neil walker's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio crystal reports in c# / disable parameter prompt

  Hi everyone, is there a way to disable the parameter prompt of the crystal report viewer in c# (2005 beta2) I've got a simple report viewer, which doesn't have the smart tag to disable the parameter prompt as apparently the viewer for asp.net does, I'm loading a simple report with a parameter at runtime where I also set the parameter in the code, but still it'll prompt me for that anoying parameter and use the one from the prompt!! I didn't find any option in there (at least not in intelliSense...) to disable it... Any help much appreciated... thanks very much! Vince See the link in my previous message ...Show All

• Visual Studio WinCVS .ignore file

  Not a VSS question but rather a WinCVS version control question. Which files should not be checked into the version control system The obvious ones are .obj, .exe but what else can be ignored Thanks My Subversion global-ignores looks like this:  *.projdata *.pdb *.exe *.dll obj tmp temp bin *proj.user *.o *.obj *.ncb *.suo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team System Beta 2 VPC Expiration in 19 days

  Hi all, I downloaded the Team System Beta 2 VPC image (as a MSDN Universal customer). The Windows Server 2003 installation prompted me to activate, and so I did, over the phone. After activation, upon logging on, I am informed that I have only 19 days left in my evaluation of Windows. Specifically, the message dialog states: "The evaluation period for this copy of Windows will expire in 19 days. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp." This confused me, as the readme.txt on the image states: "Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (expires September 16, 2006)" A brief ...Show All

• SQL Server green-bar for list

  green-bar (altrnating background color) can be done in table, I can find a solution for matrix, but how about a list Thanks This doesn't seem to work in the scenario I have List containing: textboxes, table the above line of code, when placed in the list.backgroundcolor gives the following (have also included rownumber ) 2 white 4 white 6 white etc.. this is because it appear to be taking into account the detail (table) level So, instead of alternating on the parents, it is counting the children. ...Show All

• .NET Development OracleClient problems

  Anyone out there using the OracleClient   I can't get the update method on the OracleDataAdapter to work.  I'm passing a simple text SQL select via the Command object and using the Fill method on the dataset.  Then I add about 35 rows (79 columns in the row) and issue the Update method.  The code throws no errors in either the UI or data layers, and I don't receive an error from the Oracle stored procedure, but the data never gets inserted into the table.  I'll provide code details if I get a response... Mark Paul, Once again, I thank you for the post, but I stumbled onto a solution.  I had called the .Acc ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Copying range of cells to another worksheet without copying the drawing objects

  I want to copy a range of cells from one worksheet to another without copying the enclosed drawing objects (like arrows). I use the following code, but it copies everything including the arrows. Worksheets("Blank Item").Range("A1:AY190").Copy Destination:=Worksheets("Item Entry").Range("A1:AY190") How can I get the copy to only copy the cells themselves Use the clipboard and paste special as follows: Worksheets("Blank Item").Range("A1:AY190").Copy Worksheets("Item Entry").Range("A1:AY190").PasteSpecial (xlPasteFormulasAn ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sql server 2005 trial version

  I ordered a trial version of Sql Server 2005 from Microsoft that is supposed to be valid for 180 days. Yesterday, after only some 30 days of usage I am told that the trial time has expired! Have anybody experience the same problem Any help/suggestion would be most appreciated. Thanks, the Cicada The RTM version of SQL Server 2005 Evaluation Edition should work for 180 days after you installed it. What exactly was the error message, and where did you encounter it What Edition and Version of SQL Server do you have Thanks, -Jeffrey ...Show All

• .NET Development Encryption

  In order to encrypt information saved by a user to a textfile, I found a nice example using tripleDES and it works fine. The only problem I see is that the numbers I used for the byte array that makes up the key and IV are easily viewable by using a disassembler like ILDASM. I used the community edition of dotfuscator, which does scramble up the classes and stuff, but those values are still readily seen, even if it is now harder to actually find them. So my question is how can you do reliable encryption in .net, when a determined hacker can simply find the keys you used, and then reverse the encryption Have you considered DPAPI http: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I have installed Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express edition, but I can't find Enterprise Manager.

  I have installed Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express edition, but I can't find  Enterprise Manager. I can't find Enterprise Manager in the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express edition. how can I browse database Hi, Express edition doesn't contain an Enterprise manager. You need to obtain a SQLServer 2005 CTP (not the express edition) to have an enterprise manager. In the SQLExpress you can browse by downloading the Express manager, Its not as elegant as the enterprise manager but at least you can browse the databases... SQLServer 2005 CTP http://msdn.microsoft.com/getthebetas/ (Download only available for MSDN subscribers, but you c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Rule to check String.Empty is used instead of ""

  hi, i want to create a custom rule for FxCop that should check is String.Empty is used instead of "". Please give some idea for this and any code snippet will be more helpful. Thanks See my reply to this question in the following post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=439674&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to Unselect item of ListBox?

  Hi, My Window Form ListBox lbxQuyen with SelectionMode MultiExtended.  I use the following code to unselect all Item in ListBox,  for(int k=0;k<lbxQuyen.Items.Count;k++)  {  this.lbxQuyen.SetSelected(k,false);  }  But this code not run well.  When I debug this, lbxQuyen.GetSelected(k) is not false.  Could you tell me why   Thanks  Oh, Something seem good as you tel ...Show All

• Windows Forms Panel alpha transparency issues

  I've been working for a couple of days now on a simple interface that looks nicer than the default Windows form.  Please feel free to blast me if there's a better way to do this, but here's what I've found: - Drawing alpha-transparent pngs on the form using the Bitmap class works beautifully... overlapping images is not a problem. - However, the i ...Show All

• SQL Server recreate index on replica

  I have a slow query. It is indexed and I was wondering if there were any issues with using 'dbcc dbreindex' on each of the 12 replicas, to maybe make it run more efficiently And is this something I could/should do nightly Why would you want to reindex the tables, what is this going to gain you Are these replication metadata tables, or user tables If these are user tables, you should look at the execution plan of your slow-running query via profiler. In the future, if this does not involve replication, you may get more response in the Transact-SQL forum - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx Fo ...Show All

• SQL Server Row delimiter {LF} is ignored?

  Hi! Im trying to import some data from a Flat File Source, where a row delimiter is {LF} and column separator is SPACE. Data looks like this: GI$0c2 T08b 1 1 20060508 000655 6 8 8 c0a81f1f 1 1 1 00A 3 24206816 3 24206816 1 1 3 59910000 001 1 3 14730050 0 25 F10 XX 317148-131136 loop TG_MRB 0 M027 1 3 0 20060508 000655 0 3 59910000 SIP This is the first record that generates around 41 columns and sorts data as it should, but if the second record is smaller the row delimiter {LF} is ignored and put into one of the columns untill all 41 columns from previous record are filled. It seems to me that columns separator has the priority over the row ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can I record unit tests?

  Hi, all. This is probably very basic and, possibly, obvious. But, I'm just a newbie and don't know much about it. :) I am trying to use VS 2005 Team Test Edition to automate some of the testing we do. So far, I'm just investigating what it's capable of and how we can use it. What I can see so far is that web tests are not going to work for our application, since we have a lot of client side logic involved. I'm looking at unit tests and not quite sure how to use them. Is there any way I can "record" a unit test (similar to the way web tests get recorded) May be, I'm looking in the wrong dirrection all together. If that's ...Show All