lilixx's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Couldn't add user/group ...

  Couldn't add user/group 'Lastname, Fname (Company/Org)'. It may be in an incorrect domain. Thats the error if I try to add additional Namespace Administrators or to the TFS Everyone  group.  Any reason TFS won't accept commas, forward slashes, parenthesis or @ symbols Hi, I also get this problem. It happens when I try to add a doamin user ( same domain) that has / char in it's caption. The message is: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Interactive Multi Column Sorting question

  I know that you can do interactive multi column sorting, but in what sense   That is, lets say I have a table with a State and a FullName column.  I realize I can set things up so that the user can sort on the state column, or the user can sort on the Fullname column; But is it possible to fix it so the user can sort (interactively) first by State and second by FullName   If so, how does it work   Does the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Extending Microsoft.WebApplication component type

  Hi, I'm trying to extend the built-in Microsoft.WebApplication component type, so I've code an .sdm like this: <Import Alias="WebApp" Name="Microsoft.WebApplication"/> <SystemDefinition Name="CustomWebAppType" Layer="Application" Abstract="true" Extends="WebApp:WebApplication"> <DesignData> <Report Type="Application" ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic 2005 PopUpMenu

  Hi All, I am migrating to VB2005 Express from VB6. My learning curve has, at best, become a circle at points. Luckily I have managed to figure out 95% of my issues & this is just my 2nd question I need to ask. In VB6, we had a command called "PopUpMenu (Object)" In trying to upgrade my VB6 projects, VB2005 has a fit over that command. What is the VB2005 Express equivilant to the "PopUpMenu" Many of my VB6 project ...Show All

• Visual C# Knowing when a control has focus

  Hi howzit I have a panel which displays many different controls after certain user events...i.e. the controls are instantiated and displayed in runmode. How do I know when one of these controls has focus   i.e. how can I create a Enter Event which relates to any control in this panel's collection, so that when a user clicks any of these run time controls, i can run code and get location and size information from this particular contro ...Show All

• Visual Basic Regions bug

  Every day after I’ve been working in the IDE for a while, the collapsed #regions will not open with a single click on the plus sign anymore. Instead it takes 5 to 10 clicks to open them. Actually in different source code files it takes a different number of clicks in order to un-collapse a #region . (but always the same number of clicks within the same source code file) I sure hope this will be fixed soon. It's been doing this ...Show All

• Visual C++ plugin based applications in c++ projects

  Hi friends If i want to code a big project in C++ in VS2005 which road must i follow What do you advice me Especially i want to design it with plugin support.I write it skeleton, then other parts will be plugin or it can be developed by other coders.I want to learn what must i prepare before start coding.How must projects settings be for plugin support or for a such a big project.(For great extensibility) I am looking for your answers.Any ...Show All

• SQL Server Virtual Labs - No Connection message

  A couple of us are trying to use the SQL Server 2005 Virtual labs at http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/  .  We complete all the prelim steps successfully but when we click on "Start the Lab" we get a blank page with "No Connection" in the middle.  The clock ticks and the system thinks we are doing the lab.  How can we get a connection   or is the server down   or are there no available resources left ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Unable to Reference office.dll in VS 2005 project

  I have created an Outlook addin in VS 2003 and wanted to port it over to VS 2005 and .net 2.0; however, I dont seem to be able to reference the office.dll in the project in vs2005. It is properly registered in the GAC and is still visible from VS2003. Even when I point directly to the dll it doesnt seem to recognize it. When I compile the code I get the following error: Error 1 The type 'Microsoft.Office.Core.CommandBars' is defined in an ...Show All

• Windows Forms TreeView Problem

  Hi, I am using a tree view web_ctrl1.0 of net on my aspx page. the tree view control has checkboxes in it as follows: parentnode -> childnode -> subnodes. every node(i.e parent node, child node , sub nodes) has checkboxes in it. my requirement is that when i click on the checkbox on the parent node the child nodes and subsequnetly all sub nodes should be checked automatically. Pl help me in finding solution. thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Delete folder changes check in

  G'day, I was performing delete folder operation within the following sequence (I have C# class library project open in VS and under source code control as prerequisite;the project contains folder Test with files Class1.cs and Class2.cs): Delete folder Test using pop-up menu "Delete" in Solution Explorer The project file is checked out (I have automatic check out on edit enabled, so VS does check out automatically) Now, ...Show All

• SQL Server sql 2005 Error: Unable to read local eventlog (reason: 87).

  on the same machine both 2000 and 2005. 2000 replicate to 2005, then 2005 replicate to 2000. I recieve the above error from 2005 instance. The replicates (both) work fine, but the application EVL is full with this error. Any Ideas Could you please tell me the exact setup that you have Is SQL 2000 a publisher/distributor and SQL 2005 a subscriber which then republishes What kind of replication is this Tran/Snapsh ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) The request for security token has invalid or malformed elements

  (Using the May 2006 version) I'm trying to build up a service that will use federation and an STS, eventualy it will use custom tokens. My needs apear to be quite similar to the "CustomToken" sample, however that same does all the configuration in code rather than in config files. I'm able to call my BizService from my test client when I use (simple) wsHttpBinding, but when I try to get the STS invloved by using wsFederati ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Deployment items in runconfig file

  Hi Is there any way I can dynamically alter the associated deployment files with my test project so that in the case of a 'debug' build, I can copy files from a debug folder and on a release build, deploy files from a release folder Thanks Great!....I've opted for the post-build step idea. Works a treat. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where is "press any key to continue."?

  I create my program by click File - New - Project from existing code. The program I created does not have "Press any key to continue" at the end to accept the key from keyboard. I want to make my program to have "Press any key to continue" at the end without adding any code. What can I do You can't - if you want your program to do something, you need to write the code to do it. Do you need h ...Show All