Siddharth Bhatia MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Username info "..." in source control explorer

  It would be nice if more than one person has a file checked that you show me. That is rather than see: john,... in the username column in Source Control Explorer.  I would like to see: john,paul,george,ringo Is there some reason why you don't want to show the other user's usernames   You can get this info via the command line h status /user:* command but having the info in the UI would be nice. Oh I see ...Show All

• SQL Server Padding Issue

  We are creating hierarchical report showing line of sight for given Organization. The report data is tree structure. Each node is a row in the report. Each row in the report is nested by using padding expression. Padding expression is based on Node Level. When we print report or create PDF padding is removed and all the rows appear aligned. It looks like reporting Services treat padding as white space. We tried several options like using gif im ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SQLconnection Questions

  OK maybe i'm just missing something here but I have some existing databound controls populated via a DataSet designed in the designer. I now want to add some code to get some additional data from the database via code. The only example code that I have found creates an SQLconnectionStringBuilder, attaches a datafile etc. As I already have connections for the existing bound controls etc. can I not reuse this rather than codding everything f ...Show All

• .NET Development Compile error if I take back up while migrating from VS 2003 to VS 2005

  Have my web application...Install it using the .msi When I try to open the project(.csproj/.vbproj) Get the message box asking for conversion from VS2003 to VS 2005. Follow the steps..... you reach a screen which says "do wish to take back up (Yes or No)" If I select YES and once the code has finished conversion, I try to compile the same.. I am not able to do so as it gives following error message: " It is an error to use a section registered a ...Show All

• Visual C# creating setup files using VC# 2005

  Hi, This may not be the right place to ask this but I need to know how to compile, build a project and create the setup files using VC#2005 express exition Any ideas is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mo I haven't really looked into doing this from within the C# IDE itself, but here's what I do. I use an external setup builder program (there are several on the market) to build installers. In theC# project folder, ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can i get the serial number of Hard disk or mainboard

  hi i want to program a software lock for my application and i want to know How can i get the serial number of Hard disk or mainboard or any suggestion for software lock in vb.net thank you so much thank you goncalo.borrega for ...Show All

• SQL Server modify datetime parameter

  How do I change the value of a datetime parameter before submitting it to the query   For instance, if the user selects '01/01/2006 00:00:00' in the date-picker, I want to submit '01/01/2006 23:59:59' to the query. I tried =Parameters!EndDate.Value.AddDays(1).AddSeconds(-1) ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot used reporting services in classic ASP

  Hi I found that after i run the reporting services in classic ASP, the report can disply but it will disable my form posting. All value cannot be posted through <input type="Submit" ...>. I just used "response.redirect "/ReportServer /MyFolder/MyReport" anyone can help Regards Siang ...Show All

• Visual Basic Crystal Reports problems in VB 2005

  hello, i have designed a one page addressbook with one data table. i took one crystalreport and with crystal report viewer i have set it in form. now when i am playing program report form starts but there is no data at all. thanks. I'm suffering the same problem. I tried upgrading to Crystel Reports XI and still suffer the same issues. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Pro and I'm ...Show All

• Visual Basic Deleting all records in access

  Hello All, I am working on a project for a former neighbor. I originally wanted to build a program for him to distribute. He is doing a Geneology research. I wanted to create a database with the family name but realized I could not. So, I want to be able to let him put in the data, export it to text or HTML, then delete ALL the records and start the next family. I have seen many examples but cannot get them to work on VB 2005 Express. Here i ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with Sleep function in SSIS

  Hi, I have a script task in SSIS which uses a sleep command. sleep(600000) which waits for 10 minutes. This works fine when i execute the package through GUI. But when i execute the same with Commandline, it does not work. Is there some thing which I have not set. I have also tried the Windows API call for sleep still it behaves the same way. Any help Thanks in advance Srividya ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Assembly Security

  Hi all, just a quick question. Since there is a .NET Reflector written by LR which disassemble an exe/dll file, i can't find anything nor a better solution to get secure. How are we suppose to write a secure .NET app since it can be disassemble Is there a way to do it or perhaps possibility Or what's your recommendation / suggestion Regards, David [.NET NEWBIES] Hi David, The best way to protect an Assembly from beeing decompiled ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO-2 (2003) Word Template code-behind assembly doesn't run

  We have a Word (Office 2003) Template Project in Visual Studio 2005 created with Visual Studio Tools for Office. When I create a new document based on this template local the code-behind file runs ok :) BUT I copy the word template and assembly to another PC with Word 2003 (Office 2003 Basic) but when I create a new document from my document template the code-behind doesn't run. No error messages. No warnings. The new document is create ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO lab2: Doc.Saved always true

  Hello all, I'm a newbie of .NET world and sorry for my english. I'm trying to do the "Lab2: Adding Functionality to Word Document Solutions in Visual Studio .NET 2003" and I have a problem about this code fragment: "Private Sub ThisApplication_DocumentBeforeClose( ByVal Doc As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document, ByRef Cancel As Boolean ) Handles ThisApplication.DocumentBeforeClose If Doc Is ThisDocument And Do ...Show All

• SQL Server RS2005 access over internet?

  Hi, is it possible to make the RS2005 available over Internet Someone knows a guidance or tutorial in the Internet Thanks Stefan What exactly do you want in RS2005 to be available over the Internet You can always access the reports by visiting: http://serverName/ReportServer /FolderName/ReportName&rs:Command=render ...Show All