nickedw's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot Add Domain Users

  This is a single server installation of Team Server and I did the installation with the DOMAIN\tfsservice account as well as using that name for the service account. The installation was done exactly according to specs with SQL 2005 sharepoint, etc. After installation was finished, I went to add another domain user as a namespace administrator, and got this response. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Server\BISIISDIR\sdk n>gssutil /g+ adm: n:DOMAIN\stacyd GSSUTIL - TFS Group Security Client Tool (c)Copyright, Microsoft Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved. Connecting to the TFS web service... Resolving identit ...Show All

• Visual Basic Overriding from the dropdownlist in the IDE?

  Where has it gone In VS2003 it was possible to select overriding in the ddl’s above the code. I used this feature a lot, now it seems gone Yes, I figured this out shortly after posting here. This is the way it works in VS2003 for C#. I prefer the old VB way. Sure it has the disadvantage of leaving the code, but it provides a central place to overlook the possible overridable functions. I for myself use this often as a dictionary to see these functions. Now I have to type "Public Overrides" which is a lot more to enter. Also it has the disadvantage of having to delete this words, when I find the method is no ...Show All

• Visual Studio What is orthodox way of creating a 1:m report

  All of the quesiton below has to do with producing a report in local mode in VB.net. It is not clear to me what the report designer considers orthodox with regard to creating a One to Many report.  Let's consider a simple invoice report.  At the top of the Invoice you would have information on the Customer you are sending the invoice to ect, but on the bottom part of the report you would have the line item entries for the report in a table. When creating such a report, how does the report writer most like you to do it   I can think of two or three ways.  One, if you are creating a report for just one invoice number, ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with OleDb...or sqlserver...

  Hi, The reason i am positng this is because i am having an error using SQL SERVER 2000 with OleDb on .Net 2005. This is the situation: 1. Database running on a server. 2. Two clients connect. 3. There's a table that represents a tree like this: -------------------- GROUP groupID parentgroupID Name -------------------- 4. Both clients access the tree. One of them deletes a group and commits. 5. The other client, without having the updated tree, drags a node below the deleted node (this will cause the selected group's parentgroupID to map the new parent node) and UPDATEs the node. This ...Show All

• .NET Development Performance of ADO.Net in CLI Console app vs Windows Forms app

  I have been playing with ADO.Net and at first, I created a CLI console application, where I did different things, such as querying the schema collections of a database. I then created a Windows Forms application and did similar things (wrote code from scratch). What strikes me is that some simple calls that took no time under the console app now take a long time under Forms. I use VS C++ and SQL Server 2005 Express on a Win2000 PC and the ODBC provider factory. I establish a DbConnection to the database via ODBC data source, which was manually set up using the ODBC control panel. When I make the simple call: MyDataTable = myDbConnectio ...Show All

• Visual Basic VoIP

  Hello ladies and gents! Short question with a long answer (most likely). I am working on a multiple-client instant messenging application, and I would like to put VoIP into it (Voice over IP). Do I have many weeks of headaches ahead of me or have the nice *cough* people at microsoft put something into VB.NET to make it easy for me I'm using VB.NET2003 (don't ask....) Thank you in advance. There's nothing special about voice over IP, apart from any patents being held by those that have developed compression and transmission algorithms to make it useable. It's just a stream of bytes. VoiceOver IP has been around a loooong time. You ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Portability of Databases

  I understand that TFS B3 Refresh works with RTM stuff.  We are currently upgrading from RC to RTM on the VS and SQL Server side of things.  Previously, we were  told that we would not be able to port our TFS databases over to later builds, so we've just been not using TFS thus far and sticking with VSS, but we'd like to go ahead and move to it.  Can someone tell me if going forward that TFS databases will be portable to later builds (from the current B3 Refresh) To be clear, it depends on what you mean by "portable".  We will be providing migration scripts that will migrate your data forward.  The database ...Show All

• SQL Server Is there a function like SUBSTRING but for integers?

