kalypsys_jw's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Line Breaks in Printed Work Item

  If you print a work item, the description block doesn't show the line breaks. Is there anything that can be done in the short term to get this functionality to work I need to print out a bunch of scenarios for management and white space really matters. What to do Bug fix Do I really have to wait a couple months for this issue to be resolved in RTM ...Show All

• SQL Server TRANSACTION

  Hi everyone, I have some doubts about Transact keywords. At the below snippet, transact is used for also error handling and as I understood that when the error occured in the transaction scope, the error is caught and then managed in a desired way. for instance, at the below snippet, the programmer catches and manages the error by first printing a message and then rooling back the execution(Stopping(ending) the execution).So can it be said that TRANSACTION is also used for ERROR HANDLING because of the above reasons BEGIN TRAN INSERT titles(title_id, title, type) VALUES (@title_id, @title, @title_type) IF (@@ERROR <> 0 ) BEGIN ...Show All

• Visual C# inline function -- help needed

  We are a small company focusing on XmL processing, our XML processor is called VTD-XML and we did a port from Java to C# using JLCA 3.0 so the same code for Java and C#... however performance of C# is only similar to Java's client hotspot jVM, so we did some profiling and it seems that Java's server JVM does very agressive inlining on a couple of frequently called functions, whereas C#'s VM doesn't do, so the result is there is a 20%~25% drop in C#'s VTD-XML performance... Can someone point us to good reference on how to optimize C# code performance to explicit inlining... or we appreciate any suggestions!!! http://vtd-xml.sf.net is where ...Show All

• Windows Forms MSI: "Error writing to file: ******.dll. Verify that you have access to that directory. GAC problem?

  Hi, I have a "Setup Project" in Visual Studio 2005 that generates an .msi installation file. My setup project references several merge modules. When I try to run the generated installation I get the following error message: "Error writing to file: general.dll. Verify that you have access to that directory." I think that the problem is related to the fact that I have two separate copies of my general.dll in my setup project. My application uses one version of general.dll, but my application also uses an assembly called mi.dll, that uses another version of general.dll. So for my application to work both versions of general.dll is incl ...Show All

• Windows Forms Double Forms

  I have a MDI application.  On a child form I have an ActiveX control.  When the form loads it has a shadow form that loads with it (it seems to load two copies of the form).  If you move the top form around it erases the shadow form. The child form is loaded from the main form as follows: Dim winWorkOrder As New frmWorkOrder() winWo ...Show All

• SQL Server Is there a way to reset the value of timestamp?

  I would like to reset the value of timestamp value which normally shows an out of date and meaningless value. If this canbe reset to show current datetime it can be of some help. Of course we may use getdate() function but simply i would like to know if there is a way to reset timestamp value like that of identity value. The timestamp doesnt show a date at all, it is just used for row versioning mechanism. DO you mean a datetime column rather than at timestamp The understanding of a timestamp is different from other systems. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server sql server express loses ability to write to database

  After a period of use (typically 1-2 hours), an application using SQL Server Express stops writing to the database, whilst still continuing to read from it. As far as I can tell, no error message is generated by any operation. The application is written in VB Express and is executed on several machines, with SQL Server Express on a central machine. Re-starting the application on the affected machine restores normal operation. The problem on one machine does not cause a similar problem elsewhere at the same time (hence it appears to be an issue with the relationship between the application and SQL Server) This does not appear to ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help with if/for statements

  Hi, In the modification of my genetic algorithm that I have been working on, I need to specify an evaluation function. My evaluation function so far is shown below but this is a very simplistic version and I need to develop it. Currently this evaluation function will read in a value of vect that corresponds to a current recorded by a mass spectrometer and calculate a "sum" that will record the fitness of a system for a given specific vibrational energy level j. In this case it is set to j=3. I need to be able to modify this evaluation function so that it puts a percentage of electrons in multiple states ie. 50% in state j= ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office BeforeItemPaste outlook explorer object event

  Hi, I need to move a mail item from a folder to another and need manage this event so I'm using BeforeItemPaste event of the explorer object to do some work here with the mail item, but I do not know how to get the mail item which are in ClipboardContent variable. how I get the mail item from Clipboard Thanks, Mauricio. thanks a lot Roosevelt. I don't know why this link didn't appears in my searchs before about "beforeitempaste event".... anyway, now the problem is solved, thanks again. Mauricio. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista problems communicating with the host

  Hi, I am trying to get host communication working because I need to communicate back to the host if for example, a process will be long running. I've set up a very simple example which raises an event on the host and every time I run it, I get an error: Done Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Press any key to contine The code for my test harness is as follows: #region Using directives using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Threading; using System.Workflow; using System.Workflow.ComponentModel; using System.Workflow.Runtime; using System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting; usi ...Show All

• .NET Development Parameterized queries

  When using a parameterized query such as: SELECT LocationID, StreetNum, StreetName, rowguid FROM tblLocations WHERE (StreetNum = @StreetNum) AND (StreetName LIKE @StreetName) Is there a way to automatically add % to the beginning and ending of the parameter I've tried the following command: SELECT LocationID, StreetNum, StreetName, rowguid FROM tblLocations WHERE (StreetNum = @StreetNum) AND (StreetName LIKE '%' + @StreetName + '%') But I get a FormatException. I don't want the user to have to type % in the parameter field. Any suggestions Thanks, Lee I have split this post into a separate thread, and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions capture Control-Enter keystroke

  In one of my programs I use e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter to tell when the Enter key is pressed while the focus is on a textbox.  I want to be able to capture when ControlEnter is pressed.  In the IntelliSense picker there is an option for CTRL modifier, but nothing for CtrlEnter.  So how do I combine the two to capture a ControlEnter keystroke   I tried e.KeyCode = Keys.Control + Keys.Enter but that doesn't work.  Thanks...     How about: If e.Modifiers = Keys.Control And e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then Debug.WriteLine( "you pressed control enter" ) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Product Licensing

  I believe I know the answer to this based on the lack of informaiton available on the web site... At any rate, my question is, will the team editions be available outside of an MSDN subscription. Meaning can I buy a license of Team Developer without having to purchase an MSDN license. I'm asking because in the past we have always purchased indivudual licenses for our developers for the OS, Office, VS.NET, etc. So if we do go down the Team System route I need to know what kind of licensing costs I should expect. The only way to obtain a Team Edition without the MSDN Premium Subscription is through a volume li ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem to connect to AD while doing automated tests

  Hello All, I have a very strange behavior while running the tests on my development machines and on the production server. I have posted this thread in the CLR part but you may already have encountered this problem while doing tests. Thanks to have a look ! http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=391203&SiteID=1 Jarod A new element : so I have created a brand new virtual machine with "Team Suite Trial" --> all my tests are ok Then I have create breand new virtual machine with "Team Edition" --> all my tests are ok Then I have upgrade my VM from "Team Suite" ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Datatype Usage & Performance

  I'm interested in hearing any feedback on the following idea for utilizing the XML datatype in SQL 2005. I am building a customer profiling engine for use by multiple clients. The database is shared. Clients do not have their own seperate databases or schema's. The purpose of the system is to store, record, and transmit customer profile information. Such information would likely include attributes such as: name, email, phone, various demographic attributes. The system has to accomodate different profile attribute requirements across different clients. For example, a valid profile for one client may be nothing more than a unique id and an add ...Show All