Giant Snowman's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) try rebooting...

  Beta Page http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getthebeta/default.aspx WinFX Components - Dec CTP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=BD3BA2D5-6ADB-4FB2-A3AA-E16A9EA5603F&displaylang=en Windows SDK - Dec CTP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx na=46&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=2297BDC9-B5AE-4B8A-B601-EEF54A52867A&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f0% ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 - Rename a Named Instance

  Hi all, Ok, first I am new to this so please be gentle.  1.  I created a named instance on a existing SQL 2000 server for a installation of SQL 2005. 2.  After I named it, I decided that the name needed to be different (GOODNAME vs. BADNAME). 3.  How do I rename a named instance (NOT default instance) of a SQL Server 2005 install   I have completed the steps shown in this article.  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-u ...Show All

• Windows Forms Async Web Service Calls

  Hi, I read that that in 2.0 there are new possibilities to do async web service calls. For example I want to make a Web Service call to retrieve a long DataSet and I don't want the UI to freeze ... how would I go forward doing th ...Show All

• Windows Forms ShowInTaskbar Issues

  Hi...i got 2 form (Form1 and Form2) in Form1 i got this private void button1_Click( object sender, System.EventArgs e) { Form2 frm = new Form2(); frm.Show(); } in Form2 i set ShowInTaskbar = false And i Got this private void button1_Click( object sender, System.EventArgs e) { this .TopMost = true ; } When i press button in Form1 twice, it will create 2 instance of Form2, if i make o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unexpected error when adding Web Part to TFS Project site

  We are receiving the following error message when we attempt to add any of the Web Parts supplied with Team Foundation Server to our projects home page: An unexpected error has occurred. Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily disable Web Parts or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site administrator. Our enviroment is a clean install of the following: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is it possible to migrate SourceSafe Databases into Team System

  We are moving towards going visual studio 2005 but at the minute all our existing 2003 projects are held within SourceSafe but are main problem is what to do with our existing SourceSafe DB's which contain all our code and project documentation so, is it possible to migrate these Source Safe DB's onto Team System if you can, would it copy over the existing version history or is this all lost will it copy the existing structure ov ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Recorded webtest fails to run

  I am able to record and create a webtest that goes to one site (in this case google.com) . When I try to run it I get the following error msg: Request failed: Exception in PreRequest event: The hidden field group name is invalid. For other webtest I get the following error when I attempt to run them: Request failed: Unable to connect to remote server. Recording the webtests works fine and IE if fine on its own. Any ideas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setup

  How to create an setup for dotnet 2003 application so that it can be installed on client PC Well if you mean a VS setup&deployment project, these might help: http://www.simple-talk.com/2005/04/25/getting-started-with-setup-projects/ http://www.simple-talk.com/2005/06/07/visual-studio-setup/ http://www.simple-talk.com/2005/07/18/updates-to-setup-projects/ Clickonce is VS 2005, so I suspect yo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Data Grid Customization

  I need to customize the datagrid so that it works much like Excel.  When a user moves left and right they need to jump from cell to cell.  If they type text it should simply overwrite the data in that cell or they could pres ...Show All

• Visual C# set-up files for C#

  Good day to all, I am new to this C# programming and I try to install my first program to a different PC other than the one where I install my c# beta2, but it ask for DLL ,  What are the necessary files to be included in my set-up   do I have to use installshield HOw do I make and installer, is there a runtime file needed what is it. The OS of where I try to install the executable is XP whithout any .NET installed. thanks for any help ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem creating a new Team Project

  I have seen similar posts on dual server setups, but we are using a single server for TFS.  The error is: Error:  TF30004: The New Team Project Wizard encountered an unexpected error while initializing the Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Reporting Plug-in. Explantion: TF30171: The Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard Reporting Plug-in used to create the new team project could not be initialized and returned the following error: TF3022 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Desktop Sidebar using C#??

  hi all, Can any one tell me how i can make desktop side bar..using Visual Studio.net 2005..Like the SideBar..Windows Vista..please Do any one have an idea about this issue..please help..using C#.. thanks very much.. Best Regards.. Hi Bassam The Vista sidebar does not support managed gadgets (.NET 2.0 or WinFX) today.  If this is a feature you feel strongly about, please email gadgetfb@microsoft.com .  Yo ...Show All

• SQL Server Moving text file properties for sql2k dts to sql25k ssis packages???

  Hi everyone, We’ve got almost 250 old dts packages which simply loading data into Sql tables from plain files or at the reverse point. Most of them are defined with fixed fields and its fixed positions one after one. We don’t want to migrate them using Import wizard, on the contrary we’re producing them from the beggining taking advantatge of SSIS architecture to the full. And now, we’re trying to imagine how to migrate automatical ...Show All

• SQL Server Connecting Enterprise Manager 8.0 to SQL Server 2005

  Hi, I had earlier posted a similar question on the forum. Did not find any responses back. So I am posting this again as it is becoming important for me now. I had a machine which was running SQL Server with Enterprise Manager 8.0. Now I have put in a new machine in the network, which runs SQL Server 2005. When I try to register the old server using DSN connectivity, I can not see the old server. How can I set it up to talk to the old serv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Image List Question

  Is there a way to get my images from the image list back onto my computer Try: imgList.Images(0).Save( path ) ...Show All