Shawn Bankert's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System HOWTO: Customize the Bug that Team Build creates on Failure

  When a Daily Build fails, Team Build creates a "Bug" in the Work Items list. We have customized the "Bug" Work Item Type Definition and added several additional <REQUIRED/> fields.  Is there a way to customize the way Team Build creates the Bug so that it can populate the new <REQUIRED/> fields Joe. Hi Joe - You can do this by setting the required field values in the WorkItemFieldValues tag in the TeamBuild.proj file associated wiht each build type. For instance, in order to set fields priority and severity we need to set the following: <WorkItemFieldValues>Priority=1;Severity=1</WorkItemFieldValues> Hop ...Show All

• .NET Development writting xml based on xsd schema using Dataset or any other method

  Am using Visual Studio 2005 (vb.net).... I know you can validate an xml file using "XmlValidatingReader", but I want to generate xml from a dataset based on an xsd schema, this is some thing I use to do in Stylus Studio but can't figure out how to do it using vb.net so I want to generate a xml document based on an xsd schema I have got, can any one help   Many thanks jaodger Yip, use the XmlDataDocument class. This class allows you to treat the xml in a dataset as an XmlDocument. This might be what your looking for, however the DataSet class has a WriteXml (I think thats what it' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom control types in WI

  Hi there,      Is there a possibility of more built-in controls being available in future for Work Items. For example tree view control, multiple selection check boxes, multiple selection drop down list view etc. like Tactics has. Or even enabling custom Controls. If Yes, how soon do you expect that to happen Thanks, Anu Anu, This post might answer your questions: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=67445 Thanks, Avanti ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I use remoting effectively over an intranet?

  I'm a veteran C++/COM switching to C#/.Net.  I've written a WinForms application.  I'd like to be able to "remotely watch" what the user is doing on their machine, to aid in debugging, etc.  Ideally, I'd like to start an instance of the app on my machine, but have it "connect" to the running instance on the remote machine. I've  ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Use Customer VB Functions with FoxPro

  Hi there, I have heard that you can create a custom Class Library DLL in Visual Basic to be included in FoxPro 9.0. I have custom code to manipulate PDF's and would like have access to the classes in a FoxPro interface. Does anyone know how to do include a DLL Thanks for the help. As far as I know the only requirements are that it must implement the IDispatch and IUnknown interfaces and that it must be compiled (and registered) as a Multi-Threaded COM+ DLL. Then the class can be instantiated in VFP using oObject = CREATEOBJECT( "DLL.CLASS" ) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista .NET Framework 2.0 Install fails on Vista Beta 1

  Just done a clean install of windows vista beta1. Attempting to install .NET Framework 2.0 either directly or as pre-requisite from VS 2005 or SQL Server 2005 gives fatal install errors. Other similar posts indicate a compatibility problem with the .Net Framework 2.0 provided in Vista beta 1 and the release versions of these tools. Anyone know if there is actually a work around for this hi Alex, I also facing the same problem, i installed the 5112 beta 1. .Netframework 2.0 installation failed during Winfx installation. I tried to install 5284 its not having any issues with WinFX but IIS is missing in ...Show All

• Visual C# How to play sound from resources?

  I can play MySound.wav from my disk, using SoundPlayer media= new SoundPlayer (@"c:\MySound.wav"); media.Play(); But i want this sound was included to my program. I add it to resources. but SoundPlayer media= new SoundPlayer ( CsApp.Properties. Resources .MySound); media.Play(); doesn't work... I added tada.wav (X:\Windows\Media\tada.wav) to resources. This code I added to Form_Load event: Stream str = Properties.Resources.tada; SoundPlayer snd = new SoundPlayer(str); snd.Play(); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio RC1 + Foundation Server Beta 3

