.NET_Programmer's Q&A profile

• .NET Development .Net 2.0 release version breaks VS 2005b2?

  I have just upgraded my .Net frameworks to 2.0 release version, and in the process, I had to uninstall the previous beta version and also some other stuff like the compact framework. Now, Visual Studio beta2 is not launching anymore. Is this a known issue With kind regards. Two things. One, ClickOnce docs tell you all about how it downloads the most recent version of the .net framework. Yea it feels like *** when you run into that problem but remember, you are beta testing. You are suppost to be telling them bugs and helping with the overall release... which brings me to the next thing. They can, and did (y ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot save my Maintenance plan

  I use sa to login to sql 2005. I can save Maintenance plan using wizard, however, when I try to save maintenance plan using the maintenance plan design screen. I received error message "Apply to target server failed for job ...". When I check the job, there is no step in the job. In the Maintenance wizard, there is no maintenance clean up task. I want to create a task to delete my backup file if it is older than certain days. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance. Hi Dont use the wizard. You can use the cleanup maintenacne task to cleanup backups files older than x days. Cheers ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions networkstream problem

  Hi, I am grabbing a page off a web server using networkstream, but I am finding that I am getting data corruption.  The corruption occurs at the end of each data packet recieved, almost as though networkstream is reporting the length of the data read wrong (bRead) resulting in junk data at the end of the buffer, it does appear to be the case  that I am getting ALL of the expected data as well.  A snippet of the code I am using is this:         Dim bdata = New [Byte](client.ReceiveBufferSize - 1) {}         If netStream.CanRead ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Load Test Results - How to see later?

  Hi, I need to save the load test results some where for retreiving later on. My requirement is to: 1. Save this results (with graphs and all info) as a PDF or HTML file 2. Save results as XML file 3. I published to Team Foundation Server, but how can I again retrieve it later on I am unable to find any reports or queries on test results. Thanks for help Praveen Hi Praveen, To open and Save test result, u need to Import and Export the results. Go thorugh this link and related link mentioned here. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182500.aspx This link convers import, ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to install Office Web Component prerequisites using ClickOnce

  My ClickOnce app uses Office Web Components. The target client machine will be Windows 2000 or Windows XP with Office 2003 Typical installed. The app will be querying an Analysis Services 2005 cube. OWC11 with SSAS 2005 requires MSXML6 and OLEDB9 to be installed on the client. Is it possible to get the ClickOnce installer to check for these and install them on the client if not present Thanks, Bren After further study, I discovered that ClickOnce installs custom prerequisites with the use of a Bootstrapper app. There is an MSDN webcast on the topic that demonstrates exactly what I need to know; ClickO ...Show All

• Visual Studio Third-Party Charting Products that work with ReportViewer?

  Hi there, Does anyone know of third-party charting products that work with ReportViewer in local processing mode I've looked at Dundas and ChartFX, and I'm waiting to hear back from their sales & support people, but from all outward appearances those two products only work with reports that are generated on a server. Thanks, Eva Pierce Monsen Dundas, ChartFX, etc. are using the CustomReportItem feature of RS 2005 to integrate their products. The CustomReportItem feature is only supported through the report server and cannot be used in local mode of the controls. In local mode, the closest you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Why TFS Setup can not finish the request to Reporting Services report server (error 28805) during the installation of TFS?

  Why TFS Setup can not finish the request to Reporting Services report server (error 28805) during the installation of TFS The main steps in TFS(services) installation are described below: 1. Install SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on application-tire computer. During the installation, Reporting Services is set to log on as an account that will be used to setup TFS, and that account is in administrators group. 2. Install SharePoint Service on the same computer, and do not make any changes at this point. After restart computer, goes to setp 3. 3. Install TFS(services) on application-tire computer. During the installation, anothe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team build - building native C++

  I have a team project with an associated native C++ solution.  I created a team build for this project, but when I tried to build it, it failed because the PSDK files are not present on the build machine (only TFS, Team Client and Team Build are installed). That's no problem - I can install the PSDK.  What else is missing   (e.g. is MFC there   ATL   STL   CRT )  Do I need to install VC++ on the build machine or should team build be sufficient (other than PSDK) Hi Carl! Here is a detailed table of what we intend to support under each installation type post beta for C++ apps. However, for beta bui ...Show All

• Visual Studio Must uninstall VS2003?

