MarkSad's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions GetDirectories problem/error

  I get the following error: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x1a01d0 to COM context 0x1a0340 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping wait or processing a very long running operation without pumping Windows messages. This situation generally has a negative performance impact and may even lead to the application becoming non responsive or memory usage ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WinFX RTC December 2005 Not working with December Vista SDK

  There's a problem with the WinFx RTC download for December 2005.   The links on the page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=BD3BA2D5-6ADB-4FB2-A3AA-E16A9EA5603F&displaylang=en There's a link to download the entire WinFx RTC package instead of the "smart" installer. http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/9/949EEA41-364A-45DC-8F4E-47E7AC147D25/winfxrc.exe I checked the time/date stamp in the downloa ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Get Device ID from Desktop

  Hi All, First of all, I would like to apologize if this is not the right forum to post this type of question. I have tried to post it in .NET Networking & Compact Framework section, but there were no replies. I would like to create an application that reside in desktop side, that is capable to get the device id from the PDA through ActiveSync. I have been able to retrieve the id through P/Invoke (KernelIoControl) if the process is e ...Show All

• Architecture Architecture Meetings

  I last joined the Patterns and Practices summit in Redmond , and I think that is a great meeting for software architects to meet other architects and to learn some new patterns and best practices from Microsoft. Patterns is a must know for a software architect.   Does anybody know other meetings and has an opinion about it, I think that there are a few which you must join, one of them is the patterns summit, the other i ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Scalability for Hosting Multiple Instances in a Single Workflow Runtime

  Hi, I would like to know the maximum number of workflow instances that a single workflow runtime can handle at the same time. Is it just dependent on the server hardware hosting the workflow runtime or there is a maximum number of workflow instances to be hosted in a single runtime. Hi Akram, The maximum number of workflows that can run simultaneously in a single workflow runtiem is the same as the number of Clr threads av ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Enterprise June CTP Installation Error

  Tried to install several times (on Win2003 Ent. SP1) but I always get the following error: Failure adding user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE to local group SQLServer2005MSSQLServerADHelperUser (1388) The user varies (sometimes NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) and so does the local group (sometimes SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser). Any tips Regards Roger I have tried to install SQLDEV ,But got the same error mesage. ...Show All

• SQL Server Deployment of Reports and Data Sources

  What is the best way to deploy reports to production considering the fact that different developers would be working on different reports and different data sources. Also consider that the data sources connect to local machines of the developers during report creation and a different database server on deployment. One way is to use VS2005 to deploy it to production but I am not sure if that is the way to go Any ideas Thanks I'd probably ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions "FindFileDialog" ?

  I'm trying to implement a file selector dialog. I'd like to choose filenames from the file system to just add their path and name to a textbox without opening or saving them. How can I do that I did not find anything else than the OpenFileDialog and the SaveFileDialog which both bring their own behaviour I can't change. Is there a solution or some link I didn't find yet Thanks for your help! Reiner How ...Show All

• Windows Forms combo box - how to prevent selectedindex change

  I need help on this, how can I prevent user from changing the selection of item from the dropdown list what I am trying acheive is this, when user clicks the down button on the combo box or uses down arrow key, I want to be able track it and based on some logic I want to be able to disallow the user from changing the selected item. Thank you, Jesbert I'd rather populate the combobox with items ...Show All

• Windows Forms access is denied when I try to publish..even tho I am logged in as admin when I try to publish.

  hiya, I get the following error when I try to publish from XP devMachine to win2003 devServer. <error> Failed to copy file 'C:\ClickOnceTrustedPub\ClickOnceTrustedPub\publish\ClickOnceTrustedPub_1_0_0_2\ClickOnceTrustedPub.exe.deploy' to '\\Mms-server\devServerData\ClickOnceTrustedPub_1_0_0_2\ClickOnceTrustedPub.exe.deploy'. Unable to add 'ClickOnceTrustedPub_1_0_0_2/ClickOnceTrustedPub.exe.deploy' to the Web.   Unable to add file 'C ...Show All

• Windows Forms TaskVision Bugs

  Has anyone tried the "Export to Excel" function in TaskVision, only to find out that TaskVision tries to reinstall Microsoft Office   The attempted reinstallation has now permanently disabled all my MS Office applications;  even Norton AntiVirus wasn't s ...Show All

• SQL Server Error on an Execute SQL Task

  I am using an execute sql task as the last step in an SSIS package. The task has an insert statement in it that will be appending some transformed data to the end of a large table in our database. All tasks are executing correctly except for this last one. It is giving me the following error that I cannot puzzle out: Error: 0xC002F210 at LINPRM_Append, Execute SQL Task: Executing the query "INSERT INTO LINPRM SELECT * FROM ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to conditionally hide a TextBox on a Report, shifting the rest of the contents up?

  Hello, I have basic, local reporting working very well in my Windows Forms application via ReportParameters. On my report, I have a TextBox, the value of which is bound to a parameter. It is possible that this value can be empty (or null, if you wish). If this is the case, then I do not want the TextBox to appear at all. Specifically, I want it to shrink and I'd like all of the other controls (also TextBoxes) beneath it to shift "up". It's basic ...Show All

• SQL Server Migrating RS

  I have installed RS 2005 on a new box and want to restore my present RS 2000 ReportServer db.  The restore seemed to work, but when I try to bring up the service, I get this error: The report server cannot open a connection to the report server database. So then I tried using the Configuration Tool to upgrade I then get this - System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Column names in each table must be unique. Column name 'Version' in ta ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX Feb CTP and WSDualHttpBinding problem.

  Hello, I have following problem - any time I want to configure WSDualHttpBinding for the service, I get an error when calling methods of such service from the client: Error message: "The format of the specified network name is invalid." Stack trace: at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SharedHttpTransportManager.OnOpen() at System.ServiceModel.Channels.TransportManager.Open(TransportChannelListener channelListener) at System ...Show All