frank_r's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Helper ... what is it?

  Sometimes i hear developer say i will make a helper .... what is a helper exactly Thanks, a helper is just a class or a method that is seperate from what you are working on that is designed to do one task that you need done. Sometimes a function will simply be overloaded and the more complicated overload will be private inside the class the public function will take the parameter and figure out the cor ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to pass parameters from one activity to another?

  Hi, I am new to WWF. I am trying to create an Submit Request --> Approve/Reject Request workflow of type Sequential Workflow. I have an EventDrivenActivity in which there are 2 activities HandleExternalEvent that waits for user's approval and a CallExternalMethodActivity called ApproveRequest that will update the database. Here, I have created an event handler and defined properties like [Serializable] public class UpdateRequestArg ...Show All

• Windows Forms Name Property

  Hi I have a custom control that is inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Control. I want to do some custom processing when the Name of the control is set. But inside the constructor,a reference to the Name yields a blank value i.e. "". Can u tel ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql Server 2005 not starting

  Hi,       I have my web application with backend  as Sql Server 2005 CTP(Yukon). Initially It works well. I updated some security settings to the OS Windows Server 2003 and restarted the machine. Now the Sql Server is not starting.When I manually started  It logs error as follows. 2005-10-13 03:39:57.85 Server      UpdateUptimeRegKey: Operating system error 5(Access is de ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with beta TFS MSSCCI Provider

    Installation went fine and I can choose the TFS MSSCCI Provider in SSMS, but when I choose File>Source Control>Launch Team Foundation MSSCCI I get the following error: "Administer Source Control: Operation Not Supported" We have the beta 3 Refresh Somebody made it work with SSMS Hi Lakusha: Our intial Beta version of the TFS MSSCCI Provider does not support SSMS.  We are current ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Test Manager Window not available VSTE for Software Developers?

  I have installed the release version of Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers and can no longer find the Test Manager Window menu item.  I see Tests View, Test Results, etc.   Is this a feature that is not included in this version yeah!  where'd it go   Specifically I'd like to be able to group tests like I could with the RC version. ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting permissions programmatically

  All, I'm wondering if there are any methods to set the permissions for a specific user on a specific report within SQL Server Reporting Services. I got how to get permission from them programmatically, but not how to set them but the user interface.. Please apologize me if there was a similar thread in the recent past; I tried to find it out, I didn't succeed. Thanks a lot in advance for your timely response (as usual deadlines are b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions KeyDown not receiving "Enter" key event

  Not receiving the "Enter" keycode in form.keydown event Hi Goal: I have a child-form with several container controls: 2 panels, 4 buttons and 1 groupbox. All these have child controls. One of the panels' child controls consists of dynamically created "PictureBox"es. When a certain action is triggered "Move" the picture boxes should be moved using the keyboard "Left" and "Righ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installing Visual Web without SQL and Framework

  I have a server with Microsoft SQL and Framework installed. I would like to install just Visual Web Developer on a workstation. I have dowloaded the .ISO file and have in on CD. How do I install just Visual Developer on my workstation The install seems to want to install Framework and SQL Express along with Web Developer. Any .NET product is plain not going to work without .NET. I would expect most websites now ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Report single record in Access 2002

  I'm trying to figure out how to print a single record from a Form in Access 2002. Basically, I would like to be able to click a button on the Form, and it will print out/preview a formatted report for that current record only. I already know how to create the Report, but I just don't know how to link it to the Current Record. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. I just wrote about this in another post.. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Torque Game Engine

  After some carefull thought, I have decided to develop a game using C++ with an existing open source engine. Torque ( http://www.garagegames.com/products/1 ) was one reccomended option, and I was just wondering what everyone else thinks about it. Is it DirectX or what Torque is an awesome engine. There are alot of free native Engines out there and also Managed DirectX Engines . It's best to explore some ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Application Error

  Hi experts, We have an application written in VBA. The application is failing with the following log entry in the event log. Faulting application: appname.exe Faulting Module: VBE6 Version: 6.4.99.72 Fault Address 0x000dc6f2 Event ID: 1000 The application is running on Windows XP SP2 with Office 2003 SP2. Help would be much appreciated. Thanks Steve Additional information: The application is not a W ...Show All

• SQL Server Need help with Checksum Procedure

  Morning Campers, I have two tables src_monthly_terrrier and src_weekly_terrier. Both of these tables consists of 10+ columns. As the table names probably suggest, I import weekly data into one and monthly data into another. All the source data comes from an Excel spreadsheet via straight Import Data procedure. The only guaranteed change on a weekly and monthly basis is that one of the columns in each table named src_date will obviously hav ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums CRM 3.0 doesn’t save my settings

  Hi, I’m having another problem in CRM 3.0. When I change any setting in the CRM system, everytime that I clicked in the OK button it should save my new settings and that’s not happening. How can I solve this Thanks, Per our support engineer: Would you please tell us where you changed the settings that were not saved There are lots of settings in CRM 3.0. So we need to know where is the problem. J Please ...Show All

• Visual Studio Setting rows-per-page for LocalReport

  How do I set the number of rows to display per page for a LocalReport via RDLC   I've tried setting both the Height element under Body and the PageHeight element under Report.  Neither seem to have any effect -- it looks like I get around 50 rows per page regardless. Hi, have you find any solution for the interactive sort not working when pagination is enabled I have the same problem, with no pagi ...Show All