Greg Roberts's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Doubt after generating code.

    I have recorded a web test script(WebTest1 - Default name given by VSTS ) and i executed it.  Now i changed the name of the test to say Countries.  And then i generated the code.  Now when i execute the script, in the result summary tab it shows as 3 test passed. 1.  TestMethod1 2.  WebTest1 3.  CountryCreationCoded.vb i didnt get why this is happening.  How did you try to run the test   You can run an individual coded test from the test view window.    1) Open Test View.  Test -> Other Windows -> Test View 2) Click on the test you want to execu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ASCII to UTF-8 Should be Easy to help.

  Ok so i have a chat client im making for ares(p2p client). It joins the chats fine and all that but for the unicode display in my rich text box ic ant figure out. Like if you send " " from ares you get this on the client. - "A!" And if you send like " " from ares you get this on the client. - "Uc" I was wondering how i can get the two characters to turn into what they are supposed to be. Thx :) ...Show All

• SQL Server sql server 2005 error handling

  I would like to make use of the new error handling in sql server 2005 Could you please see if this sql is ok (It does compile) CREATE PROCEDURE uspGetData AS declare @Error int declare @Msg varchar(128) set nocount on begin try select SectionID, SectionTitle from RISECT01 order by SectionTitle end try begin catch SET @Msg = 'Cannot retrieve Sections from Table' RAISERROR (@Msg, 16, 1) RETURN(@@Error) end catch set nocount off Seems fine. Although it may not provide that much use for this particular case of SP having just SELECT statement. The chances of run-time error is infrequent. Additi ...Show All

• .NET Development Indigo vs. ".Net Remoting" Performance

  I created two samples for comparing the performance of Indigo vs. .Net Remoting (using TCP & binary serialization) the sample code is very simple and it is based on one of the sample code comes with Indigo. It adds two arrays (type of double) and returns the result. Here is the result: Indigo (TcpBinding) 1 element 2.23 milliseconds 100 elements 2.73 milliseconds 1000 elements 8.14 milliseconds 10000 elements 61.27 milliseconds Indigo (DualTcpBinding) 1 element 17.44 milliseconds 100 elements 22.37 milliseconds 1000 elements 63.51 milliseconds 10000 elements 498.92 milliseconds Remoting 1 element 1.21 milliseconds 100 elements 1.27 mil ...Show All

• SQL Server changing XML values

  If I use the REPLACE feature to change only a part of the XML document, does this require the whole document be reinserted and/or parsed, or just that bit of the XML that I changed Since its shredded out from the XML, it seems to me that I should be fine and not take this performance hit. Just trying to figure out the performance impact of our application updating the XML that already exists. Thanks. The chunk of the document that you are going to insert into the existing document will need to be reparsed, but the existing document will not need to be reparsed since it is in the shredded form, it will just ha ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Too many controls?

  I have a canvas that hosts a lot of controls, (Rectangles with gradient fills, radial fills, buttons, textboxes etc) When I display the Canvas, some of the controls dissappear and re-appear at will. Is this a know bug, or is there maybe to many control hosted on the Canvas Thank you very much, Jaco I would suggest using Perforator to determine if you are getting hardware rendering rather than software rendering. If your rendering is in software you might get tearing if controls are moving on the screen. I would not expect in either case to see controls disappear and reappear that were stable in posi ...Show All

• Visual Basic DAta Sources Toolbox functionality reversed

  When I am looking at a code window all of my data sources are visible in the data sources toolbox. When I am looking at a form, the toolbox is empty and greyed out and no options can be accessed. This is exactly opposite from how it worked in beta 1, 2 and RC1. Anyone know what the deal is with this As of right now I cannot drag/drop a table onto a form because all the tables are hidden when I am looking at a form. Thanks, Josh Hi, This is a well-known issue with Visual Studio 2005 RC. However we have not been able to reproduce this issue and debug it on a clean machine. One possible reason for this is insta ...Show All

• Visual C++ Reference dll

  I'am learning VB.NET and VC++. I created a dll in VC++, but VB.NET didn't recognize it as a reference dll. So my question is how do I make my VC++ dll, a reference dll try looking at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconconsumingunmanageddllfunctions.asp     ...Show All

• .NET Development WebClient Unable to connect to the remote server

  Summary: WebClient.UploadData or WebClient.DownLoadData generates exception "Unable to connect to the remote server", "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" when the url is Google.com, Amazon.com. I just installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition out-of-the-box on my Windows 2000 system. Overview: I'm writing an app get the nearest airport codes given a long list of zipcodes. The code is supposed to query FreightGate.com/Resources/close_airport.tet to perform a post with the zipcode, the site posts the nearest airport codes, and then the app parses the returned ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What to do?

  A little story: - I have on my computer 2 OS (Windows XP SP2 - with all the things: .NET Framework 2.0, Visual Basic Express Edition 2005, all updates and Windows XP SP2 - without .NET Framework and Visual Basic) I maked a program in Visual Basic (ok...is running) but on the other OS (without .NET Framework) is not running.What I can do to make the program running on all computers without installing .NET Is necesary .NET or no If is necesary I most return to the classic Win 32 Programing. :-( ...Show All

• Windows Forms Comments in C#

  I have been using XML comments in C# and have been generating web based documentation using the utility in visual studio.net.  Everything works fine... However, I would like to know if it is possible to exclude certain variables or functions, from being added to the web based documentation. thankyou, ...Show All

• Windows Forms "The terrarium server is experiencing temporary difficulties. This is probably why you are not receiving any animals. Please bear with us while we get the issue resolved."

  Hey guys, Would it be too hard to put a status indicator on the web site somewhere indicating the availability of the server.  Ie, a red or green light representing the server status being available or not would be a nice feature. I for one have never got the Terrarium to connect to the server.  I always get this message "The terrarium s ...Show All

• SQL Server Losing umlauts in SQL Templates

  Hi there, does anybody know why I'm losing all umlauts whenever I drag a custom template to a script Double-clicking works fine, but I definitely want to avoid a unproductive workaround like double click > mark all >copy > paste in other script. We work a lot with shared templates and we cannot avoid using umlauts in the scripts. Any expericences or suggestions Thanks in advance Thomas Sounds like your local windows regional settings might not be right for you. Try changing the input language to German and see if that helps. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Minimum requirements for client PC

  Hi!! What are the minimum requirements (hardware) to run an application made in vb express 2005 (in client PC, not development PC) Thanks Jose Eloy Mexico ...Show All

• Architecture CSNW registry settings

  I've been wrestling with CSNW (Client Services for Netware) for a few days on 2K and XP, trying to tune it to "play nice" with some of the old Client 32 installations, and I've found that this is like pulling teeth!  This does NOT like to be messed with! In trying to find where tuning can be done to the Netware redirector, I've pulled-apart nwrdr.sys and found what appears to be a comprehensive list of registry entries that can be used to more finely tune the client.  I've been able to find documentation for some of these, but some are completely undocumented.  If anyone can help fill-in the gaps, it would be very appreciat ...Show All