Naser's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to publish start/finish dates and duration time for work items to MS Project files

  When viewing work items within Team Foundation server for a particular project, I attempted to publish my work items to a MS Project file. When the MS Project file is created the Start and Stop time for the work items is not transfered to the MS Project. Instead the start/finish date for any task is the current date with a duration time of 1 day. Why will the start/finish dates, duration time assigned to the work items not transfer to the ...Show All

• SQL Server Certificate limitations in SQL Server 2005

  I have a Web site that has a database backend, which stores user information.  I would like to encrypt the user information in a granular way. My question:   Is there a limitation to the number of certificates that can exist in SQL Server 2005   I would like to issue a certificate for each user of my Web site, whereby the certificate is protected by the user's password (which I will not have access to -- the password will b ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Calculation Problem in TabControl - Autoscroll

  Hi, I tried to use the tabcontrol with the Autoscroll featur on a tabpage. It does "strange things". To reproduce: New PPC 2003 App Add a panel with height 1 and dock bottom. Add a tab control with dock fill Add a label to the first tab page very colse to the bottom. Set Autoscroll to true on the first tabpage. Fill this label with text so that it almost fills the width of the tabpage. Run the program to ensure no scrolling occures. Next add a h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Email problems with SharePoint

  I get two errors that I am pretty sure are related to the SharePoint configuration: 1. When adding users to a project site The user or users have been added successfully, but there was an error in sending the e-mail message. The server may not be set up correctly to send e-mail 2. When configuring Alerts This virtual server is not configured to send e-mail. When I go to the Sharepoint Central Administration I can see the fol ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Polling Access Database

  Hi there, I have an access database that is used on an online ASP system to book holidays, now I'm wanting to create a VB application that can look at the database and as soon as a new record appears have the display update and a message window appear. Problem is that I can get the program to look at the database and display the content, but I don't know how to get it update and refresh the screen automatically, or even to get a message de ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Multiple user sharing same index on a pc?

  I have installed MS desktop search on WK3 server. I want all the users who log on locally on the machine to use the same index (residing at c:\SearchIndex) and other settings. I want to index a specific folder only e.g. c:\mydata. Currently, the wizard is run for each new user, on first login, and providing it with the same index location seems to cause problems. Only the user who created the index initially is able to use it properly. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Registry editing

  I'm having trouble creating the code for a button to change a couple of registry keys. I've searched google for hours and hours now, but all the code I can find about registry editing doesn't work in my version (2005 beta 1). I can't even get the code from MSDN to work So my question is simple (I hope): Let's say I want that button to change the value from Username in the map HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blasoft\3dgame\ to Savarage, how woul ...Show All

• SQL Server Doing a data import using DTS Wizard in SQL Server 2005 - being efficient with 5 flat files

  Hi, I'm a new user of SQL Server 2005. I have the full version installed. I also have SQL Server Business Integration Dev Studio installed. My OS is Windows XP. I'm importing a series of 5 flat files into a database on one of the SQL Servers we have. My goal is to get 5 different tables (though perhaps I should do one and add an extra field to distinguish each import) into the database for further analysis. I tried doing an import via D ...Show All

• Visual Basic Web Browser - VB.NET 2005

  Hi, I am trying to put together a web browser in vb.net 2005 - but having problems upgrading a vb6 app. I cannot bring up the print dialog to print the html, nor can I bring up other dialogs when I was previously using ExecWB. I used this for Internet Options, Find etc....all the functionality has simply fallen away in the upgrade. From what I read, these are obselete (inc the upgrade failure msgs in the IDE). Can someone point me to an ...Show All

• SQL Server Is copy of database and log file enough for backup?

  Hello, i would like to copy the SQL Server Express database .mdf and .ldf files for backup. Is this ok Autoclose = true and recovery model = simple. Must i detach the database before copy the 2 files or can i copy the 2 files without detach at any time When connections are open (also remote connections). Can i copy at any time even when transactions are active I would like to write a copy programm which copies the 2 file ...Show All

• Visual C++ STL.NET

  Will there be the full version of STL.NET available with VS 2005 final version . I heard that STL.NET will still be in beta when VS 2005 ships. Is that true Thanks, Madhu. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Difficulties with Data Adapter Configuration Wizard (error)

  Whenever I try to use the Data Adapter Configuration Wizard (the OleDBDataAdapter) from the toolbox I get the following error... "An unexpected error has occurred. Error Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Call Stack:     at Microsoft.VSDesigner.Data.VS.VsConnectionManager.CheckConnection(Int32 index, ProviderNameInfo nameInfo)     at Microsfot.VSDesigner.Data.VS.ConnectionPage.InitIn ...Show All

• .NET Development ExecuteNonQuery: Connection property has not been initialized Error

  laptop spec: XP pro Programs using: ASP.NET Web Matrix I am trying to create a webpage using ASP.NET Web Matrix that will accept 2 fields and then upload into the database. This a portion of code I have in C#: <%@ Page Language="C#" Debug="true" %> <%@ import Namespace="System.IO" %> <%@ import Namespace="System.Data.SqlClient" %> <script runat="server& ...Show All

• Windows Forms attachment problems on pop3 server

  Hello, I've got a couple problems with my pop3 server, both having to do with attachments. We have a couple domain names and mailbox on our server (in the office network behind a router) which are fmsdesign.com and lexingtonmarketing.ca. Our OS is Windows Server 2003 Web Edition. We've been experiencing difficulty with receiving attachments on a few accounts. These difficulties can be broken down into 2 problems: 1) [user1]@fmsdesign.com canno ...Show All

• SQL Server Invalid length parameter passed to the SUBSTRING function

  Hi all, I am having a weird issue after we upgraded our DB server to SQL 2005. I have a SP used to extract exchange rate, and a job calls this SP daily. This job worked fine on SQL 2000, and works very well in Management studio if I call this SP seperately, but failed in sql job in 2005. The error statement pointed to: select left(@row, charindex(',', @row)-1), REVERSE(left(@reversedrow, charindex(',', @reversedrow)-1)) The error ...Show All