OdieTurbo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Is it possible to queue Team Builds?

  Is there a way to make the build server queue build requests instead of running them simultaneously   We have had several problems with builds hanging during initialization, hanging during building, or completing the build process but failing to drop to the network when two builds are competing. I have considered writing a task that will wait on a mutex at the start of every build, but thought maybe I had better ask if MSFT had already planned for this and had some built in setting I could tweak. Thanks in advance. MikeH We dont have this feature in this version, Mike. However, we will ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source control "get" troubles

  I'm having a few problems with the Team Foundation Source Control. 1. When someone else has checked in various new files and I do a "get", very often I will still end up without a copy of some of the newly added files. Some will be copied correctly, but others will be missing. The missing files are shown greyed out in Source Control Explorer. If I try to get these particular files through Source Control Explorer, it shows a message saying all files are up to date. 2. In an attempt to get these missing files, I now try to do a "get" on the folder containing them. However, instead of copying the missing files, it n ...Show All

• SQL Server Understanding code created by SSIS import/export Wizard

  I built a packaage in SSIS with the import/export utility. It created a Package.dtsx and Package1.dtsx. Both of these files seem to be XML files. I want to understand how these files work. For example, in the package I built I had about 80 tables exporting and importing data. Some of them I want to allow the identiy insert and delete the rows first. Others I want to append the data. How can I find the code or settings that does this Or where can I find the options on the gui interface to change these settings. When I search the code I can't even find a some of the tables that are being transferred. I actual ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Windows Explorer type shell

  Hi, I am trying to develop a windows explorer type shell, using a treeview and a listview control, on a Windows Forms Application type project of Visual C++ Express. In Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2, there is a sample in the directory below: \\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Samples\WinUI\Shell\EnumDesk This sample is a makefile type project and using Windows Shell API functions adding related header files to the project. I want to use these API functions in Windows Forms Application type Project. Is there any solution to manage this Thanks in advance! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Ambiguos error...

  Hi all. I have very strange problem and make me crazy. I don't know what it is. This is the code: int id, n=0; this.treeView1.TopNode.Nodes.Clear(); for (int i = 0; i < ApplicationState.GroupCount; i++) { id = Convert.ToInt32(xml.xmlData[0].ChildNodes[1].ChildNodes .Attributes["GID"].Value); this.treeView1.TopNode.Nodes.Add(xml.xmlData[0].ChildNodes[1].ChildNodes .Attributes["GroupTitle"].Value); for (int j = 0; j < ApplicationState.ItemCount; j++) { if (id == Convert.ToInt32(xml.xmlData[0].ChildNodes[0].ChildNodes[j].Attributes["GroupID"].Value ...Show All

• SQL Server Accessing Multiple databases from Stored procedure in SQL 2000

  Hi , I have around 5 databases with same structure used to store data for different locations and services. I have created an intermediate database which will have all the stored procedures to access data from above 5 databases. My queries are common to all the databases. so,I would like to pass database name as an argument to my stored proc and execure query on specified database. I tried this doing using "USE Databasename " Command. but it says ...We can not use "USE command " in stored proc or triggers. so ..what i did is .. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Show All

• Visual Basic .Net Toolbar - Can't use Icons?

  Is it only PNG files that you can use   Mike Pooley Ah Thanks! Imagelist is no longer in the properties window so i thought it was not being used any more. I didn't realise you could still access it in code. Do you know why this has been done   Mike Pooley   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Compile a program as a Microsoft Windows service?

  Is it possible to make a program as a Microsoft Windows service I need to know, and now that I look, it isn't available in the express edition. Ouch. . . you might be screwed here. . . Get your server class in a remotable format - that is, in a manner that can be loaded as a .Net Remoting server via a console exe. does that make sense If it doesn't, go through a walkthrough for making a simple remoting client/server.  when you can do that, I will give you some code that uses API interop to load it as a windows service instead of a console app. Its in C# though. . . but thats a good thing! ...Show All

• Visual C# Label Justify text

  hi i was wondering how can i create a label with the text justified .... i need this becasue im making my own messagebox control, so the text is variable and i need to justify it so it looks pretty, does anybody have an idea im using window application with .NET 2.0 ,,,, mig16 You can make a labels text centred, but I don't think you can make it justified. It's a property on the label control. Of course, you need to make your label the size of the form when the form resizes, in order for centreing to work. ...Show All

• .NET Development Help with updating a specific record in database

  I am trying to pass the changes made by a user back to an sql database on clicking a button. The update should be applied to the specific record that the user is currently viewing. My problem is that the updates are getting applied to the first record in the database. The code is below: Public Class frmPart 'Declare global variables and objects... Dim objConnection As New SqlConnection( "Server=YUK1PCG124;Database=PSW;Integrated Security=True" ) Dim objCurrencyManager As CurrencyManager Private Sub btnSaveFile_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnS ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Once again Problems with SerialPort class

  Hi, we were thinking (hoping) that with SerialPort we get a class solving the problems with the Serial Communications on PocketPCs. But instead it works worse than our own implementation via PInvoke. On thing I allready showed there: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=9794 Now we got a new one! On an IPAQ we have a bluetooth barcode reader. The serial port for BT is Com8 in this case. With our handmade Serial it is no problem to get strings form the BCR. When I use SerialPort an try to open Com8 (no Data from the BCR - just open) I get an "IOException" stating the following:   Stack ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to set Border color for Label control

  Hi,          How to set the border color for the label control in VB.NET windows application. I have used the below code in my  user control for custom label. It is drawing the border color, but it is not getting refreshed. The code is given below for your reference. 'event used to paint the control, which is overridden to draw custom border color Public Overridable Sub Label_Paint( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles MyBase .Paint 'MyBase.OnPaint(e) Dim borderWidth As Integer = 1 Dim borderColor As Color = Color.Fro ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Distributed/Shared Workflows

  Are there any samples floating about on the concept of building a distributed workflow I've seen some posts about using BizTalk instead, but it isn't necessarily the workflow I want to distribute. I want different applications to be able to contribute to the advancing of a shared workflow. So, take the classic trouble ticket workflow. Rather than having the same winforms app on the same machine push the ticket forward in the workflow, I want to experiment with having different workstations using the same winforms app contribute to the workflow, as well as an ASP.NET application also contribute to that workflow. I figured I could host a ...Show All

• SQL Server XQuery: SQL type 'xml' is not supported in XQuery.

  Why is this I am trying to insert an xml fragment into the children of a node using XML-DML insert statement, but it is not letting me do anything useful. How can I insert an xml fragment into the node structure of an existing xml field Any ideas Thanks... Putting a bump on this because it is exactly the same thing I am trying to do. I figured this would be something TOTALLY simple to do but, for some reason XQuery doesn't understand xml hehe pretty funny stuff ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with transactions

  Hi, I am using VB.NET with ADO.NET. I am having a problem with transactions :    I can't read from a table that i am updating in a transaction.  I have tried to change the IsolationLevel, but it is always the same. To make it more clear : While user1 is updating a table (within a transaction), user2 is unable data from that table (not the old or new data). What am i doing wrong Txs in advance Timpie Timpie, Once User1 starts modifying rows, those rows are locked.  By default, User2's query to retrieve those rows will time out if the transaction is still active. 1.)  Minimize ...Show All