Snetch's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System How do I delete a task?

  In going through the walkthrough, I accidently created a duplicate of a task. Is there some way to delete it ("Delete" doesn't seem to work.) There is no support for deleting work items in TF. You may want to just change the state of the task. If you truly want to delete the task you will have to remove entries from WorkItemsAre, WorkItemsWere, and WorkItemsLongTexts tables in TfsWorkItemTracking database (I am assuming you did not add any links or attachments to the task). -Mohammad ...Show All

• Visual C# Unrecognized configuration section 'connectionStrings'

  Hello ,can someone help me in the following :  I have some pages that have been created with VWD express but when I try to test these pages with Dreamweaver or when I upload these pages on to a Host provider I get the following error message: Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: Unrecognized configuration section 'connectionStrings' Source Error: Line 10: <configuration> Line 11: <appSe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions BindingSource Filtering

  Quick question as I can find very little on the msdn library. clientBindingSource.Filter = String.Format("clientName ='{0}'",txtSearchstring.Text); allows me to filter a full data grid depending on what i type in the txtSearchString Text Box Is there a way to use the BindingSource Filter to search for like terms. Say I enter Paul and it filters all records with clientNames with Paul in it but also shows Paula (similar to a sql statement LIKE) Kind Regards I've answered my own question again but will post for benefit of other people struggling with the syntax. Answer is cl ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) "z-order" control in 2D tree

  I'm developping a graphic interface in WPF which must manage several graphic layers.  I would like to know if it is possible to control the z-order of a 2D graphic component. Exemple:  I draw an Ellipse then a Rectangle with the same position:  the Rectangle is drawn in front of the Ellipse.  How to make so that the Rectangle is drawn behind the Ellipse At least for WPF 1.0 all we have is child ordering.  In your case if they were both children of the same Canvas the one that is later in the child list is drawn over the one that is earlier.  To change the Z order, change the c ...Show All

• Visual C++ OpenMP And Profile-Guided Optimization

  " fatal error C1310: profile guided optimizations are not available with OpenMP " Are they not available together I think it is a big flaw. Anybody who would use OpenMP wants to optimize the code as much as possible PGO would be very useful to him, I wonder why they are not compatible PS. I am using Beta 2, my code wouldn't compile before Beta when I used PGO, and now I know why. Hi Damon, Unfortunately profile guided optimization is not available with OpenMP in Visual Studio 2005. We will look into adding this support in a subsequent release. Thanks, -- Boris Jabes, Visual C++ Team This post is provid ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading/writing from a text file at a specific location

  Hey everyone. Im tying to write/read from a specfic point in a text file. Basically i have groups of data in my file, each with its own heading. I want to be able to look up a particular heading and write/read from that point. Currently i have code that will find the heading in my file (using InStr method) and will read from that point but it reads everything from that heading to the end of the file whereas i want it to stop at the next heading. My file looks something like this: Heading1 Data1 Data2 Data3 Heading2 Data1 Data2 Data3 etc... Each data line under each heading represents something that will be lo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Save a new File with a VSTO Solution

  Hi everybody, I have a problem with my VSTO solution, but it's not easy to describe it. A VSTO solution is always connect to one word file (doc or dot). New the user works with this file and makes some changes to the file and stuff. Now he want's to save the file. But I don't want him to overwrite the document he is working on. So he needs to save it as a new file. This isn't realy the problem. But when you start the new createt file it trys also to load the atached dll. But it should only be a simple word document without an actionspane or anything else. So how can I save a normal word file form a VSTO project. So when star ...Show All

• Architecture The AdventureWorks Database Diagram Sucks!

  Hi Architects and Data Modelers, Although this database may be big leap forward from the Northwind database, how much thought (do you think) was put into the schema 1. Who was the consulting company that created this 2. Does it follow all of the rules of normalization 3. Which normalization rules does it break 4. Do you like how the natural keys were derived 5. Do you wish they used more surrogate or natural keys 6. Do you like their choice of modeling notation 7. Have you found any differences in the downloadable HTML schema and the real database While perusing the diagram, I noticed many possible design flaws. The diagram is availabl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Caching Methods

  Hello, Which caching ways do you use Should we store in memory.. or in hard disk I will cache tons of data. so I think the best is to store in hardDisk. But Should I use Serializing the class or storing the data into dataset. what do u think Doga, It is rather difficult to answer your question without knowing some details about your implementation. Books have been written on the topic of caching and serialization. Each applies to a particular situation and constraints, such as type of application (ASP.NET 2.0, distributed app vs local app, etc), performance, available storage (RAM or/and HD), type and size of data being cached&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions pragmas in Visual C++ 2005 Express Ed

  Can you please post/send me a complete listing of the compiler's pragma information I gathered from the online community what the meaning of pragma once was. I saw other pragma directives in the fstream header file and had questions about them: #pragma pack ( push ,_CRT_PACKING) #pragma warning ( push ,3) #pragma warning ( disable : 4127) #pragma warning ( push ) #pragma warning ( disable : 6237 6239) #pragma warning ( pop ) #pragma warning ( push ) #pragma warning ( disable : 6240) #pragma warning ( pop ) and so on and so on. Please respond with a complete description of Microsoft ...Show All

• .NET Development Bug in MsDataSetGenerator when using empty typed elements?

  Hi, Take the following XML file: < xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " > < root >     < object name = " foo " > bar </ object >     < object name = " bar " /> </ root > Now use the "Create Schema" command from the VS.NET 2005 IDE.  This creates the following (valid) schema: < xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " > < xs:schema attributeFormDefault = " unqualified " elementFormDefault = " qualified " xmlns:xs = " http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema " >   < xs:element name = " root " >     & ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Developing Composite Activity

    Hello, I want to develope a composite activity with an invokemethod and an eventsink. This will use a correlation parameter and my idea it's to set the parameter on the first activity to use it on the second one... How do I develop an activity like this Is there any examples   Regards, M The Expense Reporting sample at http://www.windowsworkflow.net/downloads  has a composite activity that includes eventsink and invokemethod activities.    James Conard | Group Manager - Enterprise & App Server Evangelism | http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon | http://www.W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF command line checkin

  I am trying to update our old vss command line scripts to be used with Team Foundation Server. I have successfully tested the tf get , tf label and tf checkout commands. However when I run the tf checkin command it returns 'No files checked in' I am using this command line: tf checkin /comment:"Doing a new build" /override:"Build process commandline checkin" /noprompt On the screen I am seeing the check in policies that are not being meet (in yellow), then a line saying policies have been overriden (in blue) then 'No files checked in'. If I just type tf checkin and go through the GUI the files are checked in. Am I missing something or is ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamic loading of a file

  I've been told by Kirk that it is possible to load a file whose metadata is unknown at design-time by using bulk insert along with a file (not a flat file) connection. He didn't elaborate though. Can anyone explain -Jamie Hi Kirk. Any guidance then on how to use SSIS to export a dynamic collection of tables as flat files. I used a foreach loop and a user variable to set the file name, the first table works fine but then it fails on the second because the column mappings are not being dynamically set in the dataflow task. Alex ...Show All

• .NET Development XML document Need Help

  I just couldn't find the best way to do this. I 'm using xml as the error log. WHenever except has been catch, it will log to xml file. However, I just couldn't find the way how to do it. As currently, I always get overwrite the current xml file. DOes any one know how to keep adding new entry to xml file instead of overwritten the current Could you please provides an example. Thanks..and appreciates Something like: Dim doc As New XmlDocument Try     If File.Exists(Application.StartupPath & "\ error .xml") Then         doc.Load(Application.StartupPath & "\ ...Show All