Skyline58687's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio How to make an ItemGroup reference a set of subdirectories instead of files?

  I just started using MSbuild this weekend, and I'm loving it so far, but my work has produced some questions.  With the current ItemGroup notation, is there a way to make an itemgroup that grabs all subdirectories for a particular directory   We have a set of N builds, and they are stored in directories like so: Builds\     Product1.0.0.0\     Product1.5.0.0\     Product2.0.0.0\     Product2.3.0.0\    I am currently trying to make an MSBuild file that helps me build patches between every version of our product and the last version of our product.  To do th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Programmatically create drop shadow for image (.jpg file)

  I'd like to create a small little app to use for myself that will automatically create a drop shadow on a .jpg file.  For an example of what I'd like to do with .NET check out the thumbnails at the following link: http://www.level3photography.com/Proofs/Linsey/default.htm I'm curious if anyone has any sample code for creating a drop shadow on an image using ...Show All

• SQL Server SqlExpress create unique column

  Hi, can anyone guide me on how to create a unique field with SqlExpress and VC#.net I know how to create primary key with identity, however I need to create another unique column for "email". I have search high and low for a solution but found none, the closest i got is unique constraint which I've not idea what's that. Please help, else I have to always do a duplication check before inserting new records. Many thanks. I guess in your case the unique Constraint would be the best choice, if you already have a primary key column defined on the table you should use something like the following commands. ALTER TAB ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions link.exe error

  I followed this tutorial: Building Windows Forms Applications with Wizards in Visual C++ Express (12 Minutes - 8.2 MB) And I get an alert box that pops up and says: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library --------------------------- Runtime Error! Program: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\link.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- When I click OK, the output window at the bottom of VC++ EE says: Project : error PRJ ...Show All

• SQL Server Repeat grid header on each page

  Hi, If a grid header has the RepeatOnNewPage property set to True , how can I figure out when the header is continuing on next pages, so I can add the text '. .. continue ' on every page except the first one Thank you. Radu. Thank you for your answer... ... but it doesn't work. My report displays more tables, not only one, and each table displays rows grouped by a field XYZ. The RowNumber(Nothing) function gives the current row index in the entire context. It might be helpful to have a variable which is reset to 1 for each table. I've tried to pass the group name parameter to t ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting Expiration period for Maintenance Plan Backups??

  Hi, I'm trying to find out how to set the expiration period for backups created using a Maintenance plan for SQL Server 2005. When manually backing up an individual database there is an option to specify when the backupset will expire. This option is also available in SQL Server 2000 Maintenance plans however is not for SQL Server 2005 Maintenance plans. Under the Server Properties there is an option to set the default backup media retention period. Is there no way to set this period for individual maintenance plans Thanks, Neil Thanks for your feedback and I will open a tracking workitem ...Show All

• Windows Forms The parameter is incorrect - Task Vision Server

  Hello, when trying to install the Task Vision server, I get the error message "The parameter is incorrect".  I have gone through the required steps for this install. Thanks, Kevin Thanks, found the script. I actually made a fresh winXP in a Virtual PC and there it installed. Still came up with errors, but the project is there. Ed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System named instance of SQL Server in beta refresh

  Is this supported Will it be supported in the final release Thanks The use of a client native alias to run TFS on a named instance is not an officially supported or fully tested approach. ...Show All

• .NET Development Deserialize with assembly loaded at runtime gives Unable to find assembly (SerializationException)

  Hello, I'm rather new to .NET and serialization and so on. I have a program that loads a dll assembly (using LoadFrom) at runtime into the current AppDomain. All this loading works perfectly and when I run trough the assemblies of the AppDomain using System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies(); I can see the assembly loaded from the dll. Then I serialize an object of a class in the dll's assembly. I have another application which loads the dll assembly in the same way. I then want to deserialize the previously serialized object and I get a SerializationException saying it couldn't find the assembly. The assembly it doesn't find is the sam ...Show All

• Visual Studio HOWTO: Localization and Reports

  What do I have to do get the date and time as displayed on the reports to use the culture setting of the ASP.NET thread culture. I have tried changing the regional settings on the box with no luck. We are trying to localize our reports to swedish, portuguese. I am having a hard time understanding the tweaks that has to be done to get this working. All the asp.net controls understand the culture, whats up with the reportviewer control. Why is it not using the ASP.NET current thread culture BTW, the language property of the reports seems to have no impact either. Appreciate if MS can direct us to some sample code and reports. Than ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help disabling Just-In-Debugging

  I installed .net 2.0 yesterday and now Just-In-Time Debugging has taken over my apps I work on outside of VS.net. I have followed all steps I have found to disable JIT with no results. So then I uninstalled 2.0 and reverted back to 1.1. Still, the JIT dialogue pops up. The pages I am working on are classic asp pages and the last thing I need is these JIT popups. I have been unable to find any information beyond the checkboxes in VS.net. Could anyone shed some light on this If it matters, I am on XP Pro and run VS.Net 2003. Thanks. It sounds like you want to turn off script debugging on your computer. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Code Request

  Is there a code to send information that is typed into a text box by the user to your email thanks http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=227937&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Docking for Visual Inheritance

  I'm sure most of you have read and applied Roland Weigelt's article at http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2003/09/24/28984.aspx I had the similar problem since I want my child forms' layout to follow that of my base form and this is the only solution that I can find on the web.  I'm just wondering if there are other workarounds on this issue. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Translation, XML, XSLT...

  Hi all, I'm about to start something that looks rather complicated and I would like your advice on the topic. So far, I've been developping a small application that simulates the display of an embedded application. This application is now over, and now they want me to create a translation module based on this application. The main ideas are: the display is  ...Show All

• SQL Server Active Database Connections SQL Express, how many

  How can I determine if everyone has logged off of the SQL Express database, ie, no one else is connected. I need to clean up some files that are generated in my code, but I only want to do that when everyone has logged off the database In MS Access, I could try to re-open the MDB file exclusively. Is there a connection number etc Hi there, There isn't a connection number per se (well there is the @@CONNECTIONS function but that returns all server connections since the server was last started/restarted so it's not really useful for your situation). You can use the stored procedure sp_who or ...Show All