HelenD's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Version displayed in publish.htm?

  What is displayed as "Version" in publish.htm Is it the "assembly version", the "file version", or the "publish version" The reason I ask is that I have bumped the "publish version" up twice now, from 1.0.0.0 to 1.0.0.1 and now to 1.0.0.2, and each time I publish, the resulting publish.htm file shows "1.0.0.0" as the version. The published version is displayed. Can you check the following 1. On the server w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office I need a help with CMschart control!

  Can columns in a chart be divided into separate colored portions representing different variables Basically, it should act as pie chart as it represents percentages of a whole, only it looks as column chart. Thanx! Hi Could you give more details of what you are trying to do Does it deal with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Thanks, Nikhil ...Show All

• SQL Server How to get detailed info of views?

  Hi. We're using Sql Views to access data from our database, and I need to validate the views so that we don't loose anys data. By that I meen that e.g. if a foreign key column is nullable, we need to use an outer join to secure that we get all the rows from out "main" table in that view + some other checks on the joins and the joined columns. But I couldn't get this info from the Smo.View-object. Do I have to parse the CREATE VIE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I calculate a person's age?

  Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition: I need to display a selected person's age in years. Lastname, Firstname Age: 99 LastName, FirstName and BirthDate are from my SQL database table. Pocket, Polly Age: 6 hi, you can try something like this Sub Main() Dim birthday As DateTime = "29/10/1975" Dim age As Integer = DateTime.Now.Year - birthday.Year Console.WriteLine ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) FrameworkElement.Tag not persist

  I have tried using Button.Tag (FrameworkElement.Tag) to store some custom object (created with a new operator, not from stack). When handling the Click event for this button, the Tag property always set back to null. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known issue for WPF beta Thanks I'd be really surprised if this was a bug...(Tag doesn't do much...) Here is a quick test I tried...all seemed t ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Mail Errors on COM Initialization within SQL Agent Jobs.

  I am routinely receiving an error on a job that contains a call to the SQL Server 2005 Database Mail routine. "Executed as user: dbo. Query execution failed: Error initializing COM [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 14661). The step failed." The job does successfully run, but only perhaps only once or twice out of 10 runs. I have got the job to run correctly either scheduled or through manually executing the job within the SQL Agent. ...Show All

• .NET Development COM Interoperability

  Hi, how to code a type library in VS.NET 2005 beta 2 in C++ I wanna put some automation functionality into my app. In other words i wanna the possibility that other COM capable applications like Office can use some automation functionality of my app i.e. through VBA or so. A COM capable language. This was in Delphi really simple with the type library editor. I'm only developing 64 Bit applications now in C/C++ and ASM. thx in advance ...Show All

• SQL Server Read/Write Performance

  Hello, We currently run sql 2005 server and also sql express in our dev environments. We use sql express as an offline store (smart client). We have a similar/exact schema on the sql 2005 server and also the express. We use the auto attach feature to connect to the express version of the database. Both the developer machines and the one that is running the sql 2005 server have exactly the same hardware configuration. The only difference ma ...Show All

• Smart Device Development QVGA at design time

  Hi, when I create a new project, the device skin designer image is the VGA type. is there a way to display the QVGA image because when I deploy my app, the layout of the controls looks different from the way I wanted it to be.. thanks, Oren   Hello Oren, Didn't Pocket PC 2003 SE VGA images serve your purpose -Thanks, Mohit ...Show All

• Visual Basic Is Visual Basic recordcount property of recordset giving problems

  I do not receive a count on rs.recordcount..it reurns a zero   Vibhavari Govind Panse wrote: I do not receive a count on rs.recordcount..it reurns a zero Vibhavari,    While both of the posts are correct, there are certain situations where each would apply.    If the location of the cursor is client side, and the cursor is static, then you will get a value for the recordcount.  &n ...Show All

• Visual C# PInvokeStackImbalance was detected

  Hi, I keep getting this error when I try to run my project from the IDE.This does not happen when running the exe. The details specify that the Stack Imbalance was detected in a third party dll which I am using. How can I fix this. Thanks, tribal A call to PInvoke function ThirdPartyDll!Namespace.ClassName.NativeMethods::ImageList_DrawEx' has unbalanced the stack. This is likely because the managed PInvoke signature does not match th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Synchronization of two TFS?

  Hi, I'm wondering if there is a possibity to synchronize 2 team foundation servers I want to synchronize a project (worked on on both tfs) every day or so. thanks, Rhapsy There is nothing out of the box. It would depend on the circumstances, but it would be possible in a simple scenario to do some syncronization programatically ...Show All

• Visual Basic Lost templates in VS2005

  Hi, I installed VS 2005 beta 2 and VB 2005 Express Edition on my computer. Before I installed VB, I had several item templates is VS 2005 (these templates you get by doing Add item : forms, dialogs, etc.) Now, I only have Inherited forms and controls. I still get the templates in VB 2005 Express. Did I lost my templates because of VB Express How to get them back Important : on another machine, I installed VS 2005 alone and I get the templates ...Show All

• Visual Basic Communicating with IBM Personal COmmunications

  I have a question concerning using VB.net and communication with IBM Personal Communications. I've been trying to do this with no prevail. I used the referencing but am still having problems with it communicating. Here is a snippet of the coding that I believe is causing the problem. When I execute the code I get an error. PS(1) = New AutPSTypeLibrary.AutPSClass 'PS(1) refers to the first (A) emulator. The 1, 2 is the row/column to ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Rank() inside a stored procedure

  I am storing the result set from a Select statement using the Rank () into a temporary table in 2005. This works fine when I run the statements as a script, however the exact same code in a stored procedure does not work. The result set is not stored in a temporary table. I tried storing the results in a physical table but that did not work either. Has anyone else experienced this yet Yes, please post some sampl ...Show All