soumi's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Timeout expires when deploying assemblies in SQL Server 2005 June CTP

  I am encountering a timeout expired error when deploying a .NET assembly in SQL Server 2005 using Visual Studio.NET.  I already enabled SQL Server for CLR.  Whenever I run the CREATE ASSEMBLY command in SQL Management Studio, my query just ends up executing without stopping. Can anybody help Milind Lele - MSFT wrote: Can you please change the time out value from Tools->Options->Database Tools->Query and View Design ...Show All

• .NET Development Can't get a new table into my dataset

  Can't get a new table into my dataset I created a new table Person in my Access 2003 database.  However, I can't get it into my dataset. I tried refresh, the designer, and confiqure with the wizard, however the table Person doesn't appear. Is this a bug Or am I just being an idiot, as usual dennist Paul, <g> A copy of the .mdb was in the body of the project.  How I missed it I don't know. I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help Broken Help Editing Macros in VS 2005 Beta2

  I have found the fix that takes care of the broken help with the VS2005 Beta2 installation.  However, I still have broken help if I try to use help while I'm in the macro editor.  Does anyone know of a fix for this further problem Thanks A late follow up that may be of interest. I later attempted to install the SQL Server 2005 CTP.  This required me to uninstall the .Net 2.0 framework that VS had installed.  Needle ...Show All

• Windows Forms Connection String "Best Practice"

  A recent post inquired whether or not a database connection string can be stored in the application settings in the app's config file.  Yes, this can be done.  But I'd like to know, is this the best approach for storing connection strings, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Nox invasion

  Hi, I was just wondering what type of animal, and why the Nox 3.6 has totally invaded my ecosystem. Thanks  Well I am not sure about this, what I would really like to see is an advanced terrarium and a beginner terrarium. but& ...Show All

• SQL Server Changes not replicated to subscriber

  Hi, I hope you can help me with this. I am setting up a tranasctional publication with updateable subscriptions using: use [LIMS_PUBLISHER_TEST] exec sp_replicationdboption @dbname = N'LIMS_PUBLISHER_TEST', @optname = N'publish', @value = N'true' GO -- Adding the transactional publication use [LIMS_PUBLISHER_TEST] exec sp_addpublication @publication = N'LIMS_PUBLISHER_TEST', @description = N'Transactional publication with updatable subscription ...Show All

• Visual C# Why updating datarow cause myComboBox_Selected

  I have a ComboBox binded to a field of a DataTable which have one row only.  The ComboBox has it SelectedIndexChanged() event handler.  When I update another field of the row, it raise the SelectedIndexChanged event, why Thanks. Thanks for the reply.  Setting a flag is a good idea.  But I wonder why ComboBox.SelectedIndexChanged() will be called since the field I updated is "CustomerID" while the Combobox is binded to fi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System test multiple implementations of same interface

  Hi all, I have two different implementations for the same interface. Now of course, I would not want to implement the same unit tests twice, but rather test against the interface and use thsi tests on both implementation. However, the assistant for creating tests only allows to create tests on concrete classes. I tried to create a base test class, defining all tests and allowing subclasses to set a member to the type I want to test. However, th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is it possible to use two OLEDB datasources In this Way?

  I am wondering if its possible to do something like what I have in my adaptor= line below (which doesn't work at the moment). All I am really trying to do is come up with a quick and dirty way to pull a few rows out of one database/table and pop them into another database/table: Dim constr As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\Media\Databases\Configurator.mdb" con = New OleDbConnection(constr) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Get target of shortcut

  I was wondering how I would be able to get & set the target file of a  shortcut (.lnk file).  Also, is it possible to programatically create new shorcuts   Thanks... The reply's a little late. Found the question interesting though & I had no idea about it either until I remembered some VBScript I saw a long time ago. My solution's not the best but it's all I got. Anyway, I managed t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. about the mouse input in sampleframework

  Hi all, Is there any way to know the location of the mouse and show the mouse location on the screen from time to time What should I do if I draw a texture in the sampleframework, and when the user clicks the mouse button at the texture, the samplework takes some actions immediately Should I need to calculate the boundary of the texture and then check whether the mouse is inside the boundary Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using parameters in Local Mode

  Hello there. I am using Visual studio 2005 and am trying to create a report with parameters. The report gets the data from a access 2003 database. Basically what happens is I have a reportviewer on my form. After the report runs, I have a textbox where a person can enter a date. When I run the project I get an error in my code that says "InvalidCastException was unhandled. Unable to cast object of type 'microsoft.winforms.reportparamet ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to change cell font in a DataGridView control?

  My task is to display a number of fonts in a list. This list will be scrollable, and each font name will be shown in its own font face. On my form, I have two DataGridView controls. The first DataGridView gets a list of all system fonts and their filenames (well, just the font names for now, as I cannot find how to display the filenames! - if anyone knows, that would help!) and the second DataGridView displays the list of font names again, but f ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Syntax

  Hi, Does anyone know of the C# alternative to VB.NET 'with' syntax ie VB.NET... with obj_Widget    .name = "widget1"    .height = 10    .width = 20 end with instead of C#... obj_Widget.name = "widget1"; obj_Widget.height = 10; obj_Widget.width = 20; 'With' appears more compact and concise considering long object names (with full namespace declaration). Thanks Richard White ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. The COM-based CORE engine (a lot of questions)

  I'd like to discuss a creation of the core engine for our future projects. I chose this forum not accidentally, I hope that professionals (especially from Microsoft) will help me in my questions. First, I'll say a few words about the core engine. It provides system, input, video and audio core techniques. Also, it has a pluggable system. The main COMponent 'MWCore' (from 'MWCore.dll' server) is only the bridge which connects the parts listed ...Show All