Bryan.Edwards's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Help me ! VBControlsEvents

  I write my addin in Visual Basic 6.0 and use VBControlsEvents to handle the control when I at it to my form. (like CodeSmart for VB)(control spy) But where i create my addin in VS.NET 2003 i can't find the event that handle like it can any bodyhelp me. PS: if you use CodeSmart.NET, when you drag a control to your form, it display a dialog box. I want to make it, but with my dialog box. Thank ! Email me: vanphuoc1978@yahoo.com or vanphuoc@gm ...Show All

• SQL Server The Xml field in SQL database is so slow!

  I feel when I operate XML field, it's so slow! no matter insert or delete e a record. how about you Please describe some details about your application from data schema and access pattern perspective. What’s the schema of your data What do you store in one XML instance How do you store folder hierarchy What kind of DB transaction folder operations or bookmark operations translate into What performance do you observe an ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to determine state of state workflow?

  Hey guys, I'm developing a state workflow. As it is good practice I'm writing unit tests to test the correct behavior of the workflow. The problem is that so far I couldn't find out how to get information about the current state of a workflow, whether it's waiting for an event, etc. I have the runtime object and a workflow instance, but none of these objects exposes properties or so to get this information. Also, I'd like to pause the u ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Query Analyser 2000 with SQL 2005

  Hi, We are currently trying to get to grips with SQL Server 2005, and have a basic question. Is it possible to user Query Analyser from SQL 2000 with 2005 All our support staff use Query Analyser on a day to ay basis and all our clients are currently on SQL Server 2000. It would be usefull if when new customers come on line with 2005 our staff can use one tool to perform their tasks We've tried to run Query Anayser and it's comming up with ...Show All

• SQL Server hyperlink open new window

  I have a link on my report which open new window. The code i have in advance properties of that field is : ="javascript t :void(window.open('http://www.msn.com','_blank'))" (note: the extra " t " is intentionally added in the code, coz website block the keyword "java.....t") It works great on testing server but it doesn't work on production server. Both testing and production servers run windows 2003 serve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Testing Native Code (C++ ) using Team Unit Testing frameworks

  I have been looking for some pointers or guide lines as to how do I test C++ unmanaged code using Unit Tesing capabilities of VS 2005. Do I need to write wrappers in managed code ( a sort of mixed mode class one that calls into managed code and other that calls the native code) Any suggestion welcome Regds Dinesh I don't see any workaround for this. For ExpectedExeption attribute you can specify either managed exception type or type + ...Show All

• SQL Server Tuning Advisor errors

  Hi, the tuning wizard in sql server was a very good help for me. I was hoping to do the same after we installed SQL Server 2005. But the tuning advisor doesn't seem to work! At least not for our database. I have tried several times to create a trace when I run a heavy workload on the database. When I have finished the tuning, I get 0% recommended improvements, I should get plenty and always did before installing 2005. But I also get a Warning ...Show All

• Visual Basic Configuration system failed to initialize ---- Help Please

  When i try to run my app I get this exception "Configuration system failed to initialize" I recently added a datascource to the app and am assuming that something has gone wrong there but it was all working ok and then this error just started. I assume it's a problem with my appconfig file which i'll post here I cant see anything wrong with it but.!! I've tried deleting the ConnectionString Section but nothing helps and i cant run my app at all! ...Show All

• Visual C++ Having Problems In Building Sample Projects With VC++2005

  Hi, I was trying to build sample projects of Windows Media Format SDK 9.5 with VC++ 2005. I had that SDK, as well as the newest version of Platform SDK installed. When building the sample project 'DSPlay', the following error came out. ------ Build started: Project: DSPlay, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Linking... DSPlay.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "unsigned int (__stdcall* ATL::g_pfnGetThreadACP)(void)" ( g_pfnGetT ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums How to call a web server asyncronously without ActiveX

  My article at http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/MSNMessengerActivity.asp shows how to call a web server from your MSN Messenger Activity without using ActiveX. When the update gets added by tomarrow hopefully then it will also show how I simulated a mouse pointer so that each user can see the others mouse movements without using ActiveX.   Check them out if you need either of these techniques for your activities. I have alre ...Show All

• Windows Forms progressbar help

  hi, i have a form that has a button, when the button is clicked it will create an excel report. what i want to do is to add a progressbar while the excel report is being processed, and also to put the progress bar in the sta ...Show All

• Windows Forms custom label painting

  hi to all, i am trying to paint custom chars to a label as images. however when i force a refresh on the label it is only painting the current coordinates of the image rather than keeping any previous images that were on the label. is there&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Zip task not given required parameter

  Hi, I'm trying to use the zip functionallity of Microsoft.VsSDK to zip my project files directly under VS. Similar to the IronPython project sample. But I'm getting the following error: Error 67 The "Zip" task was not given a value for the required parameter "ZipName". ProjectTest I've added the following to my csproj file: <Import Project="Tools\Build\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets" /> ANd < ...Show All

• SQL Server Deployment 'utility' script using sqlcmd

  Hi all, I'm looking at creating a sample utility script that will invoking scripts to deploy some SQL code. For example, a utlity script that will run a SQL script, and on successful completion, execute the next script. Having not used SQLCMD at all before, and being very new to SQL2005 (< 1 month) please guide me if there is a better way of invoking this... For example, a way of avoiding the xp_cmdshell invocation! The fol ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista sql services

  I seem to have some trouble with the SQL services. SqlPersistenceService, SqlTrackingService and so forth seem to work fine. At least the events are fired that the workflow instance gets persisted on idle and so on. Event the samples like Lab3/Ex2 run fine. But there is never something in the database visible. Also the WorkflowMonitor does not see anything. I suspect that the sql services never commit their changes to the database, so ever ...Show All