Troy M's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System team build from a specific (local) version

  I have all my source files (in a specific changeset) checked out local and I want now to build this checked out version. by doing a team build, I selected the workspace, where the version is, which i wanna to build. But after the build process, the build was made with the newest version (on the server) and not with the version (with the specific changeset) on my local drive, even if I selected my local workspace! what's wrong how can I do a team ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I configure access for users from another domain?

  I'm beginning to think I'm missing something basic. My users in the other domain can access the TFS but can't see Documents or Reports (without setting DNS suffixes on their machines) because those URLs include an unqualified server name. Can anyone help me fix this Thanks in advance. While this isn't tested, you could certainly open the database and add them. Go to the DT and open the following table: ...Show All

• Visual C# C# generics on conversion operator and constructor

  I have so far a class Expr with a constructor taking a string, and the following two conversion operators. public static implicit operator Expr ( int expr) {    return new Expr (expr.ToString()); } public static implicit operator Expr ( string expr) {    return new Expr (expr); } I have various others, but they all get distilled down to a string using .ToString().  So, the obvious question: ...Show All

• .NET Development VS2005 changes declarations, in web services, from XmlDocument to XmlNode?

  I have web services which are declared to return an XmlDocument ( and does in fact create a document and returns it to the consumer ), yet when I add the web reference, the returned value is an XmlNode. Similarly, when I pass an XmlDocument, it gets accepted by the web service as an XmlDeclaration. Is there any reason for this Is there any documentation as to what transformations actually take place Thanks Phil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal reports XI R2 and Visual Studio 2005 issues

  Has anyone got this error after updating (fresh install) to Crystal Reports XI R2 with reports in Visual Studio 2005 I am posting here because I am not sure if it is a Crystal reports XI R2 bug or a Visual Studios 2005 problem. I thought it might be that my programming was wrong so I tried the samples that come with R2. If anything these should work since the people who developed the software wrote the examples. Even the examples ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView and subclassing

  I have read two excellent articles on how to subclass .NET controls so that you can hook into the control’s WndProc, which is very helpful since you cannot access the WndProc directly for .NET Compact Framework controls. The links are: http://blog.opennetcf.org/ayakhnin/CategoryView.aspx category=ListView http://blogs.msdn.com/netcfteam/archive/2005/07/24/442616.aspx Sub-classing allows you to trap windows messages ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista vista 5231 - HAL.dll is corrupt or missing

  Hello, I have attempted a multiboot installation with the following configuration: Drive 1 / Partition 0 / XP Professional SP2 [60GB] Drive 1 / Partition 1 / Vista 5231 [12GB] I have launched the installation via XP. After the first reboot the system reported that HAL.dll is corrupt or missing. I have checked the temp folder where the setup files are ( C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\ ) - HAL.dll is nowhere to be found... Suggestions Any help would be m ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) soap security negotiation failed

  I am working through the Windows Communications Foundation samples. I am currently working with the sample titled "Addressing". When I build the sample, client and server, and run them both on the same PC, the application works fine. However, when I move the client to another PC, I get the error: "soap security negotiation ... failed ". This is using the wsHttpBinding as the sample is delivered. If I change the binding to ...Show All

• .NET Development How can we debug a dotnet Assembly (i.e exe or dll )?

  I want to debug an assembly without source code given. I want to know where the error occured How can we debug a dotnet Assembly (i.e exe or dll ) Is there any tool available for this Not sure you can debug the actual compiled file (unless you can debug machine native code) but you should be able to disassemble it into MSIL code and debug that using the ILDASM tool that comes with the framework SDK ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Network Utility

  How do I enable / disable "Named Pipes" and "TCP/IP" protocols using a batch file rather than using "SQL Server Network Utility" on GUI mode. Please, can someone help me. YOU have to change the REG_DWORD in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\Np for the Enabled key to 1. make sure you restart the service in order to ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Control Libraries for Smartphone?

  I wanted to use a .NETCF Control Library for my smartphone project. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be possible. The control does not appear in the toolbox. After playing around a while, I noticed, that there is no control library for smartphone project template available. Does anybody know about the story of control libraries for smartphone mattneug Hi Mattneug, What version of the Smart Phone are you tar ...Show All

• SQL Server Image in Page Header

  I'm running into an problem where I have an image in the page header of my report and I added sorting options to my column headers. When I sort the column when viewing the report, the image in the page header does not appear anymore (the little red box appears instead of the image.) Has anyone run into this same problem and figured out to fix it Thanks! I think you want to post your question to SQL Server Re ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System General Newb Questions

  I have a few questions, that i've been googling and searching for for a few and just figured I'd ask here in one general place where it may benefit others. 1.  I have two machines, one very large spaced and one not so large spaced.  We want a dual tier setup of TFS with Source Contol.   Am i correct in assuming that the source control database is going to end up on the App tier, therefore we want more space there than the DB ...Show All

• Windows Forms Collapsible and expansible GridView

  Anyone can give me some hits to make a collapsible and expansible grid to display a multi -level data. just like the local debug view in vs2005. Thank in advanced. I've just started a blog and the first main post is a sample that I wrote to customize the DataGridView to support collapsing and expanding. I call it a TreeGridView: http://blogs.msdn.com/markrideout/archive/2006/01/08/510700.aspx   -mark Data ...Show All

• .NET Development Multiple Inserts into Sql Server.

  Is there any way to insert multiple rows into sql server table in single query or single round trip to the server Thanks. Yes...as no one has mentioned, use a cursor: USE pubs GO DECLARE get_price CURSOR FOR SELECT price FROM titles OPEN get_price FETCH NEXT FROM get_price WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 FETCH NEXT FROM get_price CLOSE get_price DEALLOCATE get_price Adamus ...Show All