Allen Noakes's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Can OWC 11 work with SSAS 2005 cubes?

  Office Web Components 11 problem with SQL Server 2005 Apr 05 CTP Can OWC 11 work with SSAS 2005 cubes When using the Business Scorecard Manager 2005 builder   - added a Report View - set the data source for the OWC pivot table (Used the MS Ole DB provider for Analysis Services 9.0 provider) - Test connection succeded, but cannot get a listing of the cubes under "Use Data from" Cannot get the dimension & measures in the Field list The Pivot table gives an error "Cannot connect to the server xyz. The server is either not started or too busy" Have also installed ptslite (pivot table service) - followed steps as in installati ...Show All

• .NET Development New request is not allowed to start because it should come with valid transaction descriptor.

  I have a C# windows service that uses MSMQ, DTC Transactions, SQL server 2005 and Notification services. I am doing the following in the service: OnStart Create the queue set the Peek Complete event call Begin Peek PeekComplete WaitHandle[] waitHandle = new WaitHandle[] { new AutoResetEvent(false) }; ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(ProcessMessage, waitHandle[0]) Call End Peek WaitHandle.WaiteAll(waitHandle) queue.BeginPeek ProcessMessage(object stateInfo) AutoResetEvent are = (AutoResetEvent)stateInfo; Create DTC Transaction try Message msg = callResultQueue.Receive(MessageQueueTransactionType.Automatic); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Getting IVsUIShell object in add-ins

  How can I get an IVsUIShell object in add-ins Add three assembly references to the project: Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop Then do the following from e.g. OnStartupComplete: //Get the OLE.IServiceProvider Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop. IServiceProvider sp = _applicationObject as Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop. IServiceProvider ; // Wrap a ServiceProver object around the OLE.IServiceProvider to make life easier! ServiceProvider serviceProvider = new ServiceProvider (sp); IVsUIShell uiShell = ...Show All

• .NET Development MS NET FRAMEWORK 1.1

  Hi there, I know this is going to sound so stupid to you whizz kids. And it probably is stupid. But i am totally desperate to find out why i cant install the above subject matter. Your help and advice is desperately needed as i havent a clue what i am doing wrong I cant install ms net framework, it keeps on coming up: EXTRACTION FILE FAILED: IT IS MOST LIKELY CAUSED BY LOW MEMORY(LOW DISK SPACE FOR SWAPPING FILE) OR A CORRUPTED CABINET FILE. I have plenty of disk space, my swap files windows is managing and memory over 300mb ram free. I have downloaded this program 3 times incase it is a corrupt cabinet file, but anything i seem to do does n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System please help with web recorder

  Hi! I'm trying to record webtest. 1. Create new web test 2. Window of recorder (IE) does not appears 3. Script is not recorded What solution can you suggest to resolve this problem Thanks for your reply! I'm wondering if the recorder has started but is hiding behind another window. Does a web test open in the IDE with a status bar across the top that says "Recording..." If so, does a link appear on the web test status bar that says "Show recorder" If so, click this link and see if the recorder appears. Thanks, Rick ...Show All

• SQL Server Localize Web ReportViewer control in VS2005 / SSRS 2005 / ASP.net 2.0???

  Is it possible to translate the web report viewer control to another language (german, french...) I need to integrate the control in a multilingula website. I need also to change the messages from the report during the rendering "Report is being created". And is it possible to change the little green animated icon during the process of creating a report Thanks, Dirk Please check MSDN (scroll to deploying localized versions of ReportViewer controls): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251723(VS.80).aspx Besides using the language packs for German and French, you can also implement the IRe ...Show All

• SQL Server Help needed in establishing connection

  I recently migrated SQL Server 2005 which we use for our internet site and other internal applications, to it's own server. SQL used to be on the development PC. However now I am having security issues. I keep getting an error message when I try to connect to the server from the development PC that the SQL server is not set up or does not allow remote connections. I have made sure that ASPNET is a user. I have also run aspnet_regsql to set up the internet users database. What other security features do I need to check I am more of a VB developer than a SQL admin so any help is appreciated. FYI - This is a small network that does no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Global variables (ish) in C#

  in Visual C#, how do you declare a variable so that is visible to any form in my project I used the following code to make an object called myRegistry that can be used to save settings in the correct place: Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey myRegistry = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey("software").CreateSubKey("RockGem"); What would I have to do so that i declare this once and then am able to use it in any form i add to my project Is this even possible Thanks, -Javawag ok, so how would I declare that, and where Thanks, -Javawag ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Not able to generate proxy with typed dataset using svcutil.exe and WCF Feb CTP (with Jan Ctp was working fine)

