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• Visual Studio Team System I cant not find Web Test, Load Test options in VSTS. How to look for the same?

  I have tried hard after loading the VSTS, but could not find the Web Test and Load Test options when i treid to add a new test in the application. What I could see is just Unit test and Ordered test. Next is ... Our organisation wants to go for VSTS as according to them, this would have to have a centrailised repository of the scripts. My question is: 1) Whether VSTS is a better solution for the testers than any mercury or Rational Robot product 2) Should we totally go and rely on VSTS for all types of testing that we do with other tools. Would VSTS give us complete solution with all extended features of testing as adding GUI po ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activity Properties

  hi all, i know that i can bind activity properties to workflow properties using the designer; but is it also possible to bind activity properties to properties of other activities and: is it possible to bind activity properties not to a certain activity but to the parent activity’s properties if you know something, please tell me. :-) thanks in advance, regards, .k Yes, you can bind an activity property to another activity property, this is one of the very powerful features of WF. In Beta1, you used to be able to use "Parent" for the identifier before the path, but this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems Connecting To An Access Database

  Hello All, I am having some problems connecting to an Access Database and I have NO idea what could be wrong with my connection string. Would someone be kind enough to explain what is going on here please The database is an Access 2003 Database saved in Access 2000 format. I am using the connection builder to help format my connection string correctly. It is a secure database using an MDW file called Accounting.mdw. I can log on to the database from Access with my user ID and password just fine, no problem. I have included my code and the connection string built by the connection builder. The error I receive is "Could Not Find Insta ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net 2.0 release version breaks VS 2005b2?

  I have just upgraded my .Net frameworks to 2.0 release version, and in the process, I had to uninstall the previous beta version and also some other stuff like the compact framework. Now, Visual Studio beta2 is not launching anymore. Is this a known issue With kind regards. I guess it is now. The express edition of C# won't install if the release .Net framework is installed. I hope this is addressed soon. regards, Alan. ...Show All

• Visual C# tlbimp.exe problems

  Hello I'm working with Visual Studio Net 2.0. I have a C# with ASP-NET and a MFC-Com interface. Now, i have a problem with my assembly file. Microsoft has a workaround in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814721/en-us . If i use this workaround, he can't compile my webside net 2.0 anymore, because he doesn't know the namespace. If i use Visual Studio Net 2005 to load the dll, he can compile the project, but i get the 'System.Reflection.TargetParameterCountException' Error. My command is: tlbimp.exe tournet.exe /asmversion:1.00 /transform:dispret /out:Interop.tournetexe.dll. Do anybody know the standard parameter for the tlbimp.exe. t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using WWF to model and support "Tech Trees" in RTS games

  Just put this blog post up. It has a broader scope than just games, but its always more fun to see a code example with the target being a game than with the target being a boring business process. Nice post. Can you please us WF as an abreviation for Windows Workflow Foundation instead of WWF ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Implicit parameters in lambda expressions

  Consider v.FindAll(x => x > 5) We could use an implicit parameter in order to supress the parameter list. So we need a keyword to refer to the undeclared parameter, for instance "it" or "_1". The previous code would be equivalent to: v.FindAll( => it > 5) or mayby: v.FindAll( it > 5) For an unnamed second parameter we could use it2 or _2 etc. Is there any problem with this new simplification   Potentially variable name collision (this is why "yield" is not a keyword) ambiguity between immediate expression "it > 5" and proposed lambda expression "it > 5" In general, I think ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Studio 2005 Pro Ed. Cannot do a Release Build - solution

  Whew, thanks Neil! I did select the VB Profile - is that what disabled the Config Mgr by default Now I get to ask the question that brought me to this thread in the first place. Feel free to tell me to post another topic if that's appropriate. I have three projects in my solution. Sometimes when I set a breakpoint in one of the projects, the breakpoint indicator "ghosts" (for lack of a better term) and I see a tooltip that says (words to the effect) "this BP will never be reached because symbols haven't been loaded for this project." I could understand this behavior if that project was a Release build, but they're all Debug builds, so I'm p ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help me designer has Bugs bugs bugs

  For some reason whenever I use certain controls in Visual Studio 2005 the designer will not reload the form and I get Initialization errors in the designer. Ive downloaded the TaskVision app to see if it was something that I was doing, but I am unable to view any complex forms in that project either.. One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes. The designer cannot process the code at line 58, please see the Task List for details. The code within the method 'InitializeCompone ...Show All

• SQL Server Drop a Role in Report Sever

  I create a new Role "TestRole"under Security/ Roles in the Report Server. I i want to drop this Role, i get the Error that the Role does not exist But the Role exist !! Anyone can help For UI operations, please post to SQL Server Tools General . Thanks Laurentiu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. CreateFontResource/AddFontResorce issue

  I use the CreateScalableFontResource (et al) API calls to make use of a font that I distribute with some of my games that are in C++ (not using DirectX) so I am familiar with how it works. However, when I try to do the same thing in C# with Managed DirectX, it doesn't work. I am not sure if the issue is on the C# (.Net) side or with the Managed DirectX code. The function all execute successfully, but when I attempt to create a font using the name of the new font, it doesn't find it and uses an existing font. If I manually install the font file, then it is recognized, so the code using the font is working. It seems that Windows is not b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Format phone number

  Hello, I have a text field where the user types in a telephone number. When the user is done typing the number and the text field loses its focus I need to take whatever the user typed and format it to a standard format. i.e. ###-###-#### If a user types 1234567890  I need it to change to 123-456-7890.  Any ideas on how to do this or examples Thanks! You want to create a control based on the textbox ( or add an event handler for lose focus in your main code ) and then reformat the string there.   ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Microsoft.CompactFramework.Design.Data

  Does enyone know what assembly shoud I reference for the clases in the "Microsoft.CompactFramework.Design.Data" namespace I'm interested in this because I wanted to extend the typed dataset clases generated for compact framework projects and used System.Data.Design.TypedDatasetGenerator class, but I found out that the code is incompatible with CF 2.0 . So I'm now considering to use the same generator that VS 2005 uses for Typed DataSets for CF Tks P.S. I'm using the VSIP SDK for the "Custom Tool" that extends the standard typed datasets Hi, The assembly is in <VS 8 Insta ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions simple VBS dos/console application req .NET FW2?

  Hello, I wrote a simple exe file in VB Express and apparently when you run the exe in a dos box (on a Win2003 server) it prompts that it requires .NET Framework 2.xxxx. Ain't that mainly for the GUI stuff And is there a way to compile that file to an non-.NET exe but still being fully working the only thing it does it read out the active directory and save the data to a file (even when I comment out all the fso & ldap stuff it prompts that .net requirement) Hi! If you develop in .NET Framework - you must install it on client machines. This is not about GUI only, this is about whole program ru ...Show All

• SQL Server Which method should I choose?!

  Greetings SSIS friends I want to implement the following query using SSIS Data flow Source component : SELECT * FROM someTable WHERE someColumn = 'H' How do I restrict the data coming from my data source By that I mean how do I apply the WHERE clause in SSIS ! Should I use a conditional Split component ! but that would mean retrieving all records first then adding the split component (not the most efficient method surely). Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Hi Jamie, You've done it again. You've exposed me for what I am - SSIS newbie Thanks once again. I have another question. I have been asked ...Show All