Brian Crawford MSFT's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Time Dimension - Attribute Hierarchy

  I have a Time dimension built from Dim_Time Table.Dim_Time table structure as follows : TimeId int]  IDENTITY ( 1 , 1 ) Hour          tinyint Minute       tinyint Second      tinyint TimeId      Hour            Minute           Seconds n              0..23           1..59 & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Source safe and Visual Source Safe - side by side?

  Hi folks, we have some legacy applications that exist in very succesfully working Visual Source Safe database on some server. With our Team Suit trial application we can only see the TFS source safe. Is there any way we can use VS2005 Team Suit Trial to see either TFS source safe or the legacy Visual Source Safe note: we will have seperate solutions to see either one. eg. SolutionA: legacy solution connecting to the legacy vss. this is more projects in 'maintenance mode'. SolutionB: new solution that is a TFS product that uses the TFS server and the TFS source safe. absolutly nothing to do with the legacy VSS. Hi, To be ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Check-in policy results in high use of shelving

  Check-in policies are a great idea. The result is that we need to find an alternative method for backup up developer's work, since they will no longer be able to check-in periodically throughout a day. Shelving appears to be the best option. However, shelving requires creating a shelveset name, and results in multiple versions of files if done daily or even more frequently. Shelved projects can be deleted and a naming convention developed, but the entire process seems potentially unruly. Any recommendations, work around, or thoughts on how to best manage this process with a team Thanks in advance. Mark ...Show All

• Windows Forms Design-time functionality at run-time

  I am trying to find a way to paint a selection border around a control whenever it is active at run-time.  I would like the border to be as similar as possible to the selection frame that is displayed around a selected control at design-time.   The way I am currently doing this is by hooking the MouseDown event of the control.  In&n ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA forms for Excel. Always on top ??

  Hi, it seems that a form is always 'on top', even if  'SHOW MODAL' is set to TRUE. Is there a way to 'send it back' when i click my sheet and then later when i click the form it will be ' on top' again. I tried to work with Z-order but i didn't got that to work. Regards, Michael Thanks.. but not really what i want. When you create the form you can set it to modeless. But ... The form has no minimize button  and is still the foremost window so it's 'blocking' the view of the excel sheet. The user only acesses my form now and then to get some info so it would be nice to be able to minimize it or just ...Show All

• Windows Forms Panel Resize Question

  Hi, I have a user control where I want to have to panels, one docked to left and the other docked to right. I want them to automatically resize their width according to forms size. Since each of them is docked to right or left the width and they should maitain a 50% width each. Simply put two panels on form one on left and one on ri ...Show All

• .NET Development XSD and XS redefine

  Hi,   I 'm having a little difficulty with XSD and using xs:redefine. I have a local XSD schema , which references a remote XSD schema. In my  REMOTE XSD schema I have: -------------- < xs:complexType name ="Block">    < xs:choice minOccurs ="0" maxOccurs ="unbounded">       < xs:element ref ="remote_elt"/>    </ xs:choice > </ xs:complexType > -------------- In my LOCAL XSD schema I have: -------------- < xs:redefine schemaLocation ="remote.xsd">    < xs:complexType name ="Block">     ...Show All

• .NET Development XML multi-users access

  hello All, I'd like to ask about how to create a C# program in order to access one XML via network. I make a program that can let more than one user in a speart machines can read and write in just one XML file. Are there limitations on using XML file and is there XML engin with C# to do that Thank you in advance Razek Razek, The limitations are more or less likely the limitations with a any file. In order to access it, you have to open, read, update and close the file. If two processes act on the same time, one of the processes will not be able to access the file, especially if you are updat ...Show All

• Windows Forms Menu Strip?

  This might be dumb!!!! Is there not existing code or snippet somewhere that I can just past into each toolstrip and menue strip to do " common functions" Like Open, Close, New, Exit, Print Form. etc. I am still new and have looked for days. I have inserted "Common items" but the snippets I seem to have don't work. So far I have found only "me.Close()" Hey at least I can shut ur down when it all screws up.lol Thanks. You have a short cut on the smart tag named Insert Standart Items, it adds the common commands with all the icons (but you need to implement them anyway) ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using Windows icons in applications.

  I'm a bit lost as to the legalities of using Microsoft icons in my application. I want to provide a common user interface like office 2003.  Can I use the icons that are distributed with the Outlook style code sample  Does this cover standard toolbar icons like cut, copy and paste, etc Any help you could provide would be great. Thanks Craig ...Show All

• Visual Basic Detecting installation Complete

  Hi Friends,              I am using the "ShellExecute API" to run a batch file that in turn installs MSDE.I need to determine when the installation that was initiated by the "ShellExecute" API has finished.Can anyone help me with this.Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. SK. Have you considered using the VS Bootstrapper instead to deploy MSDE The bootstrapper is a generic, extensible installation engine that can be configured to deploy an arbitrary sequence of components and applications. You can configure the bootstrapper for MSDE by authoring a fairly straightforw ...Show All

• Windows Forms NotifyIcons and Menus..

  Using Beta2 to create a Windows Form using C#, I'm trying to add a NotifyIcon to a form together with a popup menu.  However, following the simple steps below, I get an error: Add a NotifyIcon to form. Add a ContextMenuStrip to same form, In the properties of the NotifyIcon, try to set the "ContextMenuStrip" property to that of the contextMenuStrip1 created in step 2. I immediately get the following error message: Property Value is Not Valid Object of type 'System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem' cannot be converted to type 'System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip'. It does however look like it is trying to assign the class t ...Show All

• Visual C# Generic: open constructed type vs. instance type

  On the one hand: Given the generic class declaration class List<T> {...} some examples of constructed types are List<T>, List<int> and List<List<string>>. A constructed type that uses one or more type parameters, such as List<T> , is called an open constructed type And on the other hand: The following shows several class declarations along with their instance types: class List<T> {...}       // instance type : List<T> My conclusion: open_constructed_type == instance_type . Is it true Thanks for explanation! So, instance type i ...Show All

• SQL Server Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Trace.TraceServer - Examples ?

  I'm trying to find ANY examples of using the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Trace namespace. What I'm looking for is an example of being able to create and initialise a new trace, haing this processed on the Server, and then initializes some sort of traceReader against this. e.g the equivalent of:    MyTraceConnection = new Something ("localhost");    MyTrace = new SqlTrace (CaptureTSQL || CaptureLogonEvent || CaptureLogoutEvent 0)    MyTrace.Open(MyTraceConnection)    OnTraceEvent (TraceInfo x) {           Console.Writeline ( x.ToString() ) ;   &n ...Show All

• .NET Development Enterprise Library - Exception Handling Block

  Hi All, I am going to use Enterprise library in my application. I want to store the exceptions in a Database and want to modify the error message for the users display. Can anybody help me out on this Thanks in advance. Minor. ...Show All