NickoM's Q&A profile

• SQL Server data miner, i think?

  hi not sure if i'm in right forum or not! but i have been getting a 'cannot find server' message for about 2 months now. i run AVG software and Ad-Aware SE and Spybot to try and combat viruses and adaware and spyware. usually what happens is i am using the internet and then this 'cannot find server' message, although the internet connection is still there. then i run all my software, find no viruses but Ad-Aware finds tracking cookies, data mine ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System no coverage result for website

  How can I get code coverage results against my website in my unit test projects I tried adding the website to my test solution and add it to test run config to be instrumented. But after doing that, my test case can't work fine and I'll notice the weird error message: Failed to connect to an IPC Port: The system cannot find the file specified. Anybody has any idea Hello! Can you please provide more information ...Show All

• .NET Development CLR and Native code

  Hi all, I'm very confused of what is the role of the CLR after the MSIL is converted to the native code Does the CLR pops out each machine instruction and executes them Thanks, Suresh. I often read that CLR allocates memory,does garbage collection,resolve assemblies etc., I beleive these services are associated with the code at runtime (native code) Can you please explain more in detail... Than ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista State machine workflow with xoml file

  I used to initialize delay activities timeout from database or config file inside constructor of workflow class, when I use workflow with code only without xoml file. I can not add constructor to code file when I work with workflow that has xoml file, but I still want to initialize delay activities timeout from database or config file when workflow instance is created. Thanks, Indigo Cowboy If you are p ...Show All

• .NET Development How to dynamically load schema from a file and then assign to xmldocument and validate it

  I am creating in memory xmldocument. Previously I were validating my file against a dtd file and then by the help of GetElementByID read my needed node. i.e. XmlDocumentType doctype = null; doctype = statementsDocument.CreateDocumentType("queries", null,statementsPath +"\\Validation.dtd", null); statementsDocument.AppendChild(doctype); nodeElem = statementsDocument.CreateElement("queries"); statementsDocument.Appen ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I read the emails from POP3 server like Outlook ??

  Hi   Is there any way to read the emails from POP3 server ..like Microsoft Outlook I need to retrieve all the emails from the POP3 server and read each of them .. How Can I do that     And thanks with my best regarding Fraas Here's probably what you need. Retrieve Mail From a POP3 Server Using C# I hope that helps. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reading and writing models in June release?

  Hi, I have used reading and writing of models from and to file in the previous release. This seems to be changed heavily in the June release. I am trying to figure out how to change this to work with the June release, but it would be most helpful if anyone already has some samples. I am trying to setup a Store thourgh store.LoadDomainModels() method, but run into a "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.DomainDataNotFoundException" Jos Wa ...Show All

• SQL Server Issues while loading in parallel into a partitioned table

  Hi there,   We have a Fact table that gets loaded monthly with 410 Millions rows. We therefore, decided to create a partitioned table having its partition key the week_of_Year.   Process: performed using SSIS one package. We first load the data from staging in parallel using 4 different connections into 4 weekly work tables, about 108 Millions each; and during this process we perform all the lookups and transform ...Show All

• SQL Server error applying initial snapshot

  Hi Using HTTPS web synchronisation - merge replication. I have a very strange error where it bombs out half-way through downloading the snapshot Downloaded a total of 3 chunks. Downloaded snapshot file 'snapshot.pre'. Downloaded snapshot file 'myView_6.sch'. Downloaded snapshot file 'table2_2.sch'. Downloaded snapshot file 'table2_2.cft'. Downloaded snapshot file 'table3_3.sch'. Downloaded snapshot file 'table3_3.cft'. Downloaded snapsh ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Cursors...

  Hello again, I have a cursor that stores information, mostly which can be duplicates of one another. These items are presented through a list box. A user can add and remove specific items from the listbox and the cursor which displays them. My problem is that I am unable to remove a specific item if there are duplicates. What it does is it deletes all of them. Any ideas Lil, Would you eloborate it. How do you delete for example. Delete- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Counting the number of Methods in the base class

  Hi, I need to count the number of methods in a given class in the application and also the number of methods from the inherited class(i.e the base class). here i want to get the members from the classes that are there in my application and not from the .NET framework classes. How to differentiate the .NET framework classes(like system.object, system.arraylist) from the classses that are defines in the application. for example public ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Need help with for and pictureboxes

  I'm making a map editor to make maps Every tile is a picurebox. In the menu there is a command "New" wich will load all the default pics into the picturebozes, so you can make a new map i created this for statement dim i as integer For i = 0 To 391 PictureBox(i).image = My.Resources.Image_default Next i But this doesn't work. There is something wrong with the PictureBox(i).image Please help me. I'm using vb2005 Thanks in advance, Radexxio ...Show All

• Windows Forms Centering column header text in DataGridView

  I'm trying to center the text in 2 column headers in a DataGridView. Can't find a way to do it in the designer, so I've written the following code to accomplish the task... deptDataGridViewTextBoxColumn.HeaderCell.Style.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment .MiddleCenter; branchDataGridViewTextBoxColumn.HeaderCell.Style.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment .MiddleCenter; This *almost* works. The problem is - the text isn't ex ...Show All

• Windows Forms expandable property in property browser

  hi, i generate a user control and i could add  into toolbox. i added some new properties to the user control. but i want that these properties can be expandable into property browser. for example: "size" property of any form control has two&nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development Need your opinion!

  I need someone’s opinion on an issue im having.       I just started working at a new company a couple of months ago.   A project manager and I are looking at things a little differently about development of a certain project.     Here is the problem and or argument.   Calls are made to the database to retrieve data in a dataset.   Now does it make any sense to take the data in a data ...Show All