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• Visual Studio Team System Generic Test hanging

  Any ideas why would an .exe hang when run from a Generic Test but not from the command line Thanks in advance. Hello, Can you provide more info on this 1. What does the .exe do 2. How long does it take when you run it from the command line 3. Are you redirecting any output 4. Have you tried extending the Test Timeout in the localtestrun.testrunconfig Thanks, David Gorena Elizondo [MSFT] Vis ...Show All

• .NET Development HTTPListener

  Can anybody help me, I search through a lot of sites, and do not find any information on my questions: 1) How can I use simple authencation in httpListener 2) How prevent caching on remote PC of sent html data, the idea is to make browser send requests on any case(if data is already cached, send requests to httplistener, too) Arfe you sure you can't find the samples anywhere http://msdn2.microsoft.co ...Show All

• Visual Studio Issue With Crystal On Server

  I am getting the following Error What could be wrong.It is very urgent.Pls help   Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: File or assembly name CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, or one of its dependencies, was not found ...Show All

• Visual Basic How would I restrict input for a textbox.

  I have some textboxes that I only want numbers in and only want a range of numbers to be valid. Also I do not want to use NUDs. I already have the textboxes connected to functons and subs so I do not really want to change them. How would I do this I used following code to be sure that the input values in textboxes were a number between 0,1 to 25. The stored array values are ten times as high as the input because and data type is " ...Show All

• .NET Development Passing Dictionary in WebService

  I tried to pass Dictionary as a return value of a webservice Here's a snippet of the code:    //I marked BL.Customer class as serializable.    [Webmethod]     public Dictionary<string, BL.Customer> GetAllCustomer()     {         Dictionary<string, BL.Customer> customers = new Dictionary<string,  BL.Customer>();     &nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Storage of packages: file system or Sql Server?

  HI, we are beginning a new project at my company and I was wondering where is the best place to save SSIS packages: file system or SqlServer. I have used other ETL products and they always create a repository on an RDBMS. Since SSIS offers us the choice of DB storage or file system, is there pros and cons of both approach Will the deployment of our application be simpler by using Sql Server since we would onky move metadata instead of files ...Show All

• Windows Forms going from one windows form to another

  Hi , I have a windows forms called ServiceSetup.cs and another called UserAccounts.cs. How can I go from ServiceSetup.cs to UserAccounts.cs after  a user clicks a button on ServiceSetup.cs  I dont want ServiceSetup.cs to appear at all, I only want UserAccoun ...Show All

• Windows Forms converting image in a clipboard to memory stream

  suppose i have copied an image to clipboard and then pasted it onto a picturebox. using: IDataObject iDataObj=Clipboard.GetDataObject(); //determine the format of data if (iDataObj.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Bitmap)) { pictureBox1.Image=(Image)iDataObj.GetData(DataFormats.Bitmap); } in order to save this image to database. i would then have to convert the contnts of the clipboard to a memory stream object and then serialize to byte[] ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to compile unrunnable classes?

  Hi, Im kinda new to C#. I'm making a simple form that has a couple of panels. I have made these panels separate classes. But when i try to compile the panelclass I get an error from the compiler, "no startadress has been defined  ...Show All

• .NET Development Drawing images with transparency

  Is there a way with the Graphics object to draw a semi-transparent image ie. I want to load up an image from a .png or .bmp file, and be able to draw the entire thing at an arbitrary transparency level. But I can't seem to find an Opacity property or anything of the like. Does anyone know how to do this DrawImage method of Graphics class has some overloads that take a parameter of type ImageAttributes. Amon ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Check box inside list box or combobox

  Is it possible to have check box inside list control in XAML I have the XAML as follows <ListBox name = "list1"> <checkbox ID= "id1"> "hi1"</checkbox> </listbox> this doesn't work. I want this to be done without Longhorn or alvon programing. Is it possible since I'm using VS 2005. Also I want to add the check boxes dynamically thru C# code. Please help me out. Thanks Taruna ...Show All

• .NET Development App.config and saving the configurations...?

  Hello, I've searched the internet but couldn't find what i need.I created a config file: App.config: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <configuration> <appSettings > <add key="Refresh" value="60" /> <add key="File" value ="einstein.jpg"/> </appSettings> </configuration> I created a winform to view and change the information. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Get ActiveSync IP Address

  Right now I'm working on a desktop / PDA combination application and I need the Desktop computer to be able to establish a TCP/IP connection to cradled device. Is there any way for me to have the desktop app connect to the device without needing the user to know the IP Look in the OpenNetCf library: http://www.opennetcf.org/library/ In the OpenNETCF.Desktop.Communication.ActiveSync class, and you will see an event called IPChange, which ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Support for Win2000 AD except NT4 mixed-mode

  VSTS is supposed to support Windows 2000 ADs by the time it RTMs.  I had heard from someone though that VSTS will not support Win2K ADs in NT4 mixed-mode.  I'm not a sysadmin and I'm not sure about the terminology.  However, I would like to confirm if this is true and if so, how would I go about finding out if our corporate AD is in NT4 mixed-mode Then again, if the MMC snap-in&nbs ...Show All

• Smart Device Development A multithreading question

  Hi there, I'm using a printer dll (PrintCE.dll) to print into a mobile printer I have via bluetooth. Now everything worked well until I wanted to have a nice error message (and a quick one) if the terminal can't connect to the printer (if it's offline for example), What happens today is that it takes more than 60 seconds until it finally give up the try and gives the error. so what i've done is i've put the start printing procedur ...Show All