Douglas Chor's Q&A profile

• .NET Development xslt loop problem

  Hi I always seem to get 90% of the way before something goes pear-shaped Started on xslt (apparently the way to do the following) so I can get rid of all the trash from one file and save only the info needed to another. I am using Stylus Studio to help with the xslt and I have the following which works xslt file < xml version='1.0' > < xsl:stylesheet version= "1.0" xmlns:xsl= "http://www.w3.org ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to update PropertyGrid after changing type

  Hi all, Our model allows to change the type of an element using the property grid. The element type changes succesfully, but the propertgrid is not updated accordingly. When another element is selected and then the changed element, then the propertygrid displays the correct properties. How can I dynamically update the property grid after changed the element's type Kind regards, Ronald Hi Ronal ...Show All

• SQL Server Cool new monitoring tool for SQL Server 2000 & 2005

  Hi Everyone, Apologies in advance for this spam. For the past year or so, we at Quest Software have been working on a monitoring tool for SQL Server replication called Spotlight on SQL Server Replication . It is now in Beta and you can register for a download at: http://www.quest.com/beta/ Some of the cool features of the product are: Automatically discover your replication topology from a distribut ...Show All

• SQL Server I'm New & Need Help. Install + Use SQLExpress with Access

  I'm totally new to using RDBM's, and have never installed or used SQl. Can someone please tell me how to install SQL Express, do whatever I need to to at the command prompt, etc., and then what I need to do in order to create a database in Access which uses SQL Express as the backend I'm using Windows XP I have .Net framework 2.0 installed and the .Net SDK Can someone please help a noob out :) Thanks., James What do you ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem installing SQL 2005 on a Windows 2003 DC

  Hello to all, we try to install an SQL 2005 server on a Windows 2003 server that is also a Domain controller. In discussions of july last year, Dan Jones said :"Unfortunately in setup you cannot change the default account for all services. So there is absolutely no work around for this problem. This will absolutely be fixed by RTM - " Can anybody help me in that way. We tried installing with our latest CDs (december 2005) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Deploying Outlook Add-In (after following tutorial Part 2)

  First off, it's worth saying that VSTO 2005 is excellent both as a product and as supported by all of the great articles and samples. Office has become a very important Hosting environment for enterprise applications and VSTO (and the community) is exactly what we need. I just finally got my Outlook Add-In to work with one-click deployment, but I needed to customize the SetSecurity project referenced in the Part 2 Walk-thru. I added a &quo ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Columns Reflecting User's Checkbox Choices

  Hi everyone, First off, I am able to reflect the user's dropdown box selections.  These selections act as the "where" clause in the select statement.  However, the problem I'm currently facing is having the DataGridView columns reflect the user's choices with checkboxes (which are not on the DataGridView).  In other words, I would like the user to determine whether or not a field is shown in the DataGridView.   Thi ...Show All

• .NET Development Opening MS-Word with ASP.Net

  I am working on an ASP.Net application being coded in VB.  We want to be able to open a template in MS-Word, either on the server or on the local machine, and then save the modified form to the server.  The trick is that the modified form needs to be tied to a database record, so I'd like to use the current record number of the table as the name of the document, with the appropriate extension (e.g. 514.doc).  When attempting to us ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Instances

  How many Workflow instances that we can create for an application. we r doing Web Application and server will have wrokflow runtime. thousands of clients requests server. what will be the impact on the server if every client creates an Instance This should be a good starting point http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=229217&SiteID=1 Kushal. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Windows Token and SAML Token and Signing Process

  I am in the process of writing an STS that delivers the SAML token based on the windows credentials (hence windows token). I looked at the federation extensibility sample. It has lots of custom token configuration on client side. So I stripped out lot of code and have my client simply invoking a method on the STS which has a return type of Message, which is mapped to RSTR through attribute. It does not have any input arguments as I am relying th ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Resource Manager not working in Compact Framework v2.0 and Pocket PC 2003 SE Emulator

  Hello all, The ResourceManager class will not find a resource under the Compact Framework v2.0.  However, this used to work under CFv1.0.  Let me elaborate on my problem.  I have my main program in main.dll and a resource with name 'Messages.en.resources' in main.resources.dll.  Here is the code in the main.dll: ResourceSet _msgs; ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager( "Messages", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() ); ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need a push in the right direction - Floating Box?

  I am trying to emulate a similar drag and drop behaviour as is found in the forms designer in .net Studio - When a control is selected an outline of the control appears and can be dragged around the form. What is this behaviour called ...Show All

• Windows Forms another CheckedListBox question

  Is there a property that makes it possible to select only one item from the list at a time thanks, kowalsky Yep. Set SelectionMode to One. This should also be the default value.   Martin Development Manager, WinForms ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get the old typed dataset

  When I create a new typed dataset on v2 by dragging the tables into a dataset component surface I get a lot of stuff that I don't want like dataadapters, queries, connection strings, etc.  I want a type dataset the way v1.1 used to do since I have my stored procs and I use SqlHelper for for all dataadaptor creation, etc. How can I get that   I can't work with this new way that seems designed for unskilled users but that makes things mo ...Show All

• SQL Server MSDE 2000 Timeout when restoring a database

  Hello, I have been trying to restore a database to the msde but I keep getting a timeout when it happens. Does anyone know how to increase the time before a timeout is called I have restored a different, and smaller, database to the MSDE 2000 and it is Ok so I know everything else is OK. Regards, Ian. How is the RESTORE statement being requested Control over the timeout is handled by the requesti ...Show All