Fentonjm's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Visual Source Safe 2005 and Visual Studio 2005

  How to configure VS2005 integrated with VSS2005 I have setup the Visual Studio 2005 Team edition for architects and then the Visual Source Safe 2005 . I can't enable the source control toolbar buttons and the files of my project are not recognized as files protected by a VSS2005 project.   Any help Hi Dean, I don't know how to get environment variables in VB. Perhaps someone in VB forums to know better http://forums.m ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Lookup task

  Is there a way to set the Lookup task to be not case sensitive For example, the lookup table has id 1, value 'ABCD'. The value that I'm using to lookup is 'abcd'. I cannot make it to return the id 1 unless I convert my lookup value to be all upper case. And I don't want to use Fuzzy Lookup. Thanks, Ash I am afraid it is not possible using Lookup transform itself, since the current design on its string column comparison is case-s ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Data Types

  Is there some type of resource that tells you what all the Data types are and what they are used for. For example, whats the diffrence between Nvarchar and Char Things like that. Thanks! Here are a few links for ya... http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179910.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187752.aspx Nvarchar stores a variable size Unicode string, char stores a fixed length non-Unico ...Show All

• .NET Development Visual Studio 2003 and .Net 2.0

  I'm _sure_ I read somewhere that .Net 2.0 is incompatible with Visual Studio 2003, but I can no longer find any information on this on MSDN. Will bad things happen to my VS 2003 tools and environment if I install the .Net 2.0 SDK Is there an online compatibility table No, there's no problem installing .NET 2.0 Framework, .NET 2.0 SDK or even Visual Studio 2005. Just don't expect that VS2003 will use .NET ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Commas in resource names

  I have encountered a problem when importing TFS work items into MS Project. On my domain, all users' names in Active Directory are in the format, "Last, First M." When this name gets imported into MS Project from TFS, it imports it as 2 separate resources, "Last" and "First M." When I try to publish back to TFS, I get an error (for each item), "This work item cannot be published because it is assigned to more t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System File locked by another programmer

  I have a project that has a file locked by another programmer that is no longer working with me and I can't get him to check the file back in.  How do I (as an adiministrator) remove the lock from TFS source control Please add your thoughts to the following blog post.  The tfpt features are certainly high on the list for a VS power toy. http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/11/16/493736.aspx Buck ...Show All

• .NET Development Code runs but database doesn't update

  All, I'm new to ADO.NET (used to work in ADO and am really struggling with the concept!)... I've got a web form, which has a dataset and connection attached with 2 text fields that I want to use to add a new record to a table. The code runs fine, but the database does not get updated... the db is Access. Here's the code - I know I'm doing something stupidly wrong, but I can't work it out! Thanks in advance. Dim strPN As String Dim s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form to "dock" to Windows desktop ie Ticker/Office Toolbar

  I am looking for behaviour like the Office Toolbar / BBC News Ticker where my application is in effect "docked" to the desktop and any programs opened will adjust to the new space available. I was looking at this post, but it I'm not sure whether this is the same API used -- I don't want the form registered as part of Windows/IE, I just want the form to stick there and for all other programs to be placed below it in the same way the Taskbar wor ...Show All

• Visual Basic exposing c header file

  i am looking for a c parser that would parse a c header file into xml or a format that will allow me access the strutures defiend in it Does any one know of an api or something that lets you open up a c header file and exposes it's metadata as xml. i was wondering since this is a feature used in code itellisence. I have a need where i need to parse through a c header file which has a whole munch of typedefs i need to be able to find one th ...Show All

• Visual C++ GDI+: function does not take 3 parameters

  I have ActiveX control with method for capture screen and save to file which is correctly compiled as following: [CODE] in ocx file ************* GdiplusStartup(&gdiplusToken, &gdiplusStartupInput, NULL);  SIZE sz;  //We pass SM_CXSCREEN constant to GetSystemMetrics to get the X coordinates of screen.  sz.cx = ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);  //We pass SM_CYSCREEN constant to GetSystemMetrics to get the Y coordi ...Show All

• .NET Development Debug initialization code

  How does one debug the initialization code I have a program written in VS C# Express. It works fine on the development machine (Windows 2000 Pro), both inside the IDE and running standalone. I take the same source code and run it under Windows XP and it fails during initialization (I know this because I have a MessageBox to indicate when I return from Initialization). When I run the program in the IDE on the XP machine, it works fine. How do I f ...Show All

• SQL Server Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)

  I just received this message: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum) I am completely dead in the water. Cannot connect to SSAS 2005. HELP! hello, it is not quite clear what are you trying to do when the exception happens. Is the system really running low on memory the comment above seems to suggest that you are trying to connect to SSAS, however the exception seems to come ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get the name of a unicode char programmatically?

  How can I get the descriptio(name) of a char in English  Assume the string it comes from is normalized. public static string GetDescription( char c){      // how to return the description } For example GetDescription( 'n' ) should return "Latin small letter n with a tilde" What about composite characters like most of the Hebrew letters Thanks in advanceCarl   ...Show All

• SQL Server Avg, Min & Max of two date fields in a Table

  i have a table T_EPISODE that has two fields referral date (D_REF) and assessment date (A_DATE) i need to get the average, min & max time between the referral and assessment dates where the assessment date falls within a given period (dteFromDate & dteToDate) and where assessment date is not null but im a little bit stuck on how to do it. i know about the MIN & MAX functions but they only work one field at a time. do i need to d ...Show All

• SQL Server Installing Right Components for Sql Server Express

  Hi I recently purchased a copy of Visual Studio 2005 & to my surprise there was a sql Server Express. My Question is Do i need to download any more components for this Are Enterprise manager or Query Analyzer part of Sql Server Express Ani You should go and download Advanced Services and the Toolkit, you can get them here, this will give an EM like tool and lots of other goodies. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio ...Show All