SRIKANTHPRAGADA's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio ItemOperations.AddNewItem no longer functions

  Hello, I had written a number of extensive macros for the 2003 IDE and I would like to carry them over to 2005. The only error I encounter is when the macros are attempting to create a new class file using the ItemOperations.AddNewItem Function. In VB.NET 2003, I could use this syntax: Dim doc As ProjectItem = DTE.ItemOperations.AddNewItem("Local Project Items\ Class ", DocName & EXTENSION)   With VS.NET 2005, I receive a COM err ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Auto-refactor doesn't work in the Cider "Source" window

  You know how you can type a new name over the old name of an identifier in Visual Studio 2005 and it will show a SmartTag that lets you auto-rename all references to the identifier This doesn't work in the "Source" tab of Cider. I don't get the Smart Tag to let me rename. Just letting you know, to put it on your "To Do" list. Wow, that's a hard choice, Chad. Intellisense when editing XAML directly is an abso ...Show All

• SQL Server URGENT: Insert and Update in a transaction is getting blocked

  Hello, I have the following situation: -Package A begins a transaction (TransactionOption="Required") with IsolationLevel=Serializable -PackageA calls PackageB -PackageB has 2 data-flows. The first one inserts into TableA. The second one updates TableA. They run serially. They both have TransactionOption="Supported". The update is blocked in SQL Server by SPID=-2   (which I know is MSDTC). I tried setting RetainSameConne ...Show All

• Visual C# Creating static class

  I am trying to create a static class but am getting a compile error. public static class myClass { } gives compile error "The modifier 'static' is not valid for this item" According to MSDN documetation, the above code should create a static class. How do I create a static class Thanks in advance. What .NET/Visual Studio version are you using static classes were added in ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.net 2003, Access the registry SymbolicName for a flash drive

  Does anybody know if it is possible for me to Access the windows registry, specifically the driver for a flash drives decription in the registry...I need to be able to read the SymbolicName information for all the flash drive drivers in windows... Anybody have any sample code... Thanks... ...Show All

• Windows Forms toolStripComboBox to fill the toolsstrip

  Trying to make toolbar like the Address for IE, I have a t oolStripComboBox that does the AutoComplete etc, but the problem is I cant get it to strech/auto size to entire toolbar. Any ideas on how to make tool bars similar to ones in IE TIA Thank you Josh Didnt realise that feature, Actually both answers are correct, Erics answer includes some good code thats quite handy. ...Show All

• SQL Server how to get the sum of a group and not the whole column?

  example: Account Sales New John Doe 1,000,000 George Bush 2,000,000 Juan Luna 3,000,000 6,000,000 Old Michael Tell 5,000,000 Billy Banks 2,000,000 7,000,000 where Account and Sales are table columns, New and Old are group names. i want to display the total of the group. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Development, Staging and Production - how many build types?

  If you have a development, staging and produciton environment, would you create a build type for each plaftorm They are different deployments. So, I guess they would be the same build type. I am just having issues understanding the correlation between the build and how it's deployed. When I take a look at the build that it generates for an ASP.NET application, I'm not quite sure the best way to actually deploy that build to some server. A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions multiply the entire array items in one step

  I would like to know if there is a more rapid way to multiply an array with a number in Visual Basic than the one presented below. I haven't found much on vectors in the help and seems that the only possible way would be to use the matrix class.   e.g.  {1,3,4}*2 = {2,6,8} I know this way to do that looping through the array: Dim a() As Integer = {1, 2, 3, 4} Dim b As Integer = 2 Dim c As I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 Beta and 90-Day Trial CDs are no good

  Several weeks back I recieved my VS 2005 Beta CDs. I put them in my CD-ROM reader and nothing happened. Absolutely nothing. I took these CDs to other computers that I have and also computers that my friends have. Not a single computer could read any of the CDs Microsoft sent me. I just passed it off as bad CDs.   Yesterday I recieved my copy of VS 2005 Pro 90-Day trial. Guess What Same damn problem. This time in addition to trying them on a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) InnerChannel.SessionId always null on the client proxy

  Hi, I have a simple echo client and service up and running. I'm using wsHttpBinding with reliableSession enabled. I've got a [ServiceContract(Session = true)] attribute on the service interface and a [ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.PerSession)] attribute on the service implementation. On the service side I can easily read the current session id using OperationContext.Current.SessionId, but I can't seem to read it ...Show All

• .NET Development RAISERROR getting ignored

  I am using Visual Web Express's auto generated data table adaptor. In it, it executes a stored procedure on my sql server 2k. The sproc is a transaction that does a simple select, and if a matching row is more than two, it does RAISERROR with severity code of 16. In order to generate SQLException, the severity code must be 12 and up. Unfortunately, the exception is ONLY thrown IF raise error is the first statement. After ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source Code Control - Share

  In VSTS, is there an equivalent to Share available   We have applications which are developed across multiple platforms (web, desktop, mobile) which many of the class files are just shared accross the different project types to allow code reuse. We will have a seperate project for Full Framework and Compact Framework.  ClassA exists in both projects.  If either project makes changes, the other should see those changes.  In V ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions My.Settings Values Read Only

  Hello All, I have a bit of a problem here and I can't seem to figure it out. My project is a Class Library. This Class Library is one project which is part of a larger solution. I have several application settings which are set up as part of the project. Within the Class Library's root class, Application, there are two methods. GetSettings and SaveSettings. GetSettings retreives the My.Settings values and sets them as various property values ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to display MDI-Windows in menu

  Hi! i would like to display my mdi-windows in menu. in VS 2003/ .NET1.1 that was possible with "MdiList = true". do anybody know how to do that in VS 2005/ .NET2.0 thanks jerry On the MenuStrip, there is a property called MdiWindowListItem, you simply set this to the ToolStripMenuItem that you want to contain the window list. ...Show All