Aleksey Tkachenko's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System WebTest - Determining success in code

  I am attempting to get execution results, in code, for a pretty simple web test. Basically, when you run the web test "manually", it will give you a "final result" in the Test Results window. For example, it says Result - Failed Test Name - MyWebTest Project - MyWebTestProject Error Message - 1 primary requests and 0 dependant requests failed. My issue is simply that I want that exact information in code when I turn the web test into a coded web test. I would like to log or email when the test fails. Pretty straight-forward. I have tried hooking into the post Request and post WebTest events, but I don't ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you unbind your datagridview so you can use datagridview.columncount = 0;

  Well the title pretty much says it all but here it is again. How do you unbind your datagridview so you can use datagridview.columncount = 0; Currently if I bind a datagridview and then do another search on a profile and want to refill the grid with different column headers and bound data I can't get rid of the original data, ends up adding new columns to the datagridview with the old columns. datagridview.columncount = 0 seems to only work on unbound data and I'm hoping there is a way to use it on bound data somehow. Thanks in advance. Martin There are two ways you could do this: 1) You ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to create an Icon image file

  Hi team, I have been trying to create an icon file for my new project. But I have been totally unsuccessful and I am confused. Since I have never done this before I must ask the question that is probably obvious to everyone else. What makes an Icon file an Icon I know that it has an extension of .ico but there is more to it than renaming a 32 x 32 pixel bmp to an .ico. Is it the size Some internal header data When I try and add a resource with the type "Icon", I select my image file but it gets imported into the "Images" area and not the one for Icons. I have tried jpg's, bmp's and gifs to to avail. The form ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is VSTT an appropriate choice for our needs?

  Our team is rolling out VSTF to manage our other product group releases/QFE's and we are looking at only minimal testing (really just verification) of those pkgs. So I have a few preliminary q's that don't really seem to be easily answered in the waterfall of documentation on VSTF Is VSTT necessary to run a few basic scripts Are there other tools in the suite with capabilities similar to the web page recorder i.e., Is there a way to quickly record some basic GUI testing Can VSTT be installed on a client, or does it need to run on the actual VSTF server Thanks. I will try to answer: ...Show All

• SQL Server selecting multiple parameters

  hi. i've just started using reporting services and i'm running into a problem. basically i have 3 parameters for filtering the report. now, there are no problems when a user selects 1 parameter. but when a user selects 2 or more, it ignores them. ex. i have these paramters: date, location, name. when a user inputs just the date, then there are no problems. but when the user inputs data for date AND location, my report ignores the parameter for location. i want it to be dynamic wherein the user can select a combination of those 3 parameters (date and location OR date and name, or just date). now, i know my error is in my sql query. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you refresh data bound to a DataGridView

    This should be easy... but I don't know how to do it. I have created a DataSet that is bound to a DataGridView so that the DataGridView displays the data in my DataSet.  If my DataGridView is called dgvStudents, the following code DOES NOT do the job: dgvStudents.Refresh(); I can see the grid itself flash and refresh(), but the data behind the grid is not being refreshed, so new items in the database (added by another process) are not being displayed in the grid. How do you do this   Possibly I should post this as a new thread but I believe I'm running into a similar situat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Exec task with ContinueOnError=true

  I'm using an MSBuild build script as part of a continuous integration scenario. Part of the script is a target that runs unit tests with NUnit, using a batched item group that specifies test assemblies. The target contains an Exec task that runs the test runner application. Since I want to run all of the tests, even if some of them fail, I specify the ContinueOnError option on the Exec task. The problem is that even though some tests fail, MSBuild sets the DOS errorlevel is set to 0 after the build finishes, which screws up the continuous integration server (it thinks the build succeeded). If I change ContinueOnError to false, then it sets ...Show All

• .NET Development The ShowWithOutActivation Property

  I posted this in the VB forum at first but with no joy so I’m hoping some one that uses one of the other .net syntaxes can help me :D I have added the following override to my form but when ever the form opens (or pops up in the bottom right of the screen) it steals the focus away from the main form which the user is typing into, which causes (if they are in a text box for example) all the text in the field to be highlighted (when the form closes again) and if they don’t notice they keep typing and look up to see only the last few words they typed there :( From what I can see the "ShowWithOutActivation" property does not seem ...Show All

