Claudio Gomes's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Dropdownlist not being populated with a query string paramter.

  Question 1:  I have two web pages, Page1.aspx, and Page2.aspx. From Page1.aspx I'm passing a querystring "Page2.aspx State={0}" with the State selected in page 1. On page 2, the State is being received as I display it in a label. On Page2.aspx I also have a dropdownList with a sql "SELECT ... WHERE @State=State" associated with control. I want to be able to show items in the dropdownlist as soon as I enter Page2. I have tried binding in code using ExecuteReader, but no luck. This might be a very basic question, but I don't know whats happening. Any suggestions Try checking the generated SQL statement after you have po ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can not add control based variable in Add Variable wizard

  I have a wierd problem. For some reason I am unable to add a member variable that is a control.. the check box is disabled when I click add variable. Some context here: I have a project that has a rc file included in the projects rc file. i.e. resource.h myprojectname.rc The commonresource.rc is included in the myprojectname.rc file. commonresource.h commonresource.rc Also the to prevent compliling the commonresource.rc we have it set in the project as exculde from build as it gets built when myprojectname.rc is built. I have tried the normal checks to see if the appropriate files are checked out / read only etc... An ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express and Bulk Insert

  Does SQL Express support bulk insert   If not is there any suggestions of alternative way to get data from a text file to SQL Express in a manner that can be automated   Thanks Tom ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server connection from C#/asp.net

  I have a connect string to a SQL database: “Data Source=Cats;Initial Catalog=Orders;User ID=sa;Password=sa” It connects to the database correctly. If I change the string to: “Data Source=Cats;Initial Catalog=Orders;User ID=ian;Password=ih” It will not connect. “ian” is a valid SQL login to the Cats server with the same priviledges as the SA account – I can successfully login to SQL Query Analyzer with ian/ih. I tried the same thing on a “local” SQL server database too – got the same error. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thats not a .NET issue. YOu have to grant the rights / permissions to the database for the user. By default ...Show All

• Visual Studio ToolBoxItems.Add does nothing

  Hello, Using Whidbey Beta 2, I'm trying to add a control to the toolbox using a windows forms application. All goes well, and no error found, but the control does not appear after the application finishes, even after I restart VS.NET. I'm also adding a new toolbox tab, which works fine. First I tried using the sample code provided in the documentation, but it din't compile because it expects an object instead of a class. Since I had this working with VS 2003, I borrowed some that seems to work, at least for creating the tab. The code I'm using is the following: Dim latestDTE As Type latestDTE = Type.GetTypeFromProgID( "Visu ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot create a connection to data source

  When I log onto my test report services 2005 I can run this report fine after deploying it using IE on the reportserver.  However when I go back to my own PC, I get this error when trying to access the report from my PC browser: An error has occurred during report processing. Cannot create a connection to data source 'MBNATEST'. For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors nevermind, figured it out myself: In Report Manager 1) Click on Properties 2) Click on Data Sources 3) Make your Data Source Shared ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Webpage image file

  What is the correct location of the file, and the best way to link an image for a webpage so that it is viewable to all best way to link the image is to give relative path like "~/Website/Images/Image1.jpg", instead of giving absolute path like "C:\Inetpub\wwroot\Website\Images\Images1.jpg" ...Show All

• Windows Forms Server and Office Web Components

  Hi, I installed OWC on the Server.  When I open the URL http://192.168.131.21/Terrarium, it's redirected to http://192.168.131.21/Terrarium/Charts/ChartNew.aspx and I got the following error: (the same on the Server and on a Client)  Server-error in the Application '/Terrarium'. COM-Object with CLSID {0002E500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} is not valid or not registered. Source-error: Line 485:    chart.Bui ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error in executing a build. Failed to create the cache folder path

  Hi,      While trying to execute a newly created BuildType, I get an error that TS failed to create the cache folder as the cache folder path is invalid. Now, the cache path that TS is trying to create is derived from the servcie account that it uses. My company has a policy of creating service accounts on domains that are prefixed by a $ symbol. e.g. $MyTFSServiceAcct. Although, Windows has no problem creating the $MyTFSServiceAcct folder under C:\Documents and Settings folder, TFS seems to think that the path is invalid. Do you guys know anything about this Or can I specify an alternate cache folder for TFS to use ...Show All

• Visual Studio how do i produce technical articles using help system

  I have a class library which I've documented using NDOC and I've included code samples in it. I'd now like to start working on documentation which is similar (in purpose) to the .Net technical articles that you find on the MSDN. They will show how to use my library in a wider context and possibly use the same stylesheets, just like my NDOC documentation. Anyone got any ideas and recommendations on a good way to do this Thanks Jason The first step is to install the VS 2005 SDK. You can start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/ On the last pane during install you'll get a chance to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Top-level builds

  I'm trying to create a top-level build that spawns the build of several, relatively independent subprojects. Each subproject has its own .SLN file that will be built with the MSBuild task. Ideally, we'd like each sub-project to be in its own target, as well as have an uber-target that includes the targets for all of the subprojects. That way you can either build the entire system or any individual subproject, all from the master build file. In the past I've done this sort of thing in Nant using the "call" task in the uber-target. I'm not seeing a similar concept in the MSBuild docs. Am I missing something Or is there another way to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to make a Dropdown list containing builds of a certain build type

  Hi, In a bug workitem, there's a "Found in" dropdown list which lists out all builds of every build type. Is it possible to filter this list to only show the subset of it Say filter by build type. Thanks One of the ways to filter the values for a field is by applying filters in the work item type import xml. You can use the witimport utility to do the same. You can find the details at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms253163.aspx Thanks, Avanti ...Show All

• Visual C++ Program closing right after opening

  Hi all, I have tried to compile a program from the book C++: A Beginner's Guide by Herbert Schidt. The problem I encounter is when I try to run the program from the folder, that is the .exe file I believe located in: C:\Documents and Settings\Peter\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\sample1\debug This simply closes after opening. Am I running it from the correct location I can't find an executable file anywhere else in the sample 1 folder. I believe it's a CLR project. I'm just wondering what I'm doing wrong. Thanks Maybe its a console program. How do you run it Try to open a command promp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Forms DataGrid: Master-Detail

  Hi! I have a problem with the Datagrid.  It is easily reproducable using the VS.NET Data Form wizard: 1) With the wizard, generate a Master- detail application againt the Microsoft 'pubs' database. 2) Use the publishers and titles tables, and tell the  wizard to show both the master and the detail records in a  grid. 3) Make sure, that the Allow_Navigation property o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Support for Oracle and DB2?

  Hi, Do you have any plan to support Oracle and DB2 Or is there any extension point to write plugins for other databases Thanks. Hello Xiao, We plan on enabling 3rd party database support ( such as Oracle and DB2 ) in the second version of our product. ( We needed to make sure SQL Server 2000 and 2005 were solid first! ). But we hear this need loud and clear. Regards, Cameron ( blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons ) ...Show All