Charles B's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Missing Project Templates

  I'm using VB 2005 Express Edition.  I have no project templates. My initial install was successful.  I've taken the following step to resolve this mystery - via Add/Remove programs I performed a repair of VB.  But templates are still missing.   ...Show All

• SQL Server Consume HTTP EndPoint

  Hello, I have problems consuming webservice, I was following this page. http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen/archive/2005/06/23/65089.aspx but in the intelisense the method returns an array of objects[], So I have a problem with this line. localhost. GetEmployees sd = new localhost. GetEmployees (); sd.Credentials = System.Net. CredentialCache .DefaultCredentials; DataSet ds = ( DataSet )(sd.EmployeeList() ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET componant from COM componant

  I have a dll file from a .NET application that I want to reference from Excel-VBA. VBA won't let me reference it. I followed instructions and ran tlbexp.exe then regasm.exe and then gacutil.exe and everthing said it worked succesfully. Since I don't know much about programming I can't really say what these things did. I suppose they created and registered a type library from the dll file. The problem is when I reference the new tlb file with ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Direct3D Initialization

  I am trying to initialize Direct3D using this code: Imports microsoft.DirectX Imports Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D Public Class Form1     Private dev As Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device = Nothing     Private Function Init3d() As Boolean         Try             Dim pparams As New PresentParameters  & ...Show All

• Visual Basic FolderBrowser .exe files

  I have got the folderbrowser but it only browses through folder and not applications like exe. files. Anyway how i can make it show .exe files   ...Show All

• SQL Server how do you query or run a trace on a cube?

  ive just inherited an olap analysis reporting app at work. i want to know can i query a cube, or run a trace to see what data is being called from the cube Use SQL Server Profiler and create a new trace and connect to the SSAS db. You will see all the MDX being executed. ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO.NET corrupting SQL parameters

  Hi all. We have persistant failures when trying to update values from the dataset into underlying database. Our web service captures the update generated by the desktop client and sends it through ADO.NET into the SQL 2000 service. Somewhere in the "pipeline" the SQL statement passed into SQL service is corrupted. For example, here are snippets from the web server trace written just before the dataset.Update statement: (printed from datase ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows Workflow Foundation

  How can I get the windows workflow foundation version Yes, I know, but I need to know the Beta version 1.2 or 2, I think that xoml format make the difference. Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development abort shutdown?

  Hi, Is there a way in which a windows service can abort a system shutdown In a desktop application, I can handle the SessionEnding event and abort a shutdown. Can a windows service do something similar I can register for and handle the shutdown event, but if the service is doing something critical (which takes time) and should not be shutdown, how does it prevent the abort the system shutdown initiated by a user Any pointers would be very hel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TeamFoundationServerExt in VS 2005 Pro (as opposed to Team Suite)

  The VsipHelper class was public in Beta 3, now it is internal. Code I wrote depended upon this type to get the currently-active server in the IDE via the GetTfsServer method. What is the best way to handle this in the RC your registry entry and dll list looks good. let's see if you can reference any of our object model. try this in your addin (shouldn't require any assembly references or namespace using c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sql server 2005 trial version

  I ordered a trial version of Sql Server 2005 from Microsoft that is supposed to be valid for 180 days. Yesterday, after only some 30 days of usage I am told that the trial time has expired! Have anybody experience the same problem Any help/suggestion would be most appreciated. Thanks, the Cicada The RTM version of SQL Server 2005 Evaluation Edition should work for 180 days after you installed it. What ex ...Show All

• Windows Forms use a variable to cycle through textboxes

  I have about 15 textboxes, all of which I want to save in a string array. Right now I just code: array[0] = txtbx1.text array[1] = txtbx2.text.... and so on. Is there a way that I can use a for loop and use x  instead of 1 and 2. so it would look like this:   For( x=0;x<=15;x++) { array[x]=txtbx + x.text; } instead of writing it 15 times Thanks. Yes, you can recursively call do ...Show All

• Windows Forms Excel like tables / grids without binding?

  Hello, I am new to 03 .net and I am having a hard time with a couple of things so I am hoping someone will help! How do I create a grid like display without binding Sometime Visual only and sometime in the future I will build the database for a binded grid. Is there a way to create these grids and specify the number of columns and rows without binding them Ya, I got the data grid connected to the access databas last night. It isn't going t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2005 client and V6 Server

  Does the new client work or is it supported with the new V6 server Are there any good reasons to run this way Or, what is gained by doing it The database format did not change between the previous release and 2005. This means that you can use the new tools with the older version of the product which should improve stability and reliability. VSS 2005 has a lot of stability and reliability improvements. -mark ...Show All

• Visual C++ Vector data corrputed

  And here i am... again -_-, hope its ok with you, because this is the only forum i can find with a quick and good answer. Here is the situation: inside a thread i'm creating a vector<myclass>. myclass is contains some members and functions, non of them are really important. the vector can get a size over 2000, but here is the hitch. for some or other reason, i'm using a loop witch reads every single member of the vector, and manipulates ...Show All