• .NET Development Typed DataSet on two different table definitions

  Is is possible for a typed DataSet to update a table whose definition does not exactly match the DataSet, but that should be compatible with it For example: Our Address table originally had these columns: AddressLine1, City, State, Zip and the typed DataSet reflects just these columns. Now the Address table has been updated on the database to have a new column, AddressLine2 (Nullable). The dataset throws an exception when attempting to update stating that AddressLine2 is not in the table. But I don't care. AddressLine2 is nullable so I can safely ignore it. I cannot update the DataSet with the new table definition since I also need ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Only allow upper and lower case letters and backspace

  I am using VB Express. I am trying to allow my textbox to allow only letters and the backspace using the KeyPress Event. My textbook only tells me how to allow only numbers: If (e.keychar < "0" OrElse e.keychar > "9") _ AndAlso e.keychar <> ControlChars.Back Then e.handled = true End IF I need to allow only letters (upper and lower case), and the backspace key. Can some one please help!!!!! Hi there, Have a go at putting this in the KeyPress event and see if it works for you: If (e.KeyChar >= "a" And e.KeyChar <= "z") Or (e.KeyChar >= &qu ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Playing WMV10 through DirectShow?

  It appears the default codecs only support up through WMV9 and when playing a WMV10 hd file, they don't fully decode with a DirectShow application. Are there DirectShow filters for WMV10 or is the only option to embed Media Player 10 through its SDK Found it.  It appears the default source filter's merits were some how changed or corrupted and DirectShow was using an older source filter.  Media Player apparently loads this filter specifically.  Re-install of WMP corrected the problem. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook PST file extraction

  Does anyone know how to open outlook pst files and extract the contents to another format.  For example, a database. I need to periodically receive pst files, extract the contents from them and store them in a database. Outlook automation is not the best option because it prompts you to allow anonymous access before letting you process and email.  I would like no use interaction if possible. Hi The automation is the best way at present, what is the email source is this exchange If so you could look at using CDO and or if you need to extract, you can use MSACCESS and import the data from clicking Imp ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to get emulator PPC 2003 SE work in .NET 2005 Beta 2??

  Hello... I hope someone will help me. My problem is as follows .. I create a new device application and try to run in in emulator.. the emulator starts just fine, but it won't connect to it! At all! The error is "Connection failed. Could not connect to network. Verify network configuration" What should I do Thx to every post... :) Install the DMA patch - it solves all connectivity problems related to network configuration. You can download the patch from the MSDN Download Center: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=0E05817F-08D6-48A2-A572-CF77ED72C5BE&displaylang=en Thanks, Vla ...Show All

• .NET Development No longer getting notified of invalid domains after switching to system.net.mail

  When sending mail using the system.web.mail namespace I used to get a reply back from the smtp server if the "To" address was an invalid domain, or an unknown user in a valid domain (See end of post for sample message). I migrated from .net 1.1 to 2.0 beta 2 and I got these notifications as long as I was using the system.web.mail namespace. I recently converted some of my applications to use the system.net.mail namespace and everything works fine, except that invalid domains do not get reported back for some reason. The failure messages used to get reported back to the email address I entered in the "Send non-delivery reports to" field ...Show All

• Visual C++ Console Programs in Visual C++ 2005

  Here's the problem ... with new and frustrating behavior in the 2005 version of Visual C++. In the 2003 version, when Ctrl+F5 is pressed to compile, link and run a simple console program, the compile/link/run sequence takes place and a console window opens to show the running program.This is fine and has worked well for years. Now, all of a sudden, in Visual Studio 2005, when the same sequence is followed, pressing Ctrl+F5 causes the entire screen to go completely blank (and black) and stay that way until the program actually starts to run. In other words, it is impossible to follow the progress of any of the compile, link and run steps ...Show All