Akif's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Can't Install TFS RC on a Domain Controller???

  We can no longer install TFS (RC) on a domain controller This worked in earlier betas and CTP versions. But now I'm told with the installer that this is not a supported configuration, yet the installation guide talks about installing on a DC. I wasted all this time setting up the DC system and get to the point of running TFS install and am told I can no longer do this I've seen Microsoft respondents in the past indicate that you can install on a DC in these forums. What is going on here This is annoying. Due to the issues involved in installing and setting up TFS to work on a Domain Controller, we ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Achieving image transparency

  Hello I have a close buttom image with the yellow background. I want to apply this image on a window with various colour themes at the same time maintaining the transparency of the image. That is, I dont want the yellow colour to show up on the window. I tried playing with opacity mask of the controls. But not able to achieve. Any ideas Your question isn't clear to me. :-) You are saying that you have an image file that has yellow built into it or are you saying: that you have an image file that has transparency and you are seeing problems, etc... A little xaml example and a more concrete description of the details wo ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Increase Speed of a Word Macro

  I have written a macro in MS-Word for formatting of documents. It finds the carriage Return character and replaces it with Null. For a 60 page document the macro takes approx 1 hour to complete. I have tried following options 1. Increase Virtual Memory 2. Increase RAM from 512 Mb to 1024 Mb. 3. Turned Off Spell Check and Grammar Check. but nothing has helped. Can anyone please tell me how to increase the speed and decrease the execution time of the macro. The key to this is that it is not just relacing "^p", because if the "^p" is proceded by "." then it leave it alone... I think the answer might be to: ...Show All

• SQL Server Visual Basic application return connection timed out

  We are using SQL Server 2000 in my company. My software development team has developed an application. We encouter problem whereby sometime all the clients' application return connection timed out. We have wireless client as well as wired client. But, the problem occurs the wired client also faced the same problem. We checked the sqlserver task manager when the problem occured but found that CPU and RAM usage are normal. CPU is around 40% sometime. We also performed a check on network connectivity between the SQL Server and the wired client and it is very good. We have been trying to check what went wrong but really get out of idea ...Show All

• SQL Server populating numbers instead of description in performance objects

  In performance monitor, if i try to add counters, in the performance object combo, it shows numbers instead of description. Did you ever find a solution to this problem I am experiencing the same issue and I can't find the solution anywhere. ...Show All

• Visual C# Why all these get/set-methods instead of public variables?

  I've started to use classes to structure up my programs and all tutorials i've read says that i should do like this: class Spelare {    float positionX;    public Spelare()    {       positionX = 100f;    }    public float PosX    {       get       {           return positionX;        }        set       { &nb ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Persistence & tracking in beta 2.2

  I have created a simple application with 1 code activity, one delay and another code activity, in that order. If i'm enabling both the tracking and persistence, my workflow stops at unload If one if disabled, the other works just fine. Any ideas why this might happen Are you using a shared database Is the app hosted in ASP.NET or a win form app Can you post your code for creating the runtime and adding the tracking and persistence services ...Show All

• .NET Development StreamReader-> Search And Modify inside textfile

  Hi there, I need some help pertaining to a text file. No use explaining, I'll do it as I go along. Here is an example of my text file: Sasko Sam Seedloaf 800gr [6.86] #3## Elite Gouda Cheese 500gr [32.90] #5## Wholegrain [5.00] #6## Wholewheat [6.00] #7## Coke [7.00] #0## If i break it down, using the first line as an example, each line contains: A product: "Sasko Sam Seedloaf 800gr" A price: "6.86" A quantity "3". I am using a groupbox, with all the product names loaded into it so I have the string to search for. I want to modify the quantity value. So for example, I need to be able t ...Show All

• Windows Forms is digit

  what function can i use in C# to tell if a variable is a number if you want to check for a single character then you can easily use char .IsDigit(character); function otherwise i created a function for you which lets you check for a string also. public bool isDigit( string s) { try { double .Parse(s); return true ; } catch { return false ; } } ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 2 events at once

  I'm creating a simple, old, black and white tennis game for practice. I've created an event handler for 9 keys - 2 for moving 2 paddles up, 2 for moving them down, 2 for left and 2 for right. I also have an Enter key that starts the ball moving. The problem is that when I press Enter, none of my other keys work, until the ball goes off the screen. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this If you provide mode detail, someone might be able to provide some guidance. I'll assume this is a WinForms application. What event are you subscribing to to handle the keys, KeyDown, KeyUp, or KeyPress What is the c ...Show All

• Visual C# Conditional Compilation

  Hi! Does anybody knows if there is a way to have conditional compileation in C# 1.1 I have a class file shared (using source safe) between a vs2003 and a vs2005. So far I managed to use only .net 1.1 compatible code, but know I want to add a few lines that will apply only when the class is used by the vs2005 project. For instance: string a = "string a"; string b = "string b"; #compile the following only on VS2005 string c = "string c"; #end Hi Dimitris – Since the file is in SourceSafe, why not do a branch ...Show All

• Windows Forms Delegate/Event string length?

  Hi.   I am using the .NET 2.0 functionality for dealing with safe cross threading calls to a Windows form control, the documentation gives an awesome example using the InvokeRequired method etc...  ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_fxmclictl/html/138f38b6-1099-4fd5-910c-390b41cbad35.htm   Just ran into a problem! If i have a string whose length is more than 64 characters long, I get an argumentOutOfRangeException. Is this a limitation How can I set the text of a control (label for example) using the thread safe calling of which the text is larger than 64 characters Is it possible ...Show All

• .NET Development Could someone tell me detailly how the Website work in ASP.NET ?

    I am using ASP.NET to develop web app, but I don't know clearly how the web app works properly with IIS or something Hi, Read the following MSDN article completely. The working of ASP.NET is explained clearly after the first half of the article. http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/articles/fundamentals/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/internals.asp Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Promoted Transaction Timeout

  Setup: I have a client and a server connected via .NET Remoting. Framework version 2.0, applications are running under a debugger on the local machine. MSDTC has been tested to be working fine both locally and with a development server. Scenario: At the client I start a transaction via TransactionScope. At the server I wish to integrate into that transaction, so to promote the transaction to a distributed transaction (e.g. MSDTC vs. STM) I sent it to the server. The act of serializing the transaction (Transaction.Current) appears to promote the transaction. This musch works just fine. The transaction is promoted and made the ambient transact ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA Compatibility and creating EXEs

  I have an excel project (2002, VB version 5.0) that has lots of sheets, forms and code.  I just downloaded Visual Basic Express and discovered that it couldn't import my VBA exported forms.  If i wanted to create an EXE from this application down the road, does a migration path exist, or would i have to rewrite everything from scratch Hi, I think this article has the information you want: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOExcelVBAMigration.asp Excel VBA to Visual Studio Tools for Office Migration -brenda ( ...Show All