jeff_akbm's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Help with Connections

  Hi everybody, I need a little help... I created several packages, that after their creation should not be changed again; that's why I created a Package Configuration File in which I set all the Connections I need, so that this is the only file I have to modify. I set there also the path of the connections for my log file and for my error files (which are both text files), but if I change their paths in the configuration file this change ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Cannot schedule item with duplicate key for workflowInstanceId

  Hi, I think I'm missing something basic... Using Beta 2.2 and state machine workflow created with Beta 2, running under ASP.NET and using the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService as well as SQL Persistance and SQL Tracking. I can create / start the workflow and it sits in an initial state waiting for events. Whenever I raise an event (via a local service) to move it to another state the workflow terminates with " Cannot schedule item with duplica ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help plz

  hi, first of all to get answer you have to edit your message title (look to the top of this forum how to get optimal answer") in your connection string "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _ "Data Source=C: ...Show All

• Windows Forms Win32Exception while creating a form

  Hi I am getting the following exception. This happens when I try to create and dispose this form repetitively in a very short period of time. Say I just keep clicking show and close rapidly. This is a huge form with lots of controls in&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions web browser progress bar

  How do l set up a progress bar for a web browser and it shows how far it has loaded I don't think there is any way because you don't know how large a document is. There are a couple of things you do.... you can have it slowly advance or you can activate "Marquee". I've watch the progress bar pretty carefully in IE and I believe all the things I've said in IE are true of it too. ...Show All

• SQL Server Date parameter format incorrectly interpreted

  Hi, I am using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. I have a report with a Startdate and Enddate parameters setup through the report parameters box. The datatype is datetime, so I have the date pickers. My machine regional settings are set to Ireland for datetime format dd/mm/yyyy. The database field being queried is storing the date as dd/mm/yyyy. My problem is when I type in the values Startdate = 01 aug 2005 and Enddate = 31 aug 2005. The rep ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Work Item Virus Protection

  I am working on a web site that will insert new work items in TFS and allow the user to upload attachments to that work items. My question is, How does MS recommend security for the uploaded work item. Will TFS try to execute that attachment in any way or just store it. How would I deal with virus protection in this senario Thanks for your help, Nate TFS just stores attachments as a binary data. But ...Show All

• Visual C++ MemoryStream

  This does not work: MyStream is a MemoryStream InsertString = String::Format ("insert into blobtest (blobtest) values ('{0}');", MyStream->GetBuffer()); MyStream->GetBuffer() just returns "System.Byte[]", not the actual data, which is what I want. You can see what I'm trying to accomplish here. Why isn't it working Before I answer this question, I'd like to know how you obtained ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help ID generation not available for ActiveX Control

  Hi there, Well we have been using an ActiveX control in VC6 for quiet a long time and generating help ID for them but , when We start using newer versions of VC Studio the Option for generating Help IDs for ActiveX control is not displayed and we have difficulty using Context Sensitive Help, If there is any work around Please help us out. Regards Usman Mahmood Yes this is still an issue can I have any work aroun ...Show All

• SQL Server Programmatically loop over variables in the variable dispenser?

  In my custom task, I would like to loop over the variables in the variable dispenser, and only modify those that are of a certain type. Is this possible Thanks! I think you can use Me.variables(x).getType to get the type of each variable. If that is not correct, you can define variables name sXXX for string, iXXX for integer, etc. Then parse the variable name, get the first character and determine the variabl ...Show All

• .NET Development axWebBrowser control accepting security certificates problem

  Hi   I am using a axWebBrowser control to access HTML elements (from a https site) via a document model. I’ve got my head around the DOM side of things and I’m very happy with the way the elements are being presented to me. The problem is that I need to manually accept the security certificate via the security alert dialog.   Can I do this programmally Thanks in advance. If you have ...Show All

• Windows Forms Overriding the ToolStripContentPanel .........

  I created a usercontrol and changed the derived class to ToolStripContainer, because I want to override the OnPaint and OnPaintBackground events of the ToolStripContentPanel. But, the only way I see so far is creating an event for OnPaint. How do you override the OnPaintBackground Do you create another usercontrol and derive from ToolStripContentPanel and replace the default one How do I solve this Thanks for your help!... ...Show All

• Windows Forms found a bug in NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip

  I noticed that the first parameter for this is the number of milliseconds to display the balloon tip. No matter what value you enter the balloon tip never goes away. Hi Mike, Thanks for your good question. After my investigation, it's not the problem of .net Framework but the one with Windows shell. Now that Visual Studio 2005 has shipped we're in the planning stages for our next release. As part ...Show All

• Visual Basic Outputs

  Resently I have been working on some calculation software and I have a problem with outputs.  What would I replace "MsgBox" with if I wanted the output to go into a text box   (TextBox1.text for example) And if I wanted both input and the output in the same textbox, what do I do MsgBox(A - ((B + C) + (D + F) + (G + H))) Hi, Finally, I quite understand on what you mean. As i understand, your trying t ...Show All

• .NET Development Need Help Regarding Chat Server Implementation Using .NET Remoting/Sockets

  Hi Guys, I'm doing some sort of research regarding how to develop a chat client/server application... either using .NET Remoting or Sockets or both. I need some good advices from you guys in order to design my application. To understand the domain of my application please keep in view the following major requirements: 1. Text and Voice Chat 2. Each client will only communicate to the server for (1) authentication and (2) to get list of othe ...Show All