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• Visual Studio Team System Vssconverter migration on Dual Server setup question

  I have successfully run a  VSSConverter Analysis on the VSS branch I want to import into TFS. No when I try and run the VssConverter Migrate command, I'm getting the following error: Initializing... TF60022:  Unable to connect to Microsoft SQL Server. In the settings.xml I have specified the AppServer name when it asks for the TeamFoundationServer name in the 'Settings' section. Where do I need to specify the DataServer name ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) PointToScreen/PointToClient Question

  Ho do I implement 'PointToScreen' like functionality I know how to do that from within mouse event handlers by using GetPosition(Inputelement), but in general case is there any reusable function, which would do that Thanks Look in VisualTreeHelper, there are methods for getting transformations from one element to another. Then you can use the transformation to transform a point, rect, or other shap ...Show All

• Visual Studio How do I test for empty properties set on the command line?

  Given the following project I would always expect to get an output of Test = Test. However, if you run it with /p:Test = you will find that you get an output of Test =. Somehow '$(Test)' == '' is neither true nor false. How do I trap this condition or is it a bug in MSBuild <Project xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003 " DefaultTarget="Build"> <PropertyGroup> <Test Condition = &quo ...Show All

• SQL Server Transformation in Data Flow Task

  Hey, In DTS it is possible to use ActveX script to identify transformation for every row such as (for example) splitting, replacing characters and so on. I have script(very complicated and written in VB) and I'd like to use it in Data Flow Task. What should I use and how Thanks. It doesn't really work that way any more. You need to add input columns to be used, and new output columns using the Script Task e ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System To detect value of CommandType

  "Use CommandType.StoredProcedure instead of CommandType.Text" Can FxCop be used for this @ IL there seems to no difference for StoredProcedure / TableDirect / Text. What makes you say there seems to be no difference The following method: public void StoredProcedure() {     SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand();     command.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure; } & ...Show All

• Visual C# ListView Items

  Can someone tell me how to check for double items in a ListView inside a button Click event How do you mean Items that contain a value which converts to double More than one item selected More than one item the same ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Is msgrp2p.xml necessary for both users?

  According to the document,"Both computers must have a copy of MSGRP2P.xml in the Messenger program directory. ",whereas when I was testing the sample of "Tic Tac Toe" with my friend who had not MSGRP2P.xml in the installing folder ,everything  went well. That is,I set up a web site in my PC using IIS for the "Tictactoe.htm" and copy the MSGRP2P.xml (edited correctly) to MSN Messenger's installing folder.Then I invite one o ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem inserting data in SQL express

  Hello everybody I'm working with a database and trying to add data to the database with the next stameny: INSERT INTO table VALUES ('value1') but the result of doing this, even with the Management studio, is the value value1 with one space at the end. It is like 'value1 ' Any clue Thank you very much and greetings from spain. Santiago Hi, Most likely your field declared as CHAR(7), not VARC ...Show All

• Visual C# Killing main thread from another thread?

  I'm making a game where i have several threads, one mainthread that renders the game. Then i've added one for collision-detection, one for mousemovements and one for keyboardstrokes. The problem is that i want to close my game by hitting the escapebutton but since keyboardstrokes is handled in the keyboardthread i can't shut down the main thread. How can i do this. Right now the shutdownfunction looks like this: if (state[ Key .Es ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Access VBA and detecting when the form changes records

  Just trying to find what function is called, i.e. where can I put code that will be run each time a form changes from record to record. It doesnt seem to be Form_Load... Also this form is using a Tab Control. Thanks Phil Hi Phillipe, You are looking for Form_Current , this fires each time that you move between records. If you want to do something to the record ...Show All

• Visual Studio Getting files by label failure - VSS 2005 beta (8.0.50215.44)

  Hi, I'm trying to get files by label and get this error: " SourceSafe was unable to finish writing a file... "  I work with VS2005(beta), and the VSS database is on the shared location in the internal network. When I ran "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\analyze.exe" -F -V3 -D " \\myserver\vss\data ", I've got following messages (many of them): "A timestamp in the log for .... is out of sequence" "There is a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel BeforeRightClick TransparentProxy

  When VSTO was in Beta 2 the Excel "BeforeRightClick" event handler would receive an instance of an Excel.Range type.   Now, instead of the range it receives a Transparent Proxy that consequently causes my Application.Intersect() method invokation to fail ( "No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))" ).   I'm not sure where the Transparent Proxy came from, it was not in the Beta 2 code, ...Show All

• .NET Development Request Simple DB in XML

  Hi, i need little help. I have field : hardware_ids / pc_name / nick / type_ban Fields Properties : hardware_ids : Char 50 pc_name : Char 20 nick : Char 15 type_ban : Char 1 I need Function for Insert data in XML File and Function for Search value by Field hardware_ids in XML File and Return in ListView or DataGrid. Any can help me Thank you, guys. You should use the System.Data.DataSet class which can persist it's contents to an ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get a enumeration of all textbox or other input fields

  I want to disable or make all input field read at runtime... What is the best way THANKS Peter You need to do this recursively ... in other words, if your control is a tab control, then you need to iterate through each of *it's* controls. ...Show All

• .NET Development Data Access Layer; how-to use List<> collection obj. w/o reference to specific type

  Here's my scenario: 1. I have a DAL 2. In my DAL, I want ONE function that will transform an ADOReader resultset into a strong data entity object that I will call an Info entity (e.g. WorkerInfo). My info entity contains only properties, and each field of each row of my Reader will provide the content for the property attributes of my object. 3. I can do this easily for each of my different data entities, but I don't want to have to cre ...Show All