Tim Rachel's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Project 2003 Integration Problem

  Now that Team Foundation is using Active Directory "friendly" names we have a small problem. Our domain is configured to return friendly names in the format: LastName, FirstName. When you import information from TF into the "Resource Name" field in Project it interprets the coma-space as multiple resources. Therefore if you try and push any changes back from Project to TF you get all these violations about invalid values. Is there anything we can do about this We've already consulted with our AD admin and he does not want to change the format from LastName, FirstName so we're kinda stuck here. TIA, Drew P.S. I'm sorry if ...Show All

• SQL Server best datatype to save password

  Hi, what is the best datatype to save user's passwordin an encrypted format Is there any ready datatype for that or i have to send the password enrypted to the database Thanks.. If you send it in clear text to the server and then checks for it anyone that has access to the connection between your application and server would be able to have a look at the password. The best practive would be to use a recognized one way hashing algorithm and send only that over the connection. This way it will be up to your application to hash and match password and snooping on the line will be less interesting for hackers. ...Show All

• Visual Basic RC1: "Compiler has encountered a problem..... NEED HELP from MICROSOFT

  I do have a rather big VB Windows Project and I get all the time interrupted by a compiler error &Hc0000005&. Have to restart. It happens while I edit the code, two three keys pressed and I get the compiler error. Don't think there is any error in the code itself. It is close to impossible to work with VS anymore. Thanks very much for your help - Thomas Have you taken a look at your event logs I can't help but think there's a hardware problem somewhere. It would sound like either your installation is corrupted which could be due to hardware or there is an ongoing hardware problem. Is other software ...Show All

• Visual C# hi

  hi , when i use datagrid and double click event how can i choose data from the datagrid that i want thx There are certain values passed when the user double click on a DataGrid (WinForm) private void dataGridView1_CellContentClick_1(object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e) { this.dataGridView1[e.ColumnIndex, e.RowIndex].Value = "ALI"; // By the help of Row/Column Index you can do anything with that Row/Cell } ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cab installer 262 file count limit

  I'm building a Smart Device CAB file targeted for WM5, using Visual Studio 2005. I've noticed that if I include more than 262 files in total, I get the CabWiz error "File <Temp_wiz_inf_file> contains DirIDs, which are not supported." <Temp_wiz_inf_file> is a file like wizfa8.inf under my Temp folder and I found out that it's really just a copy of the project's inf file. I verified this by using FileMon and diffing the files (they're identical). I get the same error message whether I build using VS 2005 or with CabWiz.exe from the command-line. Is this 262 file count a known limit for CabWiz If yes, is there a way to ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio How To Establish Environment Variables For Debugging

  Can the visual studio debug environment be configured using command scripts in [cmd] or [bat] files I need to debug projects that require specific environment variables to be established at runtime. These environment variables are not needed during project development. How can specific sets of environment variables be configured for use by the Visual Studio Debugger When working outside of the Visual Studio .NET environment, the appropriate variables are often established using [cmd] or [bat] script files or a console program equivalent before the program executable is launched. Working with $(MACROS) and Environment Vari ...Show All

• Visual C++ Microsoft Dynamic Link Libraries (dlls) - What ones must be given to the end user?

  Compiler: Visual Studio.NET 2002 Hi everyone, You will probably think I am a bit dim for asking this question but it is one that does confuse me. How do I know what standard Microsoft dlls (Dynamic Link Libraries) must be sent out with my software so Windows users (even the previous Windows release users) can use my programs I was going to link statically (as I got the impression that doing so would automatically put the dll in the final executable). Then I got some errors which got resolved when I linked dynamically instead. So even though the optimal answer would be to link statically, please answer assuming I link dynamica ...Show All