  Installing VS2005 beta 2 gives me an error at setup.exe saying I must uninstall VS2003 pro.  Just to restate, it's not asking to uninstall 2005, it definately says 2003  What's up with that !!!! I am doing some investigation here to see if we can repro this problem.  I believe there should be no block for VS2003 ENT and that the only blocks should be for VS2005 previous builds. Can you try running Aaron's tool to remove old WHidbey builds and then see if install works   I think we may just have the incorrect error message in the UI and that the actual problem is that we are detecting ...Show All

• .NET Development Client Socket Disconnection

  Hi I am writing a application which conatins a server application and mutliple clients. These all communicate using a Socket. (in TCPIP mode) Whilst I can connect multiple clients and send messages individually to each I seem to be having issues with disconnection. 1. If I call Socket.Disconnect at the client end I get my server ends DataRecieved method being fired and can catch the "Forced Disconnection" exception. All fine and dandy, although any other clients connected also seem to become disconnected. This seems to be exactly what I want to be able to record a client has disconnected from the server, if only all the ot ...Show All

• Windows Forms Internet Explorer as a control?

  Hi; Is there a better way than Interop.ShDocVw.dll to have a web browser as a client control If so, any pointers to what to use thanks - dave I mis-spoke before. This is a WONDERFUL addition. WHat took me hours to set up before is now maybe a minute - and it's clean managed code with not internal exceptions. Please tell whoever implemented this thank you very very much. - dave ...Show All

• SQL Server Issue with Export to CSV

  Dear Anyone, Whenever we export reports to CSV, it seems that the column headers in the CSV fileb are the actual column names in the select statement we used in the data set and not the column names that are in the report. Is there a way to reflect the column names in the report to the CSV file rather than the actual physical column name in the report Thanks, Joseph As there is no explicit binding in RDL between the data columns and the header columns, CSV export uses the names of the controls in the export. You can either change the textbox name or you can override the name using the DataElementName property (on the data tab of the te ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions error LNK2019 related to ConvertStringToBSTR

  Hello, I'm trying to do a build on an open source project www.quickfixengine.org and getting some errors.  The code is unmodified from when I downloaded it.  I just brought it into Visual C++ so this should work. Here's the output: 1>------ Build started: Project: at, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1>Linking... 1>quickfix.lib(MSXML_DOMDocument.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "wchar_t * __stdcall _com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR(char const *)" ( ConvertStringToBSTR@_com_util@@YGPA_WPBD@Z) referenced in function "public: __thiscall _bstr_t::Data_t::Data_t(char const *)" ( 0Data_t@_bstr_t@@QAE@PBD@Z) 1& ...Show All

• SQL Server installation bug found SQL Server 2005

  Hi! I had the earlier builds and this did not happen but: just downloaded SQL Server 2005 (RTM) from msdn When selecting to install integration services (amoungst other options), whilst installating it gives me an error saying I do not have admin privledges to install one of the .NET libraries/runtime files I cannot remember the file name at all im afraid. Error: 0x80131501 So I cancelled the install and just installed everything but the integration services... and it works fine now. I do not know if this is a bug but just thought I would let you know Issue resolved. see my new thread about installation issue resolved http://forum ...Show All

• Windows Forms Start Windows Service After Install

  Im setting up a deployment for my first windows service and I have a few questions. 1. How would I go about starting a windows service as soon as it is finished being installed Or, could I force a reboot after the installation, since the service is set to auto start after being rebooted 2. My program also requires that the 'Allow service to Interact with desktop'  option is checked for the service's properties. Is their a way to do this as part of the deployment and installation instead of having to do it manually Thanks O ...Show All