Pirooz Javan's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Hierarchies in DataContracts

  Is it sensible to create a hierarchy using DataContracts For instance i would like to have one DataContract contain a (generic) list of children that are also DataContracts. What are the issues in doing this Secondly I'm not sure of what my options are regarding initialization of the members of a DataContract. Do I have to have a create method on my ServiceContract for every DataContract I wish to initialize I only really want to initialize value types and instantiate a List (see above). Does this require a call to a service method Thanks for any advice, Dave. There's certainly no problem nesting DataCon ...Show All

• Visual Studio Must uninstall VS2003?

  Installing VS2005 beta 2 gives me an error at setup.exe saying I must uninstall VS2003 pro.  Just to restate, it's not asking to uninstall 2005, it definately says 2003  What's up with that !!!! I am doing some investigation here to see if we can repro this problem.  I believe there should be no block for VS2003 ENT and that the only blocks should be for VS2005 previous builds. Can you try running Aaron's tool to remove old WHidbey builds and then see if install works   I think we may just have the incorrect error message in the UI and that the actual problem is that we are detecting ...Show All

• SQL Server Renaming files for subscription

  I have a subscription set-up and I now want the file to be re-named based on the paramter selected. Currently the file uses the name of the report. This is not sufficent because the paramter type selected will determine what the report represents. Is there anyway in which i can change the file name. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Mapping CustomXML data into ContentControls using VSTO for Office 2007

  Hello, After adding a customXML file into my document, I am trying to figure out how to bind its nodes with the ContentControls inserted in my document. I have done it using VBA with these lines of code: Private Sub Document_Open() Dim parts As CustomXMLParts Set parts = CustomXMLParts.SelectByNamespace(" http://customXMLDemo.com ") Dim b As Boolean b = ContentControls(2).XMLMapping.SetMapping("*/*[1]", "", parts(1)) b = ContentControls(5).XMLMapping.SetMapping("*/*[2]", "", parts(1)) End Sub Could it be possible to do something similar using .NET Regards, ...Show All

• .NET Development Debugging .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting Event: 1000

  Hi, I have an application running on .Net Framework 2.0. After running for a day or so, the application stop and an error is generated by Windows Error Reporting. The message is as follows: Event Type: Error Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 18/01/2006 Time: 09:46:29 AM User: N/A Computer: myComputer Description: Faulting application myApplication.exe, version 1.0.2208.39414, stamp 43ccf78e, faulting module mscorwks.dll, version 2.0.50727.42, stamp 4333e7ec, debug 0, fault address 0x000a163b. I have tied to capture the error using general try-catch handler, but nothing came out. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Events Triggering

  Hi I have written a simple application in VB 2005 express which work by calling a 3rd party Active-x control. This control responds to certain events with in the application and trigger these events when certain actions are completed. However when i debug the application in the MS Developer environment the events do not trigger, but when i compile (build the application) and run the application outside the debug environment the events trigger perfectly. Can anyone help Mabs Ahmed I think we'll need some more information, such as what events you are triggering, and possibly some of your code where the events are being ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team Build and ConfigurationToBuild

  I'm pretty new with MSBuild but have so far been successful creating a Team Build that builds and publishes a test Web app using the new Web Deployment Project (WDP). I read that only DEBUG and RELEASE are valid values for ConfigurationToBuild (of course I can't find that link now but I proved it by creating a new configuration name with the same attributes of RELEASE - which was working).  I want the functionality of the WDP that enables web.config file section replacements based on the configuration being built.  Now if MSBuild is limiting me to only DEBUG and RELEASE modes, I'm hosed.  Any suggestions ...Show All

• Visual Studio RC1 - VSS Admin Password?

  I just installed RC1 VSS. It's seems to have a password in mind and I have no idea in the world what it is. At times it seems to disregard it's password and do what I need to do. But it won't let me change the admin password without know what it was. It's sort of that same old story.... I receive the message - if you've forgotten your password, consult your system administrator. But I am the system administrator :( Hi Renee, If you created a new database, the Admin password is blank (default). Let the 'Old password' field blank in the ChangePassword dialog if you want to set a new password, and only type in 'New Password' and 'Verify' f ...Show All

• .NET Development Dataset Column Not Saving

  Hello, I am adding a new column to a dataset. If I don't add any values to this column, and write the dataset to xml, it skips this column. Does anyone know why Thanks I have case where there appears to be no data in a column and yet I get a node in the XML file that looks like this: <data /> In other cases I get nothing. Why would there be nothing in some cases, and in others there is a node like the one above ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there a standard deviation function in .Net?

  Hi, I'm trying to work out the standard deviation of some numeric data in my form... but I can't see any way to call a StDev function.  I've hunted high and low on the web and in the .Net help but I can't seem to find anything like this... can anybody make any suggestions as to how to do this TIA... Mike From a link&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce - How to detect Online/Offline mode

  Hi All, We are developing a smart client product which will be work both online and offline. In online mode, it would work with central datastore and offline would support working with local datastore when there is no connectivity. Since we are planning to utilize the Clickonce Depployment here, I have a question on how to detect whether the application is running Online or Offline How does ClickOnce manage it This would help us redirecting the request to correct store. Thanks, YT Unfortunately, ClickOnce doesn't provide a way to tell if the application is running online or offline. A better way to to do this is to ch ...Show All

• Visual Studio What is orthodox way of creating a 1:m report

  All of the quesiton below has to do with producing a report in local mode in VB.net. It is not clear to me what the report designer considers orthodox with regard to creating a One to Many report.  Let's consider a simple invoice report.  At the top of the Invoice you would have information on the Customer you are sending the invoice to ect, but on the bottom part of the report you would have the line item entries for the report in a table. When creating such a report, how does the report writer most like you to do it   I can think of two or three ways.  One, if you are creating a report for just one invoice number, ...Show All

• SQL Server SSRS 2005 Report in SSIS task

  In one of my SSIS Project tasks I insert some records into a table. I want to somehow fire off an SSRS report and send this report to some staff members. how would I add a component to reference or run an SSRS report off the table I just inserted to all from SSIS I assume I'd h ave to create the report in SSRS first, then somehow reference it from SSIS and then figure out a way to run the report, maybe export it into Excel format and send to the users....not sure how to go about all this in my SSIS package. Reporting Services is a web service and as far as I know all RS functionality can be invoked via a WS call. So, one would think ...Show All

• .NET Development How to pass custom object to WebMethod?

  Want to pass my Currency entity object to a webmethod.  I have marked the object as Serializable.  However, another object with the same class name Currency(generated by VS.NET 2005) is required when I try to use the webmethod.  Why   How can I pass my entity object Thanks You can also use the XmlInclude attribute to specify the type that you want to use instead of the generated one. Daniel Roth ...Show All

• Visual Basic Form Ordering

  It is possible in VB.NET to keep a form topmost against all other windows by setting it's "TopMost" property to True. This keeps the form topmost not just over other windows from within the current application, but over the top of all other applications as well... What I am after here is how to keep the form at the BACK at all times. Any help would be great. Quite simple actually... Just had to create a Timer control with interval 10, and throw the line Me.SendToBack Inside of it. Just in case anyone else ever needs this for some reason. ...Show All