cchill's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System What happened to Beta 2 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads?

  It looks like everything has been pulled. Is that because the April SQL Server is missing Some of my downloads were right in the middle That was meant to be a joke given the context of the rest of the message ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista custom activity

  hello all, i have tried to create a custom activity, which should be available in the activity toolbox. but i only was able to create an activity, which needs to have following activities in itself (designer shows the activity with the activity name and an arrow below which points to 'drop activities in here'.  is it possible to create a custom activity without following activities in it (i hope you know what i mean...) this is, how my activity looks like so far... [ToolboxItemAttribute(typeof(ActivityToolboxItem))]     public partial class Save_Data_Dialog : Sequence     {    ...Show All

• SQL Server How to include SSIS into install file?

  I've already read many topics that was asked about SSIS runtime, but for my purposes I didn't find satisfied answer Our clients don't use SQL Server for their data. But we anyway used DTS packages for transfering data between client DBes. Only thing that we needed to install was DTS dlls. What will I need to do now to use old DTS and new SSIS packages on these clients Unlike DTS, SSIS is not redistributable. You need SQL license for every machine where SSIS runs (you may develop and debug SSIS packages using just Tools install). ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagrid cell shows data only on selection

  Hi I hope someone can help I have a datagrid bound to a dataTable and it connects the data fine. I also have a parameter included to filter the information I would like. The problem occurs when running the application, it only shows the data visually when I have clicked on a cell. The cell I click on gives the correct information, but disappears again when I move to another cell within the datagrid. It appears that the datagrid will not show itself in full. I have looked at selecting everything at once, but this is not what I want to do, I would only like the datagrid to show itself in full when I request it. Can anybody help ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. ( c#) rendering in multiple controls and texture sharing

  i have an application with more than one control using directx for rendering for each control, i have created a device. in this control, i must render the same textures my problem, i can't share them, i must duplicate my texture for each control how can i avoid that how work swap chain because in my controls i will render totaly diferrent thinks so is if working fine for my problem ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Trust? Load Customization?

  I need help -- I've tried so many things my head is spinning. I've only just started doing this application, so right now there's very little code in it. The code is on a network drive, along with the spreadsheet. My Visual Studio and Office are on my local machine. I have administrator rights on both the network and my local machine. I get the following warning: "The assembly must be granted full trust before the solution will run". If I ignore it and hit F5, the application will run. The Action Pane I created will appear, and some messageboxes will pop up. As I've been adding lines (one at a time) to this application, it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Specify Own Build Steps in VS2005 Based Output

  All, Does anyone know of a way to specify your own build steps in the VS2005 based output shown after starting a TFS build from Team Explorer For example I am always shown the progress of the "Initializing Build", "Getting Sources" and "Compiling Sources" steps but within these I have declared my own targets and ideally I would like there progress shown. Thanks... Yes, it is doable but you will need to write custom build logger that will be some dev cost. Send me a mail at gautamg at microsoft dot com if you want more info. Thanks. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to launch programatically a SSIS package?

  Dear all, I wrote this post others times but the answer did not satisfied so that I'd like to know if really anyone has ever used or experienced with this possibility. No by .Net language rather than Vb 6.0 or ASP or even instanciacing DMO library. According this link http://support.microsoft.com/ kbid=817248 it seems possible but I haven't idea if possible keeping in mind that it has been made by yourself no for others... So that, I mean, these assemblies comes along with Sql Server 2005 installation. Thanks a lot for your support, It is much simpler than the interop path described in that KB article. Just reference the typel ...Show All

• Visual C++ Resource editor bug?

  Hello everybody! This is my first post here (sorry for my english) I have resource file shared in more than one solution. I VC++6, and VS2003 there was no problem to edit this file in resource editor. In VS2005 I cannot save this file, and there is no Dialog Editor items in Toolbox also. Any ideas Marek Hello Brian, I also have the same problem in a C++ solution. The solution was migrated from VC++ 6.0 to VS2005. If you have any solution for the problem, I am interested. Regards, rgwerder ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Secure transport of file to FTP Server from SSIS...options??

  Using SSIS to send file to FTP server... Looking to transport file to FTP server...want to make sure file is secure while on the wire... What options do we have... Agan Thx very much in advance... Ravi I don't think that there is support for SFTP (Secure FTP) in the FTP Task. So, you will have to use some form of custom development (Script, execute program etc) for that. ...Show All

• Windows Forms 2 Bounds DataGridViewComboBoxColumn - Select value from the first should filter the second !

  Hi All, I saw that a some members ask the same question and no one get an answare until now. I have a simple situation , One column is bounded to the "countries" table (country,description) , and the ather is bounded to the "cities" table (country,city,description). All I want is : when the user will select a country from the first column he will see just the relevant cities in the second column. The problem become when eatch row have different country . Please send me a code sample. Best Regards Boaz Shalev. Check out this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Database Update Failure - PK_tbl_PendingChange Violation

  I tried to make a new branch this morning. When I do so, I get this: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Error A database error occurred (SQL error 2627) ---> Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_tbl_PendingChange'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.tbl_PendingChange'. MCHAN.TfsVersionControl..prc_PendBranch: Database Update Failure - Error 2627 executing INSERT statement for tbl_PendingChange The statement has been terminated. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- Only happens to one branch. Could this error be that someone has checked out something in ...Show All

• Windows Forms I don t know how to pass variales and text controls values between forms

  Hi, 2 little questions pls: From a form frm1 I call another form frm2. The form frm1 has a text box with a text in it. I don t know how to access that value in frm2. Also I would like to access i frm2 certain vaiables defined in frm1. 2/ What d be the help section in Visual Basic where I ca find such guidelines.   Thanks a lot It actually perfectly resolves the issue dear Jelle. It s the owner a nd not the parent. Thanks for reloving my puzzle. Thanks to all the guys, u re really great, happy new year 2006 , hopefully, with no mistakes when debugging ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA2000 - does it work?

  I have this code in a simple test app: private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { // No CA2000 warning... StreamWriter file = new StreamWriter("C:\\TEST\\TEST.FILE"); } As far as I can see, it should precipitate a CA2000 warning, but it doesn't. (This is with Visual Studio 2005's built-in Code Analysis). Am I wrong about this Under which circumstances should CA2000 file Can anyone post an example that fires CA2000 Thanks! Matthew, This is actually by design. Due to a known limitation with our data flow engine, we had to disable this analysis in any members contained on a clas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Other diagrams?

  There are UML diagrams that are really only useful during planning, and become obsolete after that.  I have found robustness diagrams to be like this, although we can argue whether or not they even count as UML. Other diagrams, sequences in particular, I find to be essential tools that I simply can't live without.  I was using Borland Together with great success despite its numerous bugs, and non-existant support.  What I found was that I could begin drawing a sequence, and it would make it obvious to me when something had been left out.  I could be sequencing a simple lookup, and as I draw the line where the presentation ...Show All