Arne's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom Activity - Errors Best Practice

  After looking at some examples and browsing the forum I could not find much information on how to handle errors in side an execute method. For example, I go to retrieve something and it is not there. At this point the activity can not complete. What is the best practice at this point, throw an exception or just set the cancel status Thanks Returning a status of Cancelled will indicate the activity was not successfully completed; whereas re ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Project Creation Failed - TF30225: Error uploading report : Work Items

  Howdy All, I can't work out why my Team Foundation Projects fail to create right at the end of the New Team Project Wizard. It appears to be a rights issue, but rights to what Report Server SQL Sharepoint Arrgh! Here is a log team project creation log:   ------------------------------------------ .... 12/7/2005 11:47:45 AM | Module: WSS | Thread: 11 | Uploading file: Template Sample - Threat Model for Web Application.doc retry #: 0 12/7/2 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trying to write an Excel Formula using a VB.Net variable

  I am trying to add a formula that will subtract Column C from B through code, but I don't know how to format the formula using a variable in my code to move to another cell. I more then likley going about this wrong, so any help would be appreciated. The following works with the exception of the formula. Please Help. Dim xlApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application Dim xlBook As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to select a control within a control in design-time

  I have read a thread in this forum regarding this. Still it's not clear. Can some one please explain me how to do this If you want to post a specific example that you think should work but isn't, please do. Remember to&nb ...Show All

• Visual C++ stringstream causes memory link VC++ 2005?

  This simple program seems to leak LOTS of memory when compiled in VC++ 2005: int _tmain( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { for ( int i = 0; i < 100000; ++i) { ::Sleep(1); std::basic_stringstream<TCHAR> str; str << _T( "Current iteration: " ) << i; } return 0; } CRT: Multi-threaded debug or Multi-threaded I compiled and ran the same piece of code in VC++ 2003 and I don't see ANY leaks! Any ideas ...Show All

• Smart Device Development MBCS character set problem

  Hi, I created a MFC Smart Device Application in Visual Studio 2005. Default the project was created with "Use Unicode Character Set". I switched to "Use Multi-Byte Character Set" but at compile time I get the following error. Q:\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ce\atlmfc\include\afxv_w32.h(227) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'mbctype.h': No such file or directory It means that MFC 8.0 for Windows CE doesn ...Show All

• .NET Development XPath and case sensitive problems

  Running xpaths against a xml doc (comming from a mssql server) and having trouble with case sensitive letters. I have tried to use the xml translate funktion, but it would need an exact match in the DB anyway. If I look for the name John and it is typed JohN in the DB I get nothing. Is the only solution to 'wash' the data in the DB. Are there any work around to make a xpath query non case sensitive  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions DBConcurrecy Exception

  I have a datagrid with 3 cols Name as string, id as identity and money as money(mssql data type) variables and when I enter a float value to the money cell i get an dbconcurrency exception. How can i solve this It even saves the data too, but I don't want to see such a problem. How can I solve this hi, you can check this link handling concurrency >>>> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171936.aspx hope this ...Show All

• SQL Server Connect to SSIS on clustered sql2k5

  I got following error when try to expand msdb under SSIS in SSMS, the SSIS I connected to is on clustered server. The windows account used is member of local admin on both nodes in the cluster and sysadmin in sql. I tried with host name that SSIS runs on and virtual sql server name for connection, tried connect from remote client machine and server itself, got same error: Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum) ...Show All

• .NET Development Security: protect public classes and functions in common DLLs?

  Hello community members, let's assume that my .NET application is composed of three assembiles, one executable and two libraries. All assembiles communicate through public methods, instantiate public classes and so on. I want to prevent anybody from simply linking the DLL and using the public functions in his own application, else, anyone could write own frontends for example, and use our backend functions. What is a common and reliable way to p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS problem related to Architecture and development

  Hi, I am looking for bestpractices when working with TS source control and websites. I have a solution file which typically consist of several projects: a website, a business layer, a dataaccess layer and also a dll with custom controls. The website has references to 3rd party dll's which are "add reference"'d and ends up in the Bin directory. These are are added to the source control so that the website will keep its references. I also add proj ...Show All

• Windows Forms getting the current user's profile

  Dear All, Is there a way to get the path for the current user's MyDocuments folder i.e  in my machine it is "C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\MyDocuments" I know that we can get the current user name by the WindowsIdentity object's getCurrent method but what I want to get is that path for the user's MyDocuments folder Any help is appreciated Thankx There's not need to play around of current user's ide ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Beta 2 and Windows Server 2003 R2

  Is the WWF beta 2 runtime compatible with Windows Server 2003 R2 Has anyone try use beta 2 runtime in Windows 2003 server R2 The release notes only mention 2003 Server with SP1. In meanwhile I have tested this in Windows 2003 R2 and it seems like working. What I Did: I installed the RTC components in Windows Server 2003 R2, I had Framework v2.0.50727 installed earlier. I compiled WWF sample (ASPNETWorkflowExample) by aspnet_compiler ...Show All

• Visual Basic Displaying empty gridview

  If there is no data to be displayed in a GridView in ASP.NET, then the GridView is not rendered at all. Does anybody know how I can display column headers in this case Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB and WMI

  hi friendz,                  i like to add a piece of WMI script into visual basic 2005. how can i add that piece of code and where can i add. if any tutorials for this kind of problem. then give the link. if anybody know how to add and execute that script then please tell step by step. be'cos i am new to vs2005. thank U. hope i will get answer as so ...Show All