dsani's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Unique Integer IDs

  Hello, I wanted to hear from you - if you've used any unique integer generation technique in the context of a disconnected smart client/local data store and have been successful with it. Any ideas/suggestions will be great. Thanks, Avinash We are using unique integer ID generation for our document ISNs. It works perfectly. You just need a good distribution if you have any concurrent processes generating IDs. I can provide further details if you wish. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Test host process exited unexpectedly

  Hi All, I'm trying to run some tests using the mstest utility.  The tests seem to run for a short time, but at a random time I get the following error message: Run has the following issue(s): Test host process exited unexpectedly.   What are the causes for this error message and how do I fix it   I'm running the test as a full administrator on the box.   I'm running the RC of VSTS trial edition.   I would recommend upgrading to the RTM trial edition -- we fixed lots of bugs between RC and RTM. Some questions: * Do the tests work from the IDE * Does this ...Show All

• Visual Basic ADO/Access Questions

    I've had a moderate amount of of experience with access databases in vb6. We'd declare a file system object and from that declare a workspace and from that a record set descriptor. One could picture and understand what was happening. VS2005 is different though. You could create and delete tables and define them dynamically. VS2005 seems to be different. It seems that things are done up front in the IDE Almost as if the relationships are drawn. Instructions are to click on this and do that. One creates table adapters and and dataadapers and with these apparoaches everything seems quite removed from what really happening. Al ...Show All

• SQL Server Custom Source Component Problem?

  Hi,I have developed a custom source component to get data from a generic odbc connection with some special caracteristics. The component works fine by getting and mapping the output fields etc... The only two problems existing are that when i run the task it says that the data flow has no components inside... how is this possible since i have my source mapped to a flat file inside that data flow This is the error: SSIS package "BVEIT000D.dtsx" starting. Warning: 0x80047034 at BVEIT000D_<EMPRESA> TXT, DTS.Pipeline: The DataFlow task has no components. Add components or remove the task. Information: 0x4004 ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem with Places bar in Open/Save Dialog Box

  Hello All I am facing a problem with customization of Open/Save Dialog Boxes in WINXP system. When I try to add Places bar on the left side of Dialog Box they are not conatined in any container but on the dailog box itself. The result is you dont see any enclosing frame surrounding the Icons. Can anybody suggest the remedy Thanks in advance asdfgh What technology are you using Are you using MFC or just Platfrom SDK APIs Edit: Marking as Correct answer. Please if you have more details, feel free to unmark the post. Thanks,   Ayman Shoukry   VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual C# Web Application Problem

  Hi, I would like to know how can I run a ".bat" file trough my web application, I tried using process but it doesn't get the argument... Here is the part of the code.. System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); proc.EnableRaisingEvents= false ; proc.StartInfo.FileName="C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\Webshell\create.bat"; proc.StartInfo.Arguments="Pasta1 Pasta2"; proc.Start(); But it does not work, if I paste the command and the prompt it works fine.. Any help Ok the only thing i can imagine now causing a problem is CAS (Code Access Security) and nothing more.. Check the settings there. Is there a chance th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Work Item Types and Sort Order

  I would like to create a custom work item field that has its own sort order. This would be like an enumerated type, for example: Low Medium High Alphabetically, these show up sorted as Low, High, Medium. That's not really desirable. If the user sorts in ascending order you'd like it to retain Low, Medium, High sequence. In addition, in descending order you'd like it to sort as follows: High, Medium, Low. Aside from preceding these with "1 - ", "2 - ", "3 -" is there any other way to get these custom fields to sort correctly Thanks, Kevin. I guess I should add that the sort orde ...Show All

• SQL Server SSRS 2005 Connecting to data on 2000

  Hello, I 'm building the reports on SSRS 2005 and connection to a 2000 DB, every thing seems to go ok, except when i try to see the reports on the web browser. At that point i got the following error. An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot create a connection to data source 'BI_IVN_RELACIONAL'. (rsErrorOpeningConnection) For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors I know that is not advised to do this connection but what can i do to solve this problem I Also tryied to force windows and a typed cre ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. The COM-based CORE engine (a lot of questions)

