BramSWA's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System How can I test info between tags?

  Hi, when I do web testing with it. there are some problems I faced. 1, if I test one string: i.e. "MSN Space". in page title, but there are same keywords in page content. How can I specify the strings I want exactly 2. Also, how  can I check the strings between tags like: <TITLE id="titMain">Test one day</TITLE> I can use 'ADD Validation Rule --> Find attribute value', which can verify the ...Show All

• .NET Development End Asyncronous Task?

  Is it possible to end an asyncronous task before the actual end criteria has been met I'm desperate! If you really need to end an async task immediately you can close the socket or, if you are using FTP or HTTP web request you could dispose the object. ...Show All

• SQL Server Linked Server

  Hi, I have created a linked server using Excel file. When I run the query again this linked server, it works fine as I have all kind of authorities. But when user run it gives the following message (Queries are running from ASP.Net Page) System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" for linked server "LPG". Here is how linked server is config ...Show All

• Windows Forms passing image as parameter..cgraus

  i am having an application that allows user to select an image on one form and that being displayed on other..how do i pass image to other form. Passing the path will be overload as i am already retrieving the image on 1st form thru the path so again passing path and reading again...i guess not good. // how do i pass image to other form. I'm not sure what you're asking. If you load it from disc, you could pass the path, but remember ...Show All

• SQL Server Bug in SQL Server 2000 with OPENXML?

  Hi, I am trying to make some stored procedures that take in lists of well sites and well ids and find the wells in the sites except for those in the list of well ids. I have a stored procedure like this. ALTER     procedure sp_wellSelect (@criteria ntext) as DECLARE @hDoc int   --Prepare input values as an XML documnet exec sp_xml_preparedocument @hDoc OUTPUT, @criteria   --Select data from the table based on valu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C++ Express application to Run on .Net 1.1

  I have installed Visual C++ Express, which installed .Net 2.0. I have bult a small application in Visual C++ Express which runs fine of this development machine however the application is destin to run on machines that only have .Net 1.1 installed. I have read that applications built on .Net 2.0 are not forward compatible to run on earlier versions on .Net. Therefore my question is "In Visual c++ Express how do I build an applicati ...Show All

• Visual Basic InvalidOperationException

  Hi , I know I am missing the obvious , but why am I getting an InvalidOperationException ,when I try and run this code (vs 2005) , further comment to exception " Collection was modified; enumeration operation might not execute." Any Solution with examples will be greatly appreciated ! Dim row As HidWkFlwDataSet.tblPodRow For Each row In Me .HidWkFlwDataSet.tblPod.Rows If row.Verified = False Then ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using the Plaform SDK with Visual Studio.Net 2003

  I wish to use the "Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK" with Visual Studio.Net 2003 This is because the DirectShow software has been moved from the DirectX SDK to the Platform SDK (and I wish to use the latest 'august 2005' version of the DirectX SDK and also DirectShow, so I need both SDKs installed) My problem is that having registered the Platform SDK's directories with Visual Studio, a re-compile of my previously working c++ code now gener ...Show All

• Visual Basic "ActiveX component can't create object" when debugging an ActiveX COM object

  I'm trying to test out my ActiveX DLL on an ASP webpage before I go ahead and compile it to keep myself from having to reboot IIS several times whilst I work out the bugs. However everytime I run the script while the IDE is executing the DLL I get " ActiveX component can't create object" However, if I stop the IDE and run the script I get "Server.CreateObject Failed" So I know something is partially wo ...Show All

• SQL Server sql server2005 and sql mobile DB (.sdf)

  hi. I am too green in sql2005. so the problem is with data import from csv or txt or access files to sql mobile database. at internet i fount that tis is wery simple but i can not find how so dts wizzard have not this function. coul someone provide directly steps which i shoud do to import/export data from sdf db i have vs2005 and sql2005 Onic, If you don't want to write code to do this, ch ...Show All

• .NET Development brain cramp on SQLDataReader

  I understand OOP in principle, but the application requires a code-level knowledge I just don't have yet.   I'm trying to break pieces out into discrete entities and encapsultat them, but the problem I'm having lies in understanding the types of data that I'm passing around.   eg. My datagrid demands an SQLDataReader object to populate its grid. If I have everything integrated (not OOP), it works fine, since I directly produce ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums WHY?

  What was the problem with the previous skin ! I liked it very much, better then this one. It's like messenger 7.5 . The previous skin was colourful and this is ugly! Where are  the colours   I lidek the real colours not these light things! Why did you change it Why I'm talknig about the new messenger beta ! I like this new skin but there are some other things i really don't like in this new version ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Error 32000. Failed to execute command."

  I'm getting a 32000 error installing tfs application server. The error message says  " Error 32000. Failed to execute command ." I'm doing the dual server setup. I have all the requirements for the install on the server. Any clue Thanks for the info.  It seems that we need the lines before this.  You should get like a "CustomActionData" with a long line of the command that was being executed.  Can you do a search u ...Show All

• .NET Development Concurrency Control in ADO.NET

  My name is Sivaramaiah. I am working on .net, we have a project on Banking. So I have a web form which is used to add or subtract the amount from a bank account using datasets. I used a dataset and used   acceptChanges() method of dataset before updating the database, so from that I can get fresh data into my dataset. So my problem is if there are 3 customers using my form. One want to add 2000 and another want to subtract 3000 and another ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Designer Preview

  Hi, how can I obtain the information, the current instance of a Control class is running in the Designer preview I didn't found a member that supplies me that information in the Compact Framework. Thank you! Yes, it's supported in CF 2.0. See the code below. bool designTime = false; if (this.Site != null) { designTime = this.Site.DesignMode; } // If "designTime" is true at this point // then ...Show All