Ian M's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Unit Test - Deployment in Test Run Configuration

  I have a folder called "BaseImages" in my test solution folder in which my test creates base images that I compare with expected images on a server.  I would like to deploy this folder to the VSEqtDeploymentRoot\<guid>\Out location (i.e. as VSEqtDeploymentRoot\<guid>\Out\BaseImages), so that I can use relative paths to the BaseImages folder from within my test.  I created a testrunconfig file as mentioned in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions about crystal reports

  hi everyone, as we all know c# express is for free, but is any tool like crystal reports i mean i want to find an alternate way to build crystal reports from c# application if crystal reports is not for free, maybe somebody know some programs or addons to c# express ...Show All

• SQL Server Help with Web Sync sql 2005 to sql express

  Hello,    OK I finally got the subscriber connected to the IIS server for replication. I am now getting errors when trying to apply the snap shot. Below is the error Did I setup the publication incorrectly by selecting replication with another sql 2005 Am I supposed to select something different when trying to replicate between slq 2005 and sql express Source:  Merge Replication Provider Number:  -2147201001 Message: The sch ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problem with Excel Component in Visual Basic 2005 beta

  Hi, I want to use an excel component in my userform. I have add the Excell Reference to the library. But when I want to add a spreadsheet to the userform I get the message: "Failed to import the ActiveX component. Please ensure that it is properly registered. In the reference list I see a yellow warning before AxOWC11. In the warning message stood: "The reference component AxOWC11 could not be found." The same story for Microsoft ...Show All

• .NET Development Native Images and Shared Memory

  Hi all, I read in a article that Native images are loaded in a shared memory location which can be shared by other assemblies running in other process. I dont understand how this works. I was thinking that all the referenced assemblies (including the framework assemblies) by a .NET application are loaded as In-Process Dll's in the applications App Domain. Is it wrong Is it possible for a Dll to be loaded in a shared location so that the ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get multiple selected values and items from listbox ?

  Hi people, how do i extract out the selected items and values from a multiple selected enabled listbox through C# code You can use the SelectedItems property. It will give you a collection of all selected items. ...Show All

• .NET Development Filtering Dataset

  After filling a dataset I would like to further filter the results without repopulating the dataset.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so very much for all your help.  It's the part that I was missing.  Thanks again. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installing Team Explorer over Visual Studio 2005 Professional

  Are there any adverse side-effects to installing Team Explorer on a computer with Visual STudio 2005 Pro installed i.e. will the Visual Studio 2005 Premier Partner edition affect the Pro installation at all Nothing I'm aware of. Your source control plugin will have TFS added and you may need to set that to whatever you are working in (VSS, Starteam, etc). Otherwise VS2005 will have Team Explorer as an option since Team Explorer is integra ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting Default Values for DateTimePicker and TrackBar

  I have a DateTimePicker control and a TrackBar control. Both bound to db fields. I am using a bindingSource and a BindingNavigator as well. A user clicks a button on the BindingNavigator to add a new record, then fills out some fields on the form and clicks the save button on the BindingNavigator. I want to default the datetime in the DateTimePicker to the current date and I want to default the TrackBar value to 1 for every new record. Someti ...Show All

• Visual C# Help me to understand better the interfaces

  Hi i read a bunch of articles on articles.. i know exactly how to amke them.. But i dont understand why should i use them .. or for what are they important.. Why should someone wanna make a interface for something... Please help!!! Hi! Interface used to implement behavior in any class without specific superclass. Few examples: IList. Any class that implement this interface can be treated like list. This can be .NET Framework ...Show All

• .NET Development TransactionScope Failure

  I'm receiving the following exception when I attempt to connect to an Oracle 10g database after I have already opened a connection to an SQL Server 2005 database. I'm lost at what to do. Thanks, Dave System.Transactions.TransactionManagerCommunicationException was unhandled Message="Communication with the underlying transaction manager has failed." Source="System.Transactions" StackTrace: at System.Tran ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with com to .net interoperability

  I'm working on a project for time attendence control in which i have to use ActiveX control Starinterface.ocx. I'm using AxImp to generate wrapers AxStarnterfaceLib.dll and the standard one StarinterfaceLib.dll, then i've added reference to them using project/AddReference. The problem is that when i'm trying to give instance to metods from control for example : public void _CommPortOpen(){ StarinterfaceLib.StarInterfaceClass ax=new Starint ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setup.exe - A problem encountered while loading the setup components.

  Odd. Dialog err box with text "A problem encountered while loading the setup components - Cancelling setup" is returned when starting setup.  Searched Knowledgebase.  Other products have experienced: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;321393 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;294814 Is there a setup log which might contain details downloaded en_vs_2005_team_foundation_dvd_beta2 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Deployment .NET 2 problem

  Hi all, I have a window form application. This is program i converted from VB6 to VB.NET (.NET 2). This program use ADO, and some COM. I use setup project to deployment this program. Everything is ok, when i install setup program to client machine but i can't run it. (the client machine has .NET framwork 2). But when i install .NET Framework 2 SDK, i can run my application. Someone tell me the reason why I think we only need the .NET Fra ...Show All

• Visual C# Sending message to remote computer by MSMQ

  Hi all, I want to send a message by MessageQueue.Send(), but the Queue is in a remote computer. Is it possible, I'm a client in a network , I want to use MSMQ of another client in the network. Regards... Hello Aidy, Thats true, if I give the machineName\QueueName it should work. But when I try to do that I am getting the following error " A workgroup installation computer does not support the operation" Can you ...Show All