PaulTromans's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic C# or VB ?

  other than familiar syntax is there any reason to use VB instead of C# is the difference only syntax Hi Ever since .NET arrived this question has stirred emotions between those developing in VB and those developing in C# (needlsessly so in my opinion). You often find the usual ramblings that C# is better than VB which I guess stems from when VB classic was an interpreted language against C++ which was a compiled language. Prior to the release of VS 2005 there were things that you could do in C# that you couldn't do in VB such as operator overloading, XML comments (although this can be achieved using third party ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Expense Reporting Sample using Webservices

  The Expense Reporting Sample given in Labs(beta2) is based on remoting. what are the changes that we need to do in the same sample if we want to use WebService instead Remoting. Marcos, The plumbing between the WCF Service and WF can be done via a LocalService layer registered in the ExternalDataExchangeService. There is no built-in a messaging pattern and workflow activation between the WCF Service OperationContract and Workflow. It is a custom connectivity, based on the event/delegate fashion pattern and blocking mechanism. The WCF endpoint binding doesn't have anything to the Workflow. Once servic ...Show All

• Visual Basic Project output path on network drive

  Hello, I'm *trying to* transition to vb 2005 from vb6; All our current vb6 projects are on a network drive; However when in vb2005 i start a new project then the default path points to "C:\Documents and Settings\ava\Local Settings\Application Data\Temporary Projects\WindowsApplication1\bin" When i try to point to Z:\andreas\VB2005\ I get a message : "the output path is not trusted; the application may throw securuity exceptions when it attempts to perform actions which require full trust. click ok to continue click cancel to choose a different output path" How do I setup vb2005 as to compile all projects on the shared drive It is ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem with VS6->VS2005

  Hi need help... lots of help... 1] What the hell happened to stprintf function 1.a] How can i convert a char* to TCHAR* 1.b] why in nine hells does VS2005 say sprintf - undeclared identifier when stdio is included I tried looking for some reasonable answers, but god forsake me, i wasn't able to get from either MSDN library or anywhere else something useful... 2] VS2005 for some mysterious reason doesn't know anymore LVITEM, LVM_SETITEM, they are normally in commctrl.h, part of listview control,at least in VS6 it worked, but now... have they deprecated listview or what thx a lot for any help 1) For better confo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO question

  Hi all, I'm studying the option of using VSTO in a messaging project, if I use the office object programatically , is it neccesary to have the office software on the PC. Let's say that I create a document file by using database fields combination, and send the created file over outlook, all of the by code. Can the other side read the document without the word application if I give hime an interface to read it . Please help. Best regards... Wasim, So, if I understand your question, you are trying to understand best practices around sending a VSTO-enabled document to other people via email ( ...Show All

• Windows Forms Manual deployment using Mage.exe and MageUI.exe

  My goal is to create an automated script to build and deploy our application to a publishing URL. The building is already done and is working great. Using MageUI, I was successful in creating the application manifest and deployment manifest, then manually copied the files into the publish URL and everything worked. Using Mage.exe, I have been slightly less successful. I have tried to follow the same steps I believ MageUI is taking, listed below. I keep getting errrors when installing and running from my client pc though. Steps to reproduce: Create new folder for application to deploy ( ie. bin\debug\1.0.1.3) From the debug ...Show All

• .NET Development Multipart post to HttpListener

  Hi, I'm using an HttpListener class to receive posts in my Windows Forms application. These posts contain several pictures in multipart mime format. Unfortunately, the HttpListenerRequest class doesn't have a Files property, as its ASP .NET counterpart HttpRequest does. So, I'm trying to directly process the input stream to extract the posted file collection myself. There are a lot of threads talking about this, but I still haven't found a good solution. Do any of you know of a C# sample TIA I have same problem ,because I don't want to use ASP.NET with IIS.HttpListenerRequest calss can not re ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What's the difference between TfsReportDS and TfsOlapReportDS

  These two data sources appear in the Reports manage but appear to have identical defintions. I can't find a clarification anywhere. Is there a difference between them, or are they maintained in parallel for some odd reason Bernd, In our current off-the-box reports, all the data that is used in the report is coming from the TfsOlapReportDS which is built on top of the cube. The only data that we get from the relational Warehouse directly using the TfsReportDS is the information you see on top of the reports about the last Warehouse update. Whether you should build your custom reports on top of the Warehouse versus building them ...Show All

• Windows Forms Force update and block restore in ClickOnce?

