Cedrickb's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Activities Menu Unavailable

  I've noticed a number of instances with users not being able to access our P4 application because the Activities menu is consistently unavailable.  I have witnessed this situation myself over several  home broadband connections and the Activity list comes up with the following message: "List of games or activities is temporarily unavailable. Please close and try again later." I initially thought this was due to a restriction on the client machine's network, but this has happened to me in my own home after a recent move.  I've changed nothing...even my provider is the same, but the Activities menu is inaccessible from home. ...Show All

• SQL Server Drill through in migrated cubes ?

  We have some migrated cubes that implemented drillthrough in Analysis Services 2000 and appear to have drill through in the migrated version if viewed through Proclarity. But when I look at the cube in the 2005 BI studio, I see no structure to implement this drill through. Nor am I able to drill through from the Management Suite--just Proclarity. What's going on Dan, Drillthrough has gone through significant changes in AS2005. The following is a link to a good whitepaper on the topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sql2k5_anservdrill.asp What ...Show All

• SQL Server GUID in Mobile SQL

  I have been trying to setup the GUID new GUID when I add a row into a Pocket PC WM 5.0 Mobile SQL (*.sdf) utilizing C# through Visual Studio 2005 - targetting Pocket PC Smart Device Any help would be most welcome... Thanks Uhm, I can't really get the problem you have from your text. Describe it in more detail please. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Business Scorecard Manager 2005 database problem

  Hi, I’m having a problem with my Business Scorecard Manager 2005. It’s installed, but it doesn’t make a connection with the database (SQL 2005 Enterprise). Even with the templates that it already has, the connections that he tries to make are to tables that do not exist. If i try to create a connection string to an existing database, it also gives me an error. How can i solve this Thanks As I understand it, the templates are for SQL 2000, not SQL 2005. I am running into the same problem with SQL2005. No problems with SQL2000, though. Try this link out - I plan on doing the same: http:// ...Show All

• .NET Development Best database choice?

  I am wondering what the consensus is on choosing a database solution for a windows forms application when developing for the following criteria: 1. For applications that need to be deployed with their database on target computers (nothing complicated like oracle or ms SQL). 2. small amounts of data...( say...less than 500 mb of data [basically only need to persist small amounts of data between application executions ]) What kinds of storage media are easiest to develop and deploy   Is it best to use something like access, dbase, an xml file, or something else Thanks Thanks for the repl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Testing migration from TestDomain to NewDomain

  Hi, I've been testing the process of moving from a Test Domain to a New Domain. Everything went pretty well and at first I thought it had all worked, however there is a slight problem with Reports. If I browse to http://localhost/Report and try one of the default reports everything is ok. But, if I use VS 2005 and browse to the reports using Team Explorer I gets a dialog box asking for username and password when I launch a stock report. Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong BTW, I'm using the RC version of TFS. Thanks. Nuts! If kind of jumped the gun here. My ulimate goal is to move doma ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report Viewer Export Feature

  does anyone know of anyway to execute the export to PDF feature of the reportviewer in code i was thinking i could use reflection to do it but have not been able to. any ideas Call ReportViewer.LocalReport.Render() or ReportViewer.ServerReport.Render() (depending on which mode you are using).  Pass in "PDF" for the render format. ...Show All

• Visual C# System.Xml VS MSXML4.0

  I have to work with big size .xml files and do manupulate, can any one suggest which is good (System.Xml VS MSXML4.0) in terms of performance, ease of use etc in C# Khan it all depends on what you what kind of manipulations you want to run on your XML files and what kind of access you require for it. If you are are going to load large documents into DOM it will certaintly slow down your applications since they will take up significant memory. But a combination of XmlWriter/XmlReaders etc. will give you better performance. between MSXML 4.0 and System.XML, which programming language are you going to you If its C#, i'd suggest ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA XmlMap.loadXML problem - repeating call

  Hi all, I have the following XSD load to XML Source of excel: < xml version="1.0" > <xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema "> <xs:element name="stock"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="quote"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="symbol" type="xs:string" /> <xs:element name="price" type="xs:string" /> ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions system hangs?

  A search for related questions, etc. turns up nothing useful. Some time after installing MS VB 2005 Express Edition, my system started freezing up, requiring a cold boot every few minutes. So I uninstalled using the recommended tool. My system recovered 100%: no more freezing. Then I reinstalled. For now, things seem to go all right. My question, before it is too late to ask: how can I as a user _document_ these system hang-ups I checked the Event Logs, found nothing suspicious. Are there any monitoring tools Thanks in advance for your answer. stefaan dot meeuws at gmail dot com You a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS, SQL server 2000 and SQL server 2005

  We have MS server 2003 with and SQL server 2000. I want to install on this computer TFS. But if I install SQL server 2005 standard edition, I have to use option - named instance. Then, w hen I am installing TFS, I receive error, that SQL server has to be a default server. Is possible to solve this problem We want to try if TFS will be good solution for us. I don't want uninstall SQL server 2000 and move every database to new SQL server 2005. Can you help me Team Foundation Server requires its SQL Server instance to be the default instance. I don't think there's a workaround for that, but I'll move thi ...Show All

• .NET Development App.config not working

  Hi,    I have added new App.config file in my Project and written this code in it. I m trying to set    ConnectionString as Global variable. < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <configuration>    <appSettings>       <add key="ConnectionString" value="data source=myserver;initial catalog=Apps;Integrated Security=SSPI;packet size=4096" />    </appSettings> </configuration> When I compile and run this project, some how this App.config file is not creating .exe file, So when i try to access ConnectionString it shows "Null"........ Any help w ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++/MFC 8 not stable

  Hey, I am affriad to say MFC 8 that comes with VS 2005 isnt stable at all. im working in a studio trying to work on a project, and i keep on wasting time on worthless issues. All of which have to do with pointers and the new operator. Latest issue is it will declare thepointer if i told it to load configuration from a file. but it wont declare it if i decide to load the configuration manually, i really dont know what difference does it make. im using the exact same code for declaring a pointer, and it refuses and gives me the following message: http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php image=error7qz.jpg followed by Out Of Memory, also i dont know w ...Show All

• Visual Studio A blank grey window that won't disappear

  Hi, I've recently uninstalled vs 2005 beta 2 and installed vs 2005 rtm (team version). I've also installed sql server 2005 and the tfs client (refresh 3). Every time I open the VS IDE a floating grey window appears. Even when I close the window and reopen the IDE the window shows up again. The window also shows up every time I end a debug session (either by clicking on the stop button or ending the debug normally). No matter what I do - it won't disappear. The window is not a toolbar since I cannot drag it to the toolbar area, I can however make it dockable, but it just appears dockable every time I open the IDE a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deploying a C# application on a windows mobile 5.0 pocket pc (treo)

  This is my first time developing for windows mobile and for the Treo 700w. I'm working with Visual Studio 2005 and I'm using C#. I've got the latest version of active sync and the smart phone sdk. My basic hello world app works great on the "Windows Mobile 5.0 pocket PC phone square emulator" I'm now trying to get the application to work on the physical treo. What I've done so far is build the application build -- > Configuration Manager configuration : change (Debug to Release) I built using this "Release" option. I then went into my file system, grabbed the hello.exe file generated from this build and ...Show All