Jim Townsend's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Non Admin user error on Reporting Services

  I am very new to reporting services. I have completed the SQL Tutorials that come with however I am stuck on something. My network here consists of a 2003 AD Controlled Domain, various servers yadda yadda. I obviously am a Domain admin as well as a Normal Administrator. I have deployed my report and when I, or any other member on the domain who is in the same groups as me tries to access the report it works perfectly however, when a normal Domain User tries to access the report from http://servername/reports they get the following message :- An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot create a connectio ...Show All

• Windows Forms Logging into MDI Application

  First off, I'm just starting to learn to program in VB.NET.  I am trying to create a login for a MDI application!  My problem is once i get a user authenticated I want to open up the main MDI window and then close the login form.  Here is my code snipet:             If blnAuthenticated = True Then  &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX November CTP released!

  I just found this: http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2005/11/18/494274.aspx It seems the download links don't work yet. If you want the overall package (instead of the web bootstrapper) you'll find appropriate links (for either x86 or x64) in the Instructions section on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=E5376297-DA10-4FC3-967D-38C96F767FC4&displaylang=en  (after going through the check on system requirements). -Arik ...Show All

• Visual C# Editor

  I had a *quick* look through the Tools > Choose Toolbox Items... menu but the list is far too big for me to check out every single item. My question is; is it possible to use the editing component from the IDE in our own applications I want to build a nice script editor for my application with code folding, syntax highlighting, intellisense, etc. I don't mind how the colouring is done, even if I have to add my own RTF code at specific places or similar, it's the code folding I'm interested in. Basically I want a textbox that is capable of code folding (think of the treeview type bars on the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Convert a Pocket PC 2003 project to WM 5.0

  Hello I've got a Pocket PC 2003 project which I want to deploy on a Windows Mobile 5.0 device. I can deploy the application as a Pocket PC 2003 application, but I have problems accessesing my sdf files, which were created with SQL Server 2005. What's the best way converting an existing Pocket PC 2003 project to a Windows Mobile 5.0 project Thanks! Rudi You can right-click on the project in Solution Explorer and select "Change Target Platform...". Assuming that you have the Windows Mobile 5.0 PPC SDK installed ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=83A52AF2-F52 ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS 2005 Dimension Browser Error (Input String not in Correct Format)

  Hello everyone, Another developer I'm working with is having trouble browsing dimensions (Double click the dimension in the solution exploerer, click on the browser tab).  The "browsing" area turns grey with an error message of TITLE: Microsoft Visual Studio ------------------------------   Input string was not in a correct format.   ------------------------------ BUTTONS:   OK ------------------------------ I believe we have narrowed it down to this particular user's machine.  I ensured they had the same permissions (we are both set up as an admin in SSAS), opened their solution on my mac ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce with programmatic updates only

  Hi, I want to deply a ClickOnce app with automatic updates. But automatic updates should be initiated programmatically (through ClickOnce API), not before/after the application starts. Does somebody know how to disable updates before/after the application starts PS. Setting update every 999999 weeks does not look good to me :-) Thank you very much. I guess they are the same issue.Hope Microsoft concern it. Best Regards. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Reporting Services and SiteMinder (SSO product by Netegrity)

  I have an ASP.NET 2.0 application that displays reports in Reporting Services 2005 using ReportViewer control. Everything works just fine with Windows Authentication. But my client uses a Single Sign On (SSO) product called SiteMinder by Netegrity and not Windows Authentication. Once I integrate my web application with SiteMinder, the web pages work fine but the reports stop rendering and the progress indicators keeps spinning indefinitely. I even tried impersonation (in web config) without any luck. As soon as I remove SiteMinder ISAPI DLL, the reports start rendering using the account I used for impersonation. I am not sure if I coul ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Change Domains

  I recently migrated my BETA3 TFS install to a new domain.  Everything went fairly smoothly, but I'm having one problem that I'm unable to fix.  I cannot change the user assigned to the [SERVER]\Service Accounts group.  The group has a single read-only member: the TFSSERVICE user from the domain the server has left. TFS seems to be working okay with this account as is for Source Control.  However, when I try and create a new Team Project, I get an error that I don't have sufficient priveledges to do this.  Unfortunately, I'm writing this post from home so I don't have the exact text of the error message, but I su ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with Disposing pictures, objects, anything.

  Maybe someone will know my solution. I'm a newbie to visual c++ programming. Anyway my dispose method never works for any objects. My code for example would be to create a picture here's the very top private: System::Windows::Forms::PictureBox^ pictureBox1; heres the initialize components this->pictureBox1 = (gcnew System::Windows::Forms::PictureBox()); (cli::safe_cast<System::ComponentModel::ISupportInitialize^ >(this->pictureBox1))->BeginInit(); this->SuspendLayout(); // // pictureBox1 // this->pictureBox1->Location = System::Drawing::Point(61, 51); this->pictureBox1->Na ...Show All

• .NET Development Get Full Name of Printer paper tray

  Hello guys, Every time i try to get the name of all paper trays of an installed printer, i just get the first 23 characters of each name. I use the System.Drawing.Printing.PaperSource.SourceName property in Visual Studio 2003, .NET 1.1 to obtain the information. I tried to use some WMI Queries too, but i could'nt find the required Information there. Anyway, the collection of the paper trays looks like this. The printer model is irrelevant. Epson LQ-850 Automatisch auswahlen Traktoreinzug Manuelle Papierzufuhr Papierzufuhr - Schacht Papierzufuhr - Schacht HP Laserjet 5P Automatisch auswahlen Automatische Auswahl Sch ...Show All

• SQL Server Give permissions programatically with c#

  Is there a way to give permisssions to users with c# to databases, I also must be able to add users to roles,etc. Thanks Yes certainly. SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) allows you to create all security objects (logins, users, roles, certificates, {a}symmetric keys etc.). All securable objects have Grant(), Deny(), and Revoke() methods, and there are various Enum methods on classes to find out how the object has been secured. Michiel ::: http://blogs.msdn.com/mwories/ SQL Server PM ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Missing Visible property on forms

  I'm new to VB. Why is the visible property missing on the forms property list I do show them alphabetically. Properties go from transparency key to widows state. The visible property is not listed for the form. ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ 2005 redistributable (vcredist_x86.exe etc.)

  Hi there, I noticed that the Beta 2 redistributable is hosted on the Microsoft download library, but the final ones seems not to be. Will it be hosted on microsoft.com (or is it already somewhere ). Also, it has been reported to me that on Windows 2000 the (RTM) redistributal gives an unuseful error message if Windows Installer 3.1 is not installed. The message is error 1723. "A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run." . It would be a lot more helpful to my users if this was a more informative error message - the solution of installing Windows Installer 3.1 was only found by trial and error. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual C# default namespace

  Hi, I'm new i C#, so please forgive me this simple question : How do I obtain a string that contains the default namespace of my project Regards, Kim Hi Read about reflection (System.Reflection) To get indepth knowledge:: You can get the current information by this .GetType().FullName or about any object GetType() method and then search for the desired info in the Intilisenc Dropdown Thanks ...Show All