miantosca's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Unable to Insert Chart Problem

  Hello All:  I am using Crystal Reports With VS 2003 everything works ok with the exception that I can't Insert a Chart into the report. When I try inserting the chart using the Chart Expert The Ok button is always disabled. No error messages or anything appears and all other report functions work correctly. Any Ideas TIA Desdacato Hi Keith: Thanks, I figured it out it was my error I forgot to add the fields to the Show Value(s) list on the chart expert... color me embarrased! Thanks Much Desdecato ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System All Unit Tests abort immediately

  I've been using the TestManager extensively in Studio 2005 Team Version for months running dozens of unit tests as I develop. Recently, every time I try to run a unit test *in Debug mode*, it aborts immediately with no message. When I open the test results, all I get is this: Test Name: <test name> Result: Aborted Duration: 00:00:00 Computer Name... Start Time: 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM End Time: (the real date time) That's it. Not a word more. And ALL unit tests are doing this, even ones that used to run just fine. If I just run them, they run fine, but I absolutely cannot run them in Debug mode! Very bizzarr ...Show All

• Architecture Microsoft Certifications- Good, Bad, or Ugly?

  I would like your opinions on Microsoft Certifications. My opinion is posted here: http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/microsoftcertifications.htm If you go, please take the poll to the right.  I am interested because of the situation I am finding with the resume story I have in the blog. I want to know how off base or on base the architecture community feels my opinion is. Blair - you are talking sense here. It doesnt matter how many Cisco, Microsoft and other company qualifications you have - if you are going into an industry that is based around technologies that have a m ...Show All

• Windows Forms Plz I want every one to share me this problem

  I want to use datetimepicker to display arabic calender instead of english calender so how to do that Do you mean: "Hijri Calendar" If yes, then I'm sorry to tell you that the DateTimePicker doesn't support it. This is a limitation in the OS but should be solved in Windows Vista. Or do you mean: Arabic month names and day names, in the Gregorean calendar If yes, this depends on your system setting and not CultureInfo. Check this http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;889834 ...Show All

• .NET Development Discarding Packets using C#

  would somebody plz let me know how i may be able to stop for example SYN packets from reaching a certain IP address. i m working on LAN and trying to build a firewall type application which can block packets from the network. actually i got a Dll but it blocks all the packets and i am interested only in blocking SYN packets. m really hanged up somebody plz help me out. thnx I believe your best bet is to look to a lower layer for such low level filtering as such granularity is not available via System.Net. WPF in Vista or NDIS for pre Vista OSs would be the place to investigate. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Mail Slots for message passing between threads

  Hello all hope you can help i need to read and write to mail slots or find another way to message between a main application and a connection handler thread but i am struggling to find information on this. here is my declaration of the mailslots. 'Mail Slot Declaration Private Declare Auto Function CreateMailslot Lib "kernel32" ( _ ByVal lpName As String , _ ByVal nMaxMessageSize As Integer , _ ByVal lReadTimeout As Integer ) As IntPtr Private Declare Function GetMailslotInfo Lib "kernel32" ( _ ByVal hMailslot As IntPtr, _ ByRef lpMaxMessageSize As Integer ...Show All

• SQL Server problem on sending message

  Hi few weeks ago I found an example of conversation using service broker. I used the following code: USE Test GO -- First, we need to create a message type. Note that our message type is -- very simple and allowed any type of content CREATE MESSAGE TYPE HelloMessage VALIDATION = NONE GO -- Once the message type has been created, we need to create a contract -- that specifies who can send what types of messages CREATE CONTRACT HelloContract (HelloMessage SENT BY INITIATOR) select * from sys.service_contracts GO -- The communication is between two endpoints. Thus, we need two queues to -- hold messages CREATE QU ...Show All

• Visual Basic Accessing a Database

  I am in the process of converting a VB6 program to Visual Basic 2005 Express. I have loaded an Access database into the program and created the DataSet - but I cannot see how to get the data out. Previously in VB6 I was using a Control on a Form (ie. I was not using the OpenRecordSet method) The data was accessed using typical code: frmData.Data2.Recordset.MoveLast() frmData.Data2.Recordset.AbsolutePosition = n - 1 value = frmData.Data2.Recordset.Fields(data_column).value Under VB 2005 Express you cannot use "Recordset" Where should I start looking to find the equivalent method to be able to access the data in VB ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Creating controls on the fly is very slow

  Hello there. I've got an application whereby I'm creating a user interface on the fly, creating survey sections with questions, and responses (such as radio buttons, checkboxes, etc) at runtime.  The client is simple, as this survey engine does most of the work. Running this on a laptop/desktop on .net framework 2 has fine performance, running the same code on a PDA running Mobile 5 on Compact Framework 2 has terrible performance.  I believe the creation of controls and positioning/resizing may be the largest issue.  Does anyone have experience in how to properly (and performantly) do this on the Compact Framework   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Add Active Directory users as Source Safe 2005 users

  Greetings, I added a couple users to SourceSafe and assigned them the same user names as their ActiveDirectory User names. Does VSS try and detect if Active Directory exists and checks for users that match the users it's got and manage it that way I'm asking this because I noticed that these users didn't have to put in a password sometimes to access the source Safe DB once they're logged in to their machines. If this is not the case, is there such a way to add users from Active Directory Thanks. Hi, There is no way to automatically add users from ActiveDirectory. You have to create users manually, usin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binding to a list of custom objects

  Hi, I have posted this message at MSDN forums too. I have developed an application which separates the logic from the UI. I want to expose in the library containing the logic a list of custom objects so it can be bind in the UI. 1. How should I implement the list  Because I want the list not to be editable I was thinking to make it  ...Show All

• Visual C# stop remember password

  this isn't directly related to c# however is there a way to stop the browser from remembering a users password. I want to do this from a coding point of view not just on my own computer. The application is going to be used in the field and we don't want users to even have the option of saving the password. never mind got it <form autocomplete="off"> and dont name the password field password ...Show All

• Visual C# Unrecognized configuration section 'connectionStrings'

  Hello ,can someone help me in the following :  I have some pages that have been created with VWD express but when I try to test these pages with Dreamweaver or when I upload these pages on to a Host provider I get the following error message: Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: Unrecognized configuration section 'connectionStrings' Source Error: Line 10: <configuration> Line 11: <appSe ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Reporting Serivces: XML Datasource problem

  Hi, I'm just starting to use SQL Server 2005 Reporting services, and need to use an XMLdocument as the datasource. I will get the xml data from a webservice and then need to bind it to the report. Here is what I am doing: 1. I created a webservice at the following location: http://localhost/myWebDirectory/myService.asmx . this webservice has a method called " GetXMLDocument" that has 1 parameter (sql). This method uses the sql statement to fill a dataset from a SQL Server database, converts it to an xmlDocument, and returns the xmlDocument. Here is a sample of the results: < xml version="1.0" encoding="ut ...Show All

• SQL Server key_source parameter in create symmetric key

  Hi Laurentiu I was reading a blog entry of yours http://blogs.msdn.com/lcris/archive/2005/10/14/481434.aspx and in the section "How to prevent a symmetric key loss", you mentioned key_source. I am trying to understand how this is used because when you open a symmetric key, the only options for decrypting the key are password, symmetric key, asymmetric key and certificate. Thanks I just noticed comments were disabled for my older blog posts. I meant to have comments always allowed but it looks like I didn't set this properly. It should work now, so if you have additional questions, you can reply directly to those post ...Show All