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• .NET Development Mht Email (Html Archive)

  It is possible (out of the box) to send Mht email now in .NET 2.0 I've taken a look at LinkedResource & AlternateView and I'm able to send out emails. However, there is no documentation on what is going on behind the scenes. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_clb_sending_a_web_page_by_smtp_mail_using_cdosys_vbs.asp offers some insight into this... ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to make UserControl as a container

  Hi I create a UserControl with a GroupBox, but this GroupBox is not a container, I get a idea from microsoft website. Add this attribute to the Class, then it is a container.  [Designer("System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentControlDesigner, System.Design", typeof(System.C ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Design Question

  Which of the following options is best Option A) One database with all the tables for all applications (HR, TechStaff, Inventory, Purchasing, etc.).  The bonus to this is all the data is stored in one place and the data is not duplicated, but when the database has to come down, all applications will be unavailable.  Plus, volume may be present an read/write row/column issue. Option B) Multiple databases... one for each application.&nb ...Show All

• Visual C++ _tcscpy_s corrupts the heap

  I have the code below. If I compile it as is it works fine. If I change to using _tcscpy_s the heap is corrupted when I copy the string. Can anyone spot an obvious error here Thanks Mark void CRokuPage::AddDeviceToObject(HKEY hKey, LPCTSTR lpszClsid) { //Add the device into the new clsid devices key if (_tcslen(lpszClsid)>0) { HKEY hKeyDevice; if (ERROR_SUCCESS == RegCreateKeyEx(hKey, m_szDeviceUDN.Mid(5), 0,NULL, RE ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel Pivot Table and Time Dimension

  I’m using the OLEDB Provider for Analysis Services 9.0 in Excel 2003 to get to my OLAP cubes in SQL Server 2005 Standard SP1. When I use Time as a Page filter in an Excel Pivot table, the dropdown looks like this (May_2006 is the default period): -2006 -Qtr2_2006 +May_2006 +Apr_2006 +Jun_2006 +Qtr1_2006 +Qtr3_2006 +Qtr4_2006 +2004 +2005 I checked ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Finding constants in methods

  Hi I need to perform validation of constants names inside methods from a custom FxCop plugin. How do I find the list of constants in methods (and constructors) using the Microsoft.Cci library provided with FxCop For example public class Test {   public void Test()   {     const string TEST = "Test";   } } Thanks   Hi, if you look at the IL for this code (see bel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System % of time in JIT > 90% - Webservice

  I don't know if this is the appropriate place for this post, sorry if it is not. I am load and perf. testing a method of a webservice. The web service makes a database call wraps the returned recordset in XML then returns the XML string to the caller. While testing the method, I have noticed that the % of time spent in the JIT is huge. It slowly trickles down as either time goes on and as I add users, or connections. I have looked high ...Show All

• Visual Studio can not uninstall VS 2005 Pro (retail version)

  Hi ... I tried to uninstall my retail version of VS 2005 Pro and it gave me the following error: Setup is unable to determine a valid ordering for the installation. See the error log for further details. i have have tried this tool --> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=47598 but to no luck. i have also tried using un advanced uninstalled and it did not help. I hope someone can help since i am desperate to uninst ...Show All

• .NET Development problem with enum

  I am using Visual C++ .NET Beta 2 ... I have ported some code where an enumeration from a class library was viewable in the Object Browser. I can no longer use _value unless I use /Clr:oldcode -- but when I use that I lose the ability to set /Doc which I would like to use to generate XDC files. Any suggestions If I understand correctly, you want to know how to create managed enums using C++/CLI. Please tell me i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Any document about extensibility of profile, coverage and so on?

  We will try to support profile, coverage and so on , including Visual Studio Team Edition for COBOL Users. I heard that there is VS 2005 Team System Extensibility Kit , from a person in charge of VSIP , who is working for MSKK. But there is no document about how to extend Profiler, Coverage, and so on. Are there any documents about how to extend Team Edition. Best Regards Hi Shinya, Exclude (and ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista [Win32/Qos] Prioritizing empty TCP ACKs with Traffic Control API

  Hi! Surfing the internet I encountered an interessting read at http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html . Now I'm trying to accomplish the same thing under Windows using it's Traffic Control API. Problem is I don't know how to correctly set up my patterns in the TC_GEN_PATTERN structure. The only ones which come with the SDK are IP_PATTERN and IPX_PATTERN , and IP_PATTERN is declared as: typedef struct _IP_PATTERN { ULONG Reserved1; ULONG ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView FormatProvider error ?

  The DataGridView format provider doesn’t work for me. Here is a quick example: DataGridViewColumn formatColumn = grid.Columns[0]; formatColumn.DefaultCellStyle.FormatProvider = new MyFormatProvider(); formatColumn,DefaultCellStyle.Format = “format1”;   The MyFormatProvider class (which implements IFormatProvider and ICustomFormatProvider) format method never called on the grid.   When I just set the ...Show All

• SQL Server Can not start Service on install

  Hi, I've been looking for the past 4 hours why SQL Express doesn't install on my Windows XP home and Pro. Almost at the end of install, the setup try to start the SQL Server Service. I can press either retry or cancel. Retry simply show again this message box, cancel rollback the last step (sql engine setup). While the setup is at this message box, i've look around my system to see what can be wrong. When i start the service manualy, it sto ...Show All

• Visual Basic Process.Start unable to recognize < elemet.

  I'm tring to pass arguments to Process.Start function, but some problem occured. Process.Start("xyz.exe","-a <C:\project\abc.txt") After I execute the above function, it the xyz.exe just hang as it just read until -a, and somehow ignore the "<" element. Is my code correct or this function do not take "<" as part of the input argument Thanks. Lennie I'm tring to pass arguments to Process.Start fun ...Show All

• Windows Forms Bug in C# only in Windows 2003 .NET framework 2.0

  Hello, I am encountering a bug, and I can't figure out what it is causing. I am catching all what I can, but still it exists. The funny is that it is only available on Windows 2003. Here is the output. Can someone help me finding/killing this bug Thanks. ESTAN See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.ArgumentO ...Show All