Roger Haight MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Beta TFS MSSCCI plugin now available for VB6, VC6 (not yet VS 2002/2003)

  There's now a beta of the TFS MSSCCI plugin for VB6, VC6, etc., but it's not for VS 2002/2003 -- that's still too come.  You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=32202966-EF04-442F-8C5C-88BDF15F551C&displaylang=en . Brian Harry posted some details about it, including the fact that it is not part of the go-live license . http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2005/12/29/507993.aspx Buck I tried this out on a simple little VB6 project to see how it worked, pretty slick at least for having TFS integration (and a bit faster than VSS in my opinoin) for those of us with legacy ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System mstest with custom test type and metadata(vsmdi) file?

  I'm trying to use mstest.exe to run a test from the commandline. The test was created as a custom test type that I have created via the extensibility SDK. I've done a lot of investigation and here's the results: 1) inside VS I can run the custom test fine. 2) I can run the custom test fine using the /testcontainer: option of mstest.exe. 3) I can run a generic test using the same vsmdi file with mstest.exe. 4) trying to run the custom test type with the vsmdi fails with an "Test <foo> cannot be found" error. I ran scenarios 3 and 4 (only difference being generic test vs. my custom test) under cordbg. Here's t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. RetinaX - A Seed Scene Graph Implementation for Managed DirectX Version 0.6

  Hello, I have released simple and (hopefully) easily understandable scene graph implementation for all of you who want to learn fast how to manage and navigate a directx 3d scene (models, lights and cameras). The source consists of few classes and should be good basis for writing your own scene graph based application or game. However it is not complete 3d engine. I recommend trying it out as next step after looking at the SDK tutorials. It should demonstrate power of DirectX managed API a bit further and give a clear picture about how DirectX Managed API can be operated. You can find the RetinaX open source project from source forge: ...Show All

• SQL Server Join table data.

  Hi, anyone can help or guide me how to solve this issue. i have 2 set of data(or table) to join. 1) is weekday (data will be from sunday, monday, ...., and saturday) 2) is a set of record that produce from monday to friday(this is not direct table, need to use join table to join master and detail table group it and do a count() function then only i can get the data set). now i want to join both table to show the result of everyday. but let say Tuesday is public holiday. so there is no result on that. but my result set must still show from monday to friday, and every day also need a result. if no record then it should assign a ...Show All

• Visual C++ "list iterator not decrementable", error.

  I am trying to use some code written in C++, by a third party and I am having problems with the run time error: list iterator not decrementable I am using VS 2005. I have limited C++ experience by the way. This happens when an STL list, in decrementing backwards, pass the beginning of the list. I am told that the list is ‘Circular’, so this should not matter because it will hit the end of the list. This code has run on VS2005 before, by other parties, so I am a bit stuck! Any comments would be appreciated Julian I get this same thing - the only way ...Show All

• Visual C# Using Assembly Language with C#

  Hi, I need to use assembly language within my C# code for a software controlled hardware kind of application. Should I do it with C++ and save it as DLL which I can later inport and use with my C# code or is there a way to use assembly directly from my C# code C# code is compiled to MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language)... something completely unrelated to run of the mill assembly and because of that you would not be able to define a __asm block in C# the way you can with some C/C++ compilers. Instead your best bet would be to do what you suggested, make an unmanaged C/C++ dll that contains your assembly code and that y ...Show All

• SQL Server MDX calculation

  Not sure if this can be done any help appreciated. first a little background info a "customer" can have multiple "bill types" I create two calculated members Calculated member1 - returns all the customers that have a bill type "A" Calculated member2 - returns all the customers for bill types except "A" I'd like to have a calculated member that returns all customers that have bill type "A" only. In other words remove those customers from Calculated member1 that exist in calculated member2 One small suggestion - you might want to express it as: CREATE SET ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System After installing TFS there are several ADAM failures

  Hello, I just installed TFS on a virtual machine following the single-server setup guidance. On the ADAM events I get 2 errors: Event Type: Error Event Source: ADAM [BISGSS] General Event Category: Internal Processing Event ID: 2537 Date:  5/7/2005 Time:  8:47:57 AM User:  NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON Computer: TFSERVER Description: The directory server has failed to create the ADAM serviceConnectionPoint object in the Active Directory. This operation will be retried.   Additional Data SCP object DN: CN={65e560a9-9906-4b67-b0dc-faaefc54af71},CN=TFSERVER,OU=Domain Controllers,DC ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSBuild call is not in TFSBuild.proj

