AmitJ's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Destroy in TFS Beta 3

  How I can permanently destroy folders in source control That feature was cut for V1.  You can still delete the item from version control, but it will still be in the repository (in a deleted state), available for you to undelete later if desired.  You can always change permissions on the item to prevent undelete (remove the PendChange permission) if that's a concern. We've had customers ask about recla ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO over VS pro?

  Hello Please tell me the advantage of having vsto when creating solutions that use office as interface or in background or whatever, in general. It seems like you can have the actual office document screen loaded in VSTO but not in VSpro. What other advantages does vsto have Does vsto produce more lines of code automatically so that you dont write as much code by yourself or something is there anything that VS pro can not do that VSTO can ...Show All

• .NET Development How are operating systems created

  How are operating systems created..I know its just not 10 billion lines of code..that operate throught RAM cards and hard drives...So i was wondering if someone could send me a reading on this or maybe give me a littel insight on how operating systems are engineered Hi, Read this book for in depth info: Operating System Concepts http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471694665/qid=1120709225/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/002-8170624-07 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) TextBlock Height exception

  Hi, Any reason why this throws an exception <TextBlock Height = " * " /> Thanks Andy Because Height is a double and you can use a string representation of a double or "Auto". It's not a GridLength to use Star unit type. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cast or convert?

  We've just turned Option Strict on in our project and I'm just cleaning up a few of the errors. I've always used CType for all my conversions but my collegue said to use Convert.To.. Is there a particular reason to use one or the other An ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help with clunky event handling

  Hi all. I come from a background of many many years of coding in Delphi using ADO to hook into SQL Server. Now I am coding in Visual Studio 2005 using the ADO.NET layer and .NET 2 components and it feels like I have taken 10 steps back. Typically, I used to have all sorts of events raised in my db componets (in Delphi). BeforeInsert, AfterInsert, BeforeDelete, AfterDelete, BeforePost, AfterPost etc... Simple and easy to use. How do I acces ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS error listing

  Is there a list of all the SSIS Error codes and what they mean Ex. -1071607778 is an error code output when a lookup task fails to find a match. I haven't been able to find any information on the different error codes. Is there a description file or enumeration file that exists somewhere I think it's still hex, the L at the end is usually included in literals to denote the size of the integer - i.e. L = long, w ...Show All

• Visual C# Make a file 'DependentUpon' via the IDE

  Easy question, I can modify a C# project using notepad to make a file DependentUpon another file, but is there a way to do this in the IDE Thanks Yes, you can...:)) The code below is from an add-in I developed, add-in which generates some files and adds them to a C# project and makes them dependent of the file they were generated from. I'm using it in VS 2005 Pro and it works wery well. Create a new Add-in project in VS 2005 and you'll ...Show All

• Visual C++ ATL LNK2005 in VC++ Express

  Is there anything special I need to do to have ATL working I have it as an include and have an stdafx.h include. I have compiled, linked and run this same code as one long source program but trying to modularize I get the LNK2005 for each routine other than the _tmain. angsepn.obj : error LNK2005: _AtlIPersistStreamInit_Save@20 already defined in _tmain.obj angsepn.obj : error LNK2005: _AtlIPersistPropertyBag_Save@24 already define ...Show All

• SQL Server Running a LIKE statement when searching for a date field...

  I am trying to run a like statement that has a datetime column and for some reason it does not return any values. I looked in the SQL help files and in states in there that when trying to select using a datetime that the preferred way of doing it is using a like statment. Does anybody know a better way of doing this Here is my example: (I have dates in this column ie 2006-02-13 11:30:54.220) SELECT * FROM workorderhistory WHERE wh ...Show All

• Visual C# How will I determine if the value of a variable is an integer?

  or a decimal if (isInteger(var) == true)  Meanwhile i can tell you if (xxx) is better than if (xxx == true) --------------------------- float x; (x%2 == 0) -> integer ---------------------------- better you explain what you want to check because there are many solutions to your problem ...Show All

• Visual C++ Studio 2005 - No more images in toolbar and treectrl in Debug mode... (CImageList problem ?)

  C++ ; MFC ; x86 ; Visual Studio 2005 I was using Visual Studio 2003, and since I have installed Visual Studio 2005, toolbars (CToolBar) and treectrls (CTreeCtrl) don't show images in Debug mode and works fine in Release mode !! The common link between these classes is CImageList class... I don't really understand how I can resolve this problem, so any idea is welcomed :o) Thanks Perhaps some of the pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Save RichTextBox document

  How can I save RichTextBox document in Xaml and C# I tried to do it with SaveAs command but i did not find any informations about using this command. Please I do not how to do it. http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/jfoscoding/archive/2006/01/16/513383.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute phase Memory Error

  Hi, I have a data flow component that retrieves records from a table.  There is about 3 million records.  I do sorts on the records, then use a merge join transformation to join that sorted data with the dimension data.  However, when I pump 10,000 records through this transformation it works fine. When I try 3 million I get this error: DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread1" has exited with error code 0x8007000E.  I think th ...Show All

• Visual Studio RC1 - VSS Admin Password?

  I just installed RC1 VSS. It's seems to have a password in mind and I have no idea in the world what it is. At times it seems to disregard it's password and do what I need to do. But it won't let me change the admin password without know what it was. It's sort of that same old story.... I receive the message - if you've forgotten your password, consult your system administrator. But I am the system administrator :( Hi Renee, If you created ...Show All