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• Visual Studio About Addin setup in VS2005

  Hi From what I understood from the documentation and experience, - addin registration can be done in the old way, using the registry - addins can be put in the (eg) Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins directory, with the .Addin file containing the location of the addin assemblies. In this case, the location is either an absolute path or a relative path from the Addins folder. What if I want to use the .Addin registration but locate my addin files and assemblies under the Program Files directory I want the user to be allowed to customize some things and this is a more 'friendly' place to have them... The problem of course is th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Process Name

  OK I'm getting processes no problem and I have them loaded into my code (found them by PID, have them into a process class with .MainModule, .ProcessName etc) but I would like to know how to get the title of a program correctly, for example "msnmsgr.exe" is shown, but I would like it to read "MSN Messenger" sort of thing. Now I have tried to get the name of the main window, but for MSN Messenger for example it shows this as open conversations primarily. I can use the filepath but can this be done to get the title of an application Thanks for any help. Dim Proc As Process() = Process.GetProcessesByNa ...Show All

• Visual Studio "The maximum report processing jobs limit configured by your system administrator has been reached."

  I am using VS 2005 Beta2. My website (C#, ASP.NET 2.0) worked ok. But after I run it several times,  i got an exception when loading the report ( MyReport.load(reportPath) ):   "The maximum report processing jobs limit configured by your system administrator has been reached." Then I restart my pc, and it works again. Can anyone tell me what is the problme in my project Do I need to configure anything Thanks! auhe Here is my blog post and the approach we use is listed there. http://geekswithblogs.net/technetbytes/archive/2007/07/17/114008.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FxCop and VS2003

  First let me say that I really appreciate all the work done on FxCop. Its a very helpful tool. However, the integration into VS2005 needs to be back-ported to VS2003. it does not have to be "exactly" like 2005, but it can come close. Here are a few ideas on how this can be accomplished. 1) Provide an AddIn that gives the user a context menu for the projects so code analysis can be run. Sure, you can put it on the "Tools" menu, but that is not as helpful considering most of the other things related to the project are on the context menu. running NUnit and NCover are so much simplier using TestDriven.NET, and I think adding FxCop to that ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why will LINQ fail ?

  Microsoft tries to helping object developers to close the gap between the relational world and the object world.And they call this " object modelling approach " Dlinq. Using " custom business entities " in enterprise programming with Dlinq might seem the best thing after " sliced bread " but it isn't. For my part I have written my Mappers and used commercial OR/M tools. They mostly provide the same thing. __Read the table from the database. ___Put that into a some HELPER thing.( DAO,DAL,ORM) ____Put that into your custom business object _____Read from your business object.(if u can :) ) I see NO REASON for this " Unnecessary Pull ...Show All

• SQL Server Capturing and reporting execution errors

  We have a report subscription that emails an excel file every morning at 11am. For the past two mornings the subscription fails due to one of the parameters being null. This was caused by another programmer changing a stored procedure used in the report. What I'd like to know is how can I capture and report that the report failed to be produced. I have loaded the Execution Log sample reports and the relevant DTS package to load the logs is run every 5 mins. However, this error does not show up in the reports. The entries in the Report Server log file are as follows, ReportingServicesService!dbpolling!25a4!17/08/2005-11:00:12:: EventPol ...Show All

• Visual Studio ERROR: subreport could not be shown

  My main report has a subreport that has a table in it with an associated dataset.  When I run the report, the main data displays, but the area that is supposed to show the subreport shows "subreport could not be shown".  If I remove the table and dataset from the subreport, the headings will display.  But as soon as I add the table and dataset back I get the error.  I am setting the dataset for the main report and subreport before running the report.  Does anyone have any suggestions   Thanks. I have solved my own problem! In the code below, combined two lines of code, and I ne ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to run "Management Studio(ssmsee.exe)" for Sql Express edition

