Shabnam Gupta's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Customizing the Assigned To field on a Work Item Type

  i already read the posts about this subject, but can't find the answer: all the active directory users within my company (150 developers) is named in the format [x][id] for example: x12345@myDomain.com . the problem is when i want to asign work item to someone i see only this number (x12345) and not his name. i cant change this rule of naming (too much dependencies) i talked with the system department and they said that in the active di ...Show All

• .NET Development Vexing debugging .net 2 service - EventType : clr20r3

  I have a service, written in C#, targetting v.2 of the framework. The service occasionally crashes, with none of my exception handling code catching anything. The service architecture is as follows: OnStart, a System.Threading.Timer timer is instantiated OnTimer - inside a mutex to ensure thread safety, methods which utilise a COM object are called OnStop, get rid of timer, dispose of objects when mutex is available etc etc I think something dod ...Show All

• Windows Forms Making a scrollable panel scroll with mousewheel just by hovering mouse

  Hi, I have a particular problem with a possible solution and I am interested in hearing peoples opinions if it is the right way to go about it (or not  ) Some applications I have come across, such as Firefox, will allow the user to scroll the document window just by hovering the mouse over the display area and using the mouse wheel. You don't have to focus / select the display area first. With Firefox, the address bar can have the foc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Adding code lines to a VS 2005 source code file

  I need to add some code lines to an existing source code file (.cs or .vb) in VS 2005. I'm writing a VSPackage that has to do this. Which is the better way to do this - I add code lines directly in the source file as text - I get the code dom graph and I add the code lines adding instruction statement to it and then serializing it again. - other... Any hints Thanks the code dom lets vis ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET XML Serialization Question

  Hi Folks I'm running .NET 1.1. I've a quick question regarding xml serialization: Is it possible to flag properties with an attribute to specify "Always Serialize". Especially read only properties. Explanation: I am using xml serialization to produce xml from objects for consumption by my frontend, which is displayed via javascript and xslt. I obviously would like all my public properties to pull through in the xml. The ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DP System

  Hello there. Are there any resources available on DP in-depth In particular I wonder how do I organize 'audit-trail' - e.g. log changes made to that DP, using built-in functionality of DPs (As per I.G. this is one of essential benefits gained by DP system). thanks, Alex ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making a picturebox have a transparent background

  I have a picture of a panda with a pink background (panda_down.bmp) and I was wondering: how do I get that pink background to be transparent Draw the image yourself in a paint handler, and use the imageattributes class to make 255/0/255 ( magenta ) transparent. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Workitem with LinksControl?

  Hi all, I have created my own work item type and now I would like to add a field which should be used as a hyperlink (URL) that describes the task. After looking at some documentation & Team Systems it seems like I should the LinksControl - but I can't really figure out how I should do it. So how can I add a LinksControl with a hyperlink to it What datatype should I use for the data field - String or PlainText How do get the LinksContro ...Show All

• SQL Server Executing a SSIS Package from an ASP.NET page.

  I am using the following code to try and execute a package from a asp.net page.  The server has both SQL, SSIS, IIS and ASP.NET on it.  The package runs fine from the SQL Management Studio.  The Execute result from the web page is 'Failure'.  My questions are: 1.  How do I catch errors to see exactly what is failing and why 2.  Is there a better way to execute a package using SSIS from asp.net Thanks, Nathan Su ...Show All

• .NET Development Autonumbers and currency

  I was wondering if currency only applies when you are editing a record as opposed to adding or deleting a record. For example, say there are 2 users that are using some disconnected database software. Each of them starts to add records to their respective datasets at the same time. When they run an update to push the values back to the server, will the autonumbers collide I'm still learning the basics, so any information will help out grea ...Show All

• SQL Server ok, I give up...how do I set permissions for NT Authority/Network Services???

  I know how to do this in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise, but things have changed in SQL Server 2005 and I can't get SQL Server 2005 CTP set correctly to avoid the following error when trying to request data from an ASP.NET datagrid in the VS.NET 2005 beta IDE. Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'. Thanks for the help. Paul ...Show All

• SQL Server OLEDB provider error.

  Hi: I have created a cube and deployed in sql server. I am trying to connect to analysis services to access cube with linked server. I am getting this error...how do i fix this. OLE DB provider "MSOLAP" for linked server "(null)" returned message "Errors in the OLE DB provider. The Extended Properties property is set to a value that is not supported.". Msg 7373, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Cannot set the ...Show All

• SQL Server Cascading Parameters problem

  Are there any way to update parameter values first after a several Cascading Parameters (text fileds) is set Ex: First I would like to fill the parameter fields (text fields): From Date - To Date, From Customer - To Customer  then the process begins to filter the rest of the fields values. Christofer You could put the fields that you want filtered by the Date and Cust ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Formatting / AutoFit

  I created a dataset and then loop it to create a data result set (by setting the xx.Value2 properties throughout the loop), and I'd like to make this result set to become "autofit" so that users can view the correct format (date and numeric), column width, ...etc Thanks, You can use the Range.AutoFormat() method to achieve this. Use a format that has AutoFit turned on and in the AutoFormat method call ...Show All

• Visual J# Is the Java serialized object in J++ and J# are compatible?

  Hi, I want migrate my existing J++ project to J#. But since the data stored in serialized object, my J# upgraded application cannot read those object produced by J++. Is there any way that my J# application can read j++ serialized object I have watch the produced object in notepad, the produced object is very similar. Just a few byte different. did I do something wrong in the setting Thank you Hi, I checked th ...Show All