James Thorne.'s Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Can a field in a Work Item Type be a reference to a different Work Item Type?

  Is it possible to create a “Work Item Type” in VSTS which has a * Field * which references another Work Item Type For example, let’s say I’m using the MSF Agile methodology out of the box, so I have the following work item types: · Bug · Task · Quality of Service Requirement · Scenario · Risk I want to create a new Work Item Type called “Requirement”. Part of this requirement work item type, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build Server error

  Hi Can anyone tell me how to build using Team Builds No matter how I tries, my build ends with an error. Arild Attaching the error log and .proj file. Build started 13.10.2005 10:57:01. __________________________________________________ Project "c:\data\components\duplo\Duplo\Test2\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (EndToEndIteration target(s)): Target InitializeEndToEndIteration: Target CoreClean: Removing directory "c:\data\components\duplo\Dup ...Show All

• Windows Forms Mad about GroupBox!!!

  Hello, What I am trying to do is to add some radio buttons to a GroupBox dynamically. The number of radio buttons to add is differnet from time to time so I used a foreach loop to add the buttons to the GroupBox. But unfortunately, th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Splitting a string after finite amount of characters

  Hi Hopefully this should be simple for all you clever people! I have a string of about 35 characters and I want to spilt the string after every seven characters and output them into a dropdown list box. What’s the best to do this The following will work Sub splitSevenCharacters(ByVal s As String) Dim i As Integer For i = 0 To s.Length - 1 Step 7 If i + 7 &l ...Show All

• Visual C# parameter descriptions/attributes

  Does anyone know the attribute to assign a description for a parameter of a function or method Example: int x = 0; x. intellisense pops up with the description of the x.Parse or whichever method selected, i got that, how to do the same for the parameters of the function or method Example: x.Parse( intellisense pops up with a description of the parameters, in this case: s: a string containing a number to conver ...Show All

• .NET Development Net.Framework Redistributable (dotnetfx.exe) - Can anyone redistribute it with an installer?

  Hi Net Developers I have written an add-in for Excel that references a .dll I wrote in Visual C++ and that includes some managed code. Therefore if I want to deploy it to other computers, I understand that I need to ensure that those computers already have Net.Framework installed on them, otherwise my dll won't work. While I have had no problem locating the latest version of the Net Framework redistributable dotnetfx.exe, I cannot find a M ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Floating Point arithmetic difference between VB and C#

  I am in a bit of state at the moment, I am really surprised at what I have found, please see the two code samples below. The first is Visual Basic and yields a result of: 100040624.0 the second C# and yields a result of: 100040629.0, which is correct. This error is causing my Line Circle intersection function to fail!! Oh my God have just spent the last two years writing my app in VB and now have to convert to C#. Dim a, b, c ...Show All

• .NET Development Finalizer thread semantic

  In a previous post , I was describing a weird problem encountered within the finalizer thread. Basically, within a finalizer I was doing quite a lot of work (complicated side effects, not simply cleaning few ressources), and I did encounter some weird CLR behavior. I am actually wondering about the semantic of the finalizer thread. First, I guess that intercepting the finalizer thread to do any real work is a bad idea because it blocks the gar ...Show All

• Windows Forms ToolTip.Show Method

  I want to display a balloontooltip on a textbox to display some info to the user about invalid input. I want the tooltip to popup immediately after I call my code and remain for a couple of seconds or until the user clicks the mouse/types etc. I am looking the show method, but it takes a IWin32Window argument which I do not know anything about. Any ideas Hi, The IWin32Window argument is the owner window of the ...Show All

• Visual C++ Form Closes without this->close() being called

  I have a form and when I click a button, the form closes even though I never call the close() function. The code is below: if(group) { tree->Nodes->Add(textBox1->Text); } else { tree->Nodes[gIndex]->Nodes->Add(textBox1->Text); } textBox1->Clear(); textBox1->Focus(); that is all my button_click even does yet my form closes after the execution...why ...Show All

• Visual Basic Computer take a nap every third time through a for/next loop.

  Hi All, I have the wierdest problem I have come across in my 40 some years of troubleshooting code and hardware.  The followinf code is simply 3 nested for/next loops.  About every third time (sometimes 2, sometimes 4) through the inner, y loop both of my computers take a 15 millisecond nap.  An instruction gets performed and then it is 15 milliseconds before the next instruction is performed.  Nohing else is going on, t ...Show All

• .NET Development Using System.Net.Mail class to send mail.

  Hi, I was coding a class to send mail via SMTP, but I found that in Framework 2.0 you have System.Net.Mail to do that task. The classes works fine to send mail on a server that does not require authentication. Unfortunatelly, I can't get it to work on a base64 encrypted server. The process of logging in that type of server is easy, so I expect an bool attribute, let's say, "IsAuthRequired", but it does not exists. From what I've ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio 2005 Pocket PC application with emulator on Virtual PC

  Has anybody done this on the release version of VS 2005   I am having difficulty trying to make my emulator communicate with my host PC, which happens to be a Virtual PC with the release version. In Beta 2, I only have to install the DMA Transport Update for this thing to work.  Now I even installed the Virtual Machine Network Driver and ActiveSync 4.0 but still no luck.  Any insights   Are you running emulator fro ...Show All

• Visual C++ Warning C4430 not being thrown in friend declaration

  class myClass ; class otherClass { public : otherClass ( int x ): valor ( x ) {} inline int sum ( myClass & obj ); private : int valor ; }; class myClass { public : myClass ( int x ): val ( x ) {} friend otherClass :: sum ( myClass &); private : int val ; }; inline int otherClass :: sum ( myClass & obj ) { return obj . val + ...Show All

• Visual Basic Yahoo mail checker

  I have to check my business mail frequently but i cant keep going to the yahoo website. So i decided to make a program which will check for me, yes i know there is yahoo messenger and others. I have not much programming knowledge so i have to ask you all to help. I have to textbox and the website to be accesed is http://mail.yahoo.com/ textbox 1 is to enter the text into Yahoo ID textbox 2 is to enter the text into Password I ...Show All