Pharos's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Report Builder, Aggregation Scope and Running Values

  Dear Anyone, I need to create a measure/column that is percent of column (or row, not sure). In Reporting services, we were able to do this because aggregations there had scope. =Sum(Fields!Open_Demand.Value)/Sum(Fields!Open_Demand.Value, "GSD" ) I can't seem to do this in RB because the aggregation there does not seem to have a scope. Nor does it have the function running value. Does anyone have an idea on how to do this on Report Builder T ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Tableadapter Problem (one form two Tables)

  I have a problem with my tableadapter in Visualbasic 2005 Express Edition. Can anyone help me with the following problem I am using 1 form called MyCustomers In this form I am using 2 tables called Customers and Contacts The two tables each have a primary key. For the Customers table CustomerId en for Contacts ContactId The two tables have a relation. The Parent table Customers [CustomerId] is link ...Show All

• .NET Development ODBC error

  Hi Does anyone know why the microsoft.data.odbc dll doen't work in studio 2005 and know a solution for this problem grtz Hi, I would like to help you with your problem. I am just quite curious why you are using the classic ODBC.have you tried using the System.Data.ODBC NameSpace Why dont you try using this managed code instead of using the old ODBC. Hope I have given you some idea.... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setting Build options

  Some general questions regarding team foundation build: When creating build types, where do I specify build options, such as the format of my build number and the label applied to source code how do I specify which version of the source code is pulled from source control when the build runs It seems to only use the most recent version. How do I pull by a label, or changeset, an older version etc These op ...Show All

• Visual Basic Application Icon

  The help file says that any icon added to the application under resources should be listed in the drop down for the application icon. Mine do not show up! Anyone know why I believe we would need more information to help.  Is the icon file available somewhere we can look at   Did you make sure to add it as an Icon in the Resource Editor, and not as an image Is it a .ico file   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Remote Debugger - No Symbols Loaded

  Hi, a) Have installed the remote debugger on the server using rdbgsetup.exe b) Have started the Debug Monitor on the remote machine c) Have attached to the process w3wp.exe (there are two instances of these) But when starting the browser and attempting to run the ASP .NET pages, the break points are not hit. They say "No Symbols loaded for this document" In fact I can not get it to debug, using either of the w3wp.exe exe ...Show All

• Visual C# Unrecognized configuration section 'connectionStrings'

  Hello ,can someone help me in the following :  I have some pages that have been created with VWD express but when I try to test these pages with Dreamweaver or when I upload these pages on to a Host provider I get the following error message: Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify y ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Lost Partition

  I have a system that currently is running windows 2000 in partition C:. I attempted to load VISTA beta release version using 40 G unpartitioned space on my 80 G HDD. During the installation I was unsure if the vista would use all of the 40 G partition so I cancelled the Install.  Now I can no longer see the 40 G partition using windows 2000 disk management. Is there a program that will allow me to manage this disk Same thing happ ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Changing the BackColor of a Read-Only TextBox Control....

  Hi all, is this not possible, or are Read-Only TextBox Controls only displayed in a Grey BackColor Thanks Tryst Hi Alex, do you mean creating a Custom Control that inherits from the TextBox Control, and doing some fiddling with the propeties of this Custom Control Tryst ...Show All

• Windows Forms Merging MenuStrips

  How are you supposed to create merge menus using the MenuStrip control in VS2005 Beta 2 I can't successfully get MDI child forms merge with the MDI parent using the merge index, and I'm not sure if I'm just not doing it right or if it is a bug. Can someone please point me in the right direction Merging with ToolStrips in significantly different than previous versions. Here are some guidelines... In the case of ...Show All

• Visual C# Passing data between class and form in C#

  hi.. i have to pass some data from a class file to form which is having richTextBox .. any sort of help is appreciated. thanks You refactor the class to it has properties: public class Customer { private string _name; public string Name { get { return _name; } set { _name = value; } } } Now in the Click event of a button or TextChanged event of the Rith ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++/CLI samples

  Can anybody point me to good tutorials/samples/best practices using C++/CLI Hi, You can start with these webcasts. http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/using/multimedia/newc/default.aspx They are friendly intro to the new language. There are many great articles available on this page http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/whidbey/ and some reference in docs http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/homepageheadl ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get Dictionary<Tkey, TValue> entry information through reflection?

  I have been working on some code that probe through the entries of a generic dictionary Dictionary < TKey , TValue > , using reflection. Unlike working with Hashtable, it's not easy to find out the entries' key and value information. Here is the code depict the problem. Suppose I have a class hold two fields: public class MyClass { Dictionary < string , DateTime > m_dateTimeDictionary; ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio Profession 2005 -- uninstall and install - not able to install .NET CF

  Hi, While installing Visual Studio 2005, on a brand new laptop with WinXP, my laptop shuts down suddenly, as battery was low. Unfortunately! :-( So I uninstalled the Visual Studio, and reinstalled it. However when I started VS, I was unable to see the Pocket PC form when creating a new SmartDevice project on C#. I uninstalled the Visual Studio, and removed all the components.using Add/Remove Programs according to the uninstall list (ie. Microso ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Automating Excel Workbook

  Hello, I have a BIP portal where I generate a report as a pivot table. This report then I export it into an excel sheet. What I want to do is automate the refreshing process of the excel report (from the pivot table) without having me to do it manually, and at the same time, email the new report to the right people. My reports are created without using VSTO. I am looking now to see if I can automate my process by using VSTO. I am new ...Show All