Marni's Q&A profile

• SQL Server opinion xp_fileexist

  Hi all, Sorry for spamming you with this, I thought it might be the best way to get your opinion on the topic. OVERVIEW: We should not use MS internal procedures, since MS has the right to change/remove them at will. Given that, should the following code be allowed, or not. If not, how does anyone suggest, handling checking for the existance of a file that has been given as a parameter to some T-SQL. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS - Error creating team project (TFS30177 - Team Foundation creation failed)

  Hi, I recived this error after installing the VSTS and I tring to creat a new team project for the first time. Does any one know about this problem This is my log file: Module: Engine Event Description: TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at DIRECT-TAESPPWQ Exception Details: The Project Cr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF single-server installation failed on a virtual pc

  My installation steps are: 1. Install a Windows Server 2003 with SP1 virtual pc. OK! 2. Config the virtual pc as an application server, enable asp.net. OK! 3. Install the SQL server 2005 April CTP, config the application pools. OK! 4. Install the SharePoint Service, exclude the Reporting Services. OK! 5. Logon as tfssetup and install the Team Foundation. Hang!!! The ADAM installation seems good but the installation stops at the last step. I foll ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO/SQLExpress Connection String Question

  I'm working on a customer project and deployment project. SQLExpress is part of the installation and there is a pre-existing database. As installed, the database is detached. This application uses ADO.NET to establish SQL connections and it also uses Excel VBA to connect to the database via ADO. The following SQL Connection string works for SQL (as far as I can tell) Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\XYZ_Data ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I deploy a business component in ASP.NET aspx.vb page

  I compiled a VB class file as a dll file and copied the lib file in the bin folder of my asp.net application. However, when I try to import the file, the namespace does not appear in the context menu, and I am not able to make any references to the dll and its methods. I understand that I do not need to register the dll file in a .NET environment. What do I need to do in order for me to make references to the object and its methods. ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to use this dll in managed code

  I create a MFC dll file like below, which is not compiled from CLR environment. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ScanComm.dll  head file //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #pragma once #include "serial.h" #define MAX_BARCODE_SIZE 255 #define MAX_COMPORT_SIZE 10 class ScanComm :public CSerial { public: ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX CTP install issue

  Cheers, I am posting to this group because I have not found any groupe dedicated to general WinFX issues. I am having problem installing WinFX January CTP. When I launch the install, the window with progress bar saying "Setup is loading installation components. This may take a minute or two." shows up, advances to 80 percent, and CPU usage jumps to 100%. It is impossible to kill the process. Task manager doesn't kill it, taskkill ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Drag outlook contacts into my app

  hey howzit its easy to import contacts from outlook in code...but what i wanna do is be able to drag an outlook contact straight from the running Outlook Application itself into my running C# application...can anyone help So far I am able to drop random files into a listbox using this tutorial:  http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive365.html  but its still doesn't provide me will the ability described above Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Uploading images to SQL Express

  Hi, Could someone help me on how I can store images into my SQL Table I'm using "Image" as Column Name and I use VWD 2005 Express. I saw a lot of C# examples, but not VB.NET examples. Please help !!!!! Bart Thanks Lars.... can you believe it, I actually figured it out... but I didn't know that there was an auto increment with the ID Key... so I guess I'll go back and take a look at it. I really hate to keep asking questions, but is the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Major confusion on understanding how to use config file in C# 2.0

  I'm so confused with this stuff in C# 2.0. I'm new to C#/.NET (coming from a Java background). I used the vs.net 05 beta to make the properties file and I added one string property to it, but it looks nothing like the examples I see that show the key/value being as: <add key="somekey" value="someValue"/> Instead my generated app.config file looks like: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <configuration>    ...Show All

• Visual Studio I found a hint

  I reinstalled my WinXP ProSp2 yesterday and installed the C# 2005 Xpress beta2. I also installed the RegistryFix 3.0. When I scanned the system, there were 10 errors that are related to VCSharp 8.0. I deleted the errors and once again: there were no items to ADD in the Csharp program...So i used the registry backup, and everything was good. So to the DEVELOPERS of the C# 2005: I found a problem, you should solve it. Do you have any idea how can ...Show All

• .NET Development filter

  Table1BindingSource.Filter = "date= " & 5/5/05 can u pls correct the following code. Based on the value of datetimepicker control, the filter should be applied. Another problem is how can filter in such a way that it shows records between start date and end date pls let me know Try doing something like "date>=#" & StartDate.ToShortDateString() & "# a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System customized test templates

  In the thread http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=13002 , it is explained how to create your own manual test templates. Easy enough. But, it would be nice to have the whole team working with the custom template. Is there an easy way to get this template an each machine I dont know about other source code control tools, but for source safe: Set the working firectly for the project where these files are located, and point i ...Show All

• Visual C++ LNK1104: cannot open file libc.lib

  I have a project built well with VC++ 6.0. The project is built with mutlti-threaded DLL and the project depends on 4 specific libraries and serveral rouge wave libraries. Now I try to build it with VS2005 and get the linking error "cannot open file libc.lib". It seems our specific libraries is built with single-threaded DLL, I am not sure, but that is what I want to find out. I used /VERBOSE to display the progress message, but couldn't find ...Show All

• Visual J# Answer: java.text.Bidi functionality

  Hi; What .net class has the same functionality as java.text.Bidi (which I assume is not in J#) All I need is the ability to give a method a string and find where the string changes direction. thanks - dave To get an authoritative response on this, I suggest you post this on the microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization newsgroup. Internationalization folks from Microsoft on that newsgroup can help. Thanks - sushant ...Show All