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• Visual Studio Team System Can't add domain user to TFS groups

  When I select "Add Windows Users or Groups", it only shows the local machine, I can't browse to the domain, and can't add user in the form "Domain Name\User Name". The machine has already joined to the domain and the current user is the TFS administrator (also Domain Admin). How can I add domain user to TFS groups Thanks! While this may not specifically be your issue, since you have your dc on the same box as the AT I wanted to make sure you were aware that we've seen issues reported where AD was installed AFTER IIS, etc.  We've posted some documentation that says that you should install AD right after the Windows install. marc ...Show All

• Visual C++ Mixing C and C++ MFC

  Hello everyone! I am working on this project where I have to implement a decoder/video player. I have a decoder project written in raw C. It takes an encoded file as input and generates a decoded file. I have another project, a video player, which is an MFC implemented in C++. What I have to do is incorporate these two projects together. I have to decode a single frame and play it on the spot. Anyways, this introduction is just to get you guys in the mood. I already read some articles about mixing C and C++. I am still a newbie in Visual C++, but I pretty much understand whats is a MFC and how it works. Well i managed to fix all the syntax ...Show All

• Visual Basic run-time errors

  Hi there, I am running a program written in Fortran and interfaced with windows with Visual Basic. I have installed in my computer and when I run it I get two kinds of tun-time error. run-time error M6202: MATH - log: SING error run-time error M6201: MATH - log: DOMAIN error Is any one that has an idea what they mean and how I could solve this problems Cheers Andrea Hi Andrea, My guess is that you are trying to evaluate the log of zero. Hope this helps Joao ...Show All

• Architecture Why use an application server?

  My boss wants me to explain to him the advantages of having an application server in our web app. Currently our web app talks directly to SQL Server. What are some of the pros and cons of having an application server in this type of application --SY There are several reasons why you want to separate your User Interface layer (Web) to your Data layer (SQL Server). For example from a scalabiltiy perspective, you could introduce notions of caching and/or you could pool the databases connections so that you can scale out your web farm without increasing the number of connections to the d ...Show All

• SQL Server Building Intelligent applications using SQL Server 2005 Data Mining

  Hello, Are there any samples on Building Intelligent applications using SQL Server 2005 Data Mining uisng Visual Basic.NET, including step-by-step guides   Most of them are in C#.  Besides, the June 2005 CTP does not have tutorials on the said topic. Thanks. I have a question on connection string in ADOMD.NET when using the AdomdConnection object.  Can you use other authentication methods other that Windows to connect to Analysis Services and access the mining models ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS & SAP .Net Connector 2.0

  Hi everybody, i need to write a thesis and I need to integrate data from sap tables into sql server 2005. i got the .net connector to provide an interface. As I am a newbie to all this, could you give me some hints what steps to do next I'd really appreciate it, cause i'm stuck somehow. :-( thanks in advance, mat Hi! As far as I know SAP .NET Connector 2.0 is fully integrated into VS2003. You cannot develop your solution with VS2005 but you can use your VS2003 Libraries. So developing under VS2003 is only nessecary if you want to add new SAP objects to your project. Remember to put the libraries into the ...Show All

• Visual C# mdac version problem

  Ok, so I just installed VC# express and SQL Express... I am setting up a data source for a data grid. The data source is an access database. I get this error: The .Net Framework OleDb Data Provider requires Microsoft Data Access Components(MDAC) version 2.6 or later. Version 2.50.4403.12 was found currently installed. I am running XP Pro SP2 and all WinUpdates. I downloaded and ran Component Checker version 2.0 and it says that all the MDAC files are version 2.7 Refresh or version 2.7 SP1 Refresh. I can't just reinstall MDAC because it was distributed in XP SP2 and it won't run the install because it "knows" that. --> MDAC 2.8 RTM is inco ...Show All

• .NET Development DeSerialization error with strongnamed assemblies

  Using C#, VS 2005 , .Net 2.0 I persist class objects to serialized bin files which is convenient and simple. However, when started compiling with strongnames (ie. using .snk file) I hit a snag. When I change the version number of the assembly and try to deserialize a file that was serialized previously, I get a load error message ("the located assembly manifest definition does not match the assembly reference.") For a simple example, MyApp (version 1.0.0.0) serializes myClass to myClass.bin Then I recompile MyApp with new version number 2.0.0.0 and rerun MyApp. then following produces the error MyApp (version 2.0 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Identifier

