James Coleman's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Why is SolutionContext.PlatformName readonly??

  I have a situation where I'm converting a lot of Embedded Visual C++ projects to VS2005, after the conversion I'm having some issues with the solutionconfigurations. For some projects the solutionconfiguration for my embedded platform maps to the wrong projectplatform. ex) Release|MyPlatform in the solution maps to Release|Win32 instead of Release|MyPlatform in the projects. I already have some code in my conversion program to handle ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I solve TargetInvocationException problem with WebClient in Visual Basic 2005?

  Hello, I've created a small programme which downloads file over web using the WebClient interface. I've added 2 handlers to the to the webclient, one for the download progress and the other for the download completed. Sample code: Private Sub DownloadAsync( ByVal URL As String ) Dim wc As New WebClient() Dim dpc As DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler AddHandler wc.DownloadProgressChanged, dpc Dim ac As ...Show All

• SQL Server Email tasks fail after an unsuccessful SQL 2005 installation

  I tried installing SQL 2005 Dev Edition on my Win 2000 Professional machine. That failed. But now I cannot send out emails or even open a simple Email task from DTS. This is something that worked perfectly fine before I attempted the SQL 2005 installation. It seems that the SQL 2005 installation somehow messed up the the MAPI profile. The exact error message that I get when trying to execute or open a Email task in DTS is: CAnnot load MAPI Inter ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid and combobox problem

  Hi all,  I have a datagrid with 2 columns One is a usercd column and another is an amount column. The usercd column is a column of combo Boxes. for the value selected in the combobox the amount needs to be generated. The Problem. The datagrid&n ...Show All

• .NET Development Garbage Collector

  Correct me if i'm wrong, guys. From what i know, there is managed objects and unmanaged objects. unmanaged objects is objects that have database connection, file access, etc. for unmanaged objects, we'll decide when we'll free it from memory. GC can't decide that. but for managed objects, the GC can decide when to free it from memory. suppose i have a function like one below : public void xyz() { Employee objEmp = new Employee(); objEmp. ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services Login Error

  An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Get Online Help Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed) Get Online Help The parameter is incorrect. I can view my report inside of visual studio 2003 no problem, but when I navigate to the http://servername/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx  and click on my report to load inside of IE I get the error. I have serached all over but not able to get a correct answer. Any help woould ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Upgrading from Beta 2 of VS 2005 to RC / RTM Version - What device device developers should know

  We were looking at some scenarios where as a device developer you had VS 2005 Beta 2 on your machines. Then you decided to un-install Beta 2 and install RC candiate. There are a few things you should be aware of. 1. If you had installed the DMA Transport Update , please make sure remove that before you un-install anything else to clean your machine. We are also in the process of adding removal of this Patch to the un-install tool tha ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combobox - prevent user input

  Can anyone tell me if there is a property of a combobox that prevents the user from manually entering text I only want the user to be able to select options from the the dropdown list. Thanks! Set your ComboBox's DropDownStyle property to DropDownList . comboBox1.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList;   Regards, -chris ...Show All

• SQL Server Access denied when connecting remotely via SSMS

  Hello, Only the server administrator user can connect to SSIS from remote workstations.  All other users encounter "Access denied".  What security settings are necessary to permit regular user access to SSIS   Firewalling is not an issue.  SSIS is running and works fully for the server administrator user.  All users can manage the Database with SSMS just fine; only SSIS cannot be accessed by regular users.   ...Show All

• Visual Basic immed?

  In vb 6 I could use the immedaite window to do something like form3.DataGridView1.Width to see the width of a column... then form3.DataGridView1.Width = 800 to set it and see if it looks right.. then I'd write a procedure to set up data grid appearance. How do I do that in vb.net Getting furstrated... Brian ok.. when I do that I get "unable to evaluate the expression" ...Show All

• Visual C++ Feb 2005 CTP: Are precompiled headers broken?

  Use /Yc on one file (usually ill-named stdafx.cpp) to create the precompiled header file, then use /Yu on all other files to use the PCH file. If you haven't used a consistent 'stdafx.h' but were relying on /YX to automatically (re)build the PCH file as necessary, you'll have some pain to work through, and you'll also enjoy quite substantially improved compile times once you've done it. Hi, I have a similar probl ...Show All

• SQL Server Noob questions about Reporting Services

  Sorry for the noobish questions, but I just loaded Reporting Services and am trying to learn about it. 1. Is there a way to manipulate the tool bar that appears with the report   The one that has the pages, percent view, find/next, format/export and refresh.  I can't seem to find any properties to set for it.  For example, when I created reports with the evaluation copy, a print button would be on the toolbar, but with the full ve ...Show All

• Visual C++ AllocateAndInitializeSid: unresolved external symbols (PlatformSDK)

  When linking with 8.0 beta I find these symbols are unresolved: AllocateAndInitializeSid FreeSid In 7.1 they were in PlatformSDK\Lib\AdvAPI32.lib. 8.0 has a library of that name, but apparently no such function definitions In both 7.1 and 8.0, there are declarations for them in PlatformSDK\include\winbase.h. Is there a workaround / fix   I need them. I upgraded my projects, so perhaps the wizard mis ...Show All

• SQL Server Maximum Conversation timer interval

  I'm using conversation timers successfully to fire events at a predetermined time in the future, but I'm running into issues when using an interval of considerable size. I set the conversation timeout like so: set @Timeout = DATEDIFF ( SECOND , GETDATE (), DATEADD ( MINUTE , -( @TimeOffset ), @FollowUpDateTime )); if ( @Timeout < 0 ) set @Timeout = 1 ; // begin dialog begin conversation timer ( @Foll ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Download: MSF for CMMI Process Improvement Process Guidance

  Good day. I'd like to know about the Visio diagrams I found in the download, MSFforCMMIProcessImpPG-50727.147.00.zip. The diagrams are located in the folder "./General Documents/Design Specifications". For example, "Design Track.vsd". There are a total of 32 vsd files. Pardon my ignorance but I don't know what modeling or diagramming method this is. I see what appears to be inputs, outputs, roles, and processes -- reminds me ...Show All