tom bowman's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Automated Printer Install

  Hello, was wondering if it's possible to automate printer installs on the print server  Not actually installing printers on users systems, but into the print server itself. My organization has over 50 printers and we're planning a server upgrade. I've taken&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation componen

  Am getting an error in my application event log, every hour (see below... specific names have been cut for obvious reasons). How do I (ideally) replace the use of the install account that is being referenced by the service account to eliminate these errors) Event Type: Error Event Source: TFS Services Event Category: None Event ID: 3058 Date: 31/05/2006 Time: 08:10:11 User: N/A Computer: xxxxx Description: TF53010: An unexpected condition ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataSet RemotingFormat

  The DataSet.RemotingFormat seems to have no affect on DataSet transfer time when large DataSets (or small ones,for that matter) are returned from Operations in WCF. I expected this with BasicHttpBinding, as I would expect the DataSet to be serialized as XML regardless of teh remoting format.  However, I did not expect this with NetTcpBinding.  Any insights into this would be most welcome. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with Microsoft.Pcw.currituck initialization...

  There's a problem with creation of a new project... Single-server scenario, all plugins succeeded except subject plugin: ---begin Exception entry--- Time: 05/12/2005 09:09:10.360 Module: Initializer Event Description: Initialization for plugin "Microsoft.Pcw.currituck" failed with error: "Unable to handle request. The action 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/Currituck/2004/07/mtservices/clientservice/GetMetadata' was not recognized." Exception Typ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Checked Items in DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn

  Hi all, I have a DataGridView control binding with a DataSet, and a DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn is placed at the last column. Now, I want to get the checked items from this DataGridView and do other processes. Can you tell me how can I do this (E.g. loop all rows in DataGridView and then cast the CheckBox control, so that I can retrieve the value of the CheckBox as well as the values of cell[2] and cell[3].) Thanks, Peter ...Show All

• Windows Forms Autosize listview

  Hi, I would like to autosize the width of the ListView columns. This code works from the outside of the control: foreach (ColumnHeader ch in prontoListView1.Columns) ch.Width = -1; ...However, I would like this to be done inside the control. Could someone please&n ...Show All

• SQL Server OLEDB provider error.

  Hi: I have created a cube and deployed in sql server. I am trying to connect to analysis services to access cube with linked server. I am getting this error...how do i fix this. OLE DB provider "MSOLAP" for linked server "(null)" returned message "Errors in the OLE DB provider. The Extended Properties property is set to a value that is not supported.". Msg 7373, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Cannot set the ...Show All

• .NET Development Events and Delegates in a multithreading environment

  Hello I'm using events and delegates to notify observer classes from within multiple threads. My application crashes and I guess the reason is that the standard event in the framework is not thread safe. While one thread calls the event, the method Invoke is looping through all added delegates. What happens when a second thread is calling the same event while the first thread is still in progress Is my suspicion correct that this ...Show All

• Visual Basic ByVal DOESN'T work!!! REALLY!!! NO KIDDING!!!!!!!

  OK Here is my problem, I have a Generic.List(OF something) and I pass it BYVAL as an argument to a function. Inside the function I create a new instance of the list and I AddRange the argument to this "inside" list. And guess what, all changes made in the internal list, pass to the list behind the argument. The same thing happens if I use the "=" operator instead of AddRange. Here is my code 1) Public Function ExpandOpe ...Show All

• .NET Development Why does the 64Bit section exsist?

  As I understand the .Net framework there shouldn't be any issues for any code compiled in MSIL runing on a 64Bit system. So why does this section of the forum exist Other code than can fail if executed on a different platform, is code that assumes the IntPtr type is a particular size. It is 4 bytes on 32-bit Windows but 8 bytes on 64-bit Windows. I imagine that this could also be an issue for serialization ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Please help - installation error!

  Hi, I've been trying to install TFS since last week without succeed. I've followed all the guides and requirements such as excluding reports IIS, creating user accounts, but still receive the error below. D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Server\BISIISDIR\sdk\bin\BisSubscribe.exe" /eventType ArtifactChangedEvent /userid ISTEAMSERVER\TFSService /deliveryType Soap /Address http://ISOFT-TESTER:8080/Currituck/BisService.asmx ...Show All

• .NET Development File Upload To A Shared Folder

  Hi ppl, Is there any way to upload a file to a shared folder on our domain network like \\server\folder\  using vb.net+asp.net   To help debug, try the following 1. The directory should be shared for this user.. Go to sharing and security and set the permissions so that this user has access 2. The user should have write access to the folder. Go to the security tab and add explicit access to the user you are imper ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Does Wince support GDI+??

  Hi, I google some info but can't make sure whether GDI+ program work fine on PPC2003 developed by evc4 Does anyone has the experience to develop GDI+ program in native C++ by evc4 If yes, please give me some suggestion. Thanks in advance. Best Regards. ...Show All

• Windows Forms form close reason

  Hi! I would like my form to be hidden when the use clicks on the window close button (the X button on the top-right corner). The e.CloseReason does not provide a value to determine that this particular button is the reason that is closing the form. This was very simple in VB6: Private Sub Form_QueryUnload(Cancel As Integer , UnloadMode As Integer )     If UnloadMode = vbFormControlMenu Then       ...Show All

• Windows Forms Column Expressions not accepting static methods?

  I have a datagrid that's pulling information out of a mssql database succesfully and all of the date columns are using the *nix epoch time system (the number of seconds after Jan 1, 1970).  Which is all fine and good, but on my datagr ...Show All