RayD - MVP's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Correct steps to add users to team project

  Hi, this may be documented, and if so, I would appreciate your telling me where; to add users to the project so that they can be assigned work items what are the correct steps Thanks, Barton You can find a set of walkthroughs for Team Foundation on the following MSDN page. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms181232(en-us,vs.80).aspx Buck ...Show All

• SQL Server Replication of Great Plains Data

  Hi All, We have the requirement to replicate financial data to Aus from the UK, however I dont know if Replication is the best solution around Reason why I ask this, is that to create the publication, there are in excess of 10000 articles, which takes forever and a day to create, then when setting up the push subscription, this takes equally as long. DB's physically range between 100MB and 2GB. Link to Aus is 2MB E1. The accounts ser ...Show All

• .NET Development Scalable, stand alone database?

  I am developing an application that requires reliable, searchable, and scalable storage for a lot of data. At first it won't be much but, eventually data may surpass 2GB. I need the database to be standalone; I don't want to install a server with my application. Does anyone have any recommendations as to what I should use What does programs like Outlook use to store data (since it can handle well over 2GB of data and it's still searchable) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions gridview selection error

  When I select a record from my gridview I update a detailsview with: DetailsView1.PageIndex = GridView1.SelectedIndex That works fine for all the records on the first page (paging enabled), but if I choose my second page, it selects the data from the first page at the same location. (e.g. page 1 record 1 name = "John" clicking select populates the details view with "John". If I go to page 2 and select the record at th ...Show All

• Visual C++ problems with cstdlib + stdlib.h?

  These errors are stumping me. There seems to be a problem with cstdlib and/or stdlib.h. Has anyone seen these types of errors before I am using Visual Studio 2005. Error 47 error C2873: 'realloc' : symbol cannot be used in a using-declaration c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdlib 26 Error 45 error C2873: 'malloc' : symbol cannot be used in a using-declaration c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\cstdlib ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA2000 Dispose temp resource question

  This is my first foray into code analysis, so please be gentle ;) I have a component that utilizes several performance counters. Upon dragging the counter onto the design surface, the following designer.vb code is generated (pared down for applicability)... Private WithEvents myPerfCounter As System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> _ Private Sub InitializeComponent() Me .myPerfC ...Show All

• Windows Forms problems with mdi form

  as I do to show a mdi form, because every time that I try of the the following error message: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." sorry for my inglish, i'm brasilian. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Builds on Virtual Build Machines

  Hi I was wondering is anyone has set up the Team Build in a virtual environment... The Team Build Server (TBS) would receive all build requests from the Team Foundation Server (TFS). For each build request, its associated build machine is launched using Virtual PC. Once the virtual build machine is up, the TBS would spawn the MSBuild command on the actual virtual machine either through rcmd, rsh or somehow usi ...Show All

• .NET Development Scalable, stand alone database?

  I am developing an application that requires reliable, searchable, and scalable storage for a lot of data. At first it won't be much but, eventually data may surpass 2GB. I need the database to be standalone; I don't want to install a server with my application. Does anyone have any recommendations as to what I should use What does programs like Outlook use to store data (since it can handle well over 2GB of data and it's still searchable) ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to subscribe other users events like check-in

  Hi, I'm using vss 6.0d and develop in c#. I need to monitor other users actions. For instance, how can I know that other user has just checked in file. I need to create simple windows form that show messagebox. Thanks, Eitan. Hi Eitan, I saw your posting and thought I would suggest a look at Microsoft's new, enterprise-ready version control system, Team Foundation Server ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is there anyway to control the animation in code-behind?

  I test it with the following codes: namespace AnimationDemo { /// <summary> /// Interaction logic for Window1.xaml /// </summary> public partial class Window1 : Window { DoubleAnimation _animation = new DoubleAnimation(); Storyboard _myStoryboard = new Storyboard(); public Window1() { InitializeComponent(); _animation.From = 100; _animation.To = 50; _animation.RepeatBehavior = RepeatBehavior.Forever ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting Output Debug screen messages to show on a listbox in windows form

  Hi... How do I get output debug messages generated by the debug mode (ie. Start with debugging) If I can get them, I wish to display them to listbox that I have in the windows form I created. Is there a smarter way other than using the following : lstDebugMessage.Items.Add("Whatever is inside debug message"); Where lstDebugMessage is the listbox I generated in my windows form. Thanks for any ideas! hi try { // ...Show All

• Visual C++ Baby C++ developer needs to know what this commonly recieved exception means:

  I have been seeing this message for as long as I have been using computers...I seem to have generated one of my own now that I am a professional programmer. What causes this Are there, say, 4 common things that do this, and if so, how is it resolved I am looking for a general answer. Here is the exception: Unhandled exception at 0x0051abd1 in Infuzer.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0147ae98. Also, I will note that this part ...Show All

• SQL Server join table udf question

  select a.*, b.* from table1 a join dbo.myTableReturningUdf(a.Col1, a.Col2) b on a.Col1=b.Col1 I am getting this error: Line 3: Incorrect syntax near '.'. It doesn't seem to enjoy the period separating the table alias from column name (a.Col1). Am I not permitted to send to the udf, parms that come from table1 What I am trying to do is match each row in table 1 with mult rows that are returned by myTableReturningUdf - hence the joi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Code coverage analysis fails during build

  Hi, I'm setting up a build server using Team Build. I installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition on the biuld server. Most of the tasks are working well (getting latest version, building the solutions, running unit tests, copying the binaries, etc.). But a task that fails is the code coverage analysis. I got following error message: "Failed to instantiate type "Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestRunConfig, Micros ...Show All