Vlad7's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Accessing SetStyle from Outside the Control

  Wait a minute - I don't believe what I am reading.  Using reflection, we can bypass the protected and private members of an object   For example, uisng reflection, I can mofiy the value of a private field in an instantiated object, a private field, that may represent the internal value of a public property, bypassing any limitations or control coded into the property's accessors Doesn't this defeat the aspects of the object oriented ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creation of a PDF file.

  Hello, I'm building a program, and I need ot convert a lot of word documents to one pdf file. Does anyone know about a class library or a code that can do it Even if the code can only make one word document to a pdf and then merge the PDF files. Thanks, Ofir. you could concatenate all those word documents into one, then use adobe's pdf online creator ...Show All

• SQL Server Failed to acquire connection / The AcquireConnection method Failed

  I am running the Sept CTP.  I have created a SSIS package that pulls data from a text file and inserts into a database.  When I run the package on the DB server it runs fine.  I have moved the package the the web server (we are attempting to kick off the package from a web site) and we get connections errors. We are running the package using dtexec from the command line. The 1st time we got The AcquireConnection method call to ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting basic question

  Hi All, I am new to .NET Remoting and have a very basic question regarding it- While creating a remoting application, both the remoting client and the remoting server needs a reference to the remote object library( the dll that contains the remotable object). I don't understand why the client need to have a reference to the remote object library Adding a refernce to the remote object library from the client will copy the remote object dll ...Show All

• .NET Development SqlConnection.Close(), why can't it be called from a Finalizer?

  I've just written a class to handle connections to a SQL database. I'm suprised to discover that I can't close the connection from within the Finalizer of the class (I get an InvalidOperation exception). Why is this Is it just because the SqlConnection object handles the closing of the connection from within its Finalizer or something like that Why do you want to call it from a finalizer Your connection t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Filling DataGridView with search results

  I have created a simple Visual Basic 2005 application for doing word searches on a SQL Server 2005 database using a Button, TextBox, and ListBox to search and retrieve results based on terms typed into the TextBox. The program works, but I think I would like to use a DataGridView control for the search results instead of the listbox to provide more options for how the results are displayed. Here is the code I used successfully for the Listbox: ...Show All

• Windows Forms global error handling

  Hi guys/gals I'm having a little trouble programming a global error handling routine in VB6 which would be friendly to the end user and yet not let the system crash,ever!!! It would also be handy to have the error #, error name, form and subrou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions making a cell only numeric

  Hi!!! I’m using the DataGridView control. I add columns manually and I want let the user can enter numeric values only in certain columns. How can I do this Thanks hi, i'm not sure from this but you can try it, datagridview is just a representation of your dataset, you can edit your  datatype for this column in your dataset designer to be integer hopfully it helps ...Show All

• Visual C++ ddraw.h and wtsapi32.h not found

  Hi: I tried converting a C++ unmanaged project from VS2003 (professional edition) to VS2005 (standard edition) and get errors indicating that the files ddraw.h and wtsapi32.h are not found.  I noticed that these files are in the Platform SDK that came with VS2003 but not the Platform SDK that came with VS2005. Does this mean that these files are no longer included in the most recent Platform SDK, or is the Platform SDK that came w ...Show All

• .NET Development signedXML and Namespaces

  I have to send out a SAML message to a server I do not control.  I was given a sample XML message that includes namespaces in the digitial signature portion. So think of everything as <ds:ElementName> instead of <ElementName>.  How can I modify my code so that the signedXMl document will create the signed portion correctly with namespaces in the elementnames.  While still maintaining the correct digestvalue.  I a ...Show All

• Visual Studio How do I set working folder path in Source Safe (Internet)?

  I've set up Visual Studios 2005 to access VSS via HTTP.  My problem is when opening the project through the plug-in,the working directory is "Documents and settings\User\My Documents\Visual Studios 2005\...".  I need to be able to set a specific working directory as is done through the Source Safe Client (File-Set working folder).  I've looked for this specific option in the Source Control Settings for the plug-in, but didn't find ...Show All

• SQL Server MS Reporting services

  When i am trying to use " ListChildren" method of reportserver class the following error occures "The request failed with HTTP status 407: Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy service is denied. )" the report server is installed in another system. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can not deploy VS 2005/CR .Net web site

  I am having a hard time deploying an intranet web site using the version of Crystal Reports that is bundled with Visual Studio 2005. I have created a deployment project, and added the reference to CrystalReportsRedist2005_x86.msm. I then ran the Setup.exe on my server. This would not allow me to view the Crystal Report. I found information that I need to make sure that IIS had a Virtual Directory called CrystalReportWebFormViewer3, and thi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linking error related to manifest file

  Hi, I am build my project on VC2005 Beta and get the following error: >Embedding manifest... 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1000: unknown error; consult documentation for technical support options If I build the project again, it will pass. However the rebuild will always fail. If I change the "Generate Manifest " to "No", the build always pass. Can anybody help me on this What's wrong with my project Thanks, Kevin ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Threading.Monitor.Enter (under the hood)

  What do the threads that are locked out do when they are locked out And does the Sleep call help get { if(dsUsers == null) { if(IsdsUsersLocked) System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(50); lock(UsersPadlock) { if(dsUsers == null) { IsdsUsersLocked = true; dsUsers = (3 sec call to the database server accross heavy network traffic); IsdsUsersLocked = false; } } } return dsUsers; } The sleep call appears to help when dealing with 100 ...Show All