Siraj Salim's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Design Documentation - Where is the best place to store them

  When working on Bugs / Tasks we create design docuemnts (I heard somewhere that these are useful... still trying find who said that :D ). Anyways, where would be the best place to store these Say if there were 5 bugs in our system that could be fixed with 1 code change, we'd only create one document for that (5 bugs still). So, attaching the same document to all those bugs is very bad in my mind. We could also upload it to our portal site and ...Show All

• Visual Basic Automatic comment for VB function/sub

  With C# typing '///' above the name of a function generates a comment heasder for the funtion. Something like ///Description: ///Parameter 1: ///Parameter2: etc... ///Returns: IS there anything like this for VB.NET There are some tools that enabled VB.NET with XML Comments, here is a little list: VB.NET XML Comments Creator VB.NET XML Commentor VBCommenter for XML Comment Generation in VS .Net 2003 ...Show All

• Visual C++ beginner c++

  dear all, i have questions why everytime i create a cpp files i must save into diff workspace.if not there will be an error mentioned " c:\age.cpp(23) : warning C4508: 'main' : function should return a value; 'void' return type assumed Linking... what is the use for workspace Thanks in advance. This is not related to whether you are using a workspace. Your warning level is set differently between the command-line invocat ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting services -Help please :-)

  Hi all,Hope you can help. I read the solution about how to create your own legend in cases where the number of serious is dynamicly changing. The problem is i dont know how to set the chart colors , or like the authors wrote: "Set the color of the data point in the chart as well as the background color of the first column in the table to: =Code.GetColor(Fields! Series .Value)" How do i do that You will n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions vcsetup does not install.

  It gives me the error message, "..../vcsetup.exe is not a valid Win32 application." And I am using Windows XP. Hi, I am having the same problem. I just posted a message before finding your message. Did you ever get this resolved Thanks! ...Show All

• Windows Forms vb express and sql server express

  Hi, I am trying to use the combo "vb express and sql server express" to know in advance what these two products will be like; I haven’t done anything yet because I am unable to create a Data Source. When I open the New Data ...Show All

• SQL Server Server Hardware upgrade

  We are about to get new server hardware. We want to move our SQL Server 2000 databases to the new machine. The old machine will go away. I'm trying to anticipate any Gotchas we might run into. Please tell me if this is the best way to go thru the upgrade. 1. Detach the database files 2. Back up the .mdf and .ldf files to a network location. 3. Shut down the old machine. 4. Install SQL Server 2000 on the new machine 5. Copy .mdf and .ldf files ...Show All

• Visual C# A beautiful language ruined by generics

  I've read all your arguments. I see good points of each side. Thank you for letting me enjoy this article. It seems the question is for C#'s code readability v.s. code reusability. As a solution developer I prefer not to use generic or template because my problem domain resides in a specific classes or types. However if I need to maintain or to develop a library, I probabily look into generic stuff. Hmm... ...Show All

• SQL Server Start time of a overrunning job

  Hi, A job on my server has been run for couple of days. It is just hanging there. It could be started manually. So I want to find a way to be notified if a job is overrunning. I can get the execution status. But I cannot find the process start time while the job is still running. Can anyone let me know if how to get the start time Thanks, Jia Not sure hich version of SQL Server you are using, but w ...Show All

• SQL Server Data quality tools

  Guys,   I'm trying to implement some of the data quality techniques. I use staging tables in my ETL process.   What I'd like to do is:   - check for required fields - make sure all required fields have values in all records   - check for duplicates   - check for data formats (line phone#, zip code etc)   Obviously all of this can be in SQL.   My q ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS Lockup on checkout

  If I check out a file from TS and then someone else changes it and checks it back in, when I perform a get latest it will lock up my local copy of Visual Studio. I don’t get an error, so I end up having to do an ‘End Task’ on Visual Studio. Anyone else run into this problem and discovered a solution Thanks, I don't think we've seen this one before. Can you tell me: 1) What version of VSTF you're ru ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Load Testing - Not enough free threads

  Durring my load testing in 2005 I get the following execoption: System.InvalidOperationException: There were not enough free threads in the ThreadPool to complete the operation.    at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.BeginGetResponse(AsyncCallback callback, Object state)    at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestTransaction.Execute(AsyncCallback completionCallback, Object callerState) It only appears to happen when I g ...Show All

• SQL Server Wizards missing in Enterprise Manager?

  Hello, I just installed MS SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition on my computer running Win 2k Pro, and all seems to have gone well. But, when I run the Enterprise Manager and select Wizards... under the Tools menu of the Console Root\Microsoft SQL Servers window the only Wizard I see is the Register Server Wizard. If I understand everything I've read, there should be more wizards available. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here Thanks in a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disabling Buttons until Event has finished/finalised.

  Hi all, I have a Button on a Form that populates a ListView with different ListView Items each time the Button is pressed. Currently, it may take some milliseconds (noticable) for the ListView to populate, and yet the user is still able to press the Button rapidly, so that the ListView Populates/gets scraped/populates/get scraped/populates etc - which I don't want. Is there a way I can press the button, then cancel the functionaly (not allow th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!

  Hi all, I want to get a copy of the book "Visual C#(R) 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!" which is free as a benefit of registering C# Express Ed.  However, I've got VS Standard Edition and this book isn't included in the reg benefits.  I don't want to go thru the process of downloading, installing and registering C# EE just to get this book.  Anyone got any ideas on how I can get a copy without doing this Thanks, s ...Show All