Zafar Ullah's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How to debug

  Hello, I am relatively new to VB.NET and I've inherited an old project which is causing some grief with one particular user. Unfortunately, all I've managed to obtain from her is what appears when it dies: EventType : clr20r3 P1 : customsales.exe P2 : 2.5.0.1325 P3 : 43f209ce P4 : microsoft.visualbasic P5 : 8.0.0.0 P6 : 4333d6d8 P7 : 35e P8 : 36 P9 : system.invalidcastexception How exactly can one use this information to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System what about config-files

  for my application I use a config-file with custom configsections (that is: my business layer-dll is using the config-file in the GUI-exe folder). I tried to add my app.config-file to the testproject, but this does not do the trick. What must I do so that my Business-layer can read his config Puil, Which version of Visual Studio Team System are you using In RTM (shipped) version we should pick App.Config file from your test project automa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Sharepoint services

  What is required of the client, and how do I set it up Thanks I know that the service has to be instaled on 2003 server, and Office 2003 pro needs to be installed on the client. From there I am in the dark ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel add-in does not pass filter parameter on drillthrough request

  We used profiler to see what the difference was between the Excel Add-in and the cube browser in Analysis Services 2000.  We created the same reports in both, and the Excel Add-in did not pass the page filter parameter to the stored procedure that processes the drillthrough request.  It works with the Foodmart cube, but the underlying database there is Access, not SQL Server.  I have not been able to find this mentioned as a bug i ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS 2003 and framework2.0

  Hi, How can I point VS2003 to framework 2.0 I have both 1.1 and 2.0 installed on my development machine and for some reason I cant install VS2005. How can I point VS 2003 to 2.0 framework. In this scenarion, will I be able use new features of 2.0 such as datagridview, enhancements in ADO.net and other new features Thanks, Great, thanks. It would be nice though if win32 apps using native C++ com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Setup project for VSTudio 2005 Addin. how to register in Addins folder?

  Hello, I'm really newbie in addin development. I already finished my addin, and also I created a setup project, but I don't know how to put my .addin file in the %VSMYDOCUMENTS%\Addins folder, I tried adding a custom folder in the File System Editor but doesn't work Any help is very appreciated Regards There are a few things you can do: 1) %VSMYDOCUMENTS% is the user's ...\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005 directory. When you ...Show All

• SQL Server Another Sql 2005 Express Installation Problem

  I am receiving the following message when trying to install Sql Server 2005 Express:  "An installation package for the product Microsoft Sql Server Native Client cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package 'sqlncli.msi'. I have verified that the sqlncli.mis file is included in the file being extracted by the installer and I have redownloaded the installation program 3 times from the MSDN site i ...Show All

• .NET Development Zorder in VS C/C++ .net

  I was just wondering if there is a function to change the z-order of the components in a console project. I'm trying to set it up so I can have a map in a lower z-order, while characters moving in an array on a higher level z-order for a ascii-game I'm making. Also I am not allowed on this project to use windows.h. Any ideas Hello. You need to find out what to display yourself. If you create an array yoursel ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can we download some sample code from msdn that all of them can run successfully in the CTP Feb?

  Hi, All of my own samples ,when I run them use the CTP Feb, they will throw a lot of exceptions, many kinds of exception, They have cost a lot of my time for debugging them. Can we download some sample code from msdn that all of them can run successfully in the CTP Feb Thanks a lot Koukai You get a set of samples when you install the framework. Look in the "Windows SDK" directory, under "Samples&qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project level lists

  Hi, How can we define project level lists for work item field values I don't want to use local work item lists (for reuse). Allowed values for field in question should differ from project to project. May be we can use some sort of when condition in conjunction with global lists Thanks in advance. Leon Yes, it does. Glad I could help. Thanks, Amit Dev-Workitemtracking ...Show All

• SQL Server Which method should I choose?!

  Greetings SSIS friends I want to implement the following query using SSIS Data flow Source component : SELECT * FROM someTable WHERE someColumn = 'H' How do I restrict the data coming from my data source By that I mean how do I apply the WHERE clause in SSIS ! Should I use a conditional Split component ! but that would mean retrieving all records first then adding the split component (not the most efficient method surely). Any su ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installation hangs

  I have tried installing VC express on my machine and the installation hangs during startup(loading installation components),  with the suite integration toolkit. the report gives the module name as vsscenario.dll. It is a system thing as it has installed Ok on another machine. I have uninstalled all instances of .net and dont have any versions of Visual studio installed. The machine is a 650Mhz pentium 3 with 384 Meg Ram, running XP with se ...Show All

• Visual C# c# ide - cannot use brief or emacs emulation

  According to the c# documentation the IDE should contain brief- and emacs emulation. On my system I miss all keyboard functions related to these emulations. I tried to enable it in the IDE-options but neither BRIEF nore EMACS show up in the keyboard options. I use the german c# Werner, Are you using C# Express If so, you should download and install VC++ Express as well. The keyboard schemes needed to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Main Menu Disappearing

  My Code is in VB.NET 2005.  I have a Launcher the sits in the system tray and show different forms from a menu.  The problem is I have a mainMenu in one of the forms and it is disappearing from the form.  When I first run the applet its there then after I do Me .Hide() when I do a frmWorkorder.Show sometime the menu is gone and I get runtime error when I try and make changes to the menu items like enable. Any help with be great. ...Show All

• SQL Server Execution of Package failed

  I am trying to design package which would copy all tables and stored procedures from one server to another. It used to be simple task in SQL 2000, there was wizard. However the new wizard does not work... I wrote SSIS package, but when I execute I get the following error: "Can not apply value null to property Login..." Any idea It seems to me that this new SQl2005 is not that simple to use like 2000. 2000 was a great product. I am consider ...Show All