Sorin Varzaru's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) NAT traversal

  Can anyone recommend a book or article covering the topic of NAT traversal and WCF. In particular, I'm curious as to how a CallBack interface is affected when I use duplex communications. There is nothing (that I know of) that is published externally about this yet. However, there is work in progress on getting this done. There is a preliminary ppt on this that I will send you. Thanks, Scott ...Show All

• SQL Server Parent Child Dimension Attribute Hierarchy

  I hope I described that right! I have a dimension attribute that describes a self referential hiearchy in the dimension.  I have this setup and working with one exception.  When I use this hierarchy I only want members which have children to be displayed at each level instead of all members regardless of whether they have children.  How do I do this Thanks, Chris I have a similar requirement. I have a DIM_Customer with a Referred_By_Customer_Key, which stores a value if a particular customer happens to be referred by another customer, otherwise, NULL is stored. Wizard auto detected that this is a Parent-Child hierarchy a ...Show All

• Visual C# Make a file 'DependentUpon' via the IDE

  Easy question, I can modify a C# project using notepad to make a file DependentUpon another file, but is there a way to do this in the IDE Thanks Yes, you can...:)) The code below is from an add-in I developed, add-in which generates some files and adds them to a C# project and makes them dependent of the file they were generated from. I'm using it in VS 2005 Pro and it works wery well. Create a new Add-in project in VS 2005 and you'll see what are all classes presented here (DTE2, Project and so on); Of course, you can refine this example further...:P private AddFileToProject( string tempFileName, bool ask ) {     pr ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS urgent help!

  Hi, I am new to SSIS. I have been searching for some examples to use Expression Builder in SSIS to use derived columns transformation...I basically want to perform tasks like - 1. Add a new column to my flat file data source (also, next Excel datasource) on the run (which simply contains a constant string ex: "TXT") and add this column as the 2nd column before loading into destination. (SQL Server DB table) 2. Rearrange my datasource columns according to my destination columns. 3. Not include some unwanted columns existing in the datasource while loading into destination. How can I achieve these Plz help. Is there a link w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I can't register Web Developer Express Edition

     Every time I try I get a message saying that I have exceeded the Pending Limit.  Then it says to check my email for a new verification message.  This would not bother me so much but for the fact that my computer keeps saying I will no longer be able to use Visual Web Developer and 26 days.  What can I do   I need the activation key soon. Rich If you are having trouble registering the product, try the manual instal as you do not have to register the product. Note that you will recieve the registration message for a small time period but this will stop. Information about not having to register is ...Show All

• SQL Server Time scale interval for charts

  Hi, Does anybody know if I can use an expression (report parameters or dataset fields) to set a scatter chart x-axis scale minimum and maximum value. I have a date range, which is passed to the dataset via 2 report datetime parameters. I have turned on the "numeric or time-scale values" checkbox. If I hard code the scale minimum and maximum, the scale is correct, but if I add an expression like =Fields!StartDate.value to refer to a dataset field, it is ignored. Are you using RS 2000 or RS 2005 Expression-based axis settings are only supported in RS 2005 and the VS 2005 Rep ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cannot open existing form in Designer HELP! - VB 2005 Express Edition Beta

  This is so aggravating because I'm sure it's a simple thing! Using the new Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta. Created a project, form, controls, etc.  Worked great.  Love it, compiled perfectly. Saved everything, closed the program, went to bed.   Woke up, opened the project, but now CAN NOT open the form (form1.vb) in Designer mode!!  I can open the code, it's all there, exactly as I left it, but cannot get back to the designer mode to (easily) add more controls to it! F7 just opens the code, right-click just gives me code option, not designer option. This is amazingly fr ...Show All

• SQL Server The target service name could not be found.

  Hi : I am creating a queue application using Service broker. I was able to send and receieve messages between 2 databases in the same instance. Now I am trying to communicate b/w 2 different instances. I am getting the following error... The target service name could not be found. Ensure that the service name is specified correctly and/or the routing information has been supplied.. The routing informations is as follows DROP ROUTE SERVERROUTE CREATE ROUTE SERVERROUTE WITH BROKER_INSTANCE = 'D6F1721F-E7A2-4497-8890-FD4C2AAD98FE' , SERVICE_NAME = 'SERVERSERVICE' , ADDRESS = 'TCP://10.23.3.12:602 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office URGENT! Outlook Addin runs from development only. Who are the usual suspects?

  Okay, I cannot run any add-in outside of the VS2005 development environment.  If I simply start outlook no add-ins start. None are "Hard Blocked". How would a security issue manifest    I have a .NET polocy for the app directory, but still no-go. All, After much head scratching, etc, along with help from Mads' project to document and simplify VSTO apps (see http://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen/articles/427490.aspx ) I've got my project running consistantly!!  Yee Haw! The issues:  CAS security:   See the link above for an elegant solution to this process; Registry settings:   One issue was that my app ...Show All

• Visual Studio file grouping i VS project

  I'm extending VS project using My editor generates partial class definition and stores it in a file. How can I make VS group my file with main file of this class (like class.designer.cs groups with class.cs in Forms projects) Your "main file" should have an EnvDTE.ProjectItems to which you can add the subfiles. If this does not answer your question, please provide more details (which project system, how have you been extending it, ...). Rusty ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Verifying executable

  Pardon my ignorance of security matters, but I need to verify that an executable making a request to a host website (or socket server) is somewhat trustable. The application (exe) does some low level stuff so I need it to be written in with the tried and true SDK C++ route. (I've tried doing this with C# and the amount of PInvoke code required was extensive, at least for low level stuff) So knowing this should I... 1. Perform a CRC check against the requesting exe in realtime, and verify this against the CRC value done on the exe before it was shipped to the field 2. Use a "signed" executable for the request and verify the si ...Show All

• Visual J# Does jsharp support incremental build?

  Build a big jsharp project is too slow, jsharp doesn't support incremental build ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System GUI regression tests with Visual Team System

  Hello,   We are currently searching for a testing tool to perform functional regression tests on our GUI application. For the moment, we developing with Borland C++ Builder 6.0 but we are going to make the transition to Visual soon.   We don't want to purchase a tool if Visual Team System offers a way of testing the GUI. Currently, TestComplete from AutomatedQa seems a good testing tool. Would it be useful to use this tool with Visual Team System And what would be the advantages, meaning what would it permit us to do that Team System cannot     Thanks for the information! Here is the soluti ...Show All

• SQL Server How to get started on custom Merge Join component?

  I need to extend the functionality of the Merge Join transformation to allow more complex joining scenarios. I have found some quickstarts on custom components (i.e. Hash Transform, etc.), however I haven't found any good references on more advanced tasks like processesing multiple inputs. Any ideas TIA, Matthew BOL has a RemoveDuplicates sample which has an async output.  You can look for sample applications[Integration Services] in the index. Matt ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to integrate IE in the WinForm

  Hi! I have a winforms application, and some ASP, not ASPX, web pages in which I have some reports done. I need to know if there is any option to integrate an explorer window in the forms, because the solution I'm working with is to open as a shell command. Thanks :D ...Show All