Neken's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Multiple forms?

  Hi, I am making the jump from asp.net to windows so I have very little experience with Windows forms. Requirements: The user leaves the office with a tablet or notebook and travels to a site. The user selects 1 of 4 reports to enter various data. Ea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Perfmon and VSTS

  Hi, I am using the TeamSuite edition to record the performance metrics using loadtest containing recorded webtests. The reading that I see on the perfmon of the server and the readings in the VSTS always are different, particularly for the counters % time in .Net CLR Jit and % time spent in Garbage Collection on the server. I am collecting readings every 10 sec at both locations, usually(almost always) the metric on VSTS is approx. twice ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System no coverage result for website

  How can I get code coverage results against my website in my unit test projects I tried adding the website to my test solution and add it to test run config to be instrumented. But after doing that, my test case can't work fine and I'll notice the weird error message: Failed to connect to an IPC Port: The system cannot find the file specified. Anybody has any idea Hello Shu, Unfortunately, I am not sure that th ...Show All

• Visual C# Login Control problem

  Hey guys, I have a VS2005 website project on my dev machine. It compiles and runs perfectly. When I publish the project and put it into production, the Login control keeps giving me a "Login failed for user..." error. The web.config is the same, the connection strings are the same. Anyone know what the problem could be Can you provide more info on this, may be some tracing/event logging would help in here to diagnose further. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Was support for enum properties added to DLinq?

  Was support for enum properties added to DLinq A column mapping is simply a difference between the entity's property type and the database's column type. To get this type of mapping just change the type of the entity's property to the enum type you want (and the storage field too). Make sure the database type 'DbType' in the mapping still refers to the correct SQL server type, if it was not specified then i ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to execute actions after solution template was unfolded

  Hey guys, in this article http://guidanceautomation.net/wysiwiki/default.aspx topic=Understanding%20Template%20and%20Recipe%20Associations MS writes that the steps are executed in the following order when unfolding a solution template with a referenced recipe: -Run wizard pages to collect data -Unfold the template -Execute actions in recipe I tried this and from what I can tell the actions defined in the recipe get executed before the soluti ...Show All

• SQL Server DATABASE AGE

  What's a reliable way to tell when the database (SQL Server 2000) was created Thanks. -John Does select crdate from sysdatabases where ... work for you If you are using SSMS, you can select the database in the Object Explorer (OE), right click, and see the create date in the properties window. Does this answer your question ...Show All

• Windows Forms autocomplete AND dropdownlist combobox

  I want to give the user the functionality of the autocomplete, allowing them to enter one or more letters and receive a list of possible entries, whilst also ensuring that the user can only select an item from the list and not type any old thing. I know that I cannot use the dropdownlist list option along with autocomplete, but how can I make sure that the user does not enter invalid data Basically, at all times during the edit process, I want ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to print the xps document ???

  Hi, I have a question: I view the xps document with the DocumentViewer control, and call DocumentViewer::Print() method to print current xps document, but nothing to happen, Why How to print the xps documents thanks! Hi Sorry for the late reply. As far as we can tell this method should work with our latest build. Can you please provide your print code and also specify what WPF CTP exactly ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making multiple screen menus in .Net Basic

  I'm new, so if this has already been answered, please point to the right search phrase, I have a menu in my program, with the items "File", "Cities" and "Hotels". I want to click on Hotel and have Form1 display a list of hotel names. Click on Cities, I want Form1 to display a list of cities. Clicking on File->Main, I want Form1 to show some other stuff, with the information coming from the Hotels and Cities scree ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Refresh SQL Server?

  Which SQL server will beta3 install on    Do i still need to use the CTP or can i use the RTM bits ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005 always deploys framework files

  I am developing an application for SmartPhone 2003 using VS2005. When deploying the application VS always copies the standard framework files (System.dll, etc) to the target application directory even though these are already in the GAC.  The app runs fine on the GAC files if the files in the app directory are deleted.  Any way to stop this download (to save time and space on the target machine, especially if multiple apps are under te ...Show All

• Windows Forms How Manage a sqlconnection in a Winform App?

  i'm new in vb.net im working in a project with severals forms,  this forms manipulate the information(add, delete, update..). i create  a sqlconnection  in a module and then pass it, to all my forms...  it work good but i can't  see the&nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add connection wizard fails with Access database

  I have the RTM version installed. I am quite puzzled at this wizard. It works fine with SqlClient. But for Access databases, this wizard completely fails. In this wizard, I only have one option to do - setting the ConnectionString. I set it to Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=D:\path\abc.mdb, which works fine in my code. But when I click OK, it complains: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How do you handle Persistence with WWF Beta 2.2?

  Tom, I am unable to raise events in WWF Beta 2.2 (unlike WWF Beta 2.0). When I set UnloadOnIdle = " false " (from "true"), I am able to raise the first event without an error, but am unable to get the XOML only State workflow assembly reference via persistence. The problem is that I am unable to persist a State XOML workflow when using WWF Beta 2.2. Everything worked fine with WWF Beta 2.0 State workflows (non XOML on ...Show All