Asaf Helfer's Q&A profile

• .NET Development error to execute Path.GetTempFileName() statement

  Hi, I haven't solved the problem when I try to get the temporary file with the sentence: dim tempFile as String = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName() I have the following message: {System.IO.IOException} System.SystemException: {"The directory name is invalid.\r\n"} However, when I test the execution of "System.IO.Path.GetTempPath()" it gives me the following path: @"C:\DOCUME~1\TASISO~1\ASPNET\LOCALS~1\Temp\" I have given all the permissions to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Setup of application in express edition

  Hello Every one, I want to create a setup in VC# express edition! Can any one help I was wondering if publish option is the key but unable to find solution. Also no option for creating native images Pls Help, Rahul VC# Express edition (or any Express edition) does contain tools for deploying applications. To see a comparision between the Express editions and Visual Studio see: http://lab.msdn.microsof ...Show All

• Visual Studio HELP!!!! 2005 INSTALL HOSED MY MACHINE!

  I had 2005 CTP and SQL on my machine and I guess I missed an uninstall order.  I had vs 2k3 on my machine and now it does not run.  I tried the vs2005 uninstall tool and it found nothing.  I uninstalled vs 2003, .net framework 1.1, .net framework 1.0, ran a registry cleaner, deleted all files left over and restarted in between each step.  When I try to install the .NET Framework 1.0.3705.0, I receive two errors: 1. Error 1904 ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS and SQL Server 2005

  Where can I find information about adding SQL Server 2005 database items to Visual Source safe I have tried the help files included in both SQL Server and VSS but have not found the information I am looking for. Basically I would like to add all of the items in my database to a VSS database so all of the developers in my office can check the objects in and out of the database whenever they make changes. Is this something that can be done from SQ ...Show All

• Windows Forms databind and addnewrow

  i've a datagrid with datasource set to a datatable; then i've some textboxes databinded to datagrid.datasource (so them show selected row values!) now i need to allow adding new rows in the datagrid, but when i click on it i get an error... how can  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Form w/Internet Explorer

  Has something changed between .Net Framework 1.1 and 2.0 concerning the ability to use Windows forms in IE. In 1.1 I wrote a class library and then used it via the <OBJECT> tag in IE. I could access the public methods and properties of the DLL via javascript as well as using the <PARAM> tag. I wrote the same DLL in 2.0 and now I can only use the <PARAM> tag to access properties and methods, not javascript. For instance my class ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums OT - MSN Messenger scripting from a web page

  Hello all, first i apologize for this off-topic, but i've not been able to find a more proper forum... There seem to be methods to, say, add a contact to the messenger via script from a web page. I've found few samples around, but have not been able to find a reference for it. Might anyone please provide a link to some (official) reference for scripting the messenger from a web page Thanks a lot in advance. -LV LV, The ability to sta ...Show All

• Visual Basic Relase the Fix for Visual Basic Compiler Error &H8013141e&

  Hi all i just want to know when is going to be released the fix for visual basic compiler error &H8013141e&   this is already reported in the microsoft productfeedback site. i think this is a very urgent patch that must be released asap and please do not repond that i should go back to vs.2003 because i have lots of code developed in VS 2005 to framework 2.0 ..   JSB PS: this error pisses me of, i need to res ...Show All

• SQL Server Guids as primary keys

  Is it a good idea to use Guids as primary key. What is the impact on performance. Guids are random by nature that may have an impact on writing clustered index. Any comments or suggestions I'm not a complete expert, but one problem I know of with GUID's with clustering keys is that they are not naturally increasing so this could introduce lots of fragmentation in environments with lots of inserts. They are a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SVCUTIL.EXE Error

  I am trying to get a very basic WCF service to work using the helloworld example described at: http://windowscommunication.net/collateral/pages/howto.htm I've built it exactly according to the instructions at that location using exactly the same code. (The only modification I made was to run it on port 8080...if I try to run it on port 80 as the orginal code, I get an IIS error that says that port is being used by another application. Here ...Show All

• SQL Server problem with DtsTransferProvider

  I am trying to transfer a database from one SQL Server 2005 server to another. TransferData method completes successfully (and all tables are available in the destination) if the source db contains only default database users (namely dbo, guest, sys). Then I repeated the same process after adding a database user (named 'testdbuser') to the source database, TransferData method threw the following exception, but the database was created in the des ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Email Alerts in Workgroup mode

  I can't seem to be able to recieve email.  MY TFS is in workgroup mode.  I have all the alerts turned on.  The pop3 and smtp server are ok (I can send and receive email normally in Outlook).  Is this an issue for anyone else Thanks in advanced,  John Did you configure the mail server and from address in the web.config   Does the TFS server account have permission to send mail from t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using the same structure in multiple objects

  I have the same structure of data (customer name, location, status, etc.) that I want to use in multiple objects within an application (one to read the data from a file, one to display it, one to create a new or updated version, and one to save it), and I'm not sure what's the "correct" way from an object oriented point of view of how to define the same structure across all of the objects. Currently, I've got the structure defined ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System NUnit Category Equivalent

  From what i understand, there is not a TS Test Attribute the equivalent of the NUnit Category . Am i correct Has someone added a custom add on for this What i want to do is flag each test with a category (something word looking as opposed to using "priority"), e.g. "always", "nightly", "weekly" to enable a class of test runs. I want to be able to access these tests from the mstest.exe command ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can/Will beta 2 SCC/WI data be preserved in the GA release

  OK, we're interested in starting to use beta 2 for our next big project, however I need to know if the data we create using beta 2 can be preserved (or at least migrated) in the GA release Does the "go live" license apply to TFS too Dave We haven't been dogfooding it for 2+ year - It's been about 8 months :)  A converter from SourceSafe has been planned from the beginning as you suggest and is available in the Beta. The issue of ...Show All