JeffSchwMSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Setup of Visual SourceSafe 2005 final version

  Hi, I had installed the SourceSafe 2005 CTP (august). I removed the CTP and I was then to install the final version. It happens now that the final version does not install of form some. Somebody has some information on this I installed the same copy of the VSS2005 (final) in a machine that did not have the CTP and functioned! I will have that to format the PC to install the SS 2005 Final Version * OS: Windows XP Professional (SP2) and Win ...Show All

• SQL Server Log Shipping

  Does anyone know the procedure (if it exists) to manually configure log shipping. I Don’t have SQL Enterprise Edition only Standard. Thanks for everyone being there to help. SQL 2000 Standard Edition SP4 You can't configure log shipping through the wizards in SQL 2000 Standard, only the Enterprise version. To manually configure it have a look at this article. http://www ...Show All

• Visual Basic What good is this?

  Dim PrgrssBr as New ProgressBar ... and what can you do with it   Thanks. Hello zdrae, The purpose of the dim <variable> as New <type> syntax is to allow you to declare a variable and initialize it all in one go. It is really just "syntatic sugar" for the following equivalent vb code: dim myList as ArrayList myList = new ArrayList Choosing between the two forms ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sharepoint Permissions error When Creating New Team Project

  I'm having trouble adding users as TFS Administrators.  From what I understood in the documentation, a TFS Administrator needed to be added to the TFS Security Group as a TFS Admin, an Admin for Sharepoint at the top site level and a content manager for sql server reporting services.  I have done that however, I still receive the following error: Error Insufficient permissions on the Windows SharePoint Services at ekta to create ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro migrating VFP app to .net (architecture question)

  Hello everyone! I'm a fairly experieced database developer (SQL Server primarily, and Oracle quite a bit less). My experience with .net is primarily vb.net to built asp.net applications, using web services as my middle man. I just started at a new company which has a few legacy systems, one of which is a rather large FoxPro application. There are a host of problems associated with it, primarily data conflicts. Because the company has grown so mu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Thread.CurrentPrincipal.IsInRole() returns false but Security.Roles.IsUserInRole() returns true

  Not sure if this a WCF issue or not. I have a wcf service exposed with the "basicHttpBinding". I have set the security mode int he basicHttpBinding like so. <security mode="TransportCredentialOnly"> <transport clientCredentialType="Windows"/> </security> My goal here is to use windows authentication in the intranet to authenticate users. It works to the point where I ca ...Show All

• Visual Basic I am a Beginer in VB/VB.net and want to develop a software which should prompt the user for voice password

  I am a Beginer in VB/VB.net and want to develop a software which should prompt the user for voice password i mean user will have to logon the software by saying few self prestored word if the voice pattern will be same then and only then user can use the software. Can you tell me what control i'll have to use and what code should be written for the same Kumar, I am unaware of any such control. You ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windowless Render Not Updating Until Window Is Dragged

  I have installed a DirectShow movie into a window using the windowless mode example provided in the msdn documentation. A movie played with my code renders fine as long as the window hosting it has been moved. If it hasn't, the audio is heard, my time display is updated, but the video render is never drawn into the window. Simply grabbing the title bar of the window and moving it causes the video render to suddenly be visible. Other interaction ...Show All

• SQL Server sql server express does not start

  I downloaded visual studio express including c# and sqlserver express. I can't ue the database. Is there some setup procedure If that does not work, could you perhaps provide a few more details on what you're trying to do and how you're trying to do it   This will help provide some possible solutions.  Thanks, MJ ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS and COM

  Dear all, Does anyone know if exists any COM wrapper provider for SSIS TIA SSIS is exposed as a series of COM interfaces that have managed wrappers. Are you looking to use SSIS from a COM environment or a managed environment ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Splash Screen not selectable

  I can't seem to change the splash screen under Project|Properties|Application|Splash Screen. Only my main form is visble in the list.  I've added a splash screen from Project|Add Windows Form. Any thoughts -Scott To revise my last, It's just intermittant.  No two ways work the same back to back.  Just takes some fiddling. ...Show All

• Visual C# select statement

  Hi all, I would like to use select statement where something is "". For example, SELECT * from alm_history where userAck is "" how can I put this into a select string You are apsolutelly right. Always use parameterized Queries when possible . I was just suggesting on not using double qoutes in SQL statements. Because sometimes you will need that because there is a places wher ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web tests resulting in Internal Server error due to Invalid ViewState

  I am seeing an odd problem when testing our web site.  I have no problems navigating through our website manually from a web browser and experience no problems when creating a web test that navigates through our web site. But, when I run the web test I created, then I keep getting an "Internal Server Error" on the first server page transfer.  When I look at our server logs it indicates that the problem is caused by an invalid ViewStat ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linking error while using VS.NET2003

  Hi    I am using VS.NET 2003 to build a project. I get this linking error when I try to build a project .   vc6-re300dm.lib(wide_posix_api.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl std::_Xlen(void)" ( _Xlen@std@@YAXXZ ) referenced in function "private: bool __thiscall std::basic_string<unsigned short,struct std::char_traits<unsigned short>,class std::allocator<unsigned short> >::_Gr ...Show All

• SQL Server FTP Task will not execute when scheduled as a job

  I have a job that runs a SQL script and creates a flat file. I use an FTP task to send the file to a specific FTP site. The job work beautifully when is is completed in the development environment. After I build the package and deploy on the SQL server and set it up to run as a job it will not work on the SQL server. The error appears to be in the FTP connection. I get two separate errors: 'Unable to connect to FTP Server using FTP Co ...Show All