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• Software Development for Windows Vista MSDN Vista key fails

  Hi I have just downloaded the December CTP 5270 build from my MSDN subscription but the Product key provided on MSDN doesn't work, I have read that I need a new code for this build does any one know when this will be published on MSDN Regards Steve Me too. I tried both CTP and Beta 1 key but both of them didn’t work. I tried to install Vista CTP on Virtual Server 2005 R2. I’m sure this is NOT issue of   Virtual PC. ...Show All

• Visual Studio "Project not valid" then trying to build solution from code.

  I have a solution containing some projects, and I tried to build it under CruiseControl.NET with NAnt. Then I ran msbuild.exe on my .sln file - build was completed sucessfully. Then I tried to build solution from NAnt task and got following errors: Project is not valid. The element 'PropertyGroup' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003' has invalid child element 'Project_A965BD0E-3F6E-478C-A161-86CF5C307C72_AspNetVirtualPath' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003'. List of possible elements expected: 'Property' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003'. That me ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source Control in Portal?

  Hello -- I was wondering what the most straightforward way to expose source control in a Portal site is, so that I can get latest, check-in, check-out, etc, from the Portal site w/o having to install Visual Studio Ideally, I would be able to have a GUI that works at least as well as Visual SourceSafe w/o having to install Visual Studio. thanks for your help, joyce Team System doesn't support web access to source control or work items out of the box. There are a number of 3rd party products out there that purport to provide such access. I haven't used any of 'em, so caveat emptor. http://www.devbiz.com/te ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Which version of Visual C++?

  Hi Folks, I would like to buy Microsoft Visual C++ to do write some simple Windows applications perhaps using DirectX in them.  I am not really interested in .NET or web development, and would just like to write C++ applications using resources such as graphics/icons/sounds that compileto executables. I am a bit confused about what product I need to buy. Looking at past products, I can see that I would want something similar to Visual C++ 6.0 Professional. Now with the .NET at the end of everything I am notsure what I should get! If I am correct, for my requirements I probably can get away with downloading the beta of Visual C++ ...Show All

• SQL Server sqs2005 CASE WHEN THEN

  Hey, Substring function doesn't accept a negative length: so in sqlserver2000 we added a CASE to first check the length, and if it is >= 1 then calculate substring. SELECT ALL CASE WHEN -3 >= 1 THEN {fn SUBSTRING('12345', 5, -3)} ELSE '' END In sqs2005 this stmt gives "Invalid length parameter passed to the SUBSTRING function." I thought for a CASE-stmt a THEN-clause is only calculated when then WHEN-clause is TRUE In sqs2000 this statement works. Thanks. That doesnt work for static expressions with a negative length, butwill work for normal queries based on tables and thei ...Show All

• Windows Forms Version displayed in publish.htm?

  What is displayed as "Version" in publish.htm Is it the "assembly version", the "file version", or the "publish version" The reason I ask is that I have bumped the "publish version" up twice now, from 1.0.0.0 to 1.0.0.1 and now to 1.0.0.2, and each time I publish, the resulting publish.htm file shows "1.0.0.0" as the version. The published version is displayed. Can you check the following 1. On the server where publish.htm is published what is the last modified date of publish.htm. I am wondering if an old copy of publish.htm is being picked up. 2. On the publish tab in Visual Studio select the Otpions ...Show All

• Visual Basic class containing another class

  Hi, I'm new to OOP and am having problems creating a class that contains a collection of items from another class. ie I have a LabelTemplate class that represents a label to printed from a Thermal label printer. My LabelTemplate class has a set of properties like label size, labelName,barcode string etc.I also have a class, "PrintFields", that contains properties for a dynamic number of different items to be printed on the label.  I want to have this class contain and access a collection of PrintField objects. Any ideas Regards          Kev Hi, In your getFldValue( ) function, what I meant by ...Show All

• Visual Studio Watching Vector values

  I tried to 'watch' the value of an element in a vector using VC++ during debugging. Say 'V' is a vector with 'n' elements. When I say V (where 0<i<n) as a watch variable in the debugger, I get an error "CXX0058: Error: overloaded operator not found ". Is there any vector function that I can use to read its value Thank you. Whizman wrote: I tried to 'watch' the value of an element in a vector using VC++ during debugging. Say 'V' is a vector with 'n' elements. When I say V[ i ] (where 0<i<n) as a watch variable in the debugger, I get an error "CXX0058: Error: overloaded operator not found ". I ...Show All

