Mark Toth's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Work Item Schema

  Hi Is there any predefined XML schema for work item definition Regards Atul Sureka Yes, there is. It's in the Visual Studio 2005 SDK and will soon be available (along with the rest of the process template schemas) for download from Microsoft Downloads. ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there an easy way to get the name of the style sheet out of an XMLDocument?

  I want to get the name of a style sheet that is defined in some xml code. I have come up with the following solution in Visual Basic 2005, but I guess there should be a much easier and cleaner way to do this. Does anyone know how My xml file starts with the following code: < xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" > < xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="sheet.xsl" > Below is the function that I created. It works but that's only because I know that the xml will always contain the  two lines above. Function getXmlStyleSheet( ByVal xmlData) As String Const NODENAME As String = "xml-styles ...Show All

• SQL Server Iterative Calculations Analysis Server 2000

  Hi all I'm looking for some help on an iterative cell calculation. I read somewhere that this can be done using a combination of the calculation pass value and calculation pass depth. I'm still having trouble though. The easiest way of explaining this is to use an example. Sales reps get incentives based on profit, however incentives affect expenses which in turn affects profits. Using a starting income statement with no incentive about I need to go through about 20 iterations to come an answer. So basically we have the following lines - (Abridged version ) Income - 10000 Other Expenses - 5000 Incentives = ( Profit * 0.025 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development I have a dream... Printing Remotely <Pls Read>

  I'm looking to find a way to remote generate reports (via web service or other) on a server, specify the parameters for the report to use, as well as a print queue to which that report should be directed. Does such a system exist, has anyone used it   What printing solution do you use   Thanks.   InquiringMinds wrote: I'm looking to find a way to remote generate reports (via web service or other) on a server, specify the parameters for the report to use, as well as a print queue to which that report should be directed. Does such a system exist, has anyone used it   What printing solution do you use ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Regular expressions SQL replacement

  Is there a way to use LINQ technology to search in a text string Regular expressions are in my opinion not very intuitive. Something along the lines of From astring Select WORDS where WORD like '%hello%' or From astring Select WORDS where WORD startswith '<' AND WORD endswith '>' WORD being a special keyword I suppose there could be other keywords such as SENTENCE or NUMBER not all words are space seperated. It might be a full stop , comma or tab. I am thinking more along the lines of a proper parser. ...Show All

• .NET Development Getting files from the remote server

  I have the following network set up. I have a web server (IIS6) running .Net web application. On a remote computer I have a folder with files required by this application. This folder on remote machine is mapped on IIS machine as a network drive Y: After login in onto IIS server with personal domain account I am able to copy files between IIS machine local drives and network drive Y: manually through windows interface. To do this I do need to provide remote server credentials 1 st time I connect to Y: network drive. All the consequent disk operations do not require re-supplying credentials. However trying ...Show All

• .NET Development Checking if I'm online

  Hello there! This is my 1st post here and I'd like to greet all people here and ones that are yet to come! I hope we will cooperate just fine. For start, I have a question: I'm making a project with Visual Studio .NET. It is a counter that counts time spent online. (most people in Croatia still use dial-up networking, including me) I'm doing the code in C++. I was wondering how can I check if I have connected to Internet. Another think (I think that would be better): Can I set it so that when I connect to Internet, I send information of establishing connection to my program (if program is not ran, it runs the program first). Is this possi ...Show All

• SQL Server replmerg.exe

  Hello All, I am having problems with my merge replication job. I have recently upgraded sql server on of my test server from 2000 to 2005. Ever since I couldn't get this job to run. I keep getting the following error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date        11/30/2005 2:57:00 PM Log        Job History (TEST_Merge_Sync) Step ID        6 Server        TEST Job Name        TEST_Merge_Sync Step Name      &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Competitive upgrade license

  If we upgrade from a competitive project, are we still entitled to use the competitive product The license is a little vague. Legal got back to me. The End User License Agreement only had verbage concerning microsoft software. We also don't do competitive licenses much anymore at MS so my legal contact couldn't find any information on it. There is no verbage preventing you from using the competitive product. ...Show All

• .NET Development Hashtable breaking serialization framework

  I am trying to implement a custom formatter for my own needs. The implementation is fairly advanced (see PartialFormatter.cs ), but I ended up encountering an another problem with the .Net framework: it seems that the Hastable s are breaking the serialization framework (have a look at the hashtable rotor code ). I have two questions about this: How I am supposed to (de)serialize those Hashtable Is this bug going to be fixed in .Net 2.0 Thanks in advance, Joannes After digging a little bit further, I discovered the IDeserializationCallback . So basically, Hashtable are consistent with the serialization ...Show All

• Visual Studio "Report is being generated" message not showing

  I am retreiving data from Oracle and has about 10 parameters. The report renders ok, but there is no wait message and the nice little green swirl graphic! Any idea Also, how do I show the Print button I set it to true, both declaratively and programmatically to no avail. Thanks! Thanks, Brian. I think that's probably what happens. It does take a while to get the data, and I usually don't watch it as it processes. Thanks again for your help! ...Show All

• SQL Server error changing subscription properties

  Hi Made a change to the publisher security parameters, tried to save and got the following message: "An error occurred saving the changes to the subscription. Additional information. "Value" is longer than 128 that it should not exceed. Parameter name: value (Microsoft.sqlserver.rmo) Doesn't make much sense to me. Tried to change it back and all I get is this error (i had set the userid to domain/userid which was obviously an error). Thanks for all info you provided. If I can reproduce the issue in the future, I will let you know as well.   -Yunjing ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Switch ... case workflow

  Is there any way to visualize switch ... case workflow as it is in case of IF statement Is switch() and case going to be in next version of Workflow Foundation peter Peter, There is currently no built-in switch activity, but you could always create your own custom switch/case activity. I'll also log your request for consideration in future releases - thanks for the feedback! Arjun ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to use DEBUGMSG macro?

  Hi, What is the TRACE like method for Smartphone In debugging process I want ot put some message to Output window, is that DEBUGMSG macro is appropriate one In order to use that macro, what kind of header file I should include I included the dbgapi.h file, but it doesn't work. So how to use this kind of trace method Thanks. Well, there is nothing wrong with your code. The problem is that Windows CE OS seams to ignore the breakpoint exception when there is no debugger attached to the process. I see two option to solve this issue. a) Show a message box telling to attach the debugger to this proc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Non-administrator user and Misc

  hello few questions from a newbie trying to use MSI3.1 on Windows 2003 SP1 - can users without administrator privilege install MSI package where can I set this up - can users without adminstrator privileges install in C:\Program Files - can I install two copies of same application (same productversion) on a given system eg. install the same project.msi twice into C:\project1 and C:\project2 appreciate responses and/or pointers thanks in advance! Greetings, Generally user can install MSI package even without administrative privileges. There is a phase of installation call ...Show All