James Inman's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio More than one Diagram / File - Extension for a single model?

  Hi everybody! I've downloaded the latest CTP (Nov2005CTP) of the DSL Tools. After installing I've read the Walkthroughs and have done some experiments. What I want to achive is to provide a way to use more than one Designer for my model. Let me give you an example of what I want to achive: 1. The "root" Designer I a kind of Class - Designer witch shall allow to define classes with Fields, Inheritance and Interface implementations. This is no problem so far. I would name this kind of Diagram an "Object Diagram". There shall be only one Object Diagram within a Project. 2. This is the step where I have no idea how to implement it: T ...Show All

• SQL Server Remote messages not working – message vanishes

  I need some assistance with getting service broker to work across servers.   I have 2 separate servers and I am trying to send a message from one server to the other.   No error is generated when sending the message and I get no records in the transmission queue of the sending server, however the message does not arrive on the receiving server.   Where is the message going     Here is the code I use to create the service broker objects that are being used…   RUN THIS ON THE SENDING SERVER:   CREATE MESSAGE TYPE [MyMessage] VALIDATION = NONE CREATE MESSAGE TYPE [MyResp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Questions About Visual Studio 2005 Express

  1. Does Visual Studio Express come with XML capabilities or do i need to download it If so what do i need to download 2. What else would i need to download for VS 2005 Express especially for Visual Basic and C# for features that are not in the install Or any of the downloads for studio that is best to have Thanks, Kevin I am not sure what you mean with XML capabilities. You can use the .NET frameworks functionality to programatically work with XML as any other .NET application can. There are no special XML tools included in the Express Editions. It is just text so you can ofcourse edit it inside the IDE as a text fi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development MSB3247

  What a pain in the arse! I've obviously not properly de-installed VS2005 beta 2 properly before I installed the vs2005 release version, so now the code I've been working on doesn't work. Hurrah for nice easy install/de-install methods! When I build my app the output is this... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Consider app.config remapping of assembly "System.Data, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=969db8053d3322ac, Retargetable=Yes" from Version "1.0.5000.0" [] to Version "2.0.0.0" [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v2.0\WindowsCE\System.Data.dll] to solve conflict and get rid of wa ...Show All

• .NET Development DbDataReader - intercepting the stream

  Hello, I am using the SqlBulkCopy class. It takes data from a query to an Oracle database executed through an OleDbDataReader. This is good, as the table is very large, and it avoids having to load the table into memory before dealing with it. However, I wish to do some pre-processing of the query coming from the datareader, before it is passed to the SqlBulkCopy class. Is there any way I can "pipe" the output of one datareader through some code, and have the code output a new datareader I want to do some regexp's on a single field, which would break them up into multiple output fields. The logic in the regexp's is quite ...Show All

• SQL Server Error: The value was too large to fit in the output column "colName" (60).

  Hi All, I'm trying to transfer data from DB2 Database to SQL Server 2005. Well, i used the OLE DB Source, the Data Conversion Component and the OLE DB Destination component. I have five Data flows with this configuration above. But I am receiving an error message from one of them. Please check below the error message: "[Source Table TARTRATE [1]] Error: The value was too large to fit in the output column "ADJ_RATE_PCT" (60). " "[Source Table TARTRATE [1]] Error: The "component "Source Table TARTRATE" (1)" failed because error code 0xC02090F8 occurred, and the error row dispositio ...Show All

• Windows Forms PrintPreviewDialog & PrintDialog() ?

  The PrintPreviewDialog class has a default icon to print. I want to load the PrintDialog() as soon as that print icon clicked since user may want to change the default printer. Any idea  thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Some noob questions

  Hi, I'm new to editing msbuild files directly so I apologise if these are silly questions. 1. I am trying to dynamically set a property (SDK path) like this: < GetFrameworkSdkPath > < Output TaskParameter = " Path " PropertyName = " SdkPath " /> </ GetFrameworkSdkPath > this works within the target in which this runs. If I call another target it does not have access to this property. How do I arrange for another called target to have the same property set for it 2. Why is there no task that wraps the functionality of sn.exe Perhaps I just didn't see one but I've had to manually call sn.exe wit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom ValidationRule examples?

  Hi, Are there examples/doc for writing your own validation rules If anyone had luck creating one, posting it up would be great.  Even greater would be if one of the default validation rule class (e.g. ValidationRuleFindText) source code was available (and how to register your own into Visual Studio. I know you're supposed to extend ValidationRule (base class) and implement the validate method, but a specific working example would clear up a lot of missing documentation (e.g. sender generic object). Hi dnelson MSFT I have tried with your coding. It could build sucessfully. But it didn't  validate my QueryStrings   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System HOWTO create a work item by a template

  can I save a work item as a template , next time when I create another work item like that , I can use this template directly One of the features that we discussed but didn't make it into V1 was templates via the OM - it would be sort of like the stored queries - they're stored on the server by name scoped by project and they could be added/edit/retrieved and applied to a workitem via the object model.  The interface would have the templates over in the team explorer like the stored queries and you could just drag them onto a workitem form.   I liked the feature alot but it didn't fit. Let us know what you think - I thi ...Show All

• .NET Development Reading attribute while deserializing

  Can we get the attribute of and element while deserialing an object.  Sounds like you should be using the SOAP formatter.  See System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap. SoapFormatter from the System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap. dll ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Release object

  How can I release all the object in mailItem when Outlook 2003 is closing WinWord remain in process for long time, and if I open again Outlook I will have two commandbar. Thank you. Hi This is a huge topic discussed in several blogs below and is subject to various critics statements of using ReleaseCOMObject methods but in certain circumstances this is correct and others is bad :( - Firstly have you looked at using VSTO V2 as this is released or imminent for release as this handles the termination issues within Outlook as this is not just your addin but there are a lot of things you would have to manage to maintain and get around the ...Show All

• SQL Server T-Sql Problem

  Hi there, can someone please help me on how will I transfer a record from a table in one database server to another database server with a different table name Thanks in advance... add the server as a linked server, then . . . insert into ThisServer.ThisDB.ThisOwner.ThisTable select * from ThatServer.ThatDB.ThatOwner.ThatTable ...Show All

• .NET Development Request Simple DB in XML

  Hi, i need little help. I have field : hardware_ids / pc_name / nick / type_ban Fields Properties : hardware_ids : Char 50 pc_name : Char 20 nick : Char 15 type_ban : Char 1 I need Function for Insert data in XML File and Function for Search value by Field hardware_ids in XML File and Return in ListView or DataGrid. Any can help me Thank you, guys. You should use the System.Data.DataSet class which can persist it's contents to an XML file via ReadXml and WriteXml then use the DataSet class to insert and search the data.  The System.Windows.Forms DataGrid is designed to bind to a DataSet as the DataSource object. ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing the registry from a Web Service

  I'm fairly new to this Web Service game so please feel free to suggest something different if it looks like i'm completely off track! I'm trying to write an application that runs on a Pocket PC that is accessing data stored in a SQL server database on a seperate server (not on the pocket pc). This will be deployed to lots of customers sites so I can't hard-code the location of the database in the program. I wrote a seperate little app to enter and store the connection string details in the registry so that data can be retrieved by the Web Service from the appropriate database and sent to the Pocket PC. All works fine with ...Show All