Paul Programmer's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Conversion problem

  I am trying to convert my VSTO 2003 projects to VSTO 2005 and failing one after another.  VS says it converted them successfully, but the Solutioin Explorer shows they are unavailable. Attached is the log of one of the conversions. If I remove the unavailable converted proejct and try to add it back, then I get the following error: The operation could not be completed. No such interface supported. Could anyone offer any hint T ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Detect Excel Version in VB6 Application

  Hello Everybody I need your help, I have and application in Vb 6 and I need detect what's version and language of Excel have install in the computer. Help me.... thanks Ifgash Ifgash@yahoo.com Look up "language" in the VB Editor's Object Browser. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/ ...Show All

• .NET Development XSLCompiledTransform ATOM feed / Namespace issue

  Hi there, I'm creating an Asp.Net 2.0 feedreaging app, and I'm having a little trouble. I'm grabbing rss and atom feeds from various sites and loading the items/entries into a custom dataset. One thing I decided to do was to convert atom feeds into rss xmldocs / xpathdocs. The trouble arises when I try to transform an atom feed that has the xmlns set; my stylesheet's not finding the root and won't parse anything. In cases where the atom feed' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System License contact - where are they?

  Hi probably this is a FAQ but I can't find the FAQ anywhere (sorry). After a brief evaluation of the trial version downloaded from: Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite 180-Day Trial we are quite happy and we would like to understand its price and conditions. Is this the right forum for these kind of questions I am quite confused about the difference (and therefore the prices) between: - Visual Studio 2005 Team ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build unable to Run Auto Builds now

  For some reason today, when I run a build type (automated build) thru the VSTS Interface. I get the following message back: "Failed to retrieve data from the server. Please verify the network connection and try again." I have no problem building the Solutions manually. Only encounter problems thru the Build Type. I see the following in Event Viewer on the Team Foundation Server log: " An unexpected condition h ...Show All

• SQL Server Linux user: creating databases

  Hi all. I just installed MSSQL 2005 Express but I can’t find a sql client I can use to create databases. Do I have to download it or it’s placed somewhere on my HD The only tools I see are placed at Start > Programs > Microsoft SQL Serve 2005 > Configuration Tools Sorry about the dump question. I come from a linux background and everything seems to be different! Cheers. Hi Dan. Thanks for your qui ...Show All

• SQL Server Same Member - multiple rollups (unbalanced hierarchy)

  This has been causing me a lot of trouble. Hopefully someone can help me out... A problem description follows the diagrams. [Diagram 1 - what users should see as navigation] Accounts | --Trial Balance | --Account#1 --Account#2 -- AccountGrouping#1 | --Account#3 --Account#4 --AcountGrouping#2 | --Account#5 --Account#6 --Account#7 --Account#8 | --BalanceSheet | --Account#9 --Account#10 --AccountGroup ...Show All

• Visual C++ LPCTSTR in VC++ 2005

  Greetings! I'm converting programs written on Visual C++.NET 2003 to Visual C++ 2005. While building them with Visual Studio 2005, I got hundreds of errors like: "cannot convert parameter 1 from 'LPCTSTR' to 'const char *'" or "cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char *' to 'LPCTSTR'". I wrote a simple application to duplicate it (see below): #include "stdafx.h" #include "windows.h" int Work(L ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CABWIZ/Makecab problems

  Hi all, I'm having trouble building a CAB file for a CF 2 project. Done the usual steps,  Added a Smart Device Deployment project to my solution, set its propertys, go to build and Always get back a message saying ; Error: CAB file "C:\Documents and Settings\DAVE\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005 \Projects\Project1\DeploymentCAB\Release\Project1. CAB " could not be created It's really annoying, I dont want to have to go back to us ...Show All

• SQL Server Understanding ADO

  Hello, I want to use OLE DB in my projects. Since I start my work with ADO, I have some troubles and questions.At first, I have MDAC 2.8 SP1 and SQL Native Client from MS SQL Server 2005. Here's list of them: What difference between "SQL Native Client" and "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server" I have troubles with understanding API cursors: all my sql-statements always returns Forward-Only Cursor Type. Here's little test about it w ...Show All

• Windows Forms BindingSource.EndEdit() does not throw exception

  I've a business object, and it validate value when new value is assigned to its properties, exception will be thrown if value violate validation rules. Business object is bind to UI controls by a BindingSource object, when I input a invalud value in TextBox and call BindingSource.EndEdit() programmically on FormClosing, exception is eaten by somewhere, I do not allow user to close the form if error is detected, Thank you very much! publ ...Show All

• .NET Development CommantTimeout in TableAtapter desighner, VS 2005

  Can a specify value diferent from default for propertey CommandTimeout of Commands, thats generated as part of DataSet TableAdapter I can have programaticaly access to CommandsCollection in a partial class definition as: namespace siteASPnet.BL.debtors.DebtorsDataTableAdapters {    partial class CustomersTableAdapter {         public void SetCommandsTimeout(int timeout) {     & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Test Result folder

  Hi, I would like to know if I can delete files in Out and In folder under Test Result folder, all information about test result is stored in trx file. Can I simply delete files and then publish trx file I dont need a big additional amount of data into build drop location. Is it possible Thanks, Tomas Hello, So, to be able to publish you are going to need the .trx file and the deployment directory. You can delete the "In" an ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 RC install problems again

  Having a Dell Lattitude. Reinstallad windows xp with all updates available from ms. Installed Symatec Norton Internet Security 2005. Installed VS 2002. Installed SQL Server 2000 with SP4. Uninstalled VS 2002, no problems. Got VS 2005 RC from our msdn account. Using a burned DVD. Installing VS 2005 works fine until SQL Server 2005 Express (the last thing to be installed). Hangs there forever... Before canceling, I look in the task manager/process ...Show All

• Visual Studio DateTime picker and the ReportViewer

  Hi, I am running SQL Server 05 (SP 1 CTP) and Visual Studio 05. Is the reportViewer used for the Asp.net webforms supposed to have a working date time picker control I know that this was an issue on the beta 2 but I am still expericiencing the same problem.  The date report parameters work fine on the preview but when displayed on the ReportViewer in a webform  they don't work. I am running version 8.0.0.0 of the &nb ...Show All