  Public Sub () RaiseEvent Button2.Click(TextBox2.Text & TextBox3.Text) End Sub It says i need a identifier before () on Public Sub (), but im not sure wut i need to do. Can someone post the correct code What is you sub called. What its telling you is that you need to give your sub a name. You cant just leave it blank. How would you then be able to refer to this sub Example Public Sub XYZ() RaiseEvent Button2.Click(TextBox2.Text & TextBox3.Text) End Sub ...Show All

• Visual Studio Where did Favorites folders go in Document Explorer v8?

  I'm just getting started with Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0, and I'm wondering what happened to the ability to create folders in the Favorties area of my local MSDN help (Document Explorer). Does anyone know If it has been removed, this is a very very bad usability mistake, IMHO. Anyone agree -Bill B Hello Bill, The Favorites feature in Visual Studio 2005 represents a change over previous versions of VS in that VS Favorites are now separate from IE Favorites.  We heard strongly from customers that they wanted VS & IE Favorites to be separate, so we created the new Favorites toolwindow, which can store links to local ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Worry about LazyLoading

  ForExample if we had a PERSON class with 50 attributeTypes and the class had compositon and aggregation relationships with 10 other classes. How will DLinQ deal with "Lazy Loading" if I only need 2 attributeTypes from PERSON class and 2 more related attributeTypes Can it create an optimized SQL sentence that I get the FASTEST result from my RDBMS Or does it load all the 50 attributeTypes and relations what about the primitive attributeTypes PS: I would be really disappointed if it loads them all without asking the developer... ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL DMO Support in SQL Server 2005...

  Hi,     We have a C++ application that uses the raw SQL DMO COM interfaces to connect to the SQL Server 2000. When this application tries to connect to SQL Server 2005, it failed to connect for obvious reasons. I tried to use the latest SQL DMO interfaces and, to my surprise, in the June CTP, I didn't find any header files that contains the COM interface definitions for the latest SQL DMO. Is this something that MS forgot to include in the install SQLDMO documentation in June CTP says that the SQL DMO header files will be found under 90\Tools\DevTools\Include. I did a complete install of the June CTP and I don' ...Show All

• Visual C# Serial Port Problem

  Hi, I'm trying to read bytes from the serial port using interrupts and the .net framework functions, and came across a strange behaviour. If I have constant data coming into the serial port, there is no problem. But if there is only three bytes coming into the port, I can't read those three bytes !!! Has anyone had this problem How can I fix it !! Thanks, Bruce I found the problem which's interesting. I was writing the incoming data into a text file and didn't close the text file. If the text file is not closed data will be written to the text file by every 4KB! But if you close the text file yo ...Show All

• SQL Server Transactional Replication sp question

  Why in some of the MS generated procs is there a secondary create proc statement I believe it has something to do with primary and foreign keys but it is not consistent accross all tables that have primary keys. I have included the code of one of the procs. create procedure "sp_MSins_AH_MEMBER_ALERTS" @c1 bigint,@c2 smallint,@c3 bigint,@c4 int,@c5 datetime,@c6 datetime,@c7 bit,@c8 uniqueidentifier AS BEGIN insert into "AH_MEMBER_ALERTS"( "id", "company", "account", "alert_id", "start_date", "end_date", "clipboard", "rowguid" ...Show All

• Visual C# Date Validation on a Databound Textbox

  Friends, I am curious if anyone knows a way to pop a validation messagebox based on what is already taking place in a date bound textbox in Visual Studio 2005. What I mean is this...... Yes, I can write a routine to run through the characters and check if it is a valid date but the textbox (and/or bound dataset ) seems to be doing its own validation. If I do not type in a valid date using a /, ., or -, the form simply will not let me advance to the next record using the navigator, which tells me that the textbox or dataset is doing it's own validation WITHOUT me having to write a whole new method to do it. I even checked an invalid lea ...Show All