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• Visual Studio Team System "Hidden" reports in RTM ..

  In MSF4/RTM, there are some useful reports like "Work Items", "Work Items with Tasks", "Load Test Detail" etc which are marked "hidden" in the process template's ReportTasks.xml file. Therefore, they don't appear in MSF Agile team projects. These reports were available prevously. Any problem if I unhide these reports Thanks. The hidden reports are not shown by default because they are used as subreports and their primary purpose is to serve as sub-reports rather than stand alone reports. If you do find them useful, you are welcome to make them visibl ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2 Problem

  Working with the treeView Control I ran into an unexpected problem. It appears to be impossible to collapse a node branch programmatically. Collapse is an event, not a method and when I tried to use it as a method I could not get anywhere. I also tried to employ DblClick with the same negative result--the tree does not budge. Aside from Collapse I will need Expand as a method not event, although I am using it as even already. The expansion perhaps can be best accomplished by THIS . Nodes . Item . EnsureVisible Questions: (1) Is it true that this control has no such capability (collapsing nodes programmatically) or I am doing ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom text markers in VS2005 beta 2

  Hi All, We have a weird problem with custom text markers under VS2005 Beta 2 (8.0.50215.44). <br> Our AddIn registers about 30 custom text marker types. We tested it under VS2005 and, seemingly randomly, some of them work and some do not. What happens is that markers do appear in the editor (tooltips are showing, for example), but they have wrong colors (not what our implementation of IVsPackageDefinedTextMarkerType says they should have) <br> We investigated this problem, and this is what we have found so far: <br> 1. When we remove all registered external markers (all entries from 'VisualStudion\Text Edito ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Moving unstructured pieces of "work" in a workflow.

  In WF terms, what is the preferred method of attaching, persisting, and working with unstructured objects such as PDFs, image files, and objects that do not fit very well in a table or row I see basically how to work with messages and flow logic but would like someone to point me in the right direction for a discussion on working with unstructured data and large binary files that require processing, approval, etc.. In the past, it has simply been a pointer (\\server\share\queue1\myimage.jpg) to a file. I would guess that SharePoint would be overkill for this DeBug Hmmm...over 300 views but 0 replies. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Looking for a programmatic HierarchicalDataTemplate example

  Anyone seen one Robert Ingebretsen and Kevin Moore just shown on MSDNTV talking about data templates and control templates in WPF, Kevin has a great demo on how to use data templates in WPF, and his awesome code sample also demonstrates how to use HierarchicalDataTemplate, you can download the sample code from his blog Sheva ...Show All

• SQL Server Upsizing Access Action Queries

  Can anyone advise me on upsizing Access 2003 action queries to SQL Server I have a large application to upsize which contains quite a few append and make-table queries which the otherwise excellent Access 2003 Upsizing Wizard cannot handle. Thanks Dave White I'm moving this thread to the database engine forum. You might also try an Access forum, as folks here may not know much about the Access Upsizing Wizard. Paul ...Show All

• .NET Development Tcp buffer

  Hi, Client applications for my application are sending about 1500 short messages/second via Tcp sockets (local sockets, I mean on local host). Besides, my application is running on more than 60 PC, routing commands also via Tcp sockets. I fight againt my colleagues (programmers of these client applications) asking for using ACK but they did'nt want. So, I rely on the Tcp buffer and read (and handle commands) as fast as I can this Tcp stream. What is the best way to read a Tcp stream Should I try to read faster and put commands in a queue I fear that I will just move the problem and will have a very big queue. Thanks in advance for your he ...Show All

• Smart Device Development scrollbar in Compact framewok windows form

  how can we make the form scrollable in a windows form in compact framework Glad to have helped. Please try to start new threads for new topics and do understand that every topic is urgent/important to the original poster. May I suggest you check this out: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/03/please-read-before-posting-to-ng.html The serial/rs232 story in relation to .NET is here: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/09/serial-rs232-communications-in-net.html Printing is an FAQ that has been addressed in the NETCF newsgroup. Please see previous threads there: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/micros ...Show All

• Visual C# Could not start the service "ServiceName" on local computer?

  Hi all, I had wrote a service and install it using installutil successfully. But upon starting the service, I encountered the following error: Could not start the service "ServiceName" on local computer. The service did not return an error. This could be an internal windows error or an internal service error. If the problems persists, contact your system administrator. Does anyone know what is the problem Please help. Thanks And also, while I tried to remove the service using installutil /u I encountered the following error message . Uninstalling assembly 'c:\bs ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Lab 03 - Exercice 3

  Hello, I am trying out the hands-on labs from PDC and I have a problem in Lab03-Exercice 3. In this exercice, we use a .config file to specify the services that are available in the workflow runtime. The System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting.SqlTrackingService generates several exceptions, all of the same type (extract from the log file created in debug mode): Tracking Information: 0 : TrackingListener::ActivityStatusChange - Received Activity Status Change Event for activity Workflow1 Host Information: 0 : Committing instance b9f5390c-1682-4559-83d4-b6cead7c3016 Host Error: 0 : Error writing tracking data to database: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlEx ...Show All

• .NET Development BackgroundWorker problems

  Ok.....I have a while loop that executes an increment on a counter for a couple thousand times. I want to be able to show the progress on the counter using a progressbar. Now, I am executing the while loop in the DoWork method of the background worker and updating the progressbar in the ProgressChanged method and when i call RunWorkerAsync then things go wrong. My problem is that the progressBar updates properly and the count increments...however my form's UI is unresponsive...it registers click events on the cancel button but it waits until the backgroundworker completes before it actually does what it has to do. If i introduce a Thread.Sle ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reflector Add-In Inquiry

  I'll bet alot of you have used Lutz Roeder's Reflector to explore .NET assemblies. It's mentioned in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/MustHaveTools/ I use it all the time because it's shows MS Intermediate Language decompilation, and alternatively C# decompilation. Even though it seems alot like cheating, I use it without any guilt whatsoever, because I'm actually a fairly inept coder. Anyway, a Reflector Add-In exists for Visual Studio, and I'm wondering if any of you have gotten it to work, and if so, the obvious question is: How cool is it The Reflector SDK is maintained at the following site: http://www.gotdo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting error C2039 while trying to access a __nogc class within the Form1 class

  Hi everyone, I am using visual studio .net 2003 and am coding in C++. I am getting an error "C2039" when I try to access a __nogc class from within the public __gc class Form1. I get the following error C2039: 'TTS' : is not a member of 'KernelControl edit: I also get the following errors error C2501: 'KernelControl::Form1::TTS' : missing storage-class or type specifiers error C2501: 'KernelControl::Form1::test' : missing storage-class or type specifiers I was wondering if someone could point out what I might be doing wrong, it would be appreciated. I have provided a code sample bellow. #pragma once   namespa ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Add shapes with time interval

  Hi can anybody know how to add shapes to canvas automatically with in some time interval (i.e. i want to add some circles to canvas for each 5 seconds howz it possible) thanx-Nagu Can u give me a simple example code bcoz i never used this before thanx-Nagu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CMMI ML-2 & Role of Team System

  We are implementing CMMI ML-2 in our organization and we want to be the early adopters of Microsoft Team system. This is a major potential area: I have following queries to Team System Gurus n Champions and I will be expecting elaborative answers:       1.   Can we maintain Process Asset Library (PAL) in Team System, if yes then         any Live Examples ….   2. What are the facilities in Team system for Configuration Management, Yes VSS is their, what’s the upgrades etc   3. Can we use our Custom Processes, Document Templates in Team System, If Yes, and ...Show All