John Vottero's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System BUG: Invalid handle on concurrent checkout/checkin

  If I am checking out the a project file. My colleque checks out the same project file (concurrent checkout) Then he checks in the project file. Now, when I am trying to check it in I get an error box saying "Invalid Handle" Restart, Reconnect to TFS doesnt help. However, If I do a "Get lastest version" then it triggers a merge request, after I done the merge, the checkin works fine. Regards Fredrik Melin After further review ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Working with the WebBrowser control and Flash sites

  Using the WebBrowser control I'm trying to create a simple web browser that my kids can use. A lot of the sites that they play at use Flash and I've found that the pages do not respond to clicks correctly. For example at the site www.myscene.com , the initial page loads correctly, but after clicking on the link for the "Hot Fashion Game", none of the buttons on the next page work. Of course it works fine in IE. I've also noticed that i ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista TransactionScope FaultHandler problem

  I have a sequential workflow with a TransactionScopeActivity within which I throw a System.Exception under certain circumstances. I also have a corresponding FaultHandlerActivity to handle the System.Exception. This works fine when I host the WorkflowRuntime in a Windows EXE. However when I host the WorkflowRuntime in a WindowsService the FaultHandler does not get activated, instead the trace just shows that an exception has been thrown and ...Show All

• SQL Server Moving a SQL Server 2000 Database from one server to another advice

  Hi, i was after some advice on moving a SQL Server 2000 database from one server to another. Usually i would do this by backing up the database on the original server the copying it accross the LAN to the new server and restoring it there. This database is 10Gb in size and copying it accross the LAN will take some time and i would like to minimise downtime if possible. The database is at a customer site where i am not responsible for the netw ...Show All

• Visual Studio Load Report Faild in Deployed VB.net Project

  Hello, I have this issue after install my vb.net project on a machine other than the development machine , and when I called the crystal report it showed me this error and when I click on the detail it gaves me some code refering to the parameter used in the code of the project this what I get when clicking on Detail CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.LoadSaveReportException: Load report failed. at [1] . [1] K(String , Eng ...Show All

• Visual C# namespace colouring

  I love the code colouring, however, I'd like to be able to colour the namespace identifiers something other than the identifier colour. Is this possible now (I can't see it in the Fonts & Colors list) If not, can it be added to VS in the future Hi, As you have seen this is not possible right now. I would suggest you post your feedback at the VS feedback center so that the team can track it. [ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Automate "Add solution to Source control"

  Hello, i have an Addin that creates a new solution and adds the currently selected project to it and then creates a new test project. Now i want this newly created solution (and newly created test project) added to source control. The folder in which the solution and new test project reside are in an mapped TFS folder. What is the best way to deal with this, i tried to use the automation model DTE.ExecuteCommand( "File.AddSolution ...Show All

• Visual Basic [VB2005]Q of Serialport ----> Need Help

          I jz start to learn the programing of vb2005, but there is a new plugin of serialport, i reali dun no how to use it, who can tell me how to write the code to achieve a simple network connection, like chating, transfer the text   form1 include: textbox1,button1 form2 ~~~~~: textbox2.button2   how to make tt when i click the button1, the content of textbox1 will be sent to te ...Show All

• .NET Development Expecting Preamble error

  Hi, I have a web service that talks to a process using remoting. At first I used http and it worked fine. I then changed the configuration files to use TCP, but I got a this error message: Tcp channel protocol violation: expecting preamble I made sure that all the URLs start by tcp://. I cant find what's causing this problem. Does it have something to do with using the Web.config file to set the remoting client configuration settings ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions question about vb express and hanging the pc

  I have installed the entire package and even started a first project, the problem comes when I move a web browser control to the form, the CPU goes to 100%, and pretty much the system is EXTREMELY slow to respond, makes sense if it's maxed out, but why is this happening my cpu is a 1.5Ghz should be able to handle this software just fine , plenty of memory almost a Gig, so what is the deal anybody else run into this ...Show All

• SQL Server Scripting Objects: Two Questions

  With my efforts to try and Source Control our database objects, I have run into a few quirks with scripting. For both of these question I went through the Generate Script Wizard: Right Click on Database->Generate Script Via Managmenet counsole running on the September CTP (company waiting for the new year to purchase the released versions) Anway: 1) Why can't I run the Generate Script on a database that is set to 7.0 compatibil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Printing

  Hi all, I face the problem on printing using report viewer. When i press print button in report viewer, it will pop up the print dialog to let user select the printer and after select the print then press print for printing. My expected is when i press print on report viewer, it will directly print without pop up the print dialog, is it can do it. Thanks You can implement this functionality on your o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office InfoPath - WebService - BizTalk

  I'm an experienced BizTalk guy working with BTS 2006, but this question is really about InfoPath and submitting thru Web Services. Here is what I have done, and it works with a minor annoyance concerning Security Zones, which so far I can't get around: 1. Took an InfoPath sample, extracted the XSD and built an BizTalk Orchestration project. 2. Published the Orchestration as a Web Service with Wrapped types. 3. Adjust the Data Connect ...Show All

• Windows Forms Programmatically Bind a ComboBox in DataGrid?

  Hi, I have a DataGrid with several column that have comboBox inside. I would like to set the dataSource for the other comboBox based on the item selected in comboBox1.  when the datagrid is first loaded, it takes the details from DataBase.  When the cell is in Edit mode, ComboBox will appear, and uses can edit the data by selecting an item from the ComboBox (say, Product Type).  Then, based on the Product Type selected, ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I use the Forms Designer colour ComboBox control?

  Hi, I want to implement a ComboBox containing system/web colours and the associated colour name like you get in the VS.Net Forms Designer when you click on the BackColor property of a control.  I don't particularly want the three tabs, just the  ...Show All