Thomas D. Greer's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System No access to reports and documents over internet port 8080

  I've got some problems with my installation of TFS beta 3. I installed Windows Server with latest sp. Sql server september, sharepoint and tfs beta 3. The tfs is installed on this server to help us work in project over http and not intranet. When I try to create new project from vs over internet, I get error on connecting to reportserver on port 8080. My reportserver is not running on 8080, it's running on 80. If I create my new project on ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagridview col headertext change

  Hi Im working with datagridview obj that is binded to DataSet that working with SQL 7.0 In the SQL Database I defined a table with col type: int,  char and datetime. On the datagridview I can change the headertext of col of  type char, but not  ...Show All

• .NET Development InvalidCastException - Deserialization error

  Hi , I have a web method that returns an object. One of the properties of the object holds an array to another object (this was written in java and we are using the existing application as is). When I call the web method from .Net I get the following innerexception. Can anyone tell me how I can prevent this deserialization error Thanks Murali "System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (25, 17). ---> ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Express 2005

  Hi all, I just downloaded and installed VB Express 2005 Bata 2. When I ran it and select "New Project" and "Window" app, I get 5 dialog boxes that says: Title: Package Load Failure Package 'Visual Studio common IDE package' has failed to load properly (GUDI - {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C}). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart recommended, due to possible enviroment corruption. Would you like to disable load ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS3 and Outlook2007 Beta2 German Problem

  Hello I installed Office2007 Beta2 German on a German WinXP Pro system. We work in a domain and ExchangeServer. The Quicksearch and the advanced search in Outloom doesn’t find anything with WDS3. When i remove WDS3 and install the actally WDS the search function works fine, but i get a message in Outlook to update the WDS to WDS3 Beta. Reinstall of Office2007 or WDS doesnt help anything. Anyone a Idea regards ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Render to texture

  this is in response to another thread that I have in this forum. I am having problem of rendering to a texture. I have a texture that I populate by using lockRect and the usage is D3DPOOL_MANAGED.  The problem is that I cannot populate this texture using lockRect and D3DPOOL_MANAGED but rather D3DPOOL_DEFAULT, which cannot be populated with lockRect.  I have to use D3DPOOL_MANAGED inoder to use SetRenderTarget 1.Is there a way to popu ...Show All

• SQL Server Another question about Login failed, but with Windows NT Integrated security for SQL 2005

  Hi, Happy New Year!   I have been struggling with this problem for a while with SQL 2005.   I have never had such login problem with SQL 2000. Here is the scenario:   I have installed SQL2005 standard version on a XP Pro box and I am trying to access it from another XP Pro machine.   I can access it using a SQL user name and password that I set up on the server, but I have not had luck with using Wind ...Show All

• Visual C++ using a textbox from a 2nd Windows form

  I've got a Windows Forms .NEt application that uses 2 forms. I've got Form2 which is created from Form1 : (inside a Form1 button click event handler) : namespace::Form2 *myForm2 = new namespace::Form2; myForm2->Show(); This Form2 works well, & I now have the need to write text to it's textBox1. So I create one in Form2[Design]. I need to do this textbox population inside a function X that is defined within namespace but outside the defi ...Show All

• SQL Server Internet Merge Replication IIS

  Maybe I am missing something here, but it seems like the point of doing Merge Replication via IIS is so that you do not have to expose your DB server directly to the internet (i.e. all your clients), rather you expose a webserver to the internet and the webserver handles the replication keeping your DB server closed to direct internet access and thus keeping it more secure. However, to set up Internet Merge Replication using IIS a client has ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem with VS Studio 2005 installation

  Hello, I just tried to install VSStudio 2005 on my Laptop. Since I do not have enough space on my system partition available I changed the installation path to antoher one, however VSStudio setup still intends to install files with a size of almost 1 GB on my system partition which I do not have available. Does anybody know how to solve this Problem Thanks, Thomas Hi Thomas, I don't know the answ ...Show All

• Windows Forms DefaultCellStyle.Format for an unbound row doesn't work.

  I add a DataGridView to a form and use the IDE to set the DefaultCellStyle.Format for one of the columns to "C2".  When I run the form, I can enter any value of any type and nothing gets formatted or validated. I tried setting the value in the form's constructor as well, but the results are the same.  Why doesn't this work     I finally realized that there is problem with ValueType ...Show All

• .NET Development Framework 2.0 - Skins in Windows Forms

  Hi all, I'm writing a windows forms c# app, and i need to apply skins to the forms. Searching google, i found several .net components (commercial ones:( ), that could do the job. Meanwhile i ran across an article about the new SkinID property in the 2.0 framework. How exactly does this property works, is it suitable for changing the skin of windows Forms and controls (similar to dotNetSkin but without the fancy interface ) best w ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PPC 6700 Sprint -- FileName Problem

  I have Dell Axim X51V with CF2.0 C# application. In my device if I create filename programatically like 123.txt it works great with no problem. One of my customer has complained that if he enters 123 for filename, his device (PPC 6700 Sprint) is not creating the file. But if he enters characters like abc then abc.txt is getting created fine. In the previous case he is not getting any error message. If somebody has this type of phone can yo ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ Express with ADSI?

  At work I use Visual Studio 2003 .NET edition. I developed an ISAPI filter to authenticate against Active Directory. I want to know if there's any hope of compiling this on Express edition, so that I can occasionally work at home. I have trouble because atlstr.h is not available, and winldap.h includes schnlsp.h, which also is not available. I am using CString. I have downloaded and hooked up the Platform SDK, so other atl files are availa ...Show All

• SQL Server Can we use cubes of MSAS2000 in MSAS2005

  hi, i am currently using a foodmart database i.e. MSAS2000 and i have installed newely MSAS2005. now i wanted to use the cubes of MSAS2000 i.e.Foodmart cube in MSAS2005. is it possible to move the cubes or migrate the cubes to MSAS2005. if yes then how if not then why and is anything done to do the upgradation or the migration. thanks in advance for the answer This Project REAL paper should give you some ...Show All