MattPatt's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System What does TestID mean? How to get this information?

  Hi all, When I create a bug, there is a field under Test tab named "ID". What does it mean In the bug.xml file, I find it is "FieldName="Microsoft.VSTS.Test.TestId". Can I know a test case's TestID before I run it It sounds a test case's attribute, but I cannot find its value in a test case's property. I know if I create a bug it will automatically have a TestID valut inputted in the bug. But if I do not create a bug from a failed test case but manually, how could i know the TestID Anybody helps me out Thanks, Leon Hi Leon, Scenario: When people run an existent test case and find a ...Show All

• SQL Server Install

  I just installed sql server 2005 express and everything seemed to go well. However I only see the configuration tools under program files in the start menu. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! I'd suggest that you start using SQL Express! (Sorry, had to do it.) SQL Express only includes the database engine and the configuration tools, so you're seeing exactly what you should. You can work with the engine using a number of different tools, here are a few: SQLCmd - Command line tool included with SQL Express to run T-SQL Commands. Any version of Visual Studio 2005 included ...Show All

• .NET Development FileSystemWatcher Created Event Not Firing

  One of our customers has a service that posts files to our FTP server at various times during the day.  Rather than poll the folder for files every hour I figured the FileSystemWatcher class was perfect with the Created event.  Where it falls apart is they issue a put command to create the file and my service doesn't get the event fire.  If I log in locally and move the file to another folder then back into the original folder it parses the file and executes as expected. Does anyone know why the FTP server creating the file doesn't trigger the event the same way that Windows Explorer does I am running on Windows Server 2 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Here's a real goofy bug in vs2005 arm compiler: structvar.gets

  Here's a real goofy bug in vs2005 arm compiler: 2>..\01src\gt40_ix.cpp(7029) : error C2039: '_gets_instead_use_StringCbGetsA_or_StringCchGetsA' : is not a member of 'T_GT40_XD' when I use something like xdptr->gets = where gets is a structure variable. It didn't specify this ..._instead_use... bit until I changed the structure .gets to .getsCount, before it was just a very plain compiler error about semi-colon/syntax.. Now I can see this is some sort of thing to protect me from myself. Ahhh, the wonders of vs2005 and the evils of the C/C++ language! Now to track this down and exorcise the real demon. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Embed windows forms in IE web page.

  It seems only .net control could be embeded in web page and could be shown in IE. How can I directly embed a form in web page  Or is there any work around to do that ...Show All

• .NET Development Data provider or other service returned an E_FAIL status.

  Hi, I got this error [Data provider or other service returned an E_FAIL status.] in my application, application are running properly on other clients without error, i am using oracle 9i and vb.net, is there any solution. Thanks Atanu We'll need more information than this to help out. E_FAIL is a COM error result indicating that something went wrong. Unfortunately the COM object (guessing the Oracle client) isn't providing sufficient inforamtion to troubleshoot. Do you see anything unusual in the Application Event Log Can you provide us with a stack trace or code where this fails ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How would we go about converting an agile project to a CMMI project

  How would we convert a project from an agile method to a CMMI project without losing all of our work items You commit to a project type on project creation. There's no "change" project type feature. We're not anticipating many people will attempt to completely re-set a methodology mid-project.  Although I can imagine this is possible, a feature to help would be handy, we don't have it.  But your question makes me think of an even more significant case where we'll find this behavior required -- upgrading an ongoing project from Agile 1.0 to Agile 1.1.  Stay tuned. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to assign more then one guy to single item?

  In Microsoft Project I can assign as many resorces to one single task as I want. But wen I try to publish this kind of task to TFS then I get an error that "Assigned To" property has invalid value. If I change it and assigne only one developer then everything is ok. As far as I know, you can only assign a work item to one individual at a time. You might want to break up a work item into multiple work items that would be a small enough unit of work for only one individual to work on. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Control Components

  I have made previous posts asking this feature, but seeing as WinFX is at beta 2 release already, is it now possible for us to make drag/drop controls in the Cider designer I don't want a User Control, I want to make my own custom component. Is this possible Thank you, Jaco Right now it is not possible to add Avalon controls to the toolbox in Visual Studio. Yes we will enable this functionality before we ship. No I don't know what CTP/Beta this will be available in yet. mark ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Enhancement Request: Ability to pass cursors as parameters

  The ability to pass a cursor to a method of an object belonging to another data session would be a great addition for a future versions of VFP. Today, we have to resort to arrays, which is kind of a kludge, or CursorToXML/XMLToCursor, which is way too slow for large data sets. If cursor could be passed between data sessions, n-tier apps would benefit greatly. Any thoughts Eyvind.   Craig Berntson wrote: It's actually very easy. Look at CURSORTOXML() and XMLTOCURSOR(). I have just done a quick test with that and it works very nicely. The OP stated it is slow with large data sets but I have nev ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installation problem

  Hi, just downloaded and installed VB express for the second time. Both installations appeared to go fine, but when I try to create a new project it fails, with a message at the bottom of the screen saying "Creating project 'whatever i called it'...project creation failed." Hi, Can you provide more details about the failure What platform did you use have you installed/uninstalled VB Express on the same machine Does it happen with all kinds of projects or just fails for one project Thanks. Aiwen VB Testing team ...Show All

• Visual C++ Negtive zero valid?

  Hello, I hope I am in correct forum. I am testing Visual Studio 8 RC1, and found a negative zero. Here is a C example: {    double val = 0.0;    val = -val;    printf("%g\n", val); } Output is: -0 The result is "0" with .net 2003 version. Is this a expected behavior If this is expected, could somebody point me to the documents describing new double behaviors. Thanks! Thanks for the repy Eugene, Yep, I accept that, but end users don't understand -0.0 So having printf generate it is just painfull. I know from looking at the Microsoft C runtime ...Show All

• Windows Forms Compiling Joe's OLAF 2003 sample under Beta 2

  After seeing Mark Rideout demo Joe's Outlook 2003 at TechEd, I downloaded the code and tried to compile it. I got about about 10-12 errors and 213 warnings about obselete elements. Could you release a new version I'm looking to it as possibly the only useful documentation for menustrips and toolstrips. Checkout the Joe Stegman version @ http://www.windowsforms.net/Default.aspx tabindex=4&tabid=49#User%20Interface . This is the Official version. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Inserting Multiple Rows With Identity and TableAdapter

  Hello, Using VS 2005, Sql Server 2005. I need to create and insert several rows. The table has a primary key which is an identity column. My problem is, using the below code, every row is getting assigned the same PK value. For example, the first row gets inserted fine, but an exception is thrown on the second row: Column 'PrintEditionPK' is constrained to be unique. Value '1' is already present Here's my code: public static void CreatePrintEditionRecords( int printPK, int numberOfEditions) { PrintEditionDataSet . PrintEditionDataTable table = new PrintEditionDataSet . PrintEditionDataTable (); PrintE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Keep getting the error "Syntax Error in UPDATE Statement"

  I've worked with the older versions of Visual Basic and since moving to 2005 express I think I've gone a bit more crazy. I keep getting this error when the dataapdater.update statement is called. Here is the code that I am using and I've also thrown in the information from the syntax error. Private Sub EditMaterial( ByVal codepos As Integer ) Dim con As New OleDb.OleDbConnection Dim updateCMD As OleDbCommand Dim Sql As String , updateSQL As String , idtxt As String con.ConnectionString = "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data" & _ Source = C:\tmp\che ...Show All