GPinNY's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio not installing from Toolkit

  Everytime I went throught the express Toolkit install and I chose, all components, it just responded with "nothing to do." I installed the BIDS by just executing vs_setup.msi. as mentioned above. This seems to have worked partially. Visual Studio is now there. However, no templates are available except "Blank Solution" The case seems some Report Builder/Model Builder templates should exist What am I doing wrong What can I do to fix the problem Where can I find the "report building templates " Thanks. AIMDBA Hi AIMDBA, I split this post into a new thread since it seemed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting desktop width/height

  Just a simple question as I can't find what I want in Google without wading through tons of pages that are irrelevent Making a windows forms application and would like to modify the size of the form dependent on the user's screen resolution. As an example, no matter what resolution the user is using, I'd like my form to always be 30 pixels from the top and 30 pixels from the bottom of the desktop. So the higher the resolution, the more the form stretches. 800x600 - form's height is 540 1024x768 - form's height is 708 etc. Thanks in advance, Bill From what you’ve said I’ve got to assume that you already know how to change the form’s s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom coloring using MPF

  The documentation mentions the following for creating custom colorable items: - Set RequestStockColors to 0 or leave it untouched (Left it untouched) - Define your own ColorableItems in the constructor of LanguageService - Override GetItemCount and GetColorableItem methods of LanguageService I followed the above steps and still the custom colorable items do not show up in Fonts and Colors property page on Options dialog box. I made sure that the names of the colorable items are different from the existing ones. I am using October RTM version of SDK. What else needs to be done Thanks in advance.   ...Show All

• .NET Development Suggestions on how to deal with Inserting/Updating a Master-Detail record

  Hi Everyone, I would like to hear suggestions on how to deal with a Master-Detail record. Example: Invoice Invoice Header Includes: Invoice #, Customer etc. Invoice Detail Includes (1 or more) : Item #, Price etc. On the screen I have a grid for the details. When the user clicks save I need to save to the database. What happens if the user deleted a record how do I detect it. Also I don't want to resave all items everytime when updating the invoice. Can someone show me the right way to deal with it Thanks In Advance Your INSERT could be preceded by a SELECT such as //BEGIN A TRAN ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Insert Manually when ItemsControl.ItemsSource (DataBound)

  Hi, If you are "data binding" a Windows Vista WinFx WPF control to a DataSet (a ComboBox in this case) and you want to insert a blank row firstly, you try the following code :- oComboBox.Items.Insert(0, " "); and receive :- System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled This operation is invalid while ItemsSource is in use; access and modify elements through ItemsControl.ItemsSource instead System.Windows.Controls.ItemCollection.Insert Rather than doing an SQL "Union All" with a blank first row or anything nasty the following allows this, although im not sure how legal it is, with regard to your ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro urlhstry.dbf

  I found this table in the fox main directory. It is empty. First I thought I created it and forgot but it does not seem to be. The fields are urlname, createdate, lastaccess, execcount . What is the meaning of it Thanks. It is certainly not one of the VFP "system" tables. Maybe it was created by one of the Solution Samples, or some other code you ran once and forgot about. ...Show All

• SQL Server hi experts, can anyone have a look my simple questions, thxxx a lot!

  Hi guys, got another simple question (I am very new to sqlserver...), I have a c# desktop program, it connected to a sqlexpress 2005 server, and I need my program to connect to sql server reomotely , so I turn on TCP/IP protocol, my details are in below:   inside the server's tcp/ip on the ip tab, IP1 is set to active, enabled, the ip address is 192.168.0.3 , there is no port number for IP1, should there be a port number   dynamic port is 0 IP2 is set to active, enable with address 127.0.0.1 and also does not have a port number, dynamic port is 0 IPAll is using dynamic port 1921 but also has no port  number ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Docking and Anchoring

  Hello, what's the replacement of the Docking Wpf I have a Panel, which has a child - was trying to apply Horizontal/Vertical Alignment - doesn't take any effect. Also - when I set Margin. Left to -10 - it doesn't hide actual child - just moves ti to the top, thus making my control taller by 10. Is there any way to implement a real container-like behaviour in that case Thanks Take a look at the DockPanel element in the Panels overview on MSDN. Note: generally to combine Docking with absolute positioning, you'd use something like this: <DockPanel> <Canvas DockPanel.Dock=& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can I define a common set of rules to be used by others.

  It is possible to define a common dictionary, but I can't see how a can define a common set of rules. What you do here is save an FxCop project w/the relevant rule set selected. This project can be pulled in on the command-line via the /project switch and an arbitrary set of targets can be added via the /f: switch. We're looking at adding a project template feature in a future version of the tool. Michael ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disable refresh of Control in EditMode upon ItemChanged

  I have a complex business object i'm binding to in my DataGridView (through IBindingListView) which is constantly changing its elapsed time every second. When i try to edit this Elapsed property through the grid, whatever i type into this textbox gets erased with the updated value in the object. What is the best way to disable refreshes on the Textbox once its in edit mode I think the problem is occuring because of the ListChanged from the BindingList getting raised, hence refreshing my datasource forcing a refresh when i'm editing. The only solution i can think of now is to bind my DataGridView ...Show All

• Visual Studio Current statement markers

  Hi, I am implementing a language package complete with a debugger and all (not using the regular VS debugger SDK, for certain reasons). Now, the debugger is working but right now i am using the bookmark marker as the current statement. I want to use the regular Visual Studio current statement marker, but it seems that the MARKERTYPE enum does not have any such option. Ofcourse i can replicate it by making my own marker, but i don't want to do that as the user might have customized the marker (the markers are customized across different languages as well), and i want to use the same thing. Also, is there any way to get rid of the annoying que ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectPlay

  I'm working on a messenger program, and someone suggested using DirectPlay. I've looked into it, and from what I can find, it looks like it could be very useful. Where can I find good documentation on how to use DirectPlay on both the client and server side of my application DirectPlay is deprecated and therefore not advisable to use for new applications. The reccomendation is to write your own stuff using the System.Net or System.Net.Sockets namespaces. If you really insist on DirectPlay the docs are in the archive on MSDN Managed DirectPlay Docs I can't find any C++ docs but they are probably ...Show All

• Windows Forms MouseUp Event onToolStripButton

  It seems to be unable to trigger the MouseUp event on ToolStripButton, unless the MouseDown was happened on that ToolStripButton too, but I noticed this isnt same as others controls, which they trigger the MouseUp event even the MouseDown wasnt happened on them. I am doing manual Drag & Drop, so anyone can give me some advice The background here is the concept of capture. ToolStripItem does not support capture. When you MouseDown on a control, the control sets Capture = true, which means all mouse messages go to it until someone else sets Capture = true OR the MouseUp handler is executed and Capture is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reinstalling Visual Studio 2005 Beta-1

  Hi, my installation of VS 2005 Beta 1 expired, I want to keep using it but when I uninstall and reinstall I still get the "VS Beta has expired" message. Do anyone know some way of getting around without reinstalling Windows or installing the Beta 2. Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• SQL Server deploying packages

  Error: 0xC0202009 at Package, Connection manager "Presup Dev sql_prov": An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E4D. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E4D Description: "Communication link failure". An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E4D Description: "TCP Provider: Se ha forzado la interrupcion de una conexion existente por el host remoto. WTF ·%$·&$%%& i`m sure my connections are ok,, cause i prevoiusly checked them, the problem occurs when deploying the package.. i ...Show All