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• Visual Studio Team System Team Build Failure on Tests

  When running a team build we are failing out when the process goes to run the tests we have associated with our components. The only output we are getting for this is in the BuildLog.txt and it is only "MSBUILD: warning : Specified cast is not valid" We can determine that the testing process has started due to the tests we have set with the Ignore attribute. Let me know what additional information may be required to help track this down. We ar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Binary/ASCII recognition and Binary_Masks option with SS 2005 does not work

  Hi !   We have switched to VS2005 and VSS 2005 and have now some problems with the file type recognition .   We have a filetype that contains a lot of ascii line (Defines) and after that there is a CTRL-Z and binary data. Because the recognition is very hard we set the BINARY_MASKS-option in the ss.ini to that extension. That worked fine with VS6, but VS2005 doesn`t care about the option and sets the filetype to ...Show All

• Visual C# Async

  I am new to working with network program and need a little help. I need to have many connections to a server. However i need to be able to know each connections. This is because the server will need to answer question from each client. The question will not be the same. At this point i was going to use Async FUNCTION. iis that the right way to go if so can you show me example Cisco ok Cisco.. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX 10.0 Shader Core

  Excuse me. In DirectX10.0 Shader Core, What is Constatn Buffer and Immediate Constant buffer What is the difference between them What is the purpose of them be used in shader core Thanks for your response. Questions about beta technologies should be asked in the beta newsgroups. See http://msdn.com/directx/beta for more information. ...Show All

• SQL Server SDF Creation on Desktop

  Hello, Was wondering if its possible with VS 2005 to create and populate a SQL Server Ce database on the desktop Reason why I'm asking is it takes a very long time (~40 minutes) to process xml and insert the values into the sdf database on the Pocket PC. I would assume it is much quicker to create the database and insert records on the desktop. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Hi to all in this forum. have been involved i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project in solution explorer

  We're in the process of setting up some test boxes to run some manual tests.  I've created a project with all the tests.  The additional testing resources have installed the team system client.  What is the best way to get them the project with all the tests   I tried exporting the project and then allowing them to access the project and put it on a local folder.  The only problem is when they try to open the vbp file a ...Show All

• .NET Development IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries .NET Provider - Will it work with VS 2005?

  I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 (Visual Basic) along with IBM Client Access V5R3. I can't seem to get VB to recognize the native IBM .Net provider. I'm very new to DotNet so that's certainly part of my problem but I'm just wondering if anybody has used the native DB2 provider in VS2005. I know IBM says they haven't tested it in VS2005 but I'm wondering if it works at all. http://www.ibm.com/develop ...Show All

• Windows Forms HELP - application blocks

  Excuse me I am a total novice..I'm trying to make TaskVision work but visual studio returning an error when I try and open the solution "Unable to read Project 'Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.csproj' The system cannot find the path specified.  Do I have&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Copy data from one form to another

  I have 2 forms; form1, details In form1 I have a combobox1, In details, I have a textbox1 I'm trying to get the value from combobox1 to display in textbox1. I tryed the following: form1.cs .... { Details f = new Details (); f.Show(); } public ComboBox combobox1 { get { return comboBox1; Details.cs ....... private Form1 otherForm; private void GetOtherFormCombobox() { textBox1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) When WCF release will be avaible?

  Hi, I have a project using WCF that should be finished in october. Will WCF be released at this time Thanks, Remi Is there any roadmap for future CTP drops We're currently using the Jan. CTP build, and avoided moving to the Feb. build so we won't have to constantly be fixing breaking changes with each CTP build. We want to move slowly, every 2 or 3 CTP drops. The more time passes, the more we ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Connection manager for .Net CF wm5 vs2005

  To access pocket pc connection manager : I know there is winapi connectionmgr for native c++ code in evc4. I used OpenNetCF.Net.dll connectionmanager class for VS2003 .Net CF. Is there any connection manager class in .Net CF 2.0 for window mobile 5 in VS2005 You can continue using OpenNetcf.org classes. New SDF 2.0 for NETCV V2 is availibvle. ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting TextMode=true and adding a text Header causes error.Suggestion Needed

  I have a small app to create Stored Procedure I was trying to add my customized textHeader and I set the TextMode=true and then added the textHeader but when adding parameters to the stored procedure causes this error Add object to collection failed for StoredProcedureParameterCollection of StoredProcedure 'dbo.Customers_Select'. It all works fine if textMOde=false. Is this a bug What it is the correct way to create an Insert ...Show All

• Visual Studio How do I get the error and warning count after building a project in a macro?

  I am performing the following operation in a macro: DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.BuildProject( "Debug" , "my_project.vcproj" , True ) I have not been able to find a way to access the error and warning counts resulting from the operation. Any ideas Solution.SolutionBuild.LastBuildInfo - Gets the number of projects that failed to build ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dragging the form without using the title bar

  I have a problem on my splash screen, i set the borderstyle to none. How can I drag the form without having the title bar. I am using Visual Basic Express You need to write your own code to catch a click on the form, and move the form as you move the mouse with the button down. ...Show All

• Visual J# Use Class Libraries with VJ#

  Hi I know this topic to be asked possibly few times before, but however I did not succeed finding any infomration useful to my problem. Suppose you got a project - say some calculator for an online game. Further suppose you intend to organize your classes needed in a VJ# Class Library. Everything's alright up to now. The Library compiles and builds successfully but when it comes to use this library I don't know how. Both projects (main ...Show All