iam_venny's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Helpful tips

  Am moving crystal reports to reporting services in anger. Am discovering the following points as I go along that may be interesting to others doing the same. If anyone knows something I have said is wrong, or wants to add a useful tip please feel free to comment as I am hoping other new RS users will find this thread useful. Multi-column reports dont show up in preview mode, excel or html, only pdf, print preview and print. Multi-colum ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System can team server run on one box with an asp.net site ??

  ok so I got some things to work -- installing the beast and making a sample empty project... but then I need to put a web site on the same server to develop. WUPS!   to remotely access the web site with Visual Studio I need Front Page Extensions and adding them seems to break TFS perhaps I am trying the impossible what I want to do: one server. have Team Server on that box to manage the development of one app. the app has : 1) a wind ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ActiveSync 4.0

  I've done a full install of VS 2005 Beta 2, created a test app and tried to download it to a PPC 2003 device.  I get a deployment error: 1>The current version of ActiveSync is not supported. Install the latest version from www.microsoft.com. ========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ========== I have ActiveSync 3.8 installed and running.  Where do I find ActiveSync 4.0 I've linked it f ...Show All

• Visual C# "Breaking points are not getting "

  Dear all, Continued to my earlier mail regarding "Breaking points are not getting hit in ASP.NET " , I got some idea from net. Can anyone give me more idea on this Just to remind the issue: 1. I got the following error while executing a newly created a web application (just sample app) ["Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server"] (Some what I can avoid this error: change Projec ...Show All

• SQL Server green-bar for list

  green-bar (altrnating background color) can be done in table, I can find a solution for matrix, but how about a list Thanks This doesn't seem to work in the scenario I have List containing: textboxes, table the above line of code, when placed in the list.backgroundcolor gives the following (have also included rownumber ) 2 white 4 white 6 white etc.. this is because it appear to be taking into account the detail (table) level So, instead o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Two templates missing

  I submitted a question in the Visual Basic General area that I should have been here. In case it has not been seen I am resubmitting it here. I have Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta 2. According to a magazine screen shot there should be five icons in the New Project dialogue under the heading Templates: Visual Studio installed templates I have three icons at this location & they are: Class Library, My Movie Collecti ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can I display any text on RowHeaders in the DataGridView?

  I want to display time on all RowHeaders of DataGridView, I'm using VS2005. If you have a TemplateField in your GridView you can add a HeaderItem and do something like the following < HeaderTemplate > <% = DateTime .Now.ToString( "hh:mm:ss tt" ) %> </ HeaderTemplate > ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Opening Windows media palyer

  Hi, The problem is i should be able to open windows media palyer programatically through a button when i click on the button.Is there any built in function available in C#...i am trying this in C# .NET CF 2.0. can any ine help me out... Thanks for reading.. can u help me in..how can we pass a url for this media player to play a file if we open it like that... thanks for ur help..it worked ( System.Diagnostics.Process.St ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System My Tasks are getting deleted when checking in code

  When I check in work, I associate them with a Task, say Task ID 200. If my checkin resolves this task, I can no longer see this task in the system at all. No queries or anything will show me this task... How do I fix this I highly doubt they are being deleted. When you associate the changeset with a work item, the Agile template by default changes the work item from an "Active" state to a "Closed" state. Since ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error adding reference .dll

  I'm trying to add a .dll that I wrote in C to a VB.NET program.  I get the message that the reference could not be added... make sure file... is a valid assembly or COM component.  How do I make it a COM component   Thanks. It's not even a type library, though I just read how I can add a "type library resource" to the DLL.  Should I try that Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual C# Asynchronous iterators — take a look at idea in Language forum

  Iterators and anonymous methods had no impact on industrial C# programming. They are cool, but add no real savings for now. But now I have the idea how to get real benefit of iterators. Why For asynchronous execution. Take a look of it at Language forum: https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=180659&SiteID=1 Interesting idea but I'll post a few comments just to share my opinion. 1) Iterators are useful and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Code Coverage not working

  I have a web app that connects to a web service (in the same project). I have a set of unit tests (also in the same project) that target the web service only. When I select code coverage for the unit tests, the unit tests run but the code is not covered. It says none of the instrumented binaries was used. I've tried a variety of options (saw the other thread in this forum and tried to do what it said there) but nothing worked. Is this a known bu ...Show All

• Visual C# XMLTextReader

  Hi, I am trying to use the XMLTextReader's Read(), I get an exception always, saying that file is being used by another process.. I know not where is that being used.. Any thoughts... Hello, I just figured it out.. I am using 3 controls to display the same file in different formats... Now I was trying to load in 2 controls and therefore I got this exception.. Anyway I need to load the same in the 3 controls... Any techniques ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System News Groups

  Is there any newsgroup (private or public) on Team System Thanks Leticia ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Files Versioning

  1. How is this possible to roll back specific changeset 2. Is this posible to turn need file version to the previouse one without removing current. In fact I need switch file version from e.g 1.7 to 1.4 temporary without removing versions 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 3. Is this possible to view user readable file version number in the source control client I need it e.g to refer to it in emails (I dont want create label for this)... thanks! ...Show All