BillBBellevue's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office "Failed to start word" error - 0x80040403.

  I have a simple word document project in VB.  I have a build system that is launched off an NT service. The build runs using the command line similar to “msbuild Wordproject.sln /p:outdir=d:\temp\”. During this build, the exception is thrown from GenerateAndPersistAppInfoTask. The build succeeds when I run the same from the cmd window. I could not find details for the error code returned. Soiunds like a credential is ...Show All

• .NET Development Using FtpWebRequest to check if a directory exists.

  I'd like to know if there is anyway i can use the FtpWebRequest class to check if a directory exists before creating it on the server. The reason i ask is because if you try to create a directory that already exists it throws a WebException and disconnects from the server. This gives a performance hit if we are trying to create alot of directories on the server that already exists due to the disconnects/reconnects. TIA, lushd ...Show All

• .NET Development How to seach through XML and return only requested/matching nodes

  I have an information collection consisting of a dozen or so tags (name, style, location, description, date created, etc) with their accompanying content for a catalog of about 200 items. (this catalog will never grow to over 1000 items). I am learning XML/XLST in general and especially dotNet's implementation of them, and where I would usually just use SQL queries to a mdb file to pull/return only the requested entries, I would like to build ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to write a scheduler for Windows (newbie)

  Hi - I have a web application, which I want to use to send me email reminders of events. To have this send the emails each day about the events of that day, I need to write a windows application/service, which will query my database and loop until all of the events of that day have had an email sent for them. I've only ever written in asp/asp.net - and have access to write .net 1.1 or .net2 on my server - I've never written windows program ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'NotificationBatchId'

  Using Yukon Apr 05 CTP Have defined the custom fields for the subscription (like the Stock Name and Stock Price) Error while the SubscriptionsEventRule gets executed the NSFireDeveloperDefined1 stored proc (that contains the SubscriptionsEventRule t-sql) throws up this error "Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'NotificationBatchId' " This columns belongs to the NSTestNotifications table. Should this column be a bigint "ident ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection Error: (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.

  Hello, Please bear with me as I am no Sql Server guru, but am getting this error that is preventing me from continuing with my development work.  I am the only developer on my team running Sql Server 2005 and it has been working just fine for the last week.  I opened the Management Studio this morning, just like every other morning and got this error: TITLE: Connect to Server ------------------------------ Cannot connect to (local). ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Problems with DAO and SQL Server

  I am trying to return a DAO recordset from SQL Server so that I can use CopyFromRecordSet to populate some data in Excel 97. The below creates the recordset but the CopyFromRecordSet fails with : error -2147467259 (80004005) Operation is not supported for this type of object If I change to another database (SpecData) and change the strSQL to select a table without the owner prefix the code works. The permissions on the two databases are id ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to generate a 'physical output' from the sharepoint query result?

  Hi, I'm using a SQL Query Analyzer to run a query in my sharepoint database. The query doings fine, and it shows results. My question here, how can we use the result and put those files into a folder It doesnt matter a particular or not, but basically to generate a 'physical output' from the result query that we had. Previously, i'm using VSS Reporter where it can search my database through labels, and able to select the particular l ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Formatting Message and Input Boxes in Visual Basic .NET 2005 Beta 2 Express

  Hi. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to format the content of MsgBox() and InputBox() texts in VB.NET My main targets are bolding , italicizing , and underlining. However, strikethrough, superscripting , and subscripting would also be appreciated. Thanks, The Digital Pioneer Digital Pioneer - It isn't possible to do this using the standard MsgBox function.  But you can quite easily create your own si ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Setup Error: Windows SharePoint Services is not configured as recommended by Team Foundation Server

  I am trying to install Team Foundation Server Beta 3 as single server installation and installed all required software components. However, during the installation, it gives me "Windows SharePoint Services is not configured as recommended by Team Foundation Server" error under "Recommened Components" dialog box. I exactly have followed an instruction specified in setup guide for Team Foundation Server Beta 3 for SharePoint services installation. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Monitor the Change of ActiveControl

  Is there any way to monitor the change of ActiveControl for a form, for instance, to update the main menu based on currently active control  There is a Form.ActiveControl property, however I don't find any event associated with this property. What comes& ...Show All

• Visual Basic Global Datasets

  Hi I was wondering if anyone can help me with this. I have a few datasets that i want to have shared across my application. I Intend to fill the datasets from a tableadapter at a splash screen. When i have copied the datasets to a form i wish to use i still have to fill them again. Is there a way to have these datasets shared across a few forms with out re-filling them every time Cheers    Ade Yes ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Submit an App - Get the Windows Live Messenger Beta!

  Would you like early access to the Windows Live Messenger Beta Starting today, November 8 th and running thru 9:00am PST on Monday, November 14 th The first 5 people to submit Activity Apps to the Worlds Best App contest and successfully pass compliance checking will receive an immediate invitation to the Windows Live Messenger Beta! Be one of the first people in the world outside of Microsoft to run with the next version of Windows ...Show All

• Visual Basic Boolean Explanation Please!!!

  Private blnNoAction As Boolean = False Now i am declaring 'blnNoAction as a Boolean varible that is set to FALSE, but the thing is i do not know what that means........and i dont know how i should use this varible...can some send me a link or run me an explanation on how this works, i am fimiliar with the operators AND OR NOT but how does this tie in to declaring a varible as boolean A boolean variable can only hold two values: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can't Run Sample

  I downloaded and installed "Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Sample: Estimate Solution" and ran the database setup project but when I try to open the sample project I get an error complaining that it could not open the "EstimateExcelTemplate.vbproj" file. There is no such file in that folder Did I miss something here Hi Wayne, Have you downloaded the latest version of the Estimate Solution sample (We just upda ...Show All