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• Visual Studio Undoing checkout

  Hi everybody, I'm trying to implement a continuous integration process here, and I'm using the following article as a baseline: http://dougrohm.com/cs/articles/56.aspx There's one thing there that's giving me problems, though. In one of the steps on the process described on the article, a "version.txt" file gets checked out, modified, and then checked in when the process is done. If there's a problem and the build process fails, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to delete / rename / move top-level folder in TFS source control beta 3

  How do I delete a top level folder inside a project in source control For example, if I want to delete the folder "bar" in the project "foo", how can I remove a folder once it has been created Can I rename "bar" to something else, like "oranges" Can I move "bar" to some other folder in the tree The only way to delete a top level "Team Project" folder is with TFSDeleteProject.  We will be releasing TFS in Q1 of '06 - just a fe ...Show All

• Windows Forms AutoScrolling

  Hello, ScrollableControl provides an automatic mechanism for handling scrolling, but I am having the following issue: When I have a panel with autoscroll enabled, I put some controls inside it, when I start the application the panel scrollbars are always at t ...Show All

• SQL Server Error using Reporting services

  Greetings, Iam new to reporting services. When I try to launch http:\\localhost\reports I get the following error The version of the report server database is either in a format that is not valid, or it cannot be read. The found version is 'Unknown'. The expected version is 'C.0.8.20'. To continue, update the version of the report server database and verify access rights. (rsInvalidReportServerDatabase) Please help Thanks/Regards ...Show All

• Visual C# Timer_Tick Event

  Ok. I want to create a Timer at runtime, and how do add its event handlers and all of that Someone please help. Ok. I am getting in the habit of finding out answers to my own questions, which I consider to be great! . So I decided to go ahead and post the answer to this question, just in case someone else is wondering. I have created a label in a button_Click event, then also create the Timer_Tick event. private void button1_click (object ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can I display XPS in glayscale?

  I use DocumentPageView to display XPS. Now,I want to display XPS in glayscale. Is it possible If yes, how can I do it Thanks, You can apply a custom BitmapEffect to the DocumentPageView that gray scales its output. There is no implementation of gray scaling provided out of the box at the moment, but you can write your own. Either that or wait for Microsoft to deliver the 40+ implementations t ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems migrating DTS package

  Hi I have run the migration wizard. This is the error I am getting: TITLE: DTS Migration Wizard Error ------------------------------ The destination server must be an instance of SQL Server 2005. ------------------------------ BUTTONS: OK ------------------------------ I have selected (local) as my destination server, it is the same as source. The version is 8.0.194   Any idea I believe that you have answered your ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid question .net 2003

  hi dev's I got a datagrid with a comboboxcolumn normal behavior with a combobox is that , when it's droppeddown then when you moving the up and down keys you go up and down in thge list of the combo. however in the datagrid, when moving up and down when the combobox is dropped down, it goes to the next record in the datagrid The question is can i change that behaviour in a columnstyle Remco  If you are usin ...Show All

• Visual Basic Saving Image as jpg with particular size into access database

  I want to save image from picture box into access database with size of 400x300, regardless of whatever the original size of picture in the picture box. 1). For example The Picture may be Desk or Chair. Chair size may be 50x75 varias Desk size might be 400x300. The rest area of Chair picture should be saved as transparent or white space into the database. So when we retreive the picture it won't be distorted. Can anyone help me to ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to Assign the Context Menu to WebBrowser Control

  Hi coders, I am using VS.NET 2005, my application type is Device Application. In this my Form1 I placed the WebBrowser Control. I created one Context menu(with 3 menu items) for webBrowser Control. I added  this.ContextMenu = this.myContextMenu; my problem is  browser (default) context menu is displaying instead of my context menu. I found that webBrowser control is not having webBrowser1.ContextMenu Property. ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to pass a native pointer as a cli::array?

  I have a managed method that has a cli::array<Byte>^ argumant. But I have the data in a native Byte* pointer. How can I do the conversion For the reverse side, I used a pin_ptr<Byte> that points to the first element of the cli::array<Byte>. But what is the most performant way of doing the first one ...Show All

• Windows Forms Saving Data in a Related Table

  I'm having a problem saving my data.  I have a main table with a child table.  Each table has it's own Datagrid.  The child datagrid is linked with the Datasource set to the maintableDataConnector and the the DataMember set to the Rel ...Show All

• .NET Development UDP Relay Server

  Hi all, I'm trying to write a simple UDP based relay server.I'm testing it with the DNS functionality., i.e when i type nslookup www.gmail.com 127.0.0.1 from my command,it should come to my relayserver and the relay server in-turn will query to the actual DNS server and returns the response back to the nslookup. Now my relay server has to listen on 127.0.0.1 on port 53 to act as DNS relay..the following is my code for relay.. IPAddress ...Show All

• Visual C# Why it is?

     Why Microsoft called # in CSharp rather CHash Regard, Shaji Kumar.V.K From http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/productinfo/faq/default.aspx : It's not the "hash" (or pound) symbol as most people believe. It's actually supposed to be the musical sharp symbol. However, because the sharp symbol is not present on the standard keyboard, it's easier to type the hash ("#") symbol. The name of the language is, of course, pronounced "se ...Show All

• .NET Development Increase in number of handles

  Hi, I have a VB .NET 2003 Windows appl. Application is multithreaded handling 8 ports. The number of handles keep growing when monitored thro' the task manager & we reach to a point that the server should be restarted. Even an application restart doesn't help. Any known issues on this subject For the objects that I've created, I've implemented Dispose mthd & called the same at appropriate places. Lot of work cleaning up is ex ...Show All