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• SQL Server MDX parameters not associated with dimension- help!!!!!!!!

  Hello, I want to create an arbitrary datetime picker parameters (StartDate and EndDate) to use it as a parameter in MDX. However, I couldn't do this, because in the filter pane it always expect me to select from the dimension as a parameter (always associate with the dimension values). Does anybody came across with similar situation Please let me know how you solved it This issue is creating me a lot of headache, please somebody help me ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ComboBox

  Hi, Im new to the whole programming game and just wondered if someone had some simple help for me. I have created a comboBox using the tools. I have a list of products say pen, paper, pencil and they each have a product code i.e. 1,2,3 How do i get the comboBox to display pen,paper,pencil etc while giving me back the product code. Its only a small thing and so i dont see the need for a database. could somebody please talk me though a solut ...Show All

• .NET Development Freezing TCP SocketListener

  I'm writing my first local network TCP/IP Client/Server Windows Forms workstation application functionality code in VB 2005 Express. The internet may be connected by the user, but it is playing no role in the Client/Server part of the application. The objective is to write a simple listener and a simple client not demanding anything but the Listener being able to pick up transactions sent on a specific port and up to six Clients  being a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Internet Explorer in C#

  Hello, First of all, I am very thankful for these forums and I am glad you guys are here to help! Anyway, I have Visual Studio 2005 Express C# Edition and I am working on a program and let me explain what I need to do. Okay, so I am working on this program. I was talking to the head manager on this and he said here is what we need. We need to have one text box and one button to load a website. Inside the text box the user will type the URL in ...Show All

• .NET Development Firewall and Remote Events

  could you send a small repro Could you zip up and send a small repro project, including your configuration files   I'd like to run through your scenario locally, taking a look at how each of your channels is configured. Regards, JJustice [MSFT] ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to create a plugin system

  I want to create an application that uses plugins, i want loand and unload plugins, in vb6 i was using activeX dll's, but here is not the same, it's a good thing, but i dont know how to implement this, maybe someone could help me ... Some examples in Code Project, using different implementations: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/PluginsInCSharp.asp http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/pluginmanager.asp http:/ ...Show All

• .NET Development skmmenu XML databind() problem

  I am building a asp .net site using the skmmenu. Tried to bind my xml file for skmmenu to build the menu but an error occurs as below: The XML declaration is unexpected. Line 1, position 4. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Xml.XmlException: The XML ...Show All

• Visual Studio Package load failure AND can't import settings (on another machine)

  Visual Studio 2005 RC1 installed on a machine where August CTP was previously installed. --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Package Load Failure Package 'Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {8D8529D3-625D-4496-8354-3DAD630ECC1B} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption. W ...Show All

• SQL Server BIDS programming

  Hi, I want to create a wizard to help build my packages for certain situations, something like the export and import wizard. I couldn't find the API to do it. can you help Thanks Noa Can you be more specific I only found programming custom components to SSIS, not a wizard to ease use. ...Show All

• SQL Server help with simple query using group by and where clause

  have a table with sale_id, date, sales_person_id i need to find out the sales_person_id's who did 1 sales every month from jan 2003 and another query who did a sales every quarter. How many sales person have atleast one sale every month (excluding prints) for either 2003, 2004, or 2005 How many sales person had atleast 25 sales each year 2003-2005 It is not clear how you have the date specifie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30177: Team Project Creation Failed

  I'm having some problems creating a project on the Beta3 version of TFS. It's a dual server setup, clean w2003std sp1 servers with all security patches installed. As a client I'm using the VS2005 RC with the Beta3 TFClient. Somewhere halfway during the creation of a new project I get an error: TF30177: Team Project Creation Failed The user is local admin on the database server, sharepoint server and client. I also added the user manually wi ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView and nulls

  I have datagrid view which is bound to a SQL Server table. I created it without any coding simply by dragging a data source.    The fields in the underlying table do not allow nulls and have a default value of '' so that if the data is missing the field should contain a zero length string. If I try to create a record using this grid and a field in the grid is left blank an error is generated apparently because ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Re-run of recorded web test fails

  I have recorded a webtest . The webtest involves uploading an image. After recording when I try to rerun the test, it fails giving an error "RequestFailed: Could not find file...". The path of the image file it mentions in the error is not the one I have entered through UI. Instead it is the path from where my web test is run i.e \Path of the last web test run\out\ImageFileName" In the generated code it shows a call to ...Show All

• .NET Development CLR Profiler results are conflicting

  I recently started using the CLR profiler to track down a memory leak. After playing with it for a while, I am starting to get the hang of it. However, the different screens seems to give me different resutls. For example, I am running profiling an app that opens up a dialog window with a main menu. What seems to be happening is that the Dialog form remains after it is close and even after I call dispose. Allocation by address shows &qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Random behaviour with ITaskItem[]

  I have a target that I pass an ItemGroup to. I then call a task that takes this ItemGroup as a parameter and a ITaskItem as another parameter. Sometimes, if I pass an ITaskItem[] to the ITaskItem parameter, MSBuild is clever enough to realise that I want the task called once for each item in the ItemGroup. Most of the time, however, I get this error: Multiple items cannot be passed into a parameter of type "Microsoft.Build.Framework.I ...Show All