Joe_D's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Inheriting build settings

  Hello, This is VS2005. I'd like to centralize certain build settings, to be inherited by a long list of projects. That's easy in general using .vsprops. But what if I want to inherit per-configuration settings, e.g. debug vs. release Vsprops files don't appear to deal with configurations, so I'd need to do something like this: my-settings-debug.vsprops debug configuration settings my-settings-release.vsprops release configuration settings my-proj.vcproj debug inherit my-settings-debug.vsprops release inherit my-settings-release.vsprops What I want is this: my-settings.vsprops debug configuration settings release ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Visual Studio vs SharePoint/Front Page

  What is the 'connection' between these two seemingly unrelated development tools I have been reading some evangelical blogs on the sharepoint v3 site, and it seems as though Sharepoint v3 will offer a lot of "infrastructure" (security, web parts, asp.net) for business-oriented / collaboration / scheduling web sites that may require a lot more effort using Visual studio. From the look of things, it's apparent to me that Microsoft is beginning to use a sharepoint a lot in their own website development. I sincerely do not want to start a holy war here, but I'm curious / interested to know what anybody thinks IN GENERAL about where ...Show All

• Visual Studio Missing IVSSDatabase Method

  I ran into a problem while attempting to setup VSS between two of my boxes.  I followed all the steps outlined in http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=2774 , including the client registry hack, but I get the following error in a message box when I attempt to connect to my remote database through VS 2005 Beta 2 on my client machine: Visual SourceSafe Internet The Visual SourceSafe Web Service returned the following error: Method not found: 'Void Microsoft.VisualStudio.SourceSafe.Interop.IVSSDatabase.set_ImpersonateCaller(Boolean) [OK] This is perplexing because I can see Microsoft.VisualStudio.SourceSafe.Interop.dll ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem inserting a new record with VB 2005 using a table adaptor and SQL 2005 Express

  I have a Windows form that is bound to a customer dataset.     The form displays a single customer record with text boxes for FirstName, LastName, Address, etc.    I created a Fill Query to accept a key field parameter and return the complete record.  When I use my SQL Fill command, passing it the key field (which is an identity field) , it populates the text boxes on the form with no problem. The line looks like this:      Me .CustomersTableAdapter.FillByID( Me .ShopTracDataSet.Customers, CustomerID)    If I use the SQL generated Updat ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ Link Error with VS .NET

  I am using VS .NET 2003 and created a "New Project"->"Visual C++ Projects"->"Win32"->"Win32 Console Project". Then Under Application Settings, i set the Application Type to "DLL".  I wanted to create a DLL which does not require .NET installed on the host machine.  I am running into a linker error when i try to export a class. I have the method "EngineInitialize" working where i can access them from the program using the DLL. How can i make the ModelObject class visible from outside of the DLL   The error i get is:     ... error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ModelObject Here is ...Show All

• SQL Server Concatinating Select Results

  Hey everyone, I have an SSIS conversion issue. I'm pulling two tables from a DB2 database into SQL 2005. One table has a list of work orders, and the other has a list of work order comments. There is a unique identifier between the two tables so that a join can be used, however, due to size limitations, I need to be able to combine both tables. The end result will be replicated out for SQL Mobile Edition and the file is too large when both tables exist so I am wanting to concatinate all the comments for each work order into a single text field in the work orders table. Here is what I am wanting to accomplish: UPDATE tblWorkOrders SET Comme ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista UI lacks of Transitions, Fades and some other things

  I like Windows Vista very much, but when i compare the current December CTP [of which I am beta tester] with a Mac OS X Tiger video found on the apple homepage, Vista falls behind in some areas. What I find so pleasing in Mac OS X are the cool but not annoying transitions in various parts of the user interface. In Vista, except of the window minimize to taskbar, maximize from taskbar, window open and window close effects, there are none noticable. There should be much more, for example when opening the start menu, etc. There are tons of possibilities for transitions which look nice,  aesthetic, don't disturb users and help better recog ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLPrepare and SQLExecute returns Permission Denied in SQL 2005

