NicMilne's Q&A profile

• SQL Server How to publish reports to production environment?

  I have a quick stupid question...I am using SQL Reporting Services 2000 and have designed a couple reports that I would like to publish to the production environment.  Only problem is that they do not have Visual Studio.  Is it possible to package and send them an installation routine for them to deploy Yes, you can do without IDE. Refer rs.exe commandline provided with SQL reporting server (setup ). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Exporting (and importing) Tools Option page settings

  Hello, This question is more directed towards the MS guys, but if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. I know the default implementation of DialogPage provides the necessary implementation for IProfileManager and I have sucessfully used it and associated attributes to export setting from implemented option pages. However, we implement a full language service using the core editor so we want to export code editor Default and Tabs sett ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem about ILMerge

  I have a problem when I merge a assembly. I receive this error message : An exception occurred during merging: Index was outside the bounds of the array. If I exclude that assembly, everything is fine. What can I do with that Thanks. Hi, I want to merge serveral assemblies (named CompA, CompB, CompC...) into a single assembly (named CompX). If I merge CompA & CompB, everything is fine. But if I merge CompA, CompB & Co ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Upgrading vb6 projects

  I was unable to upgrade projects from vb6. I get an error when "invoking upgrade engine". Error occurs in vbu.exe. Error message: Enexpected exception ocurred during upgrade engine operation: Error in remote procedure call. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BE). Using: XP Pro Spanish Version VB 2005 Express V8.0.50727.42 VB6 projects made with VB6 Enterprise Edition (SP6) Spanish Version. Hi Samer, The warnin ...Show All

• Windows Forms File Access

  I am new to .NET development (very new) and am trying to write a very simple application that will allow users to look at a list of files, and download them (text files). The text files are on a different computer, and are accessed through a mapped network drive. When I try yo use the dir() function to get a list of files to display to the user, I can get file and directory listings for local drives, but not for any mapped drives. Any idea how I ...Show All

• Windows Forms SURVEY about your usage of the .NET Framework documentation!

  Hello -   I'm conducting an official survey about your usage of the .NET Framework documentation. In particular, what programming languages do you filter on. Your answers will be used to help improve the documentation viewing experience. When reading the surv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ClickOnce CD Deployment

  Is anyone else having problems with the ClickOnce deployment in VB2005 Express I am trying to do a CD/DVD Deployment using the Publish feature, and I have the publish settings to include or "download from the same location as my app" but whenever I go to build it says that it cannot find the DotNetFX or the Windows Installer 3.1 files. I even tried to manually download them and plop them in the folder but I still can't build without ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF soap:address location generated in the WSDL

  How do I change this value. I have a selfhosted WCF program so I need to change this via code not configuraiton files at runtime. <soap:address location=http://10.3.10.10:1060/WS/ /> to <soap:address location=http://externaladdress.com/WS/ /> I see some info about SoapExtensionReflector, but I need to do this at runtime without using configuration files. You're going to have to add a new serviceendpoint to listen a ...Show All

• .NET Development Explain .ConnectionString Mechanism

  I am interested to know how the ConnectionString line of code works.  It appears to search machine.config, app.config and web.config.  Anybody have any background on how this process works   Does it really search all three files and in what order Protected Function DB( ByVal DatabaseName As String ) As String Return ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings _ (DatabaseName).ConnectionString   End F ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How is this code (VBA6.0 with Excel Application) to C#

  Hi How is this code (VBA6.0 with Excel Application) to C# : Dim intValue01 as Integer intValue01 = sheet1.cells(1, 1) 'READ DATA FROM CELLS intValue01 = intValue01 + 2 sheet2.cells(1,1) = intValue01 ' 'WRITE DATA IN CELLS Thanx for any idea. sheet1.cells[1,1] this looks like an article you may be interested in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en- ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DocumentViewer no longer supports FlowDocument in CTP release??

  Hi all, I get a System.NotSupportedException exception thrown when I try to load a FlowDocument into a DocumentViewer using the PDC CTP release (the exception states I need to use a FixedDocument or a FixedDocumentSequence). Is this accurate   Did support really disappear, or am I just oblivious as to changes that I need to make to get things to work Thanks, John You are correct, FlowDocument can no longer ...Show All

• Visual C# IDE Deletes my code

  Hi, While using the Visual C# IDE to build a somewhat complex form (about 60-65 controls), I added a SplitContainer control to manage the layout of some of my controls.  After a couple of minutes of playing around with the properties of the SplitContainer, the IDE deleted all of my code from the form - ALL of it !  Fortunately, I was able to pull a copy off a backup drive.  I restarted the IDE and started making some ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem In MFC AppWizard(exe)

  How can i change the fonts of edit control Either simply select a different font in the dialog template you are using. Or create a CFont object inside your window object, that contains the edit control. Call SetFont for the edit control to assign this font to the edit control. Note that the CFont object must still be existant for the lifetime of the control. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Issue with SetDlgItemText (Win API) function

  Dear, I want to set text to one of the textboxes on one exe.   For that, I am using SetDlgItemText Win API function in my vb.net console app. The declaration is : Public Declare Function SetDlgItemText Lib "user32.dll" Alias "SetDlgItemTextA" (ByVal hDlg As Integer, _ ByVal nIDDlgItem As Integer, _ ByVal lpString As String) As Integer Iam calling this function in my app like this : API.SetDlgItemText(hWnd, 201, "5.55") where hWnd=ma ...Show All

• .NET Development Working with Web Services in Visual Studio 2005

    H i all,     I'm new to ASP.NET and web services.     I'm able to create a web service successfully.And i tried to add it as a web referrence to another ASP.NET application.The Add Web Referrence dialog window displays my web service,but when i clicked the link to add it,i got this error:     "Server cannot access application directory  'C:\WebSites\MyWebService\'. The directory doe ...Show All