  Hi, I have downloaded Sql Express edition for Yukon. After that I installed the UI - Management Studio (SQLServer2005_SSMSEE). I checked and I was able to open and work using the Management studio. Afterwards I installed some "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Documentation and Samples" from the following link ... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=2adbc1a8-ae5c-497d-b584-eab6719300cd&DisplayLang=en#filelist Now after installing this, I am not able to access the Management Studio. I tried to uninstall and resinstall it , but it was of no help. Now when I click on the link of "Management Studio", it just do nothing. ...Show All

• SQL Server RS on the Internet - security issues

  Hi there, We are looking at making RS over the web for a client. Is is safe to put RS on the web Is it possible to provide adequate security for complete peace of mind - ssl etc Or does another security layer have to be placed over it Advice, thoughts, and some pointers would be greatly appreciated!! Many thanks Chris It is relatively safe, to a point. Check out this article: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157198.aspx for a summary of SSRS authentication options. Integrated Windows authentication is not sent in plain text, and it is controlled by IIS, not RS. But you ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't get SQL Manager to connect to server instance SQLEXPRESS

  I installed SQL Server Express and SQL Server manager, then tried to start manager. SQL Service is running, but SQL Manager attempt to connect to SQL Server instance times-out even though I correctly identify instance as SQLEXPRESS Everything seems to be normal - both SQL Server and Manager are on a single Windows  XP home machine. Any suggestions. Thanks Hi, There are only two datatypes that could handle date and time values in sqlserver. These are DateTime and SmallDateTime . Both of these types cold not handle data between 1/1/0001 to 31/12/9999. But you can store these dates as a varchar and just pa ...Show All

• SQL Server Guids as primary keys

  Is it a good idea to use Guids as primary key. What is the impact on performance. Guids are random by nature that may have an impact on writing clustered index. Any comments or suggestions I'm not a complete expert, but one problem I know of with GUID's with clustering keys is that they are not naturally increasing so this could introduce lots of fragmentation in environments with lots of inserts. They are also wide (16 bytes) so having them in all indexes and foreign keys can be a hit to the size of the database, scan performance, etc. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to make the installer leave the app.config file after uninstallation.?

  Anyone know that I'm using VS2005 setup project. Because the app.exe and app.exe.config are in the same unit in the installation. If i do that it won't remove app.exe too when uninstalling. I want ONLY app.exe.config left. Does anyone have other solutions Thank you ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Export an Access Table to a csv file

  Hi... I'm trying to export a table that I have in a Access Db to a csv file. For now, I'm exporting it to a Excel file, but I can't make it to a csv file. Can someone help me This is the code that I'm using to export the data to excel...First the query... DoCmd.RunSQL "SELECT [Files] INTO Table2 FROM Table1;" and then the code line: DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acExport, 8, "Table2", "C:\Table2", True or if anybody can tell how to do it from the excel file that'll be great too! Thanks for your time. In this case you can use the following command: DoCmd. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista EventHandlingScopeActivity/EventHandlersActivity Problem

  I have a sequential workflow that has an EventHandlerScopeActivity that contains an EventHandlersActivity with four events. My local comm service interface and implementation class define a C# event for each event driven activity. While testing the event handlers, only the first event gets raised. If I remove the first event from the EventHandlersActivity then the next event handler in the collection gets raised. All other event handlers never get called when their associated events are called. During debug, I noticed that only the first event in the EventHandlersActivity has a delegate in it's event invocation list. All other invocation ...Show All

• Visual C# Passing data between class and form in C#

  hi.. i have to pass some data from a class file to form which is having richTextBox .. any sort of help is appreciated. thanks You refactor the class to it has properties: public class Customer { private string _name; public string Name { get { return _name; } set { _name = value; } } } Now in the Click event of a button or TextChanged event of the RithcTextBox you can set this property with the value you want: private Customer _customer = new Customer(); private void button_Click( object sender, EventArgs e ) { _customer.Name = richtTextBo ...Show All