Etienne Sammut's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Is it possible to use the IDE's code editor control in your own program?

  I've got a project that involves compiling code at runtime from a textbox. I'd like to have the usual syntax highlighting and whatnot from the IDE in my program. I know that's a big ask, but I just wondered whether the control in the IDE is defined anywhere as a common control I can use. If not, what are the alternatives for a code editor control Thanks, Aaron. What you have out of the box is the RichTextBox, you should implment the syntax high-lighting yourself, but the coloring of text, bold, etc. that is requiered for basic syntax high-lighting exists there. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error Creating a new project

  Hello guys I followed the .chm installation guide to install TFS beta3. After I open my VS2005, I logon to the TFS server as an administrator [tfssetup] then, I try to add a new project when suddenly I got this error messages: Error TF30170: The plugin Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Portal failed during task SharePointPortal from group Portal. Explanation Plugin error text: “Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=utf-8', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with the error message: -- body {font-family:'Verdana';font-weight:normal;font-size:.7em;color:black;} p {font-family: ...Show All

• Visual Studio .NET 2.0 Final Redistributable installation failed. Help needed

  The installation of .NET 2.0 redistributable failed on my machine running XP professional SP2. After the failure of installation, whenever I try to bring up command prompt by running "cmd.exe", I will get error message "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000142). Click on OK to terminate the application." Thanks. The following is last several lines in VSSWMSIFailInfo.txt MSI (s) (E0:18) [10:46:31:781]: Running as a service. MSI (s) (E0:28) [10:46:31:781]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Elevated custom action server. 10/31/05 10:46:31 DDSet_Status: LANGID: 1033 10/31/05 10:46:31 DDSet_Entry: RunProcess started 10/31/05 10:46:31 DDSe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System /file doesn't work with directories?

  The fxcopcmd docs say that you can specify a directory using the /file option, but I can't get it to work. It just says "could not load file: [folder name]." Am I doing something wrong, or are the docs wrong What version of FxCop are you using Are you surrounding the folder with quotes to take into account any spaces that may be contained in the name Can you post the exact command-line you are using ...Show All

• Visual Studio Debugger Starts then Stops....no errors or warnings

  Hi Guys, Just installed the final of VS 2005, played around and then went back to working on a project I have in VS 2003.  Only to find I can't debug it anymore!  The project is a c# assembly that is debugged by starting outlook 2003.  Now i can compile everthing fine.  I can run outlook and all my assembly works fine without debugging........but when i try to debug it inside visual studio the debugger starts up, outllook starts, then all of a sudden everthing stops and i am back in visual studio staring at a blank debug window....no warnings, no errors, nothing. Has anyone got any ideas   I can debug executable pr ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid cell handler

  Hi all, Do anyone know can I override the handler of datagrid cell items so I can customize the next action to be done in the datagrid E.g. When I press "enter" in a cell of the datagrid, I can capture the  "Enter" action in handler and then handle it in my own way and what to do next. Does such kind of handler exist &nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Adding Misc files to Solution Explorer

  I assume this is the best forum for this quesiton; if not, please direct me. I have noticed that I can add (for example) a text file to a misc folder in a SQL Server project by dragging and dropping the file from Windows Explorer onto the Misc folder inside the SQL Server project.  Is this the only way to add a file   I noticed, for example, I could not copy and past to the Misc file folder. Is there another way   If so, what is it   what is the preferred way The other way to add a file is to right click on the Project, select Add Existing Item, then Browse to the file in question (you ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding Frame to Image

  I've been messing around like crazy and still can't get .net to add a new frame to an image. Here's what I do: Create an image from a Bitmap that is (1X1) in size. pb.Image = new Bitmap(1, 1); Encoder myEncoder = Encoder.SaveFlag; EncoderParameters myEncoderParameters = new EncoderParameters(1); EncoderParameter myEncoderParameter = new EncoderParameter(myEncoder, (long)EncoderValue.MultiFrame); myEncoderParameters.Param[0]&n ...Show All

• SQL Server cant see Report manager page

  Hi Friends we've report server (sql server 2005 standard edi) on win 2003 server. i can see report manager page (i.e. http://servername/reports) from my machine but some of out users cant see this page !! all they can see is "sql server reporting services" text nothing else. no reports and no models ertc., i assume its something to do with rights issue. where can i set these rights so that all users within our domain can see and create reports off report server page. Thanks for your help. From the main page, select the properties tab, then select the security sub-tab. You can grant the necessary permissions to any group or us ...Show All

• SQL Server Using SSIS Package as Source for Reporting Services

  Hi I have created an SSIS Package which provides Data to a DataReaderDestination. Next I have uncommented SSIS support in rsreportserver.config and rsreportdesigner.config After that I have set up a shared Datasource in ReportServer and created a Report using that DS of type SSIS. /FILE D:\ETL\ReportingDataService.dtsx When trying to see the report using http://localhost/reports I get a message that tells me that the package fails to execute. It does so well when debugging, so my guess is that there is some security issue. It also does not work in preview dialog in VS. The error message there is "Cannot read the next data ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unit Testing Forms - Accessing Controls

  I'm unit testing an extremely simple VB form with a button and a text field. My test method looks like this: <TestMethod()> Public Sub btnHelloWorld_ClickTest() Dim target As Form1 = New Form1 Dim expected, actual As String target.Show() target.Activate() Dim accessor As HelloWorldApplication_Form1Accessor = New HelloWorldApplication_Form1Accessor(target) accessor.txtWorldID.Text = "1" expected = "HelloWorld1" Dim sender As Object = Nothing Dim e As EventArgs = Nothing accessor.btnHelloWorld_Click(sender, e) actual = accessor.lblWorldText.Text Assert.AreEqual(expected, actual, "The value returned is not correct.") End ...Show All

• SQL Server how do I determine how many columns there are in a file?

  Hi, I have a few different files in a directory. I want to take each file and determine which columns and data types it has. How can I know how many columns there are in a file Thank you. Columns. That depends entirely on what you define a column to be. How is it delimited Column data-type. In a file the type of every column is text/char/call it whatever you want. A file is just a text string. You give semantic meaning to those strings (e.g. data-types) which you define yourself. There are a million and one answers to your question given the information that you have provided. Only you ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL sysdate

  I'm trying to run a select statement in a reporting tool. And one of the select criteria is that it must return all data which was modified last month. So one of the coloumns has this date in the format YYYY/MM. At the minute this has to be entered manually, as there is a user interface that can be used infront of the SQL. I was wondering if there was a way to make this run automatically without user entry. i.e. replace: SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE date BETWEEN '2005/06' AND '2005/07' to something more like SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE date >= ((sysdate, YYYY MM)MM, -1)  AND date < (sysdate, YYYY MM) I know the above is a b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSF v/s CMM

  Hi, i would like to know how to make sure applicability of MSF Agile and/or MSF CMMI for a given project.Do we have industry standards/criterion in order to figure out candidature of one of the two processes for a project. Is it possible somehow to migrate from existing process of a team project to desired one. say for example i have been using MSF Agile for my project but soon it is realized that CMMI is better suited to the kind of project Can I , using some tool ,change the base process team project was created with. Thanks, Hi Vin,      There are a couple of ...Show All

• SQL Server PredictSupport

  Hi, Can anyone explain what this function returns What does the support value represent Thanks, Dave  PredictSupport(<attribute>, <state>) returns the number of cases in the training set that support the predicted state for this attribute. If the state is not specified, the state with the highest predict probability is used. The general idea is that a high probability prediction with a larger support value may be more reliable. ...Show All