PLF's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Pseudo variable @clk

  Hello, prior to VS2005 one was able to reset @clk after every debug step by placing a @clk=0 in a watch window line following a @clk. While one can still use the @clk, the automatic resetting doesn't work anymore. And after every debug step one has to reset the @clk manually. Is there a way to automate this again in VS2005 Help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you, Uwe Hello Gregg, I am still ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to set the Background color of propertypage caption

  Hi, I am developing a project using PropertySheet. In that i created 3 propertypages. what i want is when one tab is active other two tabs caption (BackGround) should come in different color.and when i try to activate it it should become normal.changing the caption(background) of a page that is getting deactivated i read all the document on MSDN but still not able to figure out any help is welcome Thanks in advance Regards Sarvanan ...Show All

• Architecture Message vs Service.

  EmailValidation message vs EmailValidation Service. SOA is mostly about services and messages. Rather than create a number of services with different names would it be recomended if we create 1 generic service and have it request/reply messages. For ex: EmailValidation service. Instead of creating a service for email validation, create a validationService and have it process all the validation messages for the application. Just wondering how ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection managers - OLE DB

  Hi There Quick question.In DTS when you had multiples tasks connecting to the same Database, it was reccomended that you create multiple connections for the same database and let each task use a different connection, thereby making a new connection for each one. In SSIS if i define 1 OLE DB connection to a database, but i have say 6 tasks using that connection that run simultaneously, does eachone open a new connection to the database to make it ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) When is WPF going live for Windows XP

  II've posted this thread in another Vista related forum, where I was informed that ther *might* be a WPF "go live" program, which would allow for product to roll out using WPF vefore Vista is officially launched. Is there indeed such a thing There is not a WPF Go-Live program yet. We are planning on having one before Windows Vista is officially launched. More explanation on why we don't have one no ...Show All

• SQL Server Need help in grouping...

  I want to display car reviews by authors.... a car may be reviewed by multiple authors.... but the latest entry should be displayed... the older enteries will not be displayed.... the following is the query [code] SELECT     CarReviews.Date AS Date, CarReviews.Company AS Company, CarReviews.Name AS Reviewer, CarMake.MakeName, CarModel.ModelName,             & ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Source passwords in Config Files

  Anybody find a sound approach to being able to store DataSource connection information in a configuration and be able to access a Data Source that requires a password for login Storing it as a configuraiton in the DB is not an option, as you require the pw to access the DB that would store it. Can security be applied to an environment variable Registry Anyone successfully use the registry to store configuration values ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application is improperly formatted

  Hi, Finally i found the solution to run my clickonce application. Everytime i started my clickonce application on another PC the framework and additional prerequisites installed ok, but when the clickonce application should be installed (locally) i got the error message 'Application is improperly formatted' with in the detailled message 'Deployment manifest contains an invalid application dependency'. It seems that whenever the setup.exe has run ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to pass a LPTSTR value into a structure's LPWSTR parameter?

  I needed to use the WNetAddConnection2 function to establish a connection to a server share which requires a separate logon. It requires a NETRESOURCE structure to be passed, and one of the netresource items is .lpRemoteName, which is a LPWSTR. My sourcepath was captured in CString so i get an error whenever i tried to pass it to the item. It says 'error = : Cannot convert LPWSTR to LPTSTR'. I tried all sorts of type casting but it wont work, in ...Show All

• SQL Server Users for encrypt and decrypt purposes only

  Hi there, Using symmetric keys and certificates in SQL2005, can one assign users permission to only decrypt or encrypt data Reason would be say data capturer and data reader type roles. I tried to create some with the GRANT CONTROL and GRANT VIEW for certificates and definitions on Symmetric keys, but havent been to successfull. Would be great if someone here can offer some advise on it, and if it's possible using SQL rights. thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Permissions Bug with Beta 3 and Active Directory Groups?

  When using an Windows 2003 Server Domain Active Directory Group to assign Team Foundation permissions to multiple users, the group members do not have the selected permissions if the primary group (for POSIX and Macintosh applications) of the account in AD is set to the group to which the permissions are being assigned.  If you double click on the group in the Team Explorer GUI or select the Properties... button, the accounts with primary g ...Show All

• .NET Development TableAdapter insert/update/delete order

  I have a typed-dataset with a dozen or so tables which are hooked together with typical on-to-many and many-to-many relationships. I'm using table adapters to do the CRUD actions. For updates I was using: //Update parent tableadapter_parent.Update(dataset.parenttable); //Update child tableadapter_child.Update(dataset.childtable); But I am getting foreign key reference errors when deleting records because the adapter is trying to dele ...Show All

• SQL Server Return more than 4000 characters from CLR stored procedure

  Hi, I have a clr stored procedure that takes in 2 parameters, input xml and a query name. The stored procedure transforms the xml with a the xslt for the given query name (stored in a database). I am currently using and output parameter that is of type NVarChar(4000) to retrieve the xml in .net. This all works fine unless the xml that is being transformed is greater than 4000 characters which will happen. Are there any ways of returning a string ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll Problem

  Hi there, can someone possibly tell me why Noton WinDoctor is telling me that 10 executables in the .NET Framework 2.0 cannot access the necessary dll file msvcr80.dll I see that the dll exists in the WinSxS directory and I'm running XP pro. I didn't have this problem until I downloaded the 2.0 framework at windows update. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Naolin Thank you for sharing the solution to this msvcr80. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Open

  Can someone tell me how to open an application manifest if you do not have .net on your computer. I recomend for something simple like your mentioning, just code it in VB6, easy to use - and dosnt require .net(although does require a few dll's - which most people have anyway.) ...Show All