MikeAlister's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Why is my object type returned as System.MarshalByRefObject?

  I am retreiving a proxy via remoting, like so: IMyServiceProxy proxy = (IMyServiceProxy)Activator.GetObject(typeof(IMyServiceProxy), "stringdatahere"); A method I am passing this proxy to expects a type of IMyServiceProxy, but it faults and generates an error saying it is a System.MarshalByRefObject type. Sure enough, when I print it out via proxy.GetType().ToString() it says it's a System.MarshalByRefObject. What gives How can I fix ...Show All

• Visual C# Sign a XML file by SmartCard on the .NET

  Sign a XML file by SmartCard on the .NET I'm having problems to access the private key of the certificate stored on the chip card. If i access the private key of a certificate with private key stored on the machine certificate store it works well.....but in the case of the chip card, when i read the X509Certificate2.PrivateKey property, i receive a System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: There are more data available. If s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Manually uninstall betas

  Because of a problem with a bad sector on a hard drive, I get an error when I try to uninstall any of those listed in the Uninstalling Express Editions section.  Is there a way to manually uninstall Hi Dan, That worked for .Net framework but I am having the same issues with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Beta. thanks, tim ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86

  I recently (yesterday) installed a fresh copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 2 applied. I proceeded with Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions installation straight away. But I cannot install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86. I choose to install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86 component along with every component of visual studio but it simply would not install. In the end, after the installation of each com ...Show All

• SQL Server AddEvent, CreateSubscription, and UpdateActiveSubscription guidance

  We need an ability for our web users to request reports and provide parameters for them. Users can not Connect to ReportManager, due to security limitations and SQLServer Standard Edition. We can store the report requests and parameters in our database, and periodically run a priviledged process to read those requests and generate the reports. It looks like we could do this in TSQL code, if we can figure out how to use the stored procedures ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) using *linq with a web project

  web projects don't seem to have a .csproj file, where the pointer to the alternate c# compiler resides. so, how can i use *linq with a web project   WebProjects use CodeDom providers. So the trick will be figuring out how to point the code dom provider at the new C#, VB compilers. Or perhaps the new C# compiler registers a new version of the CSharpCodeProvider that you then need to specify in machine.config to override these def ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem installing SQL Server 2005 Express with Advance Services CTP

  Hi, I was unable to install the CTP version of SS Express Edition SP1 with Advance Services. The installation failed with the following error message: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup ------------------------------ SQL Server Setup could not connect to the database service for server configuration. The error was: [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'sa'. Refer to server error logs and setup logs for mor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Do I have VSTO?

  Hi, This is probably a silly question, but I've searched around and haven't been able to find an answer. I have both Visual Studio 2003 standard and Visual Studio 2005 pro (on separate computers). Does that mean that I already have VSTO (I haven't been able to find any evidence of it), or is it something I need to get separately If so, how do I get it (and would there be any discounts available since I already have Visual Studio as well as O ...Show All

• SQL Server Generating Scripts from SQL Server 2000 using DMO and C#

  Hi, I'm generate scripts from a sql server 2000 database using DMO and C#. the probelm am having is that when i try to generate views i get views *and* tables! i tried to get rid of the tables: SQLDMO.Transfer2 transfer = new SQLDMO.Transfer2Class(); transfer.CopyAllViews = true ; transfer.CopyAllTables = false ; transfer.IncludeDependencies = false ; i tried adding the views using AddObject: foreach (SQLDM ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to keep a Splash Screen on while App Loading

  I've been playing with a splash screen to give my users something to look at while the data is loaded into a dataset. Where can I put my initialization code (init dataset - load data - create business objects) so that the Splash Screen sho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Application.AddChartAutoformat(), Working with xls, not with xlt

  Hi, I had tried out this code, to store Custom user defined chart in xl gallery; OPTChart = Globals .Sheet1.Controls.AddChart( Globals .Sheet1.Range[ "A1" , "M14" ], "OPTChart" ); OPTChart.SetSourceData( Globals .Sheet1.Range[ "A1" , "A4" ], Excel. XlRowCol .xlColumns); OPTChart.ChartType = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel. XlChartType .xl3DArea; Application.AddChartAutoForm ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies SIMPLE instructions to REMOVE Windows Desktop Search

  I have written to MS without receiving a simple, non-MIS/IT description of how to remove this horribly intrusive add-on, that installed itself DESPITE clicking on DO NOT INSTALL. So (and without getting into the politics of who is behind this), all I want is the easy way to remove this program. I have gone into Add/Remove Programs and YES, clicked on Show Updates, but there is NOTHING clearly identified as Windows Desktop Search. ALSO, ...Show All

• SQL Server provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server

  Hi All,    I am new to dotnet. I tried connecting to the database MS SQL Server 2000. I gave the code like, the one below, in form load event, SqlDataReader dr = null ; SqlConnection myConnection = new SqlConnection("Data Source=IP;Initial Catalog=name;User Id=uid;Password=pwd;"); myConnection.Open(); myConnection.Close(); But I could not connect. The error message highlights the line myConnection.Open() and ...Show All

• Visual C++ In VC++ 8, does "Disable Language Extensions" mean no __declspec?

  I have been using VC++ 8 Express for the last day or so.  Today I noticed the "Disable Language Extensions" in the Project Properties -> Configuration Properites -> C/C++ -> Language page. What does turing this to Yes mean for creating a dll file   After removing all "__declspec(dllexport)"  declarations, do ALL functions and classes get exported to the lib/dll, just as if you had put that on everything ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Read and WritePrivateProfile

  Now that writing to HKLM is being restricted will the PrivateProfile APIs be modified and/or extended Writing to a file (ini or xml or ...) is now a more preferred way to operate rather than using the registry. Using these APIs is much more efficient than having to load an XML parser or write file management code into a app for a few limited shared values. Also it would be useful to be able to store/read binary data with the PrivateProf ...Show All