jwmacdonald's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio I can set a file path to a text object to hyperlink that file????

  Hello Keith , I'm working with crystal report of VS.net Beta 2 2005 When I design a report which include some hyperlink(text object or box object) to some file by absolute path so run this report at other computer it can't find some file which the report linked. Now I'm trying to transfer a parameter to this link and to follow user can set a file path when runtime. Can you help me I take forward your relay as soon as possible, Thanks for your su ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to add dialog events and override functions in vc++2005?

  in vc 2003 i could use the class that was created for a dialog and rigth-click on it to open the add virtual fucntion dialog and select from  a list of virtual functions or open the add message handeller dialog to sellect from a list of message handellers(functions that will respond to the messages). this way has some advantagres: 1- usefull comments and common codes are automaticly added(like the serialize OnCtlColor OnInitDialo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binding expressions to textbox, label etc

  I have this scenario. On one datasource I have the "Before" figures(ie Before Tax), on the other datasource I have the "After" figures (ie After Tax). I bind these datasources to texboxes or labels. They work fine. However currently I am trying to bind the "Before - After" figure to find the tax amount. My question is can I use an expression(i.e "Before - After") for calculating properties on the fly and set that expression as a d ...Show All

• SQL Server Oddball SQL calculation query - any Gurus up to this??

  OK, so I have a situation where the Client gets money from activites based on mileage. The further from 'home', the greater the mileage rate is. The distance per stopover is measured from wither home, or the last stopover, making it a continuous interval. Dependinig on the load size, the rates will increase or decrease as well. Assume the following are skeleton table structures. Table structures assume that appropriate keys are in place ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS with SQL Express

  We have build a conversion for our customers to convert their data from our existing database system to Microsoft SQL. We've tested it with MSDE and SQL Server 2000. We based this conversion off of 183 separate DTS scripts saved as VB 6 files. We then heavily customized them to produce a final EXE in VB 6 that our end-users can run. They answer a few questions and then poof, SQL database. Works great. Now enter SQL Server and SQL Express 2005. W ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Web Service Deployment

  Hi, I've written several Web Services using VF9, all have been tested and working fine on my local IIS (Operating System XP Professional). However, when I deploy any of these to IIS on Server 2003 I get the following error message: "Error: 1429 - OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from Client: Client: An unanticipated error occurred during processing of this request. HRESULT=0x800A13BE - Client: Sending the Soap message failed or no recogni ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploying to Windows 2000 - Gets Open/Save Dialog from web link

  I have a clickOnce application at the following url. http://www.myserver.com/clickonce/myapp.appliction  when I click on the link from a Windows 2000 PC. I get a "File DownLoad, Open/Save Dialog", but when I click the same link from my Windows XP, the clickonce application installs without problems any help to resolve this would be great! Patrick I found the answer! Here's the starting reference. http://msdn2 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Installation Error 32000: Createds.exe returned non-zero value: 6

  I tried to install the Team Foundation Server Beta3 on a Windows 2003 Server (single server) and received this error. Can anybody tell me what this means,or even better, tell me how I can get the Foundation Server installed Tanx in advance, Hans. You sure have put me on the right track: User ASPNET did not have access rights to the configuration file (in fact, it did not have any rights at all). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

  Hi, (VS 2005, Beta 2) I get the error "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" when I try to open any of the test windows using "Test|Windows|Test View" or any similar approach. I created a new solution a while ago and added some unit tests. Everything was working great, until now... Anybody have any suggestions Thanks, Tor Langlo ok, well. it seems that all i needed to do is leave it along for ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista XAMLPad Problem

  I uninstall WinFX Runtime older version use the uninstall tool that Microsoft make. Also uninstall the windows SDK 5270 and orcas older version correctly(visual 2005 was installed of course). I installed de WinFx Runtime 3.0.3906.22 version first, then install the windows SDK 6.0.5383.1.1 version successfull, but I can't run the XAMLPad which very important for me. Last installed the orcas that applied 5/23/2006, and make new project about WinFX ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to import .ical or .ics or .vcard file into outlook programatically

  Dear all, Please help me how to import a card file into outlook by using, Application interface. or by using (Ex. MSOUTL9.OLB) Com libraries provided by outlook. As I'm working on a mobile synchronization project, the field names may be different.So parsing field by field and processing is not feasible.Please helpme out. Thanks in advance. -- Raja Pratap K Can you please indicate whether you are ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Trigger for Audit Trails

  I have a trigger on my Table ( MyTable ). The Trigger saves any changes to mytable . The AuditTrails table has this columns: ID, TableName,PrimaryKey, OLDvalue, NewValue,UserID,DateCreated. Now, how can i pass the application's UserID ( Not the SQL Server User ) and save it to the AuditTrails table In my .NET Application, if someone delete a record from myTable how can i possibly get the userid of that person using my Audit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Mapping between FxCop Rules and .NET Design Guidelines

  Is it planned to implement a mapping between FxCop Rules and the "real" MSDN .NET Design Guidelines (Could be a table on some web page or something in the FxCop CHM). Regards Micha The version is identical to the standalone release, with the caveat that there is some difference in the rule set. The spelling rules are missing from VS and VS contains a new assembly for Maintainability rules that don't ship in the ...Show All

• Visual C# Migration from .net to vs2005

  hello, Im writting test tools for different hardwares. I started with C# .net and everything seems to work normally. Then the company wants to migrate everything to 2005. So i opened my projects in 2005 and convert them. first of all i noticed that everything run slower (does 2005 mean better ). I have some cross threading issue but i turned the warning off with the system controls so it works like .net. And third thing which is the worst is t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Where is DoubleBuffer?

  In Windowsforms application, we can set ControlStyle.DoubleBuffer to true to prevent flicker caused by the redrawing of the control. In WPF, where is it Currently there is a very bad flicker in my animation . Sorry just now I forgot to mention the CPU usage. When my animation is running, the CPU usage varies between 5% to 7%. (If you need I can send a video of this.) I also used Wpfperf perforator to test my program. Frame rate va ...Show All