JussiA's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Development, Staging and Production - how many build types?

  If you have a development, staging and produciton environment, would you create a build type for each plaftorm This BLOG seems to address a lot of my concerns regarding this issue: http://www.wekeroad.com/blogs/TeamBuildWebApplicationsLemonJuiceAndPaperCuts.aspx I still need to find a way to customize the build in such a way that I can either substitute parts of the web.config, or specify alternate web.config files (web.dev, web.stg, ...Show All

• .NET Development Sockets and Serialization

  Hi, I'm building a windows forms app that needs to connect to a server farm via the internet. Performance is of the essence. I'm thinking to use .NET remoting but I prefer sockets to avoid the complexity of remoting; the data I need to pass are small in size anyway. For larger data I'll use Web services. I know that sockets connection can pass array of bytes and not objects. Can I pass a serialized object from socket to socket There' ...Show All

• Visual Basic "Command and Parameter Editor" How to use the parameters?

  I need help adding parameters into the Command and Parameter Editor dialog box. This is what Im trying to accomplish: -I have a sqlDataSource -clicked in the SelectQuery Properties -in the Comand and Parameter Editor -I typed a select statement if I substitute a value for one of my parameters below in the parameters sections. It returns an error, even if I the default value works fine when I explicitely type it in the query box. It see ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Single file database

  Hi, I'm new on .NET platform. Does the .NET 2.0 supports creation and use of a SQL driven standalone single file database or should I install a third party database like SQLite Thanks .NET itself does not contain any databases, but it contains the support. You can use Access for example and withing .NET you can connect to an Access Database with OleDb. No extra components needed, only Access ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Implement Subscriptions/My Subscriptions Like Report Manager?

  How to Implement Subscriptions/My Subscriptions Like Report Manager Hello All, We are using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.   We are developing an ASP.NET 2.0 (C#) application to be used as an alternative for Report Manager.  We're now to the point of developing functionality to allow users to view, edit, and delete subscriptions.  Similar to Report Manager, we want to provide both the ability to see all the subscription ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Timers

  I want to have a timer count to a certain time so l want it to count to 20 and every second it counts it make the progress bar move. Drop a timer control and progressbar onto the form, with a couple of buttons and the following code will do what you want. Public Class Form1 Private ICounterCount As Integer = 0 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Han ...Show All

• Windows Forms Where is sqlexpr32.exe?

  I have built a C# application that I'd like to distribute on CD with all prerequisites included on the CD so that the end user doesn't have to download any of the redistributables. They include .NET framework 2.0, Windows Installer 3.1, and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. When I initially tried to publish with the "Download prerequisites from the same location as my application" setting, I was presented with errors such as: Error 5 ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS error listing

  Is there a list of all the SSIS Error codes and what they mean Ex. -1071607778 is an error code output when a lookup task fails to find a match. I haven't been able to find any information on the different error codes. Is there a description file or enumeration file that exists somewhere I think it's still hex, the L at the end is usually included in literals to denote the size of the integer - i.e. L = long, w ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB / Excel dyanmically filling a list box in a cell

  Silly question I know, but it has been forever since I coded and I am desparate.  I have a spreadsheet in which I want to dynamically fill a (cell) list box based on a value selected in another (cell) list box.  I am calling it a cell list box because I am not actually using a vb control but instead have a cell list box (via the cell validation) method.  I can get the correct position of the cell and I can add a value to the corre ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Load of fxcop input assembly failed

  In Vis Studio 2005 beta 2 I receive the 'Load of fxcop input assembly failed' when I open my c# project. I have read the material at the thread shown below http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=2386 It does not seem to apply to my project, as I have the output path under the project directory. However, I observe that, after a build, beneath my project directory, I have a both a bin\debug and a obj\debug. The obj\debug cont ...Show All

• Visual C# Reading from text files

  Hi, I have a small question that is bugging me in relation to reading from a file. I created a text file with the numbers 1 to 4, each on a seprate line, and what I am trying to do is read each line one ata time and print them to the screen. Below is my code but the problem is that it is printing out 2 and 4 only, it seems to be skipping 1 and 3 TextReader tr = new StreamReader ( "Test.txt" ); while (tr.readline() != ...Show All

• SQL Server set parameters in sub-selects

  I'm trying to execute the following statement in a 'execute sql task'. DELETE FROM WORK_EFFORT_PROCESSOR_POINTS_F WHERE (WORK_ITEM_ID IN (SELECT WORK_ITEM_SNAPSHOT_F.WORK_ITEM_ID FROM WORK_ITEM_SNAPSHOT_F INNER JOIN AUDIT ON WORK_ITEM_SNAPSHOT_F.AUDIT_ID_UPDATE = AUDIT.AUDIT_ID WHERE (AUDIT.DW_DATE_UPDATE > ))) I keep getting : "Incorrect syntax near ' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions mediaSoundPlayer.Play() does not always play right!

  This is supposed to play a click sound. It usually does, but it frequently plays a PFFFFFFT instead!mediaSoundPlayer.Stream = My .Resources.PodVwBy mediaSoundPlayer.Load() mediaSoundPlayer.Play() I have other sounds in the program, and, they misfire occasionally, too! The built in help suggests something similar to this: Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As S ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic and Visual c++ install doesnt work!!!!

  Recently i have tried to install visual basic and visual c++ setup but about 5-10 mins into the setup/download it says "this program has encountered an error and needs to close, please tell micosoft about this problem" and gives me a send report option. i sent the report but there has been no difference in the program and i still cant install it, it is all because of the microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 beta download, wich is where it says the probl ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagrid Refresh Problem

  Hello, I have a datagrid. When I refresh the datagrid, the selected record becomes unselected and the datagrid record selector goes to the first record at the top of the datagrid. Is there a way to retain the selected record after a datagrid refresh ...Show All