Severcool's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Review - CCMI Process Improvement

  Process Guidance\Supporting Files\Concepts.htm Is "etangible" a new word or just a spelling error   Process Guidance\Supporting Files\Tester.htm Second sentence should have “testers” as possessive (tester’s).   Process Guidance\Supporting Files\Sponsor.htm Last sentence should have “there” instead of “their”.   Process Guidance\Supporting Files\DevelopmentManager.htm Third sentence should have “advocates for” ...Show All

• SQL Server DATEDIFF in Report Builder

  I'm having a bit of trouble with the DATEDIFF function in my Report Model project and in Report Builder. I am trying to create a new Expression field that will work out a persons age from the current date and their Date of Birth, here is the formula that I have entered, DATEDIFF("y", NOW(), DOB) where DOB is the field that holds the persons date of birth in the database. When I enter this into the formula box and click OK i get the following e ...Show All

• Visual Studio Howto determine the startup form of a project?

  I'm trying to figure out which form is the startup form for a WinForms project. Ive looked for some property in the project or the VB file itself and neither one seems to know the answer. More specifically, I'm looking at the Properties collection of the project and the projectitems objects using the DTE. Obviously I'm missing it here. Where can I look to find this information Thanks Bill Would this work ...Show All

• Visual C# Formating question

  Hi, all. I have a wee problem with string.Format. I'd like to write something like int data = 10; string formatedData = string.Format("Data = {{0}}", data); Console.WriteLine(formatedData); and have it output Data = {10} It doesn't of course, because string.Format is getting confused by the nested braces. Instead it outputs Data = {0} How do I best achieve my desired formating Regards, Angus ...Show All

• Windows Forms No-Touch Deployment - Who is using it?

  Hi all, My company is writing an enterprise app and we are strongly considering no-touch forms for the workhorse parts of it.  I am curious about how prevelent the no-touch approach is becoming. Are people seeing a lot of interest in no-touch    ...Show All

• SQL Server How to open a SSIS solution with broken Data Sources in less than 20 minutes?

  How can I open an SSIS solution with broken Data Sources in less than 20 minutes Is there a way to open a package with broken Data Source links without validating the entire package first If I open the solution and double click on the first DTS package, the SSIS environment 1) brings up box describing all the data source connection strings that don't match the data source connection strings in the solution, 2) the cursor stays as the pointer w ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista [invokeWorkflowActivity] How to get the property value

  How to get a value of the property (Activity) by the InvokeworkflowActivity InvokeWorkflowActivity class has GetValue method that allows you to access to the value of the designated DependencyProperty of the activity. Would you think that it's doable in your scenario Thanks Kazu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is Visual Studio ProjectAggregator?

  Hello everybody, I noted CTP3 setup installs two additional components. First is SMO (but why "Collections" ), but what is "Visual Studio ProjectAggregator" Paolo - I'm sure one of the developers could give a more detailed answer, but the ProjectAggregator, as I understand it, is a piece of VisualStudio framework that is used by the Database Project (.dbproj) to provide some standard proj ...Show All

• .NET Development Spring Framework in .Net Framework?!

  Hi Does Microsoft .Net Team think of Spring Framework as a good design framework If not, do MS have its own road map If yes, will .Net Framework 3.0 have an implementation (namespace) on the IoC Thanks for your reply! The System.ComponentModel namespace does define some IoC classes/interfaces such as IComponent/Component, ISite, IServiceContainer/ServiceContainer and IServiceProvider (which is in System). These are used to supp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Some reports are not being updated

  I'm not sure if this is a problem with my environment, or a misunderstanding on my part.  A couple of the reports are not being updated -- for example, the Builds report never shows anything, even though I've run several builds on the build server.  I'm also not seeing anything other than "zeros" in the Bug Rate report, even though I've created and resolved a couple of bugs. The only Error in the Application log is below, but ...Show All

• SQL Server Need help normalizing multivalue column

  Hi! I have a table with the following columns: account_nr, account_totaling_members, account_type the account_totaling_members column contains a pipe sperated list of accounts in a varchar: "1001|1002|1003" I need to normalize this so that i get records like: "10", "1001", "sum" "10", "1001", "sum" "10", "1002", "sum" . ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with XMLSerializer in .NET 2.0

  We use the XMLSerializer to serialize a class hierarchy. This works fine in .NET 1.1 but in .NET 2.0 beta 2 I am getting the following error message: "If one class in the class hierarchy uses explicit sequencing feature (Order), then its base class and all derived classes have to do the same." This message is actually from the most inner exception. The 15 or so nested "outer" exceptions reported the following. "System.InvalidOpera ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Delphi 7 Vs VB.Net

  Dear Frd, I have not any idea abt Delphi7 but I want to use Delphi7 DLL in VB.Net as per requirement. In this DLL there is a Function that return four different types of values ( like int, int, int, Pchar) and take 11 input parameters. Please help me asap that How to use this DLL in VB.Net This is a .NET Compact Framework forum. Assuming you realised that, you can’t. NETCF development can only be done with C# and VB. Fo ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do I set an initial dock bar state?

  I have a MFC application that uses docking control bars. It looks great once you postion all the bars and use the SaveBarState() and LoadBarState() functions. However, when the app is first run on a PC (or if I manually delete the saved registry info), the bars come up docked in undesired positions. My question is thus; Is there a way to control the default control bar docking such that I can program in a reasonable default state that can the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Best Practice for Implmenting a Custom Contact Form Outlook 2003 VSTO 2005

  Thought I would try rewording my first post. I would like to add a few fields to a default Contact Form for Outlook without rebuilding an entire WinForm to replace the default Contact form. Ideally I want to develop an Add-in that would create a new folder for contacts, and then use a new customized form to collect the Contact information. Nothing very fancy, just a modified version of the deault contacts form. I have been able to add a toolbar ...Show All