Mike Wilson's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Crystal reports : Database login dialog - how to awoid it?

  I'm using Crystal reports as a part of Microsoft Visual studio .net 2002. I'm using field definition file (ttx) and a datatable as a datasource for report. (In VB .net code, Datatable is filled with data and then is set to be datasource for the report). Program works fine on the development PC. But when I try to show report on some other  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smartphone emulator and Query analyzer

  I have a problem with using the SQL Server Mobile's Query Analyzer on the SmartPhone 5.0 emulator. Query Analyzer is installed on the emulator just fine, and I can run it, but I cannot open a database. I've tried exactly the same on a Pocket PC 5.0 emulator and there I can point to an existing .sdf file and open it. How the h #! do I do the same on a SmartPhone Thanks, Henrik Bach Henrick, query analyzer isn't supported on Smartphone. But have no fear, there's a better way of manipulating databases :) If you have Visual Studio 2005 installed, launch Visual Studio and go to the "Server Explorer" window ( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio blocked if the TFS is busy

  Our TFS was busy running at 100% processor usage because of the problem described in http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=177068&SiteID=1 . If you start the VS client, during this time, it gets unresponsive. If it were waiting for a little while (like 10-30 seconds), the way it would do if there were connectivity problems and came up with a error message, it would be OK. The problem was that even after 10 minutes  VS was still blocked. The only workaround we have came up with, was to pull out the network cable from the client computer in which case VS stated that the "A connection that was ex ...Show All

• SQL Server error of Initializing SQL Server Reconciler has failed using SQL Server CE 2.0

  hi, i'm using SQL Server CE 2.0 in my application. When i try to synchronize my database by calling replicator.Synchronize(); errors :   Initializing SQL Server Reconciler has failed. process could not connect to Distributor SQL Server does not exists and access denied. what i did right now is i try to register regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server CE 2.0\Server\sscerp20.dll" regsvr32 "C:\Labs\NorthwindTempFiles\sscesa20.dll" both of the DLL files were succeed register. However, when i try to re-do the synchronization. The same error still happened!!! I do not know what's going wrong..=( Who can help m ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem rendering an animated mesh (vb.net)

  I'm trying to render an animated mesh (tiny.x), I have translated the c# sample code to vb.net but when it gets to the DrawSubset method it throws an error: -Run-time exception thrown : System.AccessViolationException. I have realized that it happens an earlier error when trying to set the Device.RenderState.VertexBlend property. The exception is: -ErrorString:"D3DERR_INVALIDCALL" I'm including the device intialization: Dim DispMode As DisplayMode DispMode = Manager.Adapters(Manager.Adapters.Default.Adapter).CurrentDisplayMode ' Define the presentation parameters Params = New PresentParameters() Params.Windowe ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to convert string representation of a parameter's data type to actual DbType

  How can I convert string representation of a stored procedure's parameter's data type to an actual DbType, see SqlDbType  For example, I read "NVarChar" form xml configuration file and need to convert "NVarChar" to SqlDbType.NVarChar, so I can set stored procedure parameter' data type like below: SqlCommand command; command.Parameters.Add("@username", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value =&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Formatting part of a text box

  hey all, does anyone know of a way to format part of a text box in sql reporting services 2005 i am creating a form letter and need to concatenate static text with a column and need just the column value to be bold. like this: "This letter is confirmation that Acme Agency has been chosen..." my expression to build this is: ="This letter is confirmation that " + Fields!agency_name.Value + " has been chosen..." Is there a way to apply formatting just to Fields!agency_name.Value thanks! jen It is on the list for a future release. You might want to check ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel Data Binding Performance

  I just updated my Excel VSTO code to use data binding (via ListObject) to a DataSet. Prior to this, I was putting data into a 2-dimensional array and setting it to a range. Now the screen update is significantly slower. We often times will have large DataSets. In one example, I had a DataSet with 10,000 rows, and 20 columns (with floating point data). With data binding, it took close to 1.5 minutes (90 seconds) for the screen to refresh. When I set the range directly with a 2-dimensional array, it took less than 5 seconds. While I fully expect it to take longer with data binding, I really didn't expect it to be that much worse. Am I force ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30162: Task "WITs" from Group "WorkItemTracking" failed

