Kevin Dente's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Publishing test results failing

  Hi, We have deployed TFS in a lab environment in a single-server configuration. ie: We have SQL 2005, TFS on one server and Team Build server on another server. The firewall is disabled on both the TFS Server as well as the Build server. The account that the Build Service on the Build server is running under has admin rights on TFS as well as the TFS Server as well. I had given this account full rights to the team project as well. The Publishing service is still failing. Please help me identify where I am going wrong with this. cheers, Garnet. Hi, once I added the (domain\userAccount) that the ...Show All

• SQL Server Week format in ISO 8601 - how?

  Hello. How can I receive the ISO 8601 week format retrevied from a Date object of SQL I now use : DATEADD(d, -1, DATEADD(ww, DATEDIFF(ww,0,stamptime), 0)) wo get the week of the year, by this returns the first week of the year as where 1 of the month is, also each week starts with sunday and not mondy. How can I customize is to fit ISO 8601 You might want to create your own function to do the conversion. http://groups.google.com/groups q=sqlserver+iso+8601 Here is an example [courtesy of Andrea M.] CREATE FUNCTION dbo.ISO8601Week (  @d datetime  ) RETURNS int AS BEGIN  DECLARE @ISOoffset int  SET @ISOoff ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error: "Excel/Word visual studio design time adaptor add-in" disabled

  Hi folks, I am getting following error whenever I want to see the "Design Mode" for Excel sheet application created in VSTO. "Project cannot be created because the application add-in is not working or might have been disabled. Enable "Excel/Word visual studio design time adaptor add-in" if disabled or reinstall VSTO " I checked the disabled items in Help menu for Excel, but the specifed add-in is not disabled. Even the VSTO is installed properly. Please let me know how to fix this. Regards, Hemant Hi Hemant, We have heard of this occuring infrequently but haven't been able t ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Pushpin in v3 only accepts images as icons

  Hello, What happened to the ability in v2 to simply use a div tag and style as opposed to an image for the pushpin icon. It appears that v3 only accepts an image source. This really has messed us up as we now have to dynamically generate images on the fly which has a huge impact on performance. Any particular reason why this has been changed It appears as if the image source is used in an html img tag (within the pushpin generation). Why not open up as it was so that we can continue using divs Thanks, Jeff You have to define a style class and reference that in the pushpin constructor. Have a look at example 3 on this pag ...Show All

• Windows Forms expandable property in property window

  hi, i generate a user control and i could add into toolbox. i added some new properties to the user control. but i want that these properties can be expandable into property browser.  for example:  "size" property of any form control has two sub properties as "width" and "heigth" and these can be viewed in property browser.  i want& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Process continues to run after Application.Exit()

  When the user clicks on my Exit menu command I call Close() followed by Application.Exit(). The GUI goes away as expected but the process is still listed in Task Manager. What do I need to do to really terminate the process Do you have multiple calls to Application.Run() or other threads running You might need to abort running threads and call Application.Exit() for every Applicat ion.Run() ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow - If else Conditional Activity

  I am trying to create an If Else branching in my State based workflow. In the properties it says enter the method with signature bool MethodName(object,EventArgs) but if I have bool as the return type it is not able to recognize the method. If I have it as void it recognizes it. How do I solve this problem Please help. Regards If you are using Beta 2.2 - the signature should be: void CondtionMethod(object o, ConditionalEventArgs e) { e.Result = true; } ...Show All

• Visual Basic bit depth

  hi ppl.. i want to know if we can convert jpeg file to bmp file while we restore the bit depth (24 bit in jpeg format) to (8 bit in bmp format)  which is changed by default  (by editing in mspaint) ... u can see such bitmap file in urs "c:\document & settings\"(current user)"\local settings\microsoft\application data\ "    folder which file is actually the one set as background on ur desktop There is no single method to convert an existing JPEG file to the BMP format.  Like I said, you must create a Bitmap object from the JPEG file and then Save it as a BMP.  There will be no loss of informat ...Show All

• Smart Device Development DPI Aware

  Hello, Anyone have solutions on the best method to create DPI aware applications Thanks I searched http://search.microsoft.com for "DPI aware pocketpc" and got one match:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/build_portable_wm_apps.asp .  That article refers to another, http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/dpi_awareness.asp .   Barry ...Show All

• Visual Studio No data in report is shown after replacing to another IIS server

  We have made a website with visualstudio 2003 in combination with Crystal XI. On this server everything is working with IIS. When we copy the whole direcory from this server to another IIS server the website is working. On this new machine is not installed visual studio. Crystal reports XI is installed on this server. With crystal reports server. Only when i select a crystal report we get no connection. We see the buttons above the page of the report and in the middle CrystalReportviewer-Crystalreportviewer3  -> Error: Programming Error. There is no data in the report Above this report it says: Dutch: De verbinding kan niet wo ...Show All

• Visual Basic Updating underlying table

  I have a form based on a BindingSource. The text controls' Data Source Update Mode are set to OnPropertyChanged. The FormClosing method (I almost said "event") has the line Me.nameBindingSource.EndEdit() Changes to the data in the fields on the form are not saved when the form is closed. How can I do this The BindingSource object allows binding and navigation of the underlying data.  There should also be an associated TableAdapter object.  You need to call the Update() method of the TableAdapter and pass it the updated data. (This is assuming you're bound to a database.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Resource IDs in Express Edition

  A quick background: Having very limited programming experience, I've decided to take advantage of Microsoft's free VS Express and hopefully expand my ability. After a couple days of messing around and researching, I came to the decision that it would be beneficial to first teach myself some native C++ programming conventions in the Windows environment (win32 api) before learning the ways of the much easier-to-use .NET programming environment. I recommend this to other people starting out as well. Anyways, I'm currently learning about assigning a unique resource ID to a particular window, say a button type. I am being taught to pass the ID i ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Form Design View

  Hey everyone, Something has happened to my Smart Device project, but I am not sure what.  Now when I open the project and double-click on the form, only the script file opens.  I can't get the design view to open for the form.  It will still deploy in debug mode.  Does anyone know what this means Thanks I have a feeling that this might be a known issue. Could you answer these 2 questions - Is it a Device v1 app (which uses .Net Compact Framework v1.0) - Does right clicking on the form in the solution explorer give you a 'View Designer' option Thanks, Sriram Krishnan PM, VSD ...Show All

• SQL Server How to browse cube in Excel?

  Hi, all here, Could anyone tell me how can I browse cube data in Excel Thanks a lot in advance for any guidance and help. There are two options I know of. One is Microsofts Free giveaway Data Access Tool. Only works with Excel 2002 onwards I think, get it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=DAE82128-9F21-475D-88A4-4B6E6C069FF0&displaylang=en home page for product is at http://www.microsoft.com/office/solutions/accelerators/exceladdin/default.mspx Another is XLCubed www.xlcubed.com which is similar but far more powerful and friendly. This works with Excel 2000 SP2 onwards Most of the Big front ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can't debug ASP in VS2005

  VS2005 doesn't seem to support debugging ASP pages. Is this really so That's a serious problem if it is. Thanks Jeremy What sort of problems are you seeing I can't seem to get it to work either. I get messages saying that the server (I'm developing on the server) is not configured to support debugging, with a suggestion to see some non-existent topics on configuring ASP.NET and ATL debugging in the documentation, and messages saying that the "current trust level does not support the 'debug' attribute." I've played a little bit with the groups and permissions based on what I could find, placing the ASPNET user ...Show All