stg1's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System MFS installation

  Kind of a silly question!!! Can I install Team Fundation Server If I get Visual Studio Team Suit finall version Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite, and the role-based Team Editions, each come with a license to install Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition when it ships later this quarter. The Workgroup Edition is restricted to five users. Alternatively, you can purchase Team Foundation Server Standard Edition (once again, when it ships) to support teams of six or more. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Recent Work Items

  Is there a way to see the list of work items I have recently viewed I can go to a work item if I remember the ID, but I usually don't remember it. That is why it would be useful to see the last dozen or so that I have drilled into. If there's no way to do this out of the box, is there a way to customize VSTS to provide this functionality -Larry I have a personal query that I call "Changed by Me Today", which selects Changed Date=@Today and Changed By=@Me . That'll get you back to anything you modified, as long as they haven't been modified again. It's pretty good for getting back to a s ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem compiling sample 'Foreach' activity on beta 2.2

  I have beta 2.2. I downloaded the sample activity 'ForEach'. When I build it, the compiler complains about the OnClose() method override that is in the sample: "Error 1 'ForEachActivity.ForEach.OnClose()': no suitable method found to override" Sure enough, according to the Object Browser there is no such method to override on the base class CompositeActivity. If I just delete this OnClose() method, will things be cleaned up correctly The method was renamed and the signature changed. It should now be the following: protected override void OnClosed( IServiceProvider provider) { ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Tableadapter.update() problems

  any Master of VB/ ADO etc I also have a problem related to updating the database. I have 3 tables in my VS 2005 dataset. I add each row with data, 1 row at a time, and then I call mytableadapter.update() in order to update to the database. It only works in 1 of the 3 tables   The first error is *** System.InvalidCastException was unhandled   Message="Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Byte[]."   Source="System.Data" ***   In this table I have close to 200 columns and when I Row.Add each row with data it accepts just fine, however I get the above Exception when I update. As I under ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Display WinMobile device screen

  Hi, There are applications like SOTI which displays mobile device screen in your computer and be able control the device itself. i will really appreciate if someone can let me know how to program such application. i need to know how to capture screen and to do basic control stuff.. Pocket Snapshot is a pretty good program for doing what you want. Has a nice demo and it's fairly cheap. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Events from ActiveX control not handled in C#. Works in VB6. Further info

  I have an ActiveX control that I am using in a C# app. I am able to use most of the features of the control, but my app does not "see" events generated by the ActiveX control. However similar VB6 apps using the same ActiveX control do receive and handle events from it. Is there something wrong in the way I am setting up the event handler Thanks in advance Xkutzy. A summary of the C# code follows. The code never reaches the event handler handleWeighEvent(). using WfWLib; // library for ActiveX control   Weighers wfw;   try { // Try starting a new weight for windows wfw = new WfWLib.W ...Show All

• .NET Development Binary Serializing a DataSet

  Many a times i have noticed that in general applications development we have a requirement to Serialize a DataSet (Using Binary Formatter) and save it to some store (Text File, DataBase etc.). In my current application i also had the same requirement but i couldn't find any good solution for the same for which i had to write a custom serializer which takes care of this. In that serializer i found issues when my application was made localized to different language and was available to different customers across the globe. The major pain point being the use of DATETIME objects being serialized. How can we really serialize a DATETIME Column in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problems passing parameters - Local mode

  I have a .rdlc report where no records appear to have been retrieved though I know they are there. That is: I have a .rdlc report. I have a parameter in this report Called Companys. In the List Region for the form, In the Filters tab I have code like the following: =Fields!Company.Value = Parameters!Companys.Value In the Load Event of the Viewer I have code like the following: Dim para As String = Nothing parameters = New ReportParameter( "Companys" , para) Me .ReportViewer1.LocalReport.SetParameters( New _ ReportParameter() {parameters}) Me .ReportViewer1.RefreshReport() When the form loads n ...Show All

• SQL Server Internet integration

  Is there a way to embed reports in an  INTERNET app (ASP.NET) using the following requirements: - Get reports from Report Server (with toolbar and parameters) - Security authentication/authorisation comes from ASP.NET web app (single sign-on, not Windows authentication,  but custom) In brief, I just want to host reports in an ASP.NET app, as they appear in the html viewer, but embedded in the app, on the Internet.  URL access is perfect, but we require a single sign on with CUSTOM security. Problem : how to integrate the security context of the web app and the rs, rendering reports WITHIN the web app. Problems I am ex ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTestHost.exe crashing after executing test(s)

  Some members of our team, including myself, are experiencing this problem and have not been able to find a workaround for it. After executing some unit test/tests, VSTestHost.exe process hogs the CPU for few minutes before it crashes. I tried re-installing VS without success. This is under a virtual machine, by the way. (Needed to access DEV domain) Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Sang Do your tests have any finally clauses that may take time to clean up, or do you invoke other threads that may be throwing exceptions ...Show All

• Windows Forms Modal form closes when a Button control on the form is clicked...

  Hi,  I am having a very strange problem. Any help is appreciated. I have a form with a datagrid and 3 buttons. I open this form as a pop-up modal form to the main form. I face a problem, each time I click any of the buttons on the modal form, the modal form executes the Click event and closes the modal form and returns the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista IsExecutable

  CompositeActivity has an ExecutableActivities property that returns all child activities that will be executed. I'm sure ExecutableActivities takes into account whether or not a child activity is commented, but it may also include other factors. I was hoping that Activity would have an IsExecutable property on it, but it does not. Is there another way to determine if a single activity is executable Or could an IsExecutable property be added to the Activity class Well, I know I would need to check ExecutableActivities.Count as well as IsCommented. In addition to IsCommented, don't know what else the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions relate an extension to my application?

  Hi. How can I set windows to open a type of files with my application. like a file.doc will be opened directly by Word. I want that my file.ext will be opened by MyApplication.exe can anybody give me the code to do that... Thanks This is something that needs to be done during installation, and unfortunately it isn't supported by ClickOnce deployment, the only deployment technology supported by Visual Basic Express. If you have the full version of Visual Basic you can specify file associations in the File Types editor for a Setup and Deployment project. The following topic shows how: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4fcx9 ...Show All

• SQL Server connecting to sqlexpress from classic asp

  hi, i'm using classic asp to try and connect to a sqlexpress database on a development server. i get the following error: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (0x80004005) [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. /dbtest.asp, line 8 I'm using the following script which runs fine against a regular SQL server (version 8) on the network. <%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT"%> <% var strCon, conn, sql; strCon = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=rapidHB;User Id=rapid;Password=xxx"; conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection"); conn.Open ...Show All

• Visual C# Writing a Graphic to file

  Hi everyone,    a graphics question for you: I have a graphic (not an image) and I'd like to write it to a file. The image class has a save method that takes a file name the graphic class has simply a save method (no paramters). I've tried casting my graphic to an image but it doesn't seem to like it, can anyone tell me how I can write my graphic to a given filename thanks in advance, Ed. Hi   How can I put a Graphic in a Bitmap Thanks ...Show All