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• Visual Studio GetEvaluatedMetaData Problem

  Hi, I am attempting to get the full path of a build item as follows: string fullPath = buildItem.GetEvaluatedMetaData("FullPath"); But if my project path is C:\Projects\Project for example this method is (for a source file called file.cs) returning: C:\Projects\Project\bin\file.cs It should be C:\Projects\Project\file.cs Why is it adding bin to the path If FullPath is not the correct metadata item to use, what is ...Show All

• Windows Forms TaskVision Bugs

  Has anyone tried the "Export to Excel" function in TaskVision, only to find out that TaskVision tries to reinstall Microsoft Office   The attempted reinstallation has now permanently disabled all my MS Office applications;  even Norton AntiVirus wasn't s ...Show All

• .NET Development How do i get the namevaluecollection from the web.config?

  Hi My web.config file hase the following information. I would like to reterive the "membership" section as a namevaluecollection . <membership defaultProvider="MyCustomMembershipProvider"> <providers> <add name="MyCustomMembershipProvider" type="MyCustomMembershipProvider" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" enablePasswordRetrieval="true" enablePasswordReset=&q ...Show All

• SQL Server Using stored procedure or not?

  Hi, I have a table which consists of: -an id (primary key) -a type -a subtype -a userid Depending the type and subtype I have to fetch records in other tables. This has to be for one user, grouped by each type/subtype For instance: type= 1 and subtype=1; type=1 and subtype=2; type=2; type=3 and subtype=3; type=3 and subtype=4; type=4 and subtype= between 5 and 10 I tried creating a stored procedure, with cursor in it, but it is only returning th ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem Reading .CSV file data from reporting services

  Hi, In our application we are using DTS to import data from .csv file. now they came up with a requirement to compare data in .csv is exact match with imported data in the table using a report. i had hard time to implement this. we tried two options to do so.. 1. reading .csv file with custom extensions and rendering it on report (problem is datasource file name was standard, where a i am planning to read it from a table). 2. We h ...Show All

• Visual Basic Parse a sentence in VB. Net

  I am trying to parse a sentence wherein the words are seperated by spaces.  The words are then stripped  of commas (",") or semicolons (";") and written to a database.  This code to split the words works in VB.net 2002 but not VB.Net 2003 or 2005.  Iam using streamReader/StreamWriter to read/write from a text file. Variables: currentSentence as String splitSentence() as String i as Integer Code: Do Until sr.Peek = -1 &nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot create a order by view

  Hello, I am trying to create a simple view which uses self joins. I want the final result order by. I am able to create the view using Top clause followed by order by but when I simply query the view it does not appear in the correct order. Can some body help me with the issue. CREATE VIEW [dbo] . [vw_SalesRep_Chaining] AS SELECT Top 100 percent Rep_id AS RepId , Rep_cd AS RepCode , Region as Region , CAS ...Show All

• Visual C++ comments in a command line file?

  Is there a way to place a comment into a *.txt file intended to be used as a CL file Do you think // will work Thanks So this is a "response file" for CL compiler. Instead, compose the command line or response file in your makefile, like this: MYOPTS = MYOPTS = $(MYOPTS) /YP # this is commented out: # MYOPTS = $(MYOPTS) /otheropts $(CL) -c $(MYOPTS) somefile Regards --PA ...Show All

• Windows Forms Designing DataGridView in composite control - column editor error

  I have a composite control with DataGridView as one of the child controls. I want to be able to change the properties of the DataGridView in the designer, so my user control exposes it as a property, like this:         [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]         public DataGridView Grid         {  & ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS.NET 2005 (June) fails to install SQL 2005 Express?

  Hello, Thanks for reviewing my question.  I had VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 installed on my PC and decided to uninstall it (hopefully in order) in order to install the VS.NET 2005 (June CTP). Everything seems to install expect for the SQL Express.  I uninstalled everything and installed the SQL 2005 (June CTP) thinking I would use this instead of express but VS.NET 2005 didn't install.  And, of course, I have read their not compatible. So, ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF to communicate with Workflow

  I am trying to create two workflow hosts. One on a server and another on a client. I am currently trying to use remoting based on the expense report smaple included with wwf. The problem I get is trying to add an event listener on the client for events that happen ont he remote object. What I would like to happen is when the workflow on the server ends, it calls a method on the service. That method would raise an event that would start a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Data Grid View & Read Only

  Data Grid View Any one else having problems setting a single column to ready only   dgv.Columns( "myValue" ).ReadOnly.Equals( True )   Or am I missing something here I had a similar problem, I caste the columns collection to a BoundField, or a BoundColumns like so,.. ((BoundField) dgv.Columns("myValue")).ReadOnly = true; in order to reveal access to the ReadOnly method. this will only ...Show All

• Visual Studio Dos file Sharing

  Is there any command for file sharing from dos like we share in the windows ......... if we want to share c:\ what is the command for that in the dos ....not want to share from windows .......as in windows shrpubw.exe file is used for sharing ....... Hi, I'm not sure what kind of Share functionality you're talking about... If you're looking for SourceSafe's Share feature, the ss.exe command line tool should help you. Use it with Sha ...Show All

• .NET Development Checking for Duplicate Records First

  I am updating a tempory database table with a file. Once i have read it into the tempory table, i want to update the master table, but only for new records IE, each record has an account code, which is unique. The first time the master table is updated there will be no problems, as there won't be any data in it already. All future updates, will require that they check there isn't an existing record with the same account code. Ba ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Casting Instruction.Value

  I'm getting runtime errors (Specified cast is not valid) when attempting to cast Instruction.Value (for Stloc and Ldloc OpCode families) to an integer e.g.: int variableIndex; if (instruction.OpCode == OpCode.Stloc_S) {     variableIndex = ( int )instruction.Value; }   An example line raising an error is SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader(); which compiles to the IL: IL_00b8:  callvirt   instanc ...Show All