  I'd like to discuss a creation of the core engine for our future projects. I chose this forum not accidentally, I hope that professionals (especially from Microsoft) will help me in my questions. First, I'll say a few words about the core engine. It provides system, input, video and audio core techniques. Also, it has a pluggable system. The main COMponent 'MWCore' (from 'MWCore.dll' server) is only the bridge which connects the parts listed above together with the game. So, it's something like an abstraction layer between the operating system and the game engine. There are following main interfaces: IMWSystem - window handling, ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ArgumentException when Invoking Controls.Add()

  I am using VS2005 and I'm developing for Windows CE 5.0, .net CF 2.0. I have an application that should dynamically add and remove Controls to a tabPage. If I trigger the adding and removing with a button, everything works fine but I didn't manage to trigger the adding and removing from a seperate thread. I call tabPage.Invoke(new pictureBoxAdder(addPictureBox), some params...); in addPictureBox I create a pictureBox and Add it to the tabPage's control, but I get the following error: ArgumentException at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.InternalInvoke() at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.InternalInvoke() at System.Reflection.RuntimeMe ...Show All

• Visual C# Should be getting an exception... right?

  I have the following code in a Web Service. I already have a row in the table where Qty, Commod, and CompID equal 0. When I try to insert another row where all are 0 in SQL manager, it gives a primary key error, as excpected. When I run the method below and do the same, it does not catch an exception. It just return true, without ever inserting the new record. I want this SQL exception to be caught, and this method should then return false. Any ideas [ WebMethod ] public bool UpdateInv2( double Qty, int Commod, int CompID) { try { SQLProvider sp = SQLProvider .GetInstance(); sp.ConnectionString = @&quo ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Tutorial – Problem with Error Redirection

  Platform: Win Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SSIS Version: 9.00.1187.00   I’ve been working my way through the SSIS tutorials and have noticed a problem when trying to redirect Error Output in lesson 5 “Adding Error Flow Redirection”.   Having configured the redirection to the ErrorOutput.txt file and running the package, when I went to view the contents of the file, it was empty.   I then removed all but the Currency_BAD.txt data file and re-ran the package. This time the file contained the error row.   Next I returned the other data files, but introduced an error row in the Currency_VEB.txt data ...Show All

• .NET Development Code runs but database doesn't update

  All, I'm new to ADO.NET (used to work in ADO and am really struggling with the concept!)... I've got a web form, which has a dataset and connection attached with 2 text fields that I want to use to add a new record to a table. The code runs fine, but the database does not get updated... the db is Access. Here's the code - I know I'm doing something stupidly wrong, but I can't work it out! Thanks in advance. Dim strPN As String Dim strDesc As String strPN = Me .txtPN.Text strDesc = Me .txtDesc.Text PartConnection.Open() Dim ds As New PartDataSet Dim table As New PartDataSet.PartsDataTable Dim ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newbie question: DB Connectivity

  Hi, I'm comming from Delphi world, and learning from 0 the VB 2005 Express. Is it possible to connect this product with DBMSs like PostgreSQL or MySQL, using ODBC or JDBC Thank you, Guillermo Sure, shouldn't be any problem at all provided you have ODBC drivers for the desired connectivity installed and configured. Do a search in MSDN Help on ADO.NET... if you're interested mainly in ODBC, a sample Visual Basic Express program might look like: Imports System.Data.Odbc .. Public Sub ConnectToTheDatabase( ... ) Dim szConnectStr as String Dim ODBCDataset As New OdbcConnection ... access OdbcConnection membe ...Show All

• Visual C# sentence case string

  How to convert uppercase string to sentence case string in C# e.g. input: HI ALL! I'M A NEWBIE. PLZ HELP! output: Hi all! I'm a newbie. Plz help! Here, I just wrote this as this made me curious.  I know this could probably be done a lot better by iterating over a chararray and changing the case depending on flipping a bit to indicate it was necessary but I was lazy and used strings: /// <summary> /// Represents a paragraph in English /// </summary> public abstract class Paragraph { /// <summary> /// Convert a string in arbitrary case to English sentence capitalis ...Show All