mdickin's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System How to remove default work item types?

  Hello all, I need to remove the default work item types during the team project creation. I removed the files from the workitems xml, but it will throw an exception for that. Is there no easy way I can do that I have the requirement to create the team project with only few customized work item types; please help on this. TIA I would suggest to customize your process template using Process template Editor http://www.imagi ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Type.GetType(string) fails on assembly loaded with Assembly.LoadFrom

  I have the following code: Assembly a = Assembly.LoadFrom("c:\MyAssembly.dll"); Type t = System.Type.GetType("MyAssembly.MyClass, MyAssembly"); For some reason, t is null. On the other hand, if I add a static compile-time reference to MyAssembly, the code succeeds. However, in my situation, the I cannot use a static reference because in general I don't know the assembly at compile-time. Can anyone explain why this doesn't wor ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Change Profile

  Is there any way to change the phone profile in CF2 This forum is intended to deal with issues directly related to the .NET Compact Framework. It appears that this question can better be answered by someone on one of the newsgroups for Windows Mobile or Windows CE. In order to get a quicker and more accurate response, please consider reposting this question to one of the following newsgroups: Windows Mobile API : ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need Help on Displaying ContextMenuStrip

  I need help displaying a ContextMenuStrip in a ListBox when I right click my mouse. I have been trying but I only get it on left click and the menu appears in my top left hand corner of my screen. (This is for VB.net 2005) If anyone knows how to do this please help, Thanks! Also I have another question about how to get a text to go to the end. Like I have a text box to show raw data of an IRC Server and I would like to try to get it to the ...Show All

• SQL Server Serialization Exception in AcquireConnection method call of the Custom component

  Hi, I am writing a custom Component along with a custom Connection Manager for the same. The Component along with the Connection Manager works fine in the BI environment and also programmatically. I created a DLL which will create and execute the package programmatically. This DLL when called through console application works fine, but when called in the Test Environment of .Net i.e. while Unit Testing the component throws exception at the A ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Delta whitepaper on WWF Beta 1.2 to WWF Beta 2 concepts

  Hi WWF - Team, I have an important question regarding a whitepaper (or something like it) that describes the concept changes from the Beta 1.x to the Beta 2! I've been in LA at the PDC 05 and got the early inside into WWF also by reading the "Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation" book. Now, from what is my first impression on the Beta 2 is that there are quite some changes not only in object models and APIs but also on the conc ...Show All

• Visual C++ visual studio 2005 recompiles all

  Hi, I just installed Visual Studio 2005 (on an XP64). Visual Studio 2005 recompiles all files in the project everytime, regardless whether changes were made or not. I browsed through all options, but can't find anything related to this. Minimal rebuild doesn't do it. Is there something I'm missing Thanks. Has your system clock changed That can sometimes make the system think all your files have changed and need building. ...Show All

• Visual Basic "First run" routine with null variable: Where to put it?

  I'm almost finished with a Windows Application (written in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition) that is dependent on user settings.  I want a "first run" routine that will execute a block of code if some user setting is null (i.e. empty, or has no value associated with it).  On the other hand, I want it to do nothing if the very same user setting is NOT null (i.e. has a value associated with it).  I think I know the code f ...Show All

• Visual C# passing arrays to unmanaged functions - best way ?

  The situation is the following: I've got the unmanaged function void cblas_zaxpy( int N, DoubleComplex* alpha, DoubleComplex* X, int incX, DoubleComplex* Y, int incY); [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] struct DoubleComplex {     public double real;public double imag; } form > atlas.dll < (in the original definition the pointers are void* ). The function calculates B = B + alpha*A for complex n ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. TextureLoader gone? Alternatives?

  Hi, I'm new with DirectX and I'm starting with the December 2005 SDK.  It seems like almost every tutorial or sample I've run into uses TextureLoader to retrieve textures.  From what I've seen, and I've looked pretty hard, TextureLoader doesn't exist in Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D anymore contrary to any documentation that I can find. Well, instead I've been using Texture.FromBitmap to load textures, which I guess is okay... But I can't ...Show All

• SQL Server programmatically set the paper size and and paper layout

  how can i set the paper size and paper layout programmatically in RS. im using c#.net as prog. lang. for this. Pls help thanks! Use the SOAP API SetProperties to modify the PageHeight and PageWidth of the report. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.wssux.reportingserviceswebservice.rsmanagementservice2005.reportingservice2005.setproperties.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server I want the user to only see the History Tab and nothing else

  Dear Anyone, Is it possible to configure the security of a report to only allow the user to see the history tab and not the properties, subcription and view tab and in addition, only view the snapshot reports and not the actual report itself Thanks, Joseph Joseph, This is not possible with the current security granularity. You can apply "Manage Report History" which gives the user the rights to view history s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C++ 2005 Express and Platform SDK problem

  Hi, I installed Visual C++ 2005 Express and was looking at the Start Page and clicked on DownLoad the PSDK. I did so, installed the PSDK, and followed all the instructions except I had trouble with Step #5. I couldn't find lines 441 - 444 described, and when building the Application the 2 mentioned check boxes for Windows Application and ATL were greyed out (not available). How do I go about getting these areas available in the Application W ...Show All

• .NET Development how to keep connection live while using httpwebrequest?

  hi i am using httpwebrequest and httpwebresponse to send request and get response respectively. i want to keep connection live after sending one request in order to send another request using same channel. so plz help me. HTTPWEBREQUEST.KEEPALIVE = TRUE is not working. Hi I got stuck up with the same thing as what kavitha told .. but the scenario is somewhat different. As the connection is not per ...Show All

• SQL Server Permission problem

  I get the following error at times: The permissions granted to user 'PMS\rforkner' are insufficient for performing this operation. (rsAccessDenied) (Report Services SOAP Proxy Source) The user is me and I am the administrator and owner of the SQL Server 2005 database. SQL Server is running on Windows 2003 Server Enterprise SP1. How is it I don’t have permission to change a change a permission. For the past several days I have added ...Show All