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• Visual Studio Team System Error Adding a Testing Policy on Check in Policies

  Hi, I created some unit tests and I’m trying to add a testing policy. VSTS ask me for a metadata file (.vsmdi), I select my project from the server and when I press OK the following error appears, “ Warning Error downloading $\MyProject. ” The metadata file is in my solution. Any suggestion Thanks. To create a test policy you need to select a VSMDI file from ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System I cant not find Web Test, Load Test options in VSTS. How to look for the same?

  I have tried hard after loading the VSTS, but could not find the Web Test and Load Test options when i treid to add a new test in the application. What I could see is just Unit test and Ordered test. Next is ... Our organisation wants to go for VSTS as according to them, this would have to have a centrailised repository of the scripts. My question is: 1) Whether VSTS is a better solution for the testers than any mercury or Rational Robo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Failed to open VPC Network driver

  Hi, I have just installed VS 2005 Beta 2. When deploying to the emulator, it launches the emulator but then comes up with: "Failed to open VPC Network driver. The driver might not be installed". Thanks. I am posting this here, because it is one of the first pages that Google turned up on this topic, and since I struggled a bit with this, I would like to help other people with the answer. I am using Visual Stu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) support for hierarchical tables?

  Hello! Is there an example of a table supporting "hierarchical" rows somewhere. I think of a situation where there's a ROWGUID column as primary key and a ParentROWGUID being a foreign reference to the same table Do you know if it's correct that there are problems with such structures at the current level of development of LINQ Best regards, Henrik Dahl Batched CRUD would work (I suspect this isn't what you me ...Show All

• .NET Development Data files?

  Is it possible to use datafiles in C# if so how i have a project to do in C# and Data files would help bunches. Could you be a little more specific What do you mean by data files exactly --mc ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Shameless plug

  Hi, I posted this same list on a couple other forums without any replies. Eventually I ended up submitting my own first example and of course it gets marked as resolved. Plegh! Like a number of other beginner's to game programming, I am having a difficult time deconstructing the Microsoft examples. They always throw in the whole kitchen sink! I would like to see some very rudimentary code samples which each do one simple thing. The Di ...Show All

• SQL Server Print Preview on Client side

  I'm sure this is a commonly asked question, but How can I print preview a deployed report on the client browser What mechanism allows for the print preview in design but not in deployed reports I understand the export to PDF and view and print from that environment, but is there a way to initially render the report in PDF, say in an iFrame, that will not prompt for the File Download to Open or Save (i.e. I would like it to default to open wi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development genasm.exe(1) : Initializing error

  I have built a simple NetCF 2.0 control that displays an image generated at runtime. It has 12 properties, all of them are public and their types are only string, float, Color, Font and 3 enums. The control assembly is DynImage.Windows.CF.dll, the namespace is O2S.ImageControls and the control name is DynImageView. The control references a class library named DynImage.CF.dll. This class library provides the DynImage class used in the control abo ...Show All

• .NET Development choose a port

  when im using tcp/ip how can i know which port to use thanks Hi, If I understood your question correctly, you want information as to how to select a port thats not already used by other known applications. IANA publishes a list of well known ports. Take a look at the link below: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers If you use a port number based on that list, you should be safe. Regards, Vikram Mark th ...Show All

• SQL Server how to order stored procedures or tables by date

  We used to do this extensively in the old enterprise manager.. this is needed on big systems with lots of tables and stored procedures becuase you normally don't remember the name but it is the most recent thing you were working on.. anyone know how to do this in the new sql server management studio.. thanks In 2005 I would use system catalog view. Vincent ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to set a default value for a Combo Box?

  I’m creating a Combobox dynamicly at run time, however, I don’t’ know how to set the default selected value for it!!  Thanks. Dim MyComboBox As New ComboBox MyComboBox.Name = “MyComboBox” MyComboBox.DataSource = MyDefaultView MyComboBox.DisplayMember = "ItemList" MyComboBox.ValueMember&n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form.Validate() method, Validating and Validated events does not work,

  I created a pretty simple windows app with 2 forms and a user control, trying to figure out the event firing orders... I found out that, when I call this.Validate() in a form, nothing happens... I have event handlers attached to validating and validated events both in and out of the form... none of them gets fired... ValidateChildren() method causes all the child controls on the form to be validated. Is Validate() method obsolete in ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX - Type or Namespace Not Found Error

  I know there has been a previous thread on this topic, but reading it didn't help me. ( http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=87777 ) I have referenced Microsoft.DirectX, Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D, and Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX, but it can't find ColorValue, FontWeight, or FontDescription. (type or namespace name not found error) I tried looking through them in the object browser, but couldn't find them either. Can anyone ...Show All

• .NET Development String reversal difference btw StrReverse and _wcsrev

  Can someone help explain to me the difference in string reversal implementation between StrReverse (Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.StrReverse) and C++'s _wcsrev I've read that StrReverse is robust implementation of string reversal since it handles special Unicode characters correctly that C++'s _wcsrev library function doesn't.  What allows StrReverse to handle the special Unicode characters correctly Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to set the size of the Thumb?

  I have ListView within a GridView. The datacontext for the ListView are 1,000 items, for example. At the startup only load 100 items are loaded. When the user scrolls to end of the ListView, a event will be thrown to load the next set of items, and so on. </br> Unfortunately the Thumb of the ScrollBar shows only the size for the current amount of items. Is it possible to set the size of the Thumb that its size represents a datacontext of 1 ...Show All