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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) pack://siteoforigin:,,,/image.png explenation

  Can anyone tell me what's the meaning of "pack", "siteoforigin" and ",,,". What refers to which place of the application directory thanks in advance Ashish, who works in WPF, has two great blog posts on this topic: http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2005/11/resources-in-windows-presentation.html http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2005/12/more-on-resource-loading-in-wpf.html In gene ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Append Workflow to an existing solution

  I have some existing project and want to add the workflow item. TO do this, I have added the sequential workflow. However, when I try to open the workflow in designer I get following error:   The service 'System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Design.IMemberCreationService' must be installed for this operation to succeed. Ensure that this service is available   I assume, that the current solution, which is originally not the “workfl ...Show All

• SQL Server Value dimension

  Hi, I have a dimension 'Customer' with 15 customers. When I look at the value of a customer it shows : [Customer].[Name].&[1] (this is the value for Kelly Woods). Is it possible to show it as [Customer].[Name].[Kelly Woods] thx Absolutely. You should be able to write an MDX query like: Select [Customer].[Name].[Kelly Woods] on Columns from [MyCubeName] Edward. -- This posting is provided &qu ...Show All

• .NET Development Time out (Sleep)

  I have a data adapter that times out while executing a Stored Procedure. How can I have the web application wait on the results to be returned I have pasted some of the code below. DataSet dsBPMActivityReport = new DataSet (); //Open Connection cnSandbox.Open(); //Execute Query and bind Dataview adpBPMActivityReport.Fill(dsBPMActivityReport, "BPMActivityReport" ); this .GridView1.DataSource = dsBPMActivit ...Show All

• SQL Server Backup and Restore Databases Through XML in SQL Express 2005

  Can we backup to XML file and restore from XML file in SQL Express 2005 Thanks in advance. No, you can't.   Best regards, Eugene Kogan, Technical Lead, Microsoft SQL Server Engine --- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Build a VB.NET project in CommandLine

  Hi All, our Application has got so many projects. so everytime i have to deploy i have to build the projects by opening the project and then build using the IDE. I knew VB.NET does have a utility to build a project using commandline but i dont know how to use that. can anyone help me out how to build a project say D:\TEMP\Static.vbproj in command line A simple HelloWorld compilation can be done with: vbc HelloWorld ...Show All

• Visual Studio LocalReport Export graph in Pdf

  I use LocalReport for generate export in Excel et pdf with Framework V2.0.50727. When RDL contain graph ( bar or pie) the size of file ( render) in pdf is 16Mo. In excel is OK ( 41ko) or with no graph in pdf (89 ko)   Parameter DeviceInfo is a empty string.   any idea i have the same problem. the size is 6Mb for 2 pages with one little png and a chart. in excel ist is 42Kb. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to upload rdl programmatically

  Hey everyone I have a requirment here. I create a report that works fine in my local machine. But I want to keep this in a server so that every body can access it. How do I do that any clues please.How to set that what are steps to do that thanks but I have another question. now I need to create subscription for a report. there is a method called createsubscription. but I don't know the values of parameters. in msdn documents, it says ex ...Show All

• Windows Forms Virtual ListView crashes on VirtualListSize

  Example: - listview with 20000 virtual items - RetrieveVirtualItem() feeds some dynamically created items - scroll to the end of the list - set VirtualListSize to 200 (via a button click for instance) You'll then crash internally with an ArgumentOutOfRangeException exception (here at index 200). Nothing helps to avoid this. Really odd. The crash happens somewhere in ListViewItemCollection.get_Item(). Looks like something isn't aw ...Show All

• Visual Studio Advice on setting up vs and vss projects

  Hi. I have been using vss with vs2003 with varying degrees of success and frustration for the last couple of years and am now evaluating whether to continue with vss when our projects are converted to vs2005. I would like some advice on the best way of setting up visual studio solutions and projects. Most of our web applications use the following kind of design: Application Specific Class Libraries (Business Entities,Business Layer,D ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Exception like clockwork

  Setup: Windows Server 2003 (Standard Edition) WITH Service Pack 1 SQL Server 2000 WITH Service Pack 4 SQL Reporting Services WITH Service Pack 2 SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor - Migrate Legacy Maintenance Plans Installed SQL Server 2005 + SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Pretty impressed at how smooth the transition was during the upgrade. SQL 2000 went down for less than a minute and up came SQL 2005. The upgrade was a success (nothing ...Show All

• Visual Studio RC1 - Visual Studio Class Designer Package Issue

  I've installed VS.NET 2005 RC1 on 2 machines.  I've a project that was created with VS.NET 2005 Team Suite Beta2, including a class design file. On machine 1, I've no problems with Class Designer.  On machine 2, whenever I start Visual Studio, I receive the following in a Yes / No Message Box titled 'Microsoft VIsual Studio': "Package Load Failure Package 'Visual Studio Class Designer Package' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {DD16 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Treo 700 Emulator

  Is there an emulator available for the Treo 700w If so where I can't seem to find anything on one. Thanks! Chris When you say emulator for the Treo 700w... do you mean one that runs on it or one that you’d run elsewhere like your development PC and that emulates the Treo 700w environment If it is the prior, this is not the place to ask such a question as this forum is dedicated to Windows programmi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Could I work off line with Team Foundation Server?

  It seems I could only connect to the TFS to work with work items such as bug, task, etc. Could I work off line with the Server Sometimes I have to work at home. Could I make a dial-up connection to the remote server in company, see is there any bugs related to me, then disconnect from the network, after I modify the source code, and reconnect to check-in my modifications to the code and change the state of the bug Thanks! Shelving is so ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView in c#

  In ListView the view prperty is list and if i have text too long the list view hangs while scrolling. Why How to clear the problem. The EventHandler gets the selected filename and adds the file contents to another listview. ...Show All