ClarkMe's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Can we run tests from the command prompt without installing VS?

  It's probably mentioned somewhere within the documentation, but here is my question: Visual Test (good, old...) had an option to compile tests into p-code, which then could be run on another machine without having to install the full-blown version of VS. This is quite useful for certain tests (and test deployment). Can we do the same with the new MSTest.exe Which files do we need to install on the machine where the tests are to be run Thanks, Burkhard No, mstest.exe is only distributed in the VS sku. There is no public API to replace mstest.exe. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Dreaded C1902 error... but only through ssh?

  I'm running in to the dreaded C1902 ("Program database mismatch: please check your installation") error, with a twist... it only happens if I try to compile when logged on via ssh. I checked my environment ('env | sort' and 'diff' the output from both ssh'd and local), and then tried sourcing the 'good' environment in my ssh session, so it isn't that. What would cause this error to only show up on a remote login If it matters, I'm using password-less login and trying to build on an NFS share, but the compiler is local. 'type -P' on mspdb80.dll, mspdbcore.dll, mspdbsrv.exe returns: /usr/vc8/common7/ide/mspdb80.dll /usr/vc8/common7/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Best OS to use VS2005 on?

  Hi guys Just wondering what everyone's views are on the best OS for programming. XP Pro WS 2003   bmcneill0 wrote: Hi guys Just wondering what everyone's views are on the best OS for programming. XP Pro WS 2003 Well, you are asking a question that could lead off into many different directions. The Operating System is not the only thing that effects your programming, but I would  Windows XP Professional Edition and Home Edition  are generally faster than their predecesors, and have some additional things you might find usefull. And, well, it depends on what type of computer yo ...Show All

• Visual Studio ReportViewer Control Filter Question

  Trying to use the report filter controls to show me all records in a datatable where the date is between Date A and Date B My Datatable is a transactions database, so a given customer could have 500 transactions. I just want to find the ones within a given date range. The filter seems to be correct, but it doesn't give me any results. IE Expression Operator Value And/Or =Fields!TranDate.Value > 01/01/03 And =Fields!TranDate.Value < 01/01/06 This generates my report with no values (ie, nothing comes up at all) I've tried rever ...Show All

• Visual C# Hi All: How to extend a built-in language service?

  I'd be very interested to know the places that you can extend an existing service. I too would like to "augment" the existing intellisense functionality in VB and C# by filtering out some of the members. 1) Could you give a brief list of the points at which you can override an existing service 2) If you do so, can that be limited to certain projects Regards, Ingo Ingo, Unfortunately there are almost no extensibility points to perform the filtering that you are trying to achieve.  What are you trying to filter out ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel Range

  I have two questions Is it possible to create a union of two ranges from two separate worksheets ( not from the same worksheet) I tried but failed. According to the MS Documentation PivotTableWizard( ) method if SourceType is no XlPivotTableSourceType .xlExternal then SourceData can be array of ranges. It does not seem to work. Any comment Thanks for any help in advance Dinth This is really a general Excel programming issue to which I don't know the answer. You'd be better off asking the experts on the Excel programming newsgroup. General programming issues : e ...Show All

• Windows Forms to determine length of audio track

  I am using  the AxwmpLib which provides me with windows media player...but the property: windowsMediaPlayer.CurrentMedia.duration is always 0.0. Basically I want to know length so that when my player starts automatically...it ends and as soon as it ends I have to enable a button that guide user to next form. The media player has an event that will fire when a track ends. I used it to write a jukebox app. Also, if you use managed DX, it has an Audio class which will tell you the length, as well as all the tag info. ...Show All

• Visual C++ (Newbie) - getline - Import/Export file

  OK There I go i'm having a Hell to understand how Import/Export file work in C++ i need to save stuff in a external file and get them later when i re-run the program. To be more specific, i would like to save ''accounts'' without using Databases. only to master Import/Export.  I just don't know how to procede I tried something with getline() but every time I enter the information shown on msdn, I get an error saying it was expecting 2 args while i've put 3 of them. My output file data looks like that  : 0001 abc123 34 2433 64354 Name Blabla 0002 gfdfg 34 6234 84434 Name blabla etc where the first 4 chars are the A ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Bluetooth Managed Classes & API

  I want to develop applications using Bluetooth interfaces to other devices but I've only been able to pick up bits and pieces about how to proceed. Will Visual Studio .NET 2005 have Bluetooth Managed Classes and API Will it be compatable with different stacks like Widcomm and Drakar Does anyone know of a good reference that covers this No, VS 2005 does not have BT classes. You could use this with Microsoft stack: http://32feet.net/default.aspx Commercial libraries are available for others, for example: http://franson.com/bluetools/guide.asp platform=netcf ...Show All

• .NET Development catch (Exception) slow

  hi, I try to make the sum of a Sql column : if there is nothing i want the sum to be null (zero) try{ ......select sum (price) ...... } catch( System.invalidcastException ) { sum=0; } but it is very slow . How can I make it fast In fact each time I have an excpetion it is very slow . Some of them can  happen often and I need a mean toi accelerate those. Thanks for any help Another option is to actually make the check on your query and return whatever value you want there. Ex: instead of SELECT SUM(Value) FROM Table do SELECT COALESCE( SUM(Value), 0 ) FROM Table So, for queries where the result re ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataAdapter & query

  kind of a 2 part question: I need to query on 3 parameters: i.e. Name AND <X AND >Y at one Table in the DataAdapter. In using the DataAdapter.SelectCommand approach I find that one can pass only 1 parameter. So I simply put 3 separate commands - - and this seems to work (when there is a match) though I haven't rigorously checked it. so part 1 - is this approach ok In this DB there can only result in 1 match or no match. part 2 where I'm stuck is that finding no match is a good thing for the user - but I get a ServerError message of Not non-Zero index....... I was hoping that by having a bound textbox/label to one fi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Where to find BASIC help after downloading and installing Express with small option

  I thought I remembered being asked if I wanted to download a monster help file and since I wasn't sure about Express, I said no. Now I have used it for a while and want to avoid the online help - where do I find it Other learning resources can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx The only place I saw to download the express MSDN library was with the express products...Download it again: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/download/ Full Installation: 1.3 GB Also includes MSDN Express Library 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Ed ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Performance compared to DTS

  I'm new to SSIS, and trying to feel my way around but I've got some questions about performance. I've used DTS for a number of years, and I read in Donald Farmers blog that SSIS was about 7 times faster than DTS (mileage may vary).  Well, I may be doing something very wrong, because I'm getting about 7 times slower! I have around 40 dimension tables, most of them have less than 100 rows.  Only two have 60,000 rows.  Then I have a single fact table with 2.7 million rows. I pull my data from Excel for the dimension info, and Oracle for fact info.  In DTS the dimension load takes around 45 seconds total, all 40 dimensions in ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unable to view designer in vs2005 c#

  I am trying to get some help with a very strange problem.  When I opened up vs2005 today my form designer would no longer work and caused vs to crash.  This happens on all projects, even newly created ones. I have tried reinstalling vs, but the problem persists.  If anyone has seen this problem or knows how to repair vs I would be very happy to hear from you. Thanks. DC. Hi, I'm facing the same problem too, there is no solution yet ...Show All

• Windows Forms drag drop usercontrol

  hi everybody, we developed some usercontrols with their designers and putted them  into toolbox.And we also develop a custom document with its root desginer.we have collection object in custom document  that holds these usercontrols.  we wrote event handlers for drag-drop operation in document's code and usercontrols's designer. when we drag and drop these usercontrols to this ...Show All