JohnGreenan's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Bug Caching Non-DataSet objects in ServerDocument???

  Is there a bug with caching objects that are not DataSets in Office 2k3 docs Although the examples state that anything xml-serializable can be cached using the "Cached()" attribute, I have had no luck trying to cache a simple string in a Word doc. My code in ThisDocument.cs is something like: public partial class ThisDocument {     string id = string .Empty;     [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Run ...Show All

• SQL Server How to call Integration Services Project from Web UI

  I just got done finishing an Integration Services Project (which I have to say was sickening easy!) which does the following:  1) Imports a comma delimited txt file 2) Exports it into a table 3) I do some manipulation and other table creation using SQL 4) Outputs a table to a flat file again I now need to allow the user to run this process.  I'd like to either: a) Provide them a shortcut that when clicked on their des ...Show All

• SQL Server a newbie question on SQL database use

  Hi there, I am a longtime programmer in OO Visual dBASE environment migrating to C#, MS Visual Studio and FoxPro 9 all at once. it is hard for me to formulate questions since I have a somewhat visceral understanding as to what I need, so I need a general advice. I am abandoning dBASE since it does not provide .NET capabilities. But I do have extensive database tables accumulated over many years. How can I use my dBASE tables for instance in this ...Show All

• SQL Server Urgent - Help - 2005 - Building a cube/measure group from another cube/measure group

  Hi all: I would like to build a cube/measure group from another couple of cubes/measure groups. Any help/hints/assistance would be highly welcome - as it cuts down loading 500 million rows per day to a few hundred thousand. Thanks in advance. SS Information Management Group London, UK Sounds like u want 2 to create a virtual cube. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/olapdmad/agcubevarieties_7j8z.asp ...Show All

• Windows Forms creating a stand alone .exe

  hi, i have created this windows application.Can u tell me how can i create a stand alone exe of my windows application (this is my first Windows application :-) )so that I can work with my application without going to VS.NET  Varun ...Show All

• Windows Forms retrieving the 'main' form

  is there any way for a Component to obtain a reference to the Form-object to which is was added that is, is there any static method to retrieve (any) Form-objects that have been instantiated. or is there methods in the Component-class which can give the 'parent'-Form of that Component though, I know that Components may exist without beeing added to a Form... but what I like to have is a reference to th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem with RemoveDir and MakeDir

  Hi, I've got a simple MSBuild project that looks something like this: <ItemGroup><MessageFiles Include="..."><Out>...</Out></MessageFiles></ItemGroup> <PropertyGroup><IncDir>foo</IncDir></PropertyGroup> <Target Name="Clean"> <RemoveDir Directories="$(IncDir)" /> </Target> <Target Name="Build" Inputs="@(MessageFiles)" Outputs="@(MessageFiles->'$(IncDir)\%(Fil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Deployment folder won't get copied.

  In my test project I have a folder with a few xml files which I set the properties to be content/copy always. I added this folder to the additional files and directories to deploy window in my .testrunconfig file. When I run my test, all xml files are copied to the out directory but not the folder. So it basically flattens the directory structure on deployment. How do I tell it to preserve the directory structure Thanks. ...Show All

• Architecture MSMQ vs Event/Delegate model as foundation for flexible application architechture?

  While architecting a framework for an application that is being developed, for which we plan to use 'messaging' as the primary data/information exchange mechanism, use we came across this dilemma: To use MSMQ or Event/Delegate model of .NET To elaborate a little further, the system would consist of User Data Management, Video Capture, Printing, UI, Remote UI and Remote Control interfaces etc. ALL interactions between these modules wo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX, where do I put the symbol files?

  Sorry for the newbie question, but where do I put the Symbol files I am using April 2006 release, VS2003, MDX, x86. Thank you. Well I didn't have that directory, but after a little hunting I discovered that its a separate download. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=562D72FC-61C8-41A3-8BFF-509466F3D6AA I always assumed these were for C++ only but you are correct that there are symbols for the managed assemblies t ...Show All

• Visual J# Problems with 'Alter Login'

  I have a Win32 program to restore a SQL Server backup, and properly map the SQL Server login IDs in the restored database, with the Logins on the Server. I even create the Logins on the server if they don't exist. All this worked great on 7.0 and 2000. In 2005 I'm using the 'Alter Login' command, as I need to specify 'CHECK_POLICY = OFF'. If I restore a backup from my Win32 program, the restore works. The I execute the following command to se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Extendable?

  I am interested in extending FxCop.  Is it extendable at the framework level Can we write event handlers or Services that say – once an error report is created it is sent to a server which displays the report in a list for all to see. Thanks FxCop wasn't designed as a general framework for driving analysis and results. We recommend using the command-line tool in a scripted system for this sort of work. For t ...Show All

• .NET Development Combining two ICollections into one IDictionary

  Given two ICollections, where the first one contains strings, and the second one contains Objects, is there a standard way to combine them into one IDictionary where the strings from the first provide the keys, and the Objects from the second provide the values An example would be a ConnectionStringBuilder class. It contains two ICollections, .Keys and .Values. I would like to make one HashTable out of those. Right now I CopyTo() an array for b ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Translate you messages and recieve translated messages

  I just made a translator activity, that will translate what you say, or what your buddy says in up to 18 different languages! Heres what you set your xml file to: < xml version="1.0" >  <Entry>   <EntryID>7</EntryID>   <Error />   <Locale>en-us</Locale>   <Kids>1</Kids>   <Page>1</Page>   <Category>50</Category>   <Seque ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how to record web test?

  i am new to visual studio, when i try to record web test i didn't find the option web test in the template of the add new test, in the add new test templates i can see only unordered test and unit test i didn't see the web test in the template so how to select the web test can anyone please suggest me.... Do you have Visual Studio Team System or Visual Studio Team Tester It sounds like you may have Visual Studi ...Show All