Brian Stern - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I get this registration Key I read about?

  Where do I get the registration key for the express release I registered but all that got me was some access to tutorials, but no key for visual basic 2005. Is there still a key requirement Does VB 2005 expire in 30 days or something or did I just misread this at some point Thanks. You can find a FAQ about it here . ...Show All

• Visual Studio DSL and GAT demo

  I saw previous posts that there will be a demo presenting the complimentary work of DSL Tools and GAT demo. Is there anything available yet Do you know any recent presentations on DSL and software factories, excluding TechEd05 And this is a question that I have to ask: How are DSL Tools different from a simple code generator Is it only the designer support Thanks, Martin Kulov http://www.codeattest.com/blogs/martin   ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL reporting - cannot display dynamically created rdl report

  I am creating myReport.RDL file programatically and saving in folder where all my RDL files reside. At run time I set the report source as /report project1/myReport.RDL. I get the error "The item /Report Project1/myReport" cannot be found, (rsItemNotFound). Note: using the above path the other file are displayed properly, may be because those are not created at run time. Do I need to deploy the newly created file In that case ho ...Show All

• Windows Forms Launching form a shortcut

  Sorry if the question seems simple, but when launching my application form a shortcut on the desktop, the current directory of the application becomes the windows desktop directory which causes me problem in loading the files associated with my application. So how can I get the real directory of the application If your app is a WindowsForms app, then you can use System.Windows.Forms.Application.ExecutablePath. If your app is not WinForm ap ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Startup error

  Can you tell me what the following error means. This error has only started to come up this morning during Team Foundation startup. And I found that the Work Items are no longer accessible. There is plenty of space on my local hard disk and my user account should ahve appropriate permission as I have been work in Team Foundation for several days now. What else can I do to resolve the problem TF30330: Team Explorer cannot write to the proj ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Culture aware dates

  Hi, Being from one of the original US colonies (the UK), we get our dates the wrong way around, i.e. dd/mm/yyyy. When I use the the 'date:' column in the API it's always en-US culture. Is that right, as the locale-dates then need converting for comparisons/math I was happily assuming that the new 2.6+ API would make this better, in that the API would be 'culturally aware', but you know what they say about people who assume, so thought I ...Show All

• Visual C++ v8 compiler bug??

  hi i get an access violation under heavy load with a std::vector<> of pointers to derived classes to a large base class with lots (30) of virtual functions. this code works fine under v7 (has been in the field forever). the code is a large MFC app (minimual threading though does use the Multi threaded lib due some occasion brief threads being run). i've verified no mem leakage via the debugger. crashes at same point each time ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How I can create sample certificate for using with WCF Infocard Message exchange.

  I am using WinFx Dec 2005 CTP. I have created a hello world WCF application as mentioned in help docs that uses Infocard. I have also created two certificates one for service and one for client using makecert.exe. The commands are specfied below: Client: E:\>"E:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Stud io 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\makecert" -n "CN=MyInfocard1" -sky exchange -ss My -a sha1 -pe  -sr CurrentUser Server: E:\>"E:\Program Files ...Show All

• .NET Development checking if .NET already installed

  Hi Guys, I'm running the 2003 version. I have two MSI files: one with the .NET in and the other without the .NET. I need to check if the .NET framework already installed on the PC so I will know what MSI to run. Is there someone here that can help me here Thanks... Do this- check for existance of this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v1.1.4322 and then for this value-: Instal ...Show All

• .NET Development Regarding Garbage Collection

  Part of my work is to run Night Runs of our system to see if there are problems that show up after a long period of time. One morning I analyzed the last Night Run and I saw that we have a lot of Handles (above 300,000 handles) with the help of the task manager. We have an option to force the GC to run in our Console. I used this option and voila the number of handles decreased to 25,000. My question why didn't the GC detected this situation and ...Show All

• SQL Server Difference between max length and length in DataType Schema

  Using OleDb I can retrieve the Database Native DataTypes Schema with LoadSchema("DataTypes") In the CreateParameters column some variable fields such as varchar have CreateParametera of 'max length' while nchar has a CreateParameters of 'length'. Can someone differentiate between 'length' and 'max length' for me TVM       BOL: " nchar [ ( n ) ] Fixed-length Unicode char ...Show All

• SQL Server Converting from Access.mdb database to SQL 2005

  Is there anywhere a program which will convert my 30MB Access database into a SQL2005 database   I've tried the upsizing wizard in Access 2000 and it just bombs.  From the performance hits I now have with my data access since I went to VB.net 2005 and using ADO.net instead of ADO classic, I need to do something.  The ADO.net now takes almost 3 times the time to do my table stuff.  Was using Server side cursors under classic a ...Show All

• .NET Development Reading CSV files

  Is there a simple way to read the column data of a csv file that contains a database   The difficulty is that I can't find any "built-in" parser within .NET.  Is there one Karl    I modified this solution found on the web.  Credit to the book, "Mastering Regular Expressions". Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions Dim sField(10) As String Private Sub ParseCSV( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't create new team project

  Hi, the problem has already been described in this forum: trying to create the first team project the wizzard fails due to a Sharepoint connection problem. And I tried (probably) all of the solutions: - changed to NTLM authentication - permission for reporting services - permission to Sharepoint services Some hints that might be interesting: - the SharePoint Virtual Server List shows Default Web Site with an installed Version but Admin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Technical Requirements in CMMI

  Where do technical requirements fit in the CMMI process If a functional requirement is created, where do the technical details go I'm sure we do things backwards here, but let me give you a peek at what we do. Our data analysts create the functional requirements. The developers then take those functional requirements and fill out how they will meet the requirement in a "technical requirement" tab that's linked to the functional requirement ...Show All