I have run into this problem. In my case, our Virus software was preventing the mail from being sent. Our administrator had to allow mail coming from my machine for the vshost.exe process.

I'm using .NET 2.0 and I have a Windows Forms app in which I want to create an rdlc report - this is the Reporting Services-type report you get in VS 2005. I want to have an object as a datasource for the report, and I have no problem setting, populating, or binding the "top-level" object into the rdlc report, until I try to "nest" an object. For example, I have a "Shipping" object in which a person has placed an order on a certain date, to a certain address. Has some other info like tracking number. This Shipping object will have one or more "LineItem" objects, which obviously is what they purchased. I can bind the Shipping object to the rdlc report, but when I try to create a table, or grouping, or any list or anything on the LineItem subset, I can't figure out how to do this, if I can. Has anyone tried this? Have any tips? Thanks very much in advance. Susan H

Wanted to say a big "thanks" for the hard work. :omg: it's going so fast! :-D

I would like to ask the opinion of the experts here ;) We have a process by which customers place orders through a popular on-line shopping site that exposes web services. We have a windows service that performs roughly the following steps: * Downloads new orders * Uploads acknowledgements for new orders downloaded * Stores the new orders in a temp database location * Routs these new orders to our main database * Checks the status of previously downloaded orders in our main database * Uploads shipping confirmation on orders that got shipped ... etc. Basically that's all of the major parts. Now we're looking to do the same type of thing with a popular on-line auction company (bet you have no idea what 2 companies I'm referring to). I was wondering - isn't this a good application of BizTalk Server?? I need to put together a convincing presentation to show the benefits, if indeed there are any. Thanks for any opinions.

Thank you very much for sharing. Beautiful picture. And being a Terry Goodkind[^] fan, I was interested to see the picture of Pillars of Creation.

If you are talking about a C# Windows application then here's an idea, may give you a place to start.

// In your InitializeComponent() method, make sure you've set the event
// Set the event to catch a keypress from your Password textbox
this.txtPassword.KeyPress +=
new System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventHandler(this.txtPassword_KeyPress);

.....

// The Event Handler
private void Generic_KeyPress(object sender,
System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
// When the "Enter" key is pressed, fire your button click event
// using appropriate arguments, EventArgs.Empty, or null
if(e.KeyChar == (char)13)
cmdLogin_ButtonClick(this, EventArgs.Empty);
}

Try this snippet. I think you simply didn't bind to the Table, rather than the data set.

// Set up the DataSet
DataSet ds = new DataSet();

// Set up the Data Table
DataTable t = new DataTable("Students");
t.Columns.Add("StudentID", typeof(int));
t.Columns.Add("StudentName", typeof(string));

ds.Tables.Add(t);

// Fake Data
for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
DataRow r = t.NewRow();
r["StudentID"] = i;
r["StudentName"] = "Test Student " + i.ToString();
t.Rows.Add(r);
}

// Bind to the Combo Box
comboBox1.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];
// NOTE that my data source is the table, not the dataset

comboBox1.ValueMember = "StudentID";
comboBox1.DisplayMember = "StudentName";

Access the selected value:

private void comboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show(comboBox1.SelectedValue.ToString());
}

My conversation goes something to the effect of... "That's wierd, it worked yesterday - are you sure you have the latest version? You do? I thought I fixed that in the version I just deployed last night." The other common excuse I use is... "That's a bug in Microsoft Commerce Server" :laugh:

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

I guess what I'm trying to say is don't waste people's time applying for work you know you're not qualified for.

What is so tough for the novice interviewer, though, is a frame of reference. For instance, I went to some job interviews where I was practically laughed out of the building, and other interviews where I was a God-Send and when can I start? All of this with the same resume, the same salary requirements, and through the same recruiter. The better you are, the more confident you are with your strengths and weaknesses. When you're a novice, you have no idea how good you are, or are not. I look on CodeProject, for example, and I feel like I'm 2 days old; I talk to others (who make more money than I), and they practically don't even know how to open up Visual Studio. One perfect example is what happened to me last night - at the VS 2005 launch, I ran into my boss from the last job I was at. He told me when I left, he lost his best asset. I was making $45 an hour there (contract of course), which I think is greatly inflated (for my skill-set and resume). So all I'm trying to say is, is that it's so hard for novices to know what to apply for.

I went to the launch yesterday in San Francisco, and I just wrote a long-winded blog post[^] about it. Summary is, I had fun, but was a bit disappointed at the lack of enthusiasm of the crowd, the dryness of many of the speakers, and the way they pushed BizTalk 2006 as if you can't use Visual Studio nor program a website without it.

I would be interested in an RSS feed, myself. I already have your blog RSS feed. -- modified at 19:18 Wednesday 2nd November, 2005 [Edit:] I meant Marc's feed, of course! I think I posted this on the wrong post :-) [/Edit]

DUDE!!!!! That's my new wallpaper!

Marc Clifton wrote:

Do you use them?

In my previous job we used the older DAAB, which was a great helper-wrapper. Now, I use Enterprise Library June 2005 for the Security / Roles modules. We use it for an internal windows application, and it's helped expand the functionality without writing in our own really big security model. Also, we continue to use the Application Updater block, but not the new one.

Marc Clifton wrote:

Do you need to modify them?

I only have one tiny modification, in that the Roles can get a Description.

Mike Ellison wrote:

Yea, no kidding. Thanks for even the little improvements, Chris. (Heck, maybe I'm easily impressed, but I even thought the new style used when quoting in the forums was something worth getting excited about...)

Yes, ditto. I was very happy to see the voting system change ("Hey - where's that annoying pop-up window? Oh..wait..look! That's COOL!") and happy to see the nice little quoting style. I was just going to look into AJAX anyway, and now I can see first-hand a small way in which it "makes sense" to use.

Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle! I'm dead set on natural keyboards, so I can never use what they give me anyway. My old refurbished natural keyboard started not typing n's, b's, a's, and z's, so I feel your pain. So I got another used keyboard. ;-)

Just got a new Toy from Dell Outlet[^]. I got a Dell Precision 370 (or 380?) with P4 3.2 GHz, 1 GB memory, XP Professional, CD R/W DVD Combo drive, some suped up graphics card that has 2 monitor slots on the back, Hyperthreading. $675. It's a refurb, but in my limited experience with refurbs, I never have had any problems. It comes with a 3 year warranty. My only issue now is how the heck to get all my old stuff onto my new system.

As for me, I have signed up for the launch in San Francisco, 11/7. I'll be going to the developer track. I wish I were 2 people so I could go to both. ===================

Yea, I totally jumped the gun. I guess I didn't take my meds last night. Or is it that I took twice the dose...

Hey thanks!! I jumped the gun a little (a lot?) on asking, I totally forgot about the newsletter. I had subscribed to the RSS feed, so I don't even pay attention to the newsletter any more; but before the feed, the newsletter was the only way I knew of new And thanks again for your help on this.

:doh: EEK :-O I guess I can't dispute that! :-D