BostonResident's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Did anyone experience with running NUnit task on multiple projects?

  I've run into the following problem. I generate a list of projects to run MsBuild community NUnit task on them: < Target Name = " NUnit " > < Message Text = " @(OutputFiles->'%(FullPath)') " /> < NUnit Assemblies = " @(OutputFiles->'%(FullPath)') " OutputXmlFile = " TestReport.xml " /> </ Target > Then when the targe it executed I get the following error: &quo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions No verification e-mail message

  As with the beta 2, I am again unable to register the C# express edition. I simply do not receive any verification e-mail message, ever, from MicroSoft. Help is appreciated. Regards,   Guido Hi Guido, Try this: go to http://profile.microsoft.com ; Log in with your passport account and view your profile.  Do you have an email address on file   If not, edit your profile to add your email ad ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How do you store and retrieve rules and xoml xml in SQL Server 2005 without errors?

  Tom, When I try retrieving XOML workflow rules xml text from SQL Server 2005 xml datatype, with the following: Dim ruleReader As System.Xml.XmlTextReader = Nothing ruleReader = New XmlTextReader(wfreg.XOMLRules.ToString()) I get an "Illegal characters in path" error. ---------------------------------------------- {"Illegal characters in path."}     System.ArgumentException: {"Illegal characters in path."}   & ...Show All

• SQL Server MCTS Exam 70-431 Database Administration Study Documementation and Samples ?

  Hi, I am looking for good documentation and examples to use to 'study' for Microsoft exam 70-431. This has everything to do with nuts-and-bolts Database Administration of SQL Server 2005. The December BOL examples, do not cover enough topics. The topics that are covered are not in enough detail. The 70-431 exam requirements are very detailed. This seems to be a nuts-and-bolts test. I am looking for nuts-and-bolts study material. No b ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error in "Form.vb [Design]"

  I will try to develope a little application with Visual Basic.Net 2005 Beta 2. I've make Form1 and its code, but at this time I can't see it in design time, an error occured: One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes. Clicking on each error will take you to the line of code that caused it. Method 'Sys ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there any way to center a MessageBox based on it's parent?

  Could anybody tell me whether it's true that we can't make a MessageBox in the center of its parent (instead of the screen) using pure managed code! It's really frustrating that I need to make some windows API calls in order to to do that. Use one of the MessageBox.show overloads that take an IWin32Window parameter. For instance .... MyCustomForm myForm= new MyCustomForm(); myForm.Show(); MessageBox.Show(myForm, "Hello"); ... ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Low power state

  The device emulator seems to think that the smart device has run completely out of battery power. This is pretty annoying, especially with programs that check the battery state and change their UI accordingly. Any chance to make the battery power level configurable Hi Lutz, This is something that I want to do but have not yet had a chance too. Thanks, Vladimir ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to show text on the preview video

  I can preview the video on the screen through a capture device. But now, I want to show some text on the video, for example: show the current time. How can I do this Thanks a lot. so, nice But this is a example for vc++ only or other. You have the example for show text on the video screen with c# And how i get this example  I want to link for download.   Thank you every much.   PS. Sorry&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express and XLL

  Hello, can I build an XLL addin in VB express I can't find this template under New... as I do in VB6... Thanks Martin I'm not aware of any template for VB 6.0 that can create an XLL file. This is a Windows DLL and VB 6.0 cannot generate these w/o a third party tool or hack. You might be thinking of C++. You can create an Office COM Add-in w/VB.NET: http://support.microsoft.com/ id=302896 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Security exceptions calling a web service from within a UserControl embedded in IE

  Hi, We're getting a security exception on a asychronous callback from a web service.  This exception only occurs when our control is embedded within an IE web page.  The security exception does not occur when we elevate the trust for the " ...Show All

• Visual Basic Change VB form Color

  Hi all, I would like to change the color of a form in VB 6.0. Is there any WIN32 API function or any other Visual Basic function which gets the form handle and changes the color of the form. Just setting form.backcolor does not help as they do not change the color of other controls and menus. I would like change the default color of the whole form. Pls reply asap. Thanks, Sugan as far as i know, this forum is for .net only. ...Show All

• SQL Server Collapsing/Shrinking Rectangles?

  Is it possible to have rectangles shrink when the textboxes that they contain are empty No, Rectangles cannot shrink based on their contents. They are always the size defined in the report definition. -Chris ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS transformations "when data exceeds available memory"

  I've read that SSIS tries to do all transformations in memory as a way of enhancing processing speed. What happens though if the amount of data processed exceeds the available RAM Are raw files then used (similar to staging tables) or is an error generated Barkingdog Actually neither, although at some point an error may be generated but the dataflow task will swap buffers to disk in an internal forma ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS 2005 Beta 2 CDs instead of DVD

  I was just wondering if CD images were available for download somewhere instead of the massive DVD image.  I don't have a DVD burner on my work machine. If I have to go with the DVD image, I know I can extract the files and then burn CDs. However, is there a layout somewhere that tells me what will fit on what CD Thanks. MSDN Subscribers (not sure if there's a level restriction or not) will receive DVD ...Show All

• Visual C# How to implement the "Check for update..." feature?

  I have a WinForm application which cannot be handled by ClickOnce technology because of the limitation of ClickOnce.  However, I would like to implement the "Check for update..." feature using the ClickOnce related technology(may be System.Deployment class ).  Anyone know that Thanks Some of the limitations that you mention are actually security features. The whole idea of ClickOnce is to enable Smart Client Applications to b ...Show All