  I'm wondering if there is a function in SQL that works like SUBSTRING function but for integers. Like for example if I have a number like 20010112 and I want to cut it to the first for digits so that it reads 2001 You use LEFT function. SELECT LEFT(20010112, 4) You should get 2001 This function works on string too. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Mobile performance/size problems with WM5 device

  I just upgraded our application from SSCE 2.0 to SQL Mobile. Our app is written in C++, and we use OLE DB for most of our queries, including the routine the downloads and inserts our lookup table data. This application is running on a Dell Axim X51. Using SSCE 2.0, this routine takes 236 seconds, with most time spent inserting data into various tables (using OLE DB). The resultant database size is 15.1 MB. Using SQL Mobile, this routine now takes 675 seconds, with a resultant database size of 27.9 MB!! There is a noticable increase in time when the downloaded data is being inserted into the database. What would be the reason(s) for the slowe ...Show All

• SQL Server Authoring Custom Report Controls

  Hi, I'm using VS2005 Beta 2 (April) and SQL Server 2005 (CTP April 2005) and I'm very interested in creating my own custom control for SQL Server 2005 ReportingServices. I understand that in order to do this I have to inherit from some classes (CustomReportItem ) and other interfaces which are declared in the following namespaces: using Microsoft.ReportingServices.Interfaces; using Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportRendering; using Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing; Does anybody have a simple example I can use similar to the SimpleControl Sample for Windows Forms control Or any other pointers Many thanks, The documentation ...Show All

• Visual Basic Populating per like statement

  I have a large Access table with words, definitions,... what I have been trying to do for too long is to type a word pattern (p r or t n* ) in a textbox and after a button is depressed to have a datagrid populated with words similiar to what is requested. I have utilized the data source wizard to add the source, added the adapter, binding source and dataset. I have dragged the datagrid into the form. when started it populates. Then i added the textbox (txtFind) and button. i right-clicked on the adapter, went into the query via the dataset designer, added like txtFind.text in the filter area for the word field, and added : Private ...Show All

• Visual C++ Looking for tool that describes C++ source.

  Hi all. I am looking for the tool similar to GCCXML, but based on VC++ tools\platform. What is GCCXML The purpose of the GCC-XML extension is to generate an XML description of a C++ program from GCC's internal representation. Since XML is easy to parse, other development tools will be able to work with C++ programs without the burden of a complicated C++ parser. What I am doing I building complex code generator for C++. For this purpose I need to read C++ header files. I don't need internal state of com piler, but rather convenient description of C++ header files. I checked 3 directions, before I posted here. The first one was using BSC fi ...Show All

• Windows Forms how can i close a form from another form?

  for example: Form1 loads first and when I click a button Form2 will display. What I want to do is to close Form1 which is the startup form when I exit Form2. How do I do that Hi, I've been looking for a solution to this for a while and have never even got near. Your solution is the first I've seen that doesn't involve writing code the size of 'War and Peace', (oh yeah, AND it works!!),so would you mind if I picked your brains a bit further In the code for form1 I create a form2 and then move form2 across the screen. I couldnt find a way of pointing to form2 from form1 - until I found your reply to a similar question. At the m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 >> Beta3 refresh >> RTM Question

  Hi, We are happily running Beta 3 TFS and despite a few little issues are very happy with it. We have considered upgrading to the Beta 3 refresh for a while now but have been a bit reluctant to do so as we had a few failed attempts installing beta 3. As we will eventually upgrade to the release version does anybody know if we should be upgrading to beta 3 refresh prior to this or can we go stright to the RTM version Is there any advantages to upgrading to beta 3 refresh now in readiness Is the Beta 3 refresh running againt the release version of SQL server so therefore by installing this now it would minimise the impact of the up ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can you change the VS05 Help (MS Doc Explorer) code samples font?

  Its a horrible font and very hard to read. Can you change the typeface on it Wowser, that's the first time we've heard that. I will forward this recommendation to the documentation design team for consideration. ...Show All