Pete Runcorn's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Error under load/concurrency but not when run serially - $HIDDEN1._xxx

  When I run a webtest serially for 50 iterations, I do not get any exceptions, errors or warnings displayed in the VSTestHost.log. The test executes fine. However, when I run the webtest as part of a load test with just 1 other script, the following web test exception occurs very frequently invalidating my test results: at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestInstrumentedTransaction.UpdateBindingSites(String preBoundString) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestInstrumentedTransaction.PerformRequestDataBinding() at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestInstrumentedTransaction.Execute(WebTestCas ...Show All

• Visual Basic Having a Favorites Tool in a Web Browser

  I would like to have a favorites tool in the Web Browser I am working on. Although I have a few ideas, what would be the best way of doing this Thank you in advance. Yup .  Good idea, thats what I was thinking about doing.    Would I do something with arrays Like Dim writer As New XMLSerializer( GetType (ArrayList)) Dim file As New StreamWriter( "SerializedData.xml" ) writer.Serialize(file, dataToWrite) file.Close() ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error while Building a Setup Project

  Hi, I m trying to Build a Setup project(InstallShield) in TFS.When i build it ended succesfully with no error, 1 warnings ,no result.The warning message is: warning MSB4126: The specified solution configuration "Debug|Any CPU" is invalid. Please specify a valid solution configuration using the Configuration and Platform properties (e.g. MSBuild.exe Solution.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform="Any CPU") or leave those properties blank to use the default solution configuration . I try to build with other configuartion like "Release!Any CPU/x86/Win32" but no result.My setup is configured as to run only ...Show All

• Windows Forms Subclassed control in Toolbox

  Hi I have seen many examples where controls such as Textboxes are subclassed to perform specific roles such as accepting numerics only etc. However, when showing their uses most of the sample codes add the subclassed controls in the Form_Load event. I think this is not practical as you'd want to properly position your subclassed control on the form. I'd like to know if there's a way to make my subclassed control appear in the ToolBox. I don't want to have it as a UserControl or have it in a seperately compiled DLL. Thanks Thanks it works. I found it sometime after I made this post ...Show All

• Windows Forms Invalid Namespace Exception with My.Computer.Info.OSFullName

  Hi pals, I'm working with VS 2005 (VB.NET 2005) And my OS is Windows 2000 server. I wanted to know the Full name of my OS .When i'm trying to get the value of My .Computer.Info.OSFullName I'am getting Invalid Namespace Exception and the stack trace tell the following: at System.Management.ThreadDispatch.Start() at System.Management.ManagementScope.Initialize() at System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Initialize() at System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Get() at Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices.ComputerInfo.get_OSManagementBaseObject() at Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices.ComputerInfo.get_OSFullName() at WindowsApplic ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Express Edition expired..

  Just opened a new project for today (12:45AM) and Visual Basic Express Edition Beta 2 has given me a prompt that its' expired.. I thought it never did - can someone help me out here please. Thank you. The key word here is 'beta'. All betas expire. The full version of VBEE does not exire, you should download it, uninstall the beta and install the final release. ...Show All

• .NET Development Version Tolerant Serialization between 2.0 and 1.1

  Hi, We are in the process to migrate a solution from . NET Framework V1.1 to V2.0. The system consists of several services, located on different computers, and using . NET remoting with binary serialization to communicate. Due to the nature of the distributed system, we are not able to upgrade each system at the same time. This leads to the requirement that the serialization needs to be version tolerant in both directions. Meanwhile, the following serialization problems occurred, when calling a remote method on a V1.1 server from a V2.0 client: - DataSet When passing a DataSet, a "SerializationException ...Show All

• SQL Server How to reference different databases on different servers in one query

    Hi, I'm a novice to SQL Server, though I have some experience in Access. My problem is this: I have a table on my local database that I want to insert into a remove database on a different server What are the steps neccessary My local server name is 'HOME\SQLEXPRESS' Local database: 'MyDBTest', table name: 'dbo.Courses' (the fields are: ID, CourseName, TeacherID) The remote SQL Server IP is: 129.113.271.58 The name of the database on this remote server is: 'ku.univ', and the remote table name I would like to update is 'dbo.Courses' (the table has the same fields as ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Use 2005 library with Embedded Visual C++ 4.0

