Olivier Mascia's Q&A profile

• Windows Search Technologies Problem with WDS Filter

  Hi - I recently upgraded to the most recent version of WDS (2.6.5 ) and Windows Live toolbar. Maybe not a good thing to do at once, but I now get the following error message literally dozens of times a day: " Windows Desktop Search Filter has encountered a problem and needs to close. " I select the "Send Error Report" button (Microsoft should have received a few hundred from me by now) and continue with what I'm doing. ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot Run on this Edition of Integration Services Error Message

  Hi All, I am little new to 2005 so this may be an easy one. I have a IS package that I created on my local 32 bit machine. I have copied this package to one of our servers running SQL 2005 EE x64. The package executes fine until it gets to a VB Task at which point it errors with the message of "The Task "DefalutValues" cannot run on this edition of Integration Services It requires a higer level edition" Is this a known ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Avalon Beta with Current Visual Studio Relase

  Hello,           Can I use Avalon with current Visual Studio Release (Express or Professional). Thanks, Mustafa ELBanna No, the current release of WPF (Avalon) only works with Beta2 of VS2005. There is a new release of WPF coming sometime in Dec. which works with the release versions of .NET 2.0 and VS2005. HTH, Drew ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro [noob questions] Arrays..

  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgggghhhhhgadsfhasdjhf 1. Is foxpro incapable of returning an array from a function by using the return statement  2. Does foxpro have a function that merges 2 arrays 3. How do you pass an array as an argument to a function in a class when the array is a class variable For example: define class test as Custom     dimension Arr(1)        procedure asdf(tmpArray, tmp ...Show All

• Visual C# Where's my Immediate window???

  I load up a web project or a win forms project, run it and get the debugger and the project loads. I put in a break point, it stops on the break point. I go down to my command window that in the past allowed me to do things like lblSomething.Text and it would spit out the value of the .Text property and it is now some sort of shell thing with a > beside it that doesn't allow me to do this anymore.  (Even RC1 allowed this and defaulted to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 on a standalone machine - Problem

  Hi, I am new to Visual Studio and the whole .net stratedgy. I want to install beta 2 on my home laptop. I am having problems though. It seems like I require the Team Foundation Server to be installed too, which I cannot do due to spec. Is this necessary, or is it just to have .net setup Can someone advise me on what to install and not to install to make it work on a standalone please. I just want to do some coding  & builds etc. (wit ...Show All

• Visual C# class library design question

  This is really just some philosophical navel gazing I guess, but I'm stumped. I can't fathom why interfaces can't be internal to an assembly I have a set of common classes - they all implement a particular interface. However, they really don't have a purpose to things outside of the scope of the assembly, but should be usable by any member of the assembly. Thus I figured that I could mark the interfaces (and its implementing classes) as 'intern ...Show All

• SQL Server Packages not executing right on production server?

  Hi, I have developed about 20 to 30 packages that are executed on a specific order by a parent package that iterates a foreach cycle... Has in development server all packages run just fine... when deployed to the production server and executed the first child package to run gives error and says that the logging text file was unable to find the file It was supposed for the log to create and send information to the file right So i think thi ...Show All

• .NET Development Terminating Processes from a Windows Service Cleanly (c#).

  Hi, Recently, I have created a Windows Service in C#; that calls a process (writen previously in c). It starts fine, however im unable to terminate the process cleanly, when the Onstop() is called.   Process.Kill() works, but prevents my process from shutting down cleanly (loses data - that I need). Ideally I need to use the CloseMainWindow() method... but this does not seem to work within a service (as a service does n ...Show All

• SQL Server ERROR WHEN I TRANSFER PACKAGE TO MOVE DATA FROM SQL2000 TO SQL2005

  [Transfer SQL Server Objects Task] Error: Execution failed with the following error: "Cannot apply value null to property Login: Value cannot be null..". I need to move a database over, but only the tables, triggers, etc. NOT the logins or database users. How do I avid this error   Ithappens after post validation, so the package is actually connecting to sql server to do the transfer. Yours Federico Event Name: OnError Message: Executio ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to access database server from business server using WCF?

  We use netTcpBinding binding in a NT service on the business server to access database server with Windows trusted connection only. Impersonation of user calls is OK on the business server using ImpersonationOption.Required, but just cannot access the database server. Code like this dosn't work either. We have WCF Feb CTR. using ( ServiceSecurityContext .Current.WindowsIdentity.Impersonate()) { Database pDB = DatabaseFactory .Create ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Good practice? Globals class with static variables

  Hello, I don't know if this is a good practice in OO. I have defined a class Globals with a lot of static variables for use between all the forms that I read from an XML file at start of the program. If the value changes I change the static variable and write the changes to an XML file. If I don't work in this way then I have to read them from a database every time. or are there better workaronds I would end u ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source Control doesn't do an automatic get latest on checkout?!

  We've been using the new source control for about a month now, and it seems everytime somebody goes to check-in there code there are all kinds of issues with stuff being out-of-synch.  And it seems the code on the source control server never seems to compile, but of course the local copy of everybodies machines do.  I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why everything keeps getting out of synch...today I found out why. ...Show All

• .NET Development DataTable.select() hangs my backgroundWorker object!

  Ok, I'm doing a GUI application in C# and .net2.0. I use a backgroundWorker object. In the doWork method I call a DataTable.select(queryString); This select takes a long time to execute but during this time I can't check if someone has fired a CancelEvent and I can't see the progress too. How can I do that Am I forced to loop through all the lines or there is another solution I miss something... Tnx. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server express starting as NETWORK SERVICE!!

  Hello All, I am installing SQL Server Express from the command line using the following parameters INSTANCENAME=MSSQLSERVER ADDLOCAL=ALL SECURITYMODE=SQL DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 SAPWD=TEST After the install is done I start the service form the command prompt using start mssqlserver I see that the SQL Server service has started under NETWORK SERVICE account!!! when the documentation i Read on MSDN says it starts in Local System a ...Show All