Steve Camsell's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Build and Alerts problem.

  Hello all, I want to incorporate two features of VSTS namely automated builds and Notification on mails. Both of these are possible when client is vs2005 and TFS as server.   In my case, clients have vs2003 and VSS as repository server. I have one extra machine having TFS server setup. One Solution which I can think of is using scheduled task to get the source from VSS and using MSBuild I build it. But problem is of notificati ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 June CTP installation issues

  I recd. a free DVD of SQL Server 2005 June CTP Readiness Kit. To install SQL Server 2005 June CTP, I uninstalled VB 2005 and Visual C# 2005 and .NET framework 2.0 and anyother related software mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;908451 Even after uninstalling the necessary components, I got the error: ***  SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup has detected incompatible beta components from Visual St ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sorry - correction to my previous answer

  hi. i have a solution with 40+ projects in it. allmost every time i add a new project, check out a file or do a 'get latest version' one of the projects gets checked out automatically. (its allways the same project). the output window has a message that says 'project nameOfProjectHere was checked out automatically for editing'. however, nothing has been done to that project. none of the files in the project have been changed for ages. the projec ...Show All

• Visual C# Implicit operator and Generic classes

  I have a highly constrained generic class that I would like to impliment a generic implicit conversion between instances. I can not find any examples, and my lame attempts have not compiled. Is this posible If so, what would be the syntax THX, George I asked a similar question awhile back. Here was the response: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=142213&SiteID=1 Your intent ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to make a non-retangular display?

  I wish to make a non-rectangular display like this Windows Media Player( http://journal.mycom.co.jp/news/2002/09/11/06cl.jpg ), How to do it (I have found some information on the web about WIndows form, but I can't find any for XAML) Thomas I think you posted the wrong blog entry of unni, that one is about panels. ;) http://blogs.msdn.com/unnir/default.aspx The problem with this perpixelopacity is ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smartphone device debugging problem with VS 2005

  I have just setup VS 2005 beta 2 and I'm having trouble debugging native C++ apps on my smartphone device (even the simple one created by the New Project wizard). The error I get is: Unable to start program '%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\TestApp\TestApp.exe'. Operation not supported. Unknown error: 0x89731102. Obviously I can't find any info about error 0x89731102. Now, I can debug on the emulator, both for smartphone and pocket pc, and I can also debu ...Show All

• Visual C# Removing strings in a text file "help"

  I need to know how to remove certain strings in a text file. The text file looks like this below Colt Maximum Steve Entry Cohn Maximum each item is entered an then a new line character is issued. I don't know if a read each one and compare it to the one I want to remove will work. Saying I can compare them how would i go about removing that specific string from the text file Thanks for any responses. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to persists a state machine workflow

  Hi, I need to persist a state machine workflow, but I can’t do it. I have no problems with sequential activity WF, but the same logic is not working with state machine workflows. Can anyone of you explain with some code how I can to persist a state machine workflow, and how can I load the instance from the database later What events do I have to register Is it necessary to call the tryUnload method Thanks What code are you trying ...Show All

• .NET Development Setting Select Command Parameter Values at Design Time

  I am using VS 2005 and have created a new data source from a SQL Server 2005 stored procedure using the TableAdapter Configuration Wizard. The stored procedure has two parameters and I want to set a default value for these at design time. However, when I display the Parameters Collection Editor there is no Value property for me to set. Is there some way to provide a value for these parameters at design time so that I can preview data without ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Code Profiling: .NET Framework Symbols

  Hi, I am using the Performance Tool with VS2005 Team Suite Beta 2. In sampling, you can see in the call tree native dll calls listed like: [ntdll.dll] [kernel32.dll] [mscorjit.dll] [mscoree.dll] I have set my symbol lookup in the Symbols properties of Tools/Options/Debugging to point to http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols. Now I am able to see functions for ntdll.dll and kernel32.dll, etc. So that's cool. Now, I tried also setti ...Show All

• Windows Forms is is the DotNetBar Suite you are referring to :- New control

  The Ribbon Toolbar has been introduced in Office 12 . Would we be able to implement the same in VS 2005. How If not, would it be made available at a later stage. hi, thanx for the info, but does this mean, I have to use the DotNetBar Suite when availalbe as stated at https://www.devcomponents.com/blog/ Please let me know, would this suffice. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Path for temporary files

  How can I change in run-time the path on which Visual FoxPro stores its temporary files from the current specified in the TMPFILES in the CONFIG.FPW to the the temp folder in the local windows directory of any workstation (i.e. C:\windows\temp\,  D:\winnt\tmp\, etc...)   Please, notice there is just a CONFIG.FPW file in the server. More details see functions: SYS(2023), SYS(2019) and GETENV("windir")   ...Show All

• Visual C++ Strange C2664 in Visual Studio 2005 C++ release candidate (v8.0.50727.26)

  I'm converting a project from VS 6.0 SP5 to VS 2005 rc.  I'm getting this really odd C2664 error.  Unfortunately, the project is very complex and I have not yet been able to reproduce this behavior with a simple example.  I can, however, offer proof  of its strangeness:    DBString dbx = m_scCal. operator const DBString();    DBString dby = m_scCal;    DBString dbz = ( const DB ...Show All

• Visual Basic How long a computer is on, and writing after some text

  Well this is a two Q topic. First i want to know if there is any code for getting the time for how long the computer has been on Comptime.. Second how can i input text after some text in textbox For instance button1.click inputs the text "you" into textbox1.text But if the textbox1.text already has some text like "how are" then when button1 is clicked text should be input after "how are" and the text should be "how are you"   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ASP.net passing QueryString for Unit Testing

  Hi, Is there any way to pass Query String Parameters to the URL (ASPX Page) thats being Unit Tested The Query String cannot be part of the UrlToTest attribute as typically these Parameters would be determined at runtime on a previous page before being redirected to the aspx page that would need to be Unit Tested. Any pointers or workaround would be helpful. Thanks, Krishna Hi Krishnaswin, I'm so gl ...Show All