The Beta Tester's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Can a dll built in vs2005 .NET 2.0 be used within vs2003 .NET 1.1

  will vs2003 .NET 1.1 be able to use a dll built in vs2005 .NET 2.0 Cheers, Craig I've tried once to create a 2.0 assembly which I tried to use from a 1.1 project. I tried to use the configuration settings described in the document you mention James. Finally, there was no way I could add a reference of the 2.0 assembly to the 1.1 project. VS2003 kept throwing an exception. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installing Visual Studio Team System

  I have 2 partitions on my computer     C : Windows XP Pro with VS 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 (not the Team foundation Server)     D : Windows Server 2003 I installed a few weeks ago just to try projectserver 2003 the installation was done on the Windows Server 2003 on the D partition I installed SQLServer 2005 ctp April as mentioned in the installationguide I installed Sharepoint services as mentioned I tried to install Team System Server but got an error "Remove Visual Studio Foundation App-Data Tier Beta2 from this computer" but Visual Studio is not installed on this partition. How can I explain to my co ...Show All

• .NET Development Using System.Net Class

  i want to write a program which will download a file from internet.......but during that i want to show some updates of most likely like progress or so...... i came to know that i have to follow the IAsync...but no further could you please provide some useful info. The timeout value choose is going to depend on several things... What server you are making the request to.  Is the server frequently overloaded   What is the average response time for the server   What is the longest response time for the server   Do you trust the server to correctly respond within a reasonable time   One possible timeout is the ...Show All

• .NET Development Deploying web service to test server

  Hi, I have 2 ASP.Net projects, "client_side" and "server_side". Both have a reference to WSE 2.0 SP 3. My intention is to transfer files between the server and the client. I developed both web services on my development machine and they work great. Now I wanted to move the "server_side" web service to the test server. So I installed WSE 2.0 SP 3 run-time version on the test server and copied "server_side.dll" to the test server. (when I try to upload a file from client to server, the client attaches the file stream as a DIME attachment to the request Soap Context Object). Now from "client_side" web service, when I hit the "server- ...Show All

• SQL Server Which data type should I use to store XML in a column in DB?

  I have xml string that needs to be stored in a field in the DB. I was looking for recommendations for the data type I can use in such a scenario. If your using SQL 2005 and your XML is well formed you can use the xml type. Using the native xml type in sql allows you to perform XQueries and such directly in the database. You could also use nvarchar, ntext if you are using an earlier version. Larry Pope ...Show All

• SQL Server List of data mining techniques not populated - BI Studio hangs

  From within the Business Intelligence Studio, I've created a data source and a data source view. Next, when I try to build a mining structure from a relational database, the studio hangs when it goes to the screen which lists the data mining techniques. Has anybody come across this issue What needs to be done to get further I'm using the June CTP of SQL Server 2005. Thanks, -GB. This might be the result of a configuration/install bug. I would suggest uninstalling your June CTP version and moving to the RTM build. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating a program that can save in a specific file format.

  Hello, I was wondering how (and if) to create a program that will allow me to type some text, make some selections, and then save it. What I need to know is how to save the program then be able to re-open it properly. Thanks for any help. When you say "make it select the file format" I'm guessing that "it" refers to the Save and/or Open dialogs. Is that correct If the extension .TMS is the only extension you wish to support, then you set the DefaultExt property on the Dialog Control to "tms", and the filter property on the dialog to "File Type Description|*.tms" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Managed Outlook add-ins do not start automatically

  Hi! I've played around a little bit with managed outlook add-ins. They work fine so far. The problem. assume that i've activated such an add-in within outlook - and it works. when i shutdown outlook and restart it again, the add-in is not loaded automatically! when i go to the outlook add-in manager, it's still activated (selected). i then have to deselect it, close the dialog and reopen it and select it again, close it and then the add-in runs again... any ideas thanks -olaf   See also this blog post:  http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2005/02/01/365021.aspx ...Show All

• .NET Development Can Client and the Host application share the same instance of a server DLL?

  Hi, I built a small system with server DLL hosted in a host application, and access by a client. Inside the Server DLL, I define events and raise event to a function when client called, but the Host application cant get the event from the server DLL. I suspect they are different instance of DLL, anyway to make them share the same instance of DLL Thank you. Hi, Make your object a remote object (I assume you already are as the post is in the remoting board) and mark it as a singleton object.  That way only one instance of the remote object will be invoked and events thrown can be heard by all listeners.  If you require more th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Office Development

  Hi, having had a look at the Visual Studio Express, I'm rather thrilled, especially as code developed with it can be distributed commercially. However, I am wondering about teh implications of one point on the comparison site. Does the fact that Office Development is not supported mean that the "new" (I'm used to VB6) Office Tools of .Net are not supported, or that even the basic office objects as available in VB6 are not offered Can I still open a connection to, say, Powerpoint, and run some VBA macro code on it Thanks for the help! Microsoft Office development using .NET is supported thro ...Show All

• Visual Basic Walkthrough -- Select XML File... click Add but there is no XML File Choice

  Walkthrough -- States ... Because this walkthrough focuses on reading XML data into a dataset, the contents of an XML file is provided. To create the XML file that will be read into the dataset From the Project menu, choose Add New Item. Select XML File Microsoft Sooooooo many of your helps simply do... not... work. I have the new 2005 VB Express and installed it without any tricks and there is no following choice -- From the Project menu, choose Add New Item. Select XML File. Any suggestions <rant> Do you even try to debug the help by actually running them Sorry would not want to piss off anyone since i am forced to be ...Show All

• SQL Server DtsBackup2000 for SSIS packages??

  hi everyone, Up to moment I've been using Dtsbackup2000 for do backup for our DTS but now, which let's allow do the same with dtsx TIA ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Links to 'Register now' in Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 does not work

  I would like to activate my Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2.  Unfortunately the link 'Register now' does not work. I already did verify my email address in my profile. How can I activate Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta without using this link P.S. : I activated and used Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 1 before without any problem. Thank you for your help. Kind regards, Piet I am experiencing the same problem with both the Visual Basic Express and Visual J# Express editions. None of the links in the Help section work. I click on them and nothing happens, at all. no error messages, nothing. This i ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA tapi caller ID

  hi wizards, I search for days now, but cannot find any working sample code to do the following I just want to get the telephonnumber of an incoming call (initiate outgoing calls with tapiRequestMakeCall works with a telephone connected to the USB port). I found a lot of code for C or VB, but not a single working one for VBA. Can anyone point my nose to a working sample I just want to recognize the incoming call in my access application and display the corresponding record... I though to adapt a VB code to match the VBA criteria is not a big deal, but apparently definitions, links and libs are differently handled or I jus ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MSDN DLINQ Chat Transcript?

  Hi, Where can I find a transcript of the DLINQ chat from yesterday I'd be very interested to see what was discussed. Cheers, -Jonathan ...Show All