sweeper's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Merging work-items

  When merging or applying labels, one can only select changesets and not work-items. Changesets however can relate to multiple work-items, so you will have to find the work-item/changeset relationship in order to do cherry-picking based on work-items. Is there any way to cherry-pick all changesets containing work-items that are in specific state (e.g.: resolved) Thanks. Peter. ...Show All

• Visual C# Generics, comparing (T == null)

  I made a class using generics and I have a method like this public bool Insert(T Item) { if (T == null) { throw new System.Exception(); } // other code goes here } So if my T is a struct, will the compiler still generate the code to compare T to null or not Yes, but it will always evaluate to false for value types. HTH, Kent ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Doubt in wireless communication

  Hi, I developed a PPC application in VS 2003 using webservices that needs WIFI to work.Since WIFI works for limited surroundings i want my application to work at all places like my mobile phone.So what is technology to be followed to work at any where, where i get mobile signal coverage. gprs. Look in settings->connections, you can set up an internet connection there ...Show All

• Visual C# XML/XSLT -I think I'm going to put a hammer throught the screen!

  Hi Everyone,    for the sake of my monitor can someone please help me with an xml/xsl problem that I'm having. I have the following xml file (really simple stuff): <root rname="Directory"> <company name="XYZ Inc.">  <addressLines addressdata="One Abc Way">   <address2 val="his avenue"></address2>   <city cname="Tech city"></city>   <country cname="Neverland ...Show All

• Windows Forms ** Urgent ** - Time

  I have a statusbar1.panel(0).text that displays minutes in string form. Could someone explain how i can convert these minutes into hours and then display in the same place. Many Thanks. Petang Many thanks for your time Omlet, Code is as follows:- ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Unable to setup windows Vista 5308 (error while displaying image selection wizard)

  Hi - I have tried to install the 5308 build on a (older) PC (AMD Thunderbird/512MB/ATI 9000) that I use as a test machine but I keep getting an error message immediately after entering the license key. The error dialog says "An internal Setup Error occurred while displaying the image selection wizard". After a while the setup program will abort and display another dialog "Exception Unknown Exception 0xe0000100 occurred at memory l ...Show All

• SQL Server import/export tools

  I install sql2005 final and the SQLServer2005_SSMSEE.msi ... but i don’t find de import/export tools. I need import a DB from MDB to SQL 2005. Thanks The import/export wizard in SQL Server 2005 Management Studio relies on SQL Server Integration Services to do its work.  SSIS is not included with SQL Server Express, so we removed the import/export wizard in Management Studio Express. You can use the Access Upsizing Wizard tha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Executing a task only if the build succeeds

  How do I execute a task only if the build succeeds Thanks! This depends on what you mean by build success... If you just mean compilation success, there are a bunch of different targets you could override which get executed in the normal flow of things, but not when a compilation error occurs. I would suggest the AfterCompile target. If you mean compilation success + test success, things are a bit more complicated, since the test task ...Show All

• Windows Forms MySQL Provider

  hi, I am a newbie to Windows Forms. Can anyone please tell me which provider I can use for MySQL  . I think I can user Microsoft OLE DB Simple Provider.I am not sure. All suggestions are welcome. Varun theres a bunch- there are odbc&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic Refactor 1.0.31 bug

  I couldn't easily find a place on devexpress site to report bugs in refactor so I'll try here. So, try to refactor this using Move Declaration Near Reference for VariableUsedOnlyInSomeCases : Dim VariableUsedOnlyInSomeCases As Integer Select Case sender.ToString Case "1" MsgBox("Not used here") Case "2" VariableUsedOnlyInSomeCases = 2 Case "3" VariableUsedO ...Show All

• SQL Server Error during FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage

  Greetings, I created a custom security extenstion that worked great - except every call to FormsAuthentication .RedirectFromLoginPage would result in a "The return URL specified for request redirection is invalid." error type message. I reverted back to windows security with no problem. Then used the Microsoft Forms Security example thinking maybee I had improperly implemented the interface. When the forms security examp ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Openening an Excel file from within Project

  Does anyone know how to open and read/write to an Excel file from using Microsoft Project Visual Basic Thanks, Per our support engineer: Hi Mark, you can use excel automation from visual basic to open /read/write to an excel file. How To Automate Microsoft Excel from Visual Basic http://support.microsoft.com/kb/219151/ INFO: Using Early Binding and Late Binding in Automation http://support.microsoft.com/k ...Show All

• SQL Server Aggregation issue with parent child dimension when not using primary key

  When creating a parent child dimension I am not using the primary key of the underlying table. I define the key when I create the dimension. The parent/child relationship works fine but my measure aggregation does not work. The dimension has a regular relation type to the measure and the primary key from the underlying dimension table is used in the relationship to join in the measure. Since I have not used the primary key in the dimension a ...Show All

• Windows Forms BindingSource (Filter property)

  Here is the example in MSDN for the Filter property: // Filter the items to show contacts who are owners. BindingSource1.Filter = "ContactTitle='Owner'"; Is it a SQL expression or just limited to "=" operator  Note that BindingSource doesn't directly support filtering rather it requires the underlying data source to support filtering (which is typically only ADO.NET).  The following link has informatio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there an example of how to test web services using https with X.509 certificate

  Any examples out there to test web services that require a client-side certificate using https I created the tests on my local machine without ssl and now am trying to enhance them for our larger test system. Can't record as we are using Smart Client WinForms.  Actually, the problem migh not be the certificate but how to add a FormPostParameter with Username and password. Is this the same in Smart Client forms as in IE Thanks, Burk ...Show All