Brent_One's Q&A profile

• SQL Server how to user defined tables in report model ?

  Hi friends we developed report model for our clients to create reports using report builder. which works fine now. we've new request from our client to be able to report on "user defined tables" ! that means the tables we're not aware of at the time of creating report model . is it possble to add dynamically enitities to a report models these user defined tables might vary from one client to another so we need to a general procedure. BTW we use sqlserver2005 standard edition. any advise/help on this one much helpful. Thanks for ur help ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sourcesafe Internet Plug-In and Shadow folders

  I recently setup Sourcesafe 2005 with the internet access so an employ can telecommute. Everything seems to be working fine except when a file is checked in using the internet plug-in, the file does not get copied to the shadow folder. The shadow folder is setup correctly. If you check in a file using a LAN connection in Visual Sourcesafe Explorer, the file copies correctly to the shadow folder. It is only when using the internet plug-in that it does not copy to the shadow folder. Has anyone else come across this problem before I am not seeing this repro when I tried it. Are you shadowing the entire d ...Show All

• .NET Development Where is my dll?

  I wrote a web service with VS2005RTM, and after published it, I cannot find the dll from the bin folder, Where is it Anybody can do me a favor Hello Saffron. There's an easy trick for tracking where your files live. Launch your service in debug mode, then go under Debug | Windows and choose Modules . Visual Studio will show you all the DLLs loaded in the running project; and it will not only tell you if one DLL has symbol associated, but the location of the symbol file as well! :-) In a simple example, my app got the following path: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\asmxwebservice2005\fc55b55b\ ...Show All

• Visual Studio PrintToPrinter fails in Windows Service

  I am trying to call PrintToPrinter from a Windows Service, but the following exception is thrown: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process I have tried changing the windows service user to administrator (I know that is generally a bad idea), but that doesn't change anything. Anybody has an idea what might be the cause of my problem (For those who wonder why I even try to print from a windows service: I am really trying to generate a pdf-file. Crystal reports generates for some reason very large pdf-files, so I use the "virtual printer" Amyuni which generates a much smaller file when I print th ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Help Need WinFx Beta 2 Runtime!

  Hi, Please Help! Where can i find the WinFx 2 Runtime for Download Thanks Peter See the bottom of this page for links to download the latest version. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions help !

  Hi, I've just installed Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, and have now started learning the C# language, I already know C and C++. When I try to start my program with debugging (F5) I get this error: Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.  The binding handel is invalid. Does anyone know how I can fix this You are likely running into this problem  which has a couple possible workarounds.  You can find more information about this at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=0d5a9aa7-6dda-4317-8c56-d03e53b25f10 . Thanks, Luke Hoban V ...Show All

• Windows Forms ReportViewer toolbar appearance

  Is there any way to change the appearance of the ReportViewer toolbar I'd like to change the background colours to match the other toolbars in my app. Thanks Michael ...Show All

• SQL Server PackageID and GUIDs in ExecuteSQL task

  Am I looking at a potential bug here or do I not understand the feature properly I have an ExecuteSQL task that inserts into a table for logging and includes the System::PackageID as one of the values. It's stored in my table as a uniqueidentifier. When I set the output variable in Parameter Mappings tab of the Execute SQL task to VarChar, all works great. WHen I set it to GUID as the data type in that tab, it outputs a different GUID than the actual System::PackageID variable. -- Brian This is not a bug, although several have thought it was. If you look at the system variable you will notice that even though it looks like a GUID th ...Show All

• Visual C# Windows Service and Events

  Hi there, sorry for bothering again with this toppic, but I just can't find anything about it. All my researches about windows services brought out more or less the same results: - Windows Service that falls through the OnStart()-Method and does something for one time - Windows Service with a Timer component - Windows Service with a FileWatcher component But what about other events There must be a way to to put the service to work permanently , right Something similar to a while-loop in the OnStart()-Method... Thanks, Finch82. Thanks --mc, I knew about the while loop and the po ...Show All

• SQL Server String truncate error

  Yesterday my program was inserting and loading data in the database just fine, now when i try to do a myriad of things(make a paramatizsed search ad a favorites option) when ever i add data to the database i get a string trucate exception, basically its telling me the data im uploading is too large, problem is the feilds in the databse can take it.Its telling me the column im updating to has a string limit of 255 , but in reality the column its updating to has 2000 chracters available. Could some one please tell me how to fix this, it is quite urgent. Sorry bout that, its SQLce 2.0 with a visual basic 2k5 fr ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How can I run a SVC based service with a trusted account

  How can I configure (convince) a SVC based service (i.e. hosted in IIS) to run with a trusted service account In ASMX I would use the <! --identity impersonate="true" userName="neptune" password="password"-- > configuration, however, it has no effect with SVC hosted services and I have not yet found a way of simulating the impersonate option in WCF. Hey there. I apologize for the delay in getting a response back to you. If you're simply trying to run each request in the context of a trusted user identity, the best way to do that it to create an IIS Application Pool that runs as your trusted ident ...Show All

• Visual Basic Mirosoft Agents in VB

    Hi, I have made a simple script to make 'Genie' (a Microsoft Agent) talk and do some actions. Here is the code: strAgentName = "Genie" strAgentPath = "c:\windows\msagent\chars\" & strAgentName & ".acs" Set objAgent = CreateObject("Agent.Control.2") objAgent.Connected = TRUE objAgent.Characters.Load strAgentName, strAgentPath Set objCharacter = objAgent.Characters.Character(strAgentName) objCharacter.Show objCharacter.Play "GetAttention" objCharacter.Play "LookRightReturn" objCharacter.Balloon.Style = 0 objCharacter.Speak "Hello, My name is Genie, how are you " objCharacter.Speak "I am your personal assistant s ...Show All

• .NET Development CDO Equivalent?

  I can't seem to find in the BCL the classes to retrieve mail (POP or from Outlook store) like in CDO. Are they not available Thanks That said, if you would like to see a POP3/IMAP4 implementation in System.Net please send an ask to nclasks@microsoft.com.dontspam (remove the .dontspam) ...Show All

• SQL Server No messages in the queues.

  Hello, I'm trying to do a very simple example of sending a message from Initiator queue to Target queue. The result is no messages are delivered. Here's the code: DECLARE @conversationHandle UNIQUEIDENTIFIER BEGIN DIALOG CONVERSATION @conversationHandle FROM SERVICE GmiInitiatorService TO SERVICE 'GmiTargetService' ON CONTRACT GmiContract WITH ENCRYPTION = OFF ; SEND ON CONVERSATION @conversationHandle MESSAGE TYPE GmiMessage ( 'test' ); END CONVERSATION @conversationHandle All three queues are empty (Initiator, Transmission, Target). When I comment out the last line ...Show All

• .NET Development liveness checking over a TCP/IP connection

  Hi all, I'm looking for a way to check liveness connection between two hosts over the internet. I mean, if on of the two sides is down sometimes I get a deadlock in the application that connect the other side untill it gets a reply that the connection side is down. I'm looking for method to check the liveness all the time. Any ideas. Best regards... You can also take a look at System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping.  This is a managed implementation of the Ping protocol.  Ping will tell you if the remote endpoint is responding, but will tell you nothing about the health of the remote application you wis ...Show All