Mike Price's Q&A profile

• SQL Server AS 2005 Using multiple Roles for a user

  Hello, I am setting up roles in the cube to restrict what the users can see. What I understand is that one user can in the AD belong to several groups. These groups are supposed to have a corresponding role in the cube. the ideal situation would be that a combination of roles would mean an intersection of the dimension data. I have heard that in other tools you work as follows: Rmove all rights and then add on.... My situation in SSAS i ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 intallation fails - The following component failed to install: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2

  I am trying to install VS2005 Beta 2 on an XP Pro SP2 laptop. Nothing was intalled on this laptop before (no Framework, no VS).  It is a fresh laptop. VS2005 setup has only installed succefully .NET 2.0 Beta 2 framework and MSXML 6.0 Parser. The next component it tries to install is the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2.  And this is where it chokes. The log shows the following: [11/17/05, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Navigation around Project Portal hindered by repeated display of Domain Login Prompt

  Help please! I am a project manager and seem to be the only person afflicted with this problem in my organisation and my SysAdmin doesn't know what to do to overcome it. When I am in VSTS explorer, I can right click and select to show Show Project Portal. The project portal home page is displayed, and a few moments later, the login prompt is displayed. If I 'cancel' or re-enter my password three times I can generally navigate round the porta ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Calling External method on Exception

  hi, I am using the Workflow to manage the UI and the dataloaded in it. I wanted to show and UI (winform Usercontrol)showing a Exception infornation to user. Hence I was trying to call and method which creates a object of CallExternalMethodActivity and I use this to display the Exception screen to the user. Though the method gets called on exception it doesnot load the exception UI on the screen. How can I use CallExternalMethodActivity ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unit Test for Interface Methods

  "Create Unit Tests" does not seem to create unit test for a method which implements an interface. Is there a way to make this work I have a simple class as follows: >>> using System; namespace Test { public class TestClass: TestInterface { TestClass() {} string TestInterface.GetMyName() { return "MyName"; }}} <<< In the above example, "Create Unit Test" does not create a unit test for ...Show All

• Visual Basic reading text from a document and displaying it

  I have TextBox1 (to enter what you want to search), TextBox2 (to display the results), and Button1 (when you press it, it does the whole process thing). I was given this to go by: ================================================================== Theres a couple of steps in a possible approach here. One is to be able to read the contents of a file. If your using VB Express / 2 ...Show All

• SQL Server how to run the Service Broker Samples

  I am trying to run the Readme_HelloWorld sample on the SQL server 2005 Books online. But don't know where I can get the setup.sql, SendMessage.sql, ReceiveMessage.sql scripts. I followed two examples on the blog, but they did not work at all. Here are the scripts: /* example 1 */ create database TestSB go use TestSB go create queue TxQ create queue RxQ create message type Msg create contract MsgContract(Msg SENT BY ANY) create service TxSv ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to use DataGridViewControlCollection in place of Control Array of MSFlexGrids

  Hello, I am learning VB2005 by rewriting a large VB6 program. My VB6 program used loads of MSFlexGrids in a single Control Array. Control Arrays are out with VB2005 so I was looking at a way of using DataGridView controls in the form of a collection. The MSDN documentation points in the direction of DataGridViewControlCollection but I cannot decifer how to add DataGridViews to form a collection and then how to access each one in a simi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX 9.0 problem

  I tried to install and run "dxsdk_dec2005.exe", I have DirectX 8 already installed, am I supposed to un-install DX8 for 9 to work. This is the correct version of DirectX 9.0 right With all of the SDK Installs it is generally best practices to remove the previous version before installing the new version. And yes DX 9 is the latest version but it is updated every 2 months at the moment, the latest ...Show All

• Windows Forms Connection String "Best Practice"

  A recent post inquired whether or not a database connection string can be stored in the application settings in the app's config file.  Yes, this can be done.  But I'd like to know, is this the best approach for storing connection strings, ...Show All

• Windows Forms IssueVision Issue

  The setup wont 'see' my local sql installation  and gives me the the only option 2 cacel the setup :(  Icheced and sql acceps mixed mode  Remco  Did you know there is a forum on this site dedication to IssueVision You might& ...Show All

• Visual C# passing null to integer type parameter

  hi, say i have a function. public void display(int x, int y) {    MessageBox.Show(x.ToString() + y.ToString()); } i want to call this function as like as follows: display(null, 1); //or display(1, null); //or display(null, null); but passing null in place of an integer parameter is not allowed. how can i solve this problem (i dont want to pass any special value to an integer parameter (say, -1) in place of null.) Environment ...Show All

• SQL Server Splitting a field

  hi all i have a field which displays the full name of our customers i.e. John Smith Is there a way of creating an additional fields first name , last name and automatical splitting the field display name first name last name john smith john smith Thanks rich Once you create the two new columns for first and last names you are going to get rid of the full name column, righ ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Imagelist in CF beta 2

  Visual Studio 2005 Beta seems to produce invalid image list code. For the Pocket PC 2003 I have added 2 icons to an image list and then attached that list to a toolbar. However on loading the application throws an exception when trying to load the first image into the list this .imageList1.ImageSize = new System.Drawing. Size (16, 16); this .imageList1.Images.Clear(); this .imageList1.Images.Add(((System.Drawing. Image )(resources ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual SourceSafe installation on Team System/Suite trial

    I'm trying to get setup on the VS Team System/Suite trial. The comparison chart here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/ and here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/vsts/compare/ seem to imply that VSS is included in all the team system products. I can't seem to find it on the trial DVD's and the installation process didn't have an option to install it. Did I miss something   Thanks, ...Show All