Miles Thompson's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio When is VSS 2005 going to be Available to the Public?

  Hey all, My company is getting ready to start a new project. We are very interesting in .Net 2.0 and C#/C++ Apps and have several versions of VS 2005 Pro already. However, we also want to have some source control. None of the 3rd party programs are what we are looking for. So when is VSS 2005 going to be released to the public Should we get an MSDN license to use the Beta Version of VSS 2005 Will VSS 2005 Beta work with the release versions of VS 2005 Thanks AFAIK, the version I got with MSDN was not the beta. Having said that, I also didn't think there were any overly compelling options over the last version of VSS, which I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems found when install TFS on a AD domain controller

  I install TFS on a Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain Controller, using Single-Server depolyment mode. Everything seems ok during the installation, but after that, when I open the event log, some error appear found : Volume Shadow Copy services could not start, the error code is 0x8000FFFF. Does anyone encounter the same problem How to solve this Thanks! I see many people are having trouble installing Team System in a single machine. Even after installation, many cases it seems to fail during new project creation. I also had all possible errors found here in newsgroups. Here's a visual tour of the entire single machine setup process ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Enabling Versioning outside of Source Control

  Hello there, When working on a Word/Excel/etc. document which was checked into the documents node of my project, I can check the version history of the file via ms office applications "file" menu. Doing so, Office (2k3) claims versioning for these files actually is not enabled. There is a URI which should lead to more information about enabling that feature but on my end, the link doesn't work. How do I enable the file versioning PS: version control of source code inside of source control works like a charm Alright, after experiencing problems enabling MSN-alerts for the MSDN ...Show All

• Windows Forms Forms

  When opening form2 from form1, how do you close form1 If you want Form1 to be some sort of splash screen, look here: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=76794 ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I trigger MouseLeave on leaving control Bounds instead of client area?

  Simple question, but a major pain for me so far. I have a checked list box that I want to expand on MouseEnter, and collapse on MouseLeave. Unfortunately, MouseLeave triggers as the mouse leaves the client area, and enters the vertical scroll bar area. The effect is that the list collapses down as soon as I try to use the scroll bar. Is there some way of creating a MouseLeave event that will trigger when the mouse leaves the Listbox BOUNDS instead of when it leaves the client area Alternatively, can I somehow access mouse events for the scrollbar - letting me keep the listbox expanded till the mouse has left one or ...Show All

• Visual C# Writing directly to the console buffer

  First, my situation: I'm trying to make a simple 2d game using the Console and special characters. I need to update the map quickly, is there any way to directly access the characters and change them without having to do Console.Write I need to do it very quickly so it doesn't flicker :) Try playing around console API functions, as it will give you more control over console printing. Use GetStdHandle with -11 as its parameter to retrieve the standard console handle: [DllImport("kernel32.dll")] internal static extern IntPtr GetStdHandle( int nStdHandle); // Sample IntPtr stdout = GetStdHandle(-11); ...Show All

• Visual C# CS0184 should be a compile error

  C# "is" operator may return inconsistet result with CLR specifications. So I think warning CS0184 should be a compile error. CLR allows to cast a DayOfWeek[] object to int[] because the undertlying type of DayOfWeek is Int32.   2 4.3 castclass – cast an object to a class Description: The castclass instruction attempts to cast obj (an O) to the class. Class is a metadata token (a typeref or typedef), indicating the desired class. If the class of the object on the top of the stack does not implement class (if class is an interface), and is not a subclass of class (if class is a regular class), then an InvalidCastExce ...Show All

• SQL Server Attaching database to SQL Server 2005 failed!

  Hi, all masters here, please help me for attaching database to the SQL Server 2005 then. I cant attach any database to my SQL Server 2005! Error as below always happened! could not find row in sysindexes for database ID 21, object ID 1, index ID 1, Run DBCC CHECKTABLE on sysindexes So what is indeed the problem tho please help me then. Thanks a lot. Hi,Jens, Thanks a lot. I tried to attach the database files with sql scripts then but only those database files which are created on the SQL Server could be attached. Those database files created outside of my local computer wont work tho (even the sample databases installed from ...Show All

• Windows Forms Date Time Picker

  Hi, Anyone know how to format the Date Time Picker in C# to shows MONTHS only Hi, Sorry, please allow me to ask more, can you guide me more details on how to traverse the list view items and create the loop Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual C# Controlling a web browser control from another form?

  My application contains two forms, one controlling the other (which holds the web browser in question). I need to control the web browser's actions from the second form. I've been trying to somehow declare the browser as public but I can't figure out how to do this. Help is appreciated. To do this you need to edit the From.designer.cs file. Now theres notices around saying that touching this file will cause a nucleare meltdown somewhere in San Francisco, but its fine as long as you leave the layout the same :). In the second form, go to the InitializeComponent(); call in the constructor, right click and click "Go To Definition". This ...Show All

• Visual Basic Fail setup Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

  Hello, I want to be a part of the experiance of Visual Basic 2005. When i start the setup from my DvD he start to copy files to the system and checks something. After that he responds with the error: A failled installation has been detected. Press Ok to uninstall the product. Then retry the installation. Ok, so far i deleted the following components marked with **: MSDN Product Documentation Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime Beta 2 Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Beta 2 Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Beta 2 ** Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 Development Tools Microsoft Visual J# Redistributable Package 2.0 Beta 2 * ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista problems with using customControlLibrary in windows application

  hello, I have problems while trying to invoke a customer control into my windows application, the code are very simple as follows:  < Mapping XmlNamespace="mycontrol" ClrNamespace="CustomControlLibrary1" > <Window x:Class="WindowsApplication1.Window1"     xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon/2005 "     xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/xaml/2005 "     Title="WindowsApplication1"     xmlns:cc="mycontrol"     >     <Grid>       <cc:UserControl1>      ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot open database 'LoadTest' requested by login

    Hi, When I run a load test, I get the following error message: Error occured running test. (Computer computer name ). The load test results database could not be opened. Check that the load test results database specified by the connect string for your Test Controller (or local machine) specifies a database that contains the load test schema and that is currently available. For more information, see the Visual Studio Team System help topic 'About the Load Test Results Store'. The connection error was: Cannot open database 'LoadTest' requested by login. The login failed. Login failed for used ' domain \ username '. So then ...Show All

• Windows Forms TextBox with wordwrap=false still wraps at a certain point

  Hello, I have a TextBox that I need to display some data in. I need each bit of data to be on its on line. My lines are somewhat long, so much so that even with wordwrap set to false, the TextBox wraps even though a scroll bar is showing. Is there a way to override this width so that it doesn't wordwrap Thank you for your help, Are you sure you are not accidently reading in a RETURN or LINFEED Character Zep-- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Issue with Office Interop

  Hi,       I'm using Installshield setup to install my product.It registers few Office Interop Assemblies using Regasm. This assemblies are from .NET framewrok 1.1 Now, I have .NET Framework 2.0 installed on my machine. When I start the installation, the Regasm registration crashes. Is there any compatibility issue Kindly help. Thanks and Regards, Ajit Hi You should use the PIA's to install the Office PIA's only this is a requirement from the EULA in Microsoft's product, You dont comment on the version of Office you are running but there is a URL for the Office XP and 2003 PIA's below. ...Show All