rlcowan's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System MSF Agile: What about business rules?

  I'm starting a project with MSF Agile. I've read almost all the Process Guidance and found it very detailed, very interesting. But the thing I don't find where to put are the business rules that are present in many of my scenarios. The guidance says that the system behaviour show be described in high level in the scenarios, so I cannot give much detail there about the business rules the system must follow there. But, after scenarios, there is no other place where I can put those rules before developers start coding. So where do I put the business rules Thanks. Julio Casal .Net Solution Developer MCAD Grupo Lebed Thanks Will. That's a g ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Package Load Failure

  Howdy.. Just got this nasty error and wondered if anyone could help me to resolve it fast I have been running Expression Interactive Designer on a test box along with the Cider extensions for VS.. all running sweet... I installed SQL2005 on the same box for some further testing and now when I go to open a XAML page in designer mode in VS, i get a Package Load Failure with the specific package being.. PresentationDesignVisualStudio Anyone Another strange side effect of this is that now when I went to repair the Cider extensions, it pops up with a dialog that says WinFX is not installed... I can assure that it is, and all to the very latest ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form Refresh Question

  I've created a simple form (VB.net 2003) to process whole bunch of data from a database. The form asks for some basic information and has a button to start the process. As the program is running, I am updating a label control so that I can see that the program is actually processing records (I'm displaying customer name being worked on). Here is where I'm stuck... While the program is running (ie. not waiting for user input), if I minimize the form and then maximize it again, the form doesn't refresh properly. All I get is a blank form (just the form border). If I click anywhere on the form, a 'program not responding' message is ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DXViewer texture problem?

  I use 3dmax 6.0 and I converted 3ds file to .x file with panda exporter but When I open the .x file in DXViewer I cannot see the textures.I see the objects but black.there is no texture.Can you help me You can Open your *.x file in Notepad (simply temporarily change the extension to *.txt and double click on the file) At the end of the x file you should find a Material Section and a TextureName Variable, take note of all the texture file name Make sure that those texture are on the same directory of your x file Maybe their is a directory in the name, so you need to recreate this directory where the x file is For exemple in Tiny_4a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. a simple line

  New to directx, I don't need any textures or anything, but i need to make a simple wireframe model. And would like to know if there is an easy way to draw a 3d line just using 2 points as input(hopefully, as this is what im used to) { {x, y, z}, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(red, green, blue) } f means they are single precisions floats rather than the doubles that most languages default to. DirectX uses single precision for speed. Whilst the vector (x,y,z) can mean a line from (0,0,0) to (x,y,z) in this case it just means the point (x,y,z). So jacks code creates an array of 2 points and then draws a line between them. You ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Extending the Personal Web Site Starter Kit

  I have read the article on extending the Personal Starter Kit  by Bill Evjen. There are 3 image files that he makes a reference to, that I cannot find.             <table width="90%"><tr>                   ImageUrl="../Images/button_sitecontent.gif"                    ImageUrl="../Images/button_manageusers.gif"            &nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Global DataSet - or Sharing Data between Forms

  I'm pretty new in .Net - so it's possible I am thinking all this in a non .Net way. But here it goes: I am trying to share a DataSet between all forms in my App. Actually , I want to bind all instances of the same type of combo in my application (say, all Customers combos) to the same instance of a given DataSet, containing the  ...Show All

• SQL Server Scripting role/schema

  I'm trying to give permissions to a particular user to execute a collection of stored procedures. From what I read, it seems the best way is to define a role and schema - I've called it db_executeusersp, and use it to grant Execute permission to a set of stored procedures. I can then create the user and simply add that role to the user and all is wonderful. But, I'm trying to figure out how to script this thing. In SQL Server Management studio, I can script the objects, but cannot figure out how to script the connection between the schema / role and stored procedure. All I get is a script of the object definition. Any ideas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What should be at the "Default Web Site" ?

  In trying to create a new Team project I get the error: TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed. I was looking around here and found someone else who got the same problem and someone suggested he try http://localhost and see if it works.  It didn't and he was able to track down the problem. So I looked at the Default Web Site on my TFS machine and it is basically pointing to an empty directory.... d:\inetpub. It has the 2 Reporting Services IIS Apps attached to it, but there is nothing at the root, which I'm pretty sure is wrong. So I have 3 questions: What should be at the Default Web Site   W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Future Local Report functionality

  The local report processor is a great tool to use to provide clients with reports.  I have been integrating this control into our reporting system and it has been very successful. I do have a question though.  Does anyone know yet what improvements or new features that might be added to the local report processor in future releases   The two features that I miss out on the most are the ability to export reports in HTML and being able to include custom report item processing. Ocassionally I see mention from Rajeev or Brian that "feature x" has been requested a lot and now Microsoft is looking into putting that into a futu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office OLK 2003. Catch the Move mailItem event with mailItem open

  With mailItem open the user move it (using the icon in the toolbar), I need to know where the mailItem has been moved, so I tried to catch some event related with "move event" of a mailItem but I could not. I appreciate some help. Thanks, Mauricio. Mauricio, You would need to monitor the ItemAdd event on the destination folders. As the item arrives in the folder, the event will fire: Private Sub MyFolder_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object) End Sub What is good here is that this will also fire if the item is drag/dropped. Go VSTO! John. ...Show All

• Visual C# Search a big generic list for an occurence of a string.

  example code you have: objectA{     public string aProperty{        get{           ...        }        set{          ...        }    } } then private bool ItemIncluded(ObjectA aItem){     aItem.aProperty.Contains("SomeString"); } list<ObjectA> result = AllObjects<ObjectA>.FindAll(ItemIncluded); where AllObjects contains 200 000 entries (or more) w ...Show All

• Visual Basic PrintDialog for WebBrowser Menustrip

  I would like for the browser that I am creating in VB 2005 Express to provide a PrintDialog option from the File menu. In particular, I want the user to have the option of selecting text to be printed, instead of having to print the entire Web page automatically (which is what I am getting by just using “WebBrowser1.Print ()”). The PrintDialog class provides the print “selection” option but I cannot get it to work with the WebBrowser control. Here is the code and error message that I get: Private Sub PrintToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles PrintToolStrip ...Show All

• Visual Studio Should the LAN Booster Service work in Beta 2?

  I tried configuring VSS 2005 to enable the LAN 'booster' service but it didn't seem to have much effect.  Putting network monitor on the line it looks as though Visual Studio 2005 is still using SMB to communicate with the VSS Server. Is there some configuration I need to do on the client end to get this working   The Visual SourceSafe help file doesn't say too much more than that the booster service is optional.  I took that to mean I didn't need to configure it at the Visual Studio plug-in end but perhaps I'm wrong   Alin Constantin - MSFT wrote: the 06ba error is RPC_S_SERVER_UNA ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Help!!! Can't find Code Analysis Configuration

  In Beta 1, i enabled to check for FXCop rules. Later, I uninstall beta and installed the RTM version of VS 2005 and I couldnt find Websites> Code Analysis Configuration Do i need to install FXCop seperately..or does it comes with vs itself..HELP! I was using a project which as FxCop enabled, so when i referenced it to my project i hit with the error. The "Code Analysis" task failed unexpectedly.  Understood that FxCop is not in local environment setup, and it actually binds with the project itself. thanks for all your help  ! Cheers Nithi ...Show All