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• .NET Development confused by generic methods

  Hi, in the code sample that follows how do i get from the MethodInfo object given the variable name 'method' in main (this method takes a string as its parameter) to the MethodInfo object that took the generic parameter in the class MyGeneric (i.e. the MethodINfo that originally described the method) I would guess by using MethodInfo.GetGenericMethodDefintion() but is says this isn't allowed due top the state of the object. I think i would be nearer to understanding my problem if i knew why IsGenericMethod is returning false below when i think it should be true... (IsGenericMethodDefiniton is also false). thanks in advance, c ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Microsoft Device Emulator Community Preview - Won't Start

  Windows 2000 SP4 I have installed the Microsoft Device Emulator Community Preview, with ActiveSync, but am unable to get it to Cold Boot. The furthest it gets is the emulator window with skin launches and then I get an error "DeviceEmulator..exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created." Even with the /c option, I am not provided with any debug information. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Respectfully, Gary This is really starting to frustrate me. This is my third day working on ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums What version of Team System do EmpowerISV members get?

  Current MSDN Universal subscribers get a free upgrade to their choice of one of the Team editions of Visual Studio 2005 when its released.  What about current EmpowerISV members   And what will future members get   I'm planning on joining the program, but I want to be sure I know what my team will be  getting long-term, especially as it relates to Visual Studio Team System. Hi Tim Do you remember who you spoke to at MSDN   As I've spoken with a number of people who just transfer me around an are clueless when it comes to Empower. Would you be able to PM me with the comfirmation email ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server - Administration

  I have finally managed to install the TFS on a single machine - I followed step by step all the instructions and the installation was successful. However, in Start/Programs there was no entry added so I don't know how to administer it. I looked at some webcasts and it seems as though you do the administration through some (Share Point) web pages. Where do I point my IE for that page And also, is there something extra that I need to do to get that TFS in the menu Thank you Buck, After a while I realized that the first obstacle we must overcome is to get the VS 2005 Team Suite (on the client side) to connect t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What about the C# testers

  As a Lone QA team member VSTS 2005 is going solve a lot of issues and bridge a gap between QA and development. I currently run Manual Tests and my current methodology can be applied to VSTS. The area which has intreged me is Web Tests in VSTS. However, as I will be testing C# applications Web Tests are of little help. Can this kind of testing be applied to C# Solutions in VSTS or do I need third-party tools Can someone at least point me in the right direction TIA Please see the following post for a discussion on this topic: http://forums.microsoft.co ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can you provide input to AddProjectDependencyAction without a wizard?

  I would like to use the AddProjectDependencyAction but I do not want to gather the project input information from the user through a wizard.  I am able to derive the project names as strings in the recipe but the Action wants EnvDTE.Project types as input.  I attempted to use the ProjectConverter but have been unsuccessful. Is it possible to convert a string argument into a EnvDTE.Project Argument and then pass that to the AddProjectDependencyAction You can pass the hardcoded string using a value provider, and use the ProjectConverter class. This class converts a "virtual" path to ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem with LRC-Checksum

  Hello, I try to get an LRC-Checksum (XOR of each string) of the following hex 41 30 31 54 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 30 39 39 34 35 30 30 03  and my result is 05 which seems to be wrong. I calculate it with string GetChecksum( string sentence) { // Loop through all chars to get a checksum //char Character; int Checksum=0; foreach ( char Character in sentence) { // XOR the checksum with this character's value Checksum = Checksum ^ Convert .ToByte(Character); } // Return the checksum formatted as a two-character hexadecimal return Checksum.ToString( "X2" ); } This string will be sent over RS232 to anot ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error in VS2005 Workflow Designer after fresh install of Beta 1.2

  I am using VS2005 Pro RTM.  I have installed WinFX SDK and Workflow Beta 1.2 (everything is the current, latest version).  When I try to create a new project, or open an existing sample, I get the error listed below: Warning 1 Method 'ElementRemoved' in type 'TypeProviderHost' from assembly 'Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' does not have an implementation. This is the error shown on the designer surface: One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while ot ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.tbl_tmp_security_identities'.

