Doc Adams's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio VSS 2005 Internet

  My problem is that I cannot connect to VSS 2005 using the internet plugin. When I try to add a project to source control, it asks me for the sourcesafe Database.  I setup the URL and the path of the Database correctly, but then, it asks me for the user name and it does not let me continue no matter what user/pass I give. If I hit cancel I se an error windows saying: "Cannot contact the visualsourcesafe internet webservice or cannot access t ...Show All

• SQL Server Exporting the Table Structure...

  Hye guys, I want 2 export the field names and their properties of my tables to a file by which I would be able 2 print it , Study it and share it with my other friends... for discussions... Which tool can be used 2 export the table stture in a printable format Kabin Hi Kabin, You have a few options depending on what you're looking for. You don't mention which version of SQL Server you have, so I'll try to provide instruction ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to get milliseconds from PPC

  Hi, I want to display seconds and milliseconds of time span in PPC apps. ck1.milliseconds --- didn't return any vlaue. Always zero. why How to get this Thak You! what the heck type is ck1 this is .net and not native code you're working with if it's not a timespan, look into: System.TimeSpan.Milliseconds ...Show All

• SQL Server ODBC Returning success but actually failing (SQL Native)

  I'm talking to SQL 2005 using the SQL Native client in ODBC: Here's what I'm doing: 1) SQLPrepare () -- Prepair an insert stmt 2) SQLBindParameter() -- Binding the parameter 3) Set the Parameter to a value 4) SQLExecute() -- Execute the statment 5) Set the Parameter to a different value 6) SQLExecute() -- Execute the statment Both calls to SQLExecute() return SUCCESS_WITH_INFO. The problem is that only the 1st SQLExecute() ever makes ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server International Learning Survey

  If you live outside of the United States or Canada we want to know more about your experience learning about SQL Server. How did you initially learn to use SQL Server What are your preferences for learning about new features What can we do to make SQL Server easier to learn and use Send email to wssinfo@microsoft.com to obtain a secure code and link to participate in a survey. Complete the survey for a chance to win a portab ...Show All

• Windows Forms IntelliSense Descriptions for Types and Members

  With my own types, members, parameters, etc. I want to provide descriptions that could be read in IntelliSense without me having to use a 3rd party component to gain that functionality. This is a really nice feature that MS has included with it ...Show All

• .NET Development USB Programming and Communicating

  I want to create communication between USB to USB, we put two computer side by side and connect it via USB cable. Now I want to create an application to manage the file transfer. Is there any pure using USB (not like virtual COM port). If we using virtual COM port, we must setup manually, I want my application do that setup. Then I look the MSDN and it said that virtual COM port can be programmed, I do that but always failed and said that the po ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Requirements management and VSTS

  I see bits and pieces of info that indicate VSTS can manage requirements and other development artifacts.   Is this true, and if so, where can I find screen-shots or other detailed documentation on its capabilities   My organization is a software company that is at a point where we need to either upgrade our Requirements Management tool or select a new one.  The new release of our RM tool has some pretty major deficiencies ...Show All

• SQL Server Transaction Log does not truncate and shrink using a SQL Server 2005 Maintenance Plan

  We are using SQL Server 2005 (SP1). I have created a maintenance plan that backs up up the datebase every night. The problem is that the transaction log is continuing to grow. I have been told that a full backup will automatically truncate and shrink the transaction log. However, this is not happening. How can I truncate and shrink the transaction log after a full backup as part of our maintenance plan. Thank you. ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2003 ->VS2005 Addin not adding Macros

  I've got a Visual Studio Addin that adds macros to the user's environment.  It worked fine in VS2003 but is broke in VS2005.  I get an exception saying  "Item can not be added to a project when multiple or no items are selected in the Solution Explorer." It seems the AddExistingItem method no longer works for adding Macros. Below is some sample code that throws an exception on the last line: private DTE2 _applicationObject; ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Formatting Fields in Work Item Type Definition

  I have added two custom fields to a Work Item Type Definition. They are monetary fields so I set the type to double. Is there any way in the Process Template to format the fields so they will show up on the Work Item form as currency This is not supported. However, as a workaround you can define a pattern rule on your fields, which would require input to be in a specific format, but this rule only works on stri ...Show All

• Visual Studio Licensing & pricing

  I thought I should start a thread on licensing and pricing where we can give some feedback to MS on the type of scenarios we intend to implement and how various licensing & pricing schemes would interact with that. As I see it there are two separate questions here: 1) What license is required to author a DSL 2) What license is required to use a DSL For 1) I guess the main question is which edition of Visual Studio will be required, and ...Show All

• Visual Basic Refactor question

  hi, i know it's not refactoring as such, but can it generate method stubs in vb.net if not, can i put it forward as a suggestion it would be really useful to a lot of people i'm sure!! cheers dan The ability to generate a method is not part of the Beta 2 refactoring support for VB and we've got it as one of the top suggestions but I can't make any promises.  I do agree this would a useful addition to the t ...Show All

• .NET Development can not create an SQLConnection object

  I am getting an initialization exception when I instantiate SQLConnection. The exception occurs emediately upon creating an instance and does not depend on whether I supply a connection string for the constructor. The odd thing is that I am not getting this error on my development computer, only when I install it on a different computer. The computer giving the exception has .Net 2.0 installed from the redistributable which I downloaded fr ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help with custom DataGrid control

  I have created a custom DataGrid control which implements a custom property HighlightRow of type Boolean.  I have another custom DataGridTextBoxColumn class, which Overrides the Paint method in order to facilitate row highlighting.  My question is how I can a ...Show All