Jonathan Stratford's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO 2005 Upgrade did not install Visual Web Developer

  I recently installed a vsto 2005 upgrade and made sure that the "Visual Web Developer" box was checked in the install options, but when the install completed "Visual Web Developer" is not listed on the splash screen of installed products, nor are web site projects available from the new->project dialog. What happened Where could I have gone wrong I've tried running setup again and ensuring that the "Visual Web Developer" box is checked, but still no luck. I'm kind of in a bind, because I need to edit some of our web pages, but my copy of VSTO isn't letting me. Thanks, Mesan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Supported OS List

  Per the Team Foundation Installation Guide ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=E54BF6FF-026B-43A4-ADE4-A690388F310E&displaylang=en ), Windows XP is a supported installation platform.  However, when trying to install Beta 3 on Windows XP Pro the installation reports that the prerequisite of Windows Server 2003 has not been met.  Is this a misprint in the install guide or just not supported in Beta 3 Thanks for any insight you can provide. Windows XP Professional is definately supported.  We recommend you upgrade to SP2 (as this is what we have been testing on) and any other critical fixes. If af ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql Server Encryption

  I'm trying to encrypt a column in my table using EncryptWithPassPhrase( @PASSPHRASE, @COLUMNDATA) My Question is, does PASSPHRASE have to be (at least ) as long as the column data Is there a problem if it is longer> I'm only storing part of the results, and it looks like the # of characters I'm storing is the length of my passphrase. Thanks, Phil My bad. I was using: Convert( varchar, DecryptByPassPhrase( 'PassPhrase', ColumnName)) and only getting 50 characters back Column Name, which has 80-180 characters. Unfortuantely, my pass phrase was 50 characters in length which ma ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005, Crystal Reports and Shared Hosting

  Hello there. I represent a hosting company and will like to know the answer to the following question : One of our clients have purchased Visual Studio 2005 Profesional Edition and have developed his website with it. He used the bundled Crystal Reports functionality in a section of his website. This website is hosted on shared hosting environment. His only deployment options are via FrontPage extensions or FTP. - How is he supposed to make work the Crystal Reports section of his website - I understand there is a runtime that needs to be installed on the server. Where is this runtime Will apreciate if somebody provide this answers or point ...Show All

• .NET Development AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath Depricated

  I get a CS0618 that AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath is obsolete. The suggestion is to use AppDomainSetup.PrivateBinPath instead, but no matter how I set it, PrivateBinPath remains null. I am trying to update AppDomain.CurrentDomain after the domain is started. Is AppDomainSetup the correct way to go It seems this would only apply at creation of the domain, and I need to make this modification after the AppDomain has started. Thanks i have the same problem. is there no way of changing the private bin path of the base domain. i used to do this using the AppendPrivatePath, how do i do the exact functionality of ...Show All

• Windows Forms giving a panel focus

  I am sure its simple, but I have searched about and can't seem to et something working. Simple window, i created a panel in. Here is what I have and have tried: The commented portions are what I have tried. [code]  private : System::Void IrrlichtPanel_Paint_1(System::Object^ sender, System::Windows::Forms::PaintEventArgs^ e) { ObjDisplay->init((s32) this ->MyPanel->Handle.ToPointer()); //this ->MyPanel->BringToFront(); //MyPanel->BringToFront(); //this ->MyPanel->Focus(); MyPanel->Focus(); }  [/code] The object I am loading into the panel is displaying corr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Whose "Two letter acronyms should be upper-cased" convention is?