  I got following exception during project creation after TFS installation. Here's my configuration OS : Windows 2003, SP1 TFS: Beta 3 Refresh Single Server Installation (Server is PDC as well) Here is the log: 2/22/2006 7:03:29 PM | Module: Wizard | Retrieved IAuthorizationService proxy | Completion time: 0 seconds 2/22/2006 7:03:29 PM | Module: Wizard | TF30227: Project creation permissions retrieved | Completion time: 0.0312508 seconds 2/22/2006 7:03:29 PM | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | Team Foundation Server proxy retrieved | Completion time: 0 seconds 2/22/2006 7:03:29 PM | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | The template information for Tea ...Show All

• .NET Development Retrieving mehod parameter values using Reflection

  Hi, i want to dinamically retrieve parameter values from method, i founded how to get parameter names and types, but I can not find parameter values, that were passed to method call Here is sample code: public class TestParameter { public int a; public string b; } private void WriteLog( TestParameter test, string m) { string _ExecutionContext = "" ; MethodBase methodInfo = System.Reflection. MethodInfo .GetCurrentMethod(); _ExecutionContext = "Method name: " + methodInfo.Name; foreach ( ParameterInfo piParameter in methodInfo.GetParameters()) { ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Dropdownlist and Paging

  Hi! I am trying to execute different "Where" statements using a dropdownlist and using a datagrid to view each result. It works fine when first populate the datagrid but when you use the paging and index to the next set of data it does not pass the correct SQL query. Whatever am doing wrong I know am overlooking something. Thanks... If you have SQL Server with Northwind database you can try it use the code below. Code C#: (change database parameters) string dbPath = "server=localhost;uid= ;pwd= ;database=Northwind;" ; string sqlQuery = "SELECT employeeid, lastname, firstname, title FROM employ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C# and Vertex Shader problems

  I am trying to implement a basic vertex and pixel shader pair (see code below) Vertex Shader float4x4 matWorld; float4x4 matView; float4x4 matProjection; struct VS_INPUT { float4 Position: POSITION0; float3 Normal: NORMAL0; }; struct VS_OUTPUT { float4 Position: POSITION0; }; VS_OUTPUT vs_main( VS_INPUT Input ) { VS_OUTPUT Output; float4x4 tmp = mul( matView, matWorld ); float4x4 tmp2 = mul (matProjection, tmp ); Output.Position = mul( tmp2, Input.Position ); return( Output ); } Pixel Shader float4 Color; struct PS_INPUT { }; float4 ps_main( PS_INPUT Input ) : COLOR0 { // Output constant color: return( Color ); } When ...Show All

• Visual C# Whatz the format of this file ?

  Hai....., Didn't find option to attach the file, but look below to see how the content of the file looks like. I don't know whatz the format of this file is (My boss says that its ISAM). The main file doesn't hold any extension, but it does carry an accompanying file that has the extension .idx . Please help me determining what driver i must use in order to retrieve data out of it and how the connection string should look like email me the files bstark@donotspam_obj-tec.com_donotspam ...Show All

• Visual Studio Register multiple tasks

  Hi all can i register multiple tasks like in the folowwing example < PropertyGroup > < TasksAssembly > C:\MSBuild\MyTasks.dll </ TasksAssembly > </ PropertyGroup > < ItemGroup > < Task Include = "Task1 " /> < Task Include = " Task2 " /> < Task Include = " Task3 " /> < Task Include = " Task4 " /> < Task Include = " Task5 " /> </ ItemGroup > < UsingTask AssemblyFile = " $(TasksAssembly) " TaskName = " @( Task ) " /> Thanks Gili ...Show All

• .NET Development folder security in web application

  if you set autorization for a folder as <deny users="Somebody"/>, the user Somebody may access to the folder if he stay anonymous.the login process is not started if you try to access to this folder is it true and normal Yes, that is the expected behaviour. If you wish to deny access to anonymous users, you'll need to specify that by adding a <deny users=" " /> element. See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/wce3kxhd.aspx for more information. ...Show All