Bigmacrox's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Helpdesk type software

  hi, does anyone know of any vendors/partners that are writing helpdesk type tools that integrate into team system the kind of thing i am looking for is the ability for helpdesk people to record issues (exists already), but for those issues to have automatic tracking and escalation (usual helpdesk type stuff). (i know i can write this myself, but as always there is not time!) cheers dan I'm not aware of any at th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Adding new property to project using IVsBuildPropertyStorage

  Hey. I'm writing an IDE plug-in and I would like to use to IVsBuildPropertyStorage in order to create a new property group. A bug is already open ( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=f017d132-0802-4e78-bb00-399aec8a748b ) Any thoughts Thanks, Oren. Hello Oreng, You need to pass the plateform name with the configuration such as in: "Debug|AnyCPU" R ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) API / example for parsing e2e files.

  Hi, I would like to build a management console that displays part of the information displayed in the svcTraceViewer utility. Is there an easy way for parsing the *.e2e trace files generated by WCF Thanks, Dan. Hi Dan, You have a lot of flexibility here. Writing your own listener is certainly an option as Madhu suggests. The trace files are straightforward xml files (without a root tag), so parsing them using the .net xml ...Show All

• .NET Development login fails for NT Authority?

  No idea what is happening. It used to work but could be because I installed SQL Server 2005 along side with existing SQL Server 2000. I am trying to open a connection but i keep getting the error stating that the login failed for NT Authority. I am using trusted connection any ideas This happens when I am opening a connection the SQL on my local dev workstation. ...Show All

• Windows Forms showing different text in a pannel at runtime

  Hi ! I am new with Windows Forms.  I want to make an application interface with different panels.  In one panel I just want display different information along the time,  showing what the application is doing (keep changing the information according  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions NewLine in a TextBox

  I have a text box on a form that im appending text to. How do i put a new line in. Code: Textbox1.AppendText("blah") I want to put a Return before and make it its own line. HoundsOfHell asked the same question just now within the following post (^_^ ): http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=360129&SiteID=1 If i'm not mistaken, by adding the "vbCr" or "ControlCh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems with vsperfcmd

  Hi, I followed the instructions on this MS blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2005/06/08/426979.aspx to instrument and collect coverage stats manually for my manual tests. I run: vsinstr my.dll and my.exe vsperfcmd -start:coverage -output:a.coverage run my program manualy vsperfcmd -shutdown On shutdown, I get the following error. I am using VS2005 Release - Developers, C# config. C:\svt\SvtClient\Core.Test\bin\Debug>vsperfc ...Show All

• Visual Basic It's slow!!!

  Hello After I turn on my computer and when I launch first program (which programed by VB2005), it's take a long time to show main form. VB6 was faster.   CPU speed: 2600 MHz Memory: 1024 MB  Is there a solution for that   Thanks & Regards What do you mean by 'long time' It's possible that, even though windows appears to have finished booting up, it hasn't - it's still ...Show All

• Windows Forms Customize Listbox Items

  Hi everybody, I have listbox object in my form. Now I want the first item I add to to be bold and the font color should be red. Then all the other items I add should be default. Is that possible If yes how If no, why not Thanks for your help !!! Sure! Use owner drawing! Set Listbox.DrawMode to OwnerDrawFixed or OwnerDrawVariable and paint the items yourself. Here's how . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Reading Excel From C#

  You can read data from Excel using the JET OLEDB provider. See the URL below for the necessary connection string, and a link to a KB article with further information ... http://www.carlprothman.net/Default.aspx tabid=87#OLEDBProviderForMicrosoftJetExcel -- Brendan Reynolds wrote in message news:9226766e-a1d5-400c-8d3c-8ffc566bec50@discussions.microsoft.com... > Hi > > Can anyone help me how to read values in Excel in C# . So ...Show All

• .NET Development What does the "local-name" mean?

  What does the "local-name" mean After you read the code below, could you tell me what the "local-name" mean is the "local-name" a constant //--------------------Code------------------------------- declare @my xml set @my=' <Folder Name="Root" Id="a6dce8fe-749c-4e38-ab2f-3d03d9711b3d">   <Bookmark BId="f8dce8hj-846c-4e38-ab2f-6d03d9711b80">     <Title>CodeGuru Forums - ASP.NET</Title>   &n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can you and How do you get two mouse pointers

  Hi! Is it possible to have multiple input devices in vista, i.e. connect e.g. 2 or more mice and have them used at the same time with 2 different mouse pointers that can interact with different windows at the same time What I want to achive is something simmilar to this for X windows, http://multicursor-wm.sourceforge.net/ Hi, me and a freind hooked up two mouses or should i say mice to my computer. We w ...Show All

• Windows Forms Which Port is used by ClickOnce?

  Which port is ClickOnce using when installing or upgrading an application if you know the port, you can configure the firewall / proxy properly (provided you are authorized to do that), so that ClickOnce -Deployment can be used from anywhere.  Or is this a naive thought hope somebody can help me greetings daniel i may not have the question right but i will share anyway... with firewall on, the application will be block ...Show All

• Windows Forms binding checkedlistbox

  Hi, How can I bind checkedlistbox to a datatable and also bind valuemember, displaymember and another property that selects/unselects items in the box based on a column of datatable. Thanks, Hi, please check the code snippet below: //Binding the checkedlist box this .chkLB.DataSource = ds.Tables[0]; this .chkLB.DisplayMember = "Name"; this .chkLB.ValueMember = "Code"; //based ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel Pivot Table Limitations?

  Dear Anyone, We seem to have encountered a bug o a limitation but we're not sure what to make of it. We are using Analysis Services 2005 RTM. Went have a 3 level dimension. We noticed that when we used the dimension in the page field of the pivot table, we noticed that not all members of some parents in the 2nd level does not display. We double checked by browsing the dimension using the Management studio and we confirmed that not all memb ...Show All