cuski's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System MSDN Academic Alliance

  Will TFS be available for universities via the academic alliance program I couldn't find any page with any information on that. Let me also state my opinion on that: I think learning how to organise team development, manage a dev process etc is a key component of any CS education. So, I think you guys should do everything so CS faculties can provide a TFS for all their students so that they learn how to use it. Along that line I believe you sh ...Show All

• .NET Development Very slow data loading into DataTable from Oracle

  I'm a newbie to VS2005 and .NET and trying to load about 20,000 records from an Oracle table into a datatable. I've tried the design-time methods like TableAdapters and it is so slooww. I've also tried a couple of programmatic methods like OracleDataAdapters and and OracleDataReaders. The result is the same - about 10-12 seconds to load 20,000 records. That can't be right, surely As a comparison I tried the same function within a Delphi 2005 ...Show All

• Visual C# How to retrieve the key value of a listitem in C#?

  While adding a listitem to any listview, we can pass-on "key" value, but how to retrieve this key value back I could not find this, plz. anyone help me out. OK, I finally found it. When you add a ListViewItem with this particular .Add overload: this.MyListView.Items.Add(Key, Text, 0); The "key" value corresponds to the Name property of the ListViewItem, so you could get the corresponding key in the SelectedIndexChanged ...Show All

• .NET Development Deploying .net 2.0 Serviced Component With dll Reference

  A problem with serviced components is that they are run under dllhost which is located in the system32 directory of the machine, because of this microsoft recommend ( now ) that .net serviced components be placed in the GAC, what this does mean is that the serviced component can only find dll's that are in the system32 directory or in the GAC so it is recommended that any referenced dll's be strongly named and placed in the GAC. it sou ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Web.Mail Help Please...

  Hello, I've tried searching and searching, but I've had no real luck. I'm working on sending an email via an external SMTP server (I'm trying to use Gmail.com, could this be a problem ) and then send to another email, which also happens to be a Gmail.com address. Now, before posting my code, I'd like to say, what I'm developing this for is basically a plugin for a program based on .NET 1.1, so I don't believe that System.Net.SmtpClient ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) i need to download latest makecert.exe & certmgr

  hi there, i dont have makecert.exe in my system can sombody point me to a location so that i can download one.  just the makecert.exe. and certmgr.exe my internet connection is slow so.... thanks prasanth I cannot believe someboyd will post something like this. Here is a bit of information on the history of some of these files: Microsoft first released code signing technology ("Auth ...Show All

• Visual C# Import xls file into dataset

  Hi , I am solving this problem:I need import data in xls file into DataSet, but i dont know how.I think, it could be done like this: 1 .I save xls file like cvs or other txt file(with separators of data) and in C# i will use stream reader for get it into dataset. 2 .I save the xls file like xml file, and than i will read it into dataset.But how. 3 .I read into data set xls file. What is your opinion Are these options right Thanks for any a ...Show All

• .NET Development SOAP Exceptions handling Question

  My app uses web services between, say, UI and Business layers. The exceptions raised by business layer will be thrown back by the service layer to UI. In the UI, I need to handle each type of exceptions seperately. (For eg 'dividebyzero' exception, 'dllnotfound' exception etc). The errors raised by webservices will always be of type soapexception. What would be the best implementation other than parsing the exception message string. - Man ...Show All

• Smart Device Development debug DLL from C# code

  Hi guys, Is there a way to debug dll that I wrote I am doing dll import to this dll from my c# project and I want to get inside the dll code... thanks in advance, Oren. Hi Oren, Are you talking about debugging a native dll called from a managed (c#) code for smart device application If yes then you can debug either native part or managed part at a time. Following link will help you out http:/ ...Show All

• Visual C# Am I missing a seting in my relationship

  Hi I'm a newbie from Delphi and I am trying to build a data application. I have set up my xsd dataset but I think I might be missing something in my relationship. In Delphi when you can set relation ships the same but the big difference is when the dataset goes to retrieve the data. In Delphi a child table only fetches data from the database that relates to the parent table and not the whole table as my dataset appears to be performing. ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services in SQL Express?

  Is SSRS available in SQL Express   The feature matrix here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx says that the Report Server is available.  However, SSRS was not an available option in the setup I used.  Any help is greatly appreciated! The version of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition including Report Server is not yet available. We are working on it but have ...Show All

• SQL Server Stuck between "Failed to generate user instance" and "An attempt to attach...failed"

  I wrote an application using Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 which uses a SQL Express .mdf file, included in the project, for the database.  After installing Visual Studio 2005 RC and the SQL Express that comes with it (I followed all of the uninstall instructions first) I can no longer add a SQL Express database to any of my projects, nor can I open the SQL Express database in my original project.  When I try either of these tasks, I get th ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SVCUTIL.EXE Error

  I am trying to get a very basic WCF service to work using the helloworld example described at: http://windowscommunication.net/collateral/pages/howto.htm I've built it exactly according to the instructions at that location using exactly the same code. (The only modification I made was to run it on port 8080...if I try to run it on port 80 as the orginal code, I get an IIS error that says that port is being used by another application. Here ...Show All

• Windows Forms How: Layout Managers in .Net like Java

  Hi, How to achieve effect of LayoutManagers like java has Grid, Flow, Border etc layouts in .Net The case is : I am creating the form runtime and adding controls on run-time so at that time its very hactic to manipulate about other control's sizes, positions etc so there must be easy way to do such things like what Java LayoutManagers allow without worring the actual positions in pixels. It allows me to add, insert etc operation without knowing ...Show All

• SQL Server accessing report server programmatically

  Hi friends I have .net app ,where i display reports from my report server in a screen .,which works fine. I added a web reference to my report server ,to my solution to get it work. since i know my report server name on machine i added webreference to my project. but when i deploy at site ,as you can guess, the server name can be different. is it possible add web reference programmaically so that i dont need to hard code report server name a ...Show All