Stephen Englefield-Grantham's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System TF single-server installation failed on a virtual pc

  My installation steps are: 1. Install a Windows Server 2003 with SP1 virtual pc. OK! 2. Config the virtual pc as an application server, enable asp.net. OK! 3. Install the SQL server 2005 April CTP, config the application pools. OK! 4. Install the SharePoint Service, exclude the Reporting Services. OK! 5. Logon as tfssetup and install the Team Foundation. Hang!!! The ADAM installation seems good but the installation stops at the last step. I foll ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS installation fails - NOT 3200

  Hello all, I'm trying to install TFS (single server) and I would be grateful for any help as I'm having a problem; as soon as I start the installation, the setup program exits with an error dialog: "A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup." The contents of dd_vsinstall80.txt are: [04/27/05,14:49:48] Setup.exe: [04/27/05,14:49:48] Setup.exe: ========== Logging started ========== [04/27 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Publish in VB2005

  I was wondering if it would be possible to make it so the application will startup when windows starts and how cause there aint no option in the publish to make it like that. Or do i have to use some code in my application itself. Any help would be welcome. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Using Browse command in VFP9

  I used FPW2.6 untill a month ago , since then I convert most of my old programs to VFP9 , all is working fine except one major problem I have , the Browse command is not working in an stand alone EXE program , I know I can use the grid option but still the browse command was an easy way to display records in a file, is there a way to use the browse command in an EXE file Thank's for help No. A simple: browse or ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office DataBindings with Outlook Item UserProperties...

  The following code seems to be causing weird problems for Outlook. cbAustraliaPost.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Checked", Contact.UserProperties["APO"], "Value")); I have seen in the hands on labs that they created a "proxy" class which does all of the interaction with controls, but this seems like an awful lot of work just to databind to a property. Am I missing something with how the Bindi ...Show All

• Windows Forms a problem in mirrored listview

  I've faced a strange problem in the ListView control when I mirror it to support the right-to-left layout. I am talking about .NET 1.1. When a ListView control is mirrored, ListViewItems do the mirroring, but ClomnHeader controls do not, i.e. it kee ...Show All

• SQL Server No ODBC Data Source?

  Hi! I'm trying to add a new data source from an ODBC data source in Visual C++ 2005 (express edition), but in the database explorer, when I click on "Add connection...", I can only choose between "Microsft Access Database File" and "Microsoft SQL Server Database File". Where's "Microsoft ODBC Data Source" Is this a "Express Edition" limitation Or am I doing something wrong My ODBC data source seems to be well configured. Thank for the answ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX Development Environment Installation Trouble

  I have followed the instructions at http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getthebeta/default.aspx for installing WinFX for development. WinFX RTC - file version 2.0.50727.151 installed fine. Visual Studio 2005 version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) Full Install installed fine. Windows SDK will not install it fails with the following message: Windows SDK cound not be configured, see the 'Installing the SDK' section of the S ...Show All

• Visual Basic IDE

  When I am in break mode, I cannot update code. I receive message "Cannot currently modify this text in the editor. It is read only." Can anyone explain why I get this message All the Best, Charlie In VisualStudio 2005, Edit & Continue is back, so in many cases you are able to edit the source code. Things that may cause this to happen include: - You attached to the process (didn't start it from within Visual Studio) - You ha ...Show All

• Windows Forms printing text

  I am trying to print a text file and am using the examples provided by Visual Studio. The following line calculates the number of lines per page in the PrintPage eventhandler: lpp = ev.MarginBounds.Height / printFont.GetHeight(ev.Graphics); The problem is that lpp calculates a number of lines but the printer is printing past the margins and I miss 2-3 lines per page. If I subtract 4 from lpp this works but why isn't the calculation corre ...Show All

• Visual Studio During Visual Studio 2005 Setup... I'm getting Installation failu Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2

  Hi, I am unable to install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, due to contant internal error message: 1603. I also wanted to install a copy of VS 2005 Beta, after a unistalling copies of MS Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and VS 2003, but have been unable because of installation failure. this is the error log [04/23/06,13:18:28] Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2: [2] Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal err ...Show All

• Windows Forms Updating on form with many to many relationship

  Hi all, I need to design a form that will take care of updating user details and their roles withing the software. Things to know... 1) The data relationships... a) tblUsers UserID Name UserName Password b) tblRoles RoleID RoleName c) tblUserRoles UserID RoleID CanEdit - Boolean CanDelete - Bo ...Show All

• .NET Development Working on Dev Pc but no else can access it!

  I have built one and it works great on my dev PC. I can put the address to the asmx page in my browser and it comes up fine. Another dev in here puts the same address into his browser and he gets the friendly asp.net error msg. even though I have the 'Off' in the customerrors tag. How can I fix this Thanks Deasun We run it thru IIS. We set some security settings and its working great now. Thanks for the repli ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) CompositeCollection not working with HierarchicalDataTemplate

  I'm trying to build a TreeView that binds to a custom object I have. Here's a quick outline of my class structure: class TopLevel List<Category> Categories class Category string Name List<Category> Categories List<Channel> Channels class Channel string Name So, the TreeView starts by parsing the top level set of Categories. The subnodes will be the list of categories it contains AND the list of channels. The subcatego ...Show All

• Visual C++ editing, Compiling, & Running C code in Visual C++ Express

  I was told that it is possible to edit, compile, and run C code in Visual C++ express. When I tried to do this I was only able to able to edit it, and nothing else. If it is possible could someone let me know how, or at lest send me to a link that will explain it all to me. Your Friendly Neighborhood Programmer You need to first create a project and go to the build tab and choose to build you project ...Show All