Jeff Steinkraus's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where I can find link to download VS2005 Express?

  I tried to find link to download Visual Studio 2005 Express. I coulnt find it.. Where I can find link to download VS2005 Express Thanks There is no such thing. There are only the express editions, one per language and one for web development. I'm sure your google search found those. If you want an all in one IDE, you need to buy it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Breaking change in RC C# compilation

  In all versions of the IDE prior to VS8 RC C# build employed interfaces provided by cscomp.dll shipped with .NET framework. Our company uses internal tool that integrates VERY smoothly as preprocessor into the build process by thunking interfaces in cscomp.dll. Compilation options, error reporting and debugging transparency are achieved with minimal coding. Now, it seems, RC has its own copy of compiler in C# package, and while csc based builds still work, IDE does not use cscomp.dll anymore. Any hint on how can we integrate preprocessor into new compilation process would be greatly appreciated. Please, help, whatev ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot download any of the free books?

  After i registered my copy of  visual web developer 2005 express edition beta 2; i tried to download  asp.net 2.0 book and i kept getting this error message "Line 157 Error: 'link' is undefined". Has anybody been able to download any of these 3 book Thanks, Sam Dalil Yes, you should be able to download all of the eReference books from Microsoft Learning using the link and access code that was provided in your registration benefit e-mail. For more information about the registration benefit e-mail, please see the Registration FAQ . For assistance with error messages received while trying to access your online books via the Micr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to import TFS Users as Project Resources

  I have a new TFS project which has a number of our Active Directory users assigned with permissions. Our AD Friendly names are in the form "lastname, firstname". When I Get All Tasks from TFS in Projects, each name appears as two people. (E.G. Doe, John in AD appears as users Doe and John in the Project Resource Sheet.) Is there a way to get the TFS users into Project without having to change our AD I am too small a fish to force a company wide AD change! TIA Ron L I have seen many threads on this issue. This one suggests some possible work arounds. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=277816&S ...Show All

• Smart Device Development No unique GetDeviceUniqueID on Pocket PC O2 Atom?

  Hi all, I have tried to use the sample from VS2005 and i got problem to retrieve the DeviceId. The GetDeviceUniqueID on O2 atom return the same number even for different machine. The GetDeviceUniqueID on Dell X51V Wm5 machine is unique. Is there any work around OEM implements these functions,, Win CE only specifies how this should work Interesting blogs for your reference , http://blogs.msdn.com/jehance/archive/2004/07/12/181116.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/09/510997.aspx Srikanth Bogadapati ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error on executing the XOML workflow with rules

  Hello, I am executing the workflow from its xoml file with rules associated. The code I use is: XmlTextReader readerWf = new XmlTextReader(this.XomlFile); XmlTextReader readerRules = new XmlTextReader(this.RulesFile); workflowInstance = workflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow(readerWf, readerRules, new Dictionary<string,object>()); The rule contain a reference to an activity that comes from another assembly, then the rule is ((Libs.Activities.MyActivity)this.GetActivityByName("myActivity1")).Vector.Length > 0 When I execute the workflow I get the following error message: Activity 'ifElseBranchActivity1' validation fa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to install web test tools or remove references to them?

  I get the following when trying to open localtestrun.testrunconfig from my Solution Explorer. --- The Test Run Configuration file "<path to my localtestrun.testrunconfig>" does not have the expected format: Failed to instantiate type "Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestRunConfig, Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.LoadTest, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=<alphanumeric string>: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.LoadTest' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot file the file specified. --- I recently moved from the trial version to VS " ...Show All

• SQL Server HELP: Failed to create the task. (Microsoft Visual Studio)

  I created my first SSIS project in BI Dev Studio but get the following error when trying to add a data flow task to the Control container: ================================== Failed to create the task. (Microsoft Visual Studio) =================================== Value does not fall within the expected range. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ManagedDTS) ------------------------------ Program Location:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Executables.Add(String moniker)    at Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design.DtsBasePackageDesigner.CreateExecutable(String moniker, IDTSSequence container, String name) Any advice greatly ...Show All

• .NET Development License of the code that disassembled from .Net framework?

  Hi all, After disassembling the code of .Net framework using Reflector , I found out some useful classes that I want to use in my own project. Because most of those classes are "Internal" or "Sealed" that I can't inherite directly. So, may I do that Do I break some laws Or what should I do  After that I can put those source code in my application. Thank you very much. Regards, Bill As the .NET Framework is considered an operating system component, you are licensed under the end user license agreement for your operating system. However, most of Windows license agreements have ...Show All

• Windows Forms richtextbox and treeview problem

  i am currently developing an XML editor with a tree view and a richtexbox.  The tree view is populated depending on the XML format you typed in the richtextbox.  What I wanted to do is everytime I click a node in the tree view, the focus shifts to the richtextbox and the cursor is placed on the node that I just clicked.  I'm&nb ...Show All

• Visual C# Printing the contents of a RichTextBox

  I am trying to figure out how to print the contents of a RichTextBox that contains formatted text and pictures using managed code only. It was easy in C++, just redirect the dc, but I am at a loss here. I thought the easiest way would be to generate a series of bitmaps for the pages. I know how to do a screen capture, but not all of the contents are visible if the document is long. I am hoping I am missing something obvious. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Look at this and this ! .. maybe you are " missing something obvious" Cheers! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System It is possible to be acceded to the commentaries that are written in a method?

  It is possible to be acceded to the commentaries that are written in a method Thanks By "commentaries" do you mean comments FxCop analyses IL code. It also links to debug information whenever possible; but, it has no access to the comments in the code. Some declarative attributes are processed and these attributes could be accessed in a custom rule. What, in particular, do you want to do ...Show All

• SQL Server Exporting PDF - Adding empty page

  Hi, I created a report using dynamic display( I hide the column using the expression in Property->Visibility).By using expression the column which is having null is hided.When I try to export the report to PDF,the empty pages are displaying along with data.Ie.,The report contyains only 5 pages but in PDF it is displaying 10 pages(5pages data with 5 empty pages). Any Suggestions appreciated! Thanks Please verify that the definition width of your table (regardless of any hidden columns) is less than the width of the body. Also, be sure that: Body.Width < Report.PageWidth - Report.LeftMargin - ...Show All

• .NET Development When to use "do not" and "don't" ???

  I've looked everywhere on the Best practice and patterns site and a few other places on the net but cannot find a source where I know how to appropriatly send feedback to the end-user. What I mean by that is there must be a Microsoft site that details how to write outgoing messages. Should I use "Do not" or "Don't" How to formulate an error message How to formulate a validation warning message I have only found information on Mozilla and Gnome web sites through a google search. Thanks for any feedback and help I'm pretty sure the official line is do not, and that in documentati ...Show All

• Visual C++ Stacks stacks and more stacks

  I'm barely learning stacks and classes in school for my C++ class and I find the topic of stacks to be confuseing when it comes to actualying typeing out the code. A breif overview of my project is to (of course using stacks and classes) allow the user to enter: [{()}] and in order for the input to be valid, each {[( must have a mtaching ]}). The idea behind stacks is VERY SIMPLE to me....its just puting on code and understanding it are two very differnt things. I was able to easily create this program in main() using a character array. Can anyone help me Perhaps show me an example of what the codeing looks like for a simple program using st ...Show All