Greg Smalter's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Binding navigator button code

  Where do I find the code for the buttons on the binding navigator toolstrip I see there's some code for the 'Save' button but I can't find any code for the others. ...Show All

• .NET Development Argent help is needed

  Hi, I am looking to run a web service (in C#) as a deferent user; it is running, as ASPNET and I would like it to run as a domain user. I am not sure if this is a configuration issue in the Dev studio. This is to accommodate windows authentication issue with the SQL server box. Please help. Thanks. Rafat ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Hding your vba code

  I have also asked this question at http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php t=52001 I have created an addin and it will be sent to other people (number unknown). WIll the people who have the addin be able to view my vba code behind it [the addin] Is there any security measures I should take to be on the safe side Thank You Hi, You can password protect your code very easily. In the Project Exp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What do the applications run on?

  What operating systems do the applications I create work on (Ofcourse, when they have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed) Your apps will run on every Windows x86 system back to Windows 98. And the new 64bit ones, too. They will also(sson) run under Mono on its supported platforms (see http://www.mono-project.com/Supported_Platforms), given that your code uses supported and properly ported APIs. And if you writ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions mspdb80.dll was not found !

  When I tried to run cl.exe from the command line, the error message I get is "Application unable to start, mspdb80.dll was not found". Can somebody help me with this Thanks, Deepak I have the same problem, but only when I target the Retail Build Environment. This problem is not there (for me at least) for the Debug environment. Reinstalling VC++ express does not fix the problem. TIA Ala ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL ALTER COLUMN causes a Possible schema corruption.

  Hi all, I’m trying to run this SQL statement in 2005 express; ‘ALTER TABLE test ALTER COLUMN testfield varchar ( 5600 ) NULL’ Testfield exists in database as a varchar(8000). Express bombs with; Msg 211, Level 23, State 7, Line 1 Possible schema corruption. Run DBCC CHECKCATALOG. Msg 0, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be ...Show All

• SQL Server The transaction ended in trigger

  During some non working days i got rid of old merge replication that I had and started new one. Today 5 of my 6 servers are working normally, but on the 6th one I am getting following error: The transaction ended in trigger. The batch has been aborted. Table [dbo.A...] into which you are trying to insert, update, or delete data is currently being upgraded or initialized for merge replication. On the publisher data modofocations are disall ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Filestream IOException handling when device full

  Hi, I'm developing a test app to stress the low persistant storage space scenario and have stumbled onto a rather nasty scenario which I simply don't seem to be able to resolve with the .Net CF v1.0 API set. In a nutshell, I am attempting to do the following when there is little or no available storage space left: System.IO.FileStream file = null; try { file = System.IO.File.OpenWrite(fileName); file.Write(somedata, 0, datalen); // Do ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Rendering XPS document other than using DocumentViewer Control ?

  Now, i came to the problem of how to open XPS file with out using DocumentViewerControl, but draw the document in my way, and handle more events. Is it possible if yes , how can i made it. Thanks. You can use the DocumentPageView Control (in the System.Windows.Controls.Primitives namespace) to display a single page of a document that implements the IDocumentPaginatorSource interface (in t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FxCop and DateTime

  Hey Is it possible to detect the use of DateTime.Now and DateTime.Today from a custom FxCop rule If so, could someone please let me know how this is done (I've already written a handful of custom rules so the basics of writting a FxCop plugin need not be explained) Thanks You can use the VisitMemberBinding override:          public override ProblemCollection Check(Me ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Branching and Merging: Best practice

  Hello, I'm trying to design a new directory structure for a large project which is migrating from using Visual SourceSafe to Microsoft Team System for Source Control. I guess my problem is the following: I'm used to CVS, and to how CVS manages branches and merges. As to what I have understood, the only way of creating branches is to select "branch" in the Team System Explorer and to create a new branch directory. That would be fine ...Show All

• SQL Server convert all caps names to proper names

  Is there a way in the report designer to format a field that contains names to display the name as a proper name rather than in all caps as stored in the db Thanks. By proper name do you mean a name with just the first letter capitalized You could write an expression for it. It would look something like this: =iif(Fields!yourfield.Value.ToString.ToUpper = Fields!yourfield.Value.ToString, Fields!yourfield. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Viewing Images in a Access DB

  I am using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express for C#. I have an application that stores images (BMPs) directly into an Access DB (OLE field) and I need to view them in a ASP page. If I could change the application to store a link to the image, my problem would be fixed. Unfortunately, I cannot change it to a link so I need a work around. Is there a code expression that I can use that will allow me to display the image Or is there an e ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can I have a Custom Action in ClickOnce deployment?

  Hi, Can I have a Custom Action in ClickOnce deployment Boris Hi Patty, In general, I want my code to be executed... More specific, I need two things: 1. Add more shortcuts in start menu: basically just a couple more of ClickOnce installations with "Add/Remove Program" and "Update Check" functionality 2. Have OpenFile dialog executed on installation time to ask user abou ...Show All

• Visual Basic Adding menu's at runtime problem

  Hi, I need someone to put me in the right direction as I'm not sure how to do this, I want to add menuitems to my windows form dynamically withh their relevent event handlers. The text for each menu is read from an XML file and I don't know how many menuitems will be added at any given time as it depends on the users choice. I'm using the toolstripmenuitems and I'm not sure if they react differently to the normal menuitems. Can some ...Show All