Steff_d's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Test Reports?

  Please pardon my ignorance, but I'm just beginning to test the test tools. I successfully created and ran a web test, viewed the results and saw some issues there. Isn't there some way to generate a report from the tests We always have to show a report of the test results. Any clues appreciated. Thx, ts What about the MSTest.exe (comman line executable) publish commands. Can't they be used to store data directly to the TFS Operational data DB Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Saving information to a SQL database from a VB form

  Hi, I am working my way through the video series, but I have become stuck in lesson three. In it you create an SQL database and a form with fields and a button. The database is connected to the form where the user completes the data that is entered into the database. When I enter the data directly to the database it will appear in the form. However, when I enter data in the form (create new record and fill in the data) it will be visible if I click back and forwards through the records via the form buttons, however when I close the form and then open it again this new record will be gone. When I open the database directly the new re ...Show All

• Windows Forms listbox

  I am populating a windows ListBox with the persons names. At the same time I am loading the personId into an array so that later it can be retrieved for the selected person. Please note that in the ListBox I only would like to show the name and not the personId Dim clst As New ArrayList() foreach person in the table clst.Add(row.PersonId.ToString())    personsListBox.Items.Add(row.DisplayName) I am not sure if this is a good way or not, BUT my main issue at the moment is that I don't know how to get the personId for the selected person in the listBox. I tried clst.Item..... but Item is not in the drop down Thanks ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Lack of mouse scroll wheel support in VBA

  Folks The mouse scroll wheel does not work in VBA.   This has always puzzled me as to why this support does not exist since Office 2000. This problem was originally caused by a MS Mouse driver change that I'm told was communicated long in advance to other MS folks. This problem has existed for several versions of Office.  As far as I'm concerned this should've been fixed in the Office SPs. And yes, I'm quite aware of the workarounds VBScroll and Freewheel. Tony GK you're the bomb. I was going crazy last night after I did a re-install. I can't code with no mouse wheel! THANKS. ...Show All

• .NET Development Provider error while reading DBF file

  Dear All, I am newbie in dbf manipulations .currently I have downloaded foxpro driver from the site . but when I am tying to open my DBF file it gives me error like "The Provider could not determine the Decimal value . For Example,the row was just created the default for the Decimal column was not available,and the consumer had not yet set a new Decimal value" I am using the following code snippet to open .DBF file:- try { strConnect="User ID=;DSN=;Collating Sequence=MACHINE;Data Source= '" + frmViewer.lay + "' ;Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Cache Authentication=False;Mask Password=False;persist securi ...Show All

• SQL Server When using Multi-Value (Select All) is not showing in parameter drop down list

  I don't know if it is related to SQL 2005 sp1 or not since i had to rebuild my machine. But all else seems to be working fine but i no longer have the (Select All) showing up in the drop down list. In fact the first position is empty and kinda flashes when i click on it but nothing happens. How can i get the (Select All) to show up again when using Multi-Value This was a report that previously had no such issues and I had not modified the report. After new image of the os and a reinstall i brought the report up and deployed it and all is working as before except no (Select All). Can somebody help with this Ron ...Show All

• SQL Server SP1 Database Services failed to install

  Database services upgrade installation keeps failing when I try to install SP1 on a SQL 2005 Developer edition. This is the log: 04/28/2006 10:35:44.081 Failed to read registry key: PendingFileRenameOperations 04/28/2006 10:35:44.097 Failed to read associated hotfix build information for the following file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Binn\xmlfilt.dll 04/28/2006 10:35:44.144 Failed to read associated hotfix build information for the following file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Binn\ThaWBrkr.dll 04/28/2006 10:35:44.160 Failed to read associated hotfix build information for the following fi ...Show All

