Tim Ferguson's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Project in solution explorer

  We're in the process of setting up some test boxes to run some manual tests.  I've created a project with all the tests.  The additional testing resources have installed the team system client.  What is the best way to get them the project with all the tests   I tried exporting the project and then allowing them to access the project and put it on a local folder.  The only problem is when they try to open the vbp file an error comes up stating 'The Visual Basic 6.0 file is corrupted or cannot be read.' Any suggestions thanks, aaron  I received exactly the same error message after exporting and then extr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reporting Services failure

  I am on TFS Beta 3, and haven't used the reporting stuff much (I did get it up and running after install). Just went to run a report and got the following: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ReportingServices.Modeling' or one of its dependencies. Strong name signature could not be verified. The assembly may have been tampered with, or it was delay signed but not fully signed with the correct private key. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131045) Any idea what it could be I'm the administrator on the machine (ran it on the TFS server machine in order to get the ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I change the backcolor of a tabcontrol in a form ?

  How do I change the backcolor of a tabcontrol in a form    I dont have any tabpages for now but will have for future additions. I've changed the backcolor of the form, the selected tabs on the top but unable to change the tabcontrol which is the base.  I've changed the drawmode to ownerdrawfixed and tried  tabcontrol1.backcolor = color.blue  but&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++/CLI constructors initialization sequence

  Hi all, I’ve been translating a C# program to C++/CLI and I saw something that I thought It might or introduce unpredicted results to my code. A virtual method was called from inside a base class. That was enough motivation for me to debug the code, and actually find out that it was the virtual method of the derived class which was actually called from the constructor of the base class! During this debugging session though, I also discovered that the constructor of the base class is called AFTER any initialization of the member variables of the derived class! I’ve searched for some info for constructing objec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Extremely Illogical Error

  Hi Guys and Gals, I'm having a really wierd error with my application, perhaps someone can help The problem is that we cannot replicate the error on another machine, it seems specific to my machine which makes it all a little more confusing. I'm running a P4 3.0Ghz Prescott processor with Hyper-threading and 768MB RAM. The application was coded using VB 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 but has since been re-coded on the final release of VB 2005 Express Edition. Quite simply, the application is a small text editor, designed as my first serious VB undertaking and functions 100% within the coding specifications, except for one persistant bug. If I ...Show All

• SQL Server Even not pages printing in Reporting Services

  After creating and deploying a new report I try printing but it will not print on even pages. I'm using SQLServer 2005. It prints page 1 then only header and footer on page2 then page 3 has the continuation from page 1, etc... Any ideas good day.. i have encounter same problem with you. but i resolve it by proper page breaks. try to page break end in the footer. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting some special character in the code

  I have a sample code which after recording and converting it to the code, i see some special character, why does this appear. Dim request34 As WebTestRequest = New WebTestRequest( "https://qa-cms.vendorscape.com/case/individual/default.asp" ) request34.ThinkTime = 3 request34.Method = "POST" request34.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding( "utf-16" ) Dim request34Body As FormPostHttpBody = New FormPostHttpBody request34Body.FormPostParameters.Add( "" , "獶慣 慡 愴挹收捥慦 " ) request34Body.FormPostParameters.Add( "" , "牁 癩 獡 慆獬" ) ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Access Denied

  Hi, i got a little problem with my SSIS, when i try to connect from another machine the server response (Access Denied), why , i'm a member of MsDtsServer to Local and Remote Activation and Launch, then what can be a problem .... Thx for your help JB Colombia There may be even more to the story.  If you have XP SP2 installed (or likely 2003 SP1 as well) and your system admin hasn't fixed it yet, you may still be blocked from DCOM remote connections.  Be sure to do what it says in this article first (chances are you already have and that's why you ended up here) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337083.asp ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I launch my another managed executable file ?

  The sitaution is like this : I have a windows app. executable file say a.exe and I want to launch this a.exe from the Main() method of another console project. Help, please. You can use the Process class in the System.Diagnostics namespace. public void Main( string [] args ) { System.Diagnostics.Process.Start( @"c:\MyFolder\a.exe" ); } ...Show All

• Visual C++ Support/Lifespan of Visual C++

  Does anyone know if Microsoft is planning on dropping support and/or no longer releasing new versions of Visual C++ after the VC2005 version   I have heard nothing regarding this, but the Systems Architecture group at the company I work for is using this as an argument against using Visual C++ for current and future development. Thanks, Chris Microsoft is definitely not about to drop support for Visual C++. The Visual C++ team is currently busily engaged in planning for the work we want to do for the next two versions of Visual C++. You should ask your SA group where they got this informatio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System July CTP install of VSTS - Source Control Plug in Missing, Team Explorer missing

  Hi everyone, I recently upgraded from the June CTP of VS2005 to the July CTP, both are the Team Suite edition. Now in my new installation, everything works, but there is no Team Explorer window, I cannot connect to a TFS server, and when I look for Source Control plug-in's, nothing is listed. I can't find any evidence of Team System. I verified over and over in the control panel that I do in fact have the Team Suite edition installed. Any ideas on what could have caused this The installation didn't report any problems. Thanks, Ryan You'll need beta 3, which was released yesterday and is in the process of making its way onto MSDN.   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Saving a query after changing sort order results in message

  If you open up an existing query and you click a column heading to re-sort based on that column, after trying to close out the query you receive a message: "Changes you have made in this view have caused the underlying query to be modified. Would you like to save the changes to the query " Yes or No is the only options. I know this is new functionality in Beta 3 Refresh (from Beta 2) but can somebody explain what changed and if this is a valid warning   The biggest problem I have with this is that the only people allowed to create new or modify existing queries in the "Project Queries" are Project Administrators. However, when an avera ...Show All

• SQL Server Merging columns

  Hi, I Have 3 columns in source (ID1,ID2,ID3) ..i want make a lookup of 'Dnumber' column in the target table with each of the 3 columns.Has to map the unmatched ones(ID's) in the 'Dnumber' Iam fine till getting the unmatched ID's from each of the column from source ..but getting problem in mapping these 3 columns in to 'Dnumber' Ex: Lets say got the unmatched are like this , ID1 ID2 ID3 1 4 6 2 5 7 3 8 Output should be : Dnumber 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I Can't use UnionAll..bcoz 3 columns should map to the same target column.Not sure about Merge Join Thanks Niru ...Show All

• Windows Forms DatagridView in virtual mode(Unbound checkbox Column)unable to obtain dictionary key from dictionary

  Hi, within my DataGridView which is bound to a dataTable I have added a virtual column of checkboxes. The checkedbox state is stored using the records OrderID in a systems.collections.gereric.Dictionary. What I'am trying to do is for every row(record checked) display its Orderid when I press a button. As the dictionary uses the "OrderId" as its Key value for each checked record it stores, I have tried to access this value but without success. Any Help would be very appreciated The code so far: Private checkstate As System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary( Of Integer , Boolean ) Private Sub loadGrid1( By ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FxCop and DateTime

  Hey Is it possible to detect the use of DateTime.Now and DateTime.Today from a custom FxCop rule If so, could someone please let me know how this is done (I've already written a handful of custom rules so the basics of writting a FxCop plugin need not be explained) Thanks You can use the VisitMemberBinding override:          public override ProblemCollection Check(Member member)         {             Method method = member as Method;        &nbs ...Show All