Jason Dolinger's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Where can I find information about MSF 4.0

  Has MSF 4.0 been published If so, where can I get a copy The only information that appears on the Microsoft website seems to be about v3.0 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msf/default.mspx Will Depends on what you are looking for... there are a few books and white-papers coming out on VSTS & MSFv4.  For instance, Sam is writing a book on Software Engineering with VSTS, Randy is writing a book on Agile Development ...Show All

• SQL Server Change the chart size dynamically

  Hi All,       I have a small problem ,i am not able to change the size of the chart and the bar in the bar chart dynamically. The only items that grow horizontally are matrix and chart. Some people have created reports with multple copies of the chart and had a flag that hid all but one of them. Also, custom report items will have the ability to grow dynamically. The width of the bars in the chart are determin ...Show All

• Windows Forms SQL Server Bugaboo

  Hi Gang! Here's the skinny: I am working on a simple db app that reads and updates a db on SQL Server 7.  When I ONLY have the connection string in the code, I can connect just fine.  When I add code to manipulate data, I lo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Why and How to get around Tab Control in UserDraw = large tabs

  I am subclassing the tab control. As soon as I pass the SetStyle for UserDraw the tab rects are way bigger than they were drawn by the control itself. Is this a bug or what's going on  How do I overcome this without having to resort t ...Show All

• .NET Development Differnce between wsdl and asmx?

  Hey Guys, I searched half of the web to find the answer what the differnce between a wsdl and a asmx file is. In my vs 05 projects I have only a .asmx. How can I create a wsdl and is it nessasary Cheers Here you go.. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to use CustomLineCap Class?!?!

  I want to draw a line with My Custom Cap (Special Diamon cap), I have the start and end points, and its Pen,  I created an instance from CustomLineCap Class, and I draw the Diamond I want  but when I assign the cap to the CustomE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System work items not associated with build

  How should work items get associated with builds, because it is not working for me. When I check in a changeset, I click the Work Items button and select my work item and the drop down box says associate. After the build completes, my changeset appears in the Associated Changesets portion of the build report butI have 0 associated work items. If I open the changeset I can see that the work item is associated with changeset, but the build ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions value from txtBox

  Hi all, In the new version this code variablename = me.txtboxname.value or variablename = Val(me.txtboxname.values) don`t wrk it. Is there a another option to read values (numbers) in vb express or i can`t use it in vb express cheers, spike thx for fast reply. buit i will to take numbers as values. in older version if i type variablename = txtboxname.text wasn’t same like variable ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) FlowDocumentScrollViewer and FlowDocumentReader zoom

  Any way of stopping zoom on these controls from showing Andy FYI, if your using grid layout with these you can get around it by layering a rectangle over the same space as the viewer and setting it to be postioned at the bottom and wide/long enough to cover it. Its not ideal but will let you achieve the above. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reporting Services Add-in

  I installed Reporting Services (SQL Server 2000 box), but have not been able to configure Visual Studio 2003 .NET so that I can create a project in "Business Intelligence Projects". Where am I missing the installer for Report Designer   I didn't see anything on the VS 2003 disks.  Thanks for any help, Steve Reporting Services was released long after VS.NET 2003. The Report Designer is in the RS install ...Show All

• Windows Forms OptimizedDoubleBuffer

  I heard somewhere that by setting ControlStyle.OptimizedDoubleBuffer, you automatically have ControlStyle.UserPaint and ControlStyle.AllPaintingInWmPaint set as well. Is this true The API is unfortunate, but it is a ControlStyle which affects a minority of users. Typically, we'd suggest Control.DoubleBuffered. Marking Obsolete is akin to ripping it - we generate build warnings for every project where it's being ...Show All

• Visual C++ fwrite in binary mode

  I got this example from msdn docs: // crt_fread.c /* This program opens a file named FREAD.OUT and  * writes 25 characters to the file. It then tries to open  * FREAD.OUT and read in 25 characters. If the attempt succeeds,  * the program displays the number of actual items read.  */ #include <stdio.h> int main( void ) {    FILE *stream;    char list[30];    int  i, numread, numwritt ...Show All

• SQL Server upgrade to 2005

  I am running MSDE2000 will the installation of MSDE2005 (sqlexpr.exe) recognise this installation (and it's databases) and upgrade it just to be sure ... Regards Patrick It is simple. Setup will automatically detects your SQL 2000 components. Please check the instance name of your SQL 2000. When you install SQL 2005, use the same instance name. Then setup will prompt for upgrade. That is it. B ...Show All

• Visual C++ Printing to Laser vs Inkjet

  This is my first post, so please guide me if I have cjosen the wrong place. I am printing from my C++ application written under Visual C++ 6.0, and I can print fine to Laser printers such as LaserJet II or LaserJet 4400, but if I direct the print to a DeskJet printer,  the document doesn't print and the printer status box always seems to dhow 48 bytes printed out of whatever the document size is. The code I'm using to start printing is..... ...Show All

• Windows Forms WebBrowser:How to navigate and send values with method post

  WebBrowser How to navigate (with WebBrowser.navigate(...) ) and send values of textbox with method post Can i have two methods  ( not with mouse) * change the value of textbox and click in bottom (Send events to the browser (ex. Web1.Document.Forms(0).RaiseEvent(.. .)) *  the values to the headers( ) and navigate to the page can you tell me how to do with this two ways.. thanks     ...Show All