• Visual C++ c++ compilation strategy

  Well .. this is probably not specific to C++ language. It is a more general question on the requirements of including headers, etc, and so sort of basic, of compilers. I have been looking at translation units and linking, etc. I learnt that there can't be duplicate identifiers in all of the translation units combined. If there are duplicates, it's a linking error. It can be avoided by using extern keyword for all the duplicate declarations of the identifier. Each .cpp file that is included in the project is compiled separately and so results in a compilation unit. The compiler requires that before the code is compiled, the identifier must ha ...Show All

• Visual Basic .NET Deployment with COM DLLs

  I am using SQLDMO.DLL within my program which makes me include it in my deployment project. I built the deployment project and installed the output MSI and it works. It registers the SQLDMO.DLL (used COMSelfReg) when I install the package and unregisters the said DLL when I uninstall it. But I have a problem when I install and then uninstall this package on a machine with SQL Client Tools installed. The package uninstalls the program and unregisters SQLDMO.DLL which breaks Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, etc. How can I install and register a COM DLL using a deployment project, but will not unregister the DLL if it is shared by other appl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Extending Team System Version control Mechanism

  Hi         I want to use my legacy Version Control Implementation using Team System clients(GUI). Is it possible for me to plugin my version control dll(eg:SCC.dll) in to Visual studio . In Visual studio ,we use to implement SCC -SDK and plug in our source control in to visual studio. is it possible to achieve the same in team system. On client side ,visual studio team system uses - M icrosoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.Client.dll. And i feel,this is the point of integration,i need to implement functionality in this dll. Is there any standard way to achieve this integration in to team ...Show All

• Windows Forms GDI+ graphics and viewport

  Hello, I am using .NET 2.0 and building a custom control. There are multiple graphics elements that I would like to render on the surface. When drawn together they form the complete control image but need to be managed separately because they might have different scale, units, move indendently, and are updated at different times for different reasons. My idea was to maintain several buffers or graphics objects that I could use draw into and load images as they needed updating. Because the total image is larger then the control - I was planning to copy regions of the larger in memory images onto the control surface - like a viewport. Be ...Show All

• SQL Server Stuck between "Failed to generate user instance" and "An attempt to attach...failed"

  I wrote an application using Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 which uses a SQL Express .mdf file, included in the project, for the database.  After installing Visual Studio 2005 RC and the SQL Express that comes with it (I followed all of the uninstall instructions first) I can no longer add a SQL Express database to any of my projects, nor can I open the SQL Express database in my original project.  When I try either of these tasks, I get the "Failed to generate user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance.  The connection will be closed."  I read the thread which dealt with this er ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System 'Remaining work' Report fails in VSTS Beta3 refresh

  Hi there,      I have installed successfully VSTS beta3 server, few reports enabled but few of them are failing. Like 'Remaining Workreport is failing with error: How do i fix this Thanks, An error has occurred during report processing. Query execution failed for data set 'dsWorkItemHistory'. For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors Here is the link to the warehouse troubleshooting guide that I referenced in the previous post.  I have also added some beta3 known issues and workarounds at the end of the ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Convertion Function from Integer to String

  Hello all Ho can i convert Integer to String in SSIS Derived column. Thanks in Advance Raj Lakamana I am assuming that you have already tried casting etc. I can suggest some workaround... What is the source of the Integer If it is coming from a table, you can change the "Data access mode" from "table or view" to "Sql command" and format your command like "SELECT col1, col2, convert(nvarchar(20), my_integer) as col3 from src_table..."  If it is coming via lookup, do the same by modifying the query in the advanced tab. HTH, Nitesh ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to keep GUI responsive during DB query?

  All right, here's the question...while loading large amounts of data, or querying a DB, my GUI hangs...that's to be expected with single-threaded apps.  So what I did is I created a borderless form with a picturebox that has the animated GIF of the progress bar scrolling back and forth, along with a label that gives you a message like "Please wait while the query executes..."  I show the form before I call a method that's going to take a while to execute.  Of course, the problem is that while the method is running, the app no longer refreshes the animated gif, so my little "Please wait" dialog is essentially useless.  I t ...Show All