Ken Shook's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Question RE Team Foundation Server, Team Explorer, Work-item tracking, etc.

  Hi, i'm a college student working on a school project. I could not find a better source of info regarding my concerns than this forum, so i hope you could help me out. :) Our project is basically about the work-item tracking feature of VS2005 as a defect tracking system. Unfortunately, I and my groupmates have really "little-to-no" idea about this. So, I have a series of questions and i hope you could answer them.. I'll start with the ...Show All

• SQL Server Transfer Database Task

  I am attempting to utilize the 'Transfer Database Task' to copy a SQL 2000 database to 2005. I would like to set up the task as a job to run nightly and update the 2005 database from 2000. I have the DestinationOverwrite set to true, the Action set to Copy, the Method is DatabaseOnline. I receive the following message... ERROR: errorCode=-1073548784 description=Executing the query CREATE ROLE[RSExecRole] failed with the following erro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Power Toy problem

  When ever I try to use the tfpt.exe power toy I get the following error. Method not found: 'System.String Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client. WorkspaceInfo.get_ServerName()'. Has anyone else seen this Thoughts I have tried the exe that is in the VS installation folder, as well as the version included with both the October and February SDKs Thanks in advance. MikeH Are you running against a ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA Visio 2002 and OpenEx

  Has anybody else experienced that the flag argument to the Documents.OpenEx method have no effect in Visio 2002 I try : Call Documents.OpenEx(FileName:=MyFileName, Flags:=vizOpenDontList + vizOpenMinimized) But I see that the Visio document opens maximized and it also appears in the history list. What am I doing wrong (I see that the Object Browser calls the argument Flags , while the help file calls it openFlags ) Thanks in adv ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Thread.CurrentPrincipal.IsInRole() returns false but Security.Roles.IsUserInRole() returns true

  Not sure if this a WCF issue or not. I have a wcf service exposed with the "basicHttpBinding". I have set the security mode int he basicHttpBinding like so. <security mode="TransportCredentialOnly"> <transport clientCredentialType="Windows"/> </security> My goal here is to use windows authentication in the intranet to authenticate users. It works to the point where I ca ...Show All

• SQL Server Failed to decrypt protected XML node "DTS:Password" with error 0x8009000B

  Hi, I have developed several SSIS packages with the last Beta of VS2005 / SQL Server CTP. After the public release I tried to uninstall the CTP-Versions to install the msdn finals but this time I got lost and was not able to satisfy the requirements of the final setup of VS2005. So I decided to install the whole pc again and after some hours I had a clean machine (XP with latest SQL Server 2005 Standard and VS2005 Professional).   No ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Save data Within Excel through VB?

  Hi, In VB whitin a form,  few text box are there. I want to save these TextBox values within excel-sheet. and i want save with password And Re open next time by VB. How can i do this Kindly help me Thanks hi Paul, when you say "Re open next time by VB", do you mean reopen the form or the excel-sheet if you want is a way to save TextBox values. you can use winform binded settings. http://msdn.microsoft.c ...Show All

• Visual Basic Shell an unexecutable program

  Hi When I want to shell an unexecutable program, I use "Process.Start". But "Process.Start" doesn't support "Start in folder". I want to shell an unexecutable program with using "Start in folder", how Thanks & Regards Supply a System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo to the Start method amd set the WorkingDirectory... See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/l ...Show All

• Visual Basic Win Forms Databinding with DataGridView - how to hide columns?

  I apologize in advance for asking such a simple question, but I've looked around quite a bit and can't find an answer. I'm trying to do something like this:         Dim dt As New DataTable         dt = MyObject.GetList(RecordID)         Dim bs As New BindingSource         bs.DataSource = dt   &nb ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Static Indexbuffer vs. Batching

  I know that the number DrawIndexedPrimitive calls should be minimized. But what to do if you've a large number of different moderate sized objects (like Quake3 brushes). Is it better to use a static indexbuffer and to call DrawIndexedPrimitive for every object or to use a dynamic indexbuffer that is filled with the indices of all objects that could be drawn at once  The dynamic version requiered a lock, but only one DrawIndexedPrimitiv ...Show All

• Windows Forms webbrowser, read the filled input fields

  Hi, i need help: I have mad a webrowser-item and insert Text: <form> <input name="test" value=""> <select name="test"> <option value="1">t</option> <option value="2">tt</option> </select> </table> So, the output from the webbrowser is right. now i will fill in the textfield my name, and selected the option t. now i will read the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Equality

  According to the docs you are using the Equals static method in System.object, what if I do the following public sealed class MyClass : System.Collections.Generic. EqualityComparer < MyClass > and override the Equals... will it still use the Equals from object or my overriden equals This question is specifically for EqualAll but I suppose applies to anything you call equal on. objec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Install Express Editions on PC that has VS2005?

  I'm building a new test system with Visual Studio 2005 Pro. This version includes SQL Server 2005 Express. Can the other VS Express products (VWD, VB, C#) be safely installed on this PC, also Conversely, can SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition be safely installed on this PC Yes they can all be installed on the same machine, This is the configuration that I am using at the moment... Visual C# 2003 (.Net 1.1) Visua ...Show All

• SQL Server Update: Schema changes no longer replicated to subscribers

  Hi to all, I have a merge (pull) replication between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Express clients. Data synchronisation is ok, and I already made some schema changes (like adding new columns) at the publisher database which were applied to the subscriber as they should. Now this doesn't work anymore. New columns added at the publisher (with ALTER TABLE or Management Studio) are no longer replicated to the subscribers. I don't get a ...Show All

• Visual Basic edit and continue

  I can't seem to enable edit and continue in my VB 2005 app. Everyone seems to be pointing to Tools--> Options--> Debugging, but I don't have a debugging menu in my Tools--> Options. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Danny OK, so I found the debugging menu, and edit and continue IS enabled. But when I try to use it I get: "cannot currently modify this text in the editor. It is read-on ...Show All