quincin's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Unassociate mpp with a team project

  Once an mpp is associated with a team project how is it unassociated with a team project Not sure I understand your question. Why do you want to unassociate an mpp from the team project Are you asking how you can disconnect the mpp from a TFS server and project Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System End user Tools for customising the Methology and Process Guide

  Tools like witexport.exe and witimport.exe allow you to add new Work Items to an existing project, so permitting you to create new metrics as the project proceeds. However, at present these tools are part of the VSTS Extensibility Kit Beta 2. Are there plans to release them to everyone Similarly, will the MSF Build tool for changing Process Guidance be available to all Will The extensibility kit contains the documentation on ...Show All

• .NET Development HTTPHandler and CustomErrors

  Hi, We've a HttpHandler that parses requests to .html files on our site. The URL will contain an ID that we'll use to draw data from the database. We also have a custom 404 page setup in the web config (this works fine for .aspx pages). For the files parsed by the HttpHandler if the ID refers to an object that isn't 'live' we want to show the custom 404 page. I've tried this in the same way we do for other pages when we're programmatically ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) TargetName Does not work for me.

  I have problems getting the Targetname property in ANY setter to work (inside a datatemplate). How Do i access specific elements within a datatemplate to change/animate with a animation/property trigger  Let me just emphasize this is within a datatemplate. Outside the datatemplate works reasonably well    ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I resize the image in the picturebox?

  I'm using VB 2005. I know how to resize pictureboxes but is there an easy way to resize the actual image in the picturebox One of the  easiest ways would be to simply resize the image itself (in memory) and then set the PictureBox's Image property to this in memory copy. In order to resize the actual image, take a look at this little code block . ...Show All

• Windows Forms WinForms and mini-database

  Hi all, I want to build a small stand-alone VB.NET WinForm application to be sold to the general public.  Let's say it will be something like Quicken bookkeeping, in that it will have user input forms, etc, and will save check entries to a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development background services

  http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/services.html is this still up to date somebody who has experiences withit about 1) what are the steps to do, to use the function from c# or ... make new c++ project, and then ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Upgrade from B3R to RTM: Possible database upgrade issue.

  After we upgraded from B3R to RTM, all Microsoft created Work Items, Queries and Reports work perfectly, and all our Work Item customizations work perfectly, as well. B3R was our initial installation version. That said, we ran into an issue with some of Conchango's SCRUM for TeamSystem reports that utilize the Work Item History field. It seems that the TfsWarehouse>Work Item History>Date field was not upgraded from type int to type d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Setfocus

  How do we setfocus in VB2005 express VB6.0 textbox.setfocus ...Show All

• Windows Forms question about class attributes

  If you open the object browser and look at microsft's classes, in the lower pane of the browser it shows comments about the selected class, and then if you select a class member, it shows info about the selected member. Summaries and even argum ...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 res ...Show All

• Windows Forms invalid menu handle

  when i try to open a down load, i get  invalid menu handle   how do i solve this regards nicko I have a customer getting this same problem when trying to download a picture using yahoo mail. Has anyone found a fix for this ...Show All

• Windows Forms use generic collection as datasource?

  I have a generic dictionary of my custom class and want to use it as a listbox datasource. Is this possible Actually, I don't really have to use it as a datasource if this is not possible. My custom class is an item in a listbox and combobox. If I change the description property in my class, how do I get the listbox and combobox to update (the tostring method returns the description) The only wa ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to give value to parameter in a query of dataset in C#.net2005?

  I am in C#.net2005 I have a listbox bound to a dataset, in the dataset, I built a new query: SELECT ServiceID, ProductDetails, ServiceNotes, ServiceCharge,  DeliveredDate, CustomerName FROM [Freedom Scooter Service Reminder] WHERE CustomerName = "@CNAME" AND DeliveredDate IS NULL in Code, I want to give value to this parameter "@CNAME" , so that the listbox will show the records with given CustomerName. by the way, the value of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Auto pin to latest version?

  When I change a file an old version and check-in, and the file is not branched in new version. If I get latest version in new version, it will return the version before I edit because it is not pinned to the latest version. does it able to auto pin to latest version when I commit changes in old version Or I need to pin it to latest version manually for each file I changed Thank you very much! Hi Barry, I am ...Show All