cost7615's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Using msbuild for a .csproj with alternate referenced assembly locations

  I'm trying to figure out the best way to use msbuild for building a number of various solutions / projects which all tie together to build a final application. The problem I'm having is that I have .csproj project files which reference assemblies in projects that are in other solutions; and msbuild can't find those assemblies when building in an environment where the absolute solution root(s) and relative directory locations of the various solut ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to make something happen at a certain time.

  I am used to having procedures like when button 1 click do this end how do i do it at a certain time of day say at midnight and 0 mins and 1 sec. do this end i have this Public Sub Call_create_event_file() If Now.Hour = 18 And Now.Minute = 49 And Now.Second = 1 Then midnight = 1 Call Create_Event_log_file() ' midnight = 0 Else 'midnight = 0 End If midnight = 0 End Sub ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Weird Trigger Issues

  Hi,   I've created a new control by inheriting from the Viewport3D class everything works fine and i can use the control from xaml but I cant add a <MyNamespace:MyClass.Triggers></MyNamespace:MyClass.Triggers> tag into the xaml. I know triggers work because I can add them from code but in XAML it just rejects the tag name as invalid.  Any ideas I can keep working on the program since it works from code but I ...Show All

• .NET Development Failure sending mail with ASP.NET 2.0

  Hi: I have been receiving a “Failure sending mail” when I try to send an email from a form using the ASP.NET 2.0 code below. It works fine on a test server on our network but the error occurs when I put it on our production server (both Windows 2003 and IIS 6). I also have an upload function on the form that works fine on both sites. The form is on a virtual site under a site using ASP.NET1 and the email works fine on that site. I ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot create a report - VS 2005/SQL 2005

  I cannot seem to create a Report based on an SQL Server 2005 database. The IDE and the database server are on the same machine. The reports server is installed and running. During both installations (VS and SQL Server 2005 ) I opted for the complete install. I create a reports project - when I right click the reports folder and select Add New Item > Report - nothing happens. When I invoke the Report wizard and continue till the last step - pr ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Why no help support in VS2k5 for PocketPC?

  I am converting an application from eVC4 to VC2k5. _WIN32_WCE_NO_HELP_SUPPORT is defined, which makes ON_HELPINFO disappear. Why was help support removed from VS 2k5 when targetting CE The Application Wizard also disables the "Help Support" check box when creating a new application. Am I doing something wrong JAB c:\foo\foo\foo.h(31) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'HELPINFO' foo.cpp c:\foo\foo\foo.h(31) : error ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to format numbers in XAML?

  Is there a way to specify how numeric variables are displayed in XAML (a la String.Format) I want to set number of decimal places, if there's a thousands separator, etc. The only thing I've thought of so far is to format the numeric data as a string and bind the string...not exactly what I'd like to do. At some point, I'm also going to need numeric data entry, but it doesn't look like there's a control for that in WPF yet. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Final Release date of WINFX

  when microsft planning to release the Winfx. I wanted to know when the actual release of Workflow foundation will be happening. Microsoft has still not declared dates for WinFx We can expect the dates to be announced in one of the big dev conferences liek PDC, TechED, but no facts for now. ...Show All

• .NET Development Communication Application server

  Hi all, I need to develope a communication layer between a windows application and industry field device. The windows application will read and write values from the device. I want to ask how to develope an application server of the layer that servise the windows application. The windows application will be the client and the server read and write the values. Please help. Best regards... Than ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) CLS Compliant ?

  In Feb CTP, I find this: public Collection< ToolBar > ToolBarTray. ToolBars { get ; } It seems WPF DLLs will not be CLS Compliant Thanks! Oh, the rule has changed : http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2004/12/21/328585.aspx ...Show All

• .NET Development DictionaryBase changed from 1.1 to 2.0?

  Hi everyone, I have a custom implementation of DictionaryBase in a project that started as a .NET 1.1 project and is now being migrated to .NET 2.0. One of the unit tests for the DictionaryBase implementation fails. The Dictionary implements an Add method which calls MyBase.Dictionary.Add. The class also implements an Item property. The Item property takes an Object as its only argument. The object can either be an index (in which case it must b ...Show All

• .NET Development The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime

  I am putting the current datetime in a microsoft sql server database in the following manner: System.Data.SqlTypes.SqlDateTime time = new        System.Data.SqlTypes.SqlDateTime(DateTime.Now); sql = "insert myTable (datetime) values ('" + (string) time.ToSqlString() + "')"; SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand (sql, conn); int result =  cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); the column of my table has datatype DATETIME I trie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setup of AT fails with "Setup did not find VS 2005 TF databases..."

  I just performed a new installation - I think I followed the install guide to the letter. But, I'm getting this error when trying to install the Application Tier in a two server configuration. Does anyone have an idea of what would cause this Hi Tim, Here are a few things you could check: 1. Have you completed the data tier setup Did it complete successfully 2. Are you using the correct Datatier name in the app tier setup Is t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Connecting to local SQL Server

  Hi, I have SQL Server installed on my machine. I don't have any special password set up for it. I want to know what the connection string would be that I would want to use to connect to one of the local databases tables. Any help&nbs ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista make Media Center my default

  when i download music from Limewire how do i make it go directly to my music in Media Center ...Show All