stefan.w's Q&A profile
Visual Studio Tool support for designer definition?
Hi, are there any plans to provide tool support for writing the designer definition in the future The current approach of writing plain XML is very time consuming and error prone. IMO, this could be easily supported by wizzards that generate an initial version of the definition from the domain model on the one hand, and by an editor to maintain it on the other. regards, stefan Stefan, you might wan ...Show All
Visual Basic Web Service setup help needed
Hi all, I'm in the process of learning how to create and consume web services. I understand how to create the service and how to access the service from vb.net but what I don't know is how to set something up that my web service runs on. I don't have a website to publish the service on so I've briefly looked into ways to set up some kind of desktop emulation or host service that I can use. I've seen references to IIS running on the desktop ...Show All
Visual Studio Attaching process to Windows Service
I have a windows service that has been built (VS 2005 Beta 2), installed and is running ( I am getting output in the event viewer, and part of it the service is working correctly). But when I try to debug it using the "Attach to process", the service process is greyed out, and I am not allowed to attach to it. I am running Windows Xp Pro, SP2, as an admin. Not sure if this is a security or permisson problem so I also have tried ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MenuItem Highlight Styles in Feb CTP
Hi all, After upgrading to the Feb CTP ive had problems changing the highlight colour for mouseover effects on menu items. The code below worked in the January CTP - but no longer functions correctly - any ideas guys 'n' gals <!-- menu item style --> <Style x:Key="{x:Type MenuItem}" TargetType="{x:Type MenuItem}"> <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Arial" /> <Setter P ...Show All
.NET Development Newbie Problem
I get permission denied 0x800A0046 when trying to install a ASP hit counter that reads and writes from a text file on the server. Here is the entire default.asp to see: <%@ Language = "VBScript" %> <% Response.Buffer = true %> <head> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="text-html; charset=Windows-1252"> <title>Green Relations Group</title> </head> <b ...Show All
Visual Basic About Visual Basic 6
Hi VB'ers i just wanna know if for how long Microsoft if going to provide support(technical) or to sell Microsoft Visual Basic 6, is VB6 gonna be obsolute soon thanks -- http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnsubscriptions/archive/2005/11/18/494716.aspx ...Show All
.NET Development Failed to load viewstate
Hello: Ive got a UserControl (data Entry form). Within it ive got HTML Tables all of which have questions . I want to bring the questions that were missed up on top of the html table. Alls working fine if its an .aspx. The code to do the row manipulation is fione,But i get the above error message (in the subject) when its in a control .ascx which is being loaded in a page. Pls advise how to tackle this situation. Thank you Is your user c ...Show All
.NET Development .Net 2.0 release version breaks VS 2005b2?
I have just upgraded my .Net frameworks to 2.0 release version, and in the process, I had to uninstall the previous beta version and also some other stuff like the compact framework. Now, Visual Studio beta2 is not launching anymore. Is this a known issue With kind regards. Two things. One, ClickOnce docs tell you all about how it downloads the most recent version of the .net framework. Yea it feels like *** wh ...Show All
SQL Server Progress
I have some SP's I run once a month and each SP takes a few mins to run and when I batch em together in one shot, I hate sitting there waiting for them to finish whats the easiest way to report back the status of the exec Ex: Set NoCount ON EXEC StatesUpdateZipTableUpdate 'AE' EXEC StatesUpdateZipTableUpdate 'AK' EXEC StatesUpdateZipTableUpdate 'AL' EXEC StatesUpdateZipTableUpdate 'AP' EXEC StatesUpdateZipTableUpdate 'AR' EXEC StatesUpdateZipTa ...Show All
SQL Server How to find how Activation has failed
I have seen the posting on determining how activation has failed and looking through the system logs is very helpful in determining why activation is not occuring, however, short of looking through the SQL Server logs is there another way to get the same information Access to the SQL Server logs is fairly restricted. Does anyone know another way that this can be done I have used the execute as technique described in the article on "Troubl ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Performance problems running TFS on large system
I have been monitoring our SQL server performance after installing TFS and have noticed many large slow queries.. exec prc_Get @identityId=57,@workspaceName=N'SchemaChange',@localItem=N'C:\Documents and Settings\builder\schemachange\Enterprise\Build.xml\',@versionSpec=N'C9547',@depth=1,@force=1,@noGet=0 This query generated 237930 reads and took 4.8 seconds. The file being retrieved is 72,275 bytes in size. The server is a dual xeo ...Show All
SQL Server SSIS Sequence container,data flow task
I am creating a staging database in which I am loading required tables from 2 different sources. I have 30 different tables to load from source 1 and 10 different tables from source 2. This is the way I am doing, in Control flow task I am using Sequence container and in that I included the data flow task, the data flow task has source OLD DB connection from where I select the table and then destination OLE DB connection where I load the data ...Show All
Visual C++ VS .Net 2005, how to disable intellisense...
Hi I am really frustrated with the performance of VS .Net 2005. This is because I always see at the bottom "updating intellisense..." and it uses 60% to 70% of CPU. How to disable this updating of intellisense... Please this is making Visual studio unusable. Thanks Chandra Try going to Tools menu -> Options ->Text Editor -> C# -> Intellisense and uncheck the option "Intellisense pre-selects most rec ...Show All
Windows Forms round edges...
Hi, Is there any way I can make round edges for a panel (without using any kind of picture) Thanks You can create a new GraphicsPath, by adding line,arc,line,arc,line,arc,line,arc. Then create a new Region object by using the above Graphics ...Show All
Visual Studio Tools for Office Pre-requisites and Office SKUs
We are working on a POC for one of our clients. The client also tried to install and run VSTO 2005 but is receiving the error message about needing to install SP1 and/or vstor.exe. After some research here on the forum and Google Groups, we are pretty sure this is because he has Office 2003 Standard and not Office 2003 Pro. Can someone please point me to published information @ Microsoft about accurate pre-requisites for (1) developing VSTO 2 ...Show All