Paul Mestemaker - MSFT's Q&A profile

• SQL Server getting depedency list from sysdepends

  Hi,  i am trying to find the list of dependent object for stored prcedure. I am not able to locate depenedency for sp that has temp table in sql statement. i am trying to explain the scenerio by following examples e.g--use northwind Create proc testabc as BEGIN create table #emp(fname varchar(50)) insert into #emp select firstname from employees select * from #emp drop table #emp END in above procedure employees table is used, but sp_depends didnot return any dependency.     2 example  use northwind Create proc testabc2 as BEGIN select firstname into #emp  from ...Show All

• Windows Forms Textbox control focus

  On a form's load I set focus to a textbox by using the focus() method.  Now when the form loads it sets the focus to the first item in the tab order instead. Any ideas DeanRIowa Please use Select instead. The difference between Focus and Select is that Focus is a more low-level method that directly uses Windows functions to send the WM_FOCUS message to a control. This will not always work, for instance in the Load function, since CanFocus will return false there. CanFocus directly checks the IsWindowVisible and IsWindowEnabled functions, while CanSelect checks the Control.Enabled and Control.Vi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista EventHandler won't fire in state machine when calling event from host

  Hi, I have written a simple state machine which is very similar to the order example comes with WWF Jan Lab Beta 2. I created the following service public class NavigationService : INavigationService { public event EventHandler < NavigationEventArgs > StartPageStart; public void RaiseStartPageStartEvent( Guid instanceId) { if (StartPageStart != null ) //StartPage is null when host calling RaiseStartPageStartEvent { StartPageStart( null , new NavigationEventArgs (instanceId)); } } In the state workflow, I have bound the "InterfaceType" and "EventName ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF42057: build request is not from the configured team foundation server

  Hi, I installed TFSBuild on the application tier of my team foundation server. When I try to execute a build, I receive the following error: "TF42057: The build request is not from the configured Team Foundation Server. Please contact your Team Foundation Server administrator for help." This occurs whether I do it from the VS2005 IDE or if I log in to the application tier and run it from the command line. I took the steps outlined by Kishore to turn on logging and restarted the service, but nothing is showing up in the logs. Thoughts Each build machine is only allowed to "talk" to one TFS - an attempt to start a bu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA2223: Members should differ by more than return type

  With the introduction of generics it is possible to have different type parameters and the same "normal" parameters. This scenario is perfectly plausible, and in my opinion not a violation of this rule, though the rule is still violated by Visual Studio Team System Beta 2. I take it this rule wasn't updated to the .NET 2.0 standard. Is this problem fixed in the final release of Visual Studio Team System Developer/Test editions I don't like putting 16 or so System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage attributes in my code. Thank you for your response. As for rule CA1004, this rule is very hard to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Multi-monitor Visual Studio 2005 bug?

  Hello, i use visual studio 2005 in a 3 monitor setup having VS 2005 spread across 2 of the 3 monitors (monitors #1 and #3).  I keep the solutions explorer and the properties window on the far left monitor (#1) while leaving the main window on the center monitor (#3).  When i open the application designer and drop a few objects onto the surface i can no longer address the windows on the left monitor (#1) with the mouse.  The windows no longer respond to clicks (for activation or selection).  Choosing view->solutions explorer will activate the window but it doesnt respond to the mouse or keystrokes.  The m ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF/Caching/Static Data Members

  I am interested in some information on Caching and WCF I saw this post http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=354795&SiteID=1 which referenced this blog http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2006/01/23/516041.aspx We are in the process of designing a WCF service that will be hosted in IIS and and will be accessible through an ASP.NET application using HTTP and also a smart client that will use some other protocol for faster access. We have some rather large static data that I would like to cache at the WCF service level to prevent hitting the Database repeatedly. With the understanding that I am hostin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Fail Team Project creation

  After installing TFS Beta 3, everything seems ok. Can connect to it, manage it, etc. However I cannot create projects sucessfully. When I try to I get this (excerpt from log): Event Description: TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at TEAMSYS1 Exception Details: The Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at TEAMSYS1. The reason for the failed connection cannot be determined at this time. Because the connection failed, the wizard was not able to ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is there a message to diabled the group-box control and all the controls in it?

  SendMessage(attGroup,UINT Msg,WPARAM wParam,LPARAM lParam); Is there a Msg that would diable all the controls in the group Also, I looked all over the net but I can't find the Message for groupControl that I can send to diable or enable it, and change the caption, during runtime. Can someone direct me to the right place for this on the net or just give me an example on how this is done will be greatly appreciated. This is very confusing. I'm having problem finding the "Disabled" message for all the controls I have in that group, like, radio buttons, Edit Control(textbox).... Ho can one make the controls on/off Disabled ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Meet the MSN Messenger Team at the PDC (9/12 to 9/16)

  If you are attending the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles this week, you can meet members of the MSN Messenger Team. MSN Messenger has a demo station in the Microsoft pavillion.  Stop by and say, "Hi". Attend the COM301 breakout session on Wednesday, Sept 14,  at 1:45pm -  Room 406 AB, to learn the details of building an Activity API application. "Ask the Experts" on Thursday, Sept 15, from 5:30pm to 9:00pm.  Drop by our discussion table to talk about the Activity API or anything else about MSN Messenger you care to discuss. Daily Hands on Lab - Come to the Hands on Lab area ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How the change in the data of Cube will be reflected?

  Hi, All I have created one Cube and generated reports in SQL SERVER 2005. Now I have done sone changes in the the tables of Data source view of the cube. But it is not reflecting in the data of Cube. I have used proccessing the cube but its showing error while running. Please any body help me how the change in data in Table will be reflected in my cube. Is there any method by which the cube will be automatically updated whenever there will be change in the table of data source. Maybe this article can help you http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms244674.aspx ...Show All

• Visual C# Resizing jpg to smaller resolution

  I am not sure whether I should be in C# or C++ perhaps somebody could advise I write in Visual Basic & have an app the I want to allow the user to select some jpg files and have them reduced in resolution As Vb does not have this facility, I was hoping I could get somone to point me in the direction a code example I could utilise in net 2005, (don't yet know how) using C which I could then compile. my app would shell the c app at the appropriate time or a compiled exe that does the following read a text file which has detail re resizing size a list of files to resize with destination folder and name the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Menu items disabled when setting a command

  When I change this:         <MenuItem InputGestureText="Ctrl+N">           <MenuItem.Header>             <AccessText>_New</AccessText>           </MenuItem.Header>         </MenuItem> into this:         <MenuItem Command="New" InputGestureText="Ctrl+N">           <MenuItem.Header>  &nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to detect tab selection changed event in TabControl

  I tried adding handler to handle the click event in the TabControl, it works but only when you use the mouse to select the tab.  Since there are other means to select a tab in a tab control liked using the arrow keys or mouse.  Is there a single event that I can capture for tab selection changed SelectedIndexChanged is  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Orchestration Features

  Hi Gareth, Thanks for your response to the text templating query. Can you please provide an overview of what the is planned to be included in the orchestration feature area Cheers Susan As program manager specifying these features, Gareth asked me to respond to this. We expect that for serious projects there'll be many, many text templates generating even more files. There will likely be dependencies between templates. For example templates can be chained, so that the output of one template may provide the input to another; the order in which templates are applied matters. In addition, the same template ...Show All