Iain M's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How long a computer is on, and writing after some text

  Well this is a two Q topic. First i want to know if there is any code for getting the time for how long the computer has been on Comptime.. Second how can i input text after some text in textbox For instance button1.click inputs the text "you" into textbox1.text But if the textbox1.text already has some text like "how are" then when button1 is clicked text should be input after "how are" and the text should be "how are you"   ...Show All

• Windows Forms Left pane problem -- newbie question

  Just got IssueVision run and took a glimpse into the sourcecode. I am curious to find that the left pane's dock property is set to none. How come it can move with the splitter if the dock property is not set Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) List

  I followed the code from one of the LINQ lesson showing how to retrieve information from the List object as follow: ...... List products = GetProductList(); ........ static List GetProductList() {   List productList = new List   {     { ProductID = 1 , ProductName = "Chai" , Category =   "Beverages" , UnitPrice = 18.0000M , UnitsInStock = 39 },     .....   } } The compiler retur ...Show All

• SQL Server Commisions

  Has anyone implimented mult-level comissions, using parnet-child hiarchies If so, could you point me in some directions of articles and/or approaches. Thanks in advance, Mardo ...Show All

• SQL Server Parameters in URL - Problem

  Hi, I am new to Reporting services and have managed to create some reports. I want to pass some parameters in the URL to the report. I know how to do this but some parameters are not passing to the parameter boxes. They are clearly displayed in the URL but are not populating the boxes. I have one report done before i came and this used to work but now it doesnt work. Any ideas Matt Hi Matt ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005 Embedded Compact Framework 2 Deployment

  Typically when developing for an Windows CE device such as a PDA you can use activesync  to deploy the app and the version of .NET CF if its not available. Situation: Using Platform Builder CE5 have created an image (with .NET CF 1 as in the catalog).  Given connectivity problems I often just build my  CF apps to the FlatRelease directory and can then run on the device (OS running in debug mode) from there, or ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What does MS use for Requirements Management?

  I know that Microsoft is dogfooding VSTS, but what are you using for requirements management I have seen on these forums multiple posts about Caliber RM for Team System and most say that if you are really serious about requirements, you won't use VSTS alone. I highly doubt MS is using Caliber for their requirements management, but I guess pigs do fly from time to time. When VSTS was used to build VSTS, did you just use scenarios to capture the r ...Show All

• SQL Server Failed to access IIS metabase

  I installed Report Services 2005 on XP Pro, and when trying to access the http://localhost/Reports directory, I receive this error: The process account used to run ASP.NET must have read access to the IIS metabase (e.g. IIS://servername/W3SVC). For information on modifying metabase permissions, please see http://support.microsoft.com/ kbid=267904 . I ran the aspnet_regiis –ga <WindowsUserAccount> , still nothing.  I went in to ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Uninstalling LINQ Preview from VS Beta 2

  I made the mistake of uninstalling the LINQ Preview from Add/Remove Programs before running that "Uninstall Visual Studio IDE Support" file, so VS still gives me warnings whenever I start it. I read another post suggesting to download the preview again and install it to get those files.. but MS has taken down the download for LINQ Preview that works with Beta 2. Now they only have one for the RTM release (whatever that is). I can install that o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting Data from Excel Spreadsheet to Populate TextBox Controls on Form

  I just coded a functionality in my program that with a click of a button pulls up Excel, takes all values as strings and populates the spreadsheet in a particular format, with column names, and even makes a line chart out of two column's data. This was pretty hard to find out how to do but after fits and starts it finally works great. My question now is... I'd like to go in the reverse direction - to open a particular spreadsheet (which will ...Show All

• SQL Server Slowly Changing Dimension question

  Hi. I am using the Slowly Changing Dimension Transformation to move data from oracle database into sql server 2005 and it's working fine using the historical data. i'm just confused about something: if i delete a record from the oracle source table it will remain in the destination table without being deleted or marked that it is expired. whereas i need it to be deleted. could someone pls advise me how to solve it thanks for your ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions problem in accessing registration benefits

  Hi, I recently registered visual basic express edition 2005 but the site but the site giving registration benefits is giving and error message while opening ... how i fix this problem Abid Ali ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Setting ASP.NET Configuration in IIS

  hi, im currently working in setup and deployment project using custom installation with System.Configuration.Install; a have already created several custom installation classes, but i have one problem. my deployment includes 2 different versions of .NET which is 1.1 and 2.0. i have created everything including modification of web.config, installation of databases, and Creating Website, Virtual Directory and Application Pool ...Show All

• SQL Server Source and Target - Both Behind Firewall using NAT

  In this situation do I need a proxy or forwarder at both ends to prevent connection issues Are there plans to handle this in future SSSB upgrades. Thanks. Currently it starts at about 4 seconds and then doubles after each retry until it reaches about a minute.  There's nothing in what you have said so far that would indicate that you were getting timeouts but if you were, you could see them in the profiler t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA1812 Problem with Resource Files

  Any resource file seems to generate error CA1812 on the auto-generated code.  I have seen this with C# Windows Forms apps, and with C# Web Sites. Is this a false positive   I'm unsure how to make Visual Studio generate code that fxCop is happy with. I've experienced this one myself. This is because the autogenerated code outputs an internal constructor. The fix of course would to be change t ...Show All