  Can I force user to update or slient update application if a newer version is found, instead of asking user to update or skip And can I block user to restore to old version in add/remove programs I want to ensure application is up to date all the time, because it is a distributed system, client application must have the same version of file with application server in order to establish communication. Thank you very much! If you use minimum required version to mark an update as required the rollback option in add/remove programs will be greyed out for that application version. Regards, Sameer ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why the reverse German-like syntax?

  Why do the LINQ queries have to look like a SQL query in German   If you are trying to make it easier and are adding SQL-like keywords to the language, at least keep the ordering the same as SQL. The way this is, I have to know C#, SQL for triggers and stored procedures, and LINQ for the in-code queries.  I don't see how this is going to make my life any easier. > .... why then has VB decided to do it the wrong way This would hardly be a first for VB and cannot be taken as a guide for what C# should do.  I am not on the team, and am not from MS, but what's clear to me is tha ...Show All

• .NET Development Where is System.Date.OleDB and .ODBC for .NET 2.0 and C#?

  I'm just getting started with VS 2005 and am trying to modify a database connection that is currently using System.Data.SQLClient. The application is using written in .NET 2.0 and C#. When I try adding "using System.Data.ODBC" or "using System.Data.OleDB" in the .cs file, I am getting error messages that.. " Compilation Error Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately. Compiler Error Message: CS0234: The type or namespace name 'OBDC' does not exist in the ...Show All

• .NET Development Connection string working with 2005 but failing with 2003.

  I hv a glaring issue and no solution— This code works fine in VS 2005 but fails in Vs.NET 2003. Using OLEDB, it works in VS.NET 2003, but the code used below fails. I cannot change the lines below and cannot upgrade the solution to VS 2005. Now pl tell me what s going wrong!! I seriously lack experts here to bail me out J Imports System.Data.SqlClient Imports System.Exception Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form #Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New() MyBase.New() 'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. Initia ...Show All

• SQL Server OLAP Analysis Services: Errors in Encryption Library

  Hi! I am trying to process a cube in analysis services of visual studio 2005, with sql server 2005. The error is: "Errors in the encryption library: Failed to encrypt sensitive data. Possibly the encryption key is inaccessible because of improper service account change." Thanks in advance, --Dimitris Doukas You might have changed the account for your Analysis Server service. To solve this problem you will have to stop Analysis Server. Remove all the files from the Data folder ( located under installation folder) and then start Analysis Server again. Create a backup for your existing d ...Show All

• Visual C++ Misunderstanding something about pointers?

  It seems like i do not fully understand how pointers works. I would be very thankfull if someone would explain to me what i am missing. Highlighting the pointer with red to make it clearer what i talk about. { ---> Okay NodeReceiver here is the pointer that i am interested in. ---> When i send it to the function checkForNodeEdgeAt, i was expecting ---> the value it received in there to remain when it got out of the function. CNode *NodeReceiver = NULL; int iEdgeNrReceived = 0; ---> Call to function that changes NodeReceiver CNodeMgr ::getSingleton().checkForNodeEdgeAt( miMouseX , miMouseY , NodeReceiver , i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem branching on TFS server

  Hi We wanted to branch our Team project. So we used Visual Studio to create a new empty team project. Then we went to the old team project in the source control explorer and selected "branch" and we branched into the new team project for a certain change set. When we do that, we get the following error: A database error occurred (SQL error 2627) ---> Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_tbl_PendingChange'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.tbl_PendingChange'. ENGTFSB3.TfsVersionControl..prc_PendBranch: Database Update Failure - Error 2627 executing INSERT statement for tbl_PendingChange. The statement has been termin ...Show All