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• Visual Studio Team System Copy work items in RC

  Hi, We need to copy work items from one team project to another (in RC). 1. What is the best way to do this 2. Does the migration process know to translate the Assigned To field from short names to full names Thanks, Michael 1. There's no built-in copy feature I'm aware of. If it's just a couple of work items, there's a "create copy..." on the context menu. If it's more than a few, the easiest way will be to ...Show All

• .NET Development Will AnyCPU cause binaries to run as 64-bit on x64 machine

  I used VS2005 professional to compile 18 .Net assemblies using the AnyCPU platform setting in configuration manager. I also have a startup executable that calls into one of the GAC libraries to start/run the program.  I compiled both the program and all assemblies on at 32 bit Windows 2000 OS using the "AnyCPU" platform setting On the 64-bit computer running XP-Professional(64)... All assemblies were successfully loaded a ...Show All

• SQL Server RS in SQL Server 2005 Express?

  Hi I read on an MSDN blog that SQL Server 2005 Express has "Basic reporting services". Where can I find out exactly what this means As usual, the MS site is unhelpful. Thanks, MH&S Ooh. Found it now. <Eats words> It's right there on the MS site. Great stuffings. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smart Device Deployment Error

  Hi, I have built a windows mobile 5.0 PC smart device database application in VB. When deployed onto the device, it runs well until an event is called to perform some calculations which gives the error - InvalidCastException, Conversion from "" to type 'Integer' is not valid. This event is however executed when the application is tested on the emulator without error. Please help me identify and correct ths problem. ...Show All

• Windows Forms ContextMenuStrip only show in header column of DataGridView

  Dear all, I design contextmenustrip to show/hide column in datagridview. However, i want this menu only show when i right-click on header of columns. So, i try to looking for event to control this, but i can't. This is my code private void frmStandardNotes_Load( object sender, EventArgs e) { grdStandardNotes.DataSource = DataSetStandardNote.Tables[ "StandardNote" ]; grdStandardNotes.ContextMenuStrip= contextMenuStrip; GetContextMenuStr ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Read data from excel through VB.NET

  Hi friends, I need to read symbols(like ALPHA,BETA,MEU) from excel and show it in a data grid through VB.NET.Later insert it into Oracle 8i DB. I am able to read entire data but i am getting 'a' instead of ALPHA symbol and 'b' instead of BETA symbol. I am querying excel via OLEDB provider.The following snippet is using for accessing excel. Dim MyCommand As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter Dim MyConnection As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to quote back slash in C#

  Can anyone confirm how to quote back slash "\" in C#  Is it "\\" or something else  I need to search for a back slash in a string. Thanks. yes.  its' \\  the first one is an escape, and the second one& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Warehouse - event log error 3000

  I keep getting a TFS warehouse error: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): 17/11/2005 10:06:56 PM Machine: MachineName Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/3/Root/Warehouse-1-127767387961411737 Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't get SQL Manager to connect to server instance SQLEXPRESS

  I installed SQL Server Express and SQL Server manager, then tried to start manager. SQL Service is running, but SQL Manager attempt to connect to SQL Server instance times-out even though I correctly identify instance as SQLEXPRESS Everything seems to be normal - both SQL Server and Manager are on a single Windows  XP home machine. Any suggestions. Thanks Hi, There are only two datatypes that could handle da ...Show All

• Visual Studio What is the function of mscorsw.exe?

  At times the process mscorsw.exe starts and uses 99% CPU. Obviously it is almost impossible to use the computer while it executes. What does this process do and what can I do to improve the situation Thanks, Dan Has the problem with this dll been solved. I would like to install the Beta 2 again. However I see the message related to simultanous Whitbey and CTP incompatibilities ...Show All

• Visual C# Format source code - Blank lines

  I'm wonder if there isn't an option on the code formatter to delete blank lines from my source code. I like the code formatter options, but I'm missing this feature.   In Eclipse IDE for example, you can define how many blank lines do you want after a class, member, variable, method ... and after you apply format code, your blank lines are removed or inserted. Alex, Thanks for the great feedback.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Word Document Protection

  I've created a Word Template project with an XSD schema that has elements for users to fill in. The users will then upload the docs to a server so I can read some values from the ServerDocument cache and save the Node WordML. Somewhat similar to memo example on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/odc_wd11xml.asp I've added protection to the doc so that users cannot modify anything except t ...Show All

• .NET Development SGen on the Server

  Hi there, I have a problem that could be solved perfectly if sgen-generated assemblies worked on the server with web services. The sgen documentation states very vaguely that they "won't work on the server" and that certainly appears to be the case for web services. What I want to know is why . I thought the web services infrastructure just used XmlSerializer under the hood. I have a customized XML serializers DLL and I really wo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems updating database

  Hi, I'm working with windows forms, Visual C++ Express Edition, and I have problems when my programme try updating database. I'm using SQL instructions like UPDATE database SET str_a=parameter1 WHERE str_b=parameter2 Programme building correctly and function well,but don't update database. Database is connected, other instructions like Select or Insert work correctly. I hope you can help me. Thank you very much ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataViewGrid not honoring formating commands

  I have a form with a tab control, and on one of the tabs is a DataGridView(dgv).  From the form I call a sub and pass a reference to the dgv to a sub. The sub populates the grid by adding rows and inserting text into the cells. I then execute  the.ClearSelection() and .AutoResizeColumns() methods and exit the sub. Back in the code on the form I show the tab with the grid on it. When the grid displays the first row is selected a ...Show All