Erik Taylor's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Fundamentals - Use of Classes

  Hi, I have used VB, and then VB.NET as my language of choice for a few years now, developing small-scale applications for various uses. I have a reasonably strong background in databases and data access, so I found the dataset and all it's friends easy enough to start using. My tendency to think in terms of databases however, is why I think I am having so much trouble with designing on my own classes. Now I understand the theory ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Does beta3 server also requires clean install again , if installed once

  Hi there,      My beta3 installation did not seem to go well. Now I need to uninstall it and install it again. Do I have to do the clean OS install for it as well like Beta2 or just uninstalling and installing VSTS server would do Thanks, Anu Please look at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=104517  for a link to a "cleansing" tool that *may* help. Failing that, we may be able to help yo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding beyond "Standard Items"

  When I create a toolstrip and then "add standard items", I get a small set of the standard stuff.  I want to add more 'Standard' items, but I'm stuck.  For example: When I create a menustrip and add standard items, I get Print&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server how to get the sum of a group and not the whole column?

  example: Account Sales New John Doe 1,000,000 George Bush 2,000,000 Juan Luna 3,000,000 6,000,000 Old Michael Tell 5,000,000 Billy Banks 2,000,000 7,000,000 where Account and Sales are table columns, New and Old are group names. i want to display the total of the group. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Quick Survey- Why is there such a small presence in these forums?

  If anybody has any comments on why there are so few questions that are asked here, I would like to start a discussion thread about it. I think it is because, from my experience, it seems to take a while for posts to be approved( which ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Serialization Problem

  Hi to all, I have been using beta 2 bits for a couple of days and trying to upgrade my project with the new stuff. I've change a lot of things ( as you guys did in beta 2 :), but one problem still cannot be solved. I'm using the workflow designer control to change workflow definition. I have also a state machine workflow. If I load the workflow from file (xoml) no problem. But if I want to get a workflow definition from running workflow the seri ...Show All

• Visual Studio BusinessObjects XI Release 2 Service Pack 1 has been released

  With this service pack come a question. Does this service pack work for CRXIr2 since it says " XI Release 2 suite of products " Also I am running Crystal Report Server XI. Did they ever release a Crystal Reports Server XIr2 BusinessObjects XI Release 2 Service Pack 1 is designed to update the entire XI Release 2 suite of products. For example, if you have only Crystal Reports Server XI Release 2, this service pack will update it. Similarly, i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Casting error in listbox

  Casting error in listbox. I'm filling four listboxes, all from the Concepts table. The first is filled from form load, and works perfectly.             Dim cdt As New ConceptsTableAdapter             Dim C0DT As New dsHasbara.ConceptsDataTable             cdt.FillByParentID(C0DT, 0) ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute Package Task behavior

  I’m using a For Loop container to with an Execute Package Task inside, looping until a folder is empty. I’ve noticed some strange behaviors: 1. The child package keeps creating new connections. I start with 3 connections to the DB and when the For Loop container is done I’ve got 364 connections. 2. The Execute Package Task is pulling the wrong version of the package I’ve specified. I’m using a package saved to the File ...Show All

• SQL Server Control Flow design question

  hi all of you, I haven’t idea if the following description is a issue or not, anyway: I begin from Control Flow layer. I’ve created a sequence container and inside I’ve got two groups, one own a sql task and another one own a Data Flow task. Both are linked for a completion conector. Up to here everything is fine. But when I collapse my sequence container the arrow remains there for these tasks and you can see the sequence co ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Dynamically seting state in statemachine workflow

  Also is there any way to set a state dynamically I tried SetState ss = new SetState("StateName") ss.TargetState = "ExistingStateName" but it doesnot work. Hi, You can use the SetState method on the StateMachineWorkflowInstance class in order to set the state of the workflow from the host. There is no way to set the state dynamically from inside the workflow. You can create the StateMa ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLServer2005 and LTM of .NET Fwk 2.0

  Hi To All, As per new transaction model introduced in .NET Fwk 2.0, if we access a resource manager within a transaction context in an appdomain, LTM seems to come into picture and take care of transaction related action. However, in order that LTM to be used, resource managers should have implemented an interface "IPromotableSinglePhaseNotification". Does SQLServer 2005 support/implement that interface Thanks, Ganesan Krishnamu ...Show All

• .NET Development java.nio.Charset counterpart in .NET

  Hello! I have some class libraries written in Java which I have to use for a C#-Application. Most of them compiled without problems, but one of them is excessively using the java.nio.Charset-class. I've read that java.nio isn't supported by J#, is there any alternative for the Charset-Class in .NET Thanks in advance. Chris Hi, I am looking into the .NET base classes which can help you in this regard. Meanwhile, I highly recomm ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild vs NAnt

  Please share your thoughts about comparison between those two     We also want to ditch the solution file format. It is a legacy format that we ideally would have converted to MSBuild format in Visual Studio -- this is obviously totally technically possible -- but we didn't have time in V1 to do this and do everything else. The quickest thing for us was to parse the solution file format when we ru ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installing without AD? Using ADAM? (Error 32000)

  I followed the instructions for installing TS to the letter, but when I try to install it on the application server, I get the error: Error 32000. The commandline "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Server\BISIISDIR\bisdwserver\bin\SetupWarehouse.exe" -n -s "SERVERNAME" -d BisDWDB -c "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Server\BISIISDIR\bisdwserver\bin\Consolodated.xml" -a "DOMAIN\TFSSERVICE" -v -l ".. ...Show All