Jano Petras's Q&A profile

• SQL Server I can't access cubes from excel

  I try to register the dll in a remote machine but I couldn't. Do I need to install something else in the remote machine Yes I have tried this with no luck. I think is a version problem, my server is April CTP. I'll try to install client tools in remote client. ...Show All

• SQL Server Deserialization Failed: Parent Columns and Child Columns don't have type-matching columns.

  After about an hour and a half of validation, my Analysis Services database has been migrated from 2000 to Analysis Services 2005. I am now receiving the error in the subject any time I try and access the Data Source View that was created. All dimensions and cubes cannot be processed. I have tried editing the xml manually to no avail. Any ideas would be much appreciated! Would still like to know what the issue is, but I found a w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP fails to install

  I have spent the last hour trying to find other cases of the same install error on the web, but w/o luck. Does anyone know how to fix the following. I have Windows XP SP2 with VS 2005 Beta 2 (April 2005). When trying to install the "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP" I'm getting an error at the end of the install. Here's some of the messages: The initial error dialog: "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup" (window title) Mi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Retrieving theme color values

  Does anyone know of any good documentation on the Windows themes Or how to retrieve the various color values with either VB.NET or C# TIA, Richard Are you refering to the Windows XP themes In that case, what kind of values would you expect Most of it is image-based, so you can't extract color values from it. If you are refering to the colors that the user can set in the display properties: those can b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Starting out

  Hello everyone! I've just started to get into the Terrarium Game and have spent a number of evening pooring through everything I could find related to this very cool game/training tool. I was wondering what sort of pitfalls people have had to overcome&nb ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to remove "+" before a tree node

  hi, My project is built on windows mobile 5.0 pocket pc,vs2005.I use the following code insert a tree node:    TVINSERTSTRUCT InsertStruct;    InsertStruct.hParent  = hParent;     InsertStruct.hInsertAfter = TVI_LAST;    InsertStruct.item.mask =  TVIF_TEXT |TVIF_IMAGE |TVIF_CHILDREN;             &n ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums last Modified date in Excel spreadsheet

  Hello Can anyone help me read details about a current workbook. Bascally everytime an excel spreadsheet is opened I want to saved the last modified date to say Sheet1.range("A1") Thank you in advance. Hey man, The Workbook has a property named 'BuiltinDocumentProperties' that you can use to get pieces of information about the document. One of these is the Last Save Time Cell ...Show All

• Visual Basic RowFilter DateTime Comparison

  I have two DateTime fields in a datatable, Start and End.  In the rowfilter I want to filter records on just the date portion of the fields (ie. Start=#7/16/05#), but this statement will never be true just as the time portion of the 'Start' field will be taken into account which will never be 12am.  How can I use just the Date portion of the DateTime field in a rowfilter.. Thanks in advance, Mike Hi, ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 2005 references problems

  Long time C# user and used 2005 since beta 1. Have done some VB class libraries with no problem but the Web IDE is telling me I have references I don't have in my project and don't show up on property pages...Is there a patch for VB 2005 Or am I missing something I think you need to explain further. The IDE says you have references - why And what makes you think that you don't have them if it says you do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error 28100.Error loading Event web service.

  Hi,   During installation I got "Error 28100.Error loading Event web service.". Any idea what is going wrong TFS is being installed on a Virtual Machine.   Please feel free to contact me if you need any more information. Thanks, Bart ps. Is it possible to upload the setup log I went back to some lessons learned when installing tfs beta 2, one of which was to install wss before sql server (even though ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error Message

  Hello, Whenever I try to build an application and compile and run it, I always get the same error message. "The application failed to initialize correctly. (0xc0000005)" This also occurs on other Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions. I re-installed windows and that did not fix the problem. Does anyone have any ideas that could help Thank you. Been are you telling us that you can take an empty windo ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS Add-in Missing after Installation

  I have installed Visual Studio 2005 RC1 and VSS 2005 RC1 on a machine that has never had a previous beta.  The VSS add-in is not available from within VS2005.  I did it on another machine and it worked fine.  I also uninstalled and re-installed VSS with no effect.  VSS works fine except that it is not integrated with VS2005. Has anyone seen this problem   How can I install the Add-in manually Thanks, Steve Wright ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to disable navigation in child rows of a datagrid

  Hi, I have a datagrid that is bound to a source who ahs child and then grand child relationship. I want my datagrid to show only parent to child relationship but not the child to grandchild relationship. How can I do this Thanks, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with BindingSource.Find on Relational BindingSource

  (Beta 2) I get an error message, "DataMember property 'AccountingPeriodId' cannot be found on the DataSource." when calling the Find method on my binding source: AccountingPeriodBindingSource.Find("AccountingPeriodId", 7); Any clues TIA, Rob   RobLinton wrote: (Beta 2) I get an error message, "DataMember property 'AccountingPeriodId' cannot be found on the DataSource." when calling the Find method ...Show All

• Visual Studio Create New Project Hangs

  After compiling my guidance package, the create new project dialog hangs for a while the first time I pick it after the compile. Is this common Is there anything I can do to speed this up, as it takes about 5 minutes for it to become responsive again. We have not seen this behavior before :o). However, I did notice that the first time you open VS after compiling, it takes a while for it to become responsive, but ...Show All