SkypeDeveloer's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System List of TF commands that don't require checkin (commit)

  It seems that most of the TF commands don't do anything on the repository until you actually commit (oops, I mean checkin) your changes.  I know there are a few commands that act immediately.  Could we get a list of all the commands that don't require checkin   I believe labelling is one of the commands that acts immediately. Good point- resolve actually doesn't require a checkin to complete, thou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error deleting work item field

  We created a field incorrectly and we would like to remove the field this way we can recreate it correctly.  We tried to delete the field using the command line tool witfields:  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies>witfields delete /s:mtlapplication4 Incycle.Common.BugPriority Result---> Incycle.Common.BugPriority cannot be deleted - it is used by the following project(s): Test ...Show All

• SQL Server I don't see Database Maintenance Planner in my SQL Server Enterorise Manager

  Strange..... Anyways, is it possible to add the tool for Database Maintenance Planner to the existing DB installation If so, how do I do that Would someone please help me on this Thanks a lot in advance. Chris. Hi Chris. If you don't see it, that could mean you aren't logged in as a sysadmin, they are the only logins that are allowed to view/modify maintanence plans. It should be visible under the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Saving Text to an Excel file

  I have searched all over for this, and can't figure out what to do, could somebody please start from the top, and explain to me in depth exactly what I need to do to Save text to an excel file Using normal file appending doesn't ever change the cells, I need a more integrated way, so please explain to me what I need to do from scratch, as of now I have nothing on my project. -Thanks I'm assuming ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Help with simple program

  Hi, I’m new at this whole thing. I’m trying to help a friend with a macro (VBA for Excel). Its very simple, he has all these country codes on a spreadsheet. We want the program to read the code and the write the country code next to it. We’ve created a two dimensional array with all the codes and country names. Here’s the code: Dim selNum As String Dim trim As String Dim Arr(70, 1) As String Arr(0, 0) = 809 ...Show All

• .NET Development saving ref of remote object

  i need to connect to N servers and give them tasks, and after X seconds im checking each one of them if they finished. so i tried to save the ref to the remote object in a hashTable (as the key), but when im trying to remove an item in the hashTable(after he finished his job) im getting a runtime exception ("Request for premission of type System.runtime.remoting.objref failed" ). how to get to each server thanks in advanced ...Show All

• .NET Development Appln developed on .Net 1.1 not working on 2.0

  Hello, We have c# code of small as well as large application that we have developed on fallowing system configuration. OS: Microsoft Windows XP professional 2002 PentiumR 4 CPU 2.40 GHz 256 MB RAM Visual studio .net 2003 (VS 2003) .Net Framework 1.1 Problem: Now we want our code to run with VS2003 and Framework 2.0. I tried much as to get code run on specified environment. Steps taken: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions unicode

  How to show unicode characters in existing Visual Basic 6.0 controls How to use API for displaying Unicode in vb please reply me at shoaib@interinfosystems.com Hi, These forums are for VB Express edition. Could you please post vb6 related issues in Microsoft Newsgroup site Below is the link: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx Thank you, Bhanu. ...Show All

• Windows Forms populating a datagrid from XML

  My application calls a web service that returns XML in a pre-specified format. I am trying to popolate a datagrid from the values in XML. The datagrid does not seem to have any methods that can help this, i.e., adding a row and setting&nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development problem with GCHandle.alloc()

  this is my structure: [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential,Pack=4)] struct TMN_REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER {  public uint  ReparseTag;  public short   ReparseDataLength;  public short   Reserved;  public short   SubstituteNameOffset;  public short   SubstituteNameLength;  public short   PrintNameOffset;  public short   PrintNameLength;  [MarshalAs(U ...Show All

• Windows Forms Scrollbar on multiline textbox

  Hey guys, I have two questions regarding the vertical srollbar of a multiline textbox. 1. I have an "Ok" button that is initially disabled. I want it to be enabled when the user scrolls the vertical scrollbar of a textbox all the way down (indicating that the user at least pretended to read all of the textbox's text).  How can I monitor the scrollbar and know when it has reached the end 2. My multiline textbox has VerticalScrollB ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem installing Visual Studio SP 6

  I'm trying to install Visual Studio SP 6 and when I click on the setupsp6.exe I get a message reading The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction Has anyone else had this Do you know of a workaround I understand it's caused by the machine trying to start a 32-bit application in a 16-bit 'mode' but how to I stop that. Thanks in advance, Col I would recommend asking that question in a di ...Show All

• Windows Forms Displaying selected text on an inactive form

  I'm failrly new to Windows Forms programming. I've started working on a "Notepad" like application to get familiar with this. I've recently run into a problem that I haven't been able to solve yet. My main form uses a richtextbox to display&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS.Net 2005 RC Application Diagram problem with SoapExtensions in WebConfig

  I created a soap extension to assist my exception handling from a web service to the client application.  This worked fine in Beta2.  The application diagram in the RC is complaining with the following error: (names edited to protect the innocent) Error 139 Application definition MyService is locked because there is an error in C:\Source\MyServices\web.config. The value of the property 'type' cannot b ...Show All

• Visual C# Saving/Loading a List<> to file.

  I’m in need of a good way to save load a generic List<> to a file, XML, txt or whatever. How should you do that in an easy way All tips are welcomed!! if u want in xml use [Serialize] like this i use Class using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Xml.Serialization; using System.Xml; using System.IO; namespace AVUK.BusinessEntities { [ Se ...Show All