David Clavey's Q&A profile
Visual Studio Team System Team system and MS Project
Do you need to have MS Project installed to use the report features of Team System In the last beta it didn't seem like it was this neccesary to have MS Project installed, but now it seems I can't get most reports because I don't have MS Project. Shouldn't it be possible to get close to full use of team system without MS Project No, you shouldn't have to do anything. Just create the Team Project and you should be able to see some docs and reports in the two folders. As for customizing methodologies, take a look at these Webcasts: MSDN Webcast: Implementing and Customizing MSF 4.0 Process Guidance wit ...Show All
.NET Development Calling Javascript from C#.NET
Hi, I have an HTML page with contains both Javascript and a .NET control on it. the html is: <html> <head> </head> <body> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" src="javascript/projectJS.js"> </SCRIPT> <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" id="project"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name='src' value='index.mxml.swf' ...Show All
Windows Forms BackgroundWorker and BindingSource Threading question
The documentation mentions the following: You must be careful not to manipulate any user-interface objects in your DoWork event handler. Instead, communicate to the user interface through the ProgressChanged and RunWorkerCompleted events. So if I have a datagridview, a typed dataset, a table adapter, and a binding source components on a form and the datagridview datasource is the binding source and the binding source data source is the typed dataset is it safe to fill the dataset with data in the DoWork event handler even though this will indirectly cause the UI to be updated (although presumable on the UI thread assuming the datagridv ...Show All
Visual Studio Differences between Restoring from SSADMIN and SSRESTOR
I am trying to archive various projects from a SourceSafe database using 6.0c versions. I archived the database through SSADMIN and restore through SSADMIN. During the restore I get many "Project of File not found." messages. I tried restoring through SSRESTOR command-line utility and I get NO errors. I checked several of the files that show in the SSADMIN restore window and they appear in the database both the main file and the .a or .b file. The restore is into a new blank SS database. I get the warning "Destination database is not the same as the original. Some links may not be restored." but I think this is norm ...Show All
Windows Forms data driven application
I am trying to build a windows app with an SDI. Main form has panel of buttons and some graphics. Other forms are inherited from this form. The buttons' text and the procedures they perform need to be dynamic, based on where the user is in the application. For instance, clicking the update button needs to update the table that i ...Show All
Windows Forms Getting focus to a dialog box
Hi, I have an app running hidden (apart from an icon on the status bar) This app must pop dialogue boxes onto the screen, topmost, and with focus, when the user has another totally unrelated window open and active on the screen. I can get the "topmost" aspect without any trouble, but cannot find any way of ensuring that the popped dialog box automatically has its focus set so that the buttons and edit boxes may be accessed via the keyboard Tab button , without recourse to activating the dialog box by clicking with the mouse. Any help and advice on a "simple" and elegant solution would be very gratefully received. ...Show All
Visual Studio VS 2005 Install Software Developers & Architects?
Hi all, i have installed VS 2005 Team Edition for software developers and i want to install VS 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects too. Is this going to mess up my other installation Thanks This is possible and you will be able to use all the features of Team Dev and Team Architect. However, depending on your order of install, you might be confused which edition is actually on your machine. go to Help->About to verify both are installed. This scenario will not mess up the other installation. ...Show All
Visual Studio How to support Exception Assistant
I want to support an exception assistant to COBOL Exceptions. How can it support It seems that it has realized by putting an XML file on the ExceptionAssistantContent folder of an IDE folder about the standard exception for Visual Studio. Best Regards. Hi Shinya, it appears that ExceptionAssistant is supported for VB.NET, C#, and J#. I do not see any extensibility points to add languages. You are correct that the exception database is in the form of the DefaultContent.xml in the folder you mentioned above. The Exception manager will also read additional *.xm ...Show All
.NET Development Timeout in WinHttp object
I am using WinHttp object to send and receive information (getting a document in terms of bytes and opening on the browser by converting it into PDF). I am not setting any timeout explicitly in my C# program. I am using synchronous connection to do this process. Sometimes, our clients are coming across 'timeout' error while downloading the document. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong What is the default connection timeout 60 seconds Hi Satya, The timeout value only applies until the stack starts reading/writing data to the connection. You can think of it as a Connection timeout. Once the connection is established and we star ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Where can I find information about MSF 4.0
Has MSF 4.0 been published If so, where can I get a copy The only information that appears on the Microsoft website seems to be about v3.0 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msf/default.mspx Will Depends on what you are looking for... there are a few books and white-papers coming out on VSTS & MSFv4. For instance, Sam is writing a book on Software Engineering with VSTS, Randy is writing a book on Agile Development with VSTS, and I am writing a book on MSFv4 Core - which is an update to much of the material you saw on that web-site (i.e., MSFv3). ...Show All
SQL Server Installed .NET 1.1 Framework and MSDE stopped working
I just upgraded the .NET 1.0 to 1.1 today and now when I launch the Web Data Administrator for MSDE it hangs up as soon as I hit the login button. I reinstalled MSDE and the Web Data Administrator and that didn't correct the problem. Help! Try this: Cause This problem occurs if the following registry subkey is missing: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI This issue may also occur if this registry subkey does not have valid registry entries. If this registry subkey is missing, you cannot use the ODBC tool in Control Panel to add or to create a new data source. Resolution To resolve ...Show All
Visual C# Design Time Collection Editing
I am creating a custom menu. I would like to edit it in the same mannor as the ContextMenuStrip is done. Such as the menu on the design form, etc. Is this possible My object contains a ToolStripItemCollection just like the Context Menu Strip... If you could help or atleast point me to a place that would be very helpful. Thanks, Mike Mike, Anything's possible if you want to try hard enough! And Microsoft managed to do this... I haven't seen what you are after actually done, but my guess is you'll have to inherit from the 'item and do some custom painting (ie OnPaint) and key handling. ...Show All
Windows Forms Getting Ids of the Listbox rows
Hi all, Is there any way to find the id of the row in the ListBox for which user has made changes. Lets take an example: Suppose table is "Table1": Id Name Description 1 &nb ...Show All
Visual Studio VSS Automation - Error
Hi This is my first attempt at a post and also at using VSS integration so bear with me. Using example code taken from what looks like the most popular post re Automation, I created a small VB6 app to look at the status of a file. It doesn't work!!! On the .Open call, I get an Automation Error/Unspecified Error. I was then asked to look at an app that a colleague had written some time ago that again uses VSS automation but in a more complex way, it worked on his machine but not anyone elses. I got the code and ran it on my machine and got exactly the same error as above. From what I can make out, the only difference between his machine and ...Show All
Windows Forms .Net 2005
Has anyone be allowed to compile from Visual C# Express .Net 2005 I get an asembly validation error but with no description :/ I dont have the Framework directory in Microsoft.NET folder. ...Show All