Ben Westbrook - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Question about authentication through VPN??

  Hi, We have some long term contract developers that work for us - we provide them a VPN account to get into our network and I was wondering if that will work the the TFS client   the user logs into their computer using either the domain account or local account (not sure which one) then VPN's to our network - question is, with the TFS integration with AD, does that work through only a VPN connection or does the user "really have to be ...Show All

• Visual C# Another event handling question

  I have the same issue as this guy does: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=127763&SiteID=1 I have searched my local 2005 MSDN here: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_csref/html/804cecb7-62db-4f97-a99f-60975bd59fa1.htm but there was never any usable answer to the question of splitting event handlers into other classes. I have a default Windows App that has a button and text box. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLExpress & Reporting Services

  Hello: I downloaded & installed the latest SQLExpress CTP but I could not find the RS 2005 component. Does SQL Express CTP support RS 2005 or Is this a seperate install Documentations are really confusing. Some say Express supports RS and some say they do not. Thanks -RTU Microsoft decided to include Reporting Services in Express based on customer feedback.  Here is a link that includes a matrix to dif ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to retrieve data from AdventureWoks

  Hi all, I have one question. It looks easy, but, I couldn't figure out the problem. I download and attach the AdventureWorksDB and AdventureWorksDW sample databases. I run the following query to test its functionality. use adventureworks go select * from production.location go and it gives me an error messeges which says: Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Invalid object name 'production.location'. Similar type of query is executed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions .Net Framework 2.0 RC1 (v2.0.50727) Redistributable?

  Does anyone know where I can find (or make) a copy of the .Net Framework 2.0 RC1 (v2.0.50727) redistributable package I have a project that I would like to publish to a Win2k3 Server, but I need the newer framework on that server. Ideas You do know that any applications that you build with the express editions will not run correctly or at all with the RC Build, the express editions are only for the Beta 2 produ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Migrating v1.32 custom rules -> v1.35

  Hi, I've re-built our custom rules in VS2005, having changed the relevant references FxCopSdk and Microsoft.Cci to the new versions found in the relevant VS directory. However, having placed the new assembly in the Rules directory, no rules are visible in the VS2005 FxCop properties page. The assembly is listed, but no rules are. When I've seen this before it's because my rules XML has been malformed. Has anything changed An example rul ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC2005 %50 Slower then VC2003

  I just migrated a graphics application from VC2003 to VC2005.  After building it, I ran a small benchmark & found that VC2005 code was about %50 slower. The Application does a great deal of floating point and integer calculations.  It also converts doubles to int quite a bit (the VC2003 version used SSE to handle this). The VC2003 version used /G7 and /Ow (which are not available in VC2005) Compiler Switches Used: (vc2003)/arch ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can you programmatically checkin a file to source control with a specified date?

  We are looking at importing some RCS based projects into TFS.  We can grab each version and it's history via the command line and then pump each version into TFS.  However the dates in TF won't reflect the actual dates of the checkin in our other version control system.  How would you go about doing this   BTW, in this case the old system never supported branching and we don't care if we lose labels in the transfer.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LinQ with compact framework 2.0

  Hi Is there a way to use LinQ with compact framework Not at this moment, no. We’re considering Linq support for NETCF in future. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums paste values from multiple sheets to another sheet

  Good day, I am brand new to VBA for Excel.I have a workbook with a bunch of different sheets. I have checkbox buttons on one page that will unhide the desired sheets. What I'm having trouble with is getting the code to work that will allow me to: 1) Search specific sheets (most of them - all but 4) for the last row in columns L through O. 2) paste the values in that range to another sheet. 3) on the destination sheet I'd like the ...Show All

• Visual C# Calculating direction from 1 point in a 3d space to another

  I am looking for a way to calculate the direction from one point in a 3d space (xyz) to another point, so I can use that data in Mesh.Intersect(Vector3 rayPos, Vector3 rayDir). The direction parameters are in radians. it's not a bug, when y > 0 it will also return 0 :p but i'm doing it in a different way now, so i dont really need them anymore at the moment.. but i now need matrix to pitch/yaw/roll, lol :p ...Show All

• Visual C++ Connection pointer in ATL with Visual Stadio 2005

  I created a ATL project using wizard, added an "ATL sample object" class supporting connection points. For instance:The library name is TestATL, the object's short name is Test, I got four classes:ITest, _ITestEvents,CTest, CProxy_ITestEvents But I can find tow enties in "Class View": the root node and TestATLLib. I added method for _ITestEvents with wizard displaying after right click the node under the TestATLLi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Shell Extension Context Menu in C# strange error.

  Hi, i'm writing a shell extension in c# that will add two menu's to the right-click menu of explorer. Here is the problem. If i select one file and use the standard OPEN context menu all is well, but if i select two or more files and use the standard OPEN context menu it seems to want to run through the code for MY created menu. Here is the code in question: int IContextMenu.QueryContextMenu(uint hmenu,uint iMenu, int idCmdFirst,int idCmdLast ...Show All

• Visual Basic Com Object Failing on server.createobject

  I am having problems calling a Com object that I created under Visual Studio 2005 with Standard ASP. I registered it using regasm.exe. Below is my code (VB) . I have tried creating the object two ways. What am I doing wrong Server.CreateObject("TestCom2.TestFunction") and Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3' Server.CreateObject Failed /mears/ReadUserCert.asp , line 56 800401f3 Calling this way gives ...Show All

• Visual Basic Which database to use?

  Hi!     I'm building a windows form application in VB.Net 2005.  Its an app that will be for individual users so using something like SQL Server is not an option.  I need something that I can freely distribute with the installation.  My options appear to be MSDE 2000, VS 2005 SQL Server Express Edition and Access.  However, I am not sure that Access is an option (i.e. does the user need to have Access installed ...Show All