Sean Vikoren's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Apoligy in order.

  If i offended anyone with my triade last evening, I apoligize.  I guess I was too angry to write anything last night. Dick Roose ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sharing Modules, Forms, ect between projects in the same solution

  Hi, Sorry for the basic questions but that is how we all learn. I have done several of the examples (persons, ect) and also looked on the forum but did not find an answer to my question. I have a solution created with two projects (Project1 & Project2) in it and the second project (Project2) was added using the "Add Existing Project" in the "File" menu. Project2 contains several forms and several modules.  Project2 is a s ...Show All

• Windows Forms howto set "display" text of dg Column headers @ design time?

  hi, I have a datagrid that pulls data from the database. the fields in the db are as follows: 1) companyId 2) companyName etc This casues the headers to appear as: 1) companyId 2) companyName etc ...not very neat :-( I want the column headers in the datagrid to&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't use style builder!

  I use VWD Express edition. When I highlight a word in Design mode and select the Style Builder, the style builder box comes up just for a couple of seconds and then disappears. The same thing happens if I try to access it from the properties panel on the bottom right hand side of the workspace. Any suggestions Thanks! Hi! Do you have IE7 installed I've heard several people report that that happens when th ...Show All

• Visual C# Overload Methods Reflection

  Hello all, happy new year! I can't reflect to a specific method overload when it has a generic parameters. For example: public class MyClass {     public T First < T >( List < T > source )     {         return source [0];     }     public T First < T >( IEnumerable < T ...Show All

• .NET Development Encrypting Sections of the Web.config File

  Hello, I have a problem with config section encryption. In Web.config I added protectedData section and I'd like to encrypt network section cos' it contains password <protectedData defaultProvider="MyProtectedConfigurationProvider">   <providers>    <add name="MyProtectedConfigurationProvider"      type="System.Configuration.RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider, System.Configurat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error 28100.Error loading Event web service.

  Hi,   During installation I got "Error 28100.Error loading Event web service.". Any idea what is going wrong TFS is being installed on a Virtual Machine.   Please feel free to contact me if you need any more information. Thanks, Bart ps. Is it possible to upload the setup log I went back to some lessons learned when installing tfs beta 2, one of which was to install wss before sql server (even though ...Show All

• SQL Server AS2005 September CTP Memory Error

  I get "Memory error: While attempting to store a string, a string was found that was larger than the page size selected. The operation cannot be completed." while executing query set with cube browser in SQL Server BI Dev Studio. The same error I get while executing query with VB code (via ADOMD). The source of the error is AS2005 OLEDB Provider. One important information: I have installed Sept CTP on clean Windows XP Pro, there were no previous ...Show All

• Visual C++ How can I receive VK_UP and VK_DOWN message from keyboard in a dialog window?

  In a dialog application  without any buttons,I only use the dialog to draw 3-D drawing of OpenGL,I can receive VK_ADD and VK_SUBSTRACT keyboard message,but I can not receive VK_UP and VK_DOWN message,please tell me why By the way in a CView application,I can receive both of the above keyboard message. My code is as follow: void CDialogGLDlg::OnKeyDown(UINT nChar,  UINT nRepCnt,          &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Databases!!!

  Hello, I have a problem trying to connect to an Access Database, the problem is that I want to make a working project without thecontrols, I only need the source code to do that. I would like to know about working with databases without using the bindingnavigator, how can i do that. I don't know, please help!!!:D I imagine the code in this article will cover what you want to know, there's lots of similar article ...Show All

• Visual Basic keeping program from appearing to hang

  I have written a program that needs to ping over 500 pc's on a network. Whenever a ping exception happens, the program has to wait a while before my try/catch block goes into effect. At this point, the program appears to hang, but is actually not. The program's picture box's will turn white when I navigate to some other window. I thought if I put in a progressbar it might keep it from doing this because it would be constantly updating a pictu ...Show All

• Windows Forms Insert command ADO.net

  Hi, I have to insert 10-15 rows in the database. Should I insert them one by one or there is a ADO.net function that mass inserts values or a function that I can use to run multiple queries Thanks, Oops...Sorry! I didnt know that you were using .net 1.1. Anyways, below is the link which can help you in batch updates for .net 1.1. Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/dataaccess/adonet/default.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Server Web Site Shows File Not Found

  Hi - I have installed VS2005 and SQL Server 2005, with all reporting services features turned on. When I look at IIS i see applications for ReportingServer and Reports. But i cannot seem to browse or run any reports. From SQL Server management Studio, from IIS, from browser all give same results - page not found. Did I miss a configuration Who needs permissions to what I created the report in VS2005 and deployed it but i cannot see it i ...Show All

• .NET Development How to store a query result in an external db-table?

  Hi. Do you know how to store a query result in an external db-table For example: I have to make a query using ODBC that point to AS/400 tables, but the result I have to store it in Access. 'iSeries IBM Driver for AS/400 Dim conMacPac As OdbcConnection = New OdbcConnection(conStrMacPac) Dim cmdMacPac As OdbcCommand = New OdbcCommand(strSQL, conMacPac) Dim custDAMacPac As OdbcDataAdapter = New OdbcDataAdapter(cmdMacPac) Dim custDSMacPac As Data ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't access to the documents

  Hi, I can't access the documents tree. There is no permissions problem (I can view the sharepoint site via browser, but not in team explorer). Thanks, Michael The URL used to access the SharePoint site is stored as an absolute URL (i.e., with protocol, port number and machine name) in TFS Registration data. The first thing to check is that the URL that is specified in the registration data actually works from the client machine ...Show All