Thyagarajan's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Scheduled DTS package not running

  I have created a DTS package to read data from a SQL Server table and copy it to an Excel file on one sheet. I have tested the DTS package manually and it runs. I scheduled the package but it keeps failing giving the following error message. The path to the Excel file is valid and the SQL server is connected to the server where the Excel file resides. ... DTSRun: Executing... DTSRun OnStart: Copy Data from vw_Symbols to vw_Symbols$ Step DT ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to get/calculate the character width in MS Word?

  BEFORE a lot of text strings are written to a Word file using Office Automation, I need to know the width of each string. Is there any way to do it Please note that office automation cannot be used, because the Word file is NOT available yet. Thanks. It's not really a VSTO related question, but besides that I think you are not in a position where you can determine the width of the string before knowi ...Show All

• Windows Forms BindingSource BindingComplete Event

  After trial and error I got not any step further doing correct validation. Now I attached to the BindingComplete Event and receive this message: "Value of '01.01.0001 00:00:00' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value' should be between 'MinDate' and 'MaxDate'.\r\nParameter name: Value" My Context: Data comes from a sql server table. Some dates are null. one datetimepicker displays one field other dates are displayed as lables I wonder why I need t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Generics question

  Hey all, I have a question here regarding generics. I have a class that looks like this (only code relevant to the question is listed here): public abstract class BusinessObjectFixture <T> where T : IBusinessEntity { public static Collection <T> GetNewTestEntities<K>( int howMany) where K : BusinessObjectFixture <T>, new () { K fixture = new K(); return fixture.GetTestEntities(ho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to adjust the height of a field.

  Could anyone show me how to make the height of a field, say the "step to reproduce" in a bug workitem, adjustable. I want to make it smaller, so that the height of all fields on that tab looks evenly distributed. Thanks Unfortunately, the Form layout doesn't allow you to specify a Maximum size. You can however specify a MinimumSize. The format of the attribute is ... <Control .... MinimumSize=&q ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems with Performance tools

  Im having a few problems with the performance tools I created a performance session that uses sampling  - that seemed to work ok When I create one using instrumentation, when I launch it, I get the message that "A project with an Output Type of Class Library cannot be started directly". Well its not a class library project - its the same one that worked for sampling! Once I get this error I cannot find anyway of getting the Launch button to ...Show All

• Visual J# onClick, Questions??

  I have some check boxes with lables like 'checkBox" _________ I want to be able to check that check box with click on that label anywhere, you know like onMouseOver event i am not sure how that works here is what i got so far...I am using ColdFusion but i believe this problem is java related i think, any help would be appreciated.. <tr> <tr onMouseOver="checkbox"</tr> <cfoutput><td>< ...Show All

• Smart Device Development WebResponse Close call hangs

  I'm currently seeing a WebResponse.Close() call "hang" running CF2 from VS.NET Beta 2 running on a standard Pocket PC 2003 SE emulator. The HTTP request is being made against a Live365-based audio streamer (MP3 streamer) and the code below hangs every time I run it. The stream it is opening is thus very large and is binary rather than textual - but in the example code below I don't even read any of that stream. The code doe ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView - slow

  Hi, this DataGridView is really giving me headaches like you can see in all the topics I start :) This time it's about performance. I'm using a DataBound DataGridView and performance for painting on it, etc. is good as long as it contains no data :) However, as soon as I load 10 columns in it with about 200 rows, performance really drops. Resizing the form that contains the grid becomes real slow even with column auto size off. Painting selectio ...Show All

• SQL Server Working with data in a mobile solution

  Im doing a project using VS2k5 and sql server2k5. Its a mobile project and this is my first time working with SQL and Visual Basic. I need to know how to add data to my database from the windows form.I have however been able to use the tableadapters and some sql statements to read data from the database in my forms. Can anyone here help me The concept I think you are chasing down is called Data Binding in the M ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem Connecting to VSDOTNET instance from Visual Studio 2003

  Hi Guy's I'm getting desparate.  For weeks now I 've been trying to establish a connection to an MSDE instance named VSDOTNET from the Server Explorer in Visual Studio .Net 2003.  I've followed the guidlines for installation of both Visual Studio and MSDE instance but still I only get errors when I attempt to connect to VSDOTNET.  This is the only instance of MSDE I have installed.  I installed from the cmd prompt using comma ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Treeview question #4

  Hi Back again. This question is typed boolean :) I had problems when I click on the last node of a branch in treeview. This would invariably cause an 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' error. To solve this, I wrapped the offending code in an 'Try...Catch exception' = No more of those errors. Question: Is doing this a 'cop out' If answer = True then why I had tried a number of other 'traps' to avoid the offe ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Shader Debugger in VS 2005 beta 2 doesn't work

  Hi there, the shader debugger from the latest dx sdk (August 05) doesn't start in my VS 05 beta 2. In VS 2003 the debugger works fine. Does somebody know what's the problem Nico   NicoRi wrote: Hi there, the shader debugger from the latest dx sdk (August 05) doesn't start in my VS 05 beta 2. In VS 2003 the debugger works fine. Does somebody know what's the problem Nico The Shader Debugger hasn ...Show All

• Visual Studio Uninstall Tool uninstalls RTM SQL Express, SQL Documentation, and MSDN Library

  The uninstall tool released on Nov. 18 for the WinFX November CTP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=aae7fc63-d405-4e13-909f-e85aa9e66146&DisplayLang=en  removed RTM bits despite saying it doesn't. I was testing it so I didn't lose any data, but the tool detected Visual Studio Components on my system. I have the RTM version of VST Developer from MSDN. It includes SQL Express and MSDN Library Docs. The uninstall ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dataset Changes Using Two Forms Linked to One Dataset

  I have created a simple database program using the new automation tools supplied by Visual Studio 2005 and SQLServer 2005 Developer Edition. I have created a link to a single data source containing one table. In the first form, I have used the data source tools to drag a "DataGridView" to the form , creating a BindingSource, TableAdaper, BindingNavigator and DataSource In the second form, I use the same data source to drag the same ...Show All