  Hello, we are building a library ".lib" with Visual Studio 2005 (Because some features are only available on windows mobile 2005). But as the rest of our code is for Embedded Visual C++ 4.0, we need to use this library there. Is there a way to use this library, or would it help to put the fincionality of the library into a dll Enough has changed between eVC4.0 and VS2005 that you likely won't be able to link against a static Library. If you put the code in the DLL, the format of how functions are exported from DLL's are generally compatible (There were a few bug fixes but these were very isolated) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Do I need to install SQL Server and Reporting Services locally to create a report server project in VS2005?

  I am using SQL Server 2005 and Studio 2005 to create reports through Reporting Services on SQL Server. This works as intended if I create the projects on the Server, but on my development computer I don't appear to have a way to create any Business Server Projects like I do on the server. Do I need to install Reporting services locally and if so, do I also need to install SQL Server locally I think there must be a better way Thanks Good question... Unlike the Reporting Services implementation on SQL Server 2000 and Visual Studio 2003, in the 2005 world the RS functionality has been s ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problems installing VB6 program onto other computers...

  Hi, I've made a program in VB6, with ADO and an Access database. Now I've made a setup program with the package deployment wizard to install the program on other computers.  When I start the setup on a windows 2000 system, It starts with copying 7 files and then gives the message:    "Setup cannot continue because some files are out of date on your system.Click    OK if you would like setup to update these files for you now. You will need to     restart Windows before you can run setup again." So I click OK, restart the system and run the setup again and It just gives me the same m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help Broken Help Editing Macros in VS 2005 Beta2

  I have found the fix that takes care of the broken help with the VS2005 Beta2 installation.  However, I still have broken help if I try to use help while I'm in the macro editor.  Does anyone know of a fix for this further problem Thanks A late follow up that may be of interest. I later attempted to install the SQL Server 2005 CTP.  This required me to uninstall the .Net 2.0 framework that VS had installed.  Needless to say, VS was broken after the installation.  I ran ARP and had it do a repair.  Help is now available from within all components of VS and from the Start menu shortcuts. I will leave th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I cant Install Directx 9.0c December 2005 dsound.inf problem

  When I try install Directx 9.0c December 2005 Redlist I Envisage with this Error : "An internal system error occurred. Please refer to DXError.log and DirectX.log in your Windows folder to derermine problem." I several time download Directx 9.0c December 2005 and November 2005 but everytime I Envisage with this error and when I go to DXError.log and DirectX.log see this Problem with dsound.inf : -------------------- [01/05/06 01:40:11] module: dsetup32(Sep 28 2005), file: setup.cpp, line: 6443, function: CSetup::InstallDirectXInfsFromInfSection     Installation of 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\DirectX\DX113.tmp\dsou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable To Share Files With Team Foundation

  How can I share code files between projects using Team Foundation source control   We currently share code files between projects using the full framework and the compact framework.  VSS has the ability to share, branch, and merge.  TFS only allows branch and merge. We have similar problems and the lack of shared files is a total show stopper as our whole build process relies on it. Every other version control system on the planet can handle shared files perfectly fine. You say: "If you're so sure a file will always be exactly the same in two or more projects, why not add it as a link ...Show All

• Visual C# asp: calendar

  hi,    i am using the asp:calendar. i have a textbox which will contain whatever is selected from the calendar. I noticed the format is 9/17/2005. I am using mysql database and i'm trying to insert the data from my textbox in my mysql database TEST. i have a field Date in DateTime format (2003-5-27). after inserting the data in my textbox(9/17/2005) when i checked the table it is 0000-00-00. i think the reason is that they don't have the same format. how would i be able to display in my textbox the date instead of 9/17/2005  would be 2005-9-17 so that i would be able to insert it in my database. this is my code: priva ...Show All