Paul Nicholson - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System MSDN Academic Alliance

  Will TFS be available for universities via the academic alliance program I couldn't find any page with any information on that. Let me also state my opinion on that: I think learning how to organise team development, manage a dev process etc is a key component of any CS education. So, I think you guys should do everything so CS faculties can provide a TFS for all their students so that they learn how to use it. Along that line I believe you sh ...Show All

• Windows Forms I've beaten my head against the wall for 7 hours on this Icon problem..HELP?

  Alright, here's the deal..I have 32bit alpha blended XP icons that i'm using in a control... I'm using a manifest for comctl v6, which I read was the solution..but I cannot make Images that come from an ImageList to work with transparency..i know&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application.Exit

  Hello all, I have a strange problem that i'm hoping you guys/gals can help me with. I have written an application that i need to update on a regular basis. I have purchase an autoupdater problem that allows me to transfer files from my webserver to the client. But, before i can use it, the application itself has to be closed. I execute the Application.Exit() command and the program appears to close, but it's still listed in the task manager as ...Show All

• SQL Server Optimizing LIKE OR Selects

  I'm having problems optimizing a sql select statement that uses a LIKE statement coupled with an OR clause. For simplicity sake, I'll demonstrate this with a scaled down example: table Company, fields CompanyID, CompanyName table Address, fields AddressID, AddressName table CompanyAddressAssoc, fields AssocID, CompanyID, AddressID CompanyAddressAssoc is the many-to-many associative table for Company and Address. A search quer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How team system supports baseline control? CMMI?

  Hello, I am learning a little about CMMI and in my company there are 3 baselines, I dont know a lot about the theory of CMMI but in the company we have an excel file which says which files are the controlled files on each baseline. For example Assigned Baseline 1. Requirements.DOC 2. Arquitecture.VSD 3. ClassDiagram.VSD In any time one of these files can change and I would like to know which version of the base line had the ...Show All

• Visual Basic Generating a PDF File

  I need to generate some type of document that will display a series of information. Is there anyway to take information from my program, format the information into a reader friendly layout, and then turn that layout into a PDF file Is it possible to accomplish this process WITHIN the program and not by using a distiller printer setup Thanks! Is it Adobe Distiller software you want to avoid, or having extern ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Auto Initiate Excel Macro

  Hi.  I am trying to figure out how to write a macro for Excel that will check the time that the workbook has been idle (i.e. has not been changed) and under certain circumstances, close the workbook. I am currently achieving this by using a 'DoEvents' command that will relinquish control of the workbook to the user while the Macro runs a timer in the background but this causes some behavioral quirks that are not good.   Does anybo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Task Class relation to Package

  I have a custom package and I have written a class that inherits the Task class to help in my build process. Is there any relation between the Task class and the Package I'm trying to figure out how to access the OutputWindow from my Task class. I found some sample code like this, but I'm not sure how to access GetService from my Task class. IVsOutputWindow outputWindow = GetService( typeof ( SVsOutputWindow )) as IVsOutputWindow ; ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to enforce linking work items?

  I'd like to implement a rule that forces linking work-items. Specifically, I'd like to ensure that bugs are linked to a related requirement item. I may want to enforce this either during a state transition (to "Active") or when creating the bug item. I know how to make a field required, but how do I make links required I've noticed the System.RelatedLinkCount field, but don't see how to express a "> 0" rule on this i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error 28100.Error loading Event web service.

  Hi,   During installation I got "Error 28100.Error loading Event web service.". Any idea what is going wrong TFS is being installed on a Virtual Machine.   Please feel free to contact me if you need any more information. Thanks, Bart ps. Is it possible to upload the setup log Are you attempting a single server or duel server TFS install At what stage of the installation process are you getting the erro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ Overview at San Jose C and C++ Users Association, Tuesday, December 13th

  I'll be giving an overview presentation on C# 3.0 and LINQ at the C and C++ Users Association in San Jose on Tuesday, December 13th. This will be a high-level cursory look at LINQ, not the deep dive that typically happens on this forum.  If any of y'all are in the area and would like to add to the presentation, please come by.  Having more LINQ smarties add their voice to the dialog would be great. More details here: http://codebetter ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Express 05 Listbox questions

  first, i am a newbie at this. so, please excuse my ignorance if any. I am writing an application to configure a game server and launch a dedicated server if desired. OK, here is what i have set up: when a user enters a '1' in the var_maplst textbox, the listbox, add & remove buttons, listbox label, and buttons to move items up & down appear Private Sub var_maplst_TextChanged( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.E ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to create custom state activity with StateInitializationActivity?

  Hi, I created the following custom activity MyState MyState : StateActiivty {} The problem is I can not add "StateInitialization" activity to my custom state activity. I tried to create "StateInitialization" in code but the compiler gives me errror saying "Cannot modify activities collection ..." If I use MyState activity in a state machine workflow, then it allows me to add "StateInitialization& ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Agent Trouble.

  I have spent all day reading microsoft material and reading through this site to figure out what is wrong with my schedule job without success. I have come to the point where I can't take it no more. Would someone pleaseee help out a sister This is the situation: I created a very simple package on my server A. This package pull data from server B and load into server C: B====> C I deployed and copy and install the package successfull ...Show All

• Windows Forms any way to determine if a control is a "container"

  to finalize my runtime drag/drop procedure i need, when dragging, to check on mouse up what the point i am dropping in is, ie like any designer, if the point the mouse is on, is a panel, group box, tabcontrol (or any descendant from t ...Show All