Michael Blome - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Error on Work Item reports details

  I create a Team Project with MSF for CMMi Process. When I go on the reports services portal (ie : http://myserver/reports/ ) and I browse all reports for my project, I see a Work Item reports. This reports executes correctly, but when I want to show details on a proposed Work Item (clicking on the ID), I have this error : TF51300: Either access to the database is denied, or the item does not exist. does anyone had this problem any idea to solve ...Show All

• Architecture Contract first - what tools do you recommend?

  Hajo, I know about addin from Thinkcenture but I'm wondering if you use other tools, addins, etc. OK, but again: please tell us what you want to see and what you consider as 'perfect'. As always, just complaining does not help, eh If you have any experience in and have ideas of what you think should go into both guidance and tooling, so please let us know. Cheers. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 RAM Usage

  We have an issue with SQL Server 2005 using more memory than is available on our system. Our server is running Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 with 3.2 gigabytes of RAM. Every month or so the RAM usage on the server exceeds the physical memory of the server and as you can imagine this drastically slows performance. We have looked at the "Maxiumum Server Memory" option but I have read that it is recommended for SQL Server ...Show All

• SQL Server Tables in reports splitting between multiple pages

  Hi Everyone, Im just starting out with Reporting Services so if my question is a bit vague then bear with me please. I'm having a bit of a head ache with Reporting Services 2005. I have a report which is displaying 3 tables and charts respectively after each other (so, one row has a table and respictive chart, 2nd row has a table and chart etc). At the bottom of my report, the last table only seems to display about 200px worth of its ac ...Show All

• SQL Server Import data from Excel or text

  How do I import data from an Excel or text file There are a couple of different options here: Move everything to a text file and import using the BCP Utility. You should check out the following topics in Books Online: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175937(SQL.90).aspx Link the files to Access and use Access' Export functionality to move the data to SQL ...Show All

• SQL Server What interface does Management Studio use?

  Hi, Does anyone know what interfaces Management Studio use It does seem to retrieve information about Server/Database objects without the performance issues that SMO suffers from How does it do it Regards, Joginder Nahil www.starprint2000.com It uses SMO. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server Global Temp tables

  Hi group, I want to create several global temp tables. I've created a script: if not object_id('tempdb..##tbl_ProductTypes') is null begin drop table ##tbl_ProductTypes end select * into ##tbl_ProductTypes from dbo.tbl_ProductTypes This script creates a global temp table. When I run it in QA the table is created. When I close QA the table is dropped. This is correct since I found the following in BoL: [Global temporary tables are automatically ...Show All

• Visual C++ Itanium compiler removed in VS 2005 PRO (it is only on team version)

  I'm disappointed: the C++ itanium computer was removed on VS 2005 Professional, and is only on the expensive "team" edition. The Platfork SDK of Windows 2003 SP1 contain a free x64 and itanium compiler, but not integrated on VS2005 see http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/vs2005/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/vs2005/subscriptions/ http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/productinfo/productline/default.aspx http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teams ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error open project from source control using MSSCCI

  Hi, all. I want to Open project from source control using MSSCCI, but failed. Following is my code: SCCEXTERNC SCCRTN EXTFUN __cdecl SccGetProjPath( LPVOID pContext, HWND hWnd, LPSTR lpUser, LPSTR lpProjName, LPSTR lpLocalProjPath, LPSTR lpAuxProjPath, BOOL bAllowChangePath, LPBOOL pbNew ) { strcpy(lpUser, "DVD"); strcpy(lpProjName, "TestVLSCC31"); strcpy(lpLocalProjPath, "D:\\SccTest002\\TestVLSCC31"); strcpy( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Synchronizing current file in Solution Explorer and Source Control Explorer

  dear all, is there anyway i can sync current selected file in VS 2005 Solution explorer with Source control explorer tree. regards faraz You can rightclick -> Get from either SCE or Solution Explorer. It will prompt you to update the in-memory copy. ...Show All

• SQL Server making a report

  how can i create a report for my database how can i create bar graphs, etc. im using msde and sql express. pls help. thanks. MSDE and SQL Express are both free, and neither comes with any reporting tools, AFAIK. SQL Server may, I'm not sure, but the most likely way I would go about doing this is to write a program which reads the database, and then creates a graph from the data. There are free and commercial g ...Show All

• .NET Development Increasing the runtime heap?

  Hi I've got an issue with OutOfMemory exceptions occuring in an application. I know the gen 0 heap size is based on the L2 cache of the CPU running the system, but even when I try to run my process on a system that has a megabyte of it, it gets the exception not even halfway in. Normally, I'd just take it for granted that I was wasting too much memory too quickly, but the problem is - I need all of the memory I'm trying to allocate, and I nee ...Show All

• Windows Forms XML writing through VB.Net

  Hi.. I am fairly new to Vb.Net. Can anyone please let me know how to write/append a XML document using Vb.net I have this xml <root> <online>abc</online> <online>dfshgh</online> </root> Now i want to append the <online> tag of the xml file wi ...Show All

• .NET Development ERR - WebClient.DownloadData returns "protocol violation"

  I'm getting a "protocol violation" from a site that is working perfectly fine when I issue WebClient.DownloadData as such: WebClient WebClient_Temp = new WebClient(); byte[] zbyteTemp = WebClient_Temp.DownloadData ( "http://MySite/MyWebPage.htm" ); I have heard of the app.config file fix, but my app is a UserControl, and as such, I can not keep the "MyApp.dll.config" in the same directory as such: <configuration> <system.net ...Show All

• SQL Server RAISEERROR from CLR stored procedures

  I'm writing: SqlContext .Pipe.ExecuteAndSend( new SqlCommand ( "RAISERROR ( '" + e.Message + "', 11, 1)" )); to execute a RAISEERROR from a CLR stored procedure. It works, but in the SqlError list I get in the client, there are two more errors that say something like '{System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user defined routine or aggregate 'Customer__Update': System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: ...Show All