asher101's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Refresh: Cannot add users from another (trusted) domain to team project.

  Hi! We have TFS Beta 3 Refresh running in our development domain (DEV). All our user accounts are living in a different domain (PROD), which is also in a different forrest. DEV is a native Windows 2003 domain, while PROD is a Windows 2000 domain. There is a one-way trust from DEV to PROD. When we try to add a user from PROD to a team project group such as Contributors, the following error message appears: Couldn't add user/group 'USERNAME'. It may be in an incorrect domain. Are we doing something wrong, or is this actually not a supported scenario The latter would be terrible; I think the need for adding users from multiple domains wi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. D3D background picture

  Hi folks, What I need to do is fill the background of my window with a particular bitmap. Bitmap can be of any size... 200x100, 640x480, 1920x1080, etc. and it should stretch to fill the window. Much like your desktop's background picture. This is in a D3D windowed app written in VB.NET using Feb2006 MDX. All 3D and sprite rendering is done on top of the background image. How do I do this My current knowledge tells me I have to load a texture, keep it a square (512x512 lets assume) and the blit a sprite and then render everything on top of that. Is there a better way Is there a function much like the CLEAR function but draws an image ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista UI lacks of Transitions, Fades and some other things

  I like Windows Vista very much, but when i compare the current December CTP [of which I am beta tester] with a Mac OS X Tiger video found on the apple homepage, Vista falls behind in some areas. What I find so pleasing in Mac OS X are the cool but not annoying transitions in various parts of the user interface. In Vista, except of the window minimize to taskbar, maximize from taskbar, window open and window close effects, there are none noticable. There should be much more, for example when opening the start menu, etc. There are tons of possibilities for transitions which look nice,  aesthetic, don't disturb users and help better recog ...Show All

• Visual Basic BindingDataSource question

  I am fairly new to this BindingDataSource in VS 2005. I dragged the datasource onto a form where it created the textboxes and drop down lists, etc. When I use the toolbar to save a record, I keep getting an error about the saving of the state. Currently the state names are being displayed in the dropdown list with the value set as the state abbreviation. I thought that it would be the value that is saved, however I am getting this error: "The value violates the MaxLength of this column." To me right now it was much easier using data adapters and datasets. What am I missing here Thanks for the information ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework 1.5 and Visual Studio RTM 2005

  Good Morning! I'm wondering if the Information Bridge Framework 1.5 works well with Visual Studio RTM 2005 Because I tried to install the Metadata designer tool 1.5 after installing the IBF Server 1.0 and IBF Client 1.5, but I recieve a message : "Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 should be installed", but I installed Visual Studio RTM 2005 on my machine. Is there a version of the IBF that works with the latest version of Visual Studio, Sql Server and the Framework   Thank you !   Roxane   Hi Roxane, For Information Bridge related questions, please post your question on ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What does the Team Foundation Server (databases) installation do?

  hi I’m using dual-sever deployment. After installing SQL Server on the data-tier, you should install TFS (databases). What does this installation do Does it create the necessary tables I want to install SQL Server and TFS (databases) on server X, and then backup the TFS database and restore it on another server Y which already has SQL Server 2005 installed. Thanks The server X that I restored the databases to has all the prerequisites needed by TFS (databases), e.g. IIS. I just need info on how to emulate the installation of TFS (databases). What has changed when installation is complete Tables are cr ...Show All

• SQL Server Linked Server

  Hi, I have created a linked server using Excel file. When I run the query again this linked server, it works fine as I have all kind of authorities. But when user run it gives the following message (Queries are running from ASP.Net Page) System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" for linked server "LPG". Here is how linked server is configured EXEC master . dbo . sp_addlinkedserver @server = N 'LPG' , @srvproduct = N 'Excel' , @provider = N 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' , @datasrc = N 'E:\MyFolder\LPG.xls' , @provstr = N 'Excel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot find Agent install

  I cannot for the life of me find the agent install. I have the dvd from the MSDN subscriber downloads. All of the information i have found on this board points to directories i don't have on the DVD, such as vs/agent. Any help guys The agent is not available through MSDN download as it is not included in the subscription. If you get VSTS for Testers, or VSTS Suite, you can generate load from the machine running VS. If you want to scale out load, you will need to buy additional load agents. Ed. ...Show All

• Windows Forms highlight text in textbox

  i wish to highlight the text inside my textbox programatically, how can i do that can anyone help me thank you i try with TextBox1.SelectAll() but it seem does not work Set the textboxes hideselection property to false so the text will be selected when the textbox does not have focus http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformstextboxbaseclasshideselectiontopic.asp ...Show All

• Visual Basic GetPixel

  alright I need to get examples of getPixel...I need to get a pixel of a fullscreen application.... I need it to be something like this dim number As integer = 0 if pixel (xcoord, ycoord) and (xcoor, ycoord) etc... is there then number = "1" else if pixel (xcoord, ycoord) and (xcoor, ycoord) etc... is there then number = "2" else if pixel (xcoord, ycoord) and (xcoor, ycoord) etc... is there then number = "3" ect...i was thinking that I would use GetWindowDC to extract were the pixels would be into a DC window then target GetPixel at my DC window for faster results. but Dosn't GetPixel have to do alot more about colors the purpose of this w ...Show All

• .NET Development SqlBulkCopy and Deleted Rows

  I think I've found a bug in SqlBulkCopy. the help for SqlBulkCopy.WriteToServer say: All rows in the DataTable are copied to the destination table except those that have been deleted. but using it with a DataTable with deleted rows throw this exception: System.Data.DeletedRowInaccessibleException occurred   Message="Deleted row information cannot be accessed through the row."   Source="System.Data"   StackTrace:        at System.Data.DataRow.GetDefaultRecord()        at System.Data.DataRow.get_ItemArray()        at System.Da ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form.Focus() and Textbox Enter event not working

  Hi everybody,   I am trying to put focus on the second form called from the first form. I am not using MDIForms. How exactly to fixed this Focus() and Activate() does not work. Also, the enter event of Textbox is not working as it should, when you pressed enter it should execute the codes inside it. This works in C# fine. Thanks in advance. This code below place on Load event or constructor has the same effect [code]     Me.EnableMenuItems(False)      '   Me.Hide()         ''Calls Login Form first       &nb ...Show All

• Visual C# Cast string to variable?

  Is there a way to cast a string to a variable name In my code I need to instance classes on the fly. In psuedocode I want to do this: Variable KeyValue<x>; With <x> being replaced by an incrementing number on every call (so you might end up with KeyValue0, KeyValue1, KeyValue2, etc.). Is there any way to do this in C#  I recall a way in Pascal, but that was many years ago... It's OK, I've worked it out now. Got a few minor problems, but nothing I won't solve eventually. Thanks for all the help everyone! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Breakpoints stopped working

  All of a sudden some breakpoints in my solution stopped working. The tooltip displays the following error message: "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. The source code is different from the original version." I rebuilt the solution; deleted /bin and /obj directories of the project in question; restarted Visual Studio; all to no avail. Any hints what might cause this, and how to solve it I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition. Addendum: This seems to affect only breakpoints set on a method head. Breakpoints set on a statement inside the method still work. I did toggle it (if that is ...Show All

• Windows Forms bug? or am i doing something wrong

  im trying to create a FolderBrowserDialog this is the code im using.  FolderBrowserDialog *fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog;  fbd->ShowNewFolderButton = false;  fbd->RootFolder = Environment::SpecialFolder::DesktopDirectory;  fbd->Description = S"Please choose the directory containing the the files.";  fbd->ShowDialog(); now i get the dialog but all i can see is the description and a few&nbs ...Show All