services

What is the best way of working with Services in a VB.NET application?

I'm using VB 9 (VS2008). I would like to know how to do the control Windows Services through an Windows Forms application. I want to know: How to determine the status of a service? How to change the Startup type of the service? How to start, stop, pause and resume a service? Thank you! ...

Reporting Services Client side

I need to compose a report using multiple subreports, "chained" together at runtime in a C# Forms project. The subreports each represent a subtest of a product, and the data needs special formatting to make sense to the report users ( Special graphs, sensible column names with/without engineering details etc ) I Imagine that every Subr...

SQL Server Reporting Services Pricing

I am trying to understand the pricing requirements for a client to deploy reporting services reports to the web. Do they have to buy any sort of special Report Server license in order to deploy reports, or is that included in the standard versions of SQL 2005? ...

RFC with implementing a modular architecture

Looking for opinions on the modularization of web applications. Already most applications regardless of language have a backend DB and support tie-ins with their respective web application server (Apache, IIS, Lighttp, etc ) but a lot of developers I've dealt with have problems coming to terms with using Memcached or anything outside of...

SQL Query make columns results into rows

I'm using reporting services to make a report graph. However my data looks like this: Table1 C01 C02 C03 C04 1 2 3 4 I need to do a sql query to return data that looks like this: Any_Col_name 1 2 3 4 I'm using MS Reporting Services with a Oracle DB. I cannot restructure the table. ...

Web service reponse encoding issue

Hello everyone, I am developing a Web Services based on ASP.Net asmx web service. The server end will response byte[] to client encoded in UTF-8, and client to convert the byte[] to string. My confusion is, the England pound character at server side (I dump just before the Http response is wrote, and the character at server side is cor...

Installing a Windows Service - No error but it isn't in Service Control Manager

I've created a windows service in c# and I'm trying to install it for debug using the installutil as recommended here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sd8zc8ha.aspx The installutil says Install completed. However, nothing appears in the service control manager. I've tried this on Server 2008 and XP with the same result. Any id...

PostMessage in service applications

There is a problem I am unable to solve. I created two service applications in Delphi and tried to post messages within them. Of course, there are no windows in such applications and PostMessage needs a window handle parameter to send a message. Therefore, I created a window handle using the AllocateHWnd(MyMethod: TWndMethod) function ...

In domain-driven design, would it be a violation of DDD to put calls to other objects' repostiories in a domain object?

I'm currently refactoring some code on a project that is wrapping up, and I ended up putting a lot of business logic into service classes rather than in the domain objects. At this point most of the domain objects are data containers only. I had decided to write most of the business logic in service objects, and refactor everything aft...

asmx .net 2.0 web service

i created a web service, upload it to my site on a remote server. i tried to browse it but i cant, i also tried to add web reference to his adress through vs08 but the same problem happened there. ...

WS-* standard for telling a service that I do or don't want specific optional parts of an XSD

Hi Guys I have an XSD which describes the data that is going to be sent back in response to a request. For example, my service may be focused on requesting client details. The XSD in question describes what data items are going to be sent back and one of these data items is the details of the organisation that the client works for. In th...

How to include additional compiler arguments when using mxmlc ant task?

Flex Builder allows additional compiler arguments to be set in the compiler options, under properties. It sets the argument; -services ".../services-config.xml" Is there a way to set the same argument when using the ant task mxmlc? Cheers, Mike ...

SQL Analysis Services - Dimension attributes with a "many" cardinality

I am creating a cube with the following tables: Customer CustomerID, Name Customer Rep CustomerID, RepID Rep RepID, Name The important thing here is that there is a many to many relationship between Reps and Customers. I want to be able to ask the question "How much sales for customers working with rep 'A'?" In the data source view...

How to match SOAP responses to the schema

Hi I am trying to evaluate a web service. I am using the Axis API to create the requests. I send requests with some attacks, and then want to validate the obtained response to the response schema. I don't have much idea as to how can I achieve this. Can some one help me to achieve this, or give me some pointers that would give me some id...

Reporting Services - Problem Comparing Group Totals

I have the following problem in Reporting Services. My table looks like this: Table Header Group 1 Header ( system ) Group 2 Header ( group number ) data Group 2 Group Footer The results are: SysBob 1 50 2 60 Note that the detail line is actual suppressed until triggered. What I want to do is ma...

Finding duplicate records in SQL based on combination of fields

I have a project where a significant piece of the pie will be to identify where a record is duplicated in the database (Sql Server 2005). I know the obvious ways to find a duplicate record. However, in this case, we want to be fairly smart about the process. The table(s) will contain information about a prospective customer(lead). Th...

ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ

Good Day, I have C# code to populate a dropdown list in Silverlight which works fine except when there are duplicates. I think because IEnumerable is a collection, it filters out duplicates. How would I code my LINQ query to accept duplicates? My Sample Data looks like: Code => CodeName FGI      Field General Initiative SRI      Sta...

Open Source Service risky?

Is it risky to have dependency on a open source service? Unlike a open source dll or componenent the service obviously needs to be constantly running, therefore is it a business risk to rely on it? What happens if the open source service disappears for whatever reason? The service under question would not be used for a business critica...

sum of formatted numbers

Regarding reporting services 2005: I want to sum the field of a measure. If I sum 0.234 + 0.441 and format the sum to 2 digits after the point it will give 0.7. Because I format in the same way the field itself it shows 0.2+0.4=0.7. It says I have to do the sum by adding the rounded field each time. The only way I found to round a number...

WCF Contract Name 'IMyService' could not be found?

The contract name 'IMyService' could not be found in the list of contracts implemented by the service 'MyService'.. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: The contract name 'IMyService' could not be found in the list of contracts implemented by the service 'MyService'. This is driving me crazy. I have a WCF web service that works on my ...