Scott Waye2's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Reporting Services - Tools

  Hi there,   I am new to MS Reporting Services and would like to know if there is a way to add more controls to the tool box in vs .net to put variety of controls on the rdl reports. for instance by default the toolbox doesn't have a dropdownlist control. If there is a way of doing so, would someone please tell me how Thank you. Because Reporting Services is output independent and we don't have an eventing ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect to data source

  I've got a report (2005) that is sourcing from an AS2000 cube. Everything works fine in the BI Dev Studio, it builds and deploys without a hitch. The report has a shared data source and is using a generic login (i.e. it's not set to my NT login). However, when I navigate to the Report Server and try to run the report, I get the following error message... Cannot create a connection to data source On the Report Server, I'm using the sa ...Show All

• .NET Development n-teir application

  dear all i need to create 3-teir application interface business Data but when i need to create another application with same details i cant where can i but connection string ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems deleting Queries from Currituck.xml

  I'm trying to produce a minimal MethodologyTemplate - see my other posts. I have successful removed most of the initial tasks, work item type 'Qos', work item type 'risk' and work item type 'Scenario'. I have also added the new work item type 'Story' and added a corresponding query 'All Stories'. All this seems to work fine. However there are the following issues 1. Although the Team | Add work item menu correctly shows Bug, Stor ...Show All

• Visual C# how can I put in a procedure to download a file

  I have been searching and searching - but it is hard to find anything useful when the key word is "download" Anyway here is what I would like to know how to do If I have a WebSite created in VS2005 and I add a button to Default.aspx, I would like to have a file to  be downloaded on the user's computer in a directory that they choose. I would think that this should not be too hard but I just can't seem to find out how to do this n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Function help

  I am trying to get the information from textbox1 and output it into an array. I have tried this: char chrsplit[1000] strcpy(chrsplit, enctextbox->Text->ToCharArray()); but i get this error error C2664: 'strcpy' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'cli::array<Type,dimension> ^' to 'const char *'         with         [          ...Show All

• Visual C++ ComboBox most basic question

  I gues this may be stupid, but I really couldn't find answer to this in MSDN: In ComboBox " OnCbnSelchange" handler I need to check what item is selected. Can I check for item number or must I only check item string (I do this in MFC) This is ceirtanly not working: There is a method for CComboBox which is CComboBox::GetCurSel(). It returns the currently selected item from the list, or the value CB_ERR if nothing is se ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Messenger eats all the space on my system root drive!

  When messenger is open it takes all my free space on my c:\ drive. It creates a file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\WMI\trace.txt that is approx 6.5GB This cannot be deleted as it is being used somewhere. Even if Messenger is closed down. I cannot even uninstall it without any space on the system root drive! Please Help! you probally have kernal tracing on. Turn it off with the following http://www.tech ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Several issues with TeamBuild, July CTP

  I'm using the July CTP and have setup the application tier to be the build server. During the configuration of TeamBuild, I ran across the following: Since Visual Studio also guards the Bin folder in Web projects, any assemblies in that directory are added to Source Control. When these assemblies are actually project references, TeamBuild fails (MSB4126) to copy the output of these projects to the Bin directory (Access denied, files are read-o ...Show All

• Windows Forms Click Once Publish Version is not remembered in Source Safe

  Hello, I have created a Windows Forms application in VB.Net 2005 and deployed it using Click Once. I have checked the "Automatically increment revision with each publish" checkbox (MyProject Publish tab) and the revision is incremented as I would expect. I have then checked the solution in to SourceSafe source control (v2005) from the IDE. However, when another developer opens the solution from SourceSafe and rebuilds and publish ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WST Decoder

  Hi all, I hope that you will be able to help me. In the directshow sdk documentation, we can read this about the WST decoder : The WST Decoder corresponds to the Line 21 Decoder for NTSC; these filters create the bitmaps that are sent to the Overlay Mixer or the Video Mixing Renderer. Is there a way for me to grab the bitmaps created by the WST Decoder filter I tried to connect a Samplegrabber but it failed. Cheers ...Show All

• Windows Forms Vertical Text

  How can I draw text on either a label or in a picture box in such a way that the text will a) be vertical and b) it will read from bottom to top  I essentially need to rotate the text 270 degrees. Thanks!! Check ...Show All

• Visual Basic Shortcut key

  I have set shortcutkeys for buttons using properties. Now what i want to do is to underline the character which i have set as shortcut key,on the button text,which is possibe in VB ,(by setting as &Save, now underline will be below the 'S' character),In VB.Net, At runtime it is not displaying the underline for that character. I want this in VB.Net is there any way to do that. Please help me. Which version of ...Show All

• Windows Forms still stumped.

  Hey guys, Would it be too hard to put a status indicator on the web site somewhere indicating the availability of the server.  Ie, a red or green light representing the server status being available or not would be a nice feature. I for on ...Show All

• SQL Server Internal Error: Parameter is not Valid

  Hi, I've started getting this error (Internal Error: Parameter is not Valid) when attempting to deploy my analysis services project.  I get the same error whether I try to deploy from within the visual studio environment or try to build a deployment script and run it from within SQL Management studio.  There is no further information about this error and I am completely lost as to how I can figure out what's causing this.  Any sug ...Show All