clstephenson's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Backup you data with Team Foundation Server Beta 3

  Since the documentation looks to be outdated: What are the steps to take to backup all the data within TFS3. It should be a backup of all tables (including SharePoint Services and Reporting Serves data) from SQL Server and a backup of Windows SharePoint Services. Is that it Are the attachements now stored within the database Thanks, Neno Yes, all of the mutable data is now within the database.  So backing up TFS is just backing up all ...Show All

• SQL Server 2 node Active Active SQL Cluster

  I want to host 2 seperate SQL databases and wanted to know if it would be possible to run this in an active active cluster config which each database running on a different server. The clustering would be there in the event of failure of one of the servers but for normal operation the two sql instances would be completely seperate. Is this configuration possible and would this give the best performance and resiliance from a 2 server setup. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetFactory

  I downloaded the VS Studio Team System Extensiblity Kit and I am using the TeamFoundationServerFactory .GetServer method to get the team foundation server. I am getting an error accessing registry key because I suspect the teamfoundationserver did not have the permissions to access the registry. Even when I try to pass in the default credentials using the following code, I am still getting the registry key error: System.Net. ICredentials ...Show All

• SQL Server Incremental loading

  Hi Friends please let me know how can we incrementally load a destination table with source table. bearing in mind that we need to track that there are no duplicates in the destination table. I need to load only changed or new data in the final load. Please give me some examples also. I am tryin this from last 2 days as I am totally new to SSIS. Hi, First off: do you have a column on your source data that indicates that a row is new or c ...Show All

• Windows Forms User Control Causing VS2005 to crash

  I created a custom user control and when I try and drag and drop it into a windows form visual studio 2005 crashes and I can't debug it.  Any ideas on why it would do that The normal thing to cause this is a stack overflow. Check your code for cases where you are missing a "this"/"me"/"base" or "MyBase" when attempting to return a value. There are a few threads in this forum on stack overflow and why it causes VS to crash. &nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cross-thread operation not valid...

  Hi all, I have one project that run well on Visual Studio 2003. When i using the same code in isual Studio 2005, this is: public void port_OnRead(string Data) { // Note! // To convert from string to byte[] use SerialNET.Port.StringToByteArray() if (Data == null) { // Timeout } else { byte[] myBytes = ConvertStringToByteArray(Data); hexString = BitConverter.ToString(myBytes); ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem uploading files using HttpWebRequest

  When I tried to upload files larger than 1mb using the HttpWebRequest I get an error   System.Net.WebException was unhandled   Message="The request was aborted: The request was canceled."   Source="System" When I try to upload files less than 1mb its working fine. I did a network trace, and it seems its timing out. How do you prevent it from timing out Heres the code: string boundary = "----------" + DateTim ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Please help !! Urgent !!

  hi all , how are you Hope everything is OK .. I have this calculator program that is written in C++ language ... what i need to do is to make some changes on the code of the program to make it not reliable but still Functional .. In other words, the program will execute without error !! 100% executable ... but it will not be reliable ... an example of that , maybe the program will take a long time (5 seconds for ex ...Show All

• Visual Basic Loops

  Hello, I am trying to create a program that generates the fibonacci series numbers between 2 and 1,000,000,000 (1 billion). The user enters in an number in to a textbox (between 2 and 1 billion), and the program then outputs the Fibonacci series up to that number in a list. The program is also supposed to output the number of numbers found up to that specific number and the sum of all those numbers found. It would be easy if the task was to, let ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System error 26204 during single server installation

  dear All, trouble during foudation server installation always got 26204 error. somebody can help me... tks! BR, To get single-server installation to work, you have to follow the order in the instructions to the letter. Rob Caron's blog post points out the importance of installing AD first, if it will be installed on the server machine. http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2005/04/21/410484.aspx The importance of following the direction ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Update statement

  Hi all, Sorry for this super newbie question, but I am purely a mysql developer. I am trying to update a table using Query Analyzer and am having problems with the sql syntax. This is what I'm trying to do: update table set column1 = 'test data', column2 = 'test data2' where column1 is NULL and column2 is NULL I receive 512 errors, stating that the subquery cannot return more than 1 record. I understand that most of the table has ...Show All

• SQL Server MDX calculation

  Not sure if this can be done any help appreciated. first a little background info a "customer" can have multiple "bill types" I create two calculated members Calculated member1 - returns all the customers that have a bill type "A" Calculated member2 - returns all the customers for bill types except "A" I'd like to have a calculated member that returns all customers that have bill type &qu ...Show All

• SQL Server Report not reflecting Dataset

  My SSRS 2005 Dataset refreshes fine but my report, even though I refresh isn't really picking it up 100%...it's missing an account but I know that account shows in my dataset in VS. I only am using one filter and that is fine...has no affect. Is there a specific way to refresh my report after my dataset besides the refresh button for the report itself If you run the report in report designer, it will cache the data to a local file on disk ...Show All

• .NET Development Visual Studio 2005 Webservices error

  Hello, I created a webservice that return a typed dataset [WebMethod]public Rotas.mailing_configuracoesDataTable ListaConfigValida() { callcenter.Dados.RotasTableAdapters.mailing_configuracoesTableAdapter adapter = new callcenter.Dados.RotasTableAdapters.mailing_configuracoesTableAdapter(); return adapter.ListarConfiguracoes(); } When I add a web reference to the webservice and try to consume it doesnt return any data... If i try to ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView , DataSource and myGridView.Rows return null (same for .Columns)

  Well, I was very happy to be able to set up a complex query to fill a DataSet and use that DataSet as a DataSource for a DataGridView. But the issue is that the DataGridView displays the data in a very raw mode and that I need to apply many different style depending on each cell. But the Columns property returns null and the Columns.Count return 0 Same for Rows and Count. I have had to create all the columns manually from code to be able to ap ...Show All