  I am trying to determine what has changed in SQL Server 2005. We have a application that has used this SQLPrepare and SQLExecute pairs for several years now and all of the sudden on 2005 it fails with a -1 error. Code Sample: odErr = (ODErr)SQLPrepare (hstmt, (PTR)gODCDA->sqlStr, SQL_NTS); if(!odErr){ odErr = (ODErr) SQLExecute(hstmt); } The Statement was "Select * from dbo.tbl1234 where 1=0" This is a standard way we use to get all sorts of properties and test for file existence of a table. This prepare statement FAILS with a -1 error and the SQL extended error says: Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]SELECT permi ...Show All

• .NET Development Help with update where row = variable

  i need to be able to select a row to update using the unique id field of a row, thye update will timestamp a row called timeout , but i cant figure out how to retrieve the row from the database based on a variable and use it to update the timeout column where uniqueid = myvariable cheers binks You may add an update query to a TableAdapter. UPDATE MyTable SET MyField2="Something" WHERE MyField1=@MyVar Then just call MyTableAdapter.MyUpdateQuery(MyDataSet.MyDataTable, MyVar) If you use Microsoft Access database, then you'll have to use ' ' sign instead of @MyVar ...Show All

• Visual Basic Access and VB

  Hi all, If I have a form created on MS Access, could I copy it exactly the same form to VB form, so that users could exactly perform operations the same on Access form thanks again for caring Any suggestion and comments would be Acceptable so if the post has been posted 2 times You can create a winform to exactly duplicate the Access form.  But you won't be able to "copy" and "paste" the access form or any of its controls to a winform ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 Registration Benefits - not allowed access to Registration Benefit Portal

  I just registered my copy of VS2005 Standard Edition that I received at the VS2005 Launch. One of the benefits of registering is free icons, components, etc. When I try to go to the Registration Benefit Portal to download them I get a page stating that the page is missing or I lack authorization. Is there a trick to this -Chris Hy! When I try to acces the Registration Benefits Portal I receive this error: Page Not Found The content that you requested cannot be found or you do not have permission to view it. If you believe you have reached this page in error, click the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page to report the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Code coverage / signed assemblies / unit tests fail

  Hi, I'm using VS 2005 RC1 and having problems with a unit testing/code coverage/signed assembly combo meal. I have unit tests that succeed against the assemblies without code coverage turned on. The assemblies are all signed with a common key file. When I turn on code coverage all my unit tests fail with a: "Strong name verification failed for the instrumented assembly 'Business.Entity.Assets, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=522bbccfa70f591f'. Please ensure that the right key file for re-signing after instrumentation is specified in the test run configuration." I've set the re-signing key file in the localtest ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Dataset Question

  Hi, I created a form and setup a Split Container - the left pane being a Tree View (with some top level nodes being topics: Memory, Operating System, Hard Drives, etc). The right pane contains a listbox. Is it possible to use a dataset (with no DB connection) to hold all my information in memory Then I'd like to be able to query the dataset to fill the listbox with the info I need when a user click on a node in the left pane. I've tried it, but I'm having some problems understanding how to do the dataset. If I create the dataset in design mode, I can create a table and add columns. But I seem to have problems accessing it from my c ...Show All

• .NET Development Shared Memory or Memory File

  Hi all, Is it feasible for me to create a chunk of SHARED MEMORY or a MEMORY FILE in .net to share some objects across boundary of processes   It will be great, if you can post some working samples! Thanks, Ning I hope the following links will be of help to you http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DotNetNamedPipesPart1.asp http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DotNetNamedPipesPart2.asp Thanks --Nihal ...Show All

• Visual Basic custom shape forms

  I have tried to follow the example in the MSDN library but I cannot get it to work. I have created my shape in paint and chosen an easy background colour e.g. white and set the TranparencyKey but it doesn't work. Is there anything that I am doing wrong I've followed the instructions to the letter but it still doesn't work. Any ideas I'm running Visual Studio 2003 with the .NET 2.0 framework. Cheers Please post your code or give us a link to the MSDN example you used. ...Show All