Sowbhagya's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms standalone appln

  i developed a small stand alone accounting application using vb.net2005 and ms-access 2003 as backend now, i want to make setup file of my appln and install it on my client system i dont have any idea about deployment issues or different kind of deployment methods pls suggest me the best kind of setup and deployment You can start by checking out ClickOnce. This blog entry has a list of pointers to Clic ...Show All

• SQL Server No mapping between account names and security IDs was done

  Hi I haven't done much with AS2005. Today I was trying to migrate an AS2000 cube to As2005 using Migration Wizard. Existing AS2000 cube is on Windows 2000 Server (SP4). Destination server has Windows 2003 Server with June CTP. Migration Wizard goes through the validating databases. During metadata migration I get the following error "The following system error occurred:  No mapping between account names and security IDs was done." I am run ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build: How to Build and publish a website

  I have installed TS Build and created build types. All things look great. However, my solution file contains a WebSite. The website files is fetched from SCC, but  not build or published. How can I achieve this. Thanks! Would you please check if you have chosen to build with "Mixed Platforms" in the Configurations tab of your build type If you have chosen a platform that the web project does not bui ...Show All

• Windows Forms Change windows password...

  Hello, I have a windows froms application that uses windows authentication. Ours users want a way to change their windows password from within our application. Can anybody tell me if this can be done at all and if it can be then is there a windows API which allows this. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Raj Hi Raju This can be done using the Win32 API NetUserChangePassword ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/l ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions application building blocks for vb express?

  do these exist where can i d/load them thanks hi, your question is not clear , which blocks that you want to build would you give us example for what you want best regards ...Show All

• Visual C++ ON_WM_NCHITTEST (and other MFC macros) won't compile in whidbey

  1>.\sizecbar\scbarg.cpp(59) : error C2440: 'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'UINT (__thiscall CSizingControlBarG::* )(CPoint)' to 'LRESULT (__thiscall CWnd::* )(CPoint)' 1>        Cast from base to derived requires dynamic_cast or static_cast FYI, ON_WM_NCHITTEST looks like this: #define ON_WM_NCHITTEST() \     { WM_NCHITTEST, 0, 0, 0, AfxSig_l_p, \       &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MS Project Export/Import

  Is there any reason why MS project isn't reflecting the task hierarchy of items that are exported from team system They were originally published from a project that had task hierarchy indentations and if you highlight those tasks and export to project, the whole thing is flat and it doesn't reflect the task durations either. MS Project does not reflect task hierarchy in TFS. The task durations should be imported however, but if you are imp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Basic Questions - need some answers please

  Modeling - Can one do modeling in VS2005 Professional Edition or only in VS2005 Team System Edition Now to define modeling; at least at my level, be able to creating UML designs and have the IDE create C# code from that. VS2005 Professional Edition - 'Class Diagram Button' (in the solution explorer) - Clicking this gave me some level of modeling but from what I have read and tried, this is really for documentation only.   Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using Properties and Call like NAnt

  NAnt has a nice feature where you can use a combination of properties and the call task to repeat operations. For example: <target name="target_one"> <property name="A" value="Value1" /> <property name="B" value="Value2" /> <property name="C" value="Value3" /> <call target="ALongProcessWithManySteps" /> </target> <target name="target_two"> <property name="A" value="Value4" /> <proper ...Show All

• .NET Development SecureString to managed byte array

  I am trying to use the new SecureString class to pass around a password. Eventually I need to get an unencrypted managed array of bytes that is the ANSI representation of this password and  Marshal.SecureStringToGlobalAllocAnsi / Marshal.Copy would seem to be just what I need, except that I have no idea how much memory was allocated and how big my managed byte array needs to be. Am I missing something here private static byte [ ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista must DependancyProperty variables be suffixed with "Property"?

  It seems that if you want to create a DependancyProperty your variable must be suffixed with "Property". I tried to create a DependancyProperty like so: public static DependencyProperty suppliedMessage = DependencyProperty.Register("suppliedMessage", typeof(string), typeof(SupplyMessage)); But I kept getting the error: Could not create activity of type 'Ex01.SupplyMessage'. System.ArgumentException: Type 'Ex01.SupplyMes ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to Install Sql Server Express Manager

  Hope this forum has an answer. Having successfully downloaded and installed C# Express and Web Dev Express (to include .NET Framework 2.0 and SQL Express 2005, I tried to download the SS Express Manager CTP. I successfully downloaded and installed on my Windows 2000 SP4 machine the new MS Installer, as indicated on the web site and seemed to have no problems with that. The pre-requisites from the website were ("You must install the Microsoft .NE ...Show All

• Visual C# How to update a combobox that contains objects ?

  Hello, I have a class that look like (simplified) : public class Profile {     private String _name;     public String Name     {        get { return _name; }        set { _name = value; }     }     public override ToString()     {        return Name;     } } &n ...Show All

• .NET Development How to access webservices using soap protocol from javascript?

  I cannot access web services using http get and post so only option isto use soap Please help in this regard.. Thanks in advance If the web service will ONLY support the Soap Protocol then you'll need a client that makes these soap requests. You're right, the XMLHTTP and ServerXMLHTTP objects use HTTP Post or HTTP Get requests to call the web service. We have a few more options for you: 1. Use the SoapTool K ...Show All

• Visual J# java.util.Calendar.getInstance() fails on Windows 2003

  Calling java.util.Calendar.getInstance() on Windows 2003 produces the following exception below... java.lang.NullPointerException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at java.util.GregorianCalendar.__dateToTime() at java.util.GregorianCalendar.computeTime() at java.util.Calendar.getTimeInMillis() at java.util.GregorianCalendar.__initialize() at java.util.GregorianCalendar.<init>(TimeZone zone, Locale aLocale) at ...Show All