Michael Norton's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Discussion - Preparing Customers for Dot Net V2.0 based products

    This is an unusual issue but what little business I get is ‘grass roots’ in a way. It’s rarely with corporations. During negotiations, everything goes well in the proposal phase, and once I’ve attained the business, I say clearly what the deliverable is to be and that the implementation will be done in Visual Studio 2005 which requires the Dot Net V2005 framework. I explain that the deliverable will be in the form of a “One-Click solu ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services and multiple data sources

  I have a group of reports that are the same for 3 different companies, the difference is the data connection. Is there a way I can change the data connection based on a variable passed in at the time of report execution thanks The credentials can only be changed if you go with the SetDataSourceContents approach or if you have your own custom data extension which controls the credentials for the actual data sourc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions iterate through form controls

  hi, i want to iterate through form controls (just buttons in the form) and to check if they have particular tag for example if (btn.tag == "abc") //do something but i'm a lost in this how can i do so thx in advance this can be achieved by using the following code snippet for (int i = 0 ; i<this.Controls.Count; i++) {          if (this.Controls .GetType()==typeof(Button ...Show All

• .NET Development Double.Parse() - Why accept string?

  I don't get it... the signature for Double.Parse accepts a string and trys to convert it to a double. Why accept a string and not an object If you pass this function an "int" then it has to convert it to a string, and then to a double. What am I missing here the Parse() methods are explicitly intended to attempt conversion from string representations to the specified Value type. As svoeller99 said, if you are work ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Question on running perf profiling in instrumentation.

  Hello, I'm new to performance testing, and I'm trying to grab a performance profile in Instrumentation mode on my ASP.Net application. I have an ASP.Net project and a C# class library, on August CTP, which contains a custom webcontrol that i would like to study its performance. All the references have been set up under the ASP.Net project and everything runs and compiles perfectly. The ASP.Net project is configured to use local II ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Daily limits with application ID and IP address

  I'd like to get a little clarification about the application ID and IP address. I understand that I get 10,000 daily requests for each of my 2 different IP addresses when I use the same application ID. But if I had 2 different application IDs making requests from the same IP address, would they each have a 10,000 limit, or would the total combined limit by 10,000 The Yahoo API doesn't care about the application ID, just the IP address: From htt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unit testing a form...

  We're trying to unit test the main form of our application. Things like instantiating the form, checking for the default controls, invoking something that creates a new panel, checking for focus inside this new panel... all these things work great. For testing navigation we're using the SendKeys class to send a Tab key press to the form from the unit test. This works fine when you run this test method independently. However, when I run my ent ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom ToolStripItem

  Hello, For custom toolstrip items, I want to create a custom one.  Can custom toolstrips be user controls   Will the toolstrip accept user controls as a custom item Brian Check out this link: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/Office2003ColorPicker.asp Check out the ToolStripColorPicker, it is derived from ToolStripItem and it is a custom control. If you need simple example, let me ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI child controlbox (minimize,maximize,close)

  hi every one....... just a simple question here. i've set my child form to maximize in its parent form. how do i want to make the child control box (minimize, maximize and close button) to be hidden. thank you qinxutongz...... it works  ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute Integration Package from a C# Solution

  Hi all Does somebody know how I can execute a SSIS Package on a SQL 2005 Server I need to execute from a C# Solution which is running on a client. Thanks for any comments Best regards Frank Uray On the server, configure an unscheduled SQL Agent job. On the client, use ADO.NET to invoke the sp_startjob system stored procedure. It would also be possible to create a simple CLR stored procedur ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow as a navigation map for websites.

  We have been doing some related work and maybe you can help us with something. Our goal is to use a workflow as a navigation map for a website. In a given page of this website, the workflow should tell what other pages the user can go, and after the user clicks on some link, the workflow receives some data, makes some queries, etc, and then gives the website the URL of the next webpage. The workflow type we have chosen is a state machine becaus ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista loading workflow from xoml file

  i save workflow in xoml file now when i load it back its loads fine but i had to cast it into prope type can any body give me better way of doing it ..... XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader .Create( "seq.xoml" ); WorkflowMarkupSerializer serializer = new WorkflowMarkupSerializer (); seq. Workflow1 wf1 = (seq. Workflow1 )serializer.Deserialize(xmlReader); WorkflowInstance wfInstance = wfRuntime.CreateWorkflow(xmlRead ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataSet Questions

  Hi Guys, I have a typed dataset that has stores my application data. I have different data forms that save data to this dataset. When I click the save button in each dataform they dump the data to this dataset.  In the save function, I&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms 2 Windows App. Deployment Questions

  I have two Windows Application deployment questions that I think are pretty simple. 1.  I would like to backup or export the registry of a computer in my installation package.  The application I am installing creates and modifies current registry keys so I would like to backup and save a copy of the registry. 2.  It seems like I have seen this before and now I cant find for the life of me.  But I want to prompt the User to re ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I store settings in the registry for the current user only?

  Hello, I think the title says it. Please help. ...Show All