dizzyjay's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Help with auto printing reports using Report Services

  I'm at a breaking point, so I'm hoping someone can help me! I am new to Microsofts SQL Server suite, and from what I've used so far, I love it... except for the sheer complexity of it. I've only been tinkering for 2 weeks now, so excuse me if I'm a bit ignorant. I'm trying to develop an application, and part of that application is when data is submitted to the database, a report needs to be generated, and automatically printed. I thought that th ...Show All

• Visual Studio vs 2005 beta 2 setup fails

  When I try to setup vs 2005 beta 2, it says that it failed to setup visual studio itself after it gets to the end screen. The installation seems normal untill then because the vs 2005 even gets a checkmark next to it when on the install screen. The progress bar never moves when it is on vs 2005 though. I will post the error log when I can find it. Hello, I am getting the same kind of error  when installing ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Shared Addin using Word

  Hello Everybody, i have created a shared addin for word. i succeded with adding an item in the context menu of word (text context menu). The menu which appears during right click of a text. I did that thru adding an control button on "TEXT" commandbar which is for context menu thru addin. The problem now i am getting is the associated event for that command button which newly inserted is not firing. If i try to add the item in some other menus s ...Show All

• Visual C++ Newbie question about VS in general...

  OK, I got a version of VS... but im having real troubles getting anything done in this... I mean I know how to write "hello world" for example but err how to compile for one and what kind of a file/project do I choose... they all just give me these big source codes from the start but what if I want to do something all my own (hello world for example )... someone answer me quick... If you wrote that cpp file from something other ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error deploying Crystal with Beta 2

  I get a row of errors when i run CRRedist.msi, during "Updating Component Registration", giving "Internal Error 2908" and a long string starting with "{73E86397-" and so on. then I get the same error 3 or 4 times and then the install aborts. Please any help appreciated! /Mikael Hi Keith, Your answer was on the mark! I was installing on Windows XP Prof., with an account marked as administrator, but it somehow did not have all the rights. Wh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Launching Debug Errors in August CTP of Visual Web Developer

  Attempting to debug a project gives me the following error:   Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition   Unable to attach. The binding handle is invalid. Do you want to continue anyway   Continuing just starts the project without debug.   I’ve tried everything I can think of short of ripping everything I can find regarding .NET or VWD out of the registry.   I’m using Windows XP Home edition and had b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Media Video 9 Codec Settings

  Hey everyone, I'm trying to create a .avi file out of a set of .tga's, and I'm using the Windows Media Video 9 codec. But I have no idea what to put for certain settings. I know it needs to be a single-pass VBR and thats it. I would normally use a different codec like DivX or something but my client needs it in WMV9. Here are some screenshots I took of the program that show the options, rather than me typing them in. If you guys can help m ...Show All

• Visual Basic Slow performance on Paint Event

  I have added the code on the user control paint event and pasted 20 of this user controls on a form. At the runtime, it seems to be redraw everytime when the form switch from background to foreground. How can I stop the control redraw or how to improve the drawing speed Is it possible to freeze the form repaint until each controls completed the paint event Private Sub funcbutton_Paint( ByVal sender As Objec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Satellite Assemblies not available during unit test runs

  I am trying to set up a unit test that references an assembly that has satellite assemblies.  When the unit test runs, the language-neutral assembly is copied to the Out folder correctly, but the satellite assemblies are not copied. As a workaround, in the deployment section of .testrunconfig I included “<Solution Directory>\UnitTest\bin\Debug\” which contains the assembly and its satellite assemblies in sub folders.  This con ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to copy a form (designer) from one project to another?

  Hi As subject. I have made 2 versions of my project, one for high res screens and one for lower res dcreens. I have realised that there is in fact very little difference, but if I could import 2 forms from one project into the other, I could just select programatically which form to display. Is the only difference between the two forms the size of the controls If so, then you could get away with only having a single form and m ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to implement CODE SNIPPET by native code?

  Hi, Our language service is COM components written by native code. We want to implement CODE SNIPPET. Someone have told us how to implement that function in MPF. But we can't use the languagesevice.dll file correctly in our project. It seems that we have to inplement the interface IVsExpansionProvider by ourself, But there is no valid help information about this interface in VSIP document. Could any one give us some advice Thanks. Best ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem adding new Database in Smart application

  When I try to add new sql ce database to smart solution in vs2005 I have the following msgbox cannot obtain provider factory for data provider named 'microsoft.sqlserverce.client' what can be %SystemDrive%\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.xxxxx\config\machine.config Open this file in NOTEPAD, and search for "SQL Server CE Data Provider".  If it is not there then, you may try adding the following line AS IT IS in Data Provide ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to create an extended worksheet from an external application (non-VSTO excel project)?

  Hi, Here's the setup: I have an excel add-in application and I want to leverage the new binding capabilities of the extended Worksheet hostItem. I cannot create an extended worksheet using CreateViewForWorksheet() described in http://blogs.officezealot.com/maarten/archive/2005/09/12/7979.aspx   and in Eric Lippert's new book, since I don't have the 'ThisWorkbook' to start with (and get the RunTimeCallback reference). Anyone hit the same is ...Show All

• SQL Server Missing image in PDF Export version

  I have an ASP.NET application that passes stored procedure params and generates a dynamic report with one or more Image controls. The image paths are created with absolute references to their locations in a separate web directory, the one that the .NET app calls the report from. So the stored proc returns a string similar to http://mysite.com/myimage.jpg , and with an expression I wrote in the report designer, I assign this to the Image contr ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't get Connection String to work in File Connection Manager

  "\\bs-10ss\\users$\\mydir\\output.txt" + (DT_WSTR,15)(DT_DBDATE)GETDATE() + "_" + (DT_WSTR, 15)(DT_DBTIME)GETDATE() + ".txt" This throws an error when pasting it into the ConnectionString property of my Flat File Connection Manager.  All I want to accomplish is to throw in the date of the file created and so far, I have been unsuccessful.  It doesn't like any of the syntax I've put in there other than using the browse button to spe ...Show All