Bill Lee's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System What's the difference between "Rank" and "Priority" in Bug work item?

  In the bug input form, there are two fields : "Rank" and "Priority". What's the difference between them Thanks! they both can be used to describe an 'order' associated with the work item. the Priority field has a fixed sized choices - 1, 2, 3.  the Rank field can be any non-negative integer value. you can treat Rank as a "sub-priority" of a work item, e.g. you can rank all "priority 1" bugs by their Rank. in date-driven dev. model, ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem with Lab2 Reliable and Transacted messaging with ECF

  I am trying in exercise 3 task 4 - introducing uncertainty for which Reliable message can compensate... I encounter the following error message during build - The type or namespace "ChannelBuildContext" could not be found. Since I am using Feb CTP, I took a look at the Breaking change form Jan CTP to Feb CTP, I notice that there is a change in BuildChannelFactory. I just do not know how to get it to work. Can any one help The ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce deployment and Dotfuscator

  Dear All, I am using the VS.NET 2005 and I would like to use the clickonce deployment. I would like obfuscate the exe file before publishing the deployment package to web server. I was trying the PreBuild and PostBuild events in the project property to obfuscate the executable file but the clickonce doesn't use obfuscated exe file at all. Could anyone advise on how to obfuscate the exe file before publishing the project into webserver p ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem inserting data in SQL express

  Hello everybody I'm working with a database and trying to add data to the database with the next stameny: INSERT INTO table VALUES ('value1') but the result of doing this, even with the Management studio, is the value value1 with one space at the end. It is like 'value1 ' Any clue Thank you very much and greetings from spain. Santiago Hi, Most likely your field declared as CHAR(7), not VARC ...Show All

• SQL Server ALTER DATABASE WITH ROLLBACK times out

  If I execute the command ALTER DATASE SET MULTI_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and there are any connections to the database, the command fails with a "Lock request time out period exceeded." message. If I use SET RESTRICTED_USER, the command succeeds with the following message: "Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back. Estimated rollback completion: 100%." This seems to be a bug. What's even more annoying is that in SQL 2005 I could set M ...Show All

• Visual C++ application compatibility

  My company provides an SDK for our hardware product. The SDK is compiled with VC 6.0 and we are looking to move to a more recent compiler. We are concerned that our customers which rely on our SDK will find that the new version of the SDK, compiled with Visual Studio 2003/2005, no longer works with their application. We cannot control which compilers our customers use to build their applications. Can someone provide guidance regarding how we sho ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I select all items from a ListBox quickly?

  Hello, I'm a beginner, first of all. I'd like to know if I can select all items from a ListBox quickly. When there aren't many items, this code works fine: ... myListBox.BeginUpdate(); for (int i = 0; i < myListBox.Items.Count; i++) { myListBox.SetSelected(i,true); } myL ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Debug application with VS2005

  Hello, I'm using Visual Studio 2005 to debug an application in my Qtek S200 Windows Mobile 5 pocket PC connected to a Windows XP via ActiveSync 4.1. I d'ont have the source code for it. I rum the application in the pocketPC, after i choose Debug->attach to process and choose the process i want to debug in the PocketPC. I can control the application and stop/resume it execution. But, when i try to see the disassembly and the register are alw ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista msdtc service on WinXP Starter

  I am not sure if this question has been asked before. I have a WinXP starter machine in Spanish. I wanted to confirm if the msdtc service is supported in starter edition. Also if supported how can I Start/Stop this services. I cannot see this one in Services.msc. Thanks, Kushal. Hi Kushal, It is very possible that Starter Edition doesn't have this service. What happens if you do a "net start msdtc&quo ...Show All

• .NET Development Calling unmanaged c++ dll's and lib's into c# using visual studio 2005 beta

  Hi, i would like to find out what are the ways to call unmanaged c++ dll's and lib's into c# using visual studio 2005 beta. I have tried many ways like using p-invoke and  adding through reference but none  of these methods seemed to do it for me.  Are  there any easier ways to perform this operation using Visual Studio 2005 Beta I would like to create an application that uses certain dll's and lib's from the ogg vorbis libra ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. rendering on hardware device

  Hello, I am new to DirectX. How can I use the CreateDevice method to set the output to be displayed on my second display card(ATI Mobility Radeon X600) I set the device index to 1, is it appropriate Or I missed other properties Or I cant use the X600 card to render output device = new Device(1, DeviceType.Hardware, this, CreateFlags.SoftwareVertexProcessing, presentParams); Check out the adapterListCollection which you can enumerate ...Show All

• .NET Development SQLXMLBULKLOADLib generates exception

  When I try to use sqlxml bulkload to populate an msde database vs.net 2005 gives me an error. This worked fine for me in vs.net 2003. Here is the code and the error: Dim objBL As SQLXMLBULKLOADLib.SQLXMLBulkLoad3Class = New SQLXMLBULKLOADLib.SQLXMLBulkLoad3Class {"Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {8270CB2F-B0E6-4C37-8A40-D70778F47894} failed with HRESULT: 0x80040154(Class not registered (Exception from HRESUL ...Show All

• Windows Forms App won't close and cannot click on listbox

  I have two listboxes on my form.  One is bound to a dataset, the other is not.  I have buttons in between them (<< and >>) which allow you to select items in the left-hand list and then copy them to the right-hand lis ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Moving from one TFS to another

  I've been running TFS and VSTS for one very large project, and it's been great, except for the fact that our server was a free workstation that really wasn't up to the task.  So, we got a new server.  Now, I need to move the project from the old server to the new server.  It seems like there is no tool, which I'm OK with - if I need to do a lot of manual steps, that is fine.  I was just hoping someone had done this, and could ...Show All

• SQL Server System error during deployment

  Hello. I've been following the tutorial on analysis services 2005 and got the following error when I first tried to deploy: "System error: Login failed: Unknown user or bad password". When I created the datasource for AdventureWorksDW I used the sa username and password, and everything worked great, up to this point. After the error apeared, I switched the datasource authentication from username/password to service account and ...Show All