sdgordon67's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Can't Install TFS RC on a Domain Controller???

  We can no longer install TFS (RC) on a domain controller This worked in earlier betas and CTP versions. But now I'm told with the installer that this is not a supported configuration, yet the installation guide talks about installing on a DC. I wasted all this time setting up the DC system and get to the point of running TFS install and am told I can no longer do this I've seen Microsoft respondents in the past indicate that you can install on ...Show All

• Windows Forms Transparent key- Annoying? help me!

  in vb '05, you can set the transparency key for the form, thus all of that color will be invivisble. This also work on things like picture boxes, blah de blah. So if you have the transparency key set to WHITE, and you have a picture of a yellow face on a white background. The white part of the background will be transparent. However, it just not go transparent to the form. It goes straight through the form, and if you click on the invisible part ...Show All

• .NET Development System .NET features and future

  As many of you may already know, the release of Visual Studio .NET 2005 is right around the corner… hooray!   As we put the final touches on “Whidbey” for the November 7th launch we are starting a parallel effort focused on planning for our next major release of Visual Studio, codenamed “Orcas”.      As we switch hats from ”Whidbey” release to “Orcas” planning, the System.Net team would like to hear directly f ...Show All

• Windows Forms displaying selected columns in a datagrid

  Hi, I have a dataset "ds" with table "SomeTable" and fields "F1", "F2", "F3", "F4" and I want to display it in a datagrid I am doing this. DataTable dt = null; DataView dv = null; dt = ds.Tables["SomeTable"]; DataView dv = new DataView(dt); dataGrid1.DataSource = dv; Now How can I display only F1 and F3 in datagrid and ignore the rest of the column ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 - Emulator problem

  Hi! I've got a problem and wonder if anyone else has it (and has resolved it ) My problem is as follows .. I create a new device application and try to run in in emulator.. the emulator starts just fine, but it won't connect to it! At all! The error is "Connection failed. The system cannot find the path specified." Thanks in advance, Tadej I had the same problem so from a previous tip for vs.net 2005 beta 1 I ...Show All

• Visual Basic Attempting to add a datasource

  While in vb.net express, I still can't make a connection to the sqlexpress database when I attempt to add a new data source. I have tried everything. This is the error message I get: Unable to open the physical file “c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\Data\Master.mdf”. Operating system error 32: “32(The process cannot acces the file because it is being used by another process.)”. An attempt to attache an auto –named database for f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How create a Baseline for work itens with Project Professional integrated with Team Foundation

  Hi, How should i work with Team Foundation for Project Plan I want create a mpp with all task , create a baseline with this planning and published this task for my team and after that my team create others task , i want open this mmp and refresh a progress these tasks. Finally i want to utilize features of project for Earned Value. Hi Gleydson, This should be easy. Open the Development Project Plan.mpp in MSF fo ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista What happened to my user profile (Build 5270)

  After setting up my profile (Desktop settings, Outlook, etc.) I reboot the machine and my profile is set back to default. Machine specs.   Dell Inspiron XPS M170 Pentium M 2.26ghz. 2GB RAM 100GB 7200 RPM drive GeForce 7800 GTX Braodcom GB connected in GB Windows 2003 ADS I would love to be able to setup a beta machine with my companies profiles to see if Vista would be a viable upgrade. But that is hard to do w ...Show All

• Windows Forms Auto-Updating DataBindings

  I scoured the code and I can't seem to see how the Projects combobox is updated when a new Project is added to the DB.  I've always done this in the past with a fresh DataBinding and an Invalidate(). I do not see this happening.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Advice Needed Regarding C# and C integration

  I have a project where I am given C code and I have to implement a GUI for that code. The C code was generated on with a Linux box and gcc. My first thought was to implement the GUI in C# and pass the input parameters to the C file. I researched how to do this but I wasn't coming up with many results. I read about converting C++ files into DLL files. I also read this thread regarding converting C files into C++ DLL files with C++ Express ...Show All

• SQL Server DataBase security problems

  Hello every one We have made a application which can create and restore data base for MS SQL we also set the password . we want to make it secure . problem is that if data base files are copy from one system to other system and try to open then . they are opened with out asking data base Pass word can any told me solution so that our data base become secure Thank Hello! I developed database driven VC++ a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Package Load Failure - PerformancePackage

  Has anyone seen the Package Load Failure dialog for the PerformancePackage   Thank you,    J Pursell   Issue:     Description: Under certain conditions the PerformancePackage fails to load.   The Developer is presented with the Package Load Failure dialog.   Environment: (see Note [1] below) Steps to Reproduce: Start Visual Studio Team Edition f ...Show All

• SQL Server Visual studio interface EXTREMELY slow

  Hi folks, I'm working within VS2005/Business Intel studio environment. I've got one master package, which loads about 18 sub-packages as tasks. After openin the master package (and waiting 5-10 minutes for the packages to open and validate), maneuvering within the IDE is nearly impossible, it is so slow. Context menus can take 30 seconds to open. Certian operations, like closing a window, seem to hang the environment. Does anyo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can't find Class Designer on IDE

  Can't find Class Designer on IDE I have the most basic question of all.  I've installed the Feb CTP.  Nowhere in any of the menus can I find the class designer.  If I add a new class the designer doesn't show.  I just get the basic classX Where do I find the class designer dennist SKU is packaging form - e.g. C# Express, Visual Studio Standard, Visual Studio Team Suite etc. You can find ou ...Show All

• Visual C# Easy way to check if a value is in an enum?

  Hi, I am trying to check if an int returned by the browser representing a user's account type is a valid value, ie. it is one of the values within an enumeration of valid account types. Is there a quicker way of doing it than this private bool InputIsWithinRange(ref int accountType) { Type accountTypeEnum_Type = typeof(SiteUser.AccountTypeEnum); Array possibleValues = Enum.GetValues(accountTypeEnum_Type); bool valid ...Show All