Ayyanar's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Working with a DTE.Project and an MSBuild Project

  I'm working on an automation project that does a bunch of work with a DTE Project, and for the most part, the DTE Project exposes everything I need.... Except for the "internal" settings of the project file itself, ie - the info contained within: <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' "> .... blah blah blah... </PropertyGroup> On the other hand, instantiating an MSBuil ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Basic questions: Save state, users control, hold task...

  Hi. I have some experience in workflow and .Net. I worked with W4 (a workflow suite) and asp.Net for nearly 7 month and now i'm planing on developing a new workflow aplication using Windows Workflow Foundation. The problem is the only experience I have in workflow is about W4, so I'm loosing myself becouse I still have some kind of "W4 approach" to the project. I will try to make my question as clear as posible: -H ...Show All

• .NET Development how to show string of data in text box using parmeter query

  I am tryin to input an ID number and retrieve all the information from that particualr ID Private Sub btnSubmit_Click(Byval sender As System.Object By val e As System.EventArgs)Handles Button1.Click connClass.Open() Dim cmdStudents As New OleDb.Command Dim sStudents As String = Select Student Name, Information From ClassName Where Student ID = cmdStudents.CommandText = sStudents daStudents.SelectCommand = cmdStudents Dim cb ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLCLR no Database projects in VS2005 projects list -?

  I'm wondering if something went awry when I installed VS2005 B2 standard edition, or do I need to download and install a different version   I did the full install except for J# and mobile tools, if that makes any difference. If I need some other version of VS2005, which one   I'm using XP SP2 and SQL 2005 B2 Developer Edition.  I have MSDN subscription, so downloading another version is acceptable (but a pain). Thanks in advance ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem while opening a recordset from an xml in C# using ADODB wrapper

  Hi, I am working on C#. Using the wrapper classes for ADO, I open a recordset and saved it as xml file (xml persistant format) . Now I want to open the recordset from the same xml file. This is straight forward in ADO. You just call the Recordset.open(FileName) but since in .net we need to specify all the parameters for the Recordset.Open method, I get the Argument of invalid type or unaccepted error. Any help on this. Thanks Rits ...Show All

• SQL Server how to install vs ctp June with SQL Server Express

  VS CTP June include .net  v2.0.50601,But the SQL Server Express (April or June) need .net framwork 2.0.50215.45. When I  have finished to setup vs ctp june , I run SQL Server Express  setup from VS DVD, I got the error (imcompatible beta components).   Dan Jones MSFT wrote: There is a link to download the correct version of the .Net Framework for the SQL Server June CTP on the following page: http://www.micros ...Show All

• Visual Studio Check-in policy

  I have created a check-in policy using the Beta version, the policy works fine but the only problem the configuration of the policy that I store using the 'Edit' method is not persisted so I have to recreate the policy each time I restart Visual Studio.  Is there something that I am missing   The problem is solved.  Guess, it was to do with not understanding how it worked. All we did was to define member variable in t ...Show All

• SQL Server Trialware problem with the DBA

  I am in a situation with a with what I believe to be some sort of trial version, as I am getting a message stating that the Data Transformation Services evaluation period expired message.  How can I determine which flavor of SQL 2005 he installed, I am not able to open the SQL Managment Tools either Thanks, I cant get to the SQL Management Studio either; I click to start it, but nothing happens. Odd, task manager does ...Show All

• Smart Device Development what 's the different between j2me and .net compact framework

  as the title. The .NET Compact Framework is a compact version of Microsoft's .NET Framework.  For general information about the .NET Framework, see http://www.microsoft.com/net/default.mspx .  For more technical information aimed at developers, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/ .  The .NET Compact Framework is only 8% of the size of the full .NET Framework, yet provides approximately 28% of the surface area of the f ...Show All

• .NET Development Xsl debugger in VS 2005

  I was wondering if it is posible to use the xsl degugger when I am calling C# functions from my xsl script Yes, you can step from C# into XslCompiledTransform, and from the XSL directly into and out of the script blocks (all thanks to the power of the CLR). ...Show All

• .NET Development Errors related to edkutils.lib

  Hi,    I am facing follwoing errors while porting from 32 to 64 bit. fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'edkutils.lib' Actually I am using "HrIdentifyRegistryRootKey" method from edkutils. We can resolve it in two way, either provide the library for 64 or rewrite the function, which can replace the functionality of " HrIdentifyRegistryRootKey ". Please suggest best possible solution. Thanks, Kishore wani Sorry th ...Show All

• SQL Server convert millisecond to "hh:mm:ss" format

  Hello guys, I have a column of integer data type that contains a millisecond data(for example 54013). I want to convert this value to the corresponding "hh:mm:ss" format. Can anybody help me with this issue Sincerely, amde How about this declare @SomeMilliSecondsNumber bigint select @SomeMilliSecondsNumber =54013 select convert(varchar,dateadd(ms,@SomeMilliSecondsNumber,0),114) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista IsExecutable

  CompositeActivity has an ExecutableActivities property that returns all child activities that will be executed. I'm sure ExecutableActivities takes into account whether or not a child activity is commented, but it may also include other factors. I was hoping that Activity would have an IsExecutable property on it, but it does not. Is there another way to determine if a single activity is executable Or could an IsExecutable property be ...Show All

• Visual Basic updating data from excel files to sql tables

  Hi, I need to update sql tables based on input from excel spread sheets. For example one of the tables has 150 fields. I need to update about 10 to 20 fields at a time. The excel sheet will contain only the key with the required 20 fields. Can someone provide me with some sample code or provide any suggestions about doing this Thanks. If you have Office 10 or 11, simply use the OWC.Spreadsheet control to connect to your SQL Serve ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies IFilter Preview

  What interface and registry settings do I use to supply the picture for the Preview box in the Windows Desktop Search window   I tried adding an IViewObject2 to my IFilter DLL but it never gets called. We do not have an official way of doing previews at this time...as our preview architecture will be changing in the future. There is an rather in-depth unofficial description of previewers and other things here   http://spaces.ms ...Show All