Niky's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Can multiple team projects use the same source control tree?

  I've read through as much as the TFS docs as I could find, but I've yet to see an answer to this.  Can multiple Team Projects use a single source control tree or does each one have to have its own tree Here's my situation: We have a good size main tree that has 90+ projects (dll's) in it.  There are perhaps a few dozen teams that contribute to these and each team has anywhere between 2-5 projects.  All of the teams must chec ...Show All

• Windows Forms Calculate Width of a String in Pixels

  hallo, Given a Font and a string, is there any ready-to-use function in .NET which can compute the resulting width of the string in pixels So that I can adapt say a Label, MenuItem or Textbox to the new size of a string. thx, Steve ...Show All

• Visual Studio where is my source safe?

  i have installed my VS2005 team for developer and installed VSS . but when i open vs2005 ,i can't add my project to vss and even can't open project from source safe . the vs2005 recognize as i didn't install my vss. i have reinstalled it already . what is going on where is my vss thanks... You need to select SCC plug-in first. Select Microsoft SourceSafe in Tools->Options-& ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ May 06 CTP installed byt nothing appear in the new project dialog box !

  Hello everybody, I've installed te May 06 CTP of LINQ but I've got a problem: nothing appear in the new project dialog box or in the "Add new item" dialog box I've also run the script "Install C# IDE support.vbs" but the problem is still But if I run the example, they compile and run fine ! Anyone have an idea/a workaround Thanks Can you try running C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\Devenv.exe /s ...Show All

• Windows Forms managing databases...

  Hi, Would there be any difference in performance if I chose to manage a large database with xml files, rather than with an access db Thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. FileNotFoundException with DirectX and .NET 2.0

  Hello all! Another question... I've got this code (C#): public void InitializeDevice()         {             PresentParameters presentParams = new PresentParameters();             presentParams.IsWindowed = true;             presentParams.SwapEffect ...Show All

• Visual Studio Internet Connection in VS 2005

  Hi,       I just installed VS 2005 on my machine, but my online help cannot be accessed. I keep getting the message: "The request failed with Http Status 407. Proxy authentication required". IE on my machine does have proxy authentication. Is there a fix for this   Thanks, Arshad Hmmm... not really.  We're using HTTP POSTs to make our web service calls.  Are you able to do HTTP POSTs (not ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) xaml.xsd

  where can I find xaml.xsd I haev downloaded the winfx sdk at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=23A22468-5807-4FF7-A363-CE6FE69B8F04&displaylang=en and the iso image at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=64193cc5-d566-402c-a211-ba48b312cf6d&displaylang=en but after installing them I cannot see xaml.xsd anywhere. James The links to overall download links f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changing Permissions on New Branches

  Hi, I am working on a project to migrate from a custom version control system to Team System and I am currently investigating auditing possibilities. One preposed method is to have developers branch from the current project baseline, work in the new branch and then have an auditor merge the changes from the new branch to the baseline. The problem with this is that developers do not have checkin privileges on the project's baseline so when the ...Show All

• SQL Server Can not connect to SQL Server

  I installed SQL Server 2005 (server and client components) on Windows Server 2003 with SP1. I can connect to this sql server from any other machine. However, I can not connect from this machine to sql servers on other machines. I have tried named pipe and TCP/IP. Neither of them works. The error message is can not establish connection. Any suggestion Thanks, What is the exact error message HTH, Jens Sues ...Show All

• SQL Server Error while importing Text file using Import Export Wizard

  Hi all i have text file where i can import it to excel to access or sql2000 without problem but when i import it using (sql2005 pro) i get this error message during the import O peration stopped... - Initializing Data Flow Task (Success) - Initializing Connections (Success) - Setting SQL Command (Success) - Setting Source Connection (Success) - Setting Destination Connection (Success) - Validating (Success) - Prepare ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Express .img [Image] files cannot be burned to disk with Nero as stated !

  The webpage where you download Visual Express Beta 2 image files states that you can use Nero Ultra Edition 6 to burn these .img files to disk. This is incorrect. When I attempted to open any of these .img files Nero responded with an error message stating that the file format was incorrect. I haven't bothered downloading and trying Roxio as I really don't want to have to purchase two cd rom writing progra ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MediaElement and VPC question

  Does MediaElement have an issue with playing an AVI file when the app is in a VPC I installed the CTP on the VPC and found that MediaElement does not work. My best guess is that the VPC's default graphics drivers may not be compatible with MediaElement. is that the case Here's the XAML I used :- <MediaElement Width="100" Height="100" Source="c:\\windows\\clock.avi" LoadedBehavior="Play" S ...Show All

• SQL Server Is there transactional consistency across multiple publications?

  Hi, Currently, I have Server A which has Publication P1. Server B is subscribed to P1. Let's use 'T1' as the name for the set of tables/articles included in P1. Now I need to add serveral new tables to Server A. Let's call the new set of tables 'T2'. There is a Server C that needs to sync with the data in both T1 and T2. But Server B cannot have T2's data for privacy reasons. One of the solutions I'm thinking about is to create another pub ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to clean TSF install

  So, after 9 hours of attempting the install (December TCP) I cumulated so many errors... I was able to get through the install at some point (yes, I followed the documentation and user the same user names etc.), but I hit the 404. Tried to fix it, then got another error. Fixed that, but the install now cannot connect sometime to Analysis sometime to Reports. I think the whole thing is trashed at this point. I would like to know a way to complete ...Show All