Stefano B's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How was Microsoft MAX look acheived in XAML

  Does anyone know how the Microsoft MAX look was acheived using XAML The top portion of the screen is very "Ribbon" like, where the tabs are actually in the window titlebar. Is there any samples available Thanks, Joe Well according to this blog article Max isn't completely written using WPF. It implies that there is quite alot of unmanaged code used to get that look and feel. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Timing issue using DateTime

  I wish to have a progress bar counting up from 0 seconds towards a specified time, and above this a label showing currenttime / totaltime updating every second. I have a value (as an int) of the number of seconds that make up the total time, so I wish to make the total time by using: System::DateTime currentTime = currentTime.Now; System::DateTime PieceLength = currentTime; PieceLength.AddSeconds (Convert::ToDouble(TotalLengthInt)); TimeSpan pl ...Show All

• System Center iSCSI

  Hi, Will iSCSI be supported in the released version Ben .. In the meantime, you can use the current release to approximate iSCSI link utilization by using a SAN in the model. Setup: SAN switch <-> computer <-> LAN switch 1. Choose the SAN interconnect speed to be the same as the NIC speed for the computer whose link you would like to analyze.  Right now, this speed can only be ...Show All

• Visual C# displaying html tags in a word document

    hi   Can any one suggest how can I display html tags in word. I have currently designed an asp.net app which generates reports in a word document. Here the html tags are not displayed in html format, instead they are displayed as plain text. Is there any property to achieve this.   Thanks Siva http://geekswithblogs.net/brcraju/archive/2005/07/27/48372.aspx   ...Show All

• SQL Server Job To Execute A SSIS Package Fails - The Command Line Parameters Are Invalid

  I have created a job to execute a SSIS package located in the SSIS Package Store.  When starting the job I receive an error.  The history log reports: Message Executed as user: DOMHARRPROMAST\SQLMAIL. The command line parameters are invalid.  The step failed. This is the command line: /DTS "/File System/DataWarehouse/AgencySCD" /SERVER ntharrsqlt500 /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF What am I doing wrong ...Show All

• Visual Basic VarPtr

  If anyone knows the replacement function or method for varptr (vb6) in vb 2005 please let me know. http://www.google.com.au/search hl=en&safe=off&q=varptr+.net&meta = More specifically http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/singleinstance.asp has this: <P>There are two operations required - set the <CODE lang=vbnet>lpData</CODE> member to point to a <CODE lang=vbnet>String</CODE>, and retrie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System error adding wsdl to a webservice

  Hello, I have a strongly typed dataset that is being returned in a webservice. I wanted to start using the architect of ts and create documentation. When I open up a DS and add a webservice application and then right click and select "create webservice endpoint from wsdl" I get an error stating "The name is not a valid type name" If I add a reference to the webservice for a project in the ide I can see the webservice function so I do not beli ...Show All

• SQL Server General network error in VB Application

  Hello All, I need some help with tracing this problem. Only one system in our network gets this error. Runtime error '-2147467259(80004005') [DBNETLIB][ConnectionWrite (send()).]General network error. Check your network documentation. I am using SQL Server 2000 I have checked the access rights of the user they are perfect and also as i have mentioned earlier this error comes up with this login only. I have also tried replacing the ...Show All

• Visual C++ Resource Editor: Add/Remove operation is impossible '(null)' is read only

  MESSAGE: Resource Editor: Add/Remove operation is impossible, because the code element '(null)' is  read only   So, I moved files from /ProjectA/ProjectA to just be /ProjectA fixed the project settings deleted and added files to go with the changes.  My 'ClassView' contains duplicate classes CMyClass and CMyClass with two different paths one in /ProjectA/ProjectA and the new one /ProjectA; I can't delete the old /ProjectA/Project ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Bug in CA2200 Rethrow to preserve stack details.

  Hi i am writing some example code to be part of our documentation and i get the following error when running code analysis: Error 1 CA0001 : Rule=Microsoft.Usage#CA2200, Target=CompanyName.Example.TeamName.InnerAndOverruledExceptions.UsingTheOveruledException():System.Void : Index was outside the bounds of the array. Here is the code this Error was raised on.      public static void UsingTheOveruledExceptio ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies SQL Queries

  Can anybody provide / point me to any examples of using SQL to query WDS using the API... I can't find any examples. I want to actually run a query that finds all items that have a blank characterization, and I can't see how to do this without using a SQL like query. I'm not sure if our SQL syntax is documented anywhere.  But if you're using ExecuteQuery() - you can add the following string to the third parameter: L"Characterization Is ...Show All

• Visual Basic Linklabel

  could some1 plz tell me how to make a linklabel open up a url in your default browser In the LinkLabel Click event stick something like Private Sub LinkLabel1_LinkClicked(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs) Handles LinkLabel1.LinkClicked Process.Start(" http://www.microsoft.com ") End Sub This will cause it to go to the appropriate ...Show All

• Windows Forms Architecture kind of question...

  This is what I am going for- I will host a central sql database(1 table with 10 columns, but 10,000 rows added every month) I want to deploy a windows app with an msde database-(the central is an enterprise sql) When the users opens the app,&nb ...Show All

• Visual C++ What happened to the C++ language profiler?

  With Visual Studio 2003, there was a nice add-in do to performance analysis ( DevPartner Profiler Community Edition). Unfortunately - that doesn't seem to be available with Visual Studio 2005, and they don't seem to have provided anything else to replace it. Am I missing something, or is this just another big step backward with Visual Studio 2005 (the compiler itself is much slower, and generates much worse code). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Slow screen redraw

  I am in inexperienced programmer who has an application that displays many (50-60) controls on a form. The application is a production planning system, that requires many controls displayed on screen (1 for each job qued on individual machines) Whenever the form is re-draw, it is painfully slow, I have set the doublebuffer ControlStyles etc, but are unable to fix the issue. This issue is running on a P4 2.8GHZ / 500MB PC. Can anyone ...Show All