Alan Hsiao's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums MSN Search Developer Site Error.

  I have been trying to access the msn search dev site all day to get an appid so that I can try out the api and I keep getting the same error: The operation failed. Please try again later. Has anyone else been having this problem Thanks, sn http://search.msn.com/developer/ Hi/Hola ansaria, I wrote to MSN Search Manager in Spain with better luck than you. He has replied very quickly with the solution: The prob ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Testing using Anthem (ajax)

  I am using web tests within team system and I am trying to record a test on pages which uses Anthem (ajax similar to Atlas) - the teste arent recording the ajax and I have attempted to use fiddler to record the traffic and have managed to do this, however when I try to manually add the steps in I am getting an issus wheer the test cannot find one of the anthem controls. WebTestRequest request2 = new WebTestRequest ( http://localhost/Def ...Show All

• Windows Forms background colour of a button's image

  hi forum, Although I have been some years programming, I am a newbie in the Windows Forms world.   Well, I would like to put an image in each button of my application.  I have drawn the images (without background) with photoshop.  My  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Re-newbie question (don't laugh!) for DataGridView

  Ok, promise not to laugh! It's been several YEARS since I have programmed in VB but am ready to start anew! I'm trying to convert an Access project that works great (but is VERY SLOW) into VB 2005. It's very basic! Question...I am using an Access database to store student ids needed for my project. I am showing the table (one column, student id) in a datagridview. The display works beautifully and the table shows the entered values between fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Evaluation Version of Load Test Agent

  We are trying to determine if the Load Test Agent will work in our environment, however I can't seem to find an evaluation version, and the info on the website is very limited. I've seen the question asked before, but with no answer. Is there and Evaluation version of the Load Test Agent It would really help us to understand how to plan our load test environment. Thanks Nick, First of all sorry about the ...Show All

• .NET Development OleDbCommand.ExecuteNonQuery "Insert Into Select From"

  Hello, I am working with OleDb to perform a bulk insert from a temporary table to permanent database table, both of which belong to the same database. I am wanting to use "INSERT INTO <permanent_table> SELECT * FROM <temp_table>". The query I run in MS Access to perform this bulk load does process correctly, but not in code using OleDb. After properly setting up my OleDbConnection object, opening it, and properly ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project permissions

  I've created a new project and added windows users to the TFS project groups (contributer & project admins) but users (actually only 1 of them at the moment) get's a message when opening the project about not having any rights. Is there any special tricks to do this I'm using B2 on a single server install. Thanks I think there is something that refreshes/resync's the accounts.  I still get the issue with new accoun ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binding comboBoxes and TextBoxes on a relation

  Hi everyone, I’m developing an application where I have a comboBox and several textboxes bound to the same dataSource. The comboBox is bound to a parent table whereas the textboxes ate bound to the child table. Initially I set the index in the comboBox to -1 so that the comboBox doesn’t display anything in my form. This works fine. However, the texBoxes still display the values related to the index 0. I’ve tried to set the posi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Newbie to VSTO

  Hi I want to build an Outlook add-in with VSTO 2005 (C#) that will add a toolbar to Outlook. This button will call a program that will search for XML attachments in the current open mail message and then insert that data into a SQL database. Which is the best place to start documenting for this Or some code samples I find only demos for Excel or Word and for sending messages with Outlook. Thank's -- Sorin Sandu Romania Sorin, ...Show All

• SQL Server How to customize my own portal with RS Portal options

  We have an Enterprise portal and use RS to publish reports. We would like to create a sub menu with some administration topics of RS. For example, how can we directly call the data driven subscription tab without using the RS menu. Does it exist RS object model Georges ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with Lexmark printer/driver ?

  The program I'm working on allows the user to do some printing. It works fine with my Epson R220. One of my users is having problems with his new Lexmark Z617 (print preview is blank except for 1 black pixel in the centre and page setup dialog is blank!) but it works fine with his old Epson 600. I installed the Lexmark driver and tried my software. I got the same results as my user ie. no good. I installed several other printer drivers and m ...Show All

• Visual Basic Storing a form in a dll

  In my project I have four forms. Is there a way to store a form in a dll file instead of storing it in the exe file. I want to be able to call the form to show just like I would normally. If there are any links on how to do this in vb.net that would be great also. Thanks. Start a new project as an ActiveX DLL and put the forms into it. Compile it, then create a new project and include the DLL you used as a reference. You can then create ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error Message

  I'm currently working for a engineering company and it is my first time using visual basic. This piece of code was written by another person and i must fix the problem within the code. If anybody can find it, it would be really thankful. Here's the code (This is one section of the whole code, one class): Sub CheckSummerWinter() 'Check to see if Summer/Winter selection changed 'Remove protection Passwrd = "ESGtrcCv" & Trim ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XamlReader.Load error

  Hello! I’m trying to import XAML from files to my project.. however it f-cks when I’m trying to convert the XamlReader to an UIElement. My code is as follows: ( cheers sheva!) private void loadXaml() { StringReader stringReader = null ; XmlTextReader xmlReader = null ; string xamlDocument = "c:\temp\test.xaml" ; try { stringReader = new StringReader (xamlDocument); xmlReader = new XmlTextReader (string ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Fundamental Graphics.

  Hello. I'm aware this question likely comes up frequently, but I don't want the answer "Use DirectX". - That's not really what I'm looking for. A friend of mine learned C++ using Borland's ancient Turbo C++ compiler - and it, of course, had a ton of specialised functions, like a gotoxy(x,y) for co-ordinate placement in the console window for text output, and things along those lines. However, he learned graphics the hard way. ...Show All