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• Visual Studio Team System TFS Security

  If I add "Domain\Domain Users" group to "Project\Contributors" then domain users ("Domain\User1") cannot access TFS. If I add "Domain\User1" to "Project\Contributors" group then everything works. Is this by design or a bug The Beta 3 refresh code has a problem detecting group membership if the group is set as the user's primary group.  By default, all users have the Domain Users group set as their primary ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System connect to Foundation Server

  Thank you for the help I got from this forum. Now I eventually install Foundation Server :) After installed the foundation server, I used visual studio 2005 beta 2 to connect to team foundation server. But I have a problem: I normally login to my xp machine which belong to a workgroup using a local machine account - e.g. xpding. After I join my machine to the domain controller of the server, I can only login using xpding to local machine, if I t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic 2005 Express Beta 2 vs. Visual Basic 6.0

  Is the Visual Basic 2005 Express Beta 2 better than Visual Basic 6.0 or completely different Hi, Yes, your right. There are some differences in a VB6 approach to the VB.Net (code-wise). The .net approach is object-oriented, that is you'll have to work with tons of objects to achieve something. There are some VB6 codes that is shorter than its .net equivalent and some the other way around. VB6 has it ...Show All

• SQL Server Neither the partner nor the witness server instance for data...

  I am getting this error while trying to setup mirroring. "Neither the partner nor the witness server instance for database "shop" is available. Reissue the command when at least one of the instances becomes available. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1431)" I am just using principal and mirror server, there is no witness server. I have tried fully qualified name and ip for the servers also. I can connect from the principal s ...Show All

• Visual C# Send Data over USB

  Hello Everyone, I'm not sure is this the place to ask this question. Anyways if not the place somebody can redirect me..... I'm trying to send some data over USB....The WritePacket USB takes these parameters..... void WritePacket(ref byte data, int length)... I have a XML File from where I'm reading the contents and sending over..... say If I can read something like this foreach(XMLNode node in nList) // Where nList is XMLNod ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C++ crashes on exit

  Visual C++ express edition always crashes when I exit the IDE under certain conditions. Does anyone sees this It might be related that I have a solution containing 46 projects The only thing I installed with VC++ is the platform SDK, so this is a pretty clean install. I think the mininum thing I can do is: * start the IDE. * run "build", waits for it to be finished. * click on the "X" to close the window ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot add new items on Web Projects

  Hi, I'm having this weird issue and I cannot fix it, I've tried a clean re-install of VS2005 B2 but that doesn't seem to help. The problem is with Web Projects, wheter I try to add a new item I get "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" I'm using the Standard Edition. i know this is extrememly old but what do you mean switch to a new user........ ...Show All

• SQL Server Repeat List across page, not just down?

  I want to use a List (or similar), but I want the fields from each row of the source datatable to repeat across the page before wrapping to the next line. For example: row1-FieldA row1-FieldB row2-FieldA row2-FieldB row3-FieldA row3-FieldB row4... etc Is this possible Quick and dirthy is to write the expression select the required report item(table in ur list) choose expression for pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System exception constructor

  How to find out an exception constructor I have to create a rule to check that exceptions are not thrown from inside exception constructors. 1) Override Check(Member) 2) Cast the member argument to an InstanceInitializer, if the result is not null, then return from the check override 3) If the result is non-null, check the Member.DeclaringType to see whether it is assignable to Exception 4) If that check succeeds, scan the ...Show All

• SQL Server sp_changedbowner bug?

  in studio sqlserver 2005 beta 2 press button new query, use adventureworks entry text: sp_changedbowner 'sa' press execute - result ok entry text: create procedure anyproc .... go  sp_changedbowner 'sa' script  ending  only if press stop button entry text: sp_changedbowner 'sa' script  ending  only if press stop button   bug.vbs: set adoconn1 = createobject("AD ...Show All

• .NET Development NetworkStream deserialization

  Hello, I am writing a simple client - server app using serialization with BinaryFormatter on a NetworkStream, and using the TCPListener and TCPClient class. On the server side, I want to loop to listen for new serialized objects all the time (until client logs off). However, just using a while(true) statement will give me the SerializationException "End of Stream encountered before parsing was completed". And using stream.Read != 0 ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting

  Hi, My application is running on 65 PC. After a few hours, this applications crash on 2-3 PC. I get no exception in my log files. I set the Application.ThreadException and AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException exception event handlers. The last one is triggered with 'System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' but there is no stack trace available. I got no dump file, no popup window. I only get the ...Show All

• .NET Development InterOp issues for Web Service -- Automation error, The system cannot find the file specified.

  Issue with Interop of COM component and .Net Assembly We have a project, which uses .net Assembly and COM component together, and is having problem with loading the private assembly. Issue: The .NET Assembly calls a COM components and that COM components calls another .NET assembly, and we would not be able to get the COM components call .NET assembly working in the call chain (Assembly->COM component -> Assem ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with ShellExecute

  Hello, I build a new Windows Form Application. In the constructor I get a value from the registry and store them in a member variable: private : String^ SrcPath; . . . this ->SrcPath = rk->GetValue( "SrcPath" )->ToString(); Now, if the user click a button e.g. play, it should open an .exe file. I do this like that: ShellExecute(NULL, TEXT( "open" ), TEXT( "game.exe" ), NULL, this->SrcPath, SW_SHOW); Application::Exit(); B ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Server Error in '/ServiceModelSamples' Application

  Hi! I am new to WCF programming an struggle to get the Calculatur service running in IIS 5.1. I can't figure out what is wrong Accessing http://localhost/ServiceModelSamples/service.svc gives the following error message: Server Error in '/ServiceModelSamples' Application. Can you check and make sure the Virtual Directory that hosts the samples application is set up correctly with IIS - Open up the IIS Manager MMC - Locate the " ...Show All