AppzGuy's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Unable to download Microsoft SDC tasks

  Hi, I was attempting to download the Microsoft SDC Tasks library and was unsuccessful doing so. I had clicked to join the group but never got a response back. Later i read the message that membership limit had been reached and the downloads can still be done from the homepage. I tried it and wasn't able to download it from anywhere. I would appreciate it if somebody could let me know if it would be possible for me to obtain a copy of the task ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS2005 Can't Connect to Team Foundation Server (RC)

  We've setup tfs on a windows 2003 sp1 server. We also have another windows 2003 sp1 server on which we have visual studio and installed the tfs explorer. We are able to connect via VS2005 to tfs from that 2nd server with no problems. However, on two windows XP laptops, we are unable to connect to the tfs server. When you attempt to add the server, it hangs for a long time and then you get the generic error that tfs could not be contacted - ...Show All

• Visual C++ why can't i declare Enumeration as value type in vc++2005

  I tried to declare  an enumeration as value type, but i got 2 compiler errors. the code is as below: #include "stdafx.h" using namespace System; value enum WeekDay{  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday } the value keyword is not highlighted. i think the following line should work in vc++2003: __value enum WeekDay{} why can't  enum be declared with value keywork in vc++2005 it works  without the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development DataGrid - 3 problems

  (1) I was going through the example at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229684.aspx I fixed the small problem with the EditView constructor with these 2 lines: if (drView["Discontinued"] is DBNull) drView["Discontinued"] = false ; cbxDiscontinued.DataBindings.Add("Checked", CurrentBindingSource, "Discontinued");   However, the application works fine for most part, except when I tried to add a new record a second time. It ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Roles in Team System

  How can I create roles How can I assign diferents roles to the same user Thanks Leticia You create roles in the XML process template. If you edit an existing template, you will see the role definitions. You don't assign roles to users in Team System, you assign groups and permissions to users. You can create groups which match the roles within the XML. The full details of how to do this will be in the documentation released with the final ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Connecting to access mdb file problem.

  I am having some trouble connecting to my Access Database from Visual Studio Express 2005. I can add a connection if it is a sql database, but when i change the Datasource to the access option and hit ok i get a window that allows me to change my Connection string, and thats it. If i cancel it exits the wizard. Also the only data provider i have is .net framework provider for ole db. Should i have a second provider The other softw ...Show All

• Visual Basic Area Perimeter Calculator

  I'm having a problem and I'm wondering if anyone can help me I'm creating a calculator in Microsoft Visual Basic 6. It has 3 labels, 2 command buttons, and 2 textboxes. The command buttons are titled CALCULATE AREA and CALCULATE PERIMETER. The two textboxes each have a label pointing to them saying ENTER WIDTH HERE and ENTER LENGTH HERE. The textboxes are meant for the user to enter their length and width and when you hit the command buttons it ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to intercept click on icon decorator

  I have compartment shape with IconShape decorator on it and I want to provide some action with click on icon. Does anyone know how to do it Thanks, Alexey Hi, It's currently quite difficult to pick up clicks on the decorators - sorry! -- [June 06 -- no longer true, you can now pick up clicks on decorators. See further down in this thread. - Alan.] What you could do instead is to set up ...Show All

• Windows Forms ping

  i want to ping a given IP or URL address from within my software i cant find any command to do this - anyone know of one try this. ...  ======================================= // comments : Dont forget to import System.Diagnostics // Output  ...Show All

• Visual Studio View Menu Command Table: Short Cut Key Conflict.

  Hi, I am trying to add a command under View Menu of Visual Studio IDE. I want to set a Shortcut Key for my command sothat it can be accessed using ALT + V + <shortcut key>.My problem is that I am unable to find a character Key that don't conflict with VS shortcut keys.For example 'D' clashes with short cut key of 'Code define Window' command under view menu. Can we have two commands with same shortcut keys under view menu If yes how do th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Windows Forms Problem

  Am I going mad I have a form with a bindingNavigator bar and a bunch of text box controls. It appears that Click events on the bindingNavigator buttons fire before the control that loses focus fires the Leave and LostFocus events Is this behaviour by accident or design or am I doing something wrong The order of events posted is fro entering and leaving the same control... I would suggest moving your code to the validating event. ...Show All

• Visual C# dragging properties from a PropertyGrid

  I’m attempting to implement a way for a user to drag a property from a PropertyGrid. The MouseDown/Click events for the PropertyGrid are not fired when the user clicks on a GridItem. The GridItems which represent the individual properties of the PropertyGrid.SelectedObject have no event handlers. Maybe I’m not thinking clearly, but I can’t seem to figure out a way to manage this. Any suggestions would be appreciated. ...Show All

• Visual C++ VCBuild and project level settings

  I'm building a VS.NET 2005 solution that contains only C++ projects. At the moment I'm running VCBuild from the command line, but later I'd like to incorporate it into an MSBuild script. It seems that VCBuild isn't picking up project-level properties. We have Additional Include Directories on some projects, and they fail because the headers can't be found. They compile in the IDE. I am using the /useenv switch, but I thought it only affected ...Show All

• Windows Forms grid row display order affected by binding?! (interesting)

  I have random data coming in from a process which I need to display with the latest always appearing on top. There are no specific sorts, keys or anything. Just rows to display. How do I do this  I am trying with DataSet.InsertAt(0, *datastring ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build FAILED: A database error occurred (SQL error 8152) ---> String or binary data would be truncated.

  Hi, I'm running Beta 3 Refresh in a single server environment. I've started moving our source code from StarTeam to TF Version Control, but have run into a problem with the build. I started out with a small sample and a simple build file and everything worked fine. Now I've checked a major part of our source code into TFVS and have set up a team build. The build have multiple solutions with multiple projects and several thousand source files. Th ...Show All