Ben Riga's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio How to synchronize 2 VSS 2005 Servers

  Hi All Is anyone there who could give me a hint how to sync 2 SourceSafe Servers (or in detail: one project on Server A has to be synchronized with a copy on Server B). The script I wrote for that works fine until the project changes (adding files/projects), so I'd like to know if there are working solutions for synchronizing projects on 2 different VSS 2005 servers, or if I've to code a tool/script for that. Regards, Sebastian ...Show All

• .NET Development Error: Unable to open shim database

  I get this kind of events logged in the eventlog: Source: .Net Runtime Type: Error Unable to open shim database version registry key - v2.0.50727.00000. Is this 'normal' behaviour or is there a misconfiguration. I have this messages on Windows 2003 Server, on SqlServer2005 boxes as well on TFS app tier and Terminal Server running VS2005. Strange thing is: everythings seems to work OK... Rene I have this error ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems with Downloading Registration Benefits

  There have been several reports of problems with accessing and downloading registration benefits.  We have investigated the issue and have news to report.  This sticky thread will be updated with additional information as it becomes available over the next few days. Background In order to negotiate deals with partners and authors to provide the highest value benefits, we must must be able to guarantee a secure download center that li ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to config TFS for notifying by email to outlook (Exchange Server) via SMTP server

  hi all! Before I used to familiar to track system,you know that we can config to any bug within track system be notify to the oultook. now i also want to do so with TFS, I had tryed config with sharepoint service, but i still have not get any email for notifying from others yet. please help me if you can solve it. thanks. when your installing TFS server it ask for email address from which mails are send to team. In order to get ...Show All

• Visual Basic Beta2 apps close randomly?

  Hey, Has anyone else had a problem with their apps built in Beta 2 closing randomly   In one of my apps, when the user is on a particular form and changes tab pages, the app sometimes closes out without any error message.  On another form the same thing happens.  Since there is no error message, I can't troubleshoot the problem.  I've had this issue in the IDE before, but never noticed it in any apps until recently.  Has ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to Set orientation of Report Document

  Is it possible to set orientation as portait or landscape or Can it resize by itself in Reportviewer control Can anybody help in this regard Thanks. The report viewer will pick this up automatically from the page size setting. If width is greater than height, the viewer will use landscape. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to know if a class is Public or Private ?

  Hi All, How to know if a class is Public ou Private Thanks, Marcelo. First of all, you should be writing this as a Check(TypeNode) rule, if you are analyzing types. Second, you could use the rule visibility overrides to insure that only the non-public types are passed to your check, eg: public override TargetVisibilities TargetVisibility { get { return TargetVisibilities.NotExternallyVisible; }} Finally, you can use th ...Show All

• Visual C++ MSVCR80.DLL Unable to locate component

  Hi, I am trying to use Visual C++ 2005 to build the project which was create by Visual C++ 2003. When I run the code, an error message pops up. "MSVCR80.DLL - Unable to locate component" who knows how can I fix this problem Thanks a lot! Yang Hi George! I have checked the directory you asked me for to look for the DLL files, nothing is over there. What do I have todo now Tamer ...Show All

• Visual Basic Unitized form constructor/activator

  I'm going to define a sub executing creation or activation (if already opened) of MDI children. The sample of such sub follows. Returns error if called CreateForm(AuthorForm) ' Author form is class based on Form Is there a way to make a call to construct or activate any form the way it's done in ObjectPascal using class references Thanks! Private Sub CreateForm(ByVal FormType As System.Type) Dim Child As Form For Each ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Printing workflows

  Hey Now when some company chooses to use Windows Workflow as foundation for thiere business procress modeling what are the thoughts about documentation and printing the workflows There can be no doubt that one needs to print / insert into report the workflows modeled. But the build-in printing support in VS 2005 / WWF is somewhat minimalistic (useless). Is this because when i company chooses to use WWF they would actually not use Visual St ...Show All

• SQL Server Accessing SQL Server remotely

  Dear All, I have created a database on my SQL server, I want to access my database through C# .NET project . By just installing the software on the client side I would be able to access my SQL server remotely. On internet can i Do that Plz let me know any solution for this. Regards, Anil Dhiman DId I understand you right that you want to connect through the internet to your SQL Server Then you have to redirect/forw ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Back to the 2-tier?

  It seems to me that Dlinq with this nice new feature of Entity = Class is good for a Client/Server scenario only. How would it worlk in a SOA at all I admit this code looks very efficient, but only in a C/S scenario. How would delayed execution work if you're not in C/S scenario, but need to call a webservice for retrieving your data, and also a webservice for updating your data ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Message not being processed

  I had this porblem crop up yesterday when I tried to move my application off of my development machine and onto test servers. However I now have the problem everywhere including my machine. When I call an operation my code never gets executed. There is no error or exception or anything. It simply never runs. I created another method called Ping that returns a string and that works fine. In addition the debugger is never able to cross over int ...Show All

• SQL Server Bookmarks (Management Studio)

  How do you save bookmarks so you can use them next time you edit the saved query file I asked the same quesiton with 0 responses, I am creating a feedback suggestion now for it. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=351510&SiteID=1 Derek vote here: someone allready suggested this... http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=7e600860-0662-44 ...Show All

• Visual C++ DirList ActiveX usage problem on localized VS .NET

  Hi, As I know, VS uses DirList ActiveX component for showing some properies (see VC++ Linker's "Additional Directories" for example). In our integration we used the same approach. We crteated a dialog with DirList ActiveX on it. Here is the fragment from rc-file (part of DIALOGEX section ): CONTROL "",IDC_SLE_PATHLIST, "{442502BA-D873-4a37-9F19-3E38C42A3DDB}",NOT WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP,6,68,190,59 Gui ...Show All