stephencc's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio can i use inputs and outputs

  I know the inputs, but I do not know the outputs until I'm in the logic of my custom Task. Is there anyway to still use inputs and outputs in my .targets file to control when things will build, or do I need to implement this myself in my Task class Thanks, Mike Inputs and Outputs must be declared in the project file. Their values may be computed by combining existing properties and/or items, or by previously built targets, but they must be specified in the project file. Are the names of your Outputs not simply transformations of the names of the Inputs e.g., something like inputs: "a.txt;b.tx ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL2005 backup Issue

  After moving the SPS 2003 portal from one disk to another, I am having a problem in backing up the portal from the spsbackup tool as well as through the SQL Server 2005 database backup option . Following is the error am getting:- ============================================================================================================================= Backup failed for Server 'sql server name' . (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) ------------------------------ For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.00&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need .NET VS2005 VB code for NNTP reading/posting

  Anybody have some example code Thanks! Ross There are some third party controls for working with nntp messages. http://www.indyproject.org/Sockets/index.en.iwp http://www.nsoftware.com/products/component/nntp.aspx Here is a class I was working on. Maybe this will help I used this c# code as a starting point. Imports System.Net.Sockets Imports System.IO Imports System.Runtime.Serialization Imports System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary Public Class NNTP Inherits System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient Public Event MessageHeaderRecieved(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As NN ...Show All

• SQL Server Forms authentication fun

  Anyway, I finally get forms authentication up and working (I think).  I use the included example.  I finally get to the point where I register a user.  Then I modify the rsreportservice.config file to make the new user the 'admin' user.  Now when I login, I have no permissions to anything.  I restart the entire server.  Now when I login I get a "Key cannot be null. Parameter name: key:".  Any ideas here   Why the heck didn't ms just bake forms authentication as a selectable option!  It is so complicated to setup, you have to modify like a bjillion config files. I had exactly the same problem ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista 5270 - An error occurred while locating the drive onto which Windows is being installed.

  Vista seems to install just fine on the 32Gb partition I created for it. Mid-installation machine reboots (as expected)...I see the Longhorn boot screen, then the familiar blue background (light-blue window in upper-left)...with "Starting installation" in white text....after only a few seconds, I get the following Red-X message.... [Windows Setup ] ( X ) An error occurred while locating the drive onto which Windows is being installed. Any ideas Installing off DVD, btw. I'm in the midst of attempting to complete my download of 5308 that I started late last night (MSDN Sub ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to save Files with a "SaveFileDialog"

  I don't Really know how Can someone tell me how Like you type a string in a textbox and you press a button called "Save" then you want to select the folder you want to save the .txt at.    Thanks hi, at the top of your class write "imports system.IO" this is the namespace that contain the streamwriter class hope this helps ...Show All

• .NET Development "The schema returned by the new query differs from the base query" error

  Hello, I have been trying to create search queries: 1) Click on the xxxTableAdaper. 2) Choose a table 3) Name the FillBy field 4) Type in the SELECT fieldname FROM table WHERE field=@key 5) Click OK. Then always I get "The schema returned by the new query differs from the base query" error. Something is fundamentally wrong Any idea Thank you. Athena I'll be moving this to the ".NET Framework Data Access and Storage" Forum as that one has a better chance to provide an answer. I suspect your problem is that your query does not return data of t ...Show All

• SQL Server Proxy Account

  Hi, I am using SQL Server 2005 June CTP and having trouble seeing the active subsystems for a given proxy account. I can successfully create a proxy account and assign Activex Script and Operating system (CmdExec) subsystems access to this account. However, when i goto the proxy account and click properties, i cannot see the subsystems to which the proxy account has access to. Thanks, Priyanga Doh!! A refresh was all that was needed. Thanks, Priyanga ...Show All

• SQL Server Pass XML Data to a Stored Procedure

  Does anyone know how to pass a XML File to a MS SQL 2005 Stored Procedure (INSERT/UPDATE), and how to create the stored procedure so it will accept the XML values using VB 2005. Here is an example of the XML File. Code: <MYROOT> <TableName> <Field1>String</Field1> <Field2>String</Field2> <Field3>String</Field3> </TableName> </MYROOT> Thank you. bty The following link provided by Microsoft does not work in VB 2005, I have tried that http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;555266 You can do this using XQuer ...Show All

• SQL Server Will package work on different CTP version?

  Hi There I have created a package in integration services using the June CTP (latest one), i was asked to deploy it on a sql server 2005 instance. On further investigation i realised that the 2005 installation was from the first CTP prior to the one i used to create the package. In configuration manager there is no SSIS it is called DTS server. My question is will my package work 100% if i deploy it to the earlier CTP version of sql server Thanx I don’t think anyone can guarantee there will be no problems going forward, but certainly I am not worrying about it for the reasons outlined above. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Changing screen resolution with VB 2005

  I'm having a difficult time converting a Windows API call that works fine in VB6 to run in VB 2005 (Windows XP with SP2 in both cases). I reduced the problem code down to its core which is below. I'm trying to change the screen resolution with the ChangeDisplaySettingsEx call; the idea is that on entering the program it shifts to high resolution and at the end it restores the original settings. I left the restore part out because I get the same error. Which is "An invalid parameter was passed in. This can include an invalid flag or combination of flags." I'm trying to use exactly the same parameters, but somewhere in the conversion ...Show All

• SQL Server [LOG] Unable to read local eventlog (reason: The parameter is incorrect) - FLOOD

  [LOG] Unable to read local eventlog (reason: The parameter is incorrect) I just had two seperate SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition machines suddently throw thousands of these errors within the last 24 hours. In both cases the the SQL agent and application event logs are just being flooded with a new entry every couple of seconds. While the errors are being logged the Agent continues to run jobs (e.g. scheduled backups, etc.) without error. A restart of the agent stops the errors and everything seems to be back to normal. There is no commonality between the two machines, they are on different networks, domains, etc. Both machi ...Show All

• Visual C++ help! vs 2005 runtime lib

  when i compile my code , i got the followings: LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'LIBCMTD' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library Embedding manifest... LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'LIBCMTD' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library then , I use debug to debug my code and got the following: An application has made an attempt t o load C runtime library incorrectly! Take a look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235299.aspx to diagnose the issue. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista TransactionService sample problem

  Hi, I am getting the following error when running TransactionalService sample: "Connection currently has transaction enlisted. Finish current transaction and retry." The error occurs in the following function internal void CreditAmountInAccount(System.Transactions. Transaction transaction, Int32 amount) { SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand (); command.CommandType = CommandType .StoredProcedure; command.CommandText = "dbo.CreditAmount" ; command.Connection = new SqlConnection (connectionStringValue); command.Connection.Open(); command.Connection.EnlistTransaction(transaction); // *** ERROR HER ...Show All

• Visual Basic include DLL widthout make reference....

  Hi everyone. I use an external DLL and I want inlay the DLL into my exe program. (I don't want copy the exe program and the dll file, just 1 file!) How can I do that and I can call the dll file in the code Can someone give me an example in vb I'm trying convert the code from http://objecthead.blogspot.com/ to VB but still not working. Thanks ...Show All