Steven W.'s Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Availability of MSF Build Tool for Process Guidance Customisation

  The tool mentioned in the MSF Process Guidance Customisation Guide for building the HTML files in the Process Guidance folder after Editing them is supposed to be downloadable from: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/msfagile/default.aspx I can't find it. Doesn't anyone know where I can get from Unfortunately the build tool is not ready yet to be posted for download. We are still working on the tool and hope to have it p ...Show All

• .NET Development Open a password protected mdb file

  I have a small C# 2005 application that works with MS-Access database file, through OleDB connection, and it works OK. When I tried to secure the database with a password, and added “Password=” to the Connection String, the Open command produces the Exception: “Cannot start your application. The workgroup information file is missing or opened exclusively by another user”. Does anybody Know what should I do   ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Command Prompt for Windows Mobile 5.0 Devices

  Does anyone know if there is a command prompt that runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 Devices   The one that I had been using on PPC 2003 devices does not run on Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. Alicia This has been blogged at http://blogs.msdn.com/marcpe/archive/2005/06/20/430725.aspx 1     Go to the home screen, press and hold the ‘action’ key (that’s the middle button of the directio ...Show All

• SQL Server Cube corruption

  I have an AS 2005 cube (MOLAP) that is updated incrementally on a daily basis. Twice in the last few weeks, the cube has suddenly become corrupt. The By-Day aggregations for previous days show incredibly large positive and negative numbers. These numbers at the time they entered the cube were accurate. As background, the incremental update is done via a view and the view is calculating fields. At this point the cube is processed manually duri ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error when uninstalling RC : GetDefaultWebsiteName exit with code 3

  During our migration process, the uninstall MSI failed in our app tier with the following error in log : the custom action GetDefaultWebsiteName has exited with code 3. In our server, IIS hasn't any default website (with ID 1), our sharepoint website is installed in other website (with a different ID). We're currently trying to edit the IIS metabase to provide a website with an ID of 1 (expecting it's the result the CA expe We didn't fi ...Show All

• Visual Basic bullets instead of text when typing in a data entry field like for a password

  How do I show bullets instead of text when typing in a data entry field like for a password Michael J. Dyrnaes Do you mean using the TEXTBOX control from the TOOLBOX and creating a field and then selecting setting the property USESYSTEMPASSWORDCHAR to TRUE If that is correct then I wish you had said that it took me a long time to understand what you said. Michael ...Show All

• SQL Server How does inherited(Parent/Child pkgs) logging work??

  I am not sure if this is a bug or not, but we have found that only the immediatelly called child package inherits the parent logging option, and others called byond the immediate child will loose the settings. For instance, say you have three packages, pkg1 will specify logging (checked events that will be logged), pkg2(which is called from pkg1) will see (by default) the checked events from pkg1, but pkg 3(which is called from pkg2) won't. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unselecting text when entering DataGridView cell

  When a user clicks on a DataGridView cell to enter edit mode, the contents of the cell is automatically selected (i.e. all the text in the cell is highlighted in blue). How can I stop this Is there a way to make it so that when they enter edit mode, the cursor is just placed into the cell without highlighting the text. Is there something I can do in the DataGridView.CellBeginEdit event, or am I looking in thw wrong place ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums I am not able to sign in on MSN messenger Please help anyone!

    Recently i have been having porbelms with signing in on MSN, i think it is due to me agreeing to download the latest MSN. From this moment i am not able to sign in. I clicked on troubleshoot (80048883) and it showed 'Your gateway appears to be offline' which i dont know what it means. Then i went on on the Tools menu, click Options , and then click Connection, to check my connection and it showed 'You are currently NOT connected t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom activity with inner sequence activity locked in design mode

  Hi, I have a custom activity which simple extends the SequenceActivity. When I use this custom activity inside ot my workflows I can drag and drop activities from the toolbox to inside my custom activity. Now suppose that my custom activity contains an inner sequence activity. In my workflows when I use my custom activity, the inner sequence activity is locked. I would like in design mode to drag some activieties from the toolbox to m ...Show All

• Visual Studio TFS Installation

  Hi All, I am new to TFS(Team Foundation Server) installation. I came to know that I should have three Active Directory domain user accounts for installation. I wish to install TFS Database and Server on different servers. Can;t I have just one user name with the admin rights for this Hi, I think this should work, but haven't tried it myself. You will most likely get a more reliable response in the Team Foun ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sample Templates

  I downloaded the MSF Sample Tempates v3 and tried to open the MS Project files. I can't see nothing in there, altough the files are prety big. Can someone tell me how can I see for example the Gant chart It's about MSFforAgileSwDevBetaProcessTemplate-100.1.zip from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=f9fd355e-98c2-4b51-86ab-4d4a6b34aafc&displaylang=en and MSFforCMMIProcessImp ...Show All

• SQL Server Client tools for 2005 Sept CTP

  I haven't found a way to get the client tools for 2005 installed.  After a full install of SQL Server 2005 Sept CTP, I don't have the Studio Management tool or whatever it is called.  Can anyone help me here I had a similar problem with the iso download. When I downloaded the "self-extracting" install package, *this* problem went away. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Serialport in c# System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs

  Hi I’m trying to get my c#.net app to work the problem is that when using SerialDataReceivedEventArgs it echos all bytes/strings that is sent to the port. If I send the AT command it always echoes the AT and OK I just want it to echo the OK. BR Jeppe Put E0 in your init string. Look on the web for Hayes Command set. RMJR ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Rosetta.Populate Reports

  Hi all, After 2 days I successfully passed 32000 trouble at Team System Beta 2 installation. Now, another error occured: While setting up a team project the task Rosetta.Populate Reports failed. The following error log was created: 05.11.2005 01:36:03.230 | Module: Rosetta | Thread: 9 | Creating report : Bug List ---begin Exception entry--- Time: 05.11.2005 01:36:14.176 Module: Engine Event Description: Task "Rosetta.Populate Reports" failed Ex ...Show All