Michael Hinkel's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Code coverage / testing errors in Team Build

  I've been trying to get code coverage working from Team Build builds. I read about removing the path from the "binaryFile" tag in the testrunconfig, so I did that -- no dice. Next, I edited the team build file to add "/runconfig:$(SolutionRoot)\localtestrun.testrunconfig" to the TestingArgs element. After that, I got a complaint from the build log, that vsinstr.exe couldn't be found in the PrivateAssemblies folder. I copied from my machine ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where is my register Key

  I have registered VB Express Edtion and received a few email,but just can not find the register key anywhere Thanks rfor reply ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Who has a PPC-6700 Sprint AudioVox Mobile 5 (Can I use GPS?)

  I have the Sprint AudioVox PPC-6700 and I know that it has the built in GPS chipset but everywhere that I search I can not find out how to actually access the API. There are a few of the GPS API references throughout msdn & msdn2 but none have an actual walk through. It is very easy to access the phone API's and contact lists/appointments and whatnot but the GPS is not to be found. As far as the GPS is conserned one could argue that it ...Show All

• .NET Development What is the difference between SOAP, XML-RPC and REST type of webservices?

  I have observed there are three types of web services SOAP, XML - RPC and REST. Can anyone guide me regarding what they are and what is the difference between them Thanks in advance It's a long answer (and it will create along discussion) so le me start with something to open the discussions. SOAP is a transport independent messaging protocol that can be used in a very widely set of architectures ...Show All

• .NET Development OutOfMemoryException after unmanaged interop

  Hi all, I have a long running windows service (C#) that calls some unmanaged code (C) to read from a legacy database on a periodic basis. Occasionally it throws an OutOfMemoryException, but watching a performance counter indicates the machine (and the process) should have plenty of memory available. Furthermore, the other threads in the same process do not appear to have any exceptions, and continue processing without any memory problems. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using Web Services IN Visual Basic

  hi do any body know that how can i use microsoft web services in visual Basic Express addition. and if some one know more about how to get token and account for microsoft web services access. Calling the Web services from VB Express is a simple matter. In the Solution Explorer, right click on your application and select "Add Web Reference." After that, type in the URI to the WSDL. As for the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Latest on ASP.Net & Workflow

  Hi, What is the latest news on using Workflow Foundation to control ASP.Net page flow There is a page in the MSDN documentation that has not yet been completed which I believe will cover this subject here: http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/winwf_gettingstarted/html/dd090d25-dac6-4d39-afda-7fe5736e1075.asp A useful article I found on DevX describes a custom way of managing page flow using Workflow Founda ...Show All

• Visual C# Error moving a form

  I have created a nonrectangular form I have introduced the MSDN instruction in my application to move the form : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbtskCreatingNon-StandardShapedWindowsForms.asp But when I have the mouse on the form area, the form is "runnig" and I cannot do nothing.Look at the code: public partial class Style_MainWindow : Form { // Chestii de la Visual C# public ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Flow execution hangs with no error

  I have a SSIS (CTP June 2005) package with several data flow tasks.  One data flow has 2 OLEDB data sources which are then unioned together, followed by a conditional split, then a derived column transformation, which feeds into an OLEDB destination.  When I run the package, this particular data flow seems to run fine and then just stops.  There are no errors and the records counts don't move.  I've used data viewers to ...Show All

• .NET Development XML DOM = load of c**p

  After years of hand-cranking XML I thought I'd give the DOM a try It's RUBBISH! Why can't you add a node & value with one simple line of code Why can you not set a xmlNode.value, but have to use InnerText Why is it the other way round for attributes Was this written by a bunch of monkeys with no input from MS It works nothing like anything else in .net It's unintuitive and illogical.  I've been coding VB4-vb.net for years and I shoul ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Opening a Word file from a macro in Excel

  I have some code that will open a Word document from a macro in Excel, but for some reason it won't recognize the Word file if the folders in the filepath have any spaces in their names. Here is the code: Sub MergeToWord() ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="MyData", RefersTo:="=Sheet1!" _ & Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Address Shell "C:\Program Files\Microsoft office\Office11\winword.exe F: ...Show All

• Smart Device Development INSERT problems on a sql server database....

  Hi, Here's my present problem : I'm parsing data and I need to insert them into my database. So far, so good, but i'm experiencing some problems, apparently using bit values. My present table is (almost) set as follow : code : int name : nvarchar[4] IsDegr : bit MsgDegr : nvarchar[20] HighestVir : float i've got some other collumns too, but all the data types are defined here. I've already inserted values of int and nvarchar type into other ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Howto: exclude .Net Framework 2.0 from VS 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2

  Hi, I'm trying to install VS 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 on a clean virtual machine (VM) but, an error message advises that an existing .NET Framework 2.0 and an Active Directory is located and therefore is unable to complete the installation process. This maybe a result of an application incompatibility, I dont know but here's what i have installed: Operating Windows 2003 Server ASP.NET has been enabled Installed VSS 20 ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with .NET 2005

  I have a main form with a object DataSet. I am colling another form and merging one of the dataset 's table into the child form. I am getting from the child form an array of modified DataRows. when I am merging the modified rows into the main dataset, I am getting a duplicate rows. Main Form: test t = new test (); t.dt = mainDataSet.Tables[ "Accounts" ]; DialogResult r = t.ShowDialog(); if (r == DialogResult .OK) { mainDataSet.Me ...Show All

• Windows Forms Splash Screen that runs code ... how to handle exception and eventually close the application!

  Hello everybody, I have an application that has a splash screen with perform inizializations (calling my assemblies etc..etc..) I created 2 forms one for the Splash Screen and the other is the MainForm. On MyProject I select properties ->Application ->startup form= MainForm. I checked "Enable Application Framework" because I need to check the "Make single instance Application" and Splash screen: startUpScreen. In the constructor of t ...Show All