Rik Brooks's Q&A profile

• .NET Development ASP.NET 2.0 Advocacy

  I am looking for some resources and/or compelling arguments I may use to help "sell" ASP.NET 2.0 over PHP 5 internally. We have a PHP based user-facing control panel application, written in PHP 4.3. Given the rich interaction model we are designing, I simply don’t think PHP 4.3 or even 5.0 is up to the challenge. Unfortunately, I work in a Microsoft-hostile environment, and I’ll need strong ammunition to prove myself right, especially if I’m going to recommend we switch platforms, which of course involves spending money. My requirements include “brandability”, which I know I can easily satisfy using dynamic master pages in ASP.NET 2.0. T ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting server Activation Error.

  I got following message while activating a report server instance. "Failure verifying the current state of the web service: the web service is already in a valid state or the state can not be determined" When I run report manager( http://localhost/reports ) its working fine. but when I try to create the data source I am getting "Page cannot be displayed" error.  During Installation I saw warning message that As "windows sharepoint service is running. Manual initiallization is required after installation". What has gone wrong that prevents from creating "Data Source" or "Upload File". Thanks Santhosh ...Show All

• .NET Development NullReferenceException when using proxies

  Hi, I am quite a beginner in the Remoting world, and I am trying to set up a very simple client-server project to begin. My current VS2005 solution is as follows: . ConsoleService project: registers the remoted type for a client activation. It is a console-based application, as IIS integration is not working anymore for me with the 50630 .NET build (it did work with the 50215 build, though...). . ConsoleClient project: activates a remoted object and makes a very simple call on that object, prints the result on the output, then terminates. . AvocasesService: the Remoted object. Both client and server applications are configured with .config ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Integration with Jbuilder

  Hi, Is there integration or VSTS plug in which can be installed in Jbuilder 2005/2006 This feature is needed for source control and work items tracking abilities. Thanks, Michael According to http://info.borland.com/techpubs/jbuilder/jbuilder9/teamdev/vss0intro.html , JBuilder supports integration with SourceSafe.  Thus, it may work with the new, pre-beta release of the MSSCCI client for TFS.  You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=32202966-EF04-442F-8C5C-88BDF15F551C&displaylang=en . Let us know if that works. Buck ...Show All

• .NET Development Could I use VC++ 2005 Express develop the Win32 Application without .NET ?

  Could I use VC++ 2005 Express develop the Win32 Application without .NET The Win32 Application muse run on Win98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003 with .NET. Thanks ! File  / New / Project "Project Types" => "Win32"  "Templates" =>  "Win32 Console Application" Add code : printf("Hello World!"); Compile is ok. I copy program to another PC based Windows XP with full update and run it. The error message is (Tradition Chinese) 錯誤訊息 : 無法啟動這個應用程式, 因為應用程式的設定不正確, 重新安裝應用程式應該可以修復這個問題 It means : Could not start this application, because the application's setting is not correct.&n ...Show All

• .NET Development Loading .NET v1.1 assembly in VS2005

  Hi! When I try to load a .NET v1.1 assembly dll in VS2005 I get an error message "MyAssembly.dll" is not a Microsoft .NET module. Are all v1.1 .NET framework assemblies inaccessible from VS.NET 2005 Is there a way to get a more detailed error description about why the load fails Thanks! Atmapuri Hi! Actually, compiled libraries do seem to work. The error message was due to a part of the code that was included in the assembly. After adding source files one by one, I found the culprit. I also used PEVerify to check for anything that the new framework does not like. Regardless, It seems rather unprobable t ...Show All

• Visual Basic exporting to a document

  ok....here's the thing...is it possible to export the contents of a datagrid to a document in word or export the contents of a sql query to a word document for instance i want to do query a table with something like "select * from tablename" and the output to be exported to a document any help would be appreciated thanks in advance Word has it's own, complex file format. You can control Word via COM, you can also control the latest version via .NET. There is a Visual Studio tools for office CD, that's probably what you need. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Downloading videos

  I am trying to download the "Windows forms control series" videos from this site.   http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/#forms   but it only downloaded 1k files.  Did any one get tfis videos downloded You can't download the whole video because it is .wvx file. You can download this metafile and watch the video (if you are connected on the web) but you can't save it. ...Show All

• Visual C# MFC Control on c# WinForm

  Hello I've got a c++ MFC 6.0 control with is panel with tree wnd view static text fields. I've puted this colntrols on WinForm as a part of winfrom interface. Now I can use this control - and it's look like rest of interface, I can choose node from tree and write text on static text control, The problem is when I'm traing use Arrows from keyboard, when I want to use arrows on tree - whole control is loosing focus and it swicht focus to the closest c# control on this winform. Any ideas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clientside controls in IE

  Hi all, I've been working on running a clientside control through IE. The control is a dll which comprises of 3 other dll's. Basically the aim is to give the user graphical directory access to pick files for uploading. Currently I have the component working through localhost, but am having trouble getting it to even download from an intranet site. I have tried a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't Install TFS RC on a Domain Controller???

  We can no longer install TFS (RC) on a domain controller This worked in earlier betas and CTP versions. But now I'm told with the installer that this is not a supported configuration, yet the installation guide talks about installing on a DC. I wasted all this time setting up the DC system and get to the point of running TFS install and am told I can no longer do this I've seen Microsoft respondents in the past indicate that you can install on a DC in these forums. What is going on here This is annoying. Due to the issues involved in installing and setting up TFS to work on a Domain Controller, we ...Show All

• Visual C# rtf to image

  Hi, i need to transform the contents of a richtextbox (rtf) to an image. Any suggestions will be highly appreciated Thank you Would it be possible to do this in VB.NET. I know VB.net is very similar to C#.net, but I'm having trouble with some of the data definition syntax. A version of this code in VB.NET would be very helpful to me. Thanks Marshall ...Show All

• Windows Forms how do i superscript text

  In windows forms, how do i superscript some text, which is displayed in the Label Control or in the textBox control. I need to display (kg/cm squared) in the label control. maams.......... This <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformsrichtextboxclassselectioncharoffsettopic.asp">link</a> may help with regard to superscript text in a& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 64 bit Compile for web application at Visual Studio Web Developer Express 2005

  Hi, How can I compile a managed web application at 64 bit. Is there any adjustment or configuration at Visual Studio Express Web Developer Edition or does it directly compile at 64 bit. I need urgent help please Best Wishes, Well, now I'm just guessing, but I'd say yes, since I saw different performance statistics for the various combinations of optimisation and platform. So the code would be optimised for a 32-bit system and would run in emulated 64-bit mode which, assuming you have an Athlon-64, is no slower than running in 64-bit mode.  And in fact the statistics I saw (I wish I had the ...Show All

• .NET Development ArrayList.Add problem - values and references

  Hi, I'm having a problem with my code. I have an Array called moves of length four that contains ArrayLists, each of which I modify according to user input. Each time input is complete I want to save a copy of the moves so that I can go back and retrieve previous entries. In order to do this I have a separate ArrayList called history to which I add moves after input using history.Add(moves); In this fashion I can retrieve previous entired by accessing history(0) for the first set Array etc. Sadly each time I alter the contents of moves , all of the objects I have added to history are also changed, so I just end up with an ...Show All