Bruce Taimana MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Work Item - Title vs Summary (Redundant?)

  I find myself just repeating in the summary what I put in for the title.  These two fields seem redundant.  What am I missing here   How are they supposed to be used Once we've fixed it and you've tried it for a while I'd be interested in more feedback.  In our own use of it we've found the two fields go hand in hand very well.  The Repro steps are generally entered once and don't chang ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Settings and Contraints Editor : Search function

  Please could you explain the context of the search function: Example : When I right-click on Application Settings in AD, and search for AuthGlags, I get 3 Authflags. Same result is obtained when searchin on the Logical Server Constraints node. When I search under Logical Data Center on Logical Server Settings and Application Constraints, I get 4 results.  What pool of settings is it searching in each case, and why is there a ...Show All

• Visual C# Can this be made more efficient?

  Does anyone know of a better way of doing this   I have been tasked to convert a VB 6.0 app over to C# and encountered this routine (there are more like this).  Luckily the original coder believed in documenting but, I'm having a devil of a time trying to convert this to C# code! I've thought of possibly using a regular expression but I'm not at all familiar with them and so far have gotten hopelessly lost.  Can someone please ...Show All

• Windows Forms Trapping key presses

  Hi! I want to write a windows service that can disable certain keys when pressed before they get into a program. For example the delete key on my keyboard is broken and repeatedly presses itself. Is there a way that I can trap the keypress and have it do nothing in effect disabling the key Have you thought of getting a new keyboard ;-) Seriously, if you were to attempt this (assuming you have good intentions her ...Show All

• Windows Forms Sending mail with VB.Net

  This may ultimately be an SMTP admin question (as opposed to VB.Net) but, I wrote the following code to send a mail messge from a VB.Net app.       Dim from As String = "dexterm@mindspring.com"       Dim mailto As  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Popup from portal page - "Unable to locate control: ctl00oReportCell"

  Next problem:  The Builds report and Quality Indicators report produce MessageBoxes with the text in the subject. (xposted on your blog entry) Thanks for posting this! Just a couple of points I ran into when doing these steps: When compiling your code above on a clean Beta 2 machine, I get the following errors: Error    1    The type or namespace name 'UI' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web' (a ...Show All

• Visual C# Progress Bar & Timer

  Ok. I still have not had my question answer which is ok. Maybe ive been asking the wrong question. Ok. What I need is, when I click a button, to have a progress bar made at runtime. Now, when its created, I made a code to where it fills up as described below. private void timer1_Tick( object sender, EventArgs e) { if (progressBar1.Value <= progressBar1.Maximum - 1) progressBar1.Value += 1; else timer1.Enabled = false ; Now w ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Activities

  Can some illustrate how to use the If..Else Activity.....I am really looking for how an activity can use data from a previous avtivity in a sequential workflow. Let's say there is a web service avtivity which flows to an if..else activity. I would like the if..else activity to use the output of the web service that was called in the webservice activity. Of course I could put all of this in a composite activity but lets just assume there are reas ...Show All

• Visual C++ Internet App

  Hi I would like to create an application using Visual C++ to connect to the internet, then a web page, and then search the page and extract information. Trouble is I am fairly new to this and dont really know how to start, so hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Cheers Jon I'm assuming you're using Visual C++ 2005 (If not, you're on the wrong forum). If you're looking for a quick way ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System No of tests running

  Hi, I am testing one win form application. I have written unit test and I am calling this unit test in my load test to test the web services. I am running the load test with 100 users for 10 minutes. For 2 minutes only numbers of users are reached 100 and test is running for 10 minutes. But in test running counter for max column tests running showing as 20 only. Min column showing as 9. Question . ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Running Directshow filter

  I have developed a directshow filter for Windows Mobile 5.0 using Visual Studio 2005 and got .ax file output. I have connected the Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Emulator through ActiveSync 4.0. Can anybody please tell me how can i test it on Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Emulator I am not sure if i fully understood you question. This article may help you http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wcemultimed ...Show All

• Windows Forms UserControl messed up in the Designer - prevent error messages?

  Hello, I have a usercontrol, put it on the form, and always when I open the form in the Forms Designer, there's a long errormessage inside the control, using the font & color which are set as properties of the form, and there pops up&n ...Show All

• SQL Server How to create variable shared within the SQL Report

  I am testing out the SQL Reporting. I tried to create a variable that will work like a global variable which can store and maintain value in any grouping. I have a report that has a table running a stored procedure. Then I create 4 groups inside the table. I need to extract information from each group and store into a custom code variable and use it later. However, I found that scooping applies to each group. Under the custom code section ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Error

  Hi guys,    I just installed SQL Server 05 Dev. Edition on my test server but after trying to open the management studio/SQL profiler I am getting the following error (Please assist): ************** Exception Text ************** System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.Personalization' to type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.Personalization'.   ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX7 SDK Lost Forever?

  I am very distressed at the moment. I simply cannot find the last release of the DX7 SDK anywhere ! I may just be ignorant as to where to find it on MSDN Downloads but I just can't find it anywhere. Anyone who knows where I could find a download of that priceless treasure please let me know. We only support the last 3 releases of the DirectX SDK (currently the June, August, and October 2005 releases).  DirectX 7 became an unsupported ...Show All