PanosValt's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms How can I compare enums?

  Hi It seams a bit stupid question but I have some problems comparing enums, imagine the following code enum Actions {     Read,     Write,     Delete,     Query,     Sync } Actions actions = Actions.Read | Actions.Write; Now ho ...Show All

• .NET Development Help File in Asp.Net

  How to open a .chm file from Asp.Net web application Is there any class library for the same I am working on the similar stuff right now. Not very successful either. From the info I got: MS blocks the Html Help in Window server 2003 SP1 and other security update for security reasons. If you want to display HTML HELP on a web page, you need to modify registry. Check these links: http://support.microsoft ...Show All

• Windows Forms How To run Pocket TaskVision??

  Hi all, Being primarily a web developer, i'm a newbie to both windows forms programming and pocket pc development. I had downloaded the pocket taskvision sample app and installed it on my desktop pc. However when I try running it in the VS.Net 2003& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to accomodate multiple products with a work item

  Our product manager has started to use team foundation. We have one project for our overall product family and our product manager asked me how we can associate a work item with multiple products. This is not the same thing as an area path, as one core feature may appear in multiple products. Does anyone have any ideas on how this can / should be handled     Hi, Glad to hear you've adopted Team Foundation Server ...Show All

• .NET Development Inserting a New Record with FormView in ASP.NET 2.0

  In the insert mode of form view, the primary key is hidden from the user. In the underlying access database, the primary key is autonumber. Clicking the autogenerated insert button causes the error: "You tried to assign the Null value to a variable that is not a Variant data type." Do you have to programmatically set the unique ID key, and if so how would you do that in Visual Web Developer The form view is linked to an access datasource with ...Show All

• SQL Server Query not producing correct results and Group By Error

  This is what I need in my results: Current Balance and Account Number should be retrieved where Current Balance = Sum of rmstranamt - (sum of rmstranamt where rmstrancde is 10) The Query below gives me a couple of problems 1) It's not producing the correct Current Balance 2) I keep getting these errors with Groupy by: Column 'rf10.rmstranamt10' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate funct ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System 26201 Error

  Hi All, I've been trying for a couple of days now to install VSTFS Beta3 refresh, I've followed the suggestions for this error 26201, but none seem to be working.  Is there any more detail as to what this message means exactly, and how to get around it I am installing single server, on a windows 2003 workgroup server for test purposes. Thanks for any help. Erik, Glad you found the answer. Unfortunately, du ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions USING SQL 2000 with VB 2005 Express

  Does anyone know if you can connect and use SQL 2000 Server with VB Epress 2005 datasources tab wizard I use the datasources tab to try to connect but it keeps failing to connect. VB6 seems to connect fine using the data environment wizard. I can connect to the SQL 2000 database with code without any problems in VB Epress 2005. Hi Tommy, Express editions have design support for local data only (.mdf and .mdb fi ...Show All

• SQL Server Remove identity

  Hi all, Is there a way to remove the identity from a column by using alter table thanx Hi, "disabling" the property does the things behind the scenes I mentioned in my earlier post. In SQL 2k (I didn't check that in SQL2k5 right now) it did a creation of a new table, copy the data to the new table, and renamed the table vice versa to the new / old name. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server How to stop a package

  Hi, In one of my packages, I have a script component to do a transformation and I am inserting the output to table. Within that script component, if the data does not match my requirement, I have to stop the job. For that, I am using 'componentmetadata.fireError' to raise an error. The problem is, now even when an error is raised, the job completes by loading the remaining records and then aborts. But I want to abort the job as soon it raises ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How much does Vista itself use WPF/Avalon (managed and unmanaged)?

  Hi, Will there be any actual examples of WPF/Avalon being used in Vista (even an WPF/Avalon-ized Notepad would be something :)   Is it correct that managed WPF/WCF will be "present" with the shipping Vista, but not actually used by any of it Apparently Vista does use some of the unmanaged DLLs underneath WPF/Avalon, rather than going through the managed interfaces presented by WPF   If yes, how widespread is that usage Assuming ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Why don't "Closer Look: More About Menus" examples work?

  MSDN Library > Development Tools and Languages > Visual Studio > Visual Basic > Visual Basic Guided Tour > Creating the Visual Look of Your Program: Introduction to Windows Forms > Giving Users Choices: Creating Menus at Design Time > Closer Look: More About Menus The code examples for "MenuStrip" and " ContextMenuStrip" don't work! Anybody know why ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using COM2: on a Pocket PC emulation platform

  I'm using MS Visual Studio 2005 and using the device emulator on a Pocket PC (ARMV4) project.  I can run a hyper terminal like program, vxHPC, to communicate from serial port 0 mapped to PC COM4.  I have a cable connected from COM3 to COM4.  WinXp Hyper terminal is running on the PC connected to PC COM3.  The vxHPC is configured to connect to COM1:    PS. Active sync is configured for network and USB and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System When is VSTS Beta3 Extensibility Kit releasing?

   I'm looking for sample apps for Beta3 WorkItem Object Model to import bugs from Beta2 server to Beta3 server. I was told that it will be releasing soon. Does anyone know the exact date Thanks, Anu The extensibility kit for Beta 3 is finally released! I downloaded it this morning from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/ . Sarah Cameron ...Show All

• SQL Server June CTP

  I have this installed, I LOVE the virtual session stuff. Very nice to get up and running. I see it expries in 14 days as of 10/14/2005. Why is that. Will you provide trial editions of the final product in this format. Is there a way I can trick it to keep going. I don't want to lose 'all set up learning environment'. Suggestions Can I change a system date and not get the session to sync Thanks Matt -- we've met ...Show All