Jetpilot86's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Displaying custom build steps in the IDE build progress page.

  When I start a build on my teambuild server from VS.net I get the build progress page, I'd like to know if it's possible to display custom build steps in the "Build steps" list of this page. I'm doing a lot of customized tasks in the < AfterDropBuild > section of the CustomAction.targets file and the build step that correspond to this is "Copying log files to drop location". I'd like to add build steps like "Buildi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions If VB 2005 Express and SQL Server Express 2005 does not come with Crystal Reports

  If VB 2005 Express and SQL Server Express 2005 does not come with Crystal Reports then, what are my options to build a database report inside VB 2005 Express without using any external tools or components   Is this possible Looking at the productline information ( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/productinfo/productline/default.aspx ) the express editions can use SQL Reporting Services, you might ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataContract and DataMember

  I have a class and I need pass the class to the client of service without put the DataContract and DataMember atributte in the class, without modified the class. Can I put the DataContract or DataMember attribute in another place, or how I pass the class schema to the client without those atributtes You can use the XmlSerializer instead of DataContractSerializer. This is the old ASMX serialization metho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help displaying specific Arrays in Listbox!

  Ok well the problem I have is that i have to setup a program in which the user selects a Product from its ID which is displayed in a Combobox. Once selected the user clicks the buy button which brings up a quantity input box where the user can enter a number which is calculated and displayed in a Listbox! The problem im getting is that althought it is displaying the information i want, for each array/product in the combobox which is has no ...Show All

• SQL Server DTC problem with Linked servers between SQL2k and MSDE

  Hi, can someone help me on this I have two servers linked with each others - ServerA and ServerB. ServerA located in trust area while ServerB located in DMZ behind firewall. I am able to run query from both servers without performance issue. However, when I start using BEGIN TRAN or BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRAN, it always return the following error: Server: Msg 7391, Level 16, State 1, Line 4 The operation could not be performed because t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Nested Concept and Nested Diagram

  Hello all, I read through the DSL example posted here , which covers features of the December's release. In that example, snapshot of the Toolbox shows: Nested Concept, Nested Shape and Nested Diagram. It looks like these capabilities were removed from the current release. My question is whether these features were removed for good and is there an adequate alternative in the current release Especially I am interested in creating a concept, sha ...Show All

• .NET Development Dispose and Application Lifetime Objects

  Hello, I have a Windows Forms application. When the app first runs (Form_Load) I create some disposable objects that will be used throughout the lifetime of the applicaiton (eg. a GDI Brush, SqlConnection etc). Do I really need to call Dispose() on all of these objects when the application closes, or will Dispose be called automatically for such objects when the app closes In other words, can I instantiate a disposable object when my app first ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Synchronizing manual test and application run with code coverage

  Hello, I created a manual test and if I run it there opens the page where I can mark my comments about my previosly defined test steps. If I now start the applikation I wish to test (pressing F5) it starts the application and I can perform all test tasks, but I won't get code coverage results this way. If I go the other way, doing the application test, I get coverage results, but do not see the form of the manual test to fill in: I see the probl ...Show All

• .NET Development The ShowWithOutActivation Property

  I posted this in the VB forum at first but with no joy so I’m hoping some one that uses one of the other .net syntaxes can help me :D I have added the following override to my form but when ever the form opens (or pops up in the bottom right of the screen) it steals the focus away from the main form which the user is typing into, which causes (if they are in a text box for example) all the text in the field to be highlighted (when the form ...Show All

• Windows Forms adding an item to a listbox

  Hello, I have two databound listboxes.  Listbox 1 contains items assigned to a group.  Listbox 2 contains all available items. I want to be able to select an item from Listbox 2 and add it to Listbox 1, but since Listbox 1 is databound&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office ActionsPane AddIn for Word 2003 with VSTO 2005 Beta 2

  Hi, I am developing ActionsPane in Word2003 with VSTO 2005 Beta2, I use this link for that http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/d6sb8dyb(en-us,vs.80).aspx . But the problem of that is the document centric, what I had developed is only used for one document. My questions are:   How can I modify or create the Actions Pane for Word2003 , so that doesn’t matter which document I open the Actions Pane I create will be available for all ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to set a custom cursor for CLR C++ WinForm?

  Hi, I'm using VS 2005. I tried to set a new custom cursor for my CLR C++ WinForm. If the .cur file is on external hard disk, it found OK, but if I tried to embed the .cur file to a managed resource file (MyRes1.resx), it cannot loaded: this->Cursor = gcnew System::Windows::Forms::Cursor(GetType(), "MyCursor.cur"); Error message in run time: " An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in System. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro reading html file in foxpro

  Hi I want to check an .html (or TXT if thats easier) file with foxpro for this line: src="cid:image001.jpg@01C67F47.26775C40" and replace it with src="image001.jpg" how can I do this, I can't figure it out :( look at using : STRTRAN() with filetostr(), append from\type or alines() Dave M. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with selected node in TreeView control

  I'm experiencing a problem with the selected node property in the tree view control. I have a context menu setup with the control and if you right click on a node in the treeview it appears to select the node and bring up the context  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Doesn't adjust Menuitem.Index properly in code from VB 2003

  Something strange happened where InitializeComponent() bombed because I deleted two menuitems and the Menuitem.Index property didn't get reduced for all of the items. I don't know if this happens with code made from VS 2005 since the code I had was originally from VB 2003. System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException was unhandled Message="InvalidArgument=Value of '6' is not valid for 'Index'. Parameter name: Index" ParamName="Index&qu ...Show All