robinsenior's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms ComboBox Data Binding Question

  I am creating a "learning" app.  I have successfully connected to Sql Server 2000, created a  dataset containing a single table,  "mytable" with several columns.  I am trying to bind this  data collection to a combo box cboPlantId on my form.  I have tried a number of approaches  but only one has worked.  I am hoping someone&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unshelving

  Assume that developer X has shelved a web project with the shelved name of jschmo20060209d. Developer Y wants to view this project and modify some of the code. How does developer Y view all the shelved copies of a project and then select one and open it up http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms245465.aspx has directions, but my Source Control menu does not contain any option related to shelving or unshelving. Assume Beta 3 Refresh. Thanks in advance. Mark Is your Source Control plugin (Tools -> Options) set to TFS Have you created a workspace Do you have read permissio ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) VisualBrush at Runtime BUG?

  Hi, I'm filling a visualbrush using a custom control at runtime. I have something like this in my main window: <object> < DiffuseMaterial > < DiffuseMaterial.Brush > < VisualBrush x:Name = " visualBrushCustom " ></ VisualBrush > </ DiffuseMaterial.Brush > </ DiffuseMaterial > In the code behind: void Window1_Loaded( object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { customControl = new CustomControl (); visualBrushCustom.Visual = customControl ; ..... BUT The customcontrol is not rendered as visualBRush. If I insert the customcontrol inside my window and then redirec ...Show All

• SQL Server How to design this cube?

  Hi, I have a question on designing the fact table. There are 2 tables in my database: OrderHeader,OrderDetail. And the OrderDetail table has different lines for different product. If the OrderDetail table is the fact table, how can I get the measure on how many orders we have I cannot simply use count(orderno) as the measure because the field,orderno, is duplicate in the OrderDetail table, and analysis services don't support "count distinct" for the measure. Or any ideas for redesigning this cube Thank you so much! Thank you Deepak. You are the man! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unit testing a form...

  We're trying to unit test the main form of our application. Things like instantiating the form, checking for the default controls, invoking something that creates a new panel, checking for focus inside this new panel... all these things work great. For testing navigation we're using the SendKeys class to send a Tab key press to the form from the unit test. This works fine when you run this test method independently. However, when I run my entire test class, the test methods that are trying to test navigation using the SendKeys class are failing. When these tests are run by themselves they pass. When they are run with all the other tests t ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL SERVER 2005 REPLICATION (MERGE AGENT FAILING : PUSH SUBSCRIPTION)

  ERROR MESSAGE: "Message: Incorrect syntax near 'NoteID'." Here is a snipet from the output file: 2006-03-27 13:01:49.820 Skipping file 'NotesHistory_21.sch' because it has already been delivered for a previous article or by a previously interrupted snapshot. 2006-03-27 13:01:49.867 OLE DB Subscriber 'LUZERNV4-PDO\SQL4': SET ANSI_NULLS ON 2006-03-27 13:01:49.898 OLE DB Distributor 'LARGOS00-SDI': {call sys.sp_MSadd_merge_history90 ( , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , )} 2006-03-27 13:01:49.945 OLE DB Subscriber 'LUZERNV4-PDO\SQL4': SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON 2006-03-2 ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you get the Form parenting the control?

  Looking for a generic way of doing this, probably by just traversing the parent objects and inspecting the object type. What's the proper way of inspecting the parent to handle both System...Form and System...Form derived forms You can compare any form to System.Windows.Forms.Form, no matter how many times the form is derrived from another form. It still remains a System.Windows.Forms.Form ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. The Game Programming from Scratch

  I'm Professional in VB6,VB.Net 2003,VB 2005 and i want to start in game programming but i don't know from to start study. Some friends tell me to study DirectX, but i found it hard to self study and there is no books in vb and DirectX (Almost), Anybody have any idea to start in it in simple way Here are some Managed DirectX tutorials that have been ported to VB.NET: http://www.drunkenhyena.com/cgi-bin/dx9_net.pl And here is an Italian website with tons of more advanced MDX samples in VB.NET: http://www.robydx.135.it It may take some digging to find what you're looking for, but according to the admin, the samples are written and ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX Feb CTP service configuration problem.

  Hello, I have following problem - after installing WinFX Feb CTP I still cannot use updated config file syntax when configuring services. I.e. <services> <service name ="PMServiceLibrary.WorkflowManagementService" behaviorConfiguration="WorkflowServiceBehavior"> <endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="ContractLibrary.IWorkflowManagementServiceContract"/> </service> </services> "Name" attribute is not recognized, though if I use "Type" attribute instead of "Name", everything looks fine as in the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to debug FxCop custom rules?

  How to debug FxCop custom rules code Thanks in advance, Grace Excellent.   My first try did not copy pdb file to FxCop.exe "Rules Directory" thus failed. After copied it, it works. ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL server registration failed

  I installed .Net framework 2.0 in a Window 2003 Server and VS2005 in my PC a few days ago (.NET framework 1.1 is still in the server and VS.NET2003 is still in my PC), SQL server 2000 is with web server together. there is no problem to run ASP.net 2.0 application, the application also can query the database in SQL server. But I encounter a problem that I can't create new SQL server registration from my PC to the above server. the error msg is "SQL Server registration failed. SQL Server does not exist or access denied ConnectionOpen(Connect())" There is no problem to connect SQL server remotely before I upgraded .net framework to 2 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Standard "gets()"" library(again...)

  Can anyone tell me Tell you what What is the question Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro HOW I CAN DO "WIZARD UPSIZING" FROM THE SOURCE CODE??

  Hi! I have to do an upsizing from a foxpro-database to an sql server, but, I don't want to use the wizard--->upsizing from the menu-bar...I want to do the same things, but from the code! Can you help me Thank you. >But now, I have one more question for you...if I studi the Microsoft's upsizing >code, and I'll change something it, can I redistribuite my program I'm not really sure as I haven't looked much into this. Maybe someone else might be able to comment on that. >And, do you know, if someone have done something similar >Or do you know where I can find a code that do the same thing No. Unfortunately I do n ...Show All

• Visual C# Handling strings with escape characters in C# 2005

  I have a string in C# 2002 that is coded like this: private string m_strProdOutputBeginPath = @" \\DOR-PROD-FTP\NAUPA\ "; and when it is used it displays exactly like it is coded. When I copied the code to C# 2005, and ran itthru this code: m_strOutFilePath = m_strProdOutputBeginPath + "EROUTFILE.txt" if (!File.Exists ( m_strOutFilePath)) { using ( FileStream fs = File.Create(m_strOutFilePath)) { . . . } } When the run gets to the "if/using" code, the path looks like this: \\\\ DOR-PROD-FTP\\NAUPA\ \EROUTFILE.txt Why isn't the string displaying correctly I thought ...Show All

• SQL Server Chart combination

  Hello, I would like to combine an area- and line graph (something like this: http://www.graphicsserver.net/images/thumb%20area%20bar%20line%20graph.png , without the bars), can this be done Thanks, IIMA  You will probably need Dundas Charts or another 3rd party control to do something with that effect.  It is possible to overlay 3 charts with transparent backgrounds, but I do not think that the effect will be pleasing. ...Show All