fisher_iso's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Access to the VSTS Hosted demos

  I cant get access to the Hosted demos at http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/tryit/hosted/teamsystem/ I get no connection when I try to access any of the virtual Labs. Can anyone help I have not had an answer to this as yet which is a shame. If you try to access the hosted demos now you do at least get a little more information from the help menu if you get 'No connection'. I have passed the information onto our security/firewall team and I hope to get a resolution, but at present they are saying that the connection method cannot be allowed for security reasons and are checking out other potential sol ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF82001: MS Project can't connect to Team Foundation Server

  I have a weird issue. If I right click on a work item and click "open selection in MS Project" the selected work item appears in MS Project. BUT, if I save this file and then open it again I get the error: "TF82001: Cannot connect to the Team Foundation server. Please contact your server administrator." I'm going to reinstall the TFS client again to see if that resolves the issue. Reinstalling the TFS client didn't fix the problem. I don't have the problem in Excel, but I think it might be because Excel was installed before I installed TFS client the first time....MS project was installed after installing TFS client. I also didn't real ...Show All

• SQL Server Testing ODBC connection manager

  I am testing out the ODBC connection manager, as part of my beta testing from my company. I created a new conn manager on the palate (dsn pointing to local  sql server). But I am not sure how this one can be used. I can not use any of the Data flow sources which can use this ODBC connection manager. Using the said conn manager in a Datareader source shows up the error "Can not acquire a managed connection from the run-time connection manager". How do I test out to see that this is working fine From another thread, I see that Demi is using Data Reader along with ADO .NET provider for ODBC. So do I think that the one I am tryin ...Show All

• .NET Development XmlSerializer and MemoryStream: Byte Array has NULL

  I have copied code found in several places that allows me to serialize an object to a string using XmlSerializer and MemoryStreams.  I'm not using StringWriter because I have to use UTF-8 to be compliant with a particular web service to which this XML will be sent. I found that the resulting string had a leading null character and that this prevented deserialization necessary for further manipulation. I do not see the leading null when using a StringWriter instead of MemoryStream, but the resulting XML has a declaration of using UTF-16. I can get rid of the leading null with Substring(1) but that seems weak. I haven't seen any post ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to add a new row as header?

  Hello, I would like to know if is possible to add another row as Header (or as a Footer). for example: Considering Sales of the year as main header and Mounts as sub-headers. Sales 2004       Sales 2005                      <-Main header Jan Feb Mar...   Jan Feb Mar ...                <-Sub header $2  $4   $7       $3   $6  $5      ...Show All

• .NET Development Combobox - ChangeValue status (Possible or NOT)

  Hi, was wondering if someone can help me. I'm building a windows-based app. Is it possible to check if the value of a combobox has changed or not Like, I want to update values, but before the actual update, it must first check to see if the combobox's values has changed or not. Self speaking, if the value hasn't changed, it must by value (X), if the value has changed, it must be value (Y) Please. Thanks SJB You can set a boolean flag on the SelectionChangedEvent of the Combox. And when you start your update procedure, you first check the flag. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Missing assembly information in converted project

  This is a rather weird 'bug'. We upgraded a VS2003 Pocket PC project to VS2005. The conversion process didn't change AssemblyInfo.cs and when we go into the new Assembly Information screen in the project properties we see the settings as we set it. When we change it in that property screen, it does change in AssemblyInfo and vice versa. But when we build the project and have a look at the properties of the executable there is no version info at all. Within the same solution we have a normal desktop application and a pocket pc class library project. Both those projects were converted as well, but on the executable and DLL it builds ther ...Show All

• Visual C# how to know when form lost its focus

  Hi, Is there any way to know when Form lost its focus I have tried Deactivate event but it does not helped me. Thanks in advance One way would be to use the flash functions of the task bar and make it flash like the other apps do. Or use a Tray icon and when ever there is news have a popup rise from the bottom like the MSN Messenger does. ...Show All

• SQL Server Differences between MSDE and SSE2005

  Good Afternoon, Everyone. I know SSE2005 is built on Sql Server 2005 and MSDE was built on Sql Server 2000 so let's not start a thread discussing that. My question is more about the concurrency governor found in MSDE. I've heard people talking about the concurrency governor in MSDE being removed in SSE2005. Instead, performance is limited by the server configuration; one CPU, 1 GB RAM, and a maximum 4GB database. Can anyone confirm this What happens if the server has 2GB of RAM and/or dual processors Will SSE only utilize 1 GB and/or one of the processors Thanks for the help, Scott You assumptio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions permission denied runtime error 70

  I'm writing a program that copies a file over another. Either of the files could be in use at any time by others (momentarily). I want to ensure that I won't get permission denied if one of the files is in use. My thought was a loop that waits for the file(s) to close(if needed), then copies it. How do I check if the file is in use Thanks in advance for your help!   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8tbkaxz5.aspx     ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro FoxPro v9 vs Visual dBASE Plus 2.01 BDE 5.2.02

  Hi there. I just installed a Visual FoxPro 9.0 and started "playing" with it. Tried to create a table - it is straightforward and then a form. It seems to be a rich platform. Something puzzles me though. I do have extensive experience with Visual dBASE PLUS and previous versions in terms of OO language and form/table designer. Thus I am trying to compare. I am attempting to migrate to MS software/platforms wholesale since the dBASE is offering limited options as compared to MS's tools. I am doing C# and Visual FoxPro at the same time. Anyway, So far, after about two hours of playing with FoxPro Form designer I encountered some problems. They ...Show All

• SQL Server how do i have alternative background color

  how do i have alternative background color for tabelrow thanks A short tutorial - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/reportingservicesconditionalformatting.asp Just add an expression to the background color of the detail row: =iif(RowNumber( Nothing ) Mod 2, "WhiteSmoke" , "White" ) ...Show All

• SQL Server SP_help_revlogin

  Dear Folks, I am in the process of migrating side-by-side from 7 to 2005 and I am wondering if the same sp_help_revlogin will work from 7 to 2005. I want to keep the same pwd, sid etc or do I need to use SSIS (Integration Services). Thanks Hmm... I can't find any information on sp_help_revlogin (or sp_helprevlogin) in either 7.0 printed documentation or 2005 online. Is that really a Microsoft stored procedure ...Show All

• Windows Forms Free drag and drop toolstrip

  Dear all, At the moment, toolstrip only support dock Top, Bottom, Left, Right. However, I would like toolstrip can be drag and drop (move) onto any position on form (same Office 2003). I try to some sample code but this source support toolbar not toolstrip so this code not do exactly when i apply on toolstrip. Please help me to resolve my issue. If anybody have some sample code please give me. Thank you very much. Hi BeckKhiem, The functionality you are looking for is in the ToolStripContainer.  1. Add a ToolStripContainer to your form 2. Choose "Dock fill in Form" on the ToolStripContainer T ...Show All

• Windows Forms UserControl question's

  I am a newbie to the .net enviorment and probably have a silly  Can anybody tell me how or if you can create a user control that is backward compatible with 2003 Can I install the 2.0 framework and then use a control made in 2005 How can I deploy anything designed in whidbey   Everything I have tried to run on something other than my  ...Show All