Miguel B's Q&A profile

• Visual C# serialization manager does not have an active serialization session.

  I am not able to view the designer view of a screen. It gives me this error: "This method cannot be invoked because the serialization manager does not have an active serialization session." Please help. Thanks I am using a 3rd party control and am not sure whether it is serializing / deserializing on creating the instance. Is there any way that I can create an active serialization session before c ...Show All

• SQL Server Keep all servers registered and connected

  I have 5 servers in my Server Mgmt Studio divided into 4 groups, Local Production Test Development In Sql 2000 Enterprise Manager would put the little green arrow next to your db if it was connected, I noticed that Sql 2005 does do that but it wont allow me to keep all 5 servers connected and I need them all to stay connected. If I look under Registered Servers it shows all 5 servers there but again only 2 show as co ...Show All

• .NET Development Open SELECT list with script

  A seemingly simple problem...  I want to open a SELECT list drop down from an event like onClick from another object. Is there anyway to open a <SELECT> list to show its drop down list using script   .focus() only, well... focuses and .click() only resets the selected value but does not open the drop down list. I even tried a createEvent passing a focus, altKey and keyCode 40 (arrow down) to the document to simulate keyboard even ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error installing VS SDK February 2006

  When I try to install VS SDK February 2006 I get the error:Visual Studio SDK installation failed. (Error Code = 2). Any idea what to do I had installed the October version but I uninstalled it before trying the new version. Thanks Hans-Peter Workaround is here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=237050&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding work items not working on TEST server

  We are on team foundation beta 3 refresh. Let me try to explain what we are trying to: We are trying to create work items via a webmethod in a webservice. The webmethod works fine on my local development machine but when I deploy the webservice to the test machine, which also happens to be where the team foundation server, that is where it is failing. The test server is a windows 2003 with sharepoint server on it. I have tried the followi ...Show All

• Windows Forms checking for a button click

  I'm using the .NET framework for a Windows application. I need to implement a 2-button start / stop architecture. The user presses the start button, a do loop is intiated & continues until the user presses the stop button. What is a simple way to do this Here's what I have so far : //inside the start button event handler... do { ..... } while (button5->onClick == 0 ); Is there a simple way of finding whether a ...Show All

• SQL Server Adding the date to a subscription report name

  Does anyone have information on how I can add a file date to my named report when a subscription writes that file to a network folder I am exporting as .pdf files. For example, today I have filename abc.pdf but I'd like it to be abc03312006.pdf. Likewise, tomorrow's file would be abc04012006.pdf. Any help is greatly appreciated. You have to go for reporting services programming and create a subscription pro ...Show All

• SQL Server group rpt hdgs not appearing on all pgs

  Hello, Both my table and group headings in my table data region are not appearing on all pages of my report however I have the "repeat group header on all pages" option selected at the group level as well as at the table level. Any suggestions Which renderer are you using If it's HTML, these headers should appear on each page where the table/group is on. If it's PDF or Image, there might be case ...Show All

• .NET Development The incredible .NET mess

  If Microsoft really wants this technology (.NET) to be accepted, why: Can Microsoft not provide reasonable scripts/instructions for installing the software Everywhere I look, there are forums loaded with the same few questions: 1) What permissions do I need 2) What accounts do I have to modify 3) Why can I not log onto SQL (alias, "What is wrong with my connection string") 4) Where is (usually relates to a table or ...Show All

• .NET Development return an object from web services

  Hi, It is a basic question:) I searched the previous post but I still do not get it. So I hope someone can help me out here. I have a simple custom class called 'WorkOrder'. using System; namespace WorkOrderService {  public class WorkOrder  {   private int customerID;   private string customerName;    private string addressStreet;    private string addressCity;    &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem creating a querry with an embeded variable when using access datafile as connection source

  When a Data Connection is established using Microsoft SQL Server Database File (SqlClient) as a data source the following code works perfectly SELECT * FROM ProdMaster WHERE (PRODMASTER.DESCRIPTION LIKE '%' + @DESCRIPTION + '%') The ToolStrip on the form opens an input box so you can type in a choice of DESCRIPTION and when the button is clicked the dataset returns only those values that meet the criteria input BUT If you ...Show All

• Visual Basic snippet editor crash

  I have visual studio 2005 pro installed with vb and c#... i just installed the snippet editor. upon launching i get an 'object reference not set to instance' error with the following: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at SnippetEditor.SnippetPathsManager.InitializeUserRegistry() in D:\Documents and Settings\lorenzom\Desktop\Snippet Editor 2005 RTM RC\Snippet Editor 2005\Helper classes\SnippetP ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office ListOject Displaying updates on Excel have event problem

  Hi,    I'm having a ListObject in Excel and is binding it to data in a DataTable via: list.DataSource = dt_myData;      The data is changed periodically via a separate thread running in the background (not via BackgroundWorker method) and the data displayed does change when I rerun the above code.    The problem occurs when I'm editing another cell outside this listobject and ...Show All

• Visual C# Generic math functions

  I want to create some functions that operate only on the numeric types but I don't particularly care what those types are. I'd rather rely on the invoker or .NET's automatic casting rules to create the answer in the appropriate type. I could declare two versions of every funciton one taking and returning doubles and the other decimals but that seems excessive and slow. Is there a way to make a function generic yet restrict its parameters to nume ...Show All

• Windows Forms Waiting for IE to load a page

  I am opening IE as a process with a page as an argument.  I want to wait til the page loads to fill out the form on the page Can someone help me out with this Dim myProcess As Process = New Process myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = &quo ...Show All