EricA_MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System None of my reports show!

  I get this error in all 4 report webparts on my team project homepage: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for data set 'dsIterationParam'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors I even get it when I try to run any of the reports from the SQL Server machine itself (accessing the rep ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Excel - squares appear when sending info from textbox to cell

  Hi there - Hope someone can help! I have a simple database in Excel, driven by VB. I have a textbox in a form that, when updating the record, enters the info from the textbox into a cell (ie, range("a1").value=frmdata.txtnotes.text. The textbox uses multiline, and when it updates the cell, squares appear where the enter key was pressed in the textbox. It is identical with the .value property. Does anybody know how to transfer the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Work Item - Title vs Summary (Redundant?)

  I find myself just repeating in the summary what I put in for the title.  These two fields seem redundant.  What am I missing here   How are they supposed to be used Once we've fixed it and you've tried it for a while I'd be interested in more feedback.  In our own use of it we've found the two fields go hand in hand very well.  The Repro steps are generally entered once and don't chang ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with TextBoxes

  Hi, I'm a Newbie. Suppose I have 20 Text Boxes; say TextBox.1 to Textbox.20. How can I access or add data to these Text Boxes by using a variable (e.g. put 5 in Box 5, put 9 in Box 9, etc.) I don't want to write a separate piece of code for each individual Text Box. Thanks, David. Hi Mattias, Could you give me a hint about how to create such an array Something like : Public MyTe ...Show All

• .NET Development Getting service startup type (automatic/manual/disabled) through .net

  How can I get the startup type of a windows service using .Net The servicecontroller class does not have any method to do this. You do it when installing the service. The ServiceInstaller has a StartType property. Mike ...Show All

• SQL Server How to display milliseconds as part of datetime field?

  When I execute the following query: SELECT EntryDate, EntryName, CONVERT(datetime, EntryDate, 121) AS LongEntryDate From Entries ORDER BY EntryDate LongEntry is displayed in the format of "MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AMPM".  My understanding is that the formatting code 121 (also tried 21 and 113) is suppose to be in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.MMM". I'm using the June CTP of SQL Server 2005, and executing the query via the Database Explorer ...Show All

• Visual C++ Picture editing.

  I created a thread a little while ago asking for some good jpg tutorials. Rather than use jpgs, I decided to work with bitmaps -they're simpler, and as far as I can tell built into the API already. The problem that I am having is that when I try to use LoadImage, it returns a handle instead of the HBITMAP that I think I need in order to draw the image to a DC. Can I overcome this with a simple cast In addition, how would I save the pict ...Show All

• Visual C++ static initialisation order

  Is it possible to call a global object inside another global object constructor There are techniques which can make this happen(like construct-on first use).But can it work without these techniques I would like to know if the following code make sense which is in an MFC App in constants.h const CString BLANK = ""; in CApp.cpp #include constants.h CApp myApp;//CApp is the MFC global application class CApp::CApp() { m_St ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why the reverse German-like syntax?

  Why do the LINQ queries have to look like a SQL query in German   If you are trying to make it easier and are adding SQL-like keywords to the language, at least keep the ordering the same as SQL. The way this is, I have to know C#, SQL for triggers and stored procedures, and LINQ for the in-code queries.  I don't see how this is going to make my life any easier. As I recall from the spec, the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataGrid (C#) Sample

  I read Microsoft Window SDK readme file. I see DataGrid (C#) example in Window Presentation Foundation section. May i get this example. Everyone have this link, please let me know. Thanks Steven. Hi Steven, I'm not sure which readme you're referring to, but there's no longer a DataGrid example in the WPF SDK - it was removed a couple of CTPs ago. Thanks, Tina ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro foxpro exe and dbf's, fpt's, bak's, tbk's, but now prgs etc.

  foxpro exe and dbf's, fpt's, bak's, tbk's, but now prgs etc. I was given a foxpro program and i would like to see the code (the formulas)... i'm not sure how to do this... thank you...   modify command <insert your prg file here> modify form <yourformname> use <yourdatabasename>   ...Show All

• Visual C# Convert Perl Code to C#

  I have a perl script which I wanted to convert to C# which I can use for my application. Is there any tool/utility which does this. Thanks Imtiaz It's not too big. I am pasting it here.  It reads a pipe delimeted file fetches some data and write it to another file. Following is the complete script   eval '$'.$1.'$2;' while $ARGV[0] =~ /^([A-Za-z_0-9]+=)(.*)/ && shift; $[ = 1;&nb ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do you apply a .fx effect to a mesh?

  How do you apply a .fx effect to a mesh I've looked for sample code but the only thing I could find was the SDK documentation, but that thing applies it to custom vertexes... Seems everytime I try something new in directx, it never works the first time ^^;;; You could just do it like you would with custom vertex formats. Internally DrawSubset just calls DrawIndexedPrimitives() anyway. You would then have somethi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Moving TFS servers

  Folks, There have been a number of postings requesting instructions on how to move servers (covering some of the following scenarios): Moving TFS from a workgroup to a domain Moving TFS from a Test domain to a Production domain Moving TFS (single server) from one machine to another (disaster recovery for single server) Moving TFS from single server configuration to dual server configuration. These instructions are not curre ...Show All

• .NET Development Membership provider doesnt connect to sql server.? RC1

  Hello, I configured my asp application with membership provider, the code below connects, I used management studio and it connects, but the membership and role functions doesnt work, the debugger says its unable to connect to sql server, look below the web.config, it has exactly the same connection string. Thanks Dim conn As String = "Data Source=CAMPEON;Initial Catalog=inventario;User Id=inventario; Password=inventario" Dim sqlconn ...Show All