  Hello, Can you say, whose convention is it "Two letter acronyms should be upper-cased. For example, use System.IO instead of System.Io. ..." I found it in MS Design Rules, but is is not explained why it is done in this way (most of other rules are well-explained). I need more facts to ask IT leaders to change our company's naming conventions. Is it standatized thing by some standatization comitee, or just someone sad and others must accept it Thanks. These are the official MS Design Guidelines for reusable libraries. They were not developed in a vacuum and the decisions certainly weren't made in an arbit ...Show All

• SQL Server Fuzzy Grouping Transform Corrupts Pass-through Data

  We are working with a client and are using Fuzzy Group transform for de-duping, and hierarchy creation for a national account list. I've found that if a large number of pass through columns are sent to the Fuzzy Grouping transforms it randomly corrupts the char columns. Our work around was to only pass through ID columns and then build out the attributes needed from views against the Fuzzy group output --- however product team should take a look at this. By corruption I mean random characters from other records would show up in character columns (we had address and name corruption in about 10% of a 1.5 million record dataset). Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team Suite Beta 2 error "Package Load Failure"

  I get following error when starting VS Team suite 2005 Beta 2. Has anyone else seen this --------------------------- Package Load Failure --------------------------- Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future You may use 'devenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading. --------------------------- Yes   No   --------------------------- Thanks Kurt ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Suddenly get "sql server does not exist or access denied" after connected for ages.

  Hi all, I'm developing a PDA app using the compact framework. It connects to a SQL server 2000 database calling stored procedures to read data and update it etc.. It all works absolutely fine for 10 minutes or so - reading and writing lots of data. Then all at once I get the error "sql server does not exist or access denied". In my error handler I try to reconnect - but it seems once this error has happened it's not possible to reconnect. I don't know whether it makes a difference but the PDA is connecting to a database on my machine via a USB connection and the ActiveSync (the very latest version) program. Any ideas would be much appr ...Show All

• SQL Server Prevmember versus Lag(1)

  My brain hurts again... I have a cube with Time Intelligence, and I'm trying to make a very simple function: Percentage Change (current month vs. prior month). To determine this, I compare ([Time].[Month]. Lag (1),[Measures].[ACTV QTY]) and ([Time].[Month]. CurrentMember ,[Measures].[ACTV QTY]) Seems pretty simple, right Except that Lag(1) keeps giving me the NEXT month instead of the prior month! So, I tried Lag(-1), which is contrary to the documentation of course, but it still gave me the next month!! Really weird! Then, for kicks, I tried replacing the Lag expression with the following: ([Time].[Month]. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Ugh... Hosting UserControls in IE...

  I am repeating similar posts here - my apologies to all, but I have tried all of the trouble shooting I can find here and across the net.  I have been unable to resolve my issues.  Fortunately, I have very little hair, or I would have likely pulled it all out. I have a simple control that inherits from UserControl - I obviously want ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Opening Sharepoint Hosted Documents

  I was planning to publish complementar information about some workitems through the SharePoint Document lib. I've published the doc and added its URL using http links of the workitem. Now, when I choose open from Team Explorer, it uses the Visual Studio browser instead of MS Office, what make it lost its capacity of check-out/check-in docs from SharePoint. Any suggestions Regards, Max You can also right click  on the document and pick edit in the Document folder in Team Explorer. Will not solve the problem though, but keep you in VS. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration

  Anyone else getting endlessly repeated requests from VB 2005 Express to register   I've registered 4 times so far, and still the balloon keeps popping up in the system tray to remind me to do so. I installed from the .img CD download, and there's no option anywhere to enter a reg code.  Does someone know of a registry fix that will turn this off   Nick Savoiu wrote: Hmm, I have the same problem. However, I don't quite understand what do you mean by "For optional registration, Visual Studio has no way of knowing you actually registered or not. " If I enter a registration code shouldn't th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Full Text Search in Visual Basic

  I am trying to create a simple full-text search application in Visual Basic (2005 Professional trial version). I have been successful in doing full-text searches within SQL Server Management Studio using SQL queries, so the database has a working catalog, index, etc. Here is a sample SQL query statement that I have used in SQL Server Management Studio: SELECT SectionText FROM Full_Documents WHERE CONTAINS (SectionText, ' "radio" '); This query returned all the rows containing the word “radio” within the SectionText column of the Full_Documents table. I have placed a textbox (SearchT ...Show All