Michael Wheeler's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Won't check in dot files

  We are using Eclipse for some development and the project has some important hidden dot files (for example ".myfile_properties"). These file hold some properties that are not kept in the source file itself. However, we are not able to add these files to VSS. The client version I am using is 6.0d. I have tried through VSS client and the eclispe plugin. It comes back with an error, 'Invalid SourceSafe syntax: "$/Modified Lawson Source/AMRPGSRC8/.iseries_srcpf_metadata"'. Any ideas Hi Koldark, All these are bugs in VSS 6.0d and older. For me this example doesn't work either: drag and drop file from WinExplorer ...Show All

• Visual Basic Opening

  As you can see from my name, im not great at vb, but ive set a target, and im determined to reach it, my progs gonna be a file organizer First off, i need to now how to use the openfiledialog The above code will open the selected file with a Stream, allowing you to read the content of the file. If you don't need to read the content of the file, you can remove the myStream code and simply use openFileDialog1.FileName to get back the name of the selected file. Best regards, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Opacity and MDI forms

  I cannot get opacity of forms to work when they are an MDI child. It does work with exactly the same settings if they are non MDI child. Do I do something wrong, or is that a limitation Thanks - Thomas We use layered windows to achieve opacity - from MSDN it's noted the layered windows are not supported as child windows. CreateWindowEx Function WS_EX_LAYERED Windows 2000/XP: Creates a layered window . Note that this cannot be used for child windows. Also, this cannot be used if the window has a class style of either CS_OWNDC or CS_CLASSDC. additional material: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/def ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installing TFS on a SharePoint Portal Server 2003

  Heya, I'd like to install TFS on a SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Is this possible at all Do I still need to install Windows SharePoint Services Cheers, Chris Hi, Sharepoint portal server installs Windows Sharepoint Services by default. So you don't have to install it again. But TFS requires wss SP2 to be installed. So you will have to install WSS SP2 before starting the TFS installation. The link for WSS SP2 is : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=9c552114-dc9a-43ee-9281-b080b7c280b4&DisplayLang=en Microsoft has also released SP2 for Sharepoint portal server. Download link ...Show All

• .NET Development set Content-Type-Encoding in System.Net.Mail,MailMessage

  How can I set the Content-Type-Encoding  in a System.Net.Mail.MailMessage There is no Content-Type property on the mail message. You could use AlternateViews. Create an AlternateView and then set the content type on the Alternate View. If you are sending HTML, you could use IsBodyHtml property without having to set the content type. Please tell me exactly what your scenario is ...Show All

• Visual Basic Uneditable combobox

  I want combobox1 to be uneditable while the program is running, so people can only choose things that are in the list, not be able to write in it as well Very easy... Just set the dropdownstyle property to DropDownList and this should give you what you want.       ...Show All

• Visual Studio BUG: Add-In registration in VS2005 Beta 2 still not working

  Hi! I have installed VS2005 Beta 2 (Version 8.0.50215.44) and the latest VS2005 Beta 2 SDK (VSIP) and the registration of addins is still not working!!! The behaviour was already described in this thread "http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=15546#15546". It was announced in this thread that this problem should be solved with an installed VS2005 Beta 2 SDK. But it doesn't work and I have to stop my development after migrating to the Beta 2. Are there any workarounds Does the VS development know this problem Kind regards Sebastian Sebastian, thank you for taking your time to answer! I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal 10 ServicePack3 installation fails

  After successfully installing on my server: 1. CrystalReports10_NET_EmbeddedServerInstall.msi 2. CRRedist2005_x86.msi I went to install SP3 because of: 1.http://support.businessobjects.com/forums/message.asp fid=251&sk=5&ps=25&pn=1&mid=143018 2. ADAPT00353320 The problem is that ServicePack3 won’t install the files giving me the install shield error: 1. "Failed to create backup folder -110" that error shows only once and when I click OK on the message box the installation goes from 1% to 100% in 2 seconds (in other words, nothing gets patched). I really need this SP3 installed as there is a bug that doesn’t allow my applicti ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cannot connect to SQL 2000 from Visual Studio

  When I use the Data Link to connect it bombs out with the admin's password.  If I select the WNT option I get a successful Test Connection but when I continue I get this message: Unable to connect to database. It is only possible to connect to SQL Server Desktop Engine databases and Microsoft Access databases with this version of visual studio.  Not sure what to do.  Any help would be appreciated. If you are using one of the Visual Studio Express Editions then you will not be able to connect to a SQL2000 DB in the Database Explorer.  This feature is by design for the Express SKUs.  Y ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Line breaks

  When I create a label in a form, the next continues and goes out of the form. How do i create line breaks Isn't it /n or /s or something like that a VB line break vbCrLf Example: "Bob" & vbCrLf & "Sally" & vbCrLf & "Biff" ...Show All

• Visual Basic Open presets hyperterminal

  ok, i have a program, that pending on what is done it should open hyperterminal with the following setings Connects to COM port 2 Buad Rate: 1200 Data Bits: 8 Parity: none Stop Bits: 1 Flow Control: None Now i would think that i could just open a hyperterminal presets file. But every thing i have tired i can't seems to open it. a few examples: 1). Shell("C:\BT900.ht", AppWinStyle.NormalFocus, False )   2). Openfiledialog1.filename = "C:\BT900.ht" Openfiledialog1.OpenFile()   Nothing i know of to open or execute a files seems to want to open it. I need some help. Create you Hyperter ...Show All

• SQL Server Update in Sybase 11 Linked Server problem

  When trying to update records in a Sybase 11 ODBC linked server got this error: Server: Msg 7330, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Could not fetch a row from OLE DB provider 'MSDASQL'. OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'MSDASQL' IRowset::GetNextRows returned 0x8001010e]. Thanks for your time. I found that I cannot update rows in Sybase but I can insert new rows. So I’m now inserting rows in a temporary table, this new temp table has a trigger that updates the original table with the inserted data. It is working fine by now. We are migrating the conflict database from Sybase to SQL Server, and in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Opening a Help File from a C# Application

  I'm using C# Express B2, and I am very new to programming. I'm trying to have a help file (.chm) that I created open when the "Contents" option on the "Help" menu is clicked. I have added the help control to the project and set its namespace property to the location of the file. Now I'm stuck; I can't find the exact steps/code I need to make the menu item click actually open the file. How do I tell my application, "When the user clicks the "Contents" option on the "Help" menu, open the file "whatever . chm " Thanks again. That topic was a little beyond my level. What I really want to do is learn the concept ...Show All

• SQL Server How to use sum and count aggregate functions with xml data type in SQL Server 2005

  Hi: I have xml in sql server 2005 beta2 that is stored as an xml data type and I'm trying to run some aggregate functions like count and sum, but I don't know how to do it.  The elements are numeric values, but 'sum' and also 'count' return errors.  I have included the error message and the sp below.  Any ideas how to use sum and count correctly Thanks, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Msg 8117, Level 16, State 1, Procedure get_vID_FormXML_summary, Line 11 Operand data type varchar is invalid for sum aggregate operator. ------------------------------------------------ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Report Generation using FXCOP

  Hi, I had generated xml files using FXCOP for my assemblies. Is it possible to generate a report in the following format. Component/                Naming           Performance  Security  Assembly Name             Viloations        Violations   Violations   etc ... etcc Project1.dll                  & ...Show All