Stankov's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Manual deployment using Mage.exe and MageUI.exe

  My goal is to create an automated script to build and deploy our application to a publishing URL. The building is already done and is working great. Using MageUI, I was successful in creating the application manifest and deployment manifest, then manually copied the files into the publish URL and everything worked. Using Mage.exe, I have been slightly less successful. I have tried to follow the same steps I believ MageUI is taking, listed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Partner question

  I noticed the "Alliance Marketing" partner level includes "Visual Studio Team Developer Edition + MSDN Premier Subscription" Since I already have that exact level of MSDN subscription, what would be the additional cost of becoming an "alliance marketing" partner Robert The only relation is both are MS programs and both cost 3K. They are separate teams in separate divisions. The fact that the VSIP program ...Show All

• .NET Development No connection cold be made.. Final resolution needed.

  Now after all the technical issues are resolved, the socket is created, the parameters are set I am facing a fundamantal issue. I kind of suspected from the outset that this could be the case and now I actually hit the wall. I have a subscription to a stock information service which gives me an up to minute update of the market. I invoke this application which is a set of GUIs and try to tap into the actual PORT to divert the datagram tream ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSF4ASD vs. RUP (More MSF v4.0 information)

  I want to make a comparison study between Rational Unified Process and Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Software Development (MSF4ASD). At the moment, only general information about MSF4ASD is on the web public available.   Can you please give me an indication when more information (whitepapers, books) about MSF v4.0 will be available Or can you tell me who to contact to get the information   Kind regards,   ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB and Compare Projects Versions Utility

  I am getting a runtime error when trying to use the Compare Project Versions Utility in MS Project 2000. The error is as follows: --------- Run-time error '91': Object variable or With block variable not set ---------- I've searched high and low for help with this, it looks like it's an error usually generated by VB. Any assistance would be MUCH appreciated. Thank you all. -Dustin its telling that you are using an o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installation Woes

  I have read the installation manuals for TFS (both b3r and rc), and I must be missing something. I am trying to get TFS up and running in a pretty heavily constrained (from the security standpoint) and generally non-Msft environment. The env runs an LDAP directory service but it is not AD. Additionally, it takes a miracle to get domain accounts created. Therefore, I'm wondering what my options are for installing TFS. I will be following the s ...Show All

• Visual C++ File locked by unknown module/thread

  Greetings, I have a problem regarding end of program clean up. My Microsoft C++ project sometimes fails to clean up temporary files even it has all its file handles closed. The project includes portions (especially some COM Objects) written with Borland C++ Builder, which makes debugging and finding the locker thread very difficult. Is there a way enumerate all open file handles and find out which are related to a specific file Thanks i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 Will Not Install

  I've been trying to install VS 2005 Professional from the MSDN DVD -- or rather, I had to copy the install directories onto my HD since it doesn't have a DVD player on it (it's a slightly older laptop). In any case, I have successfully installed SQL Server 2005 Developer onto this machine already (although not without one error with that either). The errors I'm getting vary: The installer keeps telling me a CAB file is corrupt and that it ...Show All

• SQL Server Did SP1 fix Query Optimizer issues w/ Partitioned tables?

  Hi there, We've implemented a partitioned table to a large table within our EDW. However, we'd discovered that the Query Optimizer was not able to understand parameterized queries. It basically was scanning all the partitions even though a parameter was passed defining the partition to use. Consequently, the queries need to hard code parameter values! Does anyone know if SP1 addressed this problem Thanks -Walter ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Disabling Adding New Files to a Visual Studio Project

  Is there a way through TFS version control security to disable the ability to add new files to a Visual Studio project for a group In other words we would like to only let our lead developers add new files to a project. Can this be done and how The current permission system does not distinguish between Adding or Editing, so you can not change a given users permission to one operation without changing them all. The only way to do this in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Choose Items Error

  http://knd.org.uk/files/deskvb.PNG This is what I get when I try to go to Choose Items from the toolbox right click thing. How do I stop this Eliminate the skins: I know it's nice and all, but it can cause problems - and since you are doing things with a specific window (toolbox window), it may be causing problems. To troubleshoot such a problem, go back to as basic an install (of windows) as possible. Stop applications from starting ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can't install VS 2005 Tools for Office

  I have installed VS 2005 Profesional and Office 2003 Standard with Service Pack 2 and am trying unsuccessfully to install VS 2005 Tools for Office. It gets about 60% of the way through initializing and then complains that I don't have Office 2003 Service Pack 1 and quits. As I said, I have service pack 2. I have done a full install of Office, including all the extra tools it wants, and have even downloaded and installed a trial version of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions PROBLEM UNINSTALLING VISUAL BASIC 2005

  Ive unintsalled all the other visual studio software...sql etc. but I cant uninstall visual basic express edition through the add and remove programs in the control panel. every time i try to ununinstall visual basic express 2005 i get an error message saying: "setup is unable to determine a valid setup for the installation. See the error log for further deails". i cant find any error log. ive used the unuinstall tool and that hasnt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Migrating VS2002 Report to VS2005 RTM-060727-4200

  Guys, you gotta help me here.. i've been banging my head over this for a day now, and haven't made any headway.. any report that i run that has parameters is giving me "The parameter is incorrect" message box. These reports all worked fine under our old environment... I am populating them with a dataset.. here's a sample snippet of how i call one of the reports: the report takes 2 parameters: BeginDate and EndDate (both DateTime) <snip&g ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Job failed

  The job is to import data from an Access DB on the network folder into the SQL database every day, by simply dropping the tables and reloading every thing. It succeed with stored procedure, but failed as a SQL Job. Configuration: The SQL database is created using sa. SQL log in as Domain\user1, which mapped to db_owner role of the database. Job is created using sa. Step 1: T-SQL IF EXISTS (SELECT srv.name FROM sys.servers srv WHERE s ...Show All