dronick's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro Trouble with "report designer" windows

  I have a trouble with my "report designer" windows : 1. Open a report with modify report 2. Undock a toolbar to reduce the number of line of toolbar and the report move to the top 3. I can't move the report until I choose a object in the report. What can I do Where can I found some documentation about foxuser.dbf Thanks you and sorry for my english... Fabien Fabian, Well, that's definitely a bug. I don't think that the foxuser.dbf has anything to do with this. I noted that simply causing the Report Builder window to lose focus and reactivating it (such as clicking into th ...Show All

• Visual C# How to use C# tableadapter wizard with vendor specific SQL keywords?

  Hi.  I really like the new tableadapter wizards in VS 2005 and how they can speed up development.  However, I'm running into a problem I need help with.  I am using the table adapter against DB2 and there are special keywords that the designer isn't allowing.  i.e. Select field1, field2 from table for fetch only with ur ; When I enter this into the query wizard and then move off the SQL pane to another pane, the wizard quotes the sql so it looks like so: Select field1, field2 from table FOR "fetch" "only" "with" ur ; Hence my predicament.  When I try to run this or press the ok button to save the query, it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Program Error

  Whenever I build a program in Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition it works fine on my computer. But strangely it doesn't work on some other people's systems. I think it's because they need .NET Framework 2.0. Is that the reason Please respond quickly, User Thanks for the quick reply, but I still need a solution to making the application run without Framework 2.0. Can you tell me how to ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. D3DXSaveSurfaceToFile PNG format broken in Apr 06 SDK?

  I've been using D3DXSaveSurfaceToFile for screenies for a while. Saving to .PNG format produces only solid white images since we've updated to Apr 06 SDK. Full debug output (including compiling with D3D_DEBUG_INFO) gives no errors. Anyone else hear of any problems with this specific format Hi, Can you repro this issue using texconv For instance, say you have texture in a bmp file: imagefile.bmp. Then you can do the following: texconv imagefile.bmp -ft png Does the imagefile.png file contain what it should If not please send both files to directx@microsoft.com . If you have further issues, ...Show All

• Visual Studio What's happening

  We have our solutions and projects (csproj and vcproj) in source control and thus they are read-only once checked in. When we load a .sln file, the IDE complains that the project files (not the source files) are read-only. Yes, of course they are. Why is that message appearing and can we make it stop I only want to be asked if there is a pending change. This post got moved here from the general forum. I thought I'd mention that we are not using SourceSafe, so I didn't post it here. We are using ClearCase but have integration disabled.       Thanks, Alin. The projects involved ...Show All

• SQL Server Accessing April CTP OLAP cube from Excel 2003

  I installed Office 2003 first on a Windows XP machine. I then installed SQL 2005 April CTP. When I try accessing cubes from Excel, I get the error "An error was encountered in the transport layer" This error occurs when I try to setup the connection to my OLAP cube. Thanks for any help you can offer Taylor Do you have msolap80.dll on your machine Somehow the 80 dll may have made itself the default for olap access. Try to re-register the olap 9.0 dll at command prompt regsvr32 "%program files%\common files\system\ole db\msolap90.dll" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get alerts?

  During the installation of TFS, I entered the smtpserver and mail account for TFS alerts. However, when subscribing to alerts, e.g. 'My work items change' and entering my own mail address, I don't get alerted. The smtpserver is up and running, mailboxes for all team members are created and when testing with Outlook, everything works. How do I get TFS to send e-mails And, is there a way to check that TFS is trying to send something So if we have a SMTP server that requires authentication in the form of a username or password, e.g. not Windows Integrated, then how can we use SMTP based alerts ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Import/Export Settings Deletes my text-snippets in the Toolbox Tab

  I had a ton of text-snippets in a new Tab on my Toolbox. Then I needed to reformat my harddrive. So I used the "Import/Export Settings" to save my settings and my text-snippets(I thought). When I was done with the reformat and imported the settings ALL of my text-snippets from my Tab on the Toolbox was gone! The "Import/Export Settings" did save my Tabs but not my precious snippets. So now I ask; where does the IDE saves my text-snippets from the toolbox I need to know this so I can make a backup the next time! James, Thanks for the reply. I'm delighted to hear that the bug has been noticed and I'm looking f ...Show All

• Visual C++ Portable Visual C++ to UNIX System

  Hi, Besides writing ANSI/Standard C++ code, I just wonder if there are tips, articles and pointers for writing Microsoft VISUAL C++ (on the Microsoft Visual Studio platform) that could be easily ported into a UNIX-like systems Thank you, Hansen I did a quick search and that showed me a number of interesting hits: http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx view=msdn&st=b&na=82&qu=portable+code+unix+C%2B%2B Hope this helps! Thanks,   Ayman Shoukry   VC++ Team ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can't change Label BackColor in designer (VS2005 Final)

  Hello, The environment Visual Studio 2005 Final, Smart Device Application for Windows Mobile 2003, using .NET Compact Framework 2.0. The problem I have uninstalled VS2005 Beta 2 (using the automatic uninstall tool) and then installed VS2005 Final. When I add a Label control to a blank form in the designer, I can't set the Label BackColor to a Web or Custom Color. It seems that when the underlying Form has the System BackColor "Window", it affects the Label controls. If the underlying Form has a Web or Custom color - the BackColor of the Label can be changed - however the BackColor in the list of Properties  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Future of FxCop

  I was recently at a MS sponsored event where one of the reps mentioned that they did not know if FxCop was going to be available once VS2005 was released because it would then only be available via VS2005 Developer Edition.  Is there any basis to that claim   I notice that the site still does not have a production release compatible with .NET2.0.  Can someone please let me know what is the future plan for FxCop and when a production release will be available Thanks Rich As an example, VS contains a small set of analysis checks we refer to as 'Maintainability' rules. These are checks against c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Delete or Edit a build type

  Hi, I am new to this thread, not sure if this has been asked before. Does anyone know how you can delete or edit an exisitng build type! Thanks -Bob If you are the project administrator you should be able to delete the build. If you do not have the latest version of the build project file on your machine (get latest version) the delete option won't be available. Something to consider anyway. ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to speed up calculated columns?

  I have two tables: Customers (CustomerID, CustomerName) and Orders (OrderID, CustomerID, Price).  If show all orders in a datagrid, the user can't use a CustomerID field, instead he wants the CustomerName.  So I made in the XSD file a new calculated column in the OrdersTable which has the Expression: Parent(Customers2Orders).CustomerName .  This works fine but: I made&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server How to read XML data from SQL data field?

  Using RS2000 I have a field in a SQL DB which contains data stored as an XML string. Is there an easy way to parse this string into data without moving to SS2005 I have builts a parser in SQL, but I would like to know if RS had a way to directly read this. If not, is there a method in RS2005 which handles this type of data The only way to really do this in RS2000 is to create your own custom data processing extension that encapsulates the code you have written to parse the Xml. There are quite a few examples online. In RS2005, you can use the Xml Data Processing Extension, which is designed for ret ...Show All

• SQL Server Replacement equivalent for SQK2K SQL-NS in SQL2005

  Is there a comparable replacement for SQL2K Namespace (SQL-NS) in SQL2005   I kind of remember that there wasn't way back when but couldn't recall for sure now.  ...Show All