Gary Wagner's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio How to build custom debug engines for VS2005?

  We built a custom debug engine, using the TextInterpreter sample as a guide, five years ago, and have managed to build high-value debuggers since then. I have everything working porting our plug-ins from VS200[23] to '05, except the debuggers don't work.  And now I see in the Beta 2 Readme item 15: "The TextInterpreter sample is not working." I feel we're being left high and dry here.  What kind of resolution can we expect for those ...Show All

• Visual Studio MAX_PATH limitation

  Hi, I'm having problems in VS 2005 because the MAX_PATH limitation of VS. In VS 2003 the max path for  solutions is greater than for VS2005 solutions. It seems to be just 135 aprox in VS 2005. It is a big issue if you note that the default path is :\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\ The new project dialog is checking this, but the problem is that my project system after it is created it crea ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL select events entered between 9am and 5pm on the same day

  Hello, I am trying to select appointments that were entered in a database table between 9am and 5pm. CREATE TABLE [Appointment] (  [appId] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,  [appDate] [datetime] NOT NULL ,  [patientId] [int] NOT NULL ,  [practiceNum] [varchar] (50)  ... below is the psuedocode of what i would like to do select patientID and appDate from Appointment where appDate lies between 9am and 5pm of the current da ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hosted controls on UserControl invisible

  When I opened my project today, the designer for my UserControl had therror message with a red benner, indicating that I need to recompile the project to correct the error. Which I did, and all the controls on the UserControl are invisible, although they all appear in the designer code and the properties box. The designer generated code is: namespace KVSSystems.UI.MaintenancePlant { partial class WorksOrderOutstandingList { /// ...Show All

• SQL Server How to run package with variables using dtexec?

  Hi, I am running my package in this way: exec xp_cmdshell 'dtexec /SQL "\SBLoadExcelDBLog" /SERVER test /USER **** /PASSWORD ***** /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF /REPORTING EW /LOGGER "{6AA833A1-E4B2-4431-831B-DE695049DC61}";"Test.SuperBowl" /Set \Package.Variables[User::varExcelFileName].Properties[Value];"aaab" /Set \Package.Variables[User::varExcelWorkbo ...Show All

• Visual Basic Notify Icon not responding to right clicks in my windows service.

  I created a windows service using the Walkthough found on msdn. It works fine, but I have two problems. 1. I created a NotifyIcon, which shows up in the System Tray fine, and if I hover over it, it shows the name of my service, but it doesn't seem to respond to right clicks. I have a contextmenustrip that is never shown. What do I need to do to make the notifyIcon respond to right clicks and pop up the menu 2. The walkthrough creates a ser ...Show All

• Windows Forms Another newbie question

  Hi, I have a treeview control and when user select a supplier or order from treeview, application will display supplier or order details depending upon user selection. My question is that is it better to open a new form or use panels to display supplier or order info Thanks Well... better... that's more of a design issue. Most of the GUI designs will indeed use use a vertical splitcontainer, with the treeview on ...Show All

• .NET Development Publisher Policy is VS2005 and Framework 2.0

  I have been reading up on how to handle versioning of .dlls in the GAC. Publisher Policies seem to be my correct path of action. However, most of the examples make it appear to be a manual compile of the the XML file that contains the details. But most of those examples are pre VS2005 Has anything been added to VS2005 to simplify the process Aka.. so I can add a publisher file to my project, and have it compile during "Buil ...Show All

• .NET Development Retrieving an Access table' structure

  Anyone could help me in figuring out how to programmatically understand the structure of an Access table I mean, given a DB connection and the name of a table, how to determine: - the name of the fields of that table - the type of the fields - any eventually relationship between the fields of this table with others in the DB Thanks a lot, Davide take a look here: http://aspalliance.com/542 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems with Downloading Registration Benefits

  There have been several reports of problems with accessing and downloading registration benefits.  We have investigated the issue and have news to report.  This sticky thread will be updated with additional information as it becomes available over the next few days. Background In order to negotiate deals with partners and authors to provide the highest value benefits, we must must be able to guarantee a secure download center that li ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS based on wss 3.0 (beta)

  Could TFS be deployed on the new released WSS 3.0(beta) OK, I've found this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=441445&SiteID=1 So the short answser is NO. However, the good news is that the future version of TFS will support WSS 3.0. But I still have a related question on this. I have a TFS and WSS 2.0 installed on a Windows Server 2003. Could I install WSS 3.0 side by side with TFS and older WSS on the same m ...Show All

• Visual Studio SubReport does not appear in the ViewList dropdown

  The SubReport does not appear in the ViewList dropdown in the toolbar until after the subreport link is clicked. Why And is there any way around this How can I get my subreport to appear in the (has)ViewList field when the report is first run After I click the subreport link everything is fine, but not really acceptable from the users standpoint. Using VS 2005 RTM Thanks, Carl The purpose of the viewlist is to ...Show All

• SQL Server Would like to know how could I delete a table using a Stored Procedure

  I need to delete a table using a stored procedure, I tried delete tblname, but didnt do anything It ran normally, but the table didnt desapeared. Thanks for any suggestion on how to delete a SQL table with all its contents from a Stored Procedure.  The table is not related to any other table. Thanks, As a general rule you should not do ddl in an sp that also runs regular DML statements, put the ddl in a ...Show All

• Visual Studio vss 6 names.dat may be corrupt

  Two problems.  I can't add new users to the program, and, I tried archiving a database and received the message "File names.dat may be corrupt."  The Help for this message said to run Analyze.exe alone (without extensions), then run Analyze.exe -F.  I ran Analyze.exe and Analyze.exe -F and the results were no errors.  It doesn't seem to see a problem with names.dat yet I still can't perform either of the above tasks.&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Flow Source for dbf (DBASE IV) files

  We're trying to read DBASE IV files as a source, but can't find any providers for that format. Will these be included in the final release Is there another way DBASE has always been supported, so it's kinda stranged. Thanks, Dirk Has anyone had any trouble moving a package using a OLE DB Connection Manager reading DBASE IV files While developing I never had a problem, the confiugration string described here ...Show All