Milen Lazarov MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Wildcard for version type

  Is there any way to specify a wildcard for a version data type in the SCE e.g. Common Language Runtime version 2.*.*.*. Currently, I can only set it to 2.0.0.0. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Installation

  I am trying to install VSTO 2005, but I continue to get a message stating that "Visual Studio requires that Office 2003 with Service Pack 1 be installed on your computer before you install Visual Studio" However, I do have Office 2003 with Service Pack 2 installed. I also have Visual Studio 2005 installed. I would greatly appreciate any help that I can get. I have searched the forums and the web, but haven't found anything related to this problem. I am stuck!!!!!! Thanks Developing and running Office customizations built with Visual StudioR 2005 Tools for Office requires at least one o ...Show All

• Visual Studio SourceSafe Set Up Question

  I was wondering what the best way is to use SourceSafe. I have 3 projects and 2 solutions.  (2 ASP.net web applications and a utillity project that compiles into a dll.) My directory structure in SourceSafe is as follows... Root$ |-- UtilityClass |-- WebProject1 |-- WebProject2 Both Web Projects reference the the Utility project.  My question is when I need to release a version of the utility dll and 1 web project to "production" what is the best way to label or branch the version that is in production so I can make hot fixes if there is a problem with the production version and also continue working on the new development wi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Is there a filter or a known way to output only some frames of a movie?

  Suppose I have an array of frame indices such as [0,4,5,6,10,15.. and so on] I would like that only those frames will be played on screen and all the others skipped. Is there a known good way to accomplish this Thanks in advance. No.  Its not documented and I have not tried to figure out the methods.  I assume that is has some control to change the number of frames that are dropped.  It can be added into graph edit and by default it eats all the frames. ...Show All

• .NET Development Partial Classes not good OO design

  Does Microsoft even bother involving developers anymore in their process of developing new "features" I've spent about four hours with VS2005 now and can't believe the list of problematic improvements I've generated in that short time. Then I run across this partial class feature. What a pitiful idea. This isn't an object oriented concept at all - it's very much akin to using a preprocessor to insert code. The ability to "hide" code is pretty much covered by the OO model - it's called encapsulation. Hiding UI code is the reason given for this "innovation". What happened to patterns such as MVC Even a U ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Noob to VC++ looking to get started...

  I am trying to learn C++... (I got sucked into learning vb.net, because of its ease of use/ surpluss of begginer walk-throughs, and I would like to learn to write code not dependent on the .net) Does anyone know of a good website with tutorials and lessons to learn the new VC++... I basically have no knowledge of C++ and I can't seem to find project lessons that are compatable with the VC++ express edition. (The msdn walk-throughs and examples have error when they get upgraded from v6.0) (I aslo checked out the 4 sample videos for getting started on the VC++ site...they're not doing much good..) P.S Do I really need to install the Windows Pl ...Show All

• Windows Forms keycode

  hi everyone.......  i think most of you heard about this problem many times, but still i want to ask again.  actually, i have already did the things that i have to do to solve this problem based on solutions that i've got from websites and forums but still the problem occurs.  the solutions are:  - Register Crystal Report  - Register crqe.dll usin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Exception thrown in a ClickOnce installation

  Hi again, Sorry, but I have another ClickOnce problem. My program runs without exception in the development environment, but the ClickOnce RUN version throws an exception in the form.Load event. Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Try Dim fileStr As String = "..\Images\" doorPic(0) = Image.FromFile(fileStr + "Door1.gif" ) doorPic(1) = Image.FromFile(fileStr + "Door1S.gif." ) doorPic(2) = Image.FromFile(fileStr + "Door2.gif" ) doorPic(3) = Image.FromFile(fileStr + "Door2S.gif ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Embedded Visual C++ project upgrade wizard

  Are there any updates as to when the Upgrade wizard add-in for converting EVC projects to VS 2005 will be available   There is documentation on MSDN that it will be made available as a "Web download"... what's new with this upgrade wizard can download this thank. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to go 'backwards' in a sequential workflow?

  Hello I am planning on using a sequential workflow to drive a wizard-style form interface with [next] and [previous] buttons. Most (all ) examples of sequential workflows I've seen show the flow proceeding from the start to the finish. My requirements are that the user is able to click the [previous] button at any time and be moved to the previous activity in his/her workflow. E.g. Say I have a flow like this: A / \ B C | D / \ E F And that the user moves from A-B-D-F (according to rules/decisions). If the user hits [previous] when activity 'F' is active, I want to be able to move the workflo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Alpha Maps with the Sprite class

  Does anyone know how i would use an alpha map with the sprite class i was using dated texture image editors... my only bmp option is 24bit I loaded the bmp into the dx texture editor and then loaded the alpha map and saved as dds. Thanks for the help Dustin_H ...Show All

• .NET Development Best Practices for asp.net 2.0

  Is there any document library about patterns and practice for asp.net 2.0! Does the application block works with asp.net 2.0 I dont think so. So I would like to learn asp.net 2.0 from the beginiing but with the best practices possible. Thanks    Hi, Microsoft is going to provide the application blocks for .NET 2.0 Here is some info and Roadmap for the Enterprise Library for v2.0: http://blogs.msdn.com/scottdensmore/archive/2005/04/27/412435.aspx Enterprise Library and .NET 2.0: What's the deal http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2005/05/31/423655.aspx Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Visual Basic Relase the Fix for Visual Basic Compiler Error &H8013141e&

  Hi all i just want to know when is going to be released the fix for visual basic compiler error &H8013141e&   this is already reported in the microsoft productfeedback site. i think this is a very urgent patch that must be released asap and please do not repond that i should go back to vs.2003 because i have lots of code developed in VS 2005 to framework 2.0 ..   JSB PS: this error pisses me of, i need to restart VS.IDE every 5 minutes. i think this is too bad for a recent relesase product ( its full of Bugs ).   Hi, João, This is a good opportunity (in the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project creation fails

  Hi, I'm getting the following error when creating a new project in TFS: Event Description: Task "Currituck.WITs" failed Exception Type: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException Exception Message: Server was unable to process request. ---> Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint 'UQ_ADObjects__DomainName_SamAccountName'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.ADObjects'. SoapException Detail: <soap:Detail xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" /> SoapException Full Info: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to process request. ---> Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint 'UQ_ADObjects__DomainN ...Show All

• Windows Forms Advanced SQL Generation Options Grayed Out

  Hi, I am using Visual Studio 2005. When I attempt to use the Configure Data Source wizard to set up advanced SQL Generation Options the options (i.e. add addtional INSERT, UPDATE... statements) are grayed out. I don't know why. Any ideas Thanks, Keith Yes, I have confirmed that the Primary Key is essential. I tried to configure a data source for a table without a Primary Key, and the advanced options were disabled. I went straight to the table, added an ID field, marked it as the Primary Key, and set it as an auto-incrementing identity field. Then, I came back to VS 2005, entered the cofigure data source wizard and the ad ...Show All