ankur mitra's Q&A profile

• SQL Server RS in SQL Server 2005 Express?

  Hi I read on an MSDN blog that SQL Server 2005 Express has "Basic reporting services". Where can I find out exactly what this means As usual, the MS site is unhelpful. Thanks, MH&S Ooh. Found it now. <Eats words> It's right there on the MS site. Great stuffings. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting frustrated with red "X" on documents folder

  I am at a loss as to why the Documents folder insists on displaying a red "X" in the Beta 3 Refresh. I have granted myself admin privilages but it seems to have done no good. Anyone know what would cause this I'm sorry to hear you are having problems. Several bugs have been fixed in this area in the RC, hopefully it will fix your problem. One thing to check: Open the project portal and make s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Close error window?

  Is there a way to close an error window of another application I am using proc.start & proc.close to programatically start & close an application, but when my VB app executes the .close method, the other app does close, but it gives an error. It is the common error window where you have the option to send or not send the error report to Microsoft. Is there a way I can close that error window programatically Thanks... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build without SolutionToBuild?

  I'm wanting to have Team Build execute a MSBuild project that just executes an external program several times with different parameters. There's nothing to checkout of source control although the external program adds/updates files in source control (scripts from our development Sql Server). However, if any of the executions of the external program fail, I'd like for that fact to be fed back into Team System as a work item. What am I missing Th ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) New exception in Beta 2 makes no sense?

  I do not have a clue on what this exception means. From the stack trace I see none of my code in the call stack. It appears to be a problem with applying a property value that changes the template of an element. Any help would be welcome. "Dispatcher processing has been suspended, but messages are still being processed." at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Bool ...Show All

• .NET Development Invoke a Login When Required

  I am developing a web application in VWD 2005 (VB). I use a master page for most user pages. There are a couple of user pages that I want to show only if the user has logged in. For example, say Task5.aspx and Task9.aspx require a login. On the page load of those pages I want to check a Session variable (e.g. Session("LoginID")) and if it has a value, I know the user is logged in. If the user is not yet logged in I want to open a login page (log ...Show All

• Visual C# Newline Formatting

  Visual Studio 2005 has an impressive array of text formatting options (Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> Formatting) but one thing that I can't figure out how to specify is formatting of lines between statements. For example, I'd like to be able to press Ctrl-E, D (or Edit -> Advanced -> Format Document) and have Visual Studio make sure there is one new line between each of my class methods, two lines between #region ...Show All

• Visual Studio Dragging fields from Server Explorer onto the design surface fails

  I came across this problem while working through the “Creating a Distributed Application” walkthrough.   Step 12 of section “Process for Creating a Distributed Application”, sub-section “To create a database connection and adapter” instructs you to “Drag these fields from Server Explorer onto the design surface”.   This is supposed to result in a SqlConnection object paired with a SqlDataAdapter appearing in the designer.   Nothi ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro sending email from VFP through MS Outlook

  We have the following code for sending email to Outlook. The email gets sent, but the font size is always 36 px or 36 pt (we tried both). None of the <cr><lf> show up. The email is one big paragraph. Can anyone help   Here is the code: LOCAL loApp, loEmailItem, cHex  lnsize = '"' + str(gaPointsize(Slcrm.nbodysize),2,0)+ '"'  cHex = ''  nDec = Slcrm.nColor    nPower = 8  DO WHILE nPower > 0 & ...Show All

• Visual Basic ADODC Control

  The one sentace version: ADODC refresh doesnt work. So I've got this form designed to edit domain tables and their fields. Each domain table has two fields, ID and Value. Basically the form has a combo box which lists the tables, there's a datagrid which lists the fields and values of the selected table and there's a frame with a two text boxes (id & field) used for editing values. There's a 2-dimentional array, TableList that keep ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Request Failed: Unable to connect to remote server

  I've seen several people post this error, but none of the suggested solutions have resolved my issue. This seems very simple to me, so I'm sure I am missing something very basic. I am very new to using Visual Studio for testing, so please bare with me. I have a local ASP.NET 2.0 application that strictly uses Windows security. I have recorded a very basic web test that navigates to one page within my application and that is all. When I run th ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Excel: Treeview handle events for dynamically added control

  How do I handle events for a TreeView control dynamically added to an Excel 2000 worksheet I am trying the following approach, but get a 'Type Mismatch' error because my wrapper class, clsTreeView, is expecting an MSComctlLib.TreeView; while the object is created from the MSComctlLib.TreeView class type Dim oOLE As OLEObject Set oOLE = Sheet1.OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2", _ Left:=250, Top:=500, Width:=132 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Clear the data in all the Controls in a single Form

  Hai, I am new to Vb.net.My Problem is when i click the Button the datas in all the Controls should be cleared for new Entry. Not like this way: combo1.text="" i want to send a form as a argument to as function like cleardata(me) Public Sub Cleardata(byval frm as windows.forms.form) dim newControl as frm.ControlCollection for each newcontrol in Frm TextBox: Newcontrol.text="" Combo: NewControl.te ...Show All

• Visual Basic Calling the Command Prompt and using VB.Net to write to it

  Hi, I am in the middle of a project which has a huge chunk of automisation that takes place within the WSH Scripting envrionment, calling over 100 different .vbs scripts. As more and more people get involved in running these scripts I wanted to create a small user interface which had some explanation about the various types of script that can be run with some help and guidance built in. My UI is a simple form with a series of four or f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office After installing VSTO2005 no Office Templates in VS

  Hi all, I have been trying to install the VSTO 2005 on my box (Windows XP SP2), I already have Office 2003 Professional (with/without SP2) and Visual Studio 2005, but it looks like it is not being installed at all. I can see it in Control Panel Add/Remove Programs, but when I open my Visual Studio 2005 and go to Create Project no Office Templates are displayed in any language. Am I missing something I was expecting to see something ...Show All