Thomas Lai's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Backup you data with Team Foundation Server Beta 3

  Since the documentation looks to be outdated: What are the steps to take to backup all the data within TFS3. It should be a backup of all tables (including SharePoint Services and Reporting Serves data) from SQL Server and a backup of Windows SharePoint Services. Is that it Are the attachements now stored within the database Thanks, Neno That's the version control file cache, as Bill mentioned.  The version control caching proxy is bo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using VB.NET Compiler as an older version

  Is there a way to make the VB 2005 Beta 2 Program compile to an older version e.g. VB6 The MSBuild Compatability Toolkit allows you to replace the "standard" MSBuild files (which tell Visual Studio how to build you application) with versions that can target .NET 1.0 or 1.1. The scenario where this would be useful is if you are using Visual Studio 2005 to develop your application, but you want to build application ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get the latest certificate from X509Certificate2Collection

  Hi, Please redirect me if I have landed in wrong forum. X509Store store = new X509Store ( "MY" , StoreLocation .CurrentUser); store.Open( OpenFlags .ReadWrite); //Get all the certs from 'Personal Store' X509Certificate2Collection coll = ( X509Certificate2Collection )store.Certificates; In above code I am taking all the certs from Personal store into CertificateCollection. From this collection i want to find ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS service does not start

  Hi I recently installed SQL 2005 . The install proceeded well, but Analysis services service cannot be started on to the machine. When i try to start the service via Configuration manager I recieve and error "An error occured while performing this operation" I have tried to reinstall the product , but that did not help Thanks Sumeet I found this KB article as well and have attempted to h ...Show All

• Visual J# Change Decimal Separator

  Hello I have a class that I use to format a double value and return it as a string. I have been having a problem with culture settings that use a comma (rather than period) as the decimal separator. I tried the following : static { System.Globalization.CultureInfo.get_CurrentCulture().get_NumberFormat().set_NumberDecimalSeparator("."); } which causes an exception to be thrown: System.InvalidOperationException: Instance ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Network connectivity problems

  On my Windows Mobile 2003 Emulator, I can access the internet from the browser but I can not connect to my network.  I found an older post that described my exact problem ( http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=101163&SiteID=1 ), but the thread did not seem to get resolved.  I am using ActiveSync 4.1. Any suggestions -Kevin This is interesting. Usually people hav ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista capture audio from microphone

  i am looking out for some help on how to capture audio...i made an application using directShow for video capture but dont know how to insert commands for voice capture..any sites u know..or any help do inform... I expect that your current code enums the video devices and connects the desired device to your output. To capture audio, you do essentially the same thing, except you enumerate audio capture devices. How far have you gotten A ...Show All

• SQL Server Resolve conflict

  Hi, l've a raw data which contains list of device name and # of wires used, i.e. DEVICE NAME # of Wires --------------------- ------------- A 10 B 11 C 17 D 5 A 0 E 0 So l would like to import these data into my table (with device name as primary key) which each device only appear once. If the device name appear ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installing WWF beta 2 on 64bit Windows XP

  I'm getting the following message when trying to install WWF beta 2 on 64bit Windows. Max only runs on Windows XP Service Pack 2. You can install Service Pack 2 from Windows Update. This version of Windows includes many useful security features (besides Max compatibility). Any ideas Thanks, Phillip Hi Phillip, Can you say specifically which download of WF you used And is that the text from the error you sa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ER Diagrams

  Hello. Historically SQL server has shipped with a simple but extraordinarily effective database diagramming tool. For me its one of the compelling features that differentiates SQL from mySQL or postrgres. SQL Server Express Edition does not seem to include a diagramming tool. Is it possible to use one of the other express editions to create diagrams or is there another way to do this Thanks for taking the time to respond. renen. If y ...Show All

• Visual C++ Moving CDialog with the parent window

  Hi, I've searched thru the forum archives, didn't find anything related to my problem. I have this following scenario: I have three dialogs designed in the resource editor. Two of them have to be placed on the top parent dialog based on a button click. If button A is clicked, dialog1 should show up in the center of the main parent dialog window, if Button B is clicked then dialog2 should show up in the center. I have corresponding classes for ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installing MS.Office.Interop with VB.NET Express

  I am trying to install Microsoft.Office.Interop with VB.NET 2005 Express The only installation package I found said that it requires Visual Studio 2005. Question: I assume Microsoft.Office.Interop is compatible with VB.NET 2005 Express. How do I install it on my PC without Visual Studio 2005 Thanks Thanks, actually this solved my problem as I didn't realize ADODB was a COM instead. Code snippet follows: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Deployment question - additional files on network share?

  I am in the process of changing the deployment model of a VSTO Word solution that is currently deployed locally. It needs to be deployed on a network share, so that all user's solution Word documents, whether email to one another or accessed from a Sharepoint site, point to the same assemblies and can be used with the VSTO solution. Users will often be working offline, and it is my understanding that the assemblies from the network shares ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source control and Sql2005

  Hi I would know if it's possible to use the team foundation source control with Sql 2005 to store project on it. Thanks I don't know if i'm on the good topics .. If by that you mean that you want to use the TFS version control system to store your stored procedures and schema definitions along with the rest of your source code, the answer is yes. You will need to save the stored procedures and schema d ...Show All

• Visual C++ MCF and Framework .NET

  Boyh are libraries What's the main difference It's usefull to learn MCF or nowdays is better only learn Framework .NET My personal opinion is that it really depends on the nature of the application you are developing as well as how familiar you are with the two technologies. Here is another post that might be helpful: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=39599 Thanks,   Ayman Shoukry   VC++ Team ...Show All