Muhammad Atif's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Changing the SerialPort.ReceivedBytesThreshold in the DataReceived Event?

  Hi! I'm reading from a serialport. The messages sent from the serialdevice have different lenghts. Is it safe to change the SerialPort.ReceivedBytesThreshold in the DataReceived Event Is there any risk of loosing data Performance problems Sample code: void SerialComPort_DataReceived(object sender, SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e) { string received = ""; if (SerialComPort.ReceivedBytesThreshold == 2) { ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Release of Team Foundation Server?

  Not sure if I missed this somewhere, but did they announce the release date for Team Foundation Server Hey Brian, I definitely understand (I'm in the business too), and believe me, rather have stable than earlier. But this is shaping up to be a fantastic product, so don't mind me if I get a little anxious :). Joe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to Upgrade to VS 2005 Release from Team System Beta

  I suspect my problem is not unique. I have tried everything i know to uninstall the previous versions but have come up empty . I get a message that i need to uninstall SQL server Express Edition, tools express edition SQL native server Device Emulator 1.0 Visual J# resdistributable. I have tried the manual uninstaller http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/uninstall/ but no luck. It is strange, i can't find any documentat ...Show All

• Visual C++ replacement for /mapinofo:lines in Visual Studio 2005

  We have   a suite of Windows applications w ritten in C++ using Visual Studio 6. The executables   contain a structured exception filter which, in case of an unhandled exception, logs the state of the current thread. The logged info includes the fault address, a trace of the call stack, register contents, a stack dump, etc.  The Visual Studio 6.0 projects are set up to generate full map files which include line number i ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to load a resourcedictionary from xaml file

  Hi, I have a resource file called skin.xaml. I am using the following code to create the ResouceDictionnary. ResourceDictionary res = new ResourceDictionary (); res.Source = new Uri( "StandardSkin.xaml" ); => parser error. Any suggestions thanks/chong I found the solution. using ( FileStream fs = new FileStream ( "StandardSkin.xaml" , FileMode .Open, ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem in Deploying Analysis service projects using SQL server Business Intelligence Development Studio

  after creating Analysis service projects using SQL server Business Intelligence Development Studio when the project is deployed it gives following error......... Error 1 The project could not be deployed to the 'Solversa-201\SQL2005' server because of the following connectivity problems : A connection cannot be made. Ensure that the server is running. To verify or update the name of the target server, right-click on the project in Solutio ...Show All

• .NET Development Retrieving dicom files with webclient

  Hi, I am writing an application that needs to pull medical (dicom format) images from a server and display them (I do not want to use the dicom transfer protocol for this app). I am using a .NET webclient for the transfer, but it won't download files with a .dcm or .dic extension. It works fine if I change the files extension to .txt or add a .txt or use some other common extensions (.gif works etc.). I notice the behavior parallels IE, I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drawing at design time.

  Ok what I want is to be able to click in a custom control and place grab handles into the control on click. I want to be able to move those grab handles around and have a black line going in a loop though all the grab h ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 JDBC v1.1 now available

  The first community preview release of the SQL Server 2005 JDBC v1.1 driver is now available. This build includes a number of bug fixes from customer feedback of the v1.0 driver, as well as new feature work, especially Type-2 integrated authentication. To get the v1.1 CTP1 please email me directly at shelbyg<at>microsoft<dot>com. -shelby Shelby Goerlitz Program Manager Microsoft SQL Server Data Programmability ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application.ExecutablePath gives strange info

  Hi, I am trying to use the Application.ExecutablePath to find the executable path of my app and it gives me the following C:\\Programme\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\Common7\\IDE\\vctesthost.exe when running the debugger.  This is not what I was expecting. I was expecting the bin directory of where my application is built Is this normal Because you are querying this under a unit test, you are actually getting the application that i ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Get the name of an user in active directory with vba Excel 2003

  First sorry  because i'm a french student I have a sheet with  some string equals to an attributes of user in active directory a kind of id And i'm looking for a way to search in the active directory the username corresponding of this id best regards and thank you Not sure exactly what you need but try: Application.userName This is the name of the person logged on ChasAA PS you c ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Enterprise June CTP Installation Error

  Tried to install several times (on Win2003 Ent. SP1) but I always get the following error: Failure adding user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE to local group SQLServer2005MSSQLServerADHelperUser (1388) The user varies (sometimes NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) and so does the local group (sometimes SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser). Any tips Regards Roger I have tried to install SQLDEV ,But got the same error mesage. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Fatal error C1083: Win application don't work

  I intall C++ 2005 express and PSDK, like it shows in instructions, but when I try to build or debug it. It gives me an error: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': No such file or directory What I have to do to make that work Help me, please You can use the compiler option /I to set the include directories. Also, make sure that in the IDE you have changed he include directories to where the ...Show All

• Visual Basic System.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection?

  Hello, having some problems here connecting to an Oracle database. I have IIS 6 running on Win2003. I create a web app in vb.net with the following code: Imports System.Data Imports System.Data.OracleClient Partial Class Default2 Inherits System.Web.UI.Page Public cnRML2 As New System.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection Private Function OraConnection() As Boolean Dim ConnectionString As String ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Data Controls!!

  I have a database with a table that stores values into two columns. on my form i have a dataset table adapter and binding source control. now i would like the ability to allow the user to enter a value in tbox1 and tbox2 and search for those values from the database table. i need to know if a value in column1 and a value in column2 exist in the same row. any help is appreciated...TIA Hi this should ...Show All