  In Beta 2 it was possible to add properties to the MSBuild call in the TeamBuild.proj file and later access them from projects. Beta 3 doesn't have that call anymore in the TFSBuild.proj... My questions are: - Is it possible to set the properties from the TFSBuild.proj file - Where is the call to MSBuild located in Beta 3 Yes, it is possible. You will need to use TfsBuild.rsp file to pass options to msbuild call. This file can be located along with TfsBuild.proj file. For example, if you want to pass /p:foo=bar to msbuild command line, you would simply add this line in TfsBuild.rsp and check it in. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Beginer Question -

  I have a big problem! I need to make some photoshop scripts for myself to make life more easy. I want to use Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. Because it is easy to make interface with it Now I am learning how to script. I made the first "Hello, World!" Example in photoshop scripting guide And it worked perfectly. There is no problem except this: When I need to do this: newTextLayer.TextItem.Position = Array(0.75, 1) or this: docRef.Selection.Select Array( Array( 50, 60 ), Array( 150, 60 ), Array( 150, 120 ), Array( 50, 120 ) ) or anything else having to do with Array(then some thing inside) it says: "'Array' is a type and it cannot b ...Show All

• Visual C# How to destroy an object in C#?

  I created an object using "new" method from a class. After some operation, I need to explicitly destroy this object. In vb the code is simply "object=nothing". But in C#, i don't know how to do that. Thks. Actually, object = nothing does not delete it at all. object = null; will do what object = nothing does in VB.NET, which is to discard the reference to it, which will speed up when it will be cleaned up by the garbage collector, but you can't know when that will be. If an object has a Dispose() method, you need to call it before it goes out of scope. You can use the using keyword to do this for you autom ...Show All

• Visual C# Detecting Devices Using C#

  Hello, I'm attempting to determine several things from within my code: 1) Does a laptop have a SD Card slot 2) If so, how do I detect if a Card is present 3) Does a laptop have a USB port 4) If so, how do I detect if some other type of storage device is present I have searched quite a bit on these topics and have not found anything that seemed useful. Can anyone give me some hints, pointers, examples.... anything, please Thank you in advance. Hi, if you really need the gory details, I'm afraid you need to use the API's. There is a nice article here . If instead you only need to locate the remo ...Show All

• Visual C# Digitally sign a c# web form from a CaC (smart card)

  Does anyone know how or does anyone have some sample code on digitally signing a web form Right now we have a manual process on our network accounts. Someone fills out the form on the web, prints it and then faxes it to us. I'd like to make this as automated as possible. Thanks, Frank Hi, Thanks for your posts on MSDN forums. Basically, it doesn't make sense to sign a web form in your source code, for the security check is based on binary data transfer. And it's highly suggested you enable SSL of your server's iis setting after you request a verisign certificate to public at: http://www.verisign.com . It ...Show All

• Windows Forms Office 2003 look & feel - howto skin my own application?

  Hi, anyone know any good articles or links on howto change my win forms application look & feel into Office 2003, or even XP, look & feel Thanx, Lavinder Hi Lavinder, To get XP Look and Feel: - in your static Main method add a line <b>Application.EnableVisualStyles()</b> before Application.Run - then change the <b>FlatStyle</b> property for your& ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB2005 & VB.NET 2003 BUG: Enumeration Comparison to Integer with Option Strict On does not evaluate correctly

  Hopefully I am posting this in the correct place.  If not, please help me get there. Basically I want to report a bug with the VB2005 (and VB.NET 2003) compiler. Here is the behavior:  In VB2005 (and VB.NET 2003), Enumeration comparison to Integer with Option Strict On never implicitly converts the enumeration to the integer, and also does not show up as an error in the pre-compiler or the compiler. Thus it will incorrectly evaluate to false, even if it is true. I am part of a team where I work, and we have a very large solution that we recently converted to VB2005 (after turning on Option Strict).  We came across ...Show All