jeff roberts's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) Installation

  Hi TFS users, I have couple of queries on TFS installation and usage !! 1. Can we install Team foundation Server on Windows XP with Service pack 2 installed I know the client can be installed on Windows XP, but i have specific reasons for installing TFS too on windows XP!! If yes, does the installation steps hold same as installation on windows server 2003 2. Can we integrate clearcase with TFS Please let me know if ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to extract text from string

  Hello readers, I have a string which is a stream of a URI. I would like to know how I can go about extracting text from that string  I only want to save certain text that show up on the web page, to a table and discard the&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reports node in Team Explorer sticks at Working...

  I'm running TFS beta 3 refresh in a dual-server installation. I had a lot of problems getting Sharepoint working again (see my other threads) - that may have something to with what I'm seeing now. Per the migration instructions, I went into the report server and manually created all of the reports for my projects.  I made all of the necessary configuration changes and tested every report. In my project portal sites, reports do appe ...Show All

• Visual C++ Why is strdup() deprecated in VS 2005?

    < hyslopc@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message news:9a93850c-505b-48c3-bd60-44625db8bbc6_WBRev2_@discussions..microsoft.com ... This post has been edited either by the author or a moderator in the Microsoft Forums: http://forums.microsoft.com You may not care about it, but I do.  I don't want to disable the warning because I think the concerns with most of the deprecated functi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration benefits

  I just read the announcement about the benefits of registration. I already had registered so of course it didn't let me register again. Is there a way to still get the downloads or should I now know never to register an MS product until they have some registration benefits announced If you are registered you can take part of the benefits. Check the registration benefit portal. http://connect.microsoft.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to find required file 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll' - VS2005-B2

  I thought I had managed to install Beta correctly from the DVD, but when I go to create an empty VB project I get the following error: "Project "Project1" could not be opened because the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 compiler could not be created. Unable to find required file "Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll'. I am able to create a web project, but not compile it ('compiler initializatin failed unexpectedly: Unspecified error'). Tried uninstall / reins ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to determine the SERVER.TRANSFER'ing aspx page.

  Hello, I'm wanting to know how to determine the page that was just transferred away from.  For example given three web pages; CallerA.aspx, CallerB.aspx, and TargetC.aspx.  Both CallerA and CallerB can perfrom a 'Server.Transfer' to TargetC.  TargetC.aspx which needs to appear differently based on where the transfer came from.  TargetC also uses properties from the calling page in order to retrieve information from that ...Show All

• .NET Development Loading external assemblies that are not strongly named

  Hi,   I have a project which references an assembly that is external to the application (it is not in the bin directory of the project or in a path relative to the application).     At runtime I use reflection to load the assembly from a supplied path.   The exception ‘System.IO.FileNotFoundException’ gets thrown.     The external assembly is not strongly named and so I cannot use the ‘codebase’ ...Show All

• Visual Basic .Net certification

  Do you know any web site for .net or SQL server certification practice. I m beginner and I have no idea how they look like. Also if any web site to prepare for them I appreciate your help. (sorry I didn t know where to put my question) There are tons of web sites out there. For eLearning and practice exams, try www.selftestsoftware.com . If you just want the paper and not the knowledge, try www.testking.com . ...Show All

• Visual Basic Does calling a function from a dll created from VB class library spawn a new thread when run or it uses the thread that call it?

  Hi all Just to check, when i created a dll using the VB class library. Does the application spawn a new thread when i call function in the thread or it used the thread that call it   Regards Soon Lee typically. . . no. execution blocks until the function, actually method is the correct term, returns and the execution is in the same thread. that is, unless you asynchinvoke a delegate t ...Show All

• Visual J# Tooltip and Change Backround

  How to make the toolip for example on button, then you are on button , it shows tooltip. and one more qestion How to change main form image by pressing for example button. You push the button, and the backround image changes. How to programme that Hi, To crate a tool tip for any JComponent, you need to use the setToolTipText method to set up a tool tip for the component. You can see the following code snippet : JButton jb = new JBu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30177: Team Project Creation Failed

  I am trying to create my first Team Project and this is the error I'm receiving from the wizard: Error Unable to connect to the specified source control server on the Team Foundation Server localhost. Explanation The Team Project Creation Wizard was unable to connect to the Team Foundation Server {0}. Without a connection, the wizard was unable to create the team project root directory on the server. User Action Contact the adm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem building the MyTestSample application

  Hi When building the MyTestSample from the the extendability SDK download I am unable to locate the following references microsoft.visualstudio.commonide microsoft.visualstudio.qualitytools.common microsoft.visualstudio.qualitytools.executioncommon microsoft.visualstudio.qualitytools.tips.tuippackage microsoft.visualstudio.qualitytools.TMI microsoft.visualstudio.qualitytools.vsip I installed the SDK.  Is there anything else I must do to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Does software install and work across all Vista Editions?

  Can all software be installed across all Vista Editions e.g Can Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition be installed on Vista Home basic or premium editions Will there be any software installation issues for the different Vista editions ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) There was an error reflecting 'repeater'. (System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater)

  Hi, I am programming an ASP.NET application which talks to Indgio services. I am trying to pass the Repeater object to the service, then return it back to the ASP.NET client with data. I am using net.tcp. Currently I have a problem with my service starting. it comes up with There was an error reflecting 'repeater'. repeater beeing [ XmlSerializerFormat ] [ ServiceContract ] public interface IeReferral { ...Show All