Thomas Lee's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Project Creation Error

  Hello, Every time I try and create a new team project. I get the following error: ********************************************** Error Insufficient permissions on the Windows SharePoint Services at WISHDEV to create a new site. Explanation The permissions granted your user name and ID on the Windows SharePoint Services at WISHDEV do not allow you create a new portal site. You must be granted specific root permission by the server ad ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to create a new report and include into process templates?

  How to create a new report and include into process templates I just created and rdl, and upload to report server and it has the connection string inside the project, but I would like to put this report on all the projects. How can I achieve that Tks You can modify an existing process template by downloading it, making necessary changes and uploading it back to the server (right-click on the server in the team explorer, 'Team Fou ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can ClickOnce deploy web application?

  Can ClickOnce deploy web application   If not, should I pack my web service application in window installer package and make it a prerequisite in ClickOnce Thanks ClickOnce is for windows app deployment only and you cant deploy a web service with that. Making it as a prerequisite will definitely work. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how connect a Visual Basic express edition application to an Oracle database

  Hi, the title of this message, says quite everything I want to know. I'm developping a human ressource tool and the database I have to use has been developped with Oracle 9i. And I don't know how to connect my application made with visual studio 2005 express edition to Oracle Tkanks everybody -) You can use the System.Data.OracleClient namespace. ...Show All

• .NET Development Zip files in c#

  Hi, Does anyone know of a way to zip files in c#. I tried using sharplib but the compression utility that comes with XP is not able to unzip the files. I need a format that can be unzipped by this and most other compression tools since I am not sure exactly what my users will be using to unzip the files. Thanks in advance Hi, Since you already tried SharpZip Lib, here's another way of zipping in C#. This uses a f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Configuring SQL Server Express and Visual Web Designer Express

  OS:  XP Pro/SP2 Previous installation of SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition, now removed. I am able to successfully install .NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005 Express, and VWD 2005  Express from the Express homepage ( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/ ).  At least, I am not receiving any error messages during download/install.  However, I am unable to configure SQL and VWD to talk with each other such that a new Web project in VWD ...Show All

• SQL Server Catastrophic failure

  Hello there! We have recently upgraded our SQL server to SQL server 2003. Not entierly without problems i might ad.. The latest one is if you via Excel (2000 or 2003 is tested) try to make a local cube file, using the built-in query wizard, you get an errormessage that only say "Catastrophic failure" and nothing else. If you instead of using the wizard, do the same thing directly in MsQuery (uncheck the box at the first " ...Show All

• SQL Server AS400 password request

  Hi all, I'm loading a working SSIS package in VB.NET and executing it programmatically. As the 'Persist Security Info' is set, it executes fine, presumably because I executed it previously with valid login info. But, when I update the connection info (programmatically) it prompts me for a password at runtime. The connection string will be provided by the user (DB Admin) and this is running as a Windows service, so what I want to do is, in the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions need to create a wait() function

  I need to create a wait function that allows other processes to continue during the wait period. This one puts the processor in 100 usage for the period of the wait - so not much help! Sub wait( ByVal seconds As Integer ) Dim timestart As DateTime Dim gap As Integer timestart = Now() Do gap = DateDiff(DateInterval.Second, timestart, Now()) If gap > seconds Then Exit Do End If Loop End Sub can anyone ...Show All

• SQL Server Fuzzy Logic Performance

  Hello, I am just wondering if someone out there has tried some Fuzzy matching on databases of large scale i.e - about 20 million contact records. Suppose I wanted to perform matching/ grouping to 10 000 incoming messages. How fast does this usually take What is the dependence on the number of fields chosen for the match Any insight is greatly appreciated, Lubomir Pls take a look at  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Good way to expose properties of members in the property grid?

  Hi, I have a UserControl (inherits from UserControl) that contains a few member variables. These variables are of custom types defined in various assemblies. These custom types have their own properties. Is there a good way to expose these low-level properties to the Property Grid without wrapping all of them in the UserControl If I wrap them, all properties of all low-level assemblies will be exposed at the same level, which is not des ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is there only one possibility the read out variables etc. from an HTML or PHP website?

  Hi, Im working on Visual Basic Application. I implicity want to read out some variables or text from an website. Here my idea: Im owning an website writen in PHP an HTML. Now I got an "Who is Online" System. The Application should (with assistance of an timer) periodly visit the website and read out the variaable contains the number or online users. Now the Application should notify me in an an baloon tip: "12 users yre visiting y ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista 5308 refuses to activate. Any way to retrieve files?

  We upgraded a windows XP machine (non-domain) to Vista 5308 recently. Upon trying to activate we kept getting an activation error 0x8007000 "Data is invalid". It only once came up with an option to activate by phone. However when the form came up, the activation codes that normally appear for you to read to the automated system were blank. We had forgotten about the issue for a few weeks as other development issues had taken preceden ...Show All

• Visual C++ error C2275: 'SDL_Event' : illegal use of this type as an expression

  This must be a simple problem but I really can't understand why I get the mentioned error. In previous versions of Visual C++ (6.0 and .NET 2002) or SDL ( http://www.libsdl.org ) the code has worked flawlessly, and it should work also now. I'm using SDL 1.2.8. From my "Lines.c": ... /* Enter the main loop. */ printf( "Entering the main loop.\n" ); SDL_Event curEvent; // The erroneous line ... From "sdl_events.h": ... /* General event struc ...Show All

• Visual C++ thread exit code

  hi, everyone, i have wrote some simple programs in c language, here is my code list: /* code list 1: */ #include <stdio.h> void main() { } the compiler tell me: The thread 0x3B0 has exited with code -858993460 (0xCCCCCCCC) /* code list 2: */ #include <stdio.h> void main() { printf("hello world"); } #include <stdio.h> void main() { printf("hello world"); } the compiler tell me ...Show All