Anders Olsson - Sweden's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System When to use which requirement type

  Does anyone know of a good resource for defining the different types of requirements (scenario, functional, QOS, etc.) Yes, I will post a blog entry on this subject by the end of the week. Thanks for the great idea! I talk about this in my MSF presentations all the time. Randy MSF ...Show All

• Visual Studio Is there any way to find the error in SubReport?

  Four days now trying to figure out why my subreport doesn't work. Local Mode. VB. Business Objects. Is there something that the business object needs to have besides its properties Perhaps a method to search for the items containing the parameter I've even tried creating a datatable on the fly and passing that as the datasource to be added in the subreportprocessing subroutine. The reportviewer's ReportError event doesn't fire. All I get is ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Serial Ports and PPC

  Hi, I am currently porting a simple piece of win32 code to PPC 2003 using VS2005. I have trouble openening up a serial comport. In the code I am using on PC, I am using CreateFile for opening COM ports. Is it not possible to use that on a PPC device . I keep getting an invalid handle back. When running the application on target. I have been looking in the past threads on this issue, and all those seems to suggest using .NET is the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Starter Kit won´t start

  Hi all, I still enjoy my first steps in Visual Basic 2005 Express. Now I’ve tried to run the Starter Kit "WebLogAnalyzer" with F5 after opening it with NewProject but it won’t start. Whenever I tried it there comes the message: "There where build errors. ...". Does anybody have an idea thanks’n greets, VBFan  I have to add some lines from the error list:   Warning 1 The referenced component 'Microso ...Show All

• Visual C# Create webBrowser control in external window

  Is it possible to create a .net2 webBrowser control in an external window provided I have it's parent handle (like CreateStatusWindow ) You can put the WebBrower control on a Form and just open that Form. Now you have it open in a seperated form. You can adjust the FormBorderStyle property to give it the look you want. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem deploying MSDOS executable

  Hi, Here's an odd one ! My app. uses a legacy MSDOS com executable which I deploy along with other support files.   My app works fine after deployment, however when I try to access the com executable -either from the app. or directly -  I get a Win32 exception  "The parameter is incorrect". If I copy the com executable to another folder it works fine. It looks very much as if it's an access rights problem but I can access ot ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSBUILD : Warning : Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers is required to run tests as part of a Team Build

  I have a Team Foundation Server. I am running the Build from my workstation. I have Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200). When I run my Build Type which is configured to execute a test, I get the following warning: MSBUILD : warning : Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers or Visual Studio Team System for Software Developers is required to run tests as part of a Team Build. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista role of .net framework in windows vista

  i would like clarification for how deep the integration between .net framework and vista is. this site claims that vista is built using native code and has nothing to do with .net : http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vistaAndDotnet.htm please clarify the role of .net in vista I think Richard clearly answers your question, right The framework is a set of tools to enable to build and run managed applic ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions path

  I have C# express installed and would like to build a dll with following command : csc /target:library /out:bank.dll a.cs The windows Command Prompt responds with " 'csc' is not recognized ..." I know in VS 2003 I can use the .NET Command Prompt. How do I do this for C# express so that my above dll build command will be recognized thanks. hi, go to your environmental&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Chart Component

  Is "chart component" available (Platform - VC++ 2005 Express Edition) Thanks, I very much doubt it that VC++ Express Edition contains this component. But you probably can get charting components that are written in MFC or C++ what work with VC++ Express Edition. Jinglou /SDET Lead ...Show All

• SQL Server I can't access cubes from excel

  I try to register the dll in a remote machine but I couldn't. Do I need to install something else in the remote machine Yes I have tried this with no luck. I think is a version problem, my server is April CTP. I'll try to install client tools in remote client. ...Show All

• SQL Server Is this possible?

  Hey guys, I wrote a T-SQL query to retrieve all errors name and count the error for each error name based on some conditions. Assume that errors_name is a column name in Error table and the error_count is a calculated field. Here is my question; when I run the query, obviously, it displays the list of errors name and the corresponding errors count which only meets the where condition . However, what I need is to list all the errors name (eve ...Show All

• .NET Development FtpWebRequest re-sending USER and PASS commands half way through download loop

  Well, the title says it all really: I'm using FtpWebRequest to download multiple files as follows: private string GetFile(Uri uri) { string un = Misc.ReadRegKey("ParserFtpUsername"); string pwd = Misc.ReadRegKey("ParserFtpPwd"); string file; NetworkCredential cred = new NetworkCredential(un, pwd); WebProxy pxy = new WebProxy(); pxy.UseDefaultCredentials = true; FtpWebRequest wr = (FtpWebRequest)We ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Debug on the design mode

  I'm using beta 2.2 and i can't debug on the design mode i have a windows application and workflow under one solution and when i run it i can't debug on the design mode but i can debug my code is there's any way to fix this i found solution for it this post was useful http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=106665&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to retrieve published data from TFS

  hi, i have published some test results. how i can retrieve those results from TFS programmatically, for future use and references to validate unit test. When you publish test results with TFS, you publish them against a particular team build. So you can double click the corresponding team build in team explorer and then you can see test results to see the overall summary of all test results published against the particular build. The same ...Show All