qingxisong's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System TFS December CTP and SQL 2005 RTM

  Has anyone tried to install the TFS December using a Single Server setup with SQL 2005 RTM   I had problem during the setup and the process was interrupted.  The error is 0x80004005: Failed to install databases. The TFSSetup account I use is part of the sysadmin of the SQL server.  Thanks in advance for your help. Thank you very much for your reply.  No, it was not a 'real fresh' install.  I did have SQL Server and Visual Studio 2005 Beta installed on that box before but I used Add/remove program to remove all possible beta components.  My guess is that there is some 'lefto ...Show All

• Windows Forms Customize Listbox Items

  Hi everybody, I have listbox object in my form. Now I want the first item I add to to be bold and the font color should be red. Then all the other items I add should be default. Is that possible If yes how If no, why not Thanks for your help !!! Sure! Use owner drawing! Set Listbox.DrawMode to OwnerDrawFixed or OwnerDrawVariable and paint the items yourself. Here's how . ...Show All

• Windows Forms Advice: User controls or not...

  Hi. Iam working on my and my colleagues final exsam (administrative panel, windows app for colleagues web portal administation). I have devided administrative sections with tab pages and for every that section (14 of them) I have bunch a controls on main form and codes for that sections to work as they should. My question is: Is it better to create 14 user controls for each section and just to load them on to the panel (for exsample) Then I'll be completely remove the tab pages and create a vertical navigation through this 14 sections (like you can see on Microsoft Money 2006 on the left side) and comunicate with events and delegates if any ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Roles and WWF

  I've read the articles that Microsoft have published about the new WWF. I saw only in the article by David Chappel a few words about this issue. In People 2 People Workflows one of the major concernes is how flexible is Role resolution and Role assignment works. Where can i get more info about how WWF is going to address this issue Hello Krishna, I'm deriving the class WorkflowRole, and then using it in an EventSink. When the call to the method I ncludesIdentity happens, the identity comes "" (empty). So my question is the next one: How can I set up the identity of the user who makes the call Regards, M ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Deploying a Word Solution with an Actionpane

  Hi there, I've created an setup project within my VSTO solution which I've used to install the solution on several machines. I've also created an msi that updates the security on the individual machines. However, the actionspane does not open when the solution is opened after installation. When I manually open it using Templates/Add-in tools option, it just opens a blank Document Actions pane. Any suggestions Cheers Shafraz Hello Shafraz: I have the same error that you had. I already generate setup with tutorial Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions Using Windows Installer: Walkt ...Show All

• Visual C# No-parameter struct constructors & hiding virtual methods

  1. Why do structs have a default no-parameter constructor that cannot be overridden What's the harm in overriding a struct's default constructor 2. Why would you want to hide a method by marking it "new" if it's been marked "virtual" in a base class Isn't the feature anti-OOP Why isn't NOT overriding a virtual method treated as a warning and not a lapse in judgement        All the answers above are actually quite good. I'd like to add another reason related to assignment and efficiency. Consider the current no-arg constructor on structs. What does it do, exactly It creates a s ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I have SQL 9.0 instance in management studio

  I've installed SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 side by side. Now when I open SQL Server Management Studio it runs the SQL version 8 that belongs to SQL Server 2000. How can I start with SQL Server 2005 (SQL 9.0) to create new database under the new features thank you. First, register the SQL 2005 instance...click 'view...registered servers'...then, in the registered servers window, register your SQL 2005 instance appropriately. Once you've registered the server, right click on it and choose 'connect...object explorer'. If the Object Explorer pane isn't viewable, make it so by choosing 'view...objec ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Compiling MS SDK CustomAuth

  I am trying to build the CustomAuth.dll from the Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2's Samples\Web\iis\ISAPI_6.0\CusomAuth folder. I am building it using Visual C++ 2005 Express under Windows XP, and I will be using the DLL on IIS6 on a Windows Server 2003 box. BUILD ENVIRONMENT I have installed both VC and the SDK, and I followed Microso ft's instructions on settin g up VC to use the SDK (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/). BUILDING THE DLL I then opened the CustomAuth.dsw file in VC and answered "Yes to all" when prompted to convert the dsw. I had to add "..\inc" to the Co ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error converting double to unsigned __int64

  I'm seeing a problem in converting a double to an unsigned __int64. If the double is greater than the maximum for a signed __int64, the conversion returns the wrong value. For example: { double d; unsigned __int64 num = 0xa000000000000000; printf("unsigned __int64 = %#I64x\n",num); d = (double)num; printf("To double = %e\n",d); num = (unsigned __int64)d; printf("From double = %#I64x\n\n",num); } Produces: unsigned __int64 = 0xa000000000000000 // Correct To double = 1.152922e+019 // Correct From double = 0x8000000000000000 // WRONG Is there a fix for th ...Show All

• SQL Server Programmatically Deleting an Instance

  I'm trying to just get a basic NS app up and running.  While I can get through the samples just fine, it seems there are no samples that programmatically manage Instances/Applications, etc.  I've googled around and not found anything either.  Essentially it looks to me that everyone uses the IDF/ADF files.  The SDK has some very sparse documentation on it, so I've started there and tried to get things working. I have code to create the instance/application programmatically, but when I want to drop the whole thing and create it again, upon calling instance.Create() I get an exception (actually this is what the innerExce ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I bind to a Child Object?

  Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to bind a child object to a MaskeTextBox. I have a simple Product object that contains a Price object. The price object has an Amount property. I'm simply trying to bind the Amount property to the MaskTextBox. I've tried something like this without any success: txtPrice.DataBindings.Add( new Binding ( "Value" , productBindingSource, "Price.Amount" , true )); Can anybody help Thanks! Never mind, I got it working. I'm still learning the inner secrets of the free OODB called http://www.db4o.com and how to use it in Windows Smart Clients et ...Show All

• Visual Studio msvsmon.exe /__dbgautolaunch

  I am looking for some information on the msvsmon.exe command line argument used by Visual Studio 2005, specifically "/__dbgautolaunch". I need to know the purpose of this command and my searches are drawing a blank so far. Can anyone direct me to where I might find a description of it The __dbgautolaunch switch is used by the debugger to launch msvsmon.exe automatically. Habib Heydarian Program Manager Visual Studio Debugger ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF/XAML for WinXP

  Hi, everyone! Question about WPF, but not about Vista. Whether any release of WPF/XAML for WinXP is planned With best regards, Dmitry     Do you mean - just a pack of WPF (without WCF, WWF components) SDK, Runtime - for Win XP ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with WI's and reportable="dimension"

  Hi all, I have a work item type I recently updated where I added a few fields with the attribute reportable = " dimension ". But when I create a new report inside VS 2005 (1. Added a new datasource based on TFSWareHouse 2. Added a new report which uses the "Work Item" view) I can only see some of the added fields (RequirementIteration, BAResponsible, CustomerResponsible & CustomerReviewer). The other fields are not showing - and I have tried to re-import work item type file several times but my problem remains. These are the fields I added to my work item type: < FIELD name = " RelatedUC " refname = ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combining ClickOnce and MSI Installer

  Hi, I have been surprised by the gap there is between ClickOnce and MSI. And I need to solve this. The scenario is this: Install a windows form application on a client (registry values, files, folder creation) and use ClickOnce to just update the application. Any GOOD documents about it Thanks!!! Hi... thanks for the response. What I mean is that the msi will create registry values, and folders, and by using ClickOnce the application itself will be automatically updated. By the way... I have solve it and It woooooorks!! Just needed to create a bootstrapper manifest and wrap the msi as a prerequiste!! ...Show All