Jose Miguel Retana's Q&A profile

• Windows Search Technologies IFilter Preview

  What interface and registry settings do I use to supply the picture for the Preview box in the Windows Desktop Search window   I tried adding an IViewObject2 to my IFilter DLL but it never gets called. We do not have an official way of doing previews at this time...as our preview architecture will be changing in the future. There is an rather in-depth unofficial description of previewers and other things here   http://spaces.ms ...Show All

• Visual C# Dataset.Clear Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  I am having an issue where I try to clear my dataset programatically and I get an error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." I have a Dataset with values in it that is built programatically and on repopulation I need clear it out so I issue. catDS.Clear; I get the error when it tries to execute. Hi, I guess that catDS is a class that hasn't been initialized. So best to do is: catDS = New the ...Show All

• SQL Server How to remove failed installation

  Installation of the June 2005 SQL Server 2005 CTP apparently completed but doesn't work - many links in the start menu are dead etc. There is no item in the add/remove programs for SQL Server. How can I manually remove the installation Problem!!! I have misplaced my CD and now have no way of getting hold of the sqlbuw.exe file to clean the whole mess up. I cannot install/ uninstall any components of the VS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Test Run Hangs when Redirecting Console Output on a Generic Test and the content Size goes beyond 9KB

  Is there any issue on the amount of information that can be redirected from the Standard Console when running a Generic test For some reason if the size (content being redirected to the console) goes beyond 9KB, the Test Run just hangs without giving any error information at all. It just sits there and does nothing. Is this a known issue or is there any setting that we need to configure for increasing the amount of information thats being ...Show All

• SQL Server import tool

  I was looking for an import tool that will import text, excel and access files into sql server express Does anyone have any suggestions Thanks Tom Tom, I'd like to import a .csv file as well. Do you know for certain that studio express doesn't have the ability I can't find it or references, so I just don't know if I'm looking in the wrong place or it can't do it. Have you found documentation stating that it can't M ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dreaming away.

  Hi. Here is my wish list.  I have not had the chance to check out the 1.1 beta, so it is very possible that some of these issues have already been addressed.  Also, please don't take any of this personally.   I think .Net&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms VB.net window controls for databinding

  I have an application in vb.net window environment for insert, update record to access database.   the more window controls I put in the less record I can input (200 -75 - 20).  Now running for 20 records it's hanged because of System ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I open Form by form name(string) with out instantiate, such open("Form1")

  Hello. How can I open Form by form name(string) with out instantiate, such Open("Form1") Thanks. @Draiko, YES!  this is the code that i was looking for!. Regards ...Show All

• SQL Server Deployment issue -- localhost

  I am getting the following ERROR!! below when I try to DEPLOY my report.  The output generated from - Debug --> Start ------ Deploy started: Project: Report Project1, Configuration: DebugLocal ------ Deploying to http://localhost/reportserver/ %2fReport+Project1 Error rsReportServerDatabaseUnavailable : The report server cannot open a connection to the report server database. A connection to the database is required for all requests an ...Show All

• Visual C# List<> - What am I doing wrong here?

  OK, I'm writing an app for managing citation records. I've choosen to use List<> arrays to contain elements with variable numbers of instances in each record such as the Authors. Right now, I am running into 2 problems. My code is down at the end of this post. 1: In my default constructor, I want to initialize all of the List<>s with default values. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to create an array without declaring a t ...Show All

• Visual C# Nullable type testing against null

  I need to test if a Nullable<T> instance is null after it's been converted to an object. My current code fails using this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace TestNullable {   class Program   {     static void Main( string [] args )     {       System.Nullable< int > n = null ;     &nb ...Show All

• Smart Device Development add to windows mobile 5.0 start menu

  how do i add to my windows mobile 5.0 start menu vs2005 automatically deployed my app to my device. now i simply want to add a shortcut to it on the start menu. sounds like it should be simple but can't figure it out. You can create shortcut to your application by creating a Smart Device Cab Project. Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/tour/vs2005_guided_tour/VS2005pro/Smart_Client/DeploymentNETCF.htm Thanks, Man ...Show All

• .NET Development why wont a new dataset add/import data ?

  Hi Very new to VB and have express edition 2005 clean installed(no prior version). Following downloaded video instructions ( Lesson 9) I created database and some data as instructed. . Then "add a new datasource" which brings up the tables which I then tick for inclusion. Click to finish but then I get the message " Could not get type information for .... ( my database name) " The dataset name appears in the solu ...Show All

• SQL Server Transactions

  I have transaction that will run on an hourly bases. I need to make sure that no one will start this transaction while it is running. I just need to know the system table that has all the transaction names in them and check to see if the transaction is running or not. what i am trying to do is not to have locks....just wanting to make sure that no one would run the same transaction twice. does anyone have any idea on how we can do this ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Sheduling API Feature Request

  Are there plans for a task scheduling API as in SQL Server I've seen many workflow applications written as a number of EXEs just so they can use the configurable Windows Schedule Tasks similarly people control workflow from SQL server because it has a powerful scheduling ability. This would be an extremely useful inclusion as a configurable managed API . There are many tasks which need activating at certain times but also need to check ...Show All