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Windows Search Technologies WDS and ASP.NET -- success
I finally got WDS working via an ASP.NET front end. Here's how I did it: - web page front end has form to collect search terms - it posts the terms back to itself, and which time the ASP.NET page creates a XML file in a predetermined folder on the server. - meantime, I wrote and started a service that runs as a local user and watches that folder for new XML files. When it finds one, it calls an executable. That executable fetches the se ...Show All
Visual C# Which is better?
i'm currently developing a Multiple Choice Question(MCQ) application in C#, where student can practise their lesson & participate in an test exam. The test exam will be generated page by page. In each page there will be 2 questions(read from database); there may be more than 100 questions. So tell me which one is better: 1) predefined form for each two questions( it will take 50 forms) 2) forms & control will be generate at runtim ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Cannot animate a transform in a data template
Hi, I want to make a listbox with 3D items so I have created a DataTemplate which contains the 3D object. In the DataTemplate.Triggers I start an animation to rotate the 3D object on mouse over. But when I do mouse over an error is raised: "The value of property 'Transform' in the path '(0).[0].(1).[1].(2).(3).(4)' points an immutable instance of 'System.Windows.Media.Media3D.RotateTransform3D' which may not be manipulated." I have created a ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Random Letters
How do I get a Random Letter I think I need to first get a Random number, then have the number = a Letter i.e A=1, B=2 etc but how do I do this This might help: Dim str As String = "" Dim i, n As Integer Dim c As Char Dim rand As New Random For i = 0 To 9 ' Length of string required n = rand.Next(65, 65 + 26) ' A thru Z c = System.Convert.ToCh ...Show All
Windows Forms Problem in using datacolumn expression and aggregate functions
Hello Every One. Wishing u all a good day, My problem is as follows : I have to tables in dataset Ds1 as tblinvoice(InvNo,FCustNo,InvDate) and TblInvoiceDetails(FInvNo,Qty,Price) I have created a relationship between them as follows Ds1.relations.add("InvDetRel",Ds1.TblInvoice.InvNo,Ds1. ...Show All
SQL Server Management Studio - view DTS package logs (SS2005)
I just recently did an inplace upgrade on my developer SS2000 to SS2005. My legacy DTS packages run fine but I can't seem to be able to locate where the package logs are now located. In SS2000, you could right click on a DTS package and the click on "Package Logs..." but with SS2005, I can't find the same feature. Any help would be great. ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Web tests recording is disabled.
VS2005TS RTM. When I start a new webtest VS automatically launches IE and I have to activate IE windows myself. The recorder buttons are all disabled (grayed) and surfing around does not result in anything in the project. If I close IE, VS still report "Recording in progress" and I have to click "Stop recording" but nothing reports to the project. Beta1 did work but I had the same problem with CTP August. Sten, My guess is that you have tw ...Show All
.NET Development HTML Mail using SmtpClient
Hi, I'm using .NET 2.0 (Beta2) and I want to send an email where the body is html. I'm using the System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient and System.Net.Mail.MailMessage classes. Before sending the MailMessage I add an alternteView using message.AlternateViews.Add( AlternateView .CreateAlternateViewFromString(<html string>, null , "text/html" )); but when I receive the sent mail it is blank. If I set the MailMessage.Body property to the Html string ...Show All
SQL Server Converting text data to ntext data
Hi all, My organization have a web-based application and needs it to support multilingual so we will be adapting our app to use unicode. However, one of our problems is to convert existing data from text to ntext. I couldn't find anything that document this. What is the best way to do that I would like to be able to migrate the data from an existing text column to another ntext column in the table. I brief you about my system, I used List manag ...Show All
SQL Server I need a second opinion on SQL 2005 syntax
I am not that experienced in SQL 2005 and I'm trying to debug a stored proc (written by a far more experienced programmer which is why I'm appending here.) At the top of the proc is the statement ' DECLARE @BillActualRoom bit'. If I understand correctly this is a local variable. Later in the code we have the statement 'SELECT @BillActualRoom = 0 FROM BillingOptions WHERE CenterID = @CenterID' where @CenterID is an input ...Show All
Visual C++ Why is strdup() deprecated in VS 2005?
< hyslopc@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message news:9a93850c-505b-48c3-bd60-44625db8bbc6_WBRev2_@discussions..microsoft.com ... This post has been edited either by the author or a moderator in the Microsoft Forums: http://forums.microsoft.com You may not care about it, but I do. I don't want to disable the warning because I think the concerns with most of the deprecated functi ...Show All
.NET Development Rijndael Algorithm + Padding error...
Hi all I am trying to encrypt and decrypt data using the Rijndael alogrithm. I have been successfull in encrypting and decrypting the data in one go. However problems arise when I attempt to save the key and the IV value and return at a later time to decrypt the data, The error I am getting is as follows: "System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Padding is invalid and cannot be removed." Here is the code that ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Why themes needed in workflows?
Hi! I may be miss something, but why themes needed in workflows What is the reason for it Hi Sergey, Themes allow customising of the look of the rehostable workflow designer for use in third party applications. Regards, Paul ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Windows sample and Kerberos
Hi, I successfully worked through message security windows sample. The web.config file contains following: <binding name="Binding1"> <security mode="Message"> <message clientCredentialType="Windows"/> </security> </binding> Since the document says that if message/@clientCredentialType is Windows and message/@negotiateServiceCredential is set to false, the Kerberos secu ...Show All
SQL Server Stabilizing the Matrix Column
I have a timesheet report and I want to show hours from all days of a month on a matrix no matter there is a zero or null value. I couldn't manage it so far, the matrix is showing only a portion of the days. Thanks for your help. if the matrix column contains all null values, the column is not displaying.. i suppose u had that problem earlier. did u solved that can u help me in this .. ...Show All