Chazoo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System How to do strong name signing and digital signature signing in the Team Build environment

  We are using Team System Beta3 Refresh at the moment... looking to move to RTM in the near future... If there are some 'real world' examples on how to implement strongname and digital certificate signing properly, so that it is supported in a Development (building in the VS IDE) AND Build environment (Team Builds), please let me know (if there are examples, you can stop reading here ;)). I would be interested in knowing: - which level of the builds scripts/solutions are used to reference these certs (project.sln, AssemblyInfo.cs, TFSBuild.proj, etc..) - how do you control the timing of the signing at compile time (for example, it would be ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help still broken

  Just installed the release version of VS2005 standard. Alas, F1 help is still broken. If I position the cursor over a word (for example HANDLE) and hit F1, the following happens: 1. If MSDN is set to use local help only, it always displays the topic-not-found page, even though on the left hand side, the topic is not only present, but selected. A single click on the highlighted item displays the correct information. 2. If MSDN is set to use online help first, then pressing F1 takes up to a minute (looks like multiple redirections happening), then either displays the topic-not-found page or displays something only vaguely related to the select ...Show All

• Visual C++ Spawnl Return Code 1

  I have a C application written in Visual C++ 6.0 which has been running successfully for several years on Windows 2000. It uses the spawnl command to execute a .bat file. Since upgrading to Windows XP Pro, the spawnl command returns a return-code of "1" instead of "0". Since I am able to successfully execute the same .bat file from DOS, I have not been able to determine what the problem is in my application. The general format of my spawnl call is: int system_result = spawnl(P_WAIT,system_command,system_command,NULL); where the system_command is the fully qualified path for the .bat file. Any help would be ...Show All

• .NET Development I need a good profiler for .NET 1.1, any ideas ?

  thanks. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/01/NETProfilerAPI/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DependencyProperty question

  I asked this in the newsgroups, but since I have had no response I thought I would try here. I have made my own class that derives from ModelVisual3D called 'PlayfieldView'. To this class I added a dependency property called 'SlotModel' of type GeometryModel3D. In XAML, I supply a property value like this: <gp:PlayfieldView.SlotModel>    <GeometryModel3D     Geometry="{DynamicResource TorusGeometry}"     Material="{DynamicResource ERRasterChecker}"    /> </gp:PlayfieldView.SlotModel> In my class, I have overridden OnPropertyChanged and I do get notified whenever the pro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Debugger doesn´t stop on breakpoint

  HI! I´m developing a C# application using windows forms. I made a copy of my solution and saved it on another computer. Now when I try to debug my project on this computer I can set a breakpoint and the debugger stops at this certain point. If I set a breakpoint on a later part of the code the debugger won´t stop.  If I try&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic Data Sources Toolbox functionality reversed

  When I am looking at a code window all of my data sources are visible in the data sources toolbox. When I am looking at a form, the toolbox is empty and greyed out and no options can be accessed. This is exactly opposite from how it worked in beta 1, 2 and RC1. Anyone know what the deal is with this As of right now I cannot drag/drop a table onto a form because all the tables are hidden when I am looking at a form. Thanks, Josh Josh: Just in way of follow-up.  It appears that I was wrong about the problem the other programmer was having.  It appears that the failure of the Data Source to properly di ...Show All

• Visual Studio Rebootstub.exe

  I ran the following command to try to figure out what this exe is for. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English\rebootstub.exe / It then came up with a prompt which didn't make much sense and I pressed "cancel". It looks like the exe then deletes itself. Interesting. Can anyone give me some info on what this file is for ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Multiple workflow/more complex examples.

  Hi, I gone through the labs, examples etc for WWF and whilst they all demonstrate different aspects of WWF, they are all rather simplistic, implementing only a single workflow. What happens where there is more than one For example, in ASP.NET there can only be one instance of the workflow engine per app domain. On page1.aspx, I need to execute some workflow and take action based on the result so I add an event handler, eg: workflowRuntime.WorkflowCompleted += new EventHandler < WorkflowCompletedEventArgs >(WorkflowRuntime_Workflow1Completed); Another page, page2.aspx also executes workflow, so again it seems I have to h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team Suite Beta 2 error "Package Load Failure"

  I get following error when starting VS Team suite 2005 Beta 2. Has anyone else seen this --------------------------- Package Load Failure --------------------------- Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future You may use 'devenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading. --------------------------- Yes   No   --------------------------- Thanks Kurt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Refresh Install Problem: SharePoint Services Not Installed

  I receive the following error trying to install the Beta 3 Refresh as a Single-Server deployment: "Windows SharePoint Services with SP2 or later is a prerequisite for this product. You must first install the latest Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 service pack before you install this product." I'm pretty sure I'm carefully following the setup instructions and that SharePoint Services 2.0 with SP2 is installed. I can bring up the SharePoint Administration site and it looks like it always has when I've previously installed TFS Beta 3. I do see that there are multiple SharePoint IIS Application Pools (currently StsAdminAppPool_2) ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to read *.txt file contents into CString object????

  Hi, I like to read the contents of a txt file into CString object in MFC program. Now, I use ifstream to read the contents, but it can read into char array only. Do you have any ideas Thanks, vcboy What's wrong with reading it into a char array (can the *.txt file contain Unicode characters - if it can then char is not the right choice) and then creating a CString from the array ...Show All

• Visual C# Database Connections in Express IDE

  I'm not sure if this is a true IDE question or not, but... Are the Express versions of VS 2005 capable of anything other than an Access database or a SQL database FILE I also have SQL Server 2005 Express installed and I'd like to write my small home programs using a normal SQL connection to the database. However, it appears that this isn't possible with Express. I doubt I'll ever purchase the full version of VS 2005 because I just use it for home hobby projects, but how would one migrate an application written in Express to the full version if they wanted something other than a local database file, and say use a full version of SQL Server 2 ...Show All

• Windows Forms WindowsForms Skinization Library ?

  Does anybody know good skinization library for .NET (WindowsForms)    I've answered you already at C# station forum :-) ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to create 32bpp icons

  i've found lots os examples for a diferent kind of thing to do on vb.net, but now i'm trying to breate 32bpp icons from an image. the folowing example uses a simple way to get icons from a bitmap, "Alph.bmp" is in 32bpp with alpha chanel, but the result gives-me a white backround. Public Shared Function From32bppBMP() As Icon Dim bmp As New Bitmap("Alph.bmp") Dim HI As IntPtr = bmp.GetHicon Dim a As Icon = Icon.FromHandle(HI) Return a End Function HOW can i convert this image to an icon with a tranparent backround It seems that for some reason the ...Show All