RBecker's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Save As on a Project Throws "The parameter is incorrect"

  Hi, I don't know if this is a known issue, but if I try to call "Save MyProject1 As..." from the File menu of VS2005 on a project created with the MyProject sample of the VSIP SDK, I get an     "The operation could not be completed. The parameter is incorrect." error message. My own project type (not based on MPF) behaves the same. Does somebody know what causes this problem Br,    Gaspar Hi Don, You' ...Show All

• Visual Basic Function Module for Registry Programming

  Can somebody help on whats the code of the function module for Registry Programming for VB2005. In Visual Basic 6.0, The function can easily be seen in the API Viewer but where can I find it in VB2005 The code you posted writes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. My code writes to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, which didn't require any code changes going from 1.1 to 2.0. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activity Property values not available at runtime

  I am currently experimenting with a custom activity. We have a number of business rule objects which implement various, relatively complex data validation rules. The custom activity allows these business rule objects to be assigned to the activity and for parameters to be assigned as part of a workflow that links together a number of these business rule classes into a sequential [potentially brancing] workflow. So I basically have: BRActivity ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting on an Analysis Services data cube

  Hello, The problem I am having is I am trying to report on an Analysis Services data cube. I connect fine but for some reason the "MDX query designer" does not appear as an option for creating the query for this data source. Is there a component of SQL 2000 or visual studio I am missing Any help Would be great Thank you One good starting point might be this link: http://www.micr ...Show All

• Visual C# TCP send formatted messages

  hi,,, while i was making some tcp server client applications i found my messages sometimes wree bunching up,, and i have some snsitive data that causes errors if my data is corrupted,, so i have read in some places that is good when u sedn a tcp message to di it this way: [type][lenght][data] but,,,, how can i do it ... and then how to read it when i receive it ....... thx mig16 I don't know what exactly is ha ...Show All

• .NET Development FtpWebRequest method=Create Directory problem with "#" in the directory name.

  When i try to create a directory on a server with FTPWEBREQUEST with a # character in the directory name it only creates the directory name up until the # character. For example if i try to create the directory "C# Express" only "C" gets created on the server. I if send "C++ Express" it creates "C++ Express" on the server. I'm going to check into other characters that are valid for a directory nam ...Show All

• Visual C# How to assign 4 bytes of float to byte array

  I need to assign each of the four bytes of a float type variable to four bytes of a byte array. Can someone suggest a way to do this In essence I would like to do this: byte_array[0] = float_byte1 byte_array[1] = float_byte2 byte_array[2] = float_byte3 byte_array[3] = float_byte4   This array will be sent via a USB transaction. On the other end I will need to re-assemble the float type variable... In ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Serial port support

  I am trying to attach the serial port 1 of the emulator to the GPS receiver connected to my desktop. I can either use USB or Bluetooth GPS receivers, and they work fine on the desktop. However I can't seem to get it to work on the emulator USB: setup works (can select port) but no data is transmitted Bluetooth: COMport cannot be opened, setup fails. Are you saying that only plain old serial GPS receivers connected to COM1 on the desktop a ...Show All

• .NET Development System.AccessViolationException in .NET 2.0 ServiceBase sample

  Hi I am trying to get the sample code at   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5xh5cfw0(en-US,VS.80).aspx up and running, but  get an AccessViolationException. The exception occurs  where a call is made to [DllImport("ADVAPI32.DLL", EntryPoint = "SetServiceStatus")]         public static extern bool SetServiceStatus(             & ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid Column ?

  I have a datasource assigned to datagrid that has 5 columns. I want the last column not to be visible to users. How is this done Datagrid.Column(4).visible = False Thats what I want to do. Whats the command Cant seem to find it. Help Deasun ...Show All

• Visual Studio SQL Server Express that includes a limited edition of Report Server?

  Anyone know where I can find more information about a limited edition of Report Server for SQL Express I saw a note to this at the bottom of Rajeev Karunakaran's site at www.gotreportviewer.com . http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/reporting/rsfeatures.mspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Executing password protected packages

  Hi - I have a master package that executes a series of other packages. Each of these 'sub' packages has the security property Encryption Level set to 'EncryptSensitiveWithPassword'. The master package has a series of file connections in the Connection Manager, one for each sub package, in which the password of the corresponding sub package is provided. When I run the master package in BIDS (in interactive mode) it opens each of the sub pac ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot delete a scheduled job

  when I try to delete a scheduled job I just get an error. I'm using the administrator account. Any ideas I think you need to delete the plan (under Management > Management Plans) instead of deleting jobs associated with this plan. But I'm no expert in maintenance plans, you may try Sql Server Tools forum - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=84&SiteID=1 for Database Maintenance questions. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Seperate SQL Server instance needed for VSTS in RTM

  Will a seperate instance of SQL server be required for VSTS when it is released, or could other databases run on the same instance Other DB's can run on the same instance. Right now (for upcoming beta) we also have WSS pointing to the same DB.  Also Report Server is on the same instance. ...Show All

• .NET Development Enterprise Library and BLOB/Image field

  Greetings, Firstly let me apologise for cross posting. I am desperate for help. I am using Visual C# 2005 Express and the Enterprise Library for version 2.0 of the .NET framework. I am having tremendous problems trying to store data into an "Image" field in a SQL Server database. I am using the AddInParameter method but can find no way of adding this field type. When I use the DbType.Object type I get an exception thrown as the data I ...Show All