Stephen J.Vanterpool's Q&A profile

• .NET Development SQLSetStmtOption

  Hi, We are currently connecting to a bespoke ODBC driver using the .NET ODBC Provider. This driver uses SQLSetStmtOption to set some options, and we would like to be able to set these from .NET code. Does anyone know if this is possible Many Thanks I don't think that we have one to one corresponding method in .Net code. What options(attributes) you want to set Thanks Bei ...Show All

• Visual Studio Open Source Designer

  I have developed a designer using DSL toolkit. I am thinking about setting up a open source project for that designer. Can I legally do it Thanks, Koson Hi Koson, It would be a very bad idea for me to give you legal advice, so I'll simply remind that the DSL Tools are licensed under the terms of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK EULA which you can find directly under the 2006.02 directory of your Visual Studio 2005 SDK installation. I'd draw your attention to section 3.3 in that document. As far as a complete installable designer goes, that would typically include a PLK to allow its distribution to ...Show All

• Visual Studio questions about VSS.

  I have several questions related to Visual Source Safe(VSS). I have a project saved in VSS. I want to freeze the project with its code while a milestone or release version is built. But I still want to continue development toward the next version. If the new version is not functioning, I still can go back. How to do it Right now, I just burn a source code CD for each major release. I heard of using branching. But it seems I have to create a new project for each major release. Is that right If yes, If later I want to roll back to privious version, how to do it I am using Studio.NET to build a MFC application. Where to setup the bui ...Show All

• SQL Server Help!! "The report server has encountered a configuration error........"

  Hi There, I have installed Sql Server 2005 on my machine. I've managed to created report, but when i try to deploy e same, I'm getting e following error...am i missing something here The report server has encountered a configuration error. See the report server log files for more information. (rsServerConfigurationError) Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.4\Reporting Services\ReportServer\RSReportServer.config' is denied. That resloves the problem by giving the appropriated permissions to the ASPNET account. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Opening multiple VSTO enabled WordML docs

  Hi, I am creating wordml files in managed code, attach my VSTO solution using ServerDocument, and open them using Process.Start ("myWordMLFile.xml"). The odd thing is that if word is already open, the wordml file is not opened. Process.Start seems to work fine, because MSOXMLED.exe shows up for a second in the processes, but the file is never opened. When there is no word process running, everything works fine. Does anybody know a solution *without* starting "winword.exe" with the filename as argument This app will be widely deployed and I don't want to mess around with the different installation pat ...Show All

• SQL Server Adding a new column of a UDT type fails on "invalid data type"

  Hi all, A strange thing happened to me a few days ago - I tried to modify a table, using the SQL server 2005 management studio, in order to add a new column to an existing table. I've entered the column's name and selected one of my UDTs for the column type. When I pressed "enter", I got the following message "invalid data type" ! Needless to say that shouldn't have happen, didn't happen it the previous version (CTP) and for some reason it works on other computers having the same version ! BTW, the database is sql server 2000. Any ideas what this works on other computers but not on mine Should I re-install ...Show All

• Windows Forms copyright

  Hi I wonder how I could write a copyright character in a messagebox as text Thanks Moorstream Thanx for all the answers... Of course I mean Word :) /Moorstream ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Preview version available?

  Hello alltogether, When is a preview version of Cider planned to be released to a) MVPs and b) the public Just to make sure: Cider is the Designer inside VS for WPF, right   Thanks, Neno Jaziel, “Orcas” is the code name for the next version of Visual Studio, and “Cider” is the code name for the Visual Designer for WPF in Visual Studio “Orcas”. The December CTP is a preview release of technologies that will be an integral part of the next version of Visual Studio (“Orcas”), which is why it has the official title: “Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Community Technology Preview - WinFX Development Tools”. At this point ...Show All

• Windows Forms Header Text Alignment in Datagrid

  I have created a tablestyle and gridcolumnstyle collection for a datagrid. One of the attributes that I set for some of the columns is the HeaderText.Alignment = Horizontal.Right property. When displayed, the column data align very nicely (mostly currency data) but the header text itself is right aligned as well, and the text is slightly truncated on the right&n ...Show All

• SQL Server How to hide the tables and table relations to end user.

  Hello, I am writing a data-driven application using ADO.NET1.1 and MSDE2000. My question is: After installing the MSDE and database files (*.mdb) on end user's machine, how to prevent end user from getting the table names, designs and relations by some tools, such as SQL Server enterprise Manager (User will have administrator permissions to install, start and stop MSDE.) Is it possible to hide such information Thanks. -Zhenyu2003 Basically you can not hide from the admim I suggest looking at the privs the user really needs and granting only those. If you use SQL 2005 is much easier and data can in fact be hidden from admins, schema c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System also confused about licensing (TFS)

  This should be an easy question for someone to answer. As a Gold Partner with ISV competency, how many developers at our company can use TFS Reading this from somasegar's blog a while back, it seems that 35 can use Team edition of VS.NET, but only 5 can use TFS because we only get the Workgroup Edition Is that correct, or do the 35 Team Edition for SD licenses also get to connect to TFS · Partners at the Gold Partner level will receive 10 licenses of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers with MSDN Premium Subscription. This also includes Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition (limited to 5 users). ...Show All

• .NET Development Marshalling COM interface between threads--help!

  I am developing a Windows Forms 2.0 application that references a COM primary interop assembly to communicate with a COTS product. I am still very new to working with COM from .Net and the threading issues that are involved, so I am unsure how to marshall a COM interface between threads--I have the main UI thread, of course, but for many of the data access calls I use a BackgroundWorker component to execute the calls asynchronously. The issue I am having is that I am attempting to maintain a single instance of the Database object (part of the COM API) because creating it is very resource intensive, but I am getting an exception that the work ...Show All

• Smart Device Development MS Money and Mobile 5.0

  When will Money be available for Mobile 5.0   I've been trying to sync Money with my ppc 6700 and its just not working.  A progress box comes up and claims that its "reading device databases" but nothing happens. You're in a wrong forum, this one for software development related issues. Please ask in a relevant forum. ...Show All

• SQL Server Pkg Execution Works in VS but not in SQL

  I'm able to execute a package in VS Pro on my machine. However when I upload it to the sql server and try to execute the package directly it fails with: Error: The product level is insuficient for component "...." (3129) Error: The product level is insuficient for component "...." (5411) The first component is a DataReader Source which is consuming an ODBC (Noble Systems ATOMIX Driver) connection and the second component is a DataConversion object. Anyone know why this would work running it on my pc in VS but not when I execute it from SQL on the same machine This is a silly questi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Free Learning Videos on Express Web Site

  I've been trying to view and download the free learning videos for Visual Web Developer Express and Visual C# Express. Of a total of 30 videos, I've been able to view and download 26, but 4 cannot be viewed in their entirety nor downloaded to completion. They are Visual Web Developer #2 and #4 (for C#) and C# Express #12 and #14. I usually get a "server was reset" error message, but have also gotten a worm alert message on the first file (VWB #2). A friend who uses a different ISP is also getting this same problem at exactly the same places in each file. Each file stops downloading at exactly the same place each time. He also go ...Show All