Scott D. Nelson's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System support for windows applications

  Hi, We are in the process of Test Automation(sanity test) of our Windows Application. Can Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers be used for that process Ours is an VB MDI application. Anyone please suggest whether we can automate the test of this application using VSTS or not Thanks Ravivarma     VSTT does not have support for driving applications from the UI layer. However, unit tests a ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Losing primary display on Windows 2003 SE w/ single Radeon display

  I recently setup and configured a new IBM x346 (dual 3.6 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 2 TB DASD) which contains a single analog video output port (builtin, not a video card). However, the display control panel indicates that it believes the video card has two display outputs, both apparently connected through the same port. I tried to utilize the "second" display by extending my desktop, but this caused my monitor to display the second screen and n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow-Instance-Id within CallExternalMethodActivity?

  A Custom Activity MyActivityA (based on SequenceActivity) is contained in another Custom Activity MyActivityB. MyActivityA uses a CallExternalMethodActivity. One of the parameters of the called method is the Instance-Id of the hosting workflow. How do I get the Instance-Id of the workflow within the CallExternalMethodActivity I've tried MyActivityA .WorkflowInstanceId (MyActivityA is derived from SequenceActivity) and WorkflowEnvironment.W ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating a double entry book keeping system

  Can anyone please tell me how to create a basic double entry book keeping system database using SQL Server or Access. I need to know what tables amd fields I need to create, and what relationships need to be defined. I just need to know the db structure here. Also how should I go about designing the forms ( I use visual Basic 2005 Express and SQL Server 2005 Express, and Access 2002 ), the front end user interface for creating journal entries, h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem debugging C# programs in VS 2003

  Hello All, I am facing a weired problem with debugging in VS 2003 in C# from last week. Till last week debug of C# program worked fine. This is what happened. I have a written a Console based C# application which uses Hashtable collection. I started debugging this application(using Step into F11 mode) After processing couple of input files my Hashtable grew to 1.5 million key-value entries. I have added watch on the hastable variable. I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't launch or uninstall smart client from user's PC

  Howdy folks, I have a clickonce "smart client" Windows application that normally works properly.  It is deployed to 2 different servers (server1, server2).  I have installed the application on several machines by navigating to the publish.htm file on one of the servers.  All of the client PCs have been running properly and auto-updating when they should....until now. I have one client PC that is running Windows XP ...Show All

• Windows Forms How would I create a control that looks like this?

  Hi. Here is an example of something I want to create graphically: Now I think I can handle the content (i.e. get a datagrid and populate it :P) but want im after is information on how I would create the item. It needs to have the little button in the right to collapse and expand the 'mini-form', it needs to have the heading (table name) and it needs to be drag-able. Another criteria is this has to be able to go into a form... specifically PAR ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Browsing the content of source control

  Hajo, In subversion it's quite easy to browse the content of source control using web browser. Is it possbile in TFS Thanks We are not shipping a web viewer for TFS source control in v1. (You can view changesets if you know the # similar to the way you can with work items, but hardly a complete feature.) We may provide one as a PowerToy; I suspect many ISVs will build similar tools. ...Show All

• SQL Server Error while importing Text file using Import Export Wizard

  Hi all i have text file where i can import it to excel to access or sql2000 without problem but when i import it using (sql2005 pro) i get this error message during the import O peration stopped... - Initializing Data Flow Task (Success) - Initializing Connections (Success) - Setting SQL Command (Success) - Setting Source Connection (Success) - Setting Destination Connection (Success) - Validating (Success) - Prepare ...Show All

• SQL Server Storing MS Office documents in SQL2K

  I've been asked if I can store documents of text, Excel, Word, etc. types in my application (.NET 1.1, C#) directly with the records. I've not been able to find specific documentation about it outside of using SharePoint, which isn't supported in my environment. I *am* using SQL2K to store images. Is there some documentation that covers requirements/recommendations I can't seem to find the right key words. I have an idea for a hack to do it ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to stimulate a mouse left click when the x, y co-ordinates are provided

  Hello All I am trying to make an application in Visual Basic.NET which stimulates mouse left click. I am using SendMessageA API with message WM_LBUTTONUP PRE.clsCode { font-size:110%; } PRE.clsSyntax { font-size:100%; } TD DIV.clsBeta { display:none;} A:link { color:#0000ff; text-decoration:underline;} A:visited { color:#0000ff; text-decoration:underline;} A:hover { color:#3366ff; text-decoration:underline;} MSHelp\:link { ...Show All

• Windows Forms Easy way to format textbox without negative numbers

  It is nice in 2005 to use Bindings, Advanced for a textbox and select a numeric format.  One problem I am having, however, is that I see no way to tell VS that I want numeric formatting, but I do not want the textbox to accept numbers that are less than zero.  Is there an easy way to do this What I think would be the smartest option is what I would hope MS would provide, which is a text box class ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deployment error in Windows Mobile5.0 Application

  Hello another issue,i am using Winmobile5 API with C# i am just keep getting this again and again ------ Build started: Project: Mobile5Db, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------ Mobile5Db -> C:\Documents and Settings\Adnan\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Mobile5Db\Mobile5Db\bin\Debug\Mobile5Db.exe ------ Deploy started: Project: Mobile5Db, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------ Deployment and/or registration failed with error: 0x8007002 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Global application error handler

  Is there an easy way to define a global error handler for my windows app   Something to catch the exceptions that fall through any other specific try / catches I may have   I've tried the following 2 methods and errors still seem to&n ...Show All

• Windows Forms resizeable

  This is probably a bit of an obvious question, but how do you create forms that are resizeable. (Not just the actual form but so that the controls on the form change size in accordance with the form changing size.) Any help would be appreciated If I understand your scenario correctly, you are not talking about running under different screen resolutions. E.g. you want to make sure that buttons on your form resiz ...Show All