ,  but now i instal the FrameWork 2.0, it not working , i can not able to send the mails form now it is showing following error . See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ******** ...Show All

• Visual C# VS 2005 Beta 2 - Visual Web Dev - set default language to C# from VB

  On Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 - Visual Web Developer How do I set the default language to C#   It seems to default to VB.  The default language is based on the Profile you choose when you started VS 2005 the first time. If you choose the profile as VB.NET Developer then my default even the language selected for ASP.NET Projects would be VB.NET. You can go to Import/Export settings tab and Reset the pro ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Problems when accessing a text file using ADO

  Hello, I am having trouble with some code and I was hoping someone could help me out. I am writing an excel macro that uses ADO to connect to a comma delimited text file and retrive data. The following are the problems I am having: 1. I have no headers in my text file, but it is being treated as if it had a header row when I fill my record set ( it automatically starts on row 2) how do I get it to look at row1 first 2. I am using "Mo ...Show All

• Visual Basic DHCP API declarations for VB

  I've been looking for all the neccesary declarations to use the DHCP management API (dhcpsapi.dll) in Visual Basic. So far it seems that the can not be foud anywhere on internet. All that can be found are the C++ declarations. Is there anyone who has these declarations available either as text or vb code . Maybe you can use this Please note that the DHCP_SEARCH_INFO structure is only for searching usi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Installation on a SD card

  Hi all, I have a cab file and the problem is if I choose to install it on a SD-Card, the dlls and the exe files will be anyway installed in the main memory of the PDA. What is the reason for this and how can I changed it Thanks for help Karin If you mean NETCF CAB, that's by design and you can not change that. Please see this: http://blogs.msdn.com/netcfteam/archive/2005/10/11/479793.aspx If ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MSDN Express

  There is aproblem with my MSDN express installation. I installed with VWD express but I cannot find the documentation for C#, System.Web namespace, ... so there are a lot of things htat are missing in Beta 2. Thank's Foris Zoltan This is by design. If you only installed VB Express, then documenation for C# or ASP.NET will not be included. This keeps the size of MSDN down to a reasonable size for download. ...Show All

• SQL Server how to insert more than once when processing one row in script component

  I am trying use call DirectRowToOutput0 more than once to achieve the goal, but it gives an error of calling COM. I can create more than one destination to achieve it, but I need create 8 destinations for my situation. Is there any easy way Thanks Is this any help to you: http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2005/09/05/2113.aspx -Jamie ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Specifying Endpoint to use with wsFederationHttpBinding & issuerMetadata

  Hi, From my other posts, you can see that after some struggles, I've got an STS working. I can use it in either of two modes, certificate only (wsHttpBinding, clientCredentialType="Certificate") or the customBinding. I have two endpoints defined in the STS's service element, however, to switch modes, I must change the default endpoint ( address="" ). In the STS:: <service behaviorConfiguration="CertificateMod ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro selectedItem problem

  Very unexpectedly I ran into this problem today. I think similar statements are working fine in many parts of my forms. o_Ole_TreeViewP7 is a treeWiew on page7. When I turn the pageframe to page 7 I want to make sure that accidental clicking on some buttons on the page won't result in a break up. I mean BEFORE the cursor is positioned on a certain item of the treeView. After the first selection has been made the treeView.SelectedItem is defined. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Desktop Builds of multiple solutions

  Team build allows us to easily build multiple solutions in a team project. In a muti-solution system, developers will also need to be able to easily build many solutions locally where they want to sanity test that their change to one solution doesn't adversely affect anything else that references it. Is there a way developers can perform a desktop build of the same solutions defined in the a team build other than opening the solution in the IDE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Link Work Item to document on project portal

  Is it possible to attach a link to a Work Item that points to a document on the project portal For instance, if you have the work item Create requirements document, you would want to have the finished document in TFS. Either attached to the work item or in some document folder on the project portal. The latter one is the better location, I would say, but then I would want to link the work item to the document on the portal. However, it is onl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Failure to Open the Exisitng report (.rdl file)using Report Builder

  I have installed TFS Beta 3 (Dual Server Mode) Created New Process Template. Creating Team project using the process template. Open the report site from the Repots node in TFS Explorer in the Team project node. Clicked Report Builder. Trying to open existing .rdl file using "Open From File", i am getting following error. Cannot Open this Item. This report cannot be opened in the report builder One or more unexpected Report Definition Language ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance with simple calc on FirstNonEmpty

  Asume a simple query with a view measures on columns and 100 of 2000 members of a parent child dimension on rows. ==> Profiler Query duration 950 ms Added a calculation member - code see below and include the member in the query the response time ==> Profiler Query duration 5500 ms increaes about 500%! The special point "Effective area in m2" uses the "FirstNonEmpty" Aggregate function - while we switch for testing to ...Show All