Robert Burger's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Datasets, datarows oh my

  Good evening experts: Would you happen to have any online reference material, perhaps an article or coding sample, that provides the general idea of working with datasets in vc++ 2005 I've found numerous examples with 2003, but it appears that the syntax has changed so those examples are working. I like New DataSet Features in Visual Studio 2005 ; but, there's also TableAdapters in Visual Studio 2005 , and Visual Studio 2005: 101 Samples for Visual Studio 2005 includes a Data Access Samples section. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Project Properties Window fails to display

  I'm learning to like VS 2005 alot over VB6. Not that I drove VB6 to the max not at all, but VS 2002 just seems a lot more capable at more things. I've got one problem however, right now if I go to Add Web Reference I get the following error message:- Web Services Enumeration are not available. You need to reinstall VS to add web references. Anyway I found a downloadable Add Web References, installed it and no change, still the error message and still no Project Properties Window failing to appear. Apart discovering FDISK any pointers on where I need to be looking, BTW no action in the Event Viewer either. Any help suggestions ...Show All

• .NET Development Trying to get a string from a serialized object result in an empty string

  Hi, I need to get a string out of a serialized object into a MemoryStream I serialized an item into a MemoryStream  which seemed to have worked when I watch it. I then used a StreamReader on the MemoryStream and the ReadToEnd() method to get the serialized object as a string. The result is an empty string. Any idea why it does that When I get the Byte() from the MemoryStream, it's not empty but I want a string because it's easier to Encrypt it seems. Also, when I try to get a string out of the byte(), I also get an empty string Thanks PolkaDance, can you post your code, for both the b ...Show All

• Architecture Integrated Windows Authentication Web service with WinForm

  I am trying to create a winform application that accesses web service hosted by IIS. The authentication scheme for IIS is set to Integrated Windows Authentication. My Question is how can I get my Winform application to behave like Outlook application authentication process. ie. When you are logged into a proper Domain, ie. will not prompt for user credentials. However, if you are not logged in to proper domain, I'll get challenged with Username/password Is there a security token I can look for on my machine Any help would be greatly appreciated. Nilay Nilay, I am looking fror the same infromatio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How To Use Tree View Control in VBExpress

  I am new to this Visual Basic Express, I want to use a Tree View Control in my application. Do you have any code in VB Express illustrating how fill up nodes and how to use this control ...Show All

• Visual Studio Web App stuck in Debug Mode

  Can anyone please help. I have a web app, that I have created in visual studio 2005 and I cannot seem to change the Configuration in the Configuration Manager to Release. It does not give me any other option other than Debug. Help!!!! Its OK sorted it myself. It does not give you the option of release as all the debug mode is done from the web.config file. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Binding workflow parameters with activity properties

  Can someone provide a code snippet to show how to bind workflow parameters with (custom) activity properties. Note that the workflow is to be composed dynamically. I am trying to compose a WF dynamically by stringing together certain predefined activities that have some properties defined on them. I would like the WF to take certain parameters such that they are bound to appropriate properties in the activities (.i.e parameterizing the activities). As much possible I would like to use a built-in WF class like for eg. SequentialWorkflow class (and not define a custom WF class) for constructing my workflow. thx Jay ...Show All

• SQL Server How to intentionally cause a package to fail using a SQL Task

  I'd like to use a SQL Task to execute a stored proc, which checks for a value, and if I don't like the result, raise an error. If the stored proc fails I'd like the package to fail as well. When I run the stored proc outside of the package, it fails as it should. However, when I run it in the package, the package does not fail. It moves on to the next task and completes normally. Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong Thank you, Perry Thank you very much. That put me in the right direction and I've got it working now. Thanks again. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Failed to load viewstate

  Hello, When I stay at one report for some minutes and push "Back to parent report button" I receive " Failed to load viewstate" message: Failed to load viewstate. The control tree into which viewstate is being loaded must match the control tree that was used to save viewstate during the previous request. For example, when adding controls dynamically, the controls added during a post-back must match the type and position of the controls added during the initial request. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more info ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to change application connection string?

  I've learned how to build connectionstrings and read them from the configuration classes, but I'm still confused.  Every dataset I create using the visual database tools uses the connectionstring stored in the application settings.  This is great until I want to change it.  Since it's a read only property, I can't directly change it to point from my development machine to a production machine in the code.  How do I do this     Well, in 2.0 I believe they changed how you work with appsettings, but I haven't played with that myself. In 1.1/1.0 (who knows which version your ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Rendering dynamically into a ASP:Content control?

  Hi, folks, I'm in the process of replacing an ASP.NET 1.1 Composite control to the Master page/Content page model in ASP.NET 2.0. This composite control rendered a table with contents directly into the page in ASP.NET 1.1. I've created my Master page and content page, and am trying to render into the content control, which references the ContentPlaceholder on the Master page. The Master Page ContentPlaceholder is in an ASP.NET 2.0 Form on the master page. When I try to render into the Content control in the content page codebehind, I get an error which says that what I'm trying to render has to be placed in an ASP.NET Form with the Run ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Two bits

  One thing I have noticed as I read through these treads is the persistence on the clarification of the use of the application.  I just wanted to lend my percieved insite and ask what M$'s thoughts were on this. I feel a lot of this has to do around the use of the words 'free'. For fear of sounding Clintonesque, perhaps definition of the word 'free' might be helpful. No one wants to start using something that they may not have access to in the future, may not be able to sell applications made with it in the future, or any other type of concerns for the future.  Perhaps M$ could lend some insight as to the motivation behind providin ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dim wmpvideo As WMPLib.IWMPVideoCtrl - Interfaces?

  Hi, I am trying to change the ‘maintainaspectratio’ and several other properties but a solution to this should solve all other of my questions. Dim wmpvideo As WMPLib.IWMPVideoCtrl wmpvideo. maintainAspectRatio = False   This builds ok but then breaks with a ‘NullRefrenceException’: ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object.’ I have also tried changing Dim wmpvideo As WMPLib.IWMPVideoCtrl to Dim wmpvideo As New WMPLib.IWMPVideoCtrl But then vb complains about new cannot be used with interfaces.   Can anyone help I have searched the whole web (slight exaggera ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Determining the version of TE

  Hi, Let say on some machine Team Explorer has already installed. I want to check whether the installed version is Refresh or Beta 3 RC. How to determine this - Atul Sureka Atul, You can easily find out by clicking on Help->About in Visual Studio and scrolling down to Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer in the list to see the product details which contain the version number: 8.0.50727.43 = Beta 3 Refresh 8.0.50727.127 = RC 8.0.50727.147 = RTM Thanks, Othmane ...Show All

• Visual Basic Transparency seems impossible in Visual Basic 2005 :..(

  Hi, I've been using VB 6.0 in the past, but .gif transparent images were too limited in colors, and .png seems so much better. So I got the beta 2 edition of Visual Basic 2005 (free off Microsoft's website, nice surprise!). The thing is though, transparency like on the image I attached above doesn't seem possible. The transparent pixels just show the form background, not the other image below. Am I missing something here I was wondering what the best way (that's still simple for someone who hasn't programmed in a while, hehe) to make it work In VB 6 a transparent text layer worked perfectly. So for example I could have giant "RELOAD" te ...Show All