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• Windows Forms ComboBox Data Binding Question

  I am creating a "learning" app.  I have successfully connected to Sql Server 2000, created a  dataset containing a single table,  "mytable" with several columns.  I am trying to bind this  data collection to a combo box cboPlantId&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Export and import source control tree

  Hi, Is it possible to export the source control tree of one server in order to import the tree to a different server Thanks, Michael If by that you mean to effectively back up the source control tree and/or a particular team project on server A, restore it on server B, and then remove it from server A, the answer is no for v1. We've gotten this type of request several times, so I expect it to be considered for v2. Buck ...Show All

• Windows Forms Vertical scrollbar only

  1. Is there anyway that I can make the vertical scrollbar shown only The AutoScroll property will make both vertical and horizontal scrollbar active. 2. The horizontal scrollbar is shown automatically just because the vertical scrollbar added reduce the original width. The horizontal scrollbar is quite useless as only a bit of information is hidden. So, is there anyway that I can make the vertical scrollbar appear at the very beginning So tha ...Show All

• Visual C# Calling C# DLL from C code

  Hi, I've seen plenty of examples of calling C++ or C code in dlls from C#. I want to be able to call C# methods etc from C code in much the same way as C++ can be called from C. Many thanks Mike Alan, Many thanks for your reply. I never thought about turning the C# into a COM object so thanks for the pointer. I have downloaded the book and now the hard part starts :-) Cheers Mike ...Show All

• Visual Studio Referencing Properties that contain free form XML

  If you have a property group with a property that contains free form XML and you want to reference the value, of say, OutputPath, what is the syntax for doing so $(ConfigOptions) gives you the entire XML string, as you would expect. I'd like to get to the CodePath within $(ConfigOptions). I played around with a few variations, but none seemed to work. Are free form XML properties only intended for logging and tasks that actually know how to par ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies V.slow after installing WDS

  Win2k sp4, updated Hi, Working on getting a possible answer.... Regards, Bill Connors Program Manager, Windows Desktop Search - Communities ...Show All

• SQL Server Rendering a Server Report Through Report Viewer Error

  I am unable to render any of my server reports through a web forms report viewer. I am able to progrommatically directly render any given report through a web service in to the desired format, i.e. Excel, PDF, XML, etc. but am unable to pull a report through the viewer. Also, these reports are viewable from within Report Manager. I get the same error when I programmatically set the remoteProcessing, server path, and report path to then ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Will there be an upgrade path from Team Foundation Server Workgroup to the unrestricted TFS?

  At the current moment my organization has less than 5 users who need to access the Team Foundation Server so the Workgroup version of TFS will be perfect.  Will there be an upgrade path from Team Foundation Workgroup to the unrestricted Team Foundation Server for when our organization grows Thanks. Upgrading is painless: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404848.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DLink -- Object DAC

  Hi, I am a system architect for fujitsu australia and we have developped something very close to DLINK in a SQL object DAC. I can't discuss the details of our implemetnation online but I would like to suggest a few things. 1- Being able to automatically map an entity to a table while still being able to exclude a few of the fields from being stored... (they may be calculated or even be UI centric) 2- Being able to have an ID inner class th ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WorkflowWebHostingModule - drawbacks

  Using the WorkflowWebHostingModule seems to have some drawbacks. For example, in order to add say SqlTrackingService in code, you have to first stop the runtime, add the serive, then restart it... Thoughts JB WorkflowRuntime workflowRuntime = WorkflowWebRequestContext .Current.WorkflowRuntime; workflowRuntime. StopRuntime (); workflowRuntime.AddService( new SqlTrackingService (connect ...Show All

• SQL Server problem copying database from sql server 2000 to sql server 2005

  Hi, I have right now sql server 2000 instance installed on a server (serverone) which is accessed on all nodes through an ODBC connection. Now we have upgraded our server to windows server 2005 which will be on other machine servertwo. I have right now installed sql server 2005 in servertwo. Wish to copy the database from serverone to servertwo. Once it is copied and everything is working fine. I want to uninstal sql server 2000 from serve ...Show All

• Windows Forms Selecting a row in a datagrid

  I have a datagrid bound to a dataset. I am wanting to be able to double click on a row and have a new form come up that is passed a hidden ID of the selected row, I can then load the relevant info onto the new form. Cur ...Show All

• Visual Basic Multi-language project without satellite assemblys

  Hi! Is it possible to create a project that uses more than one language (English, German) without automaticly creating satellite assemblys for the other languages My current situation. I wrote a German program and I want an English version too. But I just want to have one executable file without other dll-files (in this case: vb creates automatically a subdirectory for the English language). May change a setting for this somewhere R ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Creating a Custom StateInitializationActivity

  Hello, I have a fairly complicated state machine that requires custom audit information to be logged upon entering the many states. This includes information like UserName, UserRole, ApplicationName, in addition to the CurrentState and EventDateTime being inserted into our application audit database table. As the initial implementation, every state class had a StateInitializationActivity with a CodeActivity that called a "RaiseAuditUs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help. Port an VB indexer property to C#

  Hi all,  I need to convert this VB  Default Public ReadOnly Property Item(ByVal index As Integer) As SomeObject   Get      Return CType(list.Item(index), SomeObject)   End Get End Property and i think in C# comes to this: public SomeObject this [int&n ...Show All