Steve_K's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Witimport - Replace or add... or an easier way...

  We are looking to modify a few Work Items to add a few fields. If I run witimport, will it just add a new work item or replace it I've downloaded the Agile Template and added 2 new work items and modified the current ones. What is the easist way for me to put all my changes into the system without disrupting the current flow WITIMPORT updates the existing work item types. If you have a project that is created by using a template a ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLNCLI.DLL can't find MSVCR80.dll at runtime

  I have written a C++ DLL that links against the SQLNCLI.LIB, which uses the SQLNCLI.DLL. When the runtime DLL loader attempts to find MSVCR80.DLL which SQLNCLI.DLL depends on it cannot find it unless it is in your system path somewhere. I thought this behavior was depricated with the release of VS 2005 and the C Runtime 8.0 Isn't this supposed to be loaded via a manifest file from within SQLNCLI.DLL If not is the proper solution to copy MSVCR80. ...Show All

• SQL Server Child Package cannot always be found

  Hi folks, please can you help.   I have an Integration Services file package that calls another file package.   The child package will always reside in the same directory as the parent package.   In the connection manager for the child package I have simply specified the name of the child package not the full directory path so that the child package path is a relative path to the parent package.   This all works perf ...Show All

• Windows Forms Common Language Runtime Debugging Services

  On heading it says: UploadmyFile.exe -  Common Language Runtime Debugging Services Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process id =0x4fs(1268), Thread id=0x96c(2412). Click OK to terminate the application. Click CANCEL to debug the application. I have&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to get the information of any file checked out by a user longer than a certain date

  Hi there, Again its me. I wondering, can we get the information of: "Any file checked out by a user longer than a certain date" What i mean regarding the statement is, i would like to know what file has been checked out more than a certain date. Example, any file that check out more than 3 days, Thanks. Hi, You can use VSS automation and write your own program to retrieve this kind of information. See IVSS documentation at: http://msdn ...Show All

• .NET Development AssemblyFormat.Simple and the GAC

  Can someone describe the type binding process to GAC types when AssemblyFormat.Simple is used with the serialization formatters From what I've been able to determine, Assembly.Load will only bind to the GAC if a full assembly name is specified. Does that imply that AssemblyFormat.Simple cannot be used if you are using GAC types other than the ones from mscorlib If you can use types from other GAC assemblies, how are they resolved For ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help: Visual basic program

  Hi i am making a program with a listbox named (lst) and picturebox named (pic) and i put the following code into the listbox selectedindexchanged sub so as the user clicks on the picture name from the listbox it displays in the picturebox Note: the listbox contains the paths of the images as there is openfiledialog in the program Private Sub lst_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles lst.SelectedI ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changesets newbie

  In another post Randy miller explained me about baselines and about how tfs implements it, he told me its called changesets, but as far as I have investigated the tool I dont see how to create changesets, or something, Can someone explain me a little about this. Thanks To quote this section of MSDN which you should check out directly: A changeset is a logical container in which Team Foundation stores everything related to a si ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Do not indirectly expose methods with link demands

  the following code generates the warning "Do not indirectly expose methods with link demands" indicating that charkey = (int)m.WParam is the problem. It is a method in a control which is derived from TextBox. I have tried adding a try block and catching SecurityException and adding an assembly reference for the EnvironmentPermissionAttribute but I still get the error. Having read FxCops suggestion for fixing the problem I am still not entir ...Show All

• Visual Basic Saving gif files

  Hi people, For a jpg file, you can save the file with the save method of the image object and you can specifiy a quality. code: currentImage.Save(SaveFileDialog1.FileName, _codec, GetQuality()) First parameter is the name of the file. Second is the ImageCodecInfo, here a jpg. Thrid is the quality as encoderparameters. Now I would like to save a .jpg file as a .gif file and I want to set a number of colors that it wants to use ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista 5231 and VS 2005 RC1

  Hi All, Has anyone tried installing VS 2005 on Vista 5231 They both seem to use the same .Net 2.0 bits... ...Show All

• .NET Development FtpWebRequest re-sending USER and PASS commands half way through download loop

  Well, the title says it all really: I'm using FtpWebRequest to download multiple files as follows: private string GetFile(Uri uri) { string un = Misc.ReadRegKey("ParserFtpUsername"); string pwd = Misc.ReadRegKey("ParserFtpPwd"); string file; NetworkCredential cred = new NetworkCredential(un, pwd); WebProxy pxy = new WebProxy(); pxy.UseDefaultCredentials = true; FtpWebRequest wr = (FtpWebRequest)We ...Show All

• SQL Server Convert from Relational to Datawarehouse

  Hello, I dont know the theory of how to convert from relational to a DW. Can somebody point me to good tutorials or PDFs, or links about this. Thanks    ...Show All

• SQL Server Debugging database errors with SQL Server Express

  I am trying to debug a classic ASP application using Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server Express editions. When my application tries to execute a stored procedure, I get the following error: Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. Is there a way for me to trace queries that are getting executed in SQL Server Express so I can see which stored procedure is failing I seem to remem ...Show All

• SQL Server Connecting to Oracle on 64-bit (x64) machine

  Hi, Has anyone received the following error when trying to create a connection to an Oracle database using SSIS installed on a 64-bit (x64) machine "Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider. ORA-06413: Connection not open" The reason this is funny to me is because I have the same Oracle/SSIS setup on a 32-bit (x86) machine and I can connect successfully. On both machines I have SSIS RTM, Oracle 9.2 and using the ...Show All