MattiasJ's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic FORMATTED Read and Write

  I used to code in FORTRAN and I'm exploring the Visual Basic programing. I'm clueless about Visual Basic Read/Write procedures. Let's say a file named "input" consisting of 6 lines and structured as shown below: (the contents of "input" file are shown between the two single dash lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title line             ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Doubts

  I am having this question in my mind from when I started using SSIS.. In a package I have an OleDB source and a flat file destination. and I hook up the source to destination in SSIS and run the package.. it works .. fine.. but internally what is done does SSIS performs BCP out Going from OleDb to flat file it just reads the data. There is no Bulk option for reading data out of SQL, because it doesn't have to ...Show All

• .NET Development Capabilities of Visual Basic 2005 Express

  I would like to eventually learn to write programs that control windows functions such as in this example: Create a program that can change the icon of all the folders in a chosen directory, by selecting an .ico file to asign to a group of folders and apply them to all folders in the directory at once. Can anyone tell me if the express edition will be able to make this possable Thanks   Yes it can b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System <REQUIRED/> rule is not working.

  I am trying to put the <REQUIRED/> rule for a field in particular state (closed) so that it can't be kept empty while closing (i.e changing state to Closed) the work item. But it seems to be not working i.e. one is able to Close without anything entered in that particular field. First I tried putting it under <WORKFLOW><STATES><STATE value="Closed">. When it didn’t work I tried putting it under <WORKFLOW ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Is there any solution for secure web services on mobile devices?

  Do we have Framework like WSE in compact framework I only found the OpenNetCF Framework which includes functionalities of WSE. Thanks. Cheers, Justin Hi Justin, NETCF does not include WSE support. However you are right that you can get WSE functionalities from OpenNETCF. ...Show All

• Visual Basic public sub new question

  I'm trying to pass a value to a new form like I used to in VB 2003.. but i'm not sure what I'm doing incorrectly.   Here is the code. Public Sub New ( ByVal Id As Integer ) MyBase .New() mId = Id InitializeComponent() End Sub I"m getting the error Error 1 Argument not specified for parameter 'Id' of 'Public Sub New(Id As Integer)'. ... in the form i'm using to make the call to t ...Show All

• Visual C# Asyncronous socket could someone help me with this code

  public void waitForData() { if (socClient_ != null) { try { if (pfnCallBack == null) { pfnCallBack = new AsyncCallback(onDataReceived); } CSocketPacket theSocPkt = new CSocketPacket(); theSocPkt.thisSocket = socClient_; // now start to listen for any data... m_asynResult = socClient_.BeginReceive(theSocPkt.dataBuffer, 0, theSocPkt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Deleting a Team Project

  Hi, is there any way to delete a Team Project created by me From Team Explorer exists the remove option but I couldn't find one to delete all the different parts of a Team Project (SCC, Project Portal, Work Items, etc). Is it possible Thanks a lot LucasC In VSTF Beta 3, I can not even find the deleteteamproject.exe file. Can someone confirm that it is supposed to be present, and if so, where I've installed the data tier, app tier, full c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Branch or second workspace?

  I have a simple problem I'm trying to solve, but I'm hung up on the workflow best practices with TFS version control. I'm accustomed to using copy project to move applications from my machine up to a web server. Now with things stored in the repository it's unclear the best way to move them (promote them) through the rest of the life-cycle. Suppose I have a new team project....I've added my solution everything works fine. I checkout some files, ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to write to .resx in VS.NET form designer? And IExtenderProvider question...

  Hi all, I have a component using IExtenderProvider which expands my controls with some properties. I use it also at design-time in VS.NET and like to save some values to .resx file of the form it applies to.  I used like this: IResourceService resourceService ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel pivot table

  Hi, I have created an OLAP Cube in SQL Server 2005 CTP2 and can browse it fine in the Analysis Studio / Browse tab. When I use the pivot table feature in Excel (2003) I get: XML for Analysis parser: The LocaleIdentifier property is not overwritable and cannot be assigned a value. Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Adam Hi, I realise that this is an old post but as we had this issue for some of our users ja ...Show All

• .NET Development Uninstalling .NET Framework 1.1

  I have installed .NET Framework 2.0 . Can I uninstall .NET Framework 1.1 Yes, if you are sure that you don't have any applications that depend on .NET Framework 1.1. ...Show All

• Visual C# regarding windows services

  hi,   I would like to know that do we have some provision to connect  a sql server directly from a user created windows service If yes, thn please let me know  What do you mean by a "user created windows service" Windows services can connect to SQL Server just like any other code. Please supply more details as your question is very vague. ...Show All

• .NET Development retrieve a string within a string...

  Dear Experts, Excuse me that if this question is too silly for you. I tried to solve but not succeeded and that's why I call for help. Say, we have a string like this "C:\Temp\Samples\Test1" I would like to retrieve the substring that exists just behinding the last character " \ ". That is Test1 . How can I achieve this Could you please help Many thanks. :-) Tigger cgraus w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can I record unit tests?

  Hi, all. This is probably very basic and, possibly, obvious. But, I'm just a newbie and don't know much about it. :) I am trying to use VS 2005 Team Test Edition to automate some of the testing we do. So far, I'm just investigating what it's capable of and how we can use it. What I can see so far is that web tests are not going to work for our application, since we have a lot of client side logic involved. I'm looking at unit tests and ...Show All