TrevorHughes's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Scenario - Help with detail level

  I'm just starting a new project and we are using Team System to manage the project. We are at the stage of building our scenario list, however I'm struggling to decide how large a scenario should be. For example, for our first version of the software the following items have been asked for: Survey Flow Designer Ability for the business expert to develop a flow of questions (using any of the following questions: Yes/No Question, Single Select List Question etc....) The survey designer should allow the user to drag and drop question types from a toolbox, set properties for a newly added question and finally connect the questions t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Form: Was using "set" in VB6 to choose form.

  I just upgraded my VB6 project to .NET 2005.  There is 82 files with 10 of those over 100k.  I finally resolve 501 errors, 1488 warnings and I can "build" my code. I am missing one feature that was really important for me, the "set" form. My routine aways call the same form and I use the "set" to select the form depending on some parameter.  There are 8 forms with all the same label and text.  The only difference is in the presentation. It was very easy for me to copy a form from the original, move label and text around.  Change color and some text if needed. And use any form just using the " ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista RTM

  Is there a release date for WWF yet Will there be a cost   Will it work on Windows XP Pro/W2K3 Thanks hi Mark, I want to deploy some windows application to w2k ( server or professional). My application also uses windows workflow dlls. U have done similar thing as i think.could u help me here thanks ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I share variables in between subs and forms?

  I know this is a really nooby question but I cant figure it out. I've been using lable.text to hold variables so far but I know that work work in multiform applications. Help plz. oh ok, can i have an example plz that would be very helpful. ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql Server 2000 connection problem

  Hi all... I'm getting some problem while am connecting to my Sql Server 2000. I have design an application in vb.net and using remoting (Tcp Channel). But while connecting to the server am getting "your server is not confiured to allow remote access" can anyone help, thanks.... Im also behind a Firewall specifically WINGATE 6.1..i tried to add port to the firewall and have it redirect to my actual database server say 192.168.0.111 but nothing happens at all. any similar problem ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Command prompt from IDE?

  I am VBE newbie.  The help says I get to a command prompt form IDE via view\other windows\command window.  "Other windows" gives me no "command window" choice.  I am trying to compile/run the "hello world" example program from command prompt.  I can get to a command prompt by using XP's start/run/cmd and cd'ing down to my project folder, but surely there is a easier way from from IDE.  Yes, I know F5 compiles and runs from IDE.  But I want to do it the old-fashioned way. Are you saying that instead of pressing F5 (which is actually 'start debugging' ...Show All

• Smart Device Development programmatic access to internet behind proxy

  hi all, i compiled and deployed various sample code that accesses webservices including 'pocket taskvision' on vs2005 emulator. However when attempting the 'logon' it fails with 'The Web service location is http://www/notouchdeploy.com/TaskVisionWS/ . please make sure that the URl is correct' I guess the problem is that it can't connect to the WS. I managed to configure the IE on the emulator to use the proxy and access the internet without any problem  using the NE2000 adapter option but not the deplyed application. I even installed activeSync 4.1  and followed instructions below http://blogs.msdn.com/akhune/defa ...Show All

• SQL Server MDX Query Tool

  I have been searching and looking for days for a tool that will allow you to build mdx queries in a GUID (Alot like the browser) and then view the actualy mdx query. I tried to profile the AS 2005 database while using the browser but it profiles some strange stuff.. SELECT NON EMPTY [{51E097E0-68D7-48E7-9847-B7D931EA6E0B}Pivot70Axis0Set1] DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_NAME, PARENT_UNIQUE_NAME ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY [{51E097E0-68D7-48E7-9847-B7D931EA6E0B}Pivot70Axis1Set0] DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_NAME, PARENT_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS, { [Measures].[Account Count], [Measures].[Estimated Average] } ON PAGES FROM [Mimi] CELL P ...Show All

• SQL Server Jdbc connection to sqlserver 2000 failing

  I have a java application whihc is running on a Solairs machine trying to connect to sql server 2000 database. The java application is usinga J2SE 1.4.2 jdk. The application has all three of the required jar files (msbase.jar, msutil.jar, mssqlserver,jar) on the classpath When I try and connect to the database I receive the following exception java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][SQLServer 2000 Driver for JDBC]Error opening /loading com.microsoft.util.transliteration.properties the java stack trace indicates that the exception is occuring in a call to com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.tds.TDSConnection.setUnicodeTransliterator ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can you defer property evalation?

  I have a catch-22.  I have a property called "OutputPath" defined in my targets file.  I also have an empty property called VcOtherFlags defined in a target in my targets path that allows folks to add in addtional compiler flags.  Now here is the problem.  If I do this: <PropertyGroup>     <VcOtherFlags>-I$(OutputPath)</VcOtherFlags> </PropertyGroup> <Import Project="..\foo.targets"/> Then in the target buried in foo.targets, VcOtherFlags evaluates to "-I" because the OutputPath is defined in foo.targets.  If I switch the order like so: <Import Project="..\foo.targets"/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Why design-time theme gone?

  I have a winform application converted from VS 2003 solution.  I open the form in VS2005 designer and see the form has an XP-style theme.  However, after compilation and run, the design-time theme form is gone.  How can I bring back the theme Hi, Place the Application.EnableVisualStyles() method call before the Application.Run() statement...       cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Visual C# Kill all instances of a program

  Hi! I have a form application  that  starts  Firefox using Process.Start.  Ater the initial start of Firefox (or any other program really) the user have the posibility to start any number of instances of Firefox. I'd  like to  be able to see when the user closes the last instance of Firefox so that I can alert the user. Can anybody help me (in spite of my some what confused question) /Thomas Hi, Your question subject and text do not seem to match. For closing an application instance you can use "Kill" method - for a code snippet see here: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=54916 If you ...Show All

• SQL Server dynamically sorting, filtering, and grouping ????

  Hello All, I am a Reporting Services newb.  If I have some tabular reports generated through Report Builder (not Report Designer) is it possible to have the results sorted, filtered, and/or grouped dynamically   If so, how would I go about doing so   Can you provide an example The requirement is that we have some stock reports built using Report Builder.  Then users should be able to specify how they want the each report they view to be sorted, filtered, and grouped...These settings need to persist so that the next time the user views this report, the sorting, filtering, and/or grouping they used last are applied wh ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista use of Activity.Save( ) method?

  hi there ... i hav a few question regardin Windows Workflow foundation library n itz classes! 1) every Activity class comes equipped with a method called Save( ) ... but none of the activites, Base Class Activities, like code n all ... are serializable then wat is the purpose of this method 2) does framework uses this method to generate the .xoml file thx Muhammad, The Save method is called by the persistence service to serialize the activity instance data into a stream.  The BinaryFormatter is used by default, but there is also an overload to take any formatter. Arjun ...Show All

• Visual Basic Referencing an Access MDB

  I am trying to get data from an Access 2000 database (mdb file).  I have a table called "Settings" with a single row: Index = 1, and Version = some number (like 0.24 or 0.31). I want to assign the Version number from this table to a variable.  SQL would look something like:  SELECT Version FROM Settings WHERE index=1; Does anyone know how to do that Thanks in advance! Nick Dim MyCommand As New OleDbCommand MyCommand . CommandType = CommandType . Text MyCommand . CommandText = MySQLString MyCommand . Connection = MyConnection Dim MyReader As OleDbDat ...Show All