  Every hour I get Event ID 3017 with an detailed error message of Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_tbl_tmp_security_identities'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.tbl_tmp_security_identities'. and 3058 with detailed message of: Detailed Message: TF50642: A problem occurred updating the Identity Administrators (with SID S-1-5-32-544) What is causing this Hi Joel, What version is this. There was a bug fixed for RTM that took care of this problem possibly. Thanks, Brad ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView Select Sometimes Fails

  We have C# 2005 multi-threaded app. A background thread is processing data and periodically updating the contents of a ListView. Sometimes, the user clicking on a ListView item will not select the item (in the MouseClick event, ListView.SelectedItems.Count = 0). Initially we assumed it was because the background thread was in the process of updating the ListView. However, breaking on the first line of the MouseClick event reveals that the background thread is sleeping (although perhaps with the timing of the debugger, the background thread is still the culprit). What could cause clicking on a ListView item to not select the item ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Add Record

  I'm able to display data from my database with this code but can't add a new record. What am I doing wrong Dim MyConn As New OleDb.OleDbConnection( "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|\db.mdb" ) Dim MyComm As OleDb.OleDbCommand Dim strSQL As String MyConn.Open() strSQL = "INSERT INTO [Names] (LastName, FirstName) VALUES ('" & LastNameTextBox.Text & "','" & FirstNameTextBox.Text & "' )" MyComm = New OleDb.OleDbCommand(strSQL, MyConn) MyComm.ExecuteNonQuery() MyConn.Close() Are you getting an except ...Show All

• SQL Server Poor performance import text file

  Hi, I'm very new at SSIS.  I've got a package to import a 1,000,000 row tab delimited text file into my SQL2005 database.  Using SSIS with a Text File source and OLE DB PROVIDER target it crawls.  I do have it skipping error rows but that is the only logic I am using.  No indexes on the table either.  This is pretty basic and it takes SSIS 1.5 hours, DTS blows this away...  Assuming this is not something outside of SSIS(like the network, or a user locking issue), what I am I doing wrong BTW -- I'm searching for some batch commit sizes, like in DTS, but I cannot find them. Any ideas. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form not accepting keyboard input

  I've created a .net usercontrol and placed it on a .net form in a class library. Then I created a class called UI and added a method "ShowMyForm" which displays the form using a .show. I'm registering it with COM and calling it from VB6. Everything works properly except the form does not accept keyboard input when called using CreateObject() from VB. It does however work properly when using straight .NET Any thoughts Here's the code to make it more clear: In .NET class MyUI Public Function ShowUploadFileUI( ByVal sDatabase As String , ByVal sProfile As String ) As Boolean Dim f As New frmUploadF ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Seperation of Team Foundation Server and Windows SharePoint Services

  Hi, We currently use Trial version of TFS. Is there any way to seperate Team Foundation Server and Windows SharePoint Services We have a companywide Sharepoint Server and we want TFS to create our Project Portals under that Sharepoint Server rather than Sharepoint Services on its Application Tier. Is there any way to make this seperation happen Or is it currently tightly integrated Ertobias. Ertobias, We are definitely looking into this now. We might release a whitepaper on this, but certainly we are looking into a solution for our next update. marc ...Show All

• Visual C# System.Web.HttpResponse.WriteFile ?

  Hopefully I have put this question in the right forum. Nevertheless, here is my question. I have developed a portal that uses forms authentication. The login page looks at LDAP to Authenticate and Authorize users. However, I have a lot of static pages that I have to protect such as .pdf, .xls, .mdb, and .htm. I have done some research and found out that you can use a dll file called aspnet_isapi.ddl in IIS to make people authenticate. But there are a lot of files I have to protect. So I went to a few forums and found this: System.Web.HttpResponse.WriteFile strFileName = Server.MapPath("protected.pdf.resources") strFileI ...Show All