t-965's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Different Source Control options when creating a project

  If I create a TFS project with the wizard I get options to create (or not) the source control folder. However it seems that whichever option I choose I always get a source control folder , or at least source control turns up in the project explorer and the project shows up in the source control explorer. Am I missing something Is this a problem with the beta or is this expected behaviour Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I clean out the Recycle Bin?

  How can I do that Matt Matt, you can also call the SHEmptyRecycleBin API, that will allow you to select which recycle bins you want to clear, will provide a confirmation prompt, a sound, and the progress dialog (all of which options can be disabled). A rough signature for the API would be: [ DllImport ( "shell32.dll" )] public static extern IntPtr SHEmptyRecycleBin( IntPtr hwnd, [ Mar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build Failure (test execution) with IBM.Data.DB2

  I am in the process of testing the Team Build feature of Team Foundation Server w/Visual Studio 2005 and am continuing to run into an error that cannot be replicated when running a build/test manually (on either the server or any client). The error I get when executing the MSBuild process is: One of the background threads threw exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'IBM.Data.DB2.DB2Connection' threw an exception ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to Show Complete Format Cells dialog

  I have a VSTO 2005 solution with some controls on the action pane that I would like to refresh when the user changes the formatting on a range. Is there a way to programatically show the Format Cells dialog using Excels built in dialogs I have tried using some of the built in dialogs that are part of the Format Cells dialog (like xlDialogFormatNumber, xlDialogAlignment etc), but I can not find one that displays the entire dialog as you would se ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control Question

  I was wondering if anyone knows of a control that I can use to list acceptable values in a formatted list.  For example, I want to show users a list below a textbox like the one below. A. List item 1 (This is part of selection A, ...Show All

• Visual C# good c# book for window form and ADO

  I have read Jesse Liberty's Programming C# third edition. Now I am working on C# 2005 ( window , ADO ,database) , and looking for a good book with more pratical codes inside. Please give suggestion. The best book on Windows Forms programming that I've encountered is: Windows Forms Programming in C#, by Chris Sells. But be aware that a new version of that book is coming out on May 5th. (The title's changed to Windows Forms 2.0 Programmi ...Show All

• .NET Development Can one computer run both Framework 1.1 and 2?

  i have VS 2003 which seems to only run .net Framework 1.1. and i have installed VS express 2005 which needs Framework 2. BUT i want to be able to run both version of software (for a while). Can both Framework 1.1 and 2 be running on the same computer   (ver. 2 installed, but things did not seem to work right until i uninstalled ver. 1.1).   Hi, I had a default install of iis6 with windows 2003 and ...Show All

• SQL Server Transfer SQL Server Objects Errors

  Hi. I'm totally new to SSIS (SP1), and I'm having a raft of troubles transferring DB's using the 'Transfer SQL Server Objects Task', which seems to be the closest replacement for the old DTS Transfer Objects tool. I'm trying to transfer a DB from an SQL Server 2000, where I only have SQL Server authentication (it's a shared hosting environment) to my local SQL Server 2005 server, where I'm logged in using Windows Authentication (although I have ...Show All

• SQL Server Setup failed - no package <sqlncli.msi>

  I tried to install a sql 2005 desktop engine. This fails with the error: An installaton package for the product Microsoft SQL Server Native Client cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package ‘sqlncli.msi’   I used a fresh, new download SQLEXPR.EXE. What shall I do   Thanks for your post, it saved me bunches of time. I removed ...Show All

• Windows Forms Reg Ex Question

  Can some one help me to build a regular expression to extract the keywords from a google search url.  I'm sure others can benefit from this as well. For example, how can i build a regex to extract the keywords "my search term" fr ...Show All

• SQL Server Watermark Generation is Invalid Error

  We are currently doing a proof of concept using SQL 2005 merge replication.  However we are currently encountering the following errors: "The common generation watermark is invalid at this replica since it does not exist or metadata for changes not yet propagated may have been cleaned up." " The merge process failed because it detected a mismatch between the replication metadata of the two replicas, such that some changes could be los ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to add vsto in visual studio 2005 professional edition

  Hi, I am trying to import VSTO-2005 in visual studio 2005 professional. but not succeeded, I installed window xp-service pack 2 Office 2003 professional-service pack 2 visual studio 2005 Professional VSTO 2005-redistributable package VSTO-Run time but I didnt see the office template in my visual studio . Can I use VSTO-2005 with visual studio professional edition OR I have to install visual studio team system for usin ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to support Temporary Projects

  Please teach us how to support temporary projects. Please teach us the topics about temporary projects in Visual Studio 2005 SDK. Best Regards. Shinya Watanabe Hi Douglas, I have created a new thread here - " MPF bug: Solution is not saved when "Save new projects when created" is unchecked ". Could you please have a look at Your input will be much appreciated! Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual C# DLL Files

  You can create an DLL so that you can easy deploy this with more projects. There are no performance penalties, when a DLL is needed it will be loaded and it stays loaded untill the application ends. For your development it can be handy to have multiple projects (DLL's) and for the update process it can be usefull to. The user doesn't have to download a very large .EXE file when you only updated one class for example. You can sepperate them ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Locking up

  Posted - 12/25/2005 :  10:54:44       My ADO based C++ application works fine for sometimes 15+hrs just fine. Im using SQL 2000. All of a sudden I dont know what happens all update operatins and insert operations start failing with 80040e31, timeout expired errors. It seems as though the whole database is locked up. And after 1hr or sometime 2 hrs everything is back to normal without an ...Show All