moobah's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS 4 DB : How about OLAP?

  Hi all, Forget about other RDBMSs. Are there any plans to support SQL Server Analysis Services as well SQL Server Database Engine Generating change scripts, creating baseline schemas, cascading changes, unit testing, data compare, data generation......these are as equally relevant to SSAS as they are SSDE. I realise this won't be in v1.0....but is it in the pipeline for the future -Jamie So I assume you mean when data i ...Show All

• Smart Device Development window mobile 5 screen orientation with different tab order

  I am developing a WM5 dialog base pocket pc application. my dialog has two screen orientation (portract and landscape) base on the PPC screen orientation. Changing of the orientation dialog work fine but I can't had two set of tab order for the two dialogs. The tab order will always follow the .h enum { IDD= XXXX} screen. Example, my portract dialog tab order should be edit1, edit2, edit3 but my landscape dialog want to had tab order edit1, ...Show All

• Visual Basic when true isnt really true

  A feature I think would be the best way to describe this... or at least it doesnt behave how I would expect... Try the following: debug.print(true) I would expect a boolean value of -1 to be returned.... true being defined in the VB docs as being a boolean value of -1 with false being a boolean value of 0. What I actually get is a string value of "True" Ah well.... How did I discover this Well I was pre-populating a check ...Show All

• Architecture A good first book about .net architecture

  Hello gurus! I am a computer engineer (a Spanish five years degree) and a MCAD.net professional. I know about general architecture but not architecture in .net world. I want you to tell me a good first book about architecture under .net (net 2.0 ), develop real scalable applications, n-tiers, etc etc. Thanks. This looks good - Pro Scalable .NET 2.0 Application Designs , though I don't own it, I have browsed it in the bookstore an ...Show All

• .NET Development throwing SoapException returns HTML to client

  I'm testing a Web Service written using C# in Visual Studio 2005 and running in IIS 5.1. When it throws a SoapException, HTML gets returned to the client rather than a SOAP message. If the Web Service processing is successful, a SOAP message gets returned. But when I throw a SoapException (and set the actor, message, detail, etc.), HTML is returned. Any ideas how I can get a SOAP message returned when I throw a SoapException Thanks. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Determining the number of lines inside a TextBox control when in wordwrap-enabled mode

  For .NET Compact Framework (Version 1.0), I am wondering how to determine the number of lines in a TextBox control when it is in automatic wordwrap mode. Alternatively, how do I detect the minimum bounding rectangle for a TextBox control in order to display all text visibly without clipping I tried to do this, and I can do this under regular .NET but I can't do so on Compact Framework.   Are there any workarounds I can do Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Error 1418, fails to connect mirror server

  I I use the mirroring wizard to config all these three servers(windows authorization is used), the error logs in primary server and mirror server are showed as below a) On primary server: Error: 1474, Severity: 16, State: 1 Database mirroring connection error 4 'An error occurred while receiving data: '10054(An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)'.' for 'TCP://mymirror.mydomain:5022' b) ...Show All

• Windows Forms Slow Database Update

  Hi there I have a SQLExpress DB with a number of tables. Most are for user entry and that all works fine. I have 2 tables that are connected to datagridview. They are both feed data from a TCP connection. The feed sens on average 20-30 packets per second. The data comes in on a seperate thread and I do a BeginInvoke to populate the grids with the data. Each row of the table has about 15 columns. After each row is updated I do an Update() to writ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problems installing sdk for 2005 april

  I have VS2003 and VS2005 on my PC. I also have sdk march 2006 installed .Now I want to install sdk april 2006 but it fails because I don't have mshelp 2.0 . I can't even remove me prev version of sdk from the same reason. Don't know what it is and why I need it. Thanks Avi No solution here The error code is 1603 Avi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) CustomPeerResolver vs NAT

  To my great regret, I do not have an opportunity to experiment with WCF on a computer running a "client" WCF p2p application behind a NAT and/or a proxy server, so I can only ask the following questions and hope that someone will kindly answer them... Can CustomPeerResolver enable a client app running from behind a corporate NAT router and a proxy server to successfully communicate with a p2p server (such as the one in the "Ne ...Show All

• SQL Server ConnectionString

  Thanks for the reply, this is what I have tried: E134017 is the name of my computer on the LAN \\E134017.nw.nos.boeing.com is the full path I think also \\E134017 can also be used to identify my computer to others on the lan/  The following connection string will work on my workstation only, others computers cannot find it or sql won't honor their request for data. con As New SqlConnection("Data Source= E134017 ;trusted_connection=true;In ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Assigned To field unknown when status is closed

  Whenever I close a work item the Assigned To field seems to lose its value, as it shows up as 'Unknown' in all reports/queries. Is this a known issue *Note: I am using TFS Beta 3 with VS 2005 Team Suite RC1 The <STATE> section for "CLOSED" must have the field "Assigned To" set to <EMPTY/>, this is the default for closed states in the MS sample work items. Remove the field declaration or change the &l ...Show All

• Windows Forms Upgrading from B2 to RC1 TS

  I have upgraded from Beta 2 to RC1 of VS 2005 Team System. It has messed up the way my objectdatasource's are interacting with my gridview's. In Beta 2, The gridview would only pass original_ID as parameters when updating / deleting. In RC1, it now passes both original_ID and ID as parameters for update / delete Is this an expected behavior Can I please turn this off. I can handle the original_ terminology no problem but if the field is an aut ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Starter Kit Trouble

  Hey I downloaded the MediaShare Starter Kit and it said it was already ready to build and run. When I try to build it I get a error for both the projects in the solution. This is what I get: ------ Build started: Project: CommunicationFramework, Configuration: Release Win32 ------ Embedding manifest... Project : error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'cmd.exe'. Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Dagaen\Desktop\Messenger\Source ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I remove these charactors from a string?

  Problem: Ok, I've tried using Substring, Trim, TrimEnd, Remove, you name it, but I still cannot get rid of these charactors " yOya ". I am sending a number via winsock and it add's the extra charactors, I need to convert the number back into an integer, in order to do that the charactors must be removed I think. The received string looks like this " 11048 yOya ". -UPDATE- Ok, for some reason it says the length of the text is 184 charactors ...Show All