  Hi, Can somebody clarify the following for me please. I have Foundation server Beta 3 installed on a server machine and Visual Studio Release candidate installed on a VPC on a seperate workstation. 1. Can the two interoperate OK 2. The server was created within a Domain but the workstation is standalone in a workgroup.  Will it be able to connect to the Server OK 3. I installed the team test and developer options in my Visual Studio installation do I still need to install the client from the Foundation Server CD to get connectivity I thought by installing the Team test/dev options this was the client tools. Cheers. Beta 3 TFS ...Show All

• Windows Forms Thousand separator in datagridview

  how can i use Thousand seprator in datagridview when user enter data in the field. Set the CellStyle's Format property to N2 which will format the data. The column's ValueType must be of type decimal. -mark DataGridView Program Manager Microsoft This post is provided "as-is" ...Show All

• SQL Server Upgrade advisor and Reporting Services...

  According to the Upgrade Advisor page, it will not remotely work for reporting services. It must be run on the local machine that is running RS. When I try to install the UA on that machine, a Windows 2003 Server with SQL2000 Standard with SP 3a, it gives me a message stating: Intsallation of this product failed because it is not supported on this operating system. For information on supported configurations, see the product documentation. Any thoughts on how to get this to work Thanks in advance... Christian, You need to install WIndows 2003 SP1, .NET frameworks 2.0 before installing Upgrade Advisor You can refer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Exclude from Source Control

  In VS 2005/VSS 0.0d The option to Exclude xxxx from Source Control is not available to me for any files in a web site project. Which would be desirable as for example the web.config I use is not the same as for other team members, and also for dll references in the bin folder of the web project. Exclude from source control is not supported for web projects. Dll references in bin folder should be automatically excluded. Search the forum for "exclude", the issue has been discussed before in a couple of theads like  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=106422&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions INSTALLATION ERRORS

        I downloaded Visual Basics 2005 Express, Microsoft  MSDN 2005 Express Edition, and Micrsoft SQL Server 2005 Express x86, as a pundled package. The first 2 installed fine. But I'm having some issues with the SQL Server, it stoped in the middle of the instalation and said instalation failed.( An unexpected error occoured during setup. The data file C:\DOCUME~1\DJARTS~1\LOCALS ~1\Temp\sit27125REBOOT.INI ) cannot be opened ) . Then it said my system does not meet the requirements. So, I read the read-me-file, and according to what it said, my system more than meets the requirements. I have t ...Show All

• SQL Server question on using xp_cmdshell

  I am trying to run an exe file like: EXEC master.dbo.xp_cmdshell '\\Share\sharepoint\folder1\folder2\test.exe "input parameter"' And executing the above with the input should give me an output.But the input parameter is not recognised. Any help. Thanks EXEC xp_cmdshell 'dir *.exe'; try removing the double quotes, above I do a DIR command passing in *.exe ...Show All

• .NET Development Word 2003 Addin in VS2005 - deployment

  Hello everybody, I'm currently developing addin for Word 2003 in VS2005 (VB.NET) Everything works fine, addin works great (actually only as designed) but I have hudge problems with deployment. It works on my production box, but When I compile the setup project (bundled in by default) it doesnt work on other boxes. There is only one box it actually worked - box with office 2003 and VS2005. On other boxes office 2003 stats but doesnt run the addin (they do have framework 2.0 ) And my question is..... how can I deploy it to other boxes (without redistributing VS2005 ;) Regards, Arek Is it going t ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem When From Sequence file insert into Oracle Destination table in SSIS Package

  Hi , i was used the Follwing DataFlow for my Package.using Oracle 8i FalteFile Source -------------> Data Conversion --------------->OLEDB Destination (Oracle Data table) using above control flow to map the Source file to Destination . When i run the SSIS Package teh Folwing Error i got " Truncation Occur maydue to inserting data from data flow column "columnName " with a length of 50 " regarding this Error i i understood its for happening Data Length . so that i was changed the Source Column Length Exactly Match with the The Destination table. still i am getting this Error. pls any one giv ...Show All