  Hi, I wrote an WCF service using Jan CTP which transfer the typed dataset to and from between client and service. It is working with Jan CTP and I am able to generate the proxy using the SVCUtil.exe. Recently I have updated my system to work with Feb CTP and provide the necessary chnages in the App.config file. when I tried to generate the new Proxy with SvcUtil.exe( WinSDK FEB version) I got the below error: Error: Unable to obtain Metadata from net.tcp://localhost:8085/MyService WS-MetadataExchange Error Uri: net.tcp://c65:8084/BritNetService Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'net net.tcp://localhost:80 ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express Install

  We are expensing problems installing SQL Express, it is taking a very long time to install, it finally installs when you leave it overnight. I am wondering if our Virus Mcafee is causing this problem. Does anybody else out there have similar problems I am getting the same error installing SQL Server 2005 Standard. I had installed SQL Server 2005 just fine on a new laptop. It did not have IIS so I added it later. Now SQL Server will not connect to the database that was running fine. I now can't uninstall SQL Server and I can't reinstall it either. If I try to reinstall I get the same hang in De ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help regarding function returning string

  Hi there! I am working on a C program that calls into a C++ program. the C++ program computes a string and returns it to the C program. There is something wrong with this, even though i get no errors or warnings. i would appriciate if someone could guide me over this. I am sure my EXTERN "C" works fine, because i tried returning a string "THIS WORKS" and it did. Also the conversions/other functions are working fine! The only thing i want to be sure of is that will my program print a string BUF or not! Then i can move further figuring out what's wrong! The code is: //******** C ********************************* printdate( ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Emulator VS. Device

  Hi folks, I got today my 2125 device. J my develop was process was against the emulator, when I deployed and run my app to the device all the GUI controls layout was unlike in the emulator, very disappointed! is there a way to customize the emulator to be like the device screen/controls size.. thanks in advance, Oren. Thanks Ilya for the quick replay :) another question, that I know that it isn't related to this forum but I didn't find the answer yet, maybe you can help me :) (hopefully) becaue it's very annoying issue in my development process. the link for the po ...Show All

• Visual Studio uninstalling vs 2005 beta 2 fails

  Hi! I'm trying to uninstall vs 2005 beta 2 in order to install the team suite and to clean up other things since I get some unexpected behaviour when working with it. However, uninstall precedure stops responding. In the dialog with the options add/remove, repaire, uninstall I select uninstall. The next wizard page displays the message 'Uninstalling Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 beta 2...' and it stops responding, while the progress bar remains clear. Any ideas Dimitris ... is is just me, or am I talking by myself here ... ...Show All

• Visual Studio New project type with "virtual" items using managed package framework

  Hi, I am creating a new Visual Studio Project Type with VSIP 2005 Beta 1 for VS 2005 Dez CTP. This project type should expose a hierarchy whitch mainly consists of nodes which don't map to physical folders or files, but to items in a separate xml file. This Project Type should be implemented with the VSIP Managed Package Framework Classes but at the moment I don't find the right approach for that, since the documentation is very spare concerning hierarchies and the managed library and there are no C#/VB.NET samples with similar behaviour. For me it seems, that the managed package classes always use a MSBuild project template w ...Show All

• .NET Development DataSet Column Attributes - How/Where?

  Hi, I need to find out how to get column attributes, such as the Data Type, it's Length, can it contain nulls, etc. I'm currently using MyDataSet.Tables[0].Columns["columnName"].DataType, MyDataSet.Tables[0].Columns["columnName"].AllowDBNulls etc etc, but the problem is that I need the 'Length' attribute of the column (and any other available attributes), for obvious validation reasons. I'm using the .NET Framework 2.0 & Visual Studio .NET 2005 Professional. I don't know if there are other classes / objects I can use to do this. Please could you at least point me in the right direction regarding my problem. Your help will be really appre ...Show All