stephan mantler's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Essa

  I am an observer who is looking forward to becomming a participant. Essa has become the dominant, and sometimes singular  creature in my ecosystem. I may be wrong , but it seems to be winning unfairly, I say this because when it is killed  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Branching bound projects and solutions does not work

  Hello, While testing branching capabilities in TFS, I come to realize that for bound projects and solutions, branching does not work as expected. I hope I am wrong, and if you see any mistake with the following scenario, please tell me. Start of with a solution that has two projects c:\root\solutions\solution.sln c:\root\projects\projectA.csproj c:\root\projects\projectB.csproj Add the root directory to ver ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Check in Buid Policy

  Hello Im trying to create a policy for check in’s in the Server Code. I want that this policy checks the resultant code, and doesnt allow the check in if the resultant code does not compile.. How could I do this Thx You can find a sample for checkin policy on the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. You have to develop a custom class and implement IPolicyDefinition and IPolicyEvaluation interfaces (they are in namespace Microso ...Show All

• SQL Server error changing subscription properties

  Hi Made a change to the publisher security parameters, tried to save and got the following message: "An error occurred saving the changes to the subscription. Additional information. "Value" is longer than 128 that it should not exceed. Parameter name: value (Microsoft.sqlserver.rmo) Doesn't make much sense to me. Tried to change it back and all I get is this error (i had set the userid to domain/userid which was obviously an error). ...Show All

• .NET Development Can .NET Remoting App be both Client and Server?

  There will be a question in here so stay with me, I'm providing some background first. I just started working on an existing app with the programmer that originally wrote the code.  My contribution will be to make one instance of the app running on one workstation on a network talk to another instance of the same app running on a different workstation on the network. To provide the services I want to use .NET Remoting (eventually Web Servic ...Show All

• .NET Development How to use the DropDownList control

  How can I use the DropDownList control to handle active and inactive field values. For example, a Web form is used to display historical Assignment records and has a DropDownControl called ddlProjectCode. Since we are showing historical records, ddlProjectCode has to be able to display both active and inactive ProjectCodes, but when the user tries to change the ProjectCode or add a new Assignment record, then ddlProjectCode should only ...Show All

• SQL Server Lookup Transformation: How can I join tables in different databases

  I want to join tables that reside in different databases (same instance).  The Lookup object only lets me select from one data source.  Is there anyway to lookup using more than one data source   I can write a SQL query to lookup across databases. Is this a feature that is being added to future releases I appreciate your help -Marcus What about MS Access using DAO In DAO you use something like th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Detailed example - structs

  I have a weird situation as follows: staticData.h defines a struct as follows: static struct city { public: int cityID;          char cityName[22];          char countryID[2];          char countryName[20];          double lng, lat;      &nbs ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Folder level Security

  Can we provide a folder level security on a PDA having Windows Mobile 5.0 version installed on it. Please reply asap. No, no such thing on CE/WM. May be some 3rd party products are available, but I'm not aware of any. Consider using encryption in your application instead. ...Show All

• SQL Server Table does not exist in Copy objects task

  I have a SQL2000 database that I need to copy tables from to my SQL2005 database. The table in the 2000 database are owned by a login named tsreader. This login is also in the dbo database role. So, when I access tables I have to prefix tha table name with tsreader. Currently in a SQL2000 database I have DTS packages that pull data over from this database everynight and they work fine. However when I try to do this from SSIS, I get the error &qu ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can I run functions in the background?

  Ok let me explain the situation here. I am working on a program that monitors a full screen program. The full screen program updates a file every so often so I have a fileWatcher that raises an event when the file is updated. Whenever the event is raised, the program edits the files and saves it. However the full screen program always loses focus to the other program. Is there any way to make the program edit and save the file "quietly " Thank ...Show All

• Visual C# system tray

  Hi. How can send my programm to system tray. I write a clock alarm program and want when running go to system tray. Put a NotifyIcon component on your form, set the Icon property to the Icon you want and look at this self-explaning code: private FormWindowState _lastNonMinimizedState; private void Form1_Resize( object sender, System.EventArgs e) { if (WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized) { ShowInTaskbar = false ; not ...Show All

• Visual Basic How secure is a ClickOnce app from prying eyes?

  I've just started reading up on ClickOnce deployment and it seems like a good option for applications with a straightforward installation.  The question that springs to mind for me is the security of the application.  I don't mean is the system being installed to going to be secure from the application doing Bad Things, but is my application going to be secure from the user trying to reverse-engineer it. I know that ClickOnce ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I delete a task?

  In going through the walkthrough, I accidently created a duplicate of a task. Is there some way to delete it ("Delete" doesn't seem to work.) There is no support for deleting work items in TF. You may want to just change the state of the task. If you truly want to delete the task you will have to remove entries from WorkItemsAre, WorkItemsWere, and WorkItemsLongTexts tables in TfsWorkItemTracking da ...Show All

• SQL Server sql statement: listing all values

  Hi, i have two tables. Users: - userid, username Location: - userid, postalAddress, timestamp i want to create a view that lists all users (id and name) along with their latest Location address. i use the following sql statement which: select Users . name , Users .userid, Location.postalAddress from Users inner join Location on Location . userid = Users . userid where Location . timestamp IN ( S ...Show All