DavWein's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team build and project references!

  Right now I have all of my projects locally in the path D:\Projects. I have a solution with the following structure: Main project project reference 1 project reference 2 project reference 3 When i tried to build with team build it freaked out because it could not find d:\projects\projectreference1\projectreference1.csproj so i went into the solution file and removed the absolute pathes  and replaced them with "..\"  to simply go up a l ...Show All

• Visual C# Serialize object to string

  I am trying to serialize an object(s) to an XML string. I want to do this without ever actually creating an .xml file. The way I do it works, and seems to be fine. I just want to make sure that there is not something I have overlooked. If anyone has a better way of doing it I would appreciate the help. Here is my code: String XmlizedString = null ; XmlSerializer x = new XmlSerializer (Inv.GetType()); MemoryStream memoryStre ...Show All

• SQL Server Why you can't set up in 'disabled status' a task in Data Flow layer???

  In Control Flow you can do that. Data Flow objects behave quite differently from Control Flow objects - disabling a transform may invalidate much that happens downstream. This is especially the case for asynchronous components. I can see cases where disabling synchronous components could be useful, and indeed I have some ideas around how that might be done in the future. I would be interested to hear more about your scenarios and reasons ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Package runs in BI but not VB.Net

  I have a solution with 2 projects: Startup project is VB.net the other is a BI project with an SSIS package.  If I right click on the SSIS package in BI and choose execute the package works flawlessly.  No warnings, no errors, no nothing.  IF I try to execute the same package in VB.net using the following code: Dim dtsPkg As New Package Dim dtsApp As New Application Dim events As IDTSEvents Dim Res As DTSExecResult d ...Show All

• Visual C++ Opening files

  Is it possible to open explorer.exe in C++ If so, how. Use the system functions. E.g. system (notepad.exe) should open notepad.exe. for more details, search for the system method on msdn.microsoft.com Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ASP.net IIS setup problem.

  Hello, I am a beginning ASP programmer and get following error message: Error 1 It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS. Could I avoid using IIS or how do I configure IIS I greatly appreciate your help. James I'm not sure if this will work a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How do i Change other language emulator Image with VS2005

  Dear all I used other language emulator image that is ok for VS2003,but  with VS2005 is fail . Do someone know how to solve that ! Hi, Do you mean using 2003 SE emulator which  is not English in VS 2005 if so,i can suggest one method,as follows( take CHS (Chinese Simple Langeage) image as example): as we know, in VS 2005 (english),it cannnot install 200s SE CHS emulator image. one ...Show All

• System Center Some general feedback and questions

  I am a capacity planner with some experience of Exchange. I have had a short period of time evaluating the tool and have some questions and constructive feedback. First of all - well done, the tool looks great and I hope will help to raise the profile of capacity planning as a discipline. I apologise if any or all of these questions have been asked before - they are directed towards Jonathan but anyone else please feel free to add ...Show All

• SQL Server Internet explorer script error

  When trying to configure task scheduler on my mcafee virus scan i get the error notice: keyset does not exist The specific error is 0x80090016 It also says General page initialisation failed. An error has occurred attempting to retrieve task account onfo. You may continue editing task object but will be unable to change task account info. Does anyone have a solution so I can schedule automatic updates for my virus scanner ...Show All

• Visual Basic Deployment Problems with .msi

  My application will be deployed with the build-in setup project function to generate a msi package. Tried the function out with a simple form application and it works out fine as expected. However, I came out with several problems when work it out on my solution. The solution contains several projects which only a few exe are compiled whilst the rest are all dll . 1. One of these exe will be running on the client machine and launched thr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project alerts exception

  Added a project alert for "A build completes" and added three email addresses. Started a build and got this error in the Event Log: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): 2005-11-10 15:37:48 Machine: TEAMSYSTEM Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/3/Root/services-1-127 ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ 2005 redistributable (vcredist_x86.exe etc.)

  Hi there, I noticed that the Beta 2 redistributable is hosted on the Microsoft download library, but the final ones seems not to be. Will it be hosted on microsoft.com (or is it already somewhere ). Also, it has been reported to me that on Windows 2000 the (RTM) redistributal gives an unuseful error message if Windows Installer 3.1 is not installed. The message is error 1723. "A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run." ...Show All

• SQL Server Publication

  I have a publication on my SQL Server. The first time my application syncs with the server it works fine. If I try to sync again I get "Permission Denied Number 80040E09 NativeErr: 0" Other publications work fine, it just seems to be this one. Any ideas Most likely this could a security configuration issue when connecting to the backend sql server. it is still not very clear why the su ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL query

  I have the following table and I'm trying to identify sessionid's where the group of category name(s) in one searchcriteriaid group differ from another searchcriteriaid group, in the same session. In the example below the user searched in the same session (5575628) twice (searchcriteriaid 60658874 & 6068961) and used the same 2 category criteria (Land, Multifamily), therefore, I’m not interested in identifying these. But, in the last sessi ...Show All

• Visual C# Dynamic menu bar

  Hi. Your help is very much appreciated. I am building Win app in which I'm allowing the users to add entity-types (i.e. entity-type = client or supplier,etc..) at run time .(I dynamically add tables in the db to support this requirement [I add client table, supplier table, etc.). However, I want to menu bar to reflect the existing enitity types. So I want the menu bat to look something like: Clients | Suppliers .... Find Find Add ...Show All