Chrismar's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Formatter used in Activity.Save

  What formatter is is used in the virtual Save method exposed by the Activity class /jonas The BinaryFormatter is used by default, but there is also an overload to which you can pass your own formatter. ...Show All

• Windows Forms App fails to install on one machine but ok on others.

  I have a user who has installed my app on his laptop with no problems but it fails to install on his desktop with the following: ERROR SUMMARY Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log. * Activation of C:\Documents and Settings\John C\Desktop\Downloads\Lees-Bingo\Ver 3.2\Lees Bingo.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected: + The referenced assembly is not installed on your system. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B3) He's using WinXP Pro and has the .NET framework installed. It installs fine on my machines running XP Home. Anyone have any ideas what's ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can I set a timeout duration when connect to a wcf service?

  In my demo I connect to a wrong service endpoint to test the client exception. When I connect to the service for the first time, the client connects for a relatively long time before it returns a error message. But when I try to connect again and again, it then returns error message immediately. So whether can I set the timeout , say 60 seconds, so that the connection can return error in a fixed duration Thank The connection timeouts are defined in the service endpoint's Binding information. You can set it in configuration by defining a BindingConfiguration for your client: < client > < endpoint name = " ...Show All

• SQL Server Authentication in Management Studio

  Hi, I'm attempting to connect to a SQL Server 2005 instance on a Windows 2003 server remotely with Management Studio on a Windows XP box. SQL Server is set to use Windows Authentication. If I select Windows Authentication as the authentication method in Management Studio, the 'user name' field is greyed-out and locked to my current XP user name, which is no good for connecting to the server. Why is this happening and how can I change the user name and password to that of an actual account on the server TIA, CraigyBoop You can’t switch that for integrated security, as "integrated" sec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I create a new X by Y pixel window with no toolbar, menu, etc in VWD?

  How do I create a new X by Y pixel window with no toolbar, menu, etc in VWD All I want is the basic blue bar with the title, close box, minimize, maximize icons and functionality. I know I could use the Javascript option, but if I do it creates a NEW window and I will have to recreate everything (like ... icons, tooltips, context menus, etc) in Java and that is not the solution that I am looking for. I have a "default.aspx" and I would like to execute "icons.aspx" with everything that is already there in a new X by Y pixel window with no toolbar, menu, etc in VWD and a basic blue bar with the title, close box, minimize, maximize icons ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) The long term goal of Cider vs.XAML

  Is the long term goal of Cider to replace direct XAML editing Or is XAML too rich to be fully expressed by Cider Steve Hi Steve, We don't pretend that we'll ever achieve designer coverage for the full fidelity and expressiveness of XAML, nor do we believe it's interesting to do so. We do, however, want to make sure that useful capabilities and constructs of WPF are exposed in the designer. One of Cider's goals is to elminate the need to understand, edit, and troubleshoot XAML for certain scenarios . So for example, we'll have some basic things covered in the first release, e.g. control creation, ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Could I use WWF in such scenario?

  In many business application, some database records should be viewed and modified by many person by sequence. In general, at anytime there should be only one person to modify the record, after this person "commit" his modification, another person could go on to modify the record (on another machine in the network) and when the record is being modified, other person could only view the record. Sometimes the record may be withdrawn or rollbacked to previous node in the workflow and such rollback should be logged. A typical scenario is bug tracking application, or order form process system. I am wondering if I could use WWF in s ...Show All

• SQL Server GUID paramerters

  hi i am Mehmet Metin. my questions: i am preparing to Report on SQL Server 2000. And i am making SubReport But SubReport and Main Report or MAster and Details Raport's parameters is GUID  number consequently i am cannot raporting Everyone helping to me For GUID paramerters Thanks Treat the Guids as string report parameters. Note: you can call .ToString() on the Guid object and there is a Guid constructor that converts a string back to a Guid. -- Robert ...Show All

• SQL Server deploying packages

  Error: 0xC0202009 at Package, Connection manager "Presup Dev sql_prov": An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E4D. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E4D Description: "Communication link failure". An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E4D Description: "TCP Provider: Se ha forzado la interrupcion de una conexion existente por el host remoto. WTF ·%$·&$%%& i`m sure my connections are ok,, cause i prevoiusly checked them, the problem occurs when deploying the package.. i ...Show All

• .NET Development can framework 2.0 be removed?

      hello i am writing on behalf of my friend whom have problems with her her pc. she been put mircosoft office cd n download etc  then later it start cos problems with framework 2.0   this wat comes up with: framework 2.0 files in C:/WINDOWS/mircosoft.NET./framework/2.0  is this right   Yes, you can remove .Net Framework 2.0 from your Add/Remove Programs tool in Control Panel. Whatever apps. that rely on this version will not work, however. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Creating templated workflows

  Not sure the best way to go about this is but I assume it's possible. I want to let the user (admin of an app) build workflows themselves in an application. And then store them as templates. So when a user submits a document (say an InfoPath form), they can choose which workflow to apply it to. Follow me There are no specifics here, I just some pointers on techniques on how to handle this. I assume you would build "high level" activities to expose to the user who is building the app Something like "Manager Review". But how would you save these workflows templates off to a store, and then kick them off dynamically ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies NOW AVAILABLE: All new Windows Desktop Search Administrator Guide!

  Hi, Unfortunately the administrative templates are not availble on the webpage ... It's a tool for home user, isn' it I want my users to put their document (the company's one) on my server. Therefor I redirected their "my document". Why the hell, would I want hundreds of people indexing locally "my servers" And when my users are roaming, no network search Kidding Would be great though, if I could use an index centrally created by indexing services. Would be great, if I could remove the internet button, since all my users are not allowed to use internet. Regards Th PAQUOT ...Show All

• SQL Server Display only the latest two consecutive years?

  Hi all, I have a Matrix with several static rows of financial information with a column group that groups the information by date:                     01.02.04                    12.09.03 Dividend         455,789                     346,098 Profit           &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS and named instance of analysis server

  Can TFS access analysis server if it is a named instance if so is there any documentation on this cause I am told that it has to be default instance for analysis server... The reason I ask is we have 2000 and 2005 on a server and we need both versions of analysis server. Thanks much. Refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/03/29/sql_named_instance.aspx Swamy ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control the size of the Context Menu Popup?

  I have a context menu: m_AddRowContextMenu = New DMS.ToolBox.ContextMenuStrip() Add some Items (200 maybe...): For i As Integer = 0 To 200 m_AddRowContextMenu.Items.Add("Item" & i.ToString() ) Next Show the context Menu: m_AddRowContextMenu.Show(Me, mousePoint) The popup is HUGE! I want to show about 20 Items, with scrolling. I can't figure out how to change the size of the popup. It makes itself whatever size it wants. How can I set this programatically Thanks, Sean I don't see the benefit of showing huge ContextMenu. At any rate, isn't window ...Show All