• Visual C++ Infinite allocation loop compiler bug in __asm parser

  The following code alone causes the Visual C++ 8.0 compiler to get into an infinite loop of memory allocation: long call_NtClose ( void ) { __asm { mov eax, [ptr_NtClose] Obviously, this is invalid, since there's no } } at the end of it. (If you add them, you get the correct unknown identifier message.) This bug came up in a much larger sequence of code - I just stripped it down to the minimum required to break the compiler. Right before the compiler starts infinitely allocating memory, it outputs the following error: error C2400: inline assembler syntax error in 'opcode'; found 'end of file' If you change ptr_NtClos ...Show All

• Visual Basic using code written in C#

  Hi. I'm trying to use a code library written in C# in visual basic, but i cant figure out how to do it. Here's the library: i want to be able to use the functions in it in VB. I've tried compile it into a class library and then add it as a reference in visual basic, but it still doesn't work. mattias Where is the library There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to import and call a C# library from VB.NET, in fact to VB it will look the same as if it was also written in VB, as it's been compiled to the same IL. You need to define 'doesn't work'. Can you import it Can you call it Do yo ...Show All

• .NET Development Question on Threading...

  (VB.NET) So I finally understand how it works, incorporated on one of my long processes and it works.  Great.  But now when I run the process (showing a progress bar) I can only do other tasks after the progressbar finishes.  The Setup: I have a subroutine that creates about 5 excel spreadsheet from records in a database.  The progressbar shows for each file creation.  As it's creating a file I can't access my Menu (File, View,etc..) until a file is done.  The menu item opens but the process stops.  After I release the menu item, the process continues. The threading code is as follows: Private Sub Excel ...Show All

• SQL Server MSDE - Start Databases

  Hello I'm using SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 Desktop Engine. When the SQL Server starts, it just start databases master, model and tempdb. The databases that I have created don't start. They just start when I connect to them for the first time. What I can do to start my own database when the SQL Server starts Thank you. All databases are opened at startup if they are attached to SQl Server. If you have switched on the autoclose option, they are in common closed (but not stopped) after the last user disconnected. jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multiplayer Client/Server Design

  I have been developing some board and card games with MDX using C# (.NET 2.0), and I want to take the step into making them available to play online in a multi-player environment. Reading Tom Millers Kickstart, I settled in on the idea of a Client/Server Lobby style application, similar to zone.msn.com using DirectPlay. As I started to work with DirectPlay I soon found it was deprecated, and that developers were moving to the System.Net and Sockets namespaces to develop their game servers. I have looked into asynchronous socket listeners (using object serialization to pass data objects), and .net remoting as possible ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binding A comboBox

  I'm trying to bind to a comboBox but I keep getting an error of "input string was not in correct format" When the form loads it runs this sub first private void GetBuildings() {    DataSet DSBuildings = new DataSet();    DSBuildings = DataAccess.GetBuildings();    this .cboBuildingNames.DataSource = DSBuildings.Tables[0];    this .cboBuildingNames.DisplayMember = "BuildingName";    this .cboBuildingNames.ValueMember = "BuildingID"; } I then try to do this sub second private void GetAccountData() {    DataSet DSGetAccountDetail = ne ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting data from 2 different sources

  Hi, Im using SSRS to create a report which has one table that resumes a state of something. I have this information in 2 diferent tables and im using mdx querys. My inforamtion is like this Table 1 S M L Total Shop Stock 1 4 3 8 shop sales 2 4 2 8 Table 2 S M L T Warehouse stock 2 6 5 13 I would like to have Table S M L T Shop S 1 4 ... Ware S 2 6 ... T ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ImplementIDisposableCorrectly woes

  Me again, with some more Dispose confusions.  FxCop has nudged me to implement this snippet of code but still complains about the DerivedComponent class, with the suggested resolution: "Remove IDisposable from the list of interfaces implemented by MyNS.DerivedComponent and override the base class Dispose implementation instead."  DerivedComponent does not directly derive from IDisposable, and I'm assuming "overrde the base class Dispose implmementation" to mean Dispose(bool).  As far as I can tell the resolution is implemented.  Am I missing something     public class BaseComponent: IComponent   ...Show All