Andy C's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Document Explorer not finding local docs any longer

  The Document Explorer (accessed directly or from the VS IDE Help menu) was working fine for a couple of weeks. It no longer finds anything under Local Help when I do searches via the "Search" tab (visible at the top of the content pane). I'm fairly confident that the problem started when I installed SQL Server 2005 Integration Services locally. I installed nothing else from, including SQL Server Books Online. All of the SQL Server docs had already been installed and were also working fine. All of the local docs appear to be there if I browse through the contents. But the search is no longer finding anything locally. Does anyone know how t ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 Beta 2 & VSS - Slow & Strange

  We're experiencing some extremely slow behavior out of VS2005 Beta 2. We have a two person development team, both of us using Beta 2, both of us have beefy machines (~2.5Ghz proc., 1GB). We are both working on the same solution, which contains 6 projects all contained in source control. For one week we've worked without any problem whatsoever and today we started experiencing the problem. The weird thing is, the IDE is non-responsive (i.e. 10-15 seconds before anything shows up after typing, same for menus to appear), but resource usage is close to nil (i.e. processor usage 2-5%, PF usage minimal, memory usage ~50%). Another weird symptom, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Using Word object to get "Available fomatting list" from the "Style and Formatting Pane"

  Hi all, Is there anyone know how to use MS word object to get the "Available fomatting" list (those formatting that is shown on the "Style and Formatting Pane") for a particular document -Brian Brian, Here's what you can do: Dim docStyle As Style Dim docStyles As Styles Set docStyles = ActiveDocument.Styles For Each docStyle In docStyles Debug.Print docStyle.NameLocal Debug.Print docStyle.InUse Next docStyle The thing to keep in mind is that there is no OM with a 1:1 correspondence to what you see in the functionality of the styles task pane. But ...Show All

• SQL Server Remote Connection problem on MS SQL 2000

  Hello, First, I want to say I read all threads similar this thread and I couldn't solve problem. My firewall is always off when I tried to connect remotly to SQL Server. I opened 1433 port from my router's configuration page and forwarded it to 10.0.0.4:1433. When I started SQL Server service and checking "netstat" with "-na" paramters. It shows only one row as "TCP - 0.0.0.0:1433 to 0.0.0.0:0". What "0.0.0.0" means and why foreign addres port is "0". I guess, It should like to be "TCP - 10.0.0.4:1433 to OutsideIp:1433". I removed forwarding from my router and used Windows's Network Connection to forward ports. I opened ...Show All

• SQL Server Which SQL version to install for Windows XP, and be able to create new databases and tables.

    Hello Everybody,   I would like to know which version of sql server could I install locally in my personal laptop where i can create new databases and use the enterprise manager  I tried to instal a few days ago a SQL 2000 Server but it required to have installed a Server Edition OS, so I couldnt do it.    Thanks for suggestions,   Ed. Be advised that the Developer's Version includes the functionality of the Enterprise Version.  So you will have to be careful what you implement if you plan to deploy to a production environment on a lower version ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions error - can't switch to design view

  When I click the design view button, after a pause I get the following error message: Package Load Failure Package 'Visual Web Developer Trident Designer Package' has failed to load       properly ( GUID = { <snipped> }. Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption.      Would you like to disable loading this package in the future                             You may us ...Show All

• Visual Basic Vis Basic Express Newbie Question - replacepattern

  I am a real newbie to VB so bear with me. I am trying to do a 'wildcard' replace of some textbox text. I am able to use the 'replace' (function, method or whatever it is.) Used as: Dim qo As String = """" TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text.Replace( "Data1=" + qo + "10" + qo, "Data1=" + qo + "12" + qo) tested as : Dim zz As String = Replace( "xyz" , "xy" , "aaa" ) I am trying to use the 'replacepattern' (function, method or whatever it is.) The help for VB basic tells me that this 'replacepattern' lives in: Nam ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Links control.

  Hello. I customized many of work item templates. But now i have a problem. In Links control i cann`t add columns - this is known v1 issue. I wan to change title of work item by adding some symbol like "+" according on work item`s state. For example, i have a bug which assosiated with requirement.If i close the bug then some symbol like "+" must automatically become added to title. Is it possible Hello We cannot do this just from VS IDE. If you change the state of the the WorkItem we can give a default value to the Title but the existing value we cannot fetch in WIT definition and we cann ...Show All

• SQL Server Basic authentication.

  The documentation for Analysis Services seems to suggest that windows authentication is no longer the only way of accessing AS. I'm trying to confirm whether or not it is possible to login to AS with basic authentication. If so, what are the constraints (eg is this possible only via IIS). I'd also like to find out if http access is restricted to enterprise edition only like it was in AS2000, or has the scope been widened in AS2005. Thanks, Terry. Basic authentication only works for http/https connectivity (where the username and password are passed to IIS for impersonation). For native connections (when you ...Show All

• Visual C# Search a big generic list for an occurence of a string.

  example code you have: objectA{     public string aProperty{        get{           ...        }        set{          ...        }    } } then private bool ItemIncluded(ObjectA aItem){     aItem.aProperty.Contains("SomeString"); } list<ObjectA> result = AllObjects<ObjectA>.FindAll(ItemIncluded); where AllObjects contains 200 000 entries (or more) w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions my first program

  hy ive made my first program today after watching some of the videos on this site. Now i made a calculation program and it works fine until u type in numbers that deal with a , . like 0.00675. first my val1 and val2 were integers so they cant have , so i maked then double. but it still dont work. heres my code for the calculate button: Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click 'make vars val1 and val2 Dim val1 As Double Dim val2 As Double Dim opr As String 'set vars val1 and val2 and opr equal to te ...Show All

• Visual Basic HOW TO SEND MAILS??

  CAN anyone give me the code..and whAt are the requirements You can use the SmtpClient class. You need to be able to access a SMTP server in order for this to work. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.smtpclient.aspx Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• .NET Development Syntax Error in Update Statement

  I am frantic.. I have tried everything I can think of..  No matter what I do when I try to update a Access 2002 table using the OleDbDataAdapter object in C#, I recieve the following error: " Syntax Error in Update Statement " .  WHat am I doing wrong   I tried both using the wizard and doing it all manually in code.   I simply did an SQL statement of "SELECT * FROM Sked_Doctors".  Well I tried using command builder, manually typing in the update statement, adding all the paramters manually, all to no avail.  I am convinced it is the version of .NET 2003 enterprise that I own to be the problem. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Questions on VSTO "v3"

  Hello, I have started to play with the VSTO "v3" CTP, and I am wondering where I could post questions regarding this CTP. I have not found any information on the download page or the readme file concerning the correct feedback channel. Should I use the Office12 Beta channel Does anyone know something about it Thanks a lot Hi, You can find out more information about the VSTO V3 CTP from Eric's blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2006/03/21/556796.aspx You can post questions to this forum. Regards, Paul Stubbs Program Manager ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Showing a form over the PPC Password screen

  I'm developing a Pocket PC app that runs at defined times, the device I'm testing on (SPVM500 or HTC Magician) has the Password configured to 'lock' the device after a number of minutes. I'd like my app to be able to display its main form over the Password screen, without the user unlocking the device first. Currently if the device is locked the app runs fine but the form is not shown untill the password (pin) is entered. Is this possible If so how I'm using VS.net 2003 with PPC2003 SDK.  If this isn't possible can it be done using bubble notifications, again I've tried this but the notification is not shown when the pass ...Show All