Matt Payne's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS Architect vs. VSTS Developer

  With he proposed changes in MSDN subscriptions and Visual Studio licensing, I now have to make a decision between VSTS Architect and VSTS Developer. As I understand, MSDN Universal subscribers will have a choice - they can either go for VSTS Architect and VSTS Developer. I believe that I need both architecture and development tools. Which out of two should I go for The information was interesting but too high-level to be really useful ...Show All

• Windows Forms Replace Prompt

  About the windows Explorer Replace prompt is there is a way when a the file Overwrite is a picture to display the picture of the organial file and the file ll be replace The new Windows Vista currently shows pictures of both files. I say currently because it's still work in progress so it may change. On a side note, this thread is for .NET Windows Forms programming questions and not for general Windows Operating system questions ...Show All

• SQL Server dataflow and expressions

  Greetings! I am attempting to implement the following case statement BEFORE getting the data in to my destination table but I don't know how to create an expression for it. In the mapping section of my OLE DB destination component I can only do mapping but I can't actually manipulate the data before it gets to the destination table. What do I have to do to implement : case when SOPD.PRICE_TOP_NUMBER is NULL then -8 else S ...Show All

• SQL Server return an id while doing an insert\update to a table

  Hi people, i Have a small issue. I need to be able to retrive an id number of a new row to a table using the the insert into command. I was able to do this in sql 2000 but the same sql does not work now in 2005. here is the code "Set NoCount On; select user_id from users insert into users (username) values('" & CurrentUser & "')" This used to work in sql2000, I am woundering if anyone could help me or ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with Web Service Authentication

  * Note: I am trying to do this in a non Active Directory environment. I am looking to do integrated authentication between my web application(s) and a web service that exist on different servers. I have set up integrated authentication in the IIS properties for both the web service and web application. I have added the: <authentication mode="Windows"/> <identity impersonate="true" /> Lines to both web ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to add Web parts to the Project Portal. Useless error message not helpful.

  On our project portal I would like to change the layout. But I have an assymetric problem which is proving painfully difficult to diagnose, understand or correct. It's a clean otherwise functional TFS system. If I try to add a web part to the project portal however I get this error message: Error An unexpected error has occurred. Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily disable Web P ...Show All

• Visual Basic Query: Sharing Information between forms in a MDI

  Hi, I am trying to develop an IDE similar to that of Visual Studio. To enable docking I am using the Dock Suite by Weifen Luo. I have created two forms a) frmTreeView: it contains only treeview control b) frmProperty: it contains only PropertyGrid Control When the main form is loaded I populate the TreeView Control and the tag for the nodes are set using a class which gets sets one text value and one integer as an example. Wha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Undoing a changeset?

  How do you back out of a changeset   I was experimenting with branches and merging and I made on a change on a branch when I intended the change for the trunk version.  BTW, I can see this being a problem because the VS editor MDI tabs only give a filename (not directory) and so does the solution explorer.  It would be nice if there were some visual cue to indicate that a solution you have loaded is not the "primary" version you w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Work Item link to Document

  How can you link a document housed in SharePoint to a work item I have a technical document under TeamProject\Documents\Development and want to link a work item to it. Add a link on the work item.  In the link dialog, select the "Hyperlink" type and paste the URL into the field.  This will create a hyperlink between the work item and any URL or UNC path. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Get specific row value from DataTable

  Hey there, I have a problem trying to get an specific row from a table. I'm using a DataSet that has several nums of tables created in runtime, but I need to get an specific row from each table, I'm using this code: Dim TablesResult As New DataSet 'then I call the function to store the tables into the dataset For Each Table As DataTable In TablesResult.Tables Dim  Generic As Integer = CInt (Int((Table.Row ...Show All

• Visual C# VS 2005 C# code highlighting vs Resharper

  I have tried a bit the VS C# Express Beta 2 IDE, and I am a bit disappointed. The code helpers (including refactoring, local suggestions, etc.) are way behind what has been providing ReSharper for more than a year now. Are there features, yet not included in the beta, that will be included in the final release Thanks in advance, Joannes VS 2005 tries to implement a specific set of enhancements in the IDE. Alt ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Missing Parameters Property on Sequential Workflow

  Hi there I started developing my first WWF sample this morning - based on the samples in the book "Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation", but I've got my first problem: I am missing the "Parameters" Property of System.Workflow.Activities.SequentialWorkflowActivity, so I can't define Parameters for my SequentialWorkflowActivity. I am using VS2k5 and the current CTP (January 06) of Vista SDK, and the vs.net extensions f ...Show All

• Visual C# C# get the return parameter from storage procedure of Oracle

  I have created a storage procedure Insert_Data in Oracle, which returns a parameter new_ID. Now I use the OledbCommand to execute the procedure. How to get the returned parameter new_ID The language is C#. Thanks!   Here is my code, The error appears at cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()                OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand();       &n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Gettiing name of the function

  I want to get name of the function/sub when i am inside that same function block ie. Private Sub Btn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click ... ... << here it should return name of the sub ie.Btn_Click >> .. ... E ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Displaying a bug description in Excel displays as #####

  When adding the description column (or any long free form text field) within excel, if the description is long (more than a 5-6 lines), the cell displays as ########## You cannot expand the column for this not to happen (as you would do with numbers). You can change the cell format to general to display properly but it reverts back to text on a refresh to the list (or by simply accessing and exiting the cell). I have created macros to r ...Show All