GrangerBill's Q&A profile

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• Visual Studio Team System Spaces in paths, FxCopCmd and "Argument Specified Without a Corresponding Switch"

  Hi, I'm trying to use FxCopCmd as part of my automated build process. The problem is, FxCopCmd doesn't seem to like it when I have spaces in any paths, for example ones used in the /f switch. I get the error "Argument specified without a corresponding switch". Here's my command line: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft FxCop 1.35\fxcopcmd.exe" "/d:..\..\..\build\1.0.060611.16\bin\" "/f:C:\Path to some DLL with a couple of spaces in it.dll" "/f:C:\Path to some other DLL with a couple of spaces in it.dll" /out:..\..\..\build\logs\fxcopreport.xml /oXsl:none /r:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft F ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to build a generic runtime host?

  Hi, I know this is a quite a big question, but I have to ask it :-) How would I write a generic windows workflow foundation runtime host. What I want to do is: 1. Write a Windows Service that exposes the Windows Workflow Foundation Runimte as a remoted Singleton object. Let's call that one WorkflowEngine. 2. The WorkflowEngine has state persistance and tracking services enabled. 3. The WorkflowEngine offers a method lets say Startworkflow( workflowToStart) that is able to start any given workflow as long as the assembly the workflow is defined in is available to the Engine. ( I can imagine how to do this this with System.Re ...Show All

• Visual Studio ERROR: VSS2005, files in loggedin not going away

  I have an issue where if I do an analyze overnight (usually only take 15 to 20 minutes), my database is still locked when I come back in the next morning. This is because when Analyze runs it puts a file named "admin.lck" into the loggedin directory. When it is done, it is not always removing the file. I am also seeing the files that are created when a user logs in not getting removed when the user logs out. I had this problem this morning and I actually had to delete all the files in the loggedin directory so that my developers could get into the database and checkout files. Is there something that I have setup wrong or is t ...Show All

• Windows Forms SqlExpress2005 prerequisite needs custom install

  My App needs SqlExpress2005 installed with: securitymode=SQL and sapwd=aaabbb999 plus some other parameters. My Oneclick deployment works as expected except, the SqlExpress2005 install is the default Windows Authentication. I've edited the xml for the manifest schema to include these parameters, and read about bootstrapping in Sean Draine's Article, but the default install is all that I can get to happen. At this point, beta2, or July CTP, do I have to create manual manifests Any ideas or workarounds are appreciated. Hi, Enabling SQL Authentication in SQL Express needs you to change the registry key after installation: STEP1: Copy the ...Show All

• .NET Development ngen administrative credentials

  Hi there Community, I tried to make a "ngen install <application>" as a user from the "Users" group. I found out that this is not possible, because administrative credentials are required. Is there any workaround to this one We deploy an application using the ClickOnce technology, and tests have proven that NGENing our application improves 20-30% of startup time. The problem is that the user running our application will be in the "Users" group... so programmatically calling NGEN won't do any good because he (the user and thus the app) won't have sufficient rights. We have used all other tips and tricks ab ...Show All

• .NET Development Is the release of the .Net framework 2.0 tied to the release of Visual Studio 2005

  I'm trying to determine if I should switch development to Visual Studio 2005 beta 2.  The product appears to be stable enough for me, however my concern is that the release date of the .Net framework 2.0 is tied to VS2005, and won't be for quite some time.  I'm developing a WinForms product aimed at the retail market, so the "go live" license isn't an option. but if the release the .Net framework is expected shortly, then it becomes feasible for me to switch. Thoughts I think, as of now, the .NET Framework is stable enough for Release to Market and the developer teams are waiting to bug-free VS2005, so as to enable a simultan ...Show All

• SQL Server Command USE with variable

  Why I can’t use the command USE with variable declare @banco varchar(20) select @banco='xpto' USE @banco I have try in other way without success DECLARE @banco varchar(50) declare @SQL varchar(50) select @banco='xpto' print @banco select @SQL='USE '+@banco print @SQL exec(@SQL) Help me, please. Rodrigo It is executed at both compile time and run time, so I presume that is the reason. Not all commands can use variables in place of constants. the TOP command, for instance, only takes constants until it was altered in SQL 2005. For USE sysntax and description: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation RC install Failures, Dr Watson

  Hi, I have been trying for serveral days to try to figure out what the heck is going on with this install. The issues I have ran into was during the install on TFS (RC), I keep getting these watson failures. I am so stumped on why this is doing this. I have everything else working fine such as sharepoint, reporting/SQL. Here is the last line of the error log file. [03/23/06,20:32:24] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({4F8791EE-486F-44B5-952B-F28F9FD58BD0}) [03/23/06,20:32:24] VSServerUI: ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in CProgressPage::RunningComponent() [03/23/06,20:32:24] VSServerUI: {4F8791EE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installing TFS on Windows Server 2003 R2

  First, is this supported Second, if so, what are the [Sharepoint Options] I should specify in R2 unattended setup to ensure a successful install of TFS I tried: [Sharepoint Options] Provision = No RemoteSql = Yes but TFS install failed with error "Server extensions administration port not found" - full log file available if needed. Hello Matthew, Didn't use unattended setup but I was able to install Application Tier on Windows Server 2003 R2. I installed the WSS via the Windows Components Wizard (sysocmgr.exe). When you install it from there you get to select between Typical ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Service WebService DefaultValue property on the Parameters Collection returns a String of a Date

  Hi I am writing a program using SQL Reporting Service Web Services I am using my own controls to populate the values of the Parameters of the Report. The problem is the DefaultValue property returns a string not a object that could be casted into a DateTime. Now I have to convert a string in to a DateTime not knowing the culture of the server. Is there a way to find the culture of the server running SQL Reporting Service Yours Boatman ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI Application -> freezing certain windows?

  Hi, Im creating a program that allows a user to run sql commands etc. I want commands to be executed concurrently in different windows. So when someone executes a command in one window, I would like a box to pop up saying "time running etc etc cancel etc"... but while this box is open I dont want the user to be able to hide it and view the window it was ran from, but still be able to view other windows within the MDI application to see results from other sql commands etc. How would I go about this....is there an inbuilt method to freeze a window, or would I have to do it manually (ie when a user clicks on the window when a box is open, check ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Server Project TEmplates missing

  Hi - we just installed VS 2005 Team Edition with all the options. When I try to createa new project, there is not "Business Intelligence Pojects" and thus no "Report Server Project Template". I thought that was all part of VS2005.. Do we have to have SQL Server 2005 installed on the developemnt machine to design reports Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms TreeView object

  hi everyone, i have a windows application where i am using a treeview object, at run time, i have the tree on left and on right i have textboxes and combo boxes,... i want to print the treeview menu alone, without the other section of the form, how can i do that Thanks. I am not aware of an easy way to do that (say based on an existing component). You will have to implement yourself. An idea of how it could be done would be to extract the tree hierarchy as an image and print the image by either overriding the treeview windows control or by adding a method answering an event raised by an action in a button or ...Show All

• Visual Studio CR and VS2005

  I have VS2003/CR app that I'm converting to VS2005.  On my test machine the app runs fine, but on our production server I first got error messages dealing with CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.dll v10.2.510.14.0 CrystalDecisions.ReportSource.dll v10.2.510.14.0 CrystalDecisions.Shared.dll v10.2.510.14.0 CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms.dll v10.2.510.14.0 where not found, so I included them in the deployment project.  now I get the following. See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.TypeInitializationExc ...Show All