Barzot's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Deployment Errors in PDA

  Hi, We are gettiing the following Deployment Errors when we are running a PDA application :  =================================================== ------ Deploy started: Project: PDA-RSMS, Configuration: Debug Pocket PC ------   Deploying to Pocket PC Device using TCP Connect Transport       Error: Cannot establish a connection. Be sure the device is physically connected to the development computer. ---------------------- Done ----------------------       Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped     Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped  ==== ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services - Schedule Details - Hourly Schedule

  Is there any way you can set an end time for an hourly schedule within a subscription I don't think my colleagues want reports at 3am. Many thanks! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error: Unable to activate the application

  Hello to all. When I try to install the application, I get the error: "Unable to activate the application. Please contact the application publisher". I get this error on machines with Windows 98. With Windows XP everything works OK. I useVisual Studio.NET 2005 BETA 2. Thanks for answers. Bojan Hi Bojan, I also got this error once, and could not find any solution, a simple reinstall of the vs2005 worked for me . But hold on, maybe someone has found a solution to this. Kunal ...Show All

• SQL Server retrieves the information about the pipeline components

  Dear Experts, I can look the values of the proprieties in each PipelineComponentInfo, for example: ComponentType: Transform CreationName: DTSTransform.Merge.1 Description: Merge Transformation FileName: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\PipelineComponents\TxMerge.dll FileNameVersionString: 2000.90.1049.0 IconFile: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\PipelineComponents\TxMerge.dll IconResource: -201 ID: {08AE886A-4124-499C-B332-16E3299D225A} Name: Merge NoEditor: False ShapeProgID: UITypeName: Microsoft.DataTransformationServices..... but I don't know what means the proprieties: FileName, FileNameVersionString, Ic ...Show All

• SQL Server provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server

  Hi All,    I am new to dotnet. I tried connecting to the database MS SQL Server 2000. I gave the code like, the one below, in form load event, SqlDataReader dr = null ; SqlConnection myConnection = new SqlConnection("Data Source=IP;Initial Catalog=name;User Id=uid;Password=pwd;"); myConnection.Open(); myConnection.Close(); But I could not connect. The error message highlights the line myConnection.Open() and displays the error An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.  When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default setti ...Show All

• Windows Forms I'm going nuts here...

  Trying to find a control that will display nicely formatted text (preferably HTML) dynamically on a Windows form. Does anyone know or have experience with such a beast I have searched all over the Net and found lots of "browser" controls, but I don't want a Web browser - I just want to display nicely formatted text on a Windows form!! Like this: Dim sbText as New StringBuilder() With sbText    .Append("<p><b>This is a bold statement!</b></p>")    .Append("<p>This is a not-so-bold statement.</p>") End With Me.SomeCoolLabelControl.Text = sbText.toString() Any help here would be ...Show All

• Smart Device Development .Net CF Getfiles IOException

  Hi, i've a problem with my VB.NET application and GetFiles() function. I try to run my application on Emulator. I've shared a folder in my Desktop simulating a Storage Card and i try to access files on it but GetFiles() function return IOException error... Any suggestion to solve this problem I use Visual Studio Team suite 2005 beta 2. thanks Andrea. Can you please send me your VB.NET code (either as a post on the forum or a private email to barrybo@microsoft.com )   I'll take a look.   Thanks, Barry ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting data back from a dialog?

  Does anyone know how to return data from a form back to the launching form E.g.  1. Form1 launches Form2 with showDialog( ).  2. User selects/types data on Form2 and OK's it.  3. How do I get to that typed data in Form1 I cant provide Accessor methods in Form2 to get to the data since the Form2 object goes out of focus by the time  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development system will not resume ? dead? after following code

  tested on HP6315: PlaySound(_T("Alarm2.wav"),NULL,SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC | SND_LOOP); Sleep(1000); GwesPowerOffSystem(); // never resumed, press the power button will not effect Please see this post for details on where to post non-VS 2005 questions http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=235332&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Error occurred retrieving child nodes: ROLAP based cube in Analysis Server 2005

  Hi All I am facing a strange issue with analysis server 2005. I have cube based on ROLAP storage mode. I have followed this storage mode due to our requirement. Everything works fine at the initial stage with fewer data. Now the cube is in testing phase where the testing group is testing the cube with much more data. It gives some storage like “Error occurred retrieving child nodes: Error in the OLAP storage engine: The process operation ended because the number of error encountered during processing reached the defined limit of allowable errors for the operation”. We are getting this error while browsing a dimension with above 4, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Extending VSS with IVSSEventHandler

  When using the IVSSEventHandler interface for writing a custom SourceSafe plugin, how do I trap a DELETE event of a file Some help please... Unfortunatele Delete is not one of the events that can be trapped with IVSS automation. For the list of events that can be intercepted, see this web page: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.sourcesafe.interop.ivssevents_members.aspx Alin ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Converting VFP reports to PDF 6 or Higher version

  How can i convert visual foxpro reports to PDF 6 or higher version from visual foxpro appication and opend automatically. I was having a tool which works fine for Acrobat 4.0 version which uses Acrobat PDF Writer and Acrobat Distiller. Now in the latest version of PDF its creates the printer as Adobe PDF AND now the Windows 2003 server only the higher versions are getting installed. Plese help me in this regard Raman Check out the excellent article by Lisa Nicholls on PDFs in FoxTalk. There is a link to the free article on David Stevenson's (FoxTalk Editor) blog: http://talkingfox.blogspot.com/2005/06/dont-miss-free-pdf-article-by-lisa. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Connecting to DB

  Ok heres the run down guys. This is the final step in the program I have created so thanks to all that have helped me thus far. 1. Report was created in Crystal Reports XI, database connected fine through it yada yada yada all works fine. 2. Combined the Report into Visual Basic .net application (windows application not web) and have got everything to show up via CrystalReportViewer. 3. I have an ini file that has the path to the database in which the report should pull its data from (an access db) so I have created some coding (with the help of the vb people in the vb forum) code to read that ini file, pull the line that has the path to dat ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Custom stack pointer

  Hello, I'm trying to port an application that implements its own thread scheduling. It calls malloc to allocate a block of memory then it changes sp to point to the end of the block. The Pocket PC 2003 emulator stops on the instruction that changes the sp register. A message box is displayed "No symbols loaded for any stack frame. The source code cannot be displayed" then the program stops. Is it a restriction of the OS or the debugger Can any pointer be used as a stack pointer under Windows CE  Thanks for your help. It's for a sort of virtual machine. Actually I'm only using the v ...Show All

• Visual J# Does Visual J# supports Browser Helper Objects(BHO)

  Hi In our web application we want to access frames in HTA.But some reason ,HTA doesn t seems to load the application.So now we trying for BHO in VJ#.But we don t have a clear idea ,whether it is supported by vj# or not.If any body have idea in it ,revert with some examples. thanks praveen Hi Praveen , All BHO application should implement the following interface. public interface IObjectWithSite { void SetSite( /** @attribute MarshalAsAttribute(UnmanagedType.IUnknown)*/ Object pUnkSite); void GetSite( / **@ref * / Guid riid, /** @attribute MarshalAsAttribute(UnmanagedType.IUnkno ...Show All