• Visual Basic vb6 convertion

  I am porting a project from vb6 to vb.net 2005 and I cannot figure out one convertion. 'This Function gets the text of the window Private Function GetText(Get_hWnd As Long) As String Dim lenTxt As Long, retText As String lenTxt = GetWindowTextLength(Get_hWnd) + 1 retText = String$ (lenTxt, " ") GetWindowText Get_hWnd, retText, lenTxt GetText = retText End Function The bold function is what I cannot figure out. I know the String function is the following: String Function String( number , character ) Returns a Variant of subtype String that is of the length specified by number and is filled ...Show All

• .NET Development some suggestions

  HI guys. I was wondering how I could send some suggestions about the .net languages. Since the new version is gonig to be released very soon, I was wondering if I could pass these comments to the dot net dev team. Does anybody know any email addresses any web forms There are two issues anyways, which are listed below. Please do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks. /Ali Please contact ali at jannatpour d0t c0m; (please do not spam) ============================================================================   ISSUE 1: 'callable' a new generalized delegate I think having this feature added to the .net languages makes a lot of cod ...Show All

• Visual C++ Prefast and LoadString weirdness

  Hello everyone, I am trying to compile my old C++ code with Whidbey Beta 2 and prefast turned on (/analysis for static code analysis, turn on "Enable code analysis for C/C++" in Advanced settings of C/C++ configuration properties). I get weird warnings with my use of the LoadString API that I cannot explain. I've boiled it down to two small functions foo() and bar() that should behave identical but the first one gives a prefast warning(C6386: buffer overrun: accessing 'argument 3', the writable size is '1*0' bytes, but '1' bytes may be written...). void foo() {     int nBuffer = 1;     LPTSTR szText = (LPTSTR) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Compiler disagreement

  In features I have seen that Express and Standard haven't 64 bit option compiler. I am very disagree with that because 64 bit processor are there, and with this VS versions you can compile for those processors. When I purchase VS, I am not purchasing the compiler, I am purchasing the fantastic IDE, libraries, tools, and the complete pack. More money you spend, more complete pack you have. This limitation don't have reason, because there are FREE compilers, as GCC that compile for 64 bit processors, so a not FREE compiler shouldn't have this limitation. Fot that I recommend to MS that the compiler MUST be the same in all VS versions, and ...Show All

• Smart Device Development mobile application developing using visual C++ in VS6

  hello i am really new in visual CPP world. just 1 month or so..... i already have some basic ideas in class constructors, inheritance, overloading, file, i\o stream etc... but havent ever work with a project.... in our university our faculty have given us a project to develop a simple mobile interface..... i tried to find many website for resuorces or tutorials.... in MSDN i found MS has its own platform in VS2005 smartphone SDK or something like that.. but i dont use visual studio 2005. i use visual studio 6. even i dont know how to do this.... any types of instructions will be helpfull thanks I don't think you can with Visual Studio ...Show All

• Visual C# Translating C++ code, syntax question

  I have a point class (much like the MFC::CPoint, but double precision) in C++ that allows me to do a lot of geometry calculations quickly.  I often use an expression like: CdPoint A = CdPoint( dX1, dY1 ) + CdPoint( dR*Math.Cos(dAng), dR*Math.Sin(dAng) ); However, I find that C# doesn't seem to like that type of expression.  Neither does C++/CLR.  I have been able to get the following to compile: CdPoint B = new CdPoint( dX1, dY1 ); CdPoint C = new CdPoint( dR*Math.Cos(dAng), dR*Math.Sin(dAng) ); CdPoint A = B + C; But I really miss the simplicity of the C++/Native syntax. I have tried defining it as a struct instead of a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get code coverage from Web Tests?

  Hi, I'd like to get code coverage information from Web Tests. I configure the testo configuration in order to instrument the Web Site. I Run my web test but no coverage information was generated. Is there any additional Step Thanks Hello MunjalD, Unfortunately, when I attempt to follow your example in #1 above, I get the result that was originally reported. I have a solution with a Web Service project and a test project. The unit test I am running is a data driven unit test. I enabled Code Coverage in a new test configuration and set it as the one to be run. I ticked the checkbox for the Web Service in the list of assemblies. When&nbs ...Show All