jwhitehorn's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Cant upload report (rdl-file) in Reporting Services 2005

  When uploading a report definition file in Report Manager I get following error: An unexpected error occurred while compiling expressions. Native compiler return value: ‘[BC2000] compiler initialization failed unexpectedly: Project already has a reference to assembly System. A second reference to 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.dll' cannot be added.’. (rsUnexpectedCompilerError)    Any suggestions ...Show All

• .NET Development Async callback causes Windows Forms events to not fire

  Hi, I'm not sure where to post this so I've posted it here and on the Windows Forms forum as it involves both. I will try to explain this as quickly and as best I can. If anything doesn't make sense then by all means, please ask for more details. I'm writing a little messager-style app whereby the app fetches messages from a web service. If a new message is returned the data library fires off a NewMessagesArrived event which is picked up ...Show All

• SQL Server Custom Editor

  Hi, If I implement a custom editor by inheriting from UITypeEditor, Can I invoke it at RUN TIME from a standard control other than PropertyGrid, say a comboBox or a button If it is possible, could you please let me know how to do it or could you please direct me to some URL which shows how to do it. Do I have to create a custom control that inherits from control for doing this Thank you. regards. S UITypeEditors are for extending design- ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to remove imagemargin in a submenu

  I can see how to disable the image margin in a contextmenustrip: ContextMenuStrip1.ShowImageMargin = False but I can't see how to disable the image margin in a submenu!! Any ideas Thanks I used the exact same code. It doesn't work. Using a ContextMenu works though. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Automatic build problem with /Bin folders

  We have a solution with three web sites projects and three libraries projects referenced by webapps. We have problems with /bin folders because the libraries are check-out exclusively by the first developer who compiled. For this issue we used some recommended workarounds (cloaking /bin folder). BUT what shall I use for the Team Build Because when the build machine tries to compile the solution it raises something like this: ...Show All

• SQL Server Left Join Merge problem

  I am having a problem getting the left join merge to work when I attempt to join data that was staged from an Oracle database using the Microsoft OLEDB provider for Oracle with data from an SQL Server 2000 database.  I'm sorting and merging on 2 varchar columns and they never join.  Visually, the data looks like it should join and I can successfully join it in an SQL statement from Query analyzer.  Any ideas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal report web service - can't display image or chart

  I have created a crystal report on remote server, and published it as a web service all using Visual Studio 2005 beta2. Then I created a web form and a viewer at local server, which was set up to retrieve the report. The reports without charts or images are displayed perfectly, but others are not. I removed the chars and images on the other reports, and they also displayed as expected. So, I guess there are some small tricks to let charts and i ...Show All

• .NET Development checking if .NET already installed

  Hi Guys, I'm running the 2003 version. I have two MSI files: one with the .NET in and the other without the .NET. I need to check if the .NET framework already installed on the PC so I will know what MSI to run. Is there someone here that can help me here Thanks... Do this- check for existance of this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v1.1.4322 and then for this value-: Instal ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Threading.Monitor.Enter (under the hood)

  What do the threads that are locked out do when they are locked out And does the Sleep call help get { if(dsUsers == null) { if(IsdsUsersLocked) System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(50); lock(UsersPadlock) { if(dsUsers == null) { IsdsUsersLocked = true; dsUsers = (3 sec call to the database server accross heavy network traffic); IsdsUsersLocked = false; } } } return dsUsers; } The sleep call appears to help when dealing with 100 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Show/Hide a form with a .gif image

  I'm trying to create a form that will be shown for about 10 seconds every hour or so, and then hidden again.  It only contains one gif image & is displayed in the lower right hand side of the screen.  In my testing, the form is shown with the .gif until I add the code to keep track of the time.  Then, there is only a black square in place of the .gif.  Is there a way to fix this   It starts out in setUpForm(), ...Show All

• Windows Forms Webbrowser controls doesn't work on Windows XP SP2

  Have anyone experience this kind of problems, whenever calling the Navigate(url), Internet explorer ask for content blocking , and open the url in the IE windows not the application webbrowser, Thus all the browsers event cannot be handled. The web browser&nb ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista MSVidCtl . dll / DirectShow and C#.

  Hi, I am writing an application in C# to interact with a TV tuner. At present I am using DirectShowNetLib to provide the managed wrappers for C#. My application at present uses the IAMTVTuner interface. While reading the MSDN docs I stumpled across the Microsoft Video Control (MSVidCtl.dll) its sparked a number of questions I hope someone can help answer. 1. Is this the prefered method for interacting with TV tuners both analogue and digital ...Show All

• Visual C# Doubt in TypeCasting

  Hi I have a text box to get data type from user. then i have to change my data type according to the type in text box. int a=10; textbox.text="long"; long b=(textbox.text)a; I tried this but i cant do anyway. can you anybody tell me the answer for it If it's displayed in a combo-box, it would be easier to store the actual types in a list separately and use that in Convert.ChangeType, instead of getting the text and converting that to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Textbox auto-simplify?

  Hey does anyone kno how to turn of the simplifying property that happens in the textboxes wut im doing is puting numbers in/out of scientific notation. if i put in 4^15 the answer i want in the textbox is "4000000000000000" but it automatically simplifies it to "4 E+15". is there any way i can stop this P.S.- it does this b/c it doesnt fit in the size of the textbox, but i dnt want 2 make it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to delete source code from source control

  I have two team projects in my TFS. I have added the wrong source code to a project and now I want to delete that source code from surce control. When I right-click on the project on the source control view the "Delete" menu item is grayed out. I'am local administrator and I have all the permissions possible on the server. Thanks, Jay See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1878 ...Show All