s_rookie's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio New website IDTWizard

  I've got an IDTWizard that I want to kick off from the New Website dialogue. What's the best way of achieving this ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Foxpro, or Access, or Filemaker?

  I was a professional foxpro programmer 9 years ago, and haven't used it since. I have written some fairly large programs, including my first, which was the tax collection system for Samoa. My last version was the first windows version. Unfortunately, that version, will no longer run on the current XP operating system. I now own a wedding photography business, and need to track leads, and send emails, write invoices, and keep track of services and products for the client. Which software would be better for my needs Foxpro, or Access, or Filemaker   I need a relational system, and if I could program some of it myself, I wou ...Show All

• SQL Server Script Transformation

  A new question ! When you use a script transformation you have input rows and output rows. Is it possible to have a different number of rows at input and output Thanks   Coroebus wrote: I get an error with my script : PipelineBuffer has encountered an invalid row index value. Dim NbCode As Integer = 20 ' set the nb of code per row Dim liste As String = Nothing ' the string containing the output row ' We loop for NbCode times While Not Row.EndOfRowset       For j As Integer = 0 To NbCode            &n ...Show All

• Smart Device Development time function in smart device

  Hi, I am creating smart device application in visual studio 2005(C++)->smart device.I need to measure the time taken for a function.Normal time function is not supported by the smart device application I guess.What function should I use to measure time in smart device. archana. You may want to take a look at this forum thread. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=342876&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Beta2 - CallExternalMethod vs InvokeMethod activity

  The new CallExternalMethod replaces the Beta1 InvokeMethod activity I see. But a significant change is that the new one serializes all objects passed to the external method. Beta1 did not do that. I'd prefer to make that optional, allowing me to pass by reference a la Beta1. Is there any way to do this Riley Arjun, Yes, performance is the reason for wanting to pass by ref. My situation is that each WF running goes out to and returns from a LocalService at least 4 times (but usually the LocalService is in fact just a inproc dll). And we have a 100 or so of these WF's running on a machine. So avoiding u ...Show All

• Visual C# What do i need to dispose and how?

  When i close my application I get following error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in WiseDVAppVer1.exe Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I tried debugging my code and it seems the code fails to dispose some object. Following part causes the error. in particular it gets stuck at combobox.selectedvalue.tostring(); private void comboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged( object sender, EventArgs e) { string selection = comboBox1.SelectedValue.ToString(); string buff = "Gametype ='" + selection + "'" ; teamBindi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using Existing COM components of Smart Device in VS 2005

  Hi The article "COM Interop in CF 2.0" provides good help on creating new COM components and using them in smart device applications. However i would like to how can i Add Reference to the existing COM components of the smart device. In order to do this it seems first i need to get the tlb file for the corresponding dll. But the remote file viewer tool doesn't show the tlb/idl file in the smart device, it just shows dll file. So how can i generate the idl/tlb files so that i can reference them in my smart device application. Thanks Basically i wanted to use msxml3.dll that comes with Windows CE 5.0. I'm trying to develop a s ...Show All

• SQL Server Oracle 9i -> SQL Server 2005: Initialization of table failes

  Hi there, I'm trying to initialize a subscription for a transactional replication between Oracle9i and MS SQL Server 2005. The snapshot agent runs succesfully, but I get an error when the distribution agent runs to apply the snapshots at the subscriber. I've pastet the job history from the Log File Viewer below. Message 2006-06-08 09:27:25.516 Applied script 'ADDRESS_8.sch' 2006-06-08 09:27:25.516 Applied script 'ADDRESS_8.idx' 2006-06-08 09:27:25.516 Bulk copying data into table 'ADDRESS' 2006-06-08 09:27:25.641 Agent message code 20037. The process could not bulk copy into table '"ADDRESS"'. 2006-06-08 09:27:25.704 Categ ...Show All

• Visual C# Global Assembly Cache

  OK. I am trying to install my program on another computer that I have. But when it installs, it says something like, I need to install this .dll file called "vjslib" in the Global Assembly Cache. Can someone tell me what the problem is. Hi, http://www.kdcalc.com/vjslib.htm http://www.hightechtalks.com/t2032222-vjslib-could-not-be-loaded.html   HTH, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System web service testing and data driven testing

  When writing a web service test, is it possible, once a data source has been hooked up, to do some sort of token replacement in the Body String property through the UI Or can this be done in a coded web test only Also, will the next version allow a SQL Express database to be used as the data source for web tests Jeff Hi Jeff, Yes, you can use syntax like {{DataSource1.Customers.Name}} to bind to a database. Look at the source xml for a data bound web test to see the syntax to use. Also, there is a way to use SQL Express, but I don't have the exact steps handy. I'll try to find and post back the ans ...Show All

• Windows Forms Raising Event with e.Cancel property

  Can someone point me in the right direction on how to raise an event that passes an event arg that includes an e.Cancel property that I can then respond to to cancel what was going to happen Essentially I want to be able to add BeforeXXX events to my custom controls and cancel whatever it is if the user so choses. Thanks! G ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Preventing svcutil from parameter reordering?

  Hi, when I have a ServiceContract -method like this [OperationContract] bool MyMethod (bool inParam1, int inParam2, out string outParam1, out int outParam2); and create a proxy for this with svcutil , the generated proxy method looks like this bool MyMethod (out string outParam1, out int outParam2, bool inParam1, int inParam2); that is, svcutil always places out-parameters before in-parameters! This happens even if the method is declared by an interface, which is required in its original form (unchanged parameter ordering) and thus cannot be used, and which is placed in a separate interface assembly which is referenced in the svc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installation hangs

  I have tried installing VC express on my machine and the installation hangs during startup(loading installation components),  with the suite integration toolkit. the report gives the module name as vsscenario.dll. It is a system thing as it has installed Ok on another machine. I have uninstalled all instances of .net and dont have any versions of Visual studio installed. The machine is a 650Mhz pentium 3 with 384 Meg Ram, running XP with service pack2  and should be able to run the program. I am also unable to install from the net as it does the same thing. Do you have kaspersky or another anti vir ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions "Parameter is Incorrect" When Creating Tables

  I am attempting to create a table through the database explorer.  The problem is, every time I right-click on Tables, and select Add New Table, I receive an error message stating "The Parameter is Incorrect" I CAN connect to my SQL 2005 Express server, and the connection to my project's database works, but I cannot add tables... Any ideas Wish I knew. I have the same problem. I see your posting was made 2 months ago ... I guess no one knows the answer ... Oh well ... ...Show All

• Windows Forms Bug in components (VB)

  When creating a component in VS2005 VB, there is no way to extend the "New" sub like there was in VS2003.  VS2003 Generated the following code which allowed for changes that wouldn't be overwritten: Public Sub New () MyBase .New() 'This call is required by the Component Designer. InitializeComponent() 'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call <changes could be safely added here> End Sub Any changed made in the designer file in VS2005 will get wiped out the next time changes are made to the design surface.  Where can I override or add to the "New" sub I cannot reproduce this ...Show All