MWatts's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build SKU Installation

  Hi, Should we install the Team Build SKU from TFSsetup login or Adminsitrator Login Regards Sahil Absolutely correct.  The account installing Team Build must have appropriate administrator privledges to make it work. Using the TFSSERVICE account for the Build service will reduce some of the extra permissions work (with TFS) you would have to do if you used a different account. marc ...Show All

• Visual C# web user control and its files

  I'm creating a web user control (file ascx,ascx.cs e ascx.resx) which is connected to a DB (i have other 2 classes and so 2 other files). 1.Is it correct or is it better to have only one file with all the classes 2.When I use my web user control, have i to copy all the files i used, true THX No, you should put them in 1 project so they will be stored in one DLL. Then you can use then in every project you want by only adding the DL ...Show All

• Visual Studio "Report is being generated" message not showing

  I am retreiving data from Oracle and has about 10 parameters. The report renders ok, but there is no wait message and the nice little green swirl graphic! Any idea Also, how do I show the Print button I set it to true, both declaratively and programmatically to no avail. Thanks! There is a property called ReportViewer.ShowProgress which determines whether the green swirl is displayed. The Print button is not available i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hosting custom user control in a DataGridView

  Hi, I have read the article " How to: Host Controls in Windows Forms DataGridView Cells " , and I don't find how to host my own user control in a DataGridView. I took the above example and changed the base class from DateTimePicker to CheckBoxUserControl in the class CalendarEditingControl.(I also changed all DateTime type to string). CheckBoxUserControl contains a few  common standard checkbox controls that can be re ...Show All

• .NET Development how to save data to the database

  where shall I find simple database application, I had an application it saves data only when it is running and not the database. ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting code page errors....

  I am importing some data from my IBM DB2 Z/OS mainframe to SQL Server 2005 using the SSIS import wizard. The wizard automatically converted the DB2 string data before trying to store it to SQL Server. The code page that the wizard chose to do its conversion is the 1252 Ansi Latin. However, I am getting the following error on the address field...."one or more characters had no match in the target code page". Can someone suggest another ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF performance

  Hello, I tried to compare WCF and TIBCO.Randezvouz performance using simple Order Entry Service. I used netTcpBinding and all defaults. I beleive netTcpBinding should be fastest binding in WCF. Unfortunately, WCF was able to process 2,000,000 orders per second. But TIBCO.Randezvouz received 14,000,000 orders per second. Can somebody help me to improve WCF performance Can I disable security or may be I have to switch to UDP binding We re ...Show All

• Visual C# Run .NET application without framework

  is there any way to run an application with out the .net framework , for example in flash,,, u can make a sqf to be exe and the exe contains the flash player and the swf... so i was wondering if theres any way to insert in my application a framework obviusly not the full version... but i want an app to run without framework :( thx mig16 You can tak ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute Process Task arguments

  We are attempting to use SSIS execute process task. In a cmd.exe session the executable runs with normal arguments: mycmd < myscript.txt > foo.txt 2>error.txt We have attempted to several permutations of this without success. We declared variables and assigned them to stdin, stdout, stderr. However, mycmd opens in the SSIS session as if no arguments have been supplied. Is there some expression that is required to connect the ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to add custom control to Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox?

  Hi all, I am working on a Windows Forms custom control now and I would like to place my control right on the Toolbox window after installation, however, this seems to be a problem now. I notice that EnvDTE and EnvDTE80 namespace and the DTE2 interface seem to provide customization of VS IDE environment, and I tried as follows: 1> Get a DTE2 instance by Activator; 2> Use DTE2.ToolWindows.ToolBox.ToolBoxTabs.Add to add a new tab; 3> ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView crashes the CLR?

  Setting a ListView to virtual mode and then populating Text or SubItems() with strings longer than 260 characters _and_ two quotes crashes my application the hard way - the EXE just shuts down. I suspect some problem in the unmanaged part of the .NET framework, but can't really tell. I reported this bug( ) three days ago already in this forum, but my post vanished for whatever reason. Can anybody reproduce this problem Or know a workaround/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms MaskedTextBox / TextBox (maximum number of chars event) ?

  Hello, I have several forms that use TextBoxes/MakedText boxes for the user input. Both of them only accept a maximum number of chars. Now when I reach the "end" of the text box I need to move to the next one. My question is, is there any event, that handles this Or I have to extend the text box and create a new Event Thanks in advance for any help. Regards Luis de Sousa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Video series: Visual Web Developer for Beginners query

  Hi there does the Video Series: Visual Web Developer for Beginners, show you how to work with classes and methods Also can I run the Visual Web Developer side by side with visuall studio 2003 Thank fc. hi, not the vwd but the visual basic video series that shows you how to work with classes and methods in lessons 5 and 6 regarding to your second question i don't know the answer you might ask that in the express installation forum, ...Show All

• Visual C++ edit & continue

  Hello, I converted all my projects from VC7.0, but in VC8.0 edit & continue don't work anymore. Allways when I try to change code while debugging, independent of my changes, I get the following dialobgox Edit and Continue Edits were made which cannot be compiled Click Edit to fix the code Click Stop to stop debugging Click ignore to continue without applying the edits   Any Ideas Greetings Markus   ...Show All

• .NET Development How to measure the memory pressure?

  I am designing a .Net component that relies some on a quite elaborate cache system. The cache can be regenerated at any time but at great CPU/IO expense. The WeakReference is not enough my own needs because (for example) it cannot take into account the regeneration costs that may vary from a WeakReference to an other. I would like to know how the memory pressure that applies on the current process can be measured in .Net I have seen the method ...Show All