Bill Robertson - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista data type for data and time property

  I'm making a custom activity with some date or time property. I tried specifying System.DateTime as the type for the property but then it'll always include both date and time in the resulting xoml file. Plus the format generated is not in the xml date format (ie 2006-01-01'). Is there a type I can specify where it will accept input for date or time only and generate xml format in the xoml file. Thanks. I don't know of any .NET type other than System.DateTime.  You could either ignore or truncate the time aspect, or define your own custom type to only hold the date. ...Show All

• .NET Development openssl library

  I have already develop a HTTP server using .NET v1.1. Know I have to give it TLS support. Can I use openssl library I don;t know about the openssl. BUt if you can use .NET 2.0 We support SSL Stream class and with few lines of code you can enable SSL functionality easily And in .NET 2.0 we have the HTTPListener class and you can write the SSL enabled server in few lines of code ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What happened with Visio in the VS 2005

  Hi everybody, Is the product Visio for Enterprise Architect edition discontinued I didnt see it in the product versions of the new VS. If so is Visio sold as a separate product and does it have the same Enterprise Relationship Model database bullding tools Thanks! I have an eval copy of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite. Will I still need a MSDN Premium Subscription to use Visio for Enterprise Architects with the eval It isn't that clear to me. ...Show All

• Visual Basic password in access

  Hi! Happy new year  to all VB Guru out there my previous query was solved in a couple of days, I am stuck again, i am doing a project with access has a database and VB 6.0 has a front end. I want my database to be password protect i.e if any dblclick access file it must ask for a password. Can i link a password protect access file to VB if tried but error like worksheet file not found was thrown, can any VB GuRu out there let me know the steps in accomplishin the task. Also i want in my project to display mathematical formulas, has some fine guy know how to store mathematical formula( like sin2A + Cos2A=1 here '2' must be ...Show All

• .NET Development XML multi-users access

  hello All, I'd like to ask about how to create a C# program in order to access one XML via network. I make a program that can let more than one user in a speart machines can read and write in just one XML file. Are there limitations on using XML file and is there XML engin with C# to do that Thank you in advance Razek Razek, The limitations are more or less likely the limitations with a any file. In order to access it, you have to open, read, update and close the file. If two processes act on the same time, one of the processes will not be able to access the file, especially if you are updat ...Show All

• Visual Basic Unable to Access initialized properties in My Namespace using Background worker

  I am trying to use a BackgroundWorker to accomplish some time consuming tasks.  However, within the BackgroundWorker.DoWork event handler, I need the BackgroundWorker to use an object which I have initialized previously and is accessed through the My.Application Namespace.  I get an error because the object returned from the property in the My.Application namespace has not been intialized even though I 'thought' that I initialized it.  Below is some sample code of what I am trying to accomplish. Namespace My    Class MyApplication       Private m_BackGroundWorker as System.C ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System 28100 Error during installation

  I am experiencing an 'Error 28100. Error loading Event web service.' problem with the Beta 3 refresh. I've tried everything I can think of a and all the suggestions made in other threads and the MSDN Product Feedback Centre regarding this error but to no avail. My setup scenario is this: Clean install on dual-CPU Dell server, Windows 2003 Standard edition with SP1, all other software as defined by the installation guide. I've been using SQL 2005 Enterprise edition as a post on Rob Caron's (I think) blog suggested that there is a problem running the beta 3 refresh on SQL 2005 Standard edition. The server is a member of our ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Connection to VSTS from Report Services server?

  We are implementing some custom reports in Report Services to be viewed in our VSTS project.  The reports use a custom data extension to provide a dataset to the report template as the datasource.  The dataset is filled using calls to the VSTS extensibility API.  We are having a lot of trouble connecting to VSTS in that context.  We can run a test console app with similar code on the report server and connect fine.  However, currently, when we attempt to connect in the assemblies through executing the report, we cannot get past: Unable to connect to BIS service. Team foundation server is not available; please cont ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express vs VB.net?

  Hi guys, I am just wondering if there is any difference between VB 2005 express and VB.net I am moving from VB6 and wanttomove to VB.NET is VB 2005 express the one to go for Thanks Hi, No, if your looking at the language standpoint, there is no real difference. Its just the developement environment (w/c makes your life easier) and tools that has difference... cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net 2.0 release version breaks VS 2005b2?

  I have just upgraded my .Net frameworks to 2.0 release version, and in the process, I had to uninstall the previous beta version and also some other stuff like the compact framework. Now, Visual Studio beta2 is not launching anymore. Is this a known issue With kind regards. Two things. One, ClickOnce docs tell you all about how it downloads the most recent version of the .net framework. Yea it feels like *** when you run into that problem but remember, you are beta testing. You are suppost to be telling them bugs and helping with the overall release... which brings me to the next thing. They can, and did (y ...Show All

• SQL Server HELP - Problem with Replication

  Hello, I have transactional replication running between two SQL Servers. It's a push subscription and the distributor is on the local publisher. Recently after running for a year the replication stopped working and we get the following two errors. 1 - The process could not bulk copy into the table "History_Rep" String Data, Right Truncation. Error Number 22001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 - The process could not bulk copy into the table "History_Rep" Unexpected EOF encountered in BCP Data-File. Error Number S1000 The data type ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Help Need WinFx Beta 2 Runtime!

  Hi, Please Help! Where can i find the WinFx 2 Runtime for Download Thanks Peter See the bottom of this page for links to download the latest version. ...Show All

• SQL Server "...conversion between types DT_I1 and DT_I2 is not supported"

  I created a simple ragged file with 3 lines: 1 2 3 and coupled it to a Flat File Source. The Flat File Source suggested that the type was DT-I1. Next I created a “SQL Server Destination task and connected the output of the Flat File to the Sql Destination. In the Destination editor I created a table, whose one column was declared to be a sql smallint. Here’s the problem: the Sql Server Destination now displays a red circle with a white “x”. The tooltip says that: “The column “Column 0” can’t be inserted because the conversion between types DT_I1 and DT_I2 is not supported” Can anyone explain wh ...Show All

• Visual C++ error LNK2005: "void __cdecl bp5(void)" (?bp5@@YAXXZ) already defined in test.obj

  Hi All, I generated a simple SDI skeleton using the wizard, and tried to #include some of my libraries. It gave me a bunch of 'LNK2005: ... already defined ' errors. I repeated the basic SDI generation in another project and this time only tried to include a single, trivial header file: mytest.h #pragma once //#include "stdafx.h" void bp5(){  int a = 0;  a+=1; } I include this file in the testDoc.h file of my test project. Despite that this simple header file is so basic, and despite the #pragma once directive, it still gives me the same LNK2005 error! Can somebody kick me and tell me what's wrong Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Where to download TaskVision Database!

  I can not install TaskVision. Who can give me a DataBase Script to download! Thanks a lot! http://www.windowsforms.net/TaskVision/SourceViewer.aspx tabindex=7&tabid=44 Try this it may work for you ...Show All