Jeff Hale's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Divergent build instructions for Formal Team Build

  I want to be able to use some custom settings within .csproj files when doing a formal Team Build but not when developers build in the IDE. So in my .csproj I add a conditional import at the end of the file, which only evaluates to true on the build machine because of an environment variable I have set up: <Import Project="$(SolutionRoot)\Exweb.Settings.targets" Condition=" '$(OfficialBuild)'=='true' " /> However when I run my team build, it is looking for my custom targets file in c:\Exweb.Settings.targets. Inspecting Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets, I would expect $(SolutionRoot) to be the ..\Sourc ...Show All

• .NET Development How to reuse a SSL-Session

  Hello, I connect to a server using ftps (ftp over tls). Both the control-connection and the data-connection shall be encrypted as specified in RFC4217. I use .net 2.0 and the SSLStream to initially establish the control-connection and this works just fine. For transferring any data encrypted using the data-connection i have to resume the SSLSession of the control-connection. The Server does not only support this but also requests this behaviour in order to establish a valid data-connection. My problem is now: how do i set up an encrypted connection that uses an already negotiated SSLSession. I havent found any references about ...Show All

• .NET Development Securing my webservice with Windows authentication

  I have a problem securing my webservice with Windows authentication. The goal is a client app transfering data to a server which is blocked for anonymous requests. To do this, the client app asks the user for credentials, build some NetworkCredential with them & adds them to the CredentialCache. When i look at the iis log, each call to my webmethod appears twice in the log - first try without credentials (which fails with http 401) and then a second one with credentials (which works). As far as i see also the data is transmitted two times... My question: How can the (first) anonymous request be suppressed To make it clear, here is ...Show All

• SQL Server Query Tuning

  I want to take the execution plan of some transact sql queries, I took the execution plan as text based one, that having index scan, index seek Remote scan, remote Update sort order by cluases   in the above clauses what is the high performance, and how will i change to the high performance clauses by changin the query to improve the execution speed of the query   Please guide me       the execution plan is       SELECT [Inventory_Profile].[InventoryID]        ,[Inventory_Profile].[Alias]   &nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Active Directory access in SSIS

  Does anyone have any examples of setting up a connection manager in SSIS to read information from Microsoft Active Directory  I would like to retrieve a list of users and populate them into a SQL Server table. Thanks! Harry  BOL has an example for a script task but it should be fairly straight forward to convert it to a script component.  There is also an OLEDB driver for active directory that should be able to be used directly from the OLEDB source (although I don't know whether anyone has actually tried using it yet). ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/dtsref9/html/a88fefbb-9ea2-4a86-b836-e71315bac68 ...Show All

• Visual Basic System.Nullable Error

  When I run an application from a PC with Visual basic 2005 installed all works fine, but when this is published to a PC without VB installed I get the following error System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'System.Nullable`1<!!0> System.Nullable.FromObject(System.Object)'.    at The Data is selected by using a Stored procedure, and all the rights are correct. Any ideas what is wrong   Many Thanks   Allan Does the PC without VB installed have .NET 2.0 framework installed If  it does have it, it's the RTM version or a Beta ...Show All

• .NET Development access permission probelms. HELP ME!!!

  I have two computers, a desktop and a laptop, both running win xp home. Both are wirlessly enabled and connect wirelessly to the internet through a belkin router. The desktop will happily see the laptop and share files, and everything seems to work just fine. The laptop, however, refuses to see the desktop. I have shared all folders properly, both are part of the same workgroup, and I have run the network set up wizard, and tried to connect using RUN and the IP address. Whenever I try to connect the laptop to the desktop I get the same message; \\... is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Cont ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with Adapter.Update

  I have a datagrid, dataadapter anda dataset. I need to update the database when the user moves to the next row in the datagrid. I have awritten the following code in DataRowChangeEventHandler. But it is not updating my datatbase. Can someone please help me with this   Adapter.Update(ds.GetChanges(),"AllModels"); ds.AcceptChanges(); The event is firing but it is not savin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can I integrate the PSDK (Win32 platform) help?

  I have installed the PSDK but the help is not integrated, so I can't use the F1 key to launch the help for that word. Anyone knows how to do it .   Peter Poirier wrote: Go to this help topic: ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/dv_vsexpcc/local/CollectionManagerExpress.htm There's some checkboxes at the bottom of the topic for your other SDKs.  Click the one for PSDK then click the update button. Thank you very much, Peter! I searched for this everywhere and it was so easy! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF hanging

  When I run "tf.exe" commands that affect my workspace the program hangs indefinitely.  For example, if I run "tf.exe /workspace /server:myserver /comment:myComment" the program just sits.  Now, I did move my workspace recently with some files left checked out.  I don't know whether this may have caused problems.  But I deleted the workspace from another machine. My other machine works fine, however. Inside Visual Studio, the IDE hangs unless I press ALT + F4, which seemingly closes an "invisible window" and gives the IDE focus again. Someone on another newsgroupu suggested it might be a network problem.  I c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I derive from TestContext class and implement from base members

  So, I see a lot of people are looking at this. But no one is responding to it.  It would be great if someone would be able to at least check the answer to verify it.  ---------- Im lazy, and somewhat new to OO. I am attempting to derive trom the TestContext class.  But am not able to use the base class methods when overriding the base class methods... namespace TestPlay{ public class newTestContext : Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting. TestContext {    public override void AddResultFile( string fileName){    throw new Exception ( "The method or operation is not impl ...Show All

• Visual C++ Application works great on development enviornment but fails on any other XP Pro computer....

  Users get the message: "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling your application may fix the problem." Does anyone know how to solve this problem I'd like to make sure my application runs on 98SE, WinXP Pro etc... any help Thanks very much in advance! (MFC but no .NET, and I tried to link everything statically....) build log follows: Creating temporary file "c:\Documents and Settings\Davids\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Blah\ReleaseW2k\RSP00001D49765820.rsp" with contents [ /O2 /Ob1 /D "NDEBUG" /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_BUILDING_ON_WIN2K" /D "_AFXDLL" /GF /FD /EHs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source Control Explorer

  I find the new way of dealing with Source Control in the Source Control Explorer very frustrating.  It seems like another case of the tool dictating how I work, rather then letting me work the way I need to. I want organize and include other files in Source Control in a "Non-Solution" way.  I have Word Documents, Images, Text Documents, Help Files, etc.. that do not belong to a VS Solution, but I want to keep them under version control. In VSS6, it was a simple matter of dragging the files/folders I wanted to keep under version control onto the Tree.  I cannot do that with the SCE. I may want to exclude certain things.  I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Opening forms in Designer View is very slow

  I am working in a project with C++ in Visual Studio .NET 2003. When opening a form in designer view it takes about 5 minutes to see the form. Such a form has about 100 controls, but some (other) big forms are faster. There are also forms which show up a lot faster with also a lot controls, but I haven't found a relationship. What I also& ...Show All

• Visual C++ "no symbols loaded"

  Hey guys, I'm using Visual Studio 2003, and just starting a little review of C++ for a File Structures course. It's been a while since I've used C++, and I've never used Visual Studio. When I push the start button to execute a simple program (even in Release mode) the program immediately closes and I get a horde of "no symbols loaded" errors in the Debug window.  It seems to be trying to load several .dll files, some of which seem fairly irrelevant. For example one of the .dll files it tries to load is part of Google Desktop. I can get the program to execute properly if I use "Start without Debugging", but I don't imagine it's always a ...Show All