Bill Barnett - MS's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Unable to locate the localhost database

  Trying to install TaskVisionSource 1.1.0.0. (local) database exists.  Bug could be that I'm only running .NET Fx. 1.1 om this WXP box But what is a localhost database. Creating a database named "localhost" on my local SQL Server didnt make any diff ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 - Crystal - Oracle

  I hope that someone will be able to help me with this error I am having. I have migrated program from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005 . I'm using DB Oracle. In VS 2003 it functioned perfectly, but in VS 2005 the reports (using Crystal)present the following error: "This field name is not known / Error in formula <subtitulo> / ''De: '+cstr({ v_de})+'Ate'+cstr({ v_ate})' " (The error occurs in the ticket of para ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Multiple endpoints for a service hosted in IIS

  Is it possible to have a service hosted in IIS to have multiple endpoints I suppose WCF services hosted on IIS only support HTTP. But, can I have a scenario whose config is shown below : < system.serviceModel > < services > < service type = " PaymentGatewayService.Payment " > < endpoint address = "" binding = " basicHttpBinding " contract = " PaymentGatewayService.IPa ...Show All

• SQL Server How to reduce the time when using a variable

  Hi, I have a table with column value like '123 345 678 143 648' like that. What I need to do is I have to take each code value and put it as a new record in another table. So, if I say 'Select substring(column_name,1,3) from table' then it is very fast (fraction of second). But since I need to take each code and the # of codes in each record may vary, I am using a while loop to take each code and so I delclared a variable @i and now my select ...Show All

• Visual C++ Smart Comment Editing

  I can't figure out how to turn on Smart Comment Editing in Visual Studio 2005 (RTM).  An MSDN library entry mentions that you can access this feature from the  Formatting, C/C++, Text Editor, Options Dialog Box in your project property pages, but I can't see anything there. Does anyone know how I can get this working, or has it been removed from the release version of Visual Studio 2005 Thanks Boris. Can you comment on how soon t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Waitcursor problem

  Hi, I have a simple form with a button and menu. On the button click event I want to disable the menu and button and change the cursor to WaitCursor. The button click eventhandler has the following code: Button1.Enabled = False MenuItem1.Enabled = False Me.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor On click the cursor is changing to WaitCursor, but when I move it on the disabled menu, it again changes to default cursor. On rest of the form and controls the Wai ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Beta3 finding users

  Hi,  i have installed TFS beta3 and am trying to add new users to the security groups.  I want to add domain users. When i goto security members tab and select add windows users the search window comes up and i find the user fine.  However when i select Ok i get the error message "User or Group not found  The specified user or group was not found on the Team Foundation Server."  I assume this is something todo with TFS b ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error running compiled program

  Hi, I just finished compiling a program using MSVC 2005 and when I try to run it I get this message: 'The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.' I've checked my manifests and they seem correct. Does anyone know what I need to do to make it work correctly I'm sorry if I'm not giving enough info here. Thanks. Ok ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System More on my question...Resolve Bugs automatically.

  Hi, How are Bugs added   I can run a test and add them manually by right-clicking on the test result and adding or associating the result with a Bug Work Item.  However, I would like to know whether Bugs are ever automatically added, and if so, how one can configure this process.  E.g. I see that MSF Agile comes with a few pre-added bugs - I suppose they were automatically added by the Build process. Bugs won't be adde ...Show All

• Visual C++ Console::WriteLine's in a GUI

  Hey all, I have a nice gui visual studio app, and I've been using console::writeline to view output throughout my program. To be able to view this output, I open a DOS window and pipe my executable file to 'MORE'. Like this: # prog.exe | more This works ok, but 'more' only does a page at a time, so I have to keep hitting --Any Key to Continue--- Is there any other way to view console ouput (without running debug) ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Problem with WDS Filter

  Hi - I recently upgraded to the most recent version of WDS (2.6.5 ) and Windows Live toolbar. Maybe not a good thing to do at once, but I now get the following error message literally dozens of times a day: " Windows Desktop Search Filter has encountered a problem and needs to close. " I select the "Send Error Report" button (Microsoft should have received a few hundred from me by now) and continue with what I'm doing. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Populate a listbox with three columns using VBA

  I created a listbox at design time, told it to have three columns, no rowsource or other data binding. I did tell it to have column headings. How do I populate the three columns lb.additem lb.<what goes here > = "some string for column 1" lb.<what goes here > = "some string for column 2" ... And how do I populate the column headers Thanx. I've looked through MSDN and can't seem ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to Save Dynamic changed HTML in my MFC-APP

  The HTML page use java scripts to dynamically change its content. See this example <script> function init() {   document.getElementbyId("dynamicDiv").innerHTML = "content is changed"; } </script> <body onload="init();"> <div id="dynamicDiv">empty</div> </body> I tried several methods, they all return old "empty" message 1. document.body.parentElement.innerHTML 2. IPersistStreamInit::Save() Is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sql money type and textbox confusion

  I have a table (named mymoney) with three coloumns dept and holding as money type and id. I got another table (name bills) which I enter some bills. Bills table also have a dept, holding and id coloumns. I created a datagridview to enter bills. Then when someone click on save, I want that program gets the sum of dept and holding coloumns and update the mymoney table according to the id. On the datagrid form I used ---Begin Code--- ...Show All

• .NET Development Cannot insert with "New" some information from a FormView to a DB.

  I must insert some New "users" in my DB. I use MVWD Express and I've made a FormView with some textboxes and some dropdownlists . I have a lot of columns in my DB and when I try to insert there is no problem with the textboxes . For example: I want to insert a new user, I click on the FormView , I insert the text in the textboxes and i press " New ". All is ok, a new user is created at my DB. But when I insert some dropdownl ...Show All