Rujith Anand's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System loadtest run by iterations

  can it be possible to set the loadtest to run according to a number of iterations instead of running for a priod duration of time - set in the run settings properties - run duration     Please see the following thread for a discussion on this topic: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=122964&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development COM issues

  Hi. I am not exactly using C++ but using native/PInvoke calls from C#. I believe this would be more appropriate forum in asking this question. I have an MDA Vario with WM5.   I am having trouble with trying to send data/set comm state to COM4. PLEASE help. I can get a VALID handle using CreateFile, no sharing, write only Firstly, I need to GetCommState so I can set the baud rate etc... I create a DCB and then:   ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Extension Methods: Static Electricity?

  As Anders pointed out in his Channel9 demo, Extension Methods in C# 3.0 really make Linq possible. After drilling into Extension Methods and wanting to not like them, I must ask: what were the alternatives The example that Ian Griffith's gives of some 3rd party developer quietly including something like: namespace System {     public static class Evil    {         public static vo ...Show All

• .NET Development Serialize Strong Typed Collection. "There was an error reflecting type.."

  HI, I have a class that looks like this: [ Serializable ] public class NewsItems : System.Collections.Generic. List < NewsItem > { }; Any it works just fine for 99% of my needs... Here is the 1% problem, when I want to write out the contents of my collection to XML, I get the following error (pasted below) anyone know how to remedy this System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled Message="There was ...Show All

• .NET Development Increase in number of handles

  Hi, I have a VB .NET 2003 Windows appl. Application is multithreaded handling 8 ports. The number of handles keep growing when monitored thro' the task manager & we reach to a point that the server should be restarted. Even an application restart doesn't help. Any known issues on this subject For the objects that I've created, I've implemented Dispose mthd & called the same at appropriate places. Lot of work cleaning up is ex ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Worlds Best App Contest Winners

  It’s time to announce the winning applications for MSNR Messenger’s Worlds Best App Contest , which MSN ran from September through December 31 st , 2005. There were a lot of great entries, hard work and interesting new ideas for building new applications and games within Messenger. Submitted applications were judged based on the official rules and judging criteria which included creativity, launches during the contest, suit ...Show All

• Visual Basic Assembly.LoadFrom error

  Assembly.LoadFrom error In a book I'm reading the current chapter is on reflection. The example in question gives the commented out assembly.loadfrom. If I try that I get an error that objects.dll cannot be found. But if I use the full path it works fine. Am I doing something wrong or is the author's code in error 'dll = Assembly.LoadFrom("..\..\Objects\bin\Debug\Objects.dll") dll = Assembly.LoadFrom("C:\vs2005Projects\Wro ...Show All

• .NET Development IE Hosted Form not working on Windows Server 2003 w/ SSL

  Hi all - First off, I apologize if this is not posted in the appropriate forum. I couldn't decide which forum would be best, and so went with the general forum. I have an IE hosted form that I've developed as part of an intranet site. Both the form and the intranet site were developed using .NET 1.1 and are hosted on a Windows Server 2003 SP1 box with all the latest and greatest updates from MS. I was able to get everything workin ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Job execute access

  Hi, I have a DTS package in an instance of SQL Server 2000. The DTS package has been scheduled to run on a particular time. Also this may be need to execute by a user explicitly. Which role i have to assign to the login of the user to execute the particular job . Currently the job is not listed the 'Job' tree when i view through EM by using the login. But it is coming for 'SA'. Kindly help on this. Thanks My understanding is that SQLAgentO ...Show All

• SQL Server Blank Error Messagebox Displayed at startup

  When I start SQL Server Management Studio an error message box with no text is displayed with the Exclamation ICON.  Everything seems to be working after clicking OK though.  Anyone else experienced this.  Also...  Why is it that I can't repair the installation from Add and Uninstall   Do I have to uninstall it to repair it The SQL 2005 is the Developer Addition with a new install... I haven't seen the empty erro ...Show All

• Windows Forms calculating the date on friday of every third week of a month

  hi, Is there any easy way of calculating the date on friday of every third week of a month, by using Datetime class or any other class.function Thanks, The following test code will fill an array with the dates of the 12 third Frdays of the year: Private Sub TestTheDates () Dim TheDates As Date () = CalculateThirdFridays () For x As Integer = 0 To 11 Console . WriteL ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Insert Word field...programmatically?

  In Word, you can go to Insert --> Field and insert a formula. I know that works great. But my question is, can you do all of that programmatically OK, I found something like this: Me .Paragraphs( 1 ).Range.InsertParagraphAfter() Me .Fields.Add( Me .Paragraphs( 1 ).Range, Word.WdFieldType. wdFieldExpression ) But how can you create the formula ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Modifying Infopath controls through scripting

  Is it possible to highlight an infopath control, say a textbox, via scripting. I want to focus/highlight a textbox on an infopath form when something is clicked in my custom taskpane. How can I achieve this Thanks rahul Thank you very much for re-directing me to the correct group. Thanks rahul ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Read specific line from a file?

  Hi, Is there a method to read a specific line of a text file The StreamReader class does not seem to have a method to do so. The Peek method isn't what I'm looking for either. Would appreciate your help. Thanks. Will threading help If you know in advance what is the file to be processed, you can start a thread to index it first. I did a simple test program, and indeed, with indexing, reading any line is extremel ...Show All

• Visual Basic Locked property

  Why am I able to change the locked property for my combo box or text box in the property window but not in the code I thought maybe if you put the combobox in a container and disabled the containter it would do what you want, but it looks like .NET will disable all controls in the container for you. The only way I can see to do it would be to store the selected index in the .tag property of the item and ...Show All