Tara Nerurkar's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Reading appSettings from a custom ControlDesigner

  Just got into making UI designers for custom controls I'm designing in VS 2005; very cool.   Naturally, the controls will be in one assembly and used by other projects, which leads to an important need: to be able for the control's designer to read settings from the main project at design time.   The app.config (or web.config) file is the most obvious place such settings would be saved.   One example of why you might want this is so a designer for, say, a grid control could read a connection string and load sample data so the programmer could work on column widths.   This obviously would not be in the library project; it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Outlook Add-In Sample Code?

  What is the status of the Outlook Add-in sample code for synchronizing TFS Work Item tasks and Outlook tasks Is the sample code in the Oct drop of the VS 2005 SDK Thanks Scott Hmm.  Wherever that info came from, it's not accurate.  The Outlook Starter Kit definitely does not include that functionality, although you could figure out how to do it by looking at the way the OSK interacts with the work item object model. ...Show All

• Architecture Spcification of web services you need from third-party company

  I want third-party company to implement bunch of web services. I wonder what it is the best way to specify them. I can create wsdl for them, is it ok Interoperability is very important because services will run on non-windows machine and clients will run on windows boxes. thanks in advance for any info Pawel, Regardless of whether you are dealing with an external or internal consumer WSDL should be your primary mechanism for exposing the interface into your business logic. You'll want to make sure your adhering to some of the primary tenets for building reusable (SOA style) services (I'm making some assumptions here that you want to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Button Image and Text with OVERLAY puts text BEHIND image

  Maybe I am missing something. I came up with a nice button image graphic, and selected IMAGE and TEXT, and to OVERLAY, and the image COVERED the text. The opposite would in general seem more useful to me. Why would you ever want to have text overlayed that you could never see I tried using background, but of course you can not declare a transparent color, and also it eliminates the image when you mouse over the button. Regardless, is there any way to get my text in front of the image on the button What is the button's FlatStyle set to   Is it FlatStyle.System   I have seen some other posts about graphics and transparency ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Configuring the "UsernameForCertificate" authentication mode

  I want to write a WCF client that authenticates itself to a WCF service using the "UsernameForCertificate" authentication mode (a very simple scenario!). However, I'm having trouble finding the right configuration settings to use for the client and the service. I'm using the September CTP release. I defined the client binding as follows: <wsHttpBinding>     <binding configurationName="myBinding">             <security mode="Message">                   <message&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to set default item in ComboBox

  How can I set a default item as selected in a ComboBox when a form loads I tried adding "this.FilterCostOperatorComboBox.SelectedItem = 2;" to the InitializeComponent function, but when the form loads, the combobox is still blank... I'm writing in C#/VS 2005, if it makes a difference... Gabe Is what is seen in the box numbers Have you set a value for each item Try this, using the index of the box instead.... this.FilterCostOperatorComboBox.SelectedIndex = 0; This will set the box onload to the first item in the list. Zath ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sharing FxCop project

  Hi, I'd like to know if there is a practical way to share an FxCop project between different developers and code reviewers. If you share the project through source safe I guess you would have to chek it out everytime you exclude a message or select/deselect an assembly for analysis and then check it in again for someone else. The goal would be to give all developers the same settings for a particular project, same excluded messages, etc. Any ideas You could argue that what you actually need to do is update to 1.32 (to eliminate the false positive related to the base type extending ApplicationException) and to actually implement the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en' is invalid

  I have installed a RC version of VS Team Suite along with full MSDN installation. After completing installation, I'v got " Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en' is invalid " error when I have tried to access it by doing "Start" -> "All Programs" -> "Microsoft Developer Network" -> "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005" When I accessed it from VS 2005, it only have SQL help available. I have tried to reinstall it several time but no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Eric I have the same results as Pieter, n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployed application breaks when it's auto-updated.

  Based on these two truths: 1) ClickOnce only updates files when their hash has changed; 2) Assembly hash doesn't change when only AssemblyVersion changed; Consider an application that is composed of 2 assemblies: an assembly A that references assembly B. By default the assembly version is  [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")] . If we build, publish and deploy the application, assembly A will reference assembly B with a version (B_V1) and a hash (B_H1). If we update the source code for assembly A and re-publish the application, assembly B will have a new version (B_V2) but still the same hash B-H1 because its souce didn't change. When ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2003 Invisibly steps through dissassembly

  In VS2003, the debugger will stay on the same line for multiple presses of the F10 key, in a pattern consistent with the underliying dissaembly. Toggling the disassembly to visible, the current line moves as would be expected through the disassembly, with I believe the same number of lines/breaks that it takes to go through the code with disassembly toggled off. Is there a way to turn off this behavior I also have VS2005 installed. Thanks. Sounds like you have Step By Instruction turned on somehow. Try the following: Open the Command Window Type >Debug.StepByLine and <enter> N ...Show All

• .NET Development Operator overloading in Collections or Generic Collections

  I think it'd be useful if we could add objects into collections by using mycollection+=mobject; mycollection-=motherobject; instead of mycollection.Add(mobject); mycollection.Remove(motherobject); in generic collections(List<T> etc) it would be useful, too Thank you for the suggestion. You can file a feature request or product suggestion via MSDN Product Feedback: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/ I don't own the collections classes, but I can offer a possible rationale for why operator overloading would not necessarily be helpful. Collection modifications tend ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Reports XI and Visual Studios 2005 Questions?

  OK I have read a lot of post here that lead me to believe CRXI is not compatible with Visual Studio 2005. Or should I say not till CRXI r2 comes out in which case it will support VS2005 .net Framework 2.0. On a Project that is updated to VS2005 from VS2003 and CRXI for the most part went very smooth.   Except and for me this is major CR Version is 10.2.3600.0 in VS2005 where as it was VS2003 it is Version 11.0.3300.0 for me. Ok from all the post I understand this has dumbed down my reports since CRXI is not ready for VS2005 till r2. In the mean time should we just use the dumb down version of our reports I have seen a lot of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office <the system cannot find the reference specified>

  I'm trying to create an application with an Outlook connection. I have Outlook 2003 with the latest service packs, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Tools for Office. Outlook is functioning correctly. I try and add the following COM reference: Microsoft Outlook 11.0 Object library. To do this, I select Add from the References Tab of my Project. I click on the COM tab and locate the Microsoft Outlook 11.0 Object Library and add it to my project. In looking at the references tab, it still states <the system cannot find the reference specified>. I tried browsing to the msoutl.olb manually to add it. I locate it in C:\Program File ...Show All

• Windows Forms Data Binding, Data Modules and designer support

  IDE: MS Visual Studio.NET 2003 Language: C++ . Hello there, I have a data module (assume its a component or a Win Form) that contains a Connection, Data Adapter and a Data Set . Also I have another form that contains a Data Grid . Now, how can I bind my Data Grid to the Data Set which resides on the other form and make it supported by the designer Thanks in advance . What if to make the DataSet public so that it could be accessed from other modules Then you could bind your DataGrid that is located on your form to a table in the DataSet. But I think there is no way to get it supported by the designer. You'll have to w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSF Agile Sample Project Implementation

  Hi, I have gone through the various blogs by rob caron and other MSF ppl and it doesnt seem to provide an exact picture of how to go about creating a project based on MSF agile template. I am able to understand the various "Scenarios, "Activities associated with the scenarios, but following things are not clear 1. How to link the scenarios,activities, workitems... or rather how to create an hierachy for the same 2. How do these actually map to the the differnt "Areas", "Iterations", "Discipline" in the team project 3. How do i put schedule on the work items. Presently the "Details"provides me total work hours . Can we have start date and end ...Show All