Runnerdave's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQL DataReader Mischief ! HELP !

  Why oh, Why is this happening.. Fastest winner gets a gold star ! hehe Just after i check the value of the data reader against the string in the IF statement, the code skips. If there is a record (=) to my varible everything is fine. However the IF ELSE will not work inside the While loop ! If i remove the record from the database and run the below code the IF statement skips (well skips the (Else)) and bombs out. Public Sub ...Show All

• .NET Development How to use hardcoded connection string in Enter prise library

  Hi I am facing problem sending the hard coded connection string to establish a connection using Enterprise library. EntLib methods directly reading connection string from the config file. The scenario is that I get the connection string data from the user and then I need to use those input data to establish the connection. I just want to know whether there is any method, which takes connetion string as parameter. Any other way to do this usin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System load testing query for 1.0 application

  Hi, I would like to apply load testing in 1.0 .net application, for that i am thinking to convert the existing application into .net 2.0. So after converstion, i will do the load and web testing for checking the performance of the Application. but i have one doubt that in 2.0 framework i can't find out the exact performance of the Application.Is it so please suggest me how can i proceed for checking the performance of the 1.0 application. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to find which RadioButton has been selected in a GroupBox?

  I have a lot of RadioButtons in a Groupox, except checking the Checked property of each RadioButton in the group, is there any other way to know which is selected Thank you for your help! Hi, Try and search for a property like ... radionbuttonlist.SelectedItem.Value. This should give you the value of the selected radio button in the list. Cheers, Nasha. from eeks to geeks ...... you can ca ...Show All

• SQL Server Metadata driven SSIS

    I am looking for some pointers on Metadata driven SSIS.   Specifically, how to automate creation of a large number of packages in SSIS using metadata.   I am looking at this as a solution to deploy multiple packages on multiple servers. Any other ideas on this would be highly appreciated.   Thanks   Vishal Verma By the way, I think what Suresh may be talking about here is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WorkItemChanged event handler throws exception!

  I wrote a simple handler for the WorkItemChanged TFS event. The registration went fine and the handler is called when the event is triggered. So far so good. But, as soon as I try to get the WorkItemStore object inside the handler method, a ArgumentException is thrown:   Error:   Cannot pass a GCHandle across AppDomains. Parameter name: handle ,     at System.Runtime.InteropServices.GCHandle.InternalC ...Show All

• SQL Server SS2005 64 Bit - No Mail ???

  Hi There Recently while going through the SS2005 features to compare 64 bit enterprise vs Standard edition, i was very surpirsed to find in BOL that no version of 64 bit SS2005, has sql mail or database mail. BOL: SQL Mail Yes on 32-bit No on 64-bit Yes Yes No No No Database Mail Yes on 32-bit No on 64-bit Yes Yes No No No There m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't Install TFS RC on a Domain Controller???

  We can no longer install TFS (RC) on a domain controller This worked in earlier betas and CTP versions. But now I'm told with the installer that this is not a supported configuration, yet the installation guide talks about installing on a DC. I wasted all this time setting up the DC system and get to the point of running TFS install and am told I can no longer do this I've seen Microsoft respondents in the past indicate that you can install on ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there a seperate Extensibility Kit for TFS RC version ?

  Hi, I installed TFS RC and want to create a GlobalList using Glimport. I could not find Glimport anywhere on App-Tier or Data-Tier. Is there any seperate Extensibility Kit for TFS RC Can I use Extensibility Kit for Beta 2 Thanks for your help, Ertobias. I believe you should find it in Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ on a machine with Team Explorer installed. The Vis ...Show All

• Visual Basic Is there an alternate to the VS2005Getfiles that will return a string array.

  In my old code I declared a variable _fileList() as string. Then I used Directory.GetFiles(strDefaultDirectory, "IP*" ) to fill the array. Now the getfiles function us nder the My .namespace " My .Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles" and returns this " System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection( Of String )" Previoulsy if the directory.getFiles method returned 0 items I would used the ".Filenames" property of a OpenFileDialog box to return m ...Show All

• .NET Development connecting between Outlook and Yahoo mail server

  Hi all, I need your help in the follwoing case: I want to build an application of communication layer between Outlook 2003 and yahoo emal server. I want to begin now only the first step: To read the inbox list. Witch classes I need in the .Net framework how can I read about them how can I apply the automation mechnism between my application and outlook. Please help... Best regards... Hi Wasim, I'm unclear as to ...Show All

• SQL Server Error browsing Analysis Services Tutorial cube

  Hi. I have two instances of SQL Server installed. One is unnamed and refers to a SQL Server 2000 installation. The other one is named PEDRO\SQLDEV2005 and refers to a SQL Server 2005 installation. I was going through the MSAS tutorial and when I was trying to browse the cube the following error occurred: The query could not be processed: o Errors in the OLE DB provider. Could not connect to the redirector. Ensure that ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Unable to deploy solution to Smartphone Emulator

  Folks, I wrote a very simple app (sort of hello world) for Smartphone. Now when I try to run the solution I repeatedly get the following error Connect to device failed. How do I deploy this application to the emulator By the way I'm trying this on Smartphone Magento but if I do the same on Smartphone 2003 it just deploy's without any problems. Do I have to configure something for Smartphone Magento Thanks, Uday Can you provide the followi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) The Digital Identity Control panel applet failed to start

  When I double click on "Digital Identities" icon I get the following error message: "The Digital Identoty control panel applet failed to start. Error: 0x80070002. Message: The system cannot find the file specified." I checked and the Infocard service was missing. The I ran the following command: installutil infocard.exe and I got the following error message: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>installutil i ...Show All

• SQL Server Returns Nothing, But Executes Fine

  SELECT tblWatchInstance.WatchID,tblWatchBrands.Description,tblWatches.Serial_Number,tblWatches.OwnerFName,tblWatches.OwnerLName, tblClients.Name FROM tblWatchInstance INNER JOIN tblWatches ON tblWatchInstance.Watch_Key = tblWatches.WATCH_KEY INNER JOIN tblWatchColors ON tblWatches.COLOR_KEY = tblWatchColors.COLOR_KEY INNER JOIN tblWatchBrands ON tblWatches.BRAND_KEY = tblWatchBrands.BRAND_KEY INNER JOIN tblWatchTypes ON tblWatches.WATCHTYPE_KEY ...Show All