Bill_C's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System MSF ALONE FOR CMMI

  What is the best Tool set for using with MSF for adopting CMMI Level 2   Muhammad Ali Inayat wrote: Hi As you mentioned that MSF for CMMI enbales orginization for Level 3 ,but what about if some one is going for Level-2. 1- The MSF for CMMI  bypasses Level-2 Req or 2- The MSF for CMMI includes guidence for Level 2. When your organization achieves Maturity Level (ML) 3, you are considered to have achieved ML2 as well. If ...Show All

• Visual Basic Protecting a document without screwing up the vb code.

  hi, I'm creating a template which has to be protected, but each time I try to protect the document the code gets screwed up. Assuming that I use a password (eg Blue) and only protect the forms, how can I alter my macro (below) so that it unprotects the document, inputs the information I ask it to, then reprotect the doc. Sub autoopen() ' ' autoopen Macro ' Macro recorded 07/04/2006 by XXX ' Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:=&q ...Show All

• SQL Server Formatting labels in chart

  Hello, I have one report with chart. And labels of X axis at this chart are too long. How can I format them to show, for example, only 3 first symbols of titles As far as I understand, to solve this problem I should use Format property. But I know only about formatting date and numbers, not strings. Can you help me Thank you. I have a similar problem. The labels are little too long and are shown alternatively on 2 different lines. ...Show All

• SQL Server Threading in Custom Components and Script Components

  Ok so its reall easy to use threading in .net. But what about doing it properly especially in SSIS. The following are my questions, Are there any implications of adding rows to a buffer from multiple threads How can the script components be written to close any spawned threads when running in Dtexec. It seems that only the top level thread is aborted leaving spawned threads running Is this an issue with dtexec Which of the core components use ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datasources - Optimize

  We are using vS 2005 RC.  We have a lot of SQL tables in a particular database.  As a result we find that the Datasources window may take quite a little while to load.  Just wondering if this is something indigenous to Release Candidate.  Is this something that will be better optimized in the final Hi, you could this report to Microsoft Product Feedback Center as a suggestion to speed this ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to get rid of warning LNK4086?

  Dear developers: We are developing an agent which runs in embeded system. We compile the project in Windows, using MS compiler, then modify the header of generated binaries of Apps and DLLs, to comply with the executable file format spec in our embeded system. The problem is, we use __cdecl for all functions, include exported DLL entries, and there are warning LNK4086 when compiling the project in Windows. The warning itself is proper, and harml ...Show All

• .NET Development Test form is only available...

  I want to be able to give someone an HTTP link to test a web service I have set up on my computer so he can see the output I am providing. When I test the link with "localhost" as part of the link, everything is fine. When I place my IP address in the link that I give to the other guy, I get a message saying that: "The test form is only available for requests from the local machine." How can I allow the user to use a br ...Show All

• Windows Forms Eventlog problem

  Why do i get this problem when i'm trying to write to the eventlog The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( MyLog) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display&nb ...Show All

• .NET Development Quiting remoting client causes error: System.AccessViolationException

  I am experimenting with .net remoting and have written and tried a couple test applications but all of the same problem.When I quit the client I get the following exception.System.AccessViolationException was unhandled Message="Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." Source="System" StackTrace: at System.Net.UnsafeNclNativeMethods.OSSOCK.WSAGetOverlappedResult ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting User full name from Active Directory

  How can i get a givven username full name from the active directory Can u give me an example I would visit this link: http://geekswithblogs.net/mhamilton/archive/2005/12/11/62815.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't find Team Explorer

  I have VS Team Edition for Software Architects installed and want to connect it to Team Foundation Server, but cannot find any menu command to do so. The help system says to go to Tools > Connect to Team Foundation Server... but I do not have that menu command. Is there some magic I have to do to "enable" the Team System functionality after installation I have tried going to "Tools > Customize" and trying to add the command, but ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListViewSubItem does not get update when modify?

  When I try to change text in ListViewSubItem, it's does not get update listview. How do I fix it  Thx You can call the Invalidate function of the ListView, so it redraws the contents. Let me know if it helped, Jan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is that a bug with VSTS Beta2-"Error loading symbols"

  Hi, while opening .Coverage file generated by system during Test Project,it shows message that "Error loading symbols" is that a bug with VSTS Beta2 or something else needs to do to open it. Regards vikas Can you give more details about what you are doing in the VS IDE when you get this Is this a dialog that pops up or an error message in the test run window What kind of a project are you testing Such a dialog generally only appears when t ...Show All

• Visual C# passing a reference to data from unmanaged C++ to managed C#

  that would mean that the struct would be copied right i would like to avoid that because the size of the data buffer is very large.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions enter key on textbox to run button click event????

  hi people, i am completely stuck trying to get the enter key to submit a search query after typing in a textbox. please help!!! it sounds such a simple and obvious thing to do, its in software everywhere but for the life of me i can't find a simple answer for a newbie like myself to absorb. here's the scenario in pseudo code... private sub searchBtn_click... here's my working search code - reading contents from textbox1, activate ...Show All