Frédéric Degraeve's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How do I do to work with two XML files in VBA

  Hi, I'm doing a simple use of XML and trying to display the results in MS Excel. in the moment I have one XSLT that compares datas between two XML files and I'd like to know how to do to view the final datas from this comparation, in Ms-EXCEL, to be worked by other sheets. By now I don't have any idea how to do it (work with 2 xmls + 1 xslt), I already  do transform using an XML and a XSL file and it works nice, but now Coul ...Show All

• .NET Development A question on XPath...

  Dear Experts, I got a problem on updating the value of an XML node. Please take a look at the following source codes. I am trying to update the node <EmailAddress> that has a value of 'peter@test.com' to 'david@test.com' , say for example. Unfortunately, the codes always locates the first node and updates it. That is, it always locates the <EmailAddress> node with a value of ' john@test.com' . I guess there would be something wron ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Raising Events - not! in WFs exposed via WS - help pls.....

  Hi fellow WF'ers Strange things are happening and I hope someone here can shed some light. If I set my solution up as a Console App - all works cool and we're off to the pub (early!) If I run my solution as an exposed WS - the wheels fall off as follows. 1) I've got a 'host' sequential workflow (4 shapes, very simple) that receives the request via a WS call. This guy will fire up another workflow (statebased) and Raise an event, wait ...Show All

• Windows Forms Difference between arrays and objects when referencing controls

  I created a custom control based on a button and then added 10 of these to a form. Now I want to change the color of one of these buttons. I'm new to .NET and object oriented programming, but I know how I would have done it& ...Show All

• SQL Server Applying ASP.NET 2.0 to custom pages

  Ok I already have a database layed out with several tables and relationships set up, and i went ahead and built a bunch of pages that I was planning on using. While i was doing this I ran into 2 problems, the first was i wrote some SQL statements to insert data from input boxes into some tables i have in my database, i used a catch exception statement as well as a if/else statement to handle the transfer to diffirent pages like a signup ...Show All

• Visual J# Use of the Microsoft Chart Control V6.0, in J# express

  I am unable to get the Microsoft Chart Control to work in J# express Beta 2.  The error message says that the control is not registered, but it works in Visual Studio 2003 without doing any registration. Thanks for raising this issue. This is already known to us and we are fixing it. BTW, this is not J# Express specific and reproduces on VSTS also for all languages. Thanks again. ...Show All

• SQL Server Drill through in migrated cubes ?

  We have some migrated cubes that implemented drillthrough in Analysis Services 2000 and appear to have drill through in the migrated version if viewed through Proclarity. But when I look at the cube in the 2005 BI studio, I see no structure to implement this drill through. Nor am I able to drill through from the Management Suite--just Proclarity. What's going on Dan, Drillthrough has gone through si ...Show All

• .NET Development how to convert pdf,word to xml document

  Hi, I need to convert a pdf or a word document into XML format using C#.net..can anybody help me What do you need this for What XML format are you looking for You can work with word via COM or .NET, but you need to buy a library to work with PDF. ...Show All

• SQL Server Snapshot replication - Primary key not transferred

  Hi There After using snapshot replication from Server 1 to Server 2 i found that the primary key contraint was not transferred to server 2. I used the option to truncate tables for snapshot. The indexes are there as nonclustered unique but the primary key constraint for the tables no longer exists at the subscribers. I ahve done this on 2 other servers and the primary key constraints were not lost on the subscribers. I am very confused, please h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer - Disconnect error

  Hi there. When I try to disconnect from Team Foundation Server in Visual Studio IDE (Team Explorer) I get this error. --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Value cannot be null. Parameter name: uriString --------------------------- OK   --------------------------- After this I can't configure Team Foundation Server Settings. Gives me this error: --------------------------- Microsoft ...Show All

• SQL Server Is SSIS slower than DTS????!!!!!!

  I am new to SSIS and probably doing some mistake while transferring data from oracle source to oracle destination.   Please guide me..   In our project we need to transfer nearly 80 GB data from old system (Oracle 9i) to new system (Oracle 10 G Release 2). To do this exercise we are testing and comparing performance and cost effectiveness between different tools like SSIS, DTS and SQL * Loader (oracle built in tool).   ...Show All

• .NET Development Hashtable -> memory limit?

  Hi, I'm running into an odd problem here... I want to store a lot of data into a Hashtable, however whener my system hits about 980MB of memory consumption I'm getting out of memory exceptions. However, my systems has 2GB of RAM so there's still about 1GB free. Any ideas why this could be the case Thanks Chris,   32 Gb was a typo :) Last time I checked on workstation in v1 32mb was the size. Not that the nu ...Show All

• .NET Development Design Question

  I have a socket layer in my ASP.NET application. 1. User fills parameter boxes and submits page. 2. Application frames proper command lines based on parameters submitted. 3. Application calls SocketHElper.cs class to pass framed lines to the other machine. The same class also recives responses back fro the other machine. I require help categorising each of the above actions under UI,Business and Service layers. 1- UI 2 - Business log ...Show All

• Visual C# Thread | Invoke Issue

  I am stumped on this. Here is my scenerio. >> = creates >: = event kicked off Class A >> Class B >> Class C Class A >> Class D When Class C creates a graphic object , alert Class A to tell Class D to reset all its data. Class C >: Class B >: Class A Class A has this code: private void Feature_DataChanged( object sender, EventArgs e) { ImageHandler image = ( ImageHandler ) ...Show All

• Visual J# Rebuild Issue with Object Test Bench

  I am able to create an instance of a class in the Object Test Bench.  But everytime I attempt to invoke a method (even an empty void method) of the class, the tool asks me to rebuild it, after which it resets the class and does not execute the method.  It does this even though I have not modified the code in any way.  I try to execute the method right after I create the instance. This seems to happen if you have multiple projec ...Show All