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• SQL Server Decryption Question

  Hi, I am encrypting a column in a table.  When I decrypt, everything is great if the data contained in column is less than 30 chars.  If it has more than 30 chars, I still get 30 chars decrypted.  Not sure what I am doing wrong.  Below are my details: OPEN SYMMETRIC KEY sk_XEncryption  DECRYPTION BY CERTIFICATE cert_sk_X   SELECT  ISNULL(CONVERT(NVARCHAR,DECRYPTBYKEY(columnA)),'')  FROM table1 CLOSE SYMMETRIC KEY sk_XEncryption Additional details: "columnA" above is of VARBINARY(4000) datatype.  I have enven tried changing the column to VARBINARY(MAX).  The data is ecrypt ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Understanding the Windows Workflow Foundation WF: From a Business User's Perspective

  Hi to all The following article explains Microsoft Workflow Strategy from Business users prospective, it also provide overview of how WF seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Office Products And made it easy to design and implement workflows. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/UnderstandWWF.asp Hi Well SPS 2003 can leverage WF but for that thier should be a layer(may me an application / windows service / webservice etc ) b.w WF and SPS. This layer intercepts the events and WF can do required work. For example once the document is uploaded on document library even can be caught by an application and given t ...Show All

• Windows Forms and I can't figure out how combobox works... @#$Arf

  Can someone help me with combobox in VS2005.NET I dragged it from toolbox on my form, Clicked on the little "play" button on top left corner of the box. "Combobox task" menu appeared, I selected databound items. Under Data Source I selecteded database then i selected my access database (which is just somthing i exported from excel). My data base has four coloums ID    Gametype     Title       sport For Display Member I selected Title, for value member i selected gametype. For selected value option I selected none.(what is this selcted value option by the way ) N ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridBoolColumn, Value display and Event Capture

  With the following Style I had created the two columns in my datagrid 1) DELETE  (vlaue boolean) 2) MCWR ID  (Numeric) In the database I have only two values in the DELETE column 0 or 1 BUt when I am loading the grid I am getting all the cell as Gray  and check. It is not showing check (for value 0) and uncheck (for value 1) How to  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Looks cool

  I downloaded the terrarium and all I can say is that it looks cool. This is because I'm behind a NAT protected network so I can't get it working, all I can see is the cool starting screen. Maybe I'll try it at home on the weekend cuz I really want to see it working. I've seen the FAQ. The problem is that I'm the&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Switches in Console Application??

  Can anyone tell me, what is the proper way of creating switches in a console application I want to have certain functions execute on a specific switch. Ex... c:\MyApp /start If you want them to run consecutively, <i>don't</i> create a new thread.  By doing the Thread.Start stuff, you're introducing the problem you're trying to avoid.  Just c ...Show All

• .NET Development The best way to transform DataSet XML into HTML

  I have a situation where I am loading data from SQL into a DataSet, getting the data XML format (via WriteXml on one of the DataTables), transforming it with an Xslt, and taking the output as HTML and placing it into a WebBrowser control (WinForm). The code I have now works fine, but I'm doing a lot of string work that is slowing me down. I've included the code below (note, not pretty as it's testing code!) What is going to be the fastest/best way to do this I know that it will involve using the various streams/readers available, but the number of combinations is rather large. Thanks, Erick XslCompiledTransform xform = new Xsl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source Check-in but keep checked out?

  Hi all, Under VSS, I think you could check-in a change but keep it checked out at the same time. I've searched the forums and don't see this discussed. Is this possible under Team System If not, does anyone know the rationale for not allowing it Tim Houston Development Dimensions Intl. 412.220.7287 We don't currently support this feature, but I can get it added to the suggestion list for the next version. (Edit: I've filed a suggestion on this topic and linked back to this thread) I think I'd characterize it as "not implemented" rather than "not allowed". One note (that may or may not apply to you): Generally, we ...Show All

• Visual C# A lot of radiobutton

  Hi, I have a webpage with 15 questions and for each question I have 5 radiobutton, and what I want to know is how can I get the checked one from each group dinamically... Thanks I'm using radio button group what I need is to make a for each for each group of the 15 groups that I have and get the checked radio button for each group..(this is the dinamic) Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Enterprise June CTP Installation Error

  Tried to install several times (on Win2003 Ent. SP1) but I always get the following error: Failure adding user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE to local group SQLServer2005MSSQLServerADHelperUser (1388) The user varies (sometimes NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) and so does the local group (sometimes SQLServer2005SQLBrowserUser). Any tips Regards Roger I have tried to install SQLDEV ,But got the same error mesage. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Stop on first failure in .sln file?

  How do you run MSBuild on a SLN file and request that it stop on the first failure   I don't see a MSBuild command line switch for this. > in the next version I think everybody would like to make .sln natively > msbuild format (but plans are not clear yet) +10 - this seems like a no-brainer IMO.  It would also be nice to have VC++ project files as native MSBuild projects.  Thanks for the workaround! ...Show All

• Visual C# Intranet permissions

  Using Windows 2000 server and a shared mapped drive. My program will run on  local systems, (using XP and W2K) but not from the mapped drive. What changes do I make to the local machine to set the permissions and restore the permissions when I have done. I want to do this within the program. I want to do this using C#  VS 2005- windows form Thanks This forum is for C# language issues only. There are a plethora of groups to ask this kind of question in the MSDN discussion groups. I recommend this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public. ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting....Delegates....

  Hello Folks! I was trying to work on a remoting appication and i needed to write events such that the client or server in remoting should be notified if the other one closes down the communication. I was able to achive the client side notification but the problem is that when i try to add an event handler in the client so that the client is notified when the server exits, i get a error saying "Turn of custom error's on client.config". I am confused why cant i register a event on the client side. Awaiting Replies. Thankyou for reading, Yes it is similar to this but the thing is that i am using the ...Show All

• Visual C++ implicit casts and argument for [] of cli::array<>

  When providing a non-int argument for the subscript operator of the builtin array template of C++/CLI then the compiler will not accept it even though an implicit conversion operator to int is defined. This only happens for the builtin array class but not for user defined classes which define an indexed default property. Example code: using namespace System; value class A { public :    static operator int (A a)    {       return 10;    } }; ref class B { public :    property int default [ int ] {     &n ...Show All

• SQL Server Should ISVs install named or default instance with their software?

  For ISVs who distribute/install SQL Server Express with their software, what is the best practice when it comes to choosing between installing a default or a named instance From what I can tell, I should install a named instance, so that the named instance can be uninstalled when my software is uninstalled without hosing other named instances or the default instance, but I'm not 100% sure of this. This really depends on your exact needs. Most ISVs seem to like installing unique instances, not only for the reasons you offer, but to obtain a level of isolation, both for the database and for stabili ...Show All