Andris Ažēns's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System How to reference users and groups of a team project in c# code?

  Hello How do I reference a group or a user of a certain team project (or Team Foundation Server)  and get its members in C# code Thanks Daniella Download the extensibility kit from http://www.vsipdev.com/downloads/vssdk2005beta2.aspx  (requires free registration) and look at the Team Foundation Server Object Model document and Services Sample zip to familiarize yourself with the TFS API.  Specifi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Display Files From Directory Faster

  I am using a listView control to display files from a directory on the hard drive. For each file in the list, I need to display the CreationDate the FileName and the FilePath and also the appropriate icon for the filetype. This is the approach I have used so far: Me .lstNewFaxes.BeginUpdate() For Each fiFile As FileInfo In My .Computer.FileSystem.GetDirectoryInfo( My .Paths.NewFaxes).GetFiles      Dim ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source Control Explorer

  So, we are having an issue with the Source Control Explorer showing up but not being active. The menu items across the top of the view are greyed out and the context menu is disabled. I have also noticed the right clicking on the project and going to team project settings does not display the source control item. The two systems that are having this problem had Visual Source Safe 2005 installed on them prior to installation of the Team Explor ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. mesh texture color

  im using a effects file in my project but it seems when I render some meshes the colors are not comming out right, my render loop is very basic so nothing there should be the problem, so my guess is its in the .fx file here is what I have float4x4 worldMatrix; float4x4 worldViewProjection; texture sceneTexture; sampler g_samScene = sampler_state { Texture = <sceneTexture>; MinFilter = Linear; MagFilter = Linear; Mip ...Show All

• SQL Server Fuzzy Grouping: Any success with > 3 million records?

  I have tried to process > 3 million Fuzzy grouping records on two different servers with no success. 3 mill works but anything above 4 mill doesn't. Some background: We are trying to de-dup our customer table on: name (.5 min), address1 (.5 min), city (.5 min), state (exact). .8 overall record min score. Output includes additional fields: customerid, sourceid, address2, country, phonenumber Without SP1 installed I couldn't even ge ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums always error in submitting xml to contest

  >When i submit my xml file i keep on getting errors (i use the standard xml file). at:http://www.worldsbestapp.com/submitentry.aspx Your XML file does not meet our submission standards. The following error occured: The element 'Entry' has invalid child element 'PassportSiteID'. Expected 'EnableIP'. An error occurred at , (21, 4). >deleting PassportSiteID. Your XML file does not meet our submission standards. The following error occured: ...Show All

• Visual J# COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used exception within threads

  Hi, We are having code in which we start a new thread and set it as STA. This new thread initializes IHTMLWindow2 object and then starts another thread. But, in that second thread if we try to access the IHTMLWindow2 which is initialized in the first thread we are getting this exception "COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used". If we do not set the first thread to STA, we coudn't access the windows ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS 2005 And VB6

  Hello, I have VB6 and VS2005 installed on the same machine, there is any way to use VSS2005 also from the VB6 IDE If not, can I install VSS6 and VSS2005 on the same machine thank Andrea Hi Andrea, Yes, it is possible to use VSS2005 from VB6. In VB6, select Add-ins/Add-in Manager menu, and in the dialog that opens select the "Source Code Control" add-in line, and check the "Loaded/Unloaded" and "Load on Startup ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to shutdown, log off and restart a system using VB2005..

  Hi, Can anyone explain to me how I can include the commands for shutting down or logging off or restarting a system using VB2005 Any help will be appreciated. Regards, Arun. Take a look at this class on Metalis.Org site. ...Show All

• SQL Server Text in textbox with formatting

  TextBox's on report need to have mixed formatting of text. The TextBox's contain paragraph's and some of the words may need to be bold or italic. How can this be done ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom Task and Logger

  I have a custom Task where I want to log errors, warnings, etc. If I'm in VS I want these to go to the Output window and Error List. If I'm running msbuild outside of VS to the console. I tried to implement my own class from Logger and capture build events, but I was getting events for all projects and I only want to capture them for my project type (a VSIP integration). Currently I have the code to write to the Output window, etc., in my Task c ...Show All

• Visual Basic PASSING PARAMETERS BETWEEN CLASSES

  CAN YOU PASS PARAMETERS BETWEEN CLASSES IN VISUAL BASIC EXPRESS 2005 I HAV EN'T HAD ANY LUCK TRYING TO USE PUBLIC AND SHARED STATEMENTS. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG This is code for 1st form in VB express Public Class Form1     Public ANUMBER As Integer = 0   ' declare number as public       Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Butt ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual Studio .NET 2003 Vs. Visual Studio 2005

  Hi all, I am currently working on a c/c++ application which works only on Visual Studio .NET 2003, using the .sln file provided in the package. Currently the following are installed on my system: Microsoft .NET framework 1.1 Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional - English MSDN Library for visual studio .NET 2003. My company now has to buy some more licences for working on the same project but a new version, Visual Studio 2005, is ...Show All

• Visual Studio where's vss 2005 in vsts 2005?

  Neither VSS 6 nor VSS 2005 shows up in the VSTS 2005 IDE. VSS 6 worked just fine in VB6 and .Net 2003, and installing VSS 2005 works in VB6 (!) but nothing at all appears for 2005 Help!      Sean Hi Sean, I understand you already have VSTS and VSS2005 installed on the machine. You'll need to set the active provider in VSTS to enable source control integration. In VSTS, Tools/Option ...Show All

• Visual Basic Confussed about Visual Basic Versions

  I have trouble finding what I want on MS sites.  Could some expert please tell me the following. 1)  Which version is the latest for Visual Basic..... is it VB 2005 or VB Net.  Or are they same with different names 2)  Is VB 2005 available or just the Beta versions   Where do you down load if only Beta or how do you buy VB2005.  It appears that VB2005 contains .Net capability. Thanks ...Show All