Nick Hustak's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Need to install VS 2005 test edition on build server ?

  Hi! When running a build with Loadtests and WebTest, I get the following errors: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v8.0\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets : warning : TestTypes\{37e36796-fb51-4610-8d5c-e00ceaa68b9f} could not be loaded because the TIP could not be instantiated for the following reason(s): Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.LoadTestPackage, Version=8.0.0.0, Cultu ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making another application active

  Can anyone give me a snippet that shows how to make another Application the active one I ran into a snag with my test automation program. Everything is fine if I make it totally passive: run the Application I am testing, then run my program, and finally, make the application active again by clicking on it. When I do this, my app sends keyboard strokes to the program with no problem. But if I need to select an option later on in my te ...Show All

• Visual Basic Bug found in VB.net

  Below is the text a program that contains a very specific bug that I found in VB.NET. It is not present in VB6 but is in VB express edition. The routine shown below determines if the entry in textbox2 is a number. 'value' is the value of the string in textbox2 acquired using the VAL command. 'value' is then compared to the 'textbox2.text' variable directly with an error handler operating to catch a text vs. number comparison error. If the ...Show All

• Visual C# carriage return in a textbox.

  I have a text box that has the AcceptReturns property to true. I am trying to display a text file in this text box, one line at a time with the following code: string line; this .textBoxSettingsFile.Text = ""; // Read and display lines from the file until the end of // the file is reached. while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null ) { this .textBoxSettingsFile.Text = this .textBoxSettingsFile.Text + line + C ...Show All

• Visual C++ Which thread??

  I have an app which is soon to be multithreaded - calling a function with each of n threads (the same function). This is done in a for loop, however when the function is entered I wish to know which thread it is that is entering it, as depending upon the number of the thread I wish to grab different values from a class. Is it possible to pass a value to a function through the thread call i.e. passing the count from the for loop to the function i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Developer enabled

  Why not allow, the users use a control to use the desingher features Hi, I've managed to get the DesignSurface working, including the ISelectionService. But I can't figure out how to disable the DesignSurface on-the-fly... Is it possible to do th ...Show All

• SQL Server will SqlExpress conflict with any programs?

  I need to install a sqlexpress on a company's server computer, but they are worried about whether it will cause any problems they said they got a Exchange Server installed, they wonder if that is gonna cause any problems Personally I never try that, but I dont' think microsoft will let this kind things happen... do anyone can confirm that   Hi Ray, I'm not aware of any conflicts between SQL and Exchange and I did not ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ListView Column Header question

  Hi Just a simple question. In all the examples I have seen in the system help with regard to creating a new column header for my ListView control, the following example format is used in all of the examples I could find: listView1.Columns.Add("Item Column", -2, HorizontalAlignment.Left) Now that is all well and good, but nowhere at all is there an explanation given about the '-2' parameter. It is said to be the initial w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding a Step to MSF Agile?

  I was wondering if it was possible to add custom steps after I export and rename the MSF Agile process Reason being, I would like the Sharepoint site to have some specific permissions. After it's created, I'd like to set authenticated access to be automatically a "reader", so any user on our network can access the project sites to see information about them. Is there any documentation on this I was thinking just of making a .dll ...Show All

• SQL Server problems during the deployment phase

  I used the Business Intelligence Studio to make a report. I also enabled the tcp/ip protocol but during the deployment of the report i get the following error. I can see the report in Preview-Layout mode but i can t run the project. Could you help me Thanks In Advance =================================== A connection could not be made to the report server http://localhost/ReportServer$DVLP002_SQL2005/Reports . (Microsoft Report Desi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel Constants

  Dear all, I can get the maximum limit of Excel (vary on different version) by using, e.g. Rows.Count and Columns.Count), and I'd like to know how I can get the maximum number of character per a formula (E.g. 1024 for Excel 2003), or more generally, how I can get all Excel build-in constants Thanks, AFAIK, it does have a limit (everything have a limit :) For example, we can enter a very very long formula in a Ex ...Show All

• Visual Studio Is it possible to build pre .NET targets with MSBuild?

  Hi, I'm new to MSBuild and I'm wondering if it is able to build pre .NET targets, e.g. VB6, C++6 kind of targets Best regards, Jnvr MSBuild is a multipurpose build engine. Just because it is written in managed code does not mean it has any preference for building managed code. However, that isn't all the story.    -- In Whidbey, MSBuild will only ship with build rules (*.targets files) and tas ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO.Net cannot connect to Access database

  I have a VB .Net Windows application that accesses an Access Database using ADO.Net OleDB .Net Data provider.  It works fine on user's PC who have MS Access installed. However, when I distribute this to a user who does not have MS Access installed, the program cannot open the connection.  It throws an exception with message: No error information available.  Ox800401F9. Are there additional files that I need to include in ...Show All

• Windows Forms Memory footprint!

  Hi I am a product development manager in the UK and we are working on a .NET application.   99% of our product is server side however we have just created a couple of client side "sexy show off apps" - however! - the memory& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions More than one public property thingy? just help me out here

  Hello, I just watched the Oop video from the beginner series to refresh my memory on Classes... Anyhow, I know how to get one "intellisence thingy" (ex. Cars.Model) but how can I "expand" further for example, instead of Cars.Model, can I do something like: Cars.Model.Company.Honda because I have many (a LOT) of controls and they are separated into 14 tab pages. Each has exact same controls and I was going to tr ...Show All