stumpyjake's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Shortcut to see who did the build ?

  Instead of having to double click each build from the Shelveset Build list to see who's the programmer that did it, is there a shortcut Customization I can do To achieve this I've posted a question a while back concerning if we could ADD a custom field such as "Note" this way you could add a note next to the build quality but I've been told you can't customize this :( Anyway, this feature/add-on could be interresting, being able to add columns ...Show All

• Visual C# VS 2005: "Key not valid for use in specified state"

  Hi all- I'm running VS 2005 final release version.  I have a solution with two projects in it; an ASP.NET website in C# and a VB project which is my data access layer. Yesterday, this code was working fine.  I can compile and run the solution, and all the code works. But when I try to access or add a new datasource through the VS 2005 Data Sources Explorer, I get a popup which says: "An unexpected error has occurred.  Error messag ...Show All

• SQL Server Conditional color in Matrix subtotal column

  I am using matrix in my report with calculated fields, for example I have 3 columns : Actual amount, Budget and Variance. Variance should be in Red if it is negative. I can set up an expression to change the color on the row level, but not in Subtotal ot Total row. I cannot use sum of Fields! values, because Budget amount is also calculated field based on the "Category" value which is columns group on the matrix. So anyway, if I am ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista release date of beta 2

  Any word on when WF beta 2 will be available ...Show All

• .NET Development Error while calling MS-Word from ASP.NET

  Hi All, I am using MS-Word from my ASP.NET Application using VBA. It opens a Word document and saves as a copy with some other name and finds and replaces some data. For this I have used "tlbimp" tool and imported some Office.dll, Word.dll, VBIDE.dll from MSWORD9.OLB. Following is the code. Dim wdApp As New Word.Application Dim wdDoc As Word.Document It is giving the following error while execu ...Show All

• SQL Server Encryption and database restore

  Hi Can anyone help I have a database using encryption with symmetric keys created using asymmetric keys. I backed up this database and restored it on another machine along with the service master key. I can read the encrypted data fine. But all the encrypted stored procs that are associated with the application that uses the data cannot read the data, they just return Nulls. If I regenerate all the encrypted stored procs from scri ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions PSDK Help with VC++ Express 2005

  I just got the Platform SDK working with VC++ Express, How can I use the PSDK Help with Express 2005 For context sensitive help If any-one can help, it would be appreciated. Thanks! See: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=146016&SiteID=1 . To Adlib on that thread: As an alternative to typing ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/dv_vsexpcc/local/CollectionManagerExpress.htm, you can click on the Index tab and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Question: Looking for WORD Action Pane example that lists and select contacts from Outlook

  Would really appreciate any help or guidence. I want to have an Action Pane in Word that somehow allows the user to select a contact from the Outlook contacts and insert that information in different parts of the document. Are there any examples of integrating contatcs and using the action pane Thanks for any help, VA Actually, you do not need an 'actions pane' example because what you want to do can be done in a variety im ...Show All

• SQL Server cant connect to server from another machine

  Hi Friends I have a sql server (2005 standard edition) on Win xp machine. i can connect to this server from my machine ok but others on the network try to connect i get following error "An error has occurred during report processing. Cannot create a connection to data source 'dataSource1'. A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. When connecting to SQL Serv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Baseless merge ?

  I've been told a couple of times to workaround problems with branching via a Baseless Merge.  Now I'm pretty sure I can guess what this does based on the name, but I can't find any way to accomplish this through the VS2005 UI. I've read all the docs I can find and I've searched google and all I've come up with is the command line option to do "h.exe merge /baseless" from MSDN and the reference from Buck's blog. The description in the docs b ...Show All

• Visual C# Inserting Image in my Report (ReportViewer)

  I finally have an understanding of how to create simple reports from my dataset using the ReportViewer. I now wonder how I can make custom (SQL-queries) on my dataset that will fill for e.g. a table. For example I have a picture that I like to insert into my report. That picture do I store as a string in my database. (In my program I do have conversions functions for: Image -> byte[] -> string -> byte[] -> Image). ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Installing .Net Framework 2.0 (KB829019)

  Do you need to uninstall .Net Framework 1.1 before installing .Network Framework 2.0    You're in a wrong forum, this one is for Compact Framework. Anyway, the answer is no. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Upload a file on FTP server

  Hi all, I want to know how i can upload files on ftp server. I tried to use opennetCF but it doesn't work every time. The GPRS connection works fine, the log in to the ftp server too, but when i try to send a file I have often this error : "couldn't open passive data connection, no DataConnection IP was given." So, Maybe i have to use another way to send the files, and if someone havce an idea, thanks to tell me it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get the list of valid users in a particular project?

  i would like to get the valid users in my team server (with a particular project) and i will put it in a lets say, dropdown list. so that i can use it in adding workitems with the use of ASP.Net i used the IGroupSecurityService but i can get only the Group Names and not the members inside the group. any ideas Thanks,. (btw, im using ASP.Net-C#) i still cant get it... i dont want to use my alternative way of doing it.. (getting ...Show All

• .NET Development Displaying XML Project 2003 file in Project 2003

  Anyone, I can create an XML file from a Project 2003.mpp file. I want to be able to double click on the XML file and display it in Project 2003. What additional tags/fields in the XML file are required to make this happen An example file/code would be great. NOTE:  In Word XML files, the field progid=word.document is found, and when you double click on the word XML file, it is opened in word.  Excel works the same way (progid=exc ...Show All