*George*'s Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Moving Outlook Add-in to VSTO 2005?

  Hi, We have an Outlook add-in that was developed in VS.NET 2003 (non-VSTO).  We now want to move it to VSTO 2005.  I have been looking for some information on MSDN on how to convert our add-in to VSTO 2005  but no luck.  Can anyone give me some information on how to do a conversion Thank you all for the reply.  I now have a better idea of what I need to do for the conversion. t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is a typical build process?

  hi all, I was wondering if anyone can define a typical build process using TeamBuild By this I mean, was it expected that only binaries are produced by a nightly build and then by using the Build Quality marker someone would then determine if a setup was made for that build / product. Alternatively do people expect to run a nightly build that will not only compile there solutions but product a installable package upon completion How many peop ...Show All

• .NET Development Enterprise Services performance problem

  Hi   I have a three tier application, developed with .Net 2.0 beta 2. Business facade layer: web services; Business logic layer: COM+ (Enterprise Services); Data access layer: ADO 2.0, SQL Server 2005, no dynamic queries; Database: stored procedures;   The performance should be acceptable for 30 concurrent users. But it is not. The memory used by IIS is about 200 Mb (quite acceptable). After 20- ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) COMSvcConfig ... where has it gone?

  After reloading our system with WinFX February CTP, the ComSvcConfig utility is missing ... has this utility been discontinued and if yes, what is its replacement I am able to find ComSvcConfig in following folder (in Feb CTP) C:\WINDOWS\WinFX\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation -Thank you Madhu ...Show All

• Windows Forms CellVaildating event escaped?

  I put my DatagridView validation code in its CellVaildating() event handler and it work well.  What I mean by working well is that its stop shifting the focus when invalid input is in that cell.  However, I am surprised that an exception exist and I can press the toolbar button and raise the ToolBar_Clicked(), why How should I deal with it Toolbar buttons is like a button with CausesValidation set to false -- click ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MSMQ error opening queue

  Hello. I'm trying to use msmq to establish communication between and indigo client and an indigo server. I've set the endpoint like this on the server: <endpoint                     address="net.msmq://localhost/private$/indigotests"                     bi ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server wont start (after ALTER DATABASE for model db)

  I ran an ALTER DATABASE on my model to move the data and log files. The command ran ok, I have physically moved the files, but SQL wont start now - the error is "... terminated with service-specific error 1814". Anyone know what I can do Whats the detailed error message in the event log HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual C++ Optimizer fails to remove unneeded loop?

  Here's a minimal code sample that illustrates the problem: #include <cstring> #include <iostream> using namespace std; # define TEST_COUNT 5000000 void AssignStr( char * str ) {     strcpy( str, "changed" ); } int main() {     char temp2[16] = "no change" ;     for ( int i = 0; i < TEST_COUNT; i++ )     {       ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to ensure successful compile before check-in ?

  Hi, It's looking like simple question... Any ideas Thanks, Leon Hi Leon, To ensure that u have a successful compilation before check in. Just get the lastest version of all the files {or porjects} .... rebuild your entire solution and after a succssful build check your code in. Regards, Nasha {MVP} ...Show All

• Smart Device Development I want to handle PDA 's panel button action,how to do ?

  I know use RegisterHotKey function can set some keyboard button to respone my prgoram keyboard hit . but I don't know what is value of PDA(wince )'s keyboard button (hard keyboard not soft keyboard) . I know system can set them to run specific program by modify registry .  can anyone tell me thanks! calvin.  anyone can help me please ! I just want to know how to hadle the keyboard action (PDA hardware but ...Show All

• Visual Basic DirectX Samples complaining

  A few days ago I've installed the directx9.0b sdk. I looked through the vb tutorials, and the first 4 seemed to work well. But the rest didn't work, the compiler complained alot about the directx library not containing stuff. Any idea what's going on here I hope I get some answers quickly, Michel EDIT Sorry, the tutorials work, but all the Samples don't. I would hazard a good guess that 1. You ha ...Show All

• .NET Development Passing reference values to C++ functions

  I am trying to use the C++ funtions in C# through DLL reference. I need to pass values by reference to these functions. How is this possible in C# Thanks and Regards Madhu Use the 'ref' keyword. e.g., if you're calling "SomeMethod"; SomeMethod(ref SomeArg); David Anton www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com Instant C#: VB to C# Converter Instant VB: C# to VB Converter Instant C++: C# to C ...Show All

• Visual C++ vc2005: strcpy(char[100], CString); doen't work. Why?

  Hi, Recently I updated to Visual Studio 2005 (from 2003) In VC++2003 this code worked: char SuperString1[100]; //m_supervar is a member variable associated with some Dialog Edit contron (CString) strncpy(SuperString1, m_supervar, 5); This does not compile in VC++2005... the same problem with strcpy... So question is how to convert CString to char in VC++2005 Thanks in advance Serhiy ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Test Failure with useless message

  Help... I'm running a web test that I haven't run in a little while and for some reason now I get the following error message: Failed to Queue Test Run 'jxl0575@MCSD-DEV 2006-03-18 22:03:58' with id {d5e8f11b-2792-4d81-94c5-3ba41d614c65}: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has fai ...Show All

• Smart Device Development genasm error message when adding DesignTimeAttributes.xmta to my project

  This is weird. I have a Smart Device C# library that builds perfectly. When I add a DesignTimeAttributes.xmta to it and rebuild it I got the following error message: genasm.exe(1) : error There was an error finalizing type . Type 'MyNameSpace.MyClass, MyLibrary, Version=9.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' was loaded in the ReflectionOnly context but the AssemblyBuilder was not created as AssemblyBuilderAccess.ReflectionOnly. My Namesp ...Show All