shaggymog's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Visual Studio hangs after WWF 1.2 is installed

  I've just installed WWF 1.2 beta, and now Visual Studio (RTM) appears to hang in an endless loop on startup. I've installed the Windows SDK, WWF platform components, VS WWF extenstions, as well as WinFX and VS WinFX extensions, all in one go. The only visible sign of an error I can find (apart from VS now being broken :) are some entries in the Application event log (something is complaining about a missing assembly, Microsoft.ReportingServices.QueryDesigners; I'm guessing these originate from NGen as they are dated after the event log entries reporting a successful installation). The problem has been isola ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source control for non-VS2005 files

  We consider to use VSTS for work item tracking and source control. We have projects in C++, C# and VB6 (VB6 code will NOT be migrated to VB.NET). If we wanted to put the VB6 code under source control in VSTS (instead of Visual Source Safe), what would be the best way to do it Thanks, Adrian Unfortunately, that's correct.  You can use SCE in TFC, but there are quite a number of known problems there (hence the warning in the readme). The command line works well and invokes dialogs for commands like checkin, shelve, history, resolve (for conflict resolution), workspace, etc. In the near term, you can hook up the command line commands ...Show All

• .NET Development Can't get a TCPClient Connection working

  I've been working on this same thing for quite some time now. I'm trying to make an admin console to manage my IRC server, but I can't get past the beginning stages of establishing and maintaining a connection. I finally copied the code out of the project and made a new one with just a textbox, trying to just dump every bit of data I'm sent into that box, but even that isn't doing anything now. I've looked into IRC communication, so I know I'm using the correct syntax. Can someone look at this and tell me why I'm not seeing anything in my textbox In the project I copied this out of, I was getting one messagebox, which was good, but a little ...Show All

• SQL Server Start SQL server 2005 CTP

  Hi I need an answer to this: I just downloaded and installed SQL server 2005 CTP. When I start the MS SQL server database Engine it returns this error: TITLE: Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections - localhost An Error occurred while performing this operation - (SQLSAC) Program Location: at Microsoft.SqlSac.MainPanel.UserControlService.ActOnService(ServiceAction action) Can you please tell me how to fix this Poek Hi, what does the Event log tell you about the service start HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Password and CopyObject method to copy modules in AccessDB

  Hi to all, I'm using modules and forms collections from Microsoft.office.interop.access.application object to copy modules and forms from a database to another. And it does not work, I think it's because of the password inside the database, to manage modules. Is someone knows the method in .net librairies in order to set the password I know there is one in access.application.OpenCurrentDatabase but it seems not be the right one. thanks for help david Since this isn't an issue in VSTO per se as in Access porgrammabilty, please try the Access programmability forum: http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.msp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Where is Beta 3 of the Team Foundation Server

  My subscription does not have an english version of team foundation server listed in MSDN. If I want it in Japanese, I am good to go, just not english. I am a Universal subscriber. Anyone else having this issue ...Show All

• Visual Basic COM visible DLLs: are they only legends?

  Can anybody provide a direct, straightforward method of creating a DLL with properties and methods exposed to other programs I followed the instructions that I found on the MSDN websites as well as suggestions from forum participants. The DLL should be available both for COM and .NET programs. So far, nothing has worked. There are numerous variations listed on the MSDN site. No doubt there are reasons for the differing instructions. However, I have not had sufficient success with any of them. Sometimes, just building the project makes the class visible to COM compatible programs. Other times, only after running regasm. Still other times, I h ...Show All

• .NET Development cannot see references on solution explorer

  hello everybody, i have installed vs .net 2005 beta 2 problem is that i cannot see any references on solution explorer how can i add them i can add a reference and see it in class view but then i cannot remove it! also my look differs very much from a fellow colleague that installed the same version. Am I suffering from bad installation or is it some setting I am not aware of. Also some other thing i ve noticed by following an msdn tutorial on building a simple web service. When i drag and drop two fields of a table from server explorer  -> data connections  , on the design surface of the web service , nothing happens. On 2003 a ...Show All

• Visual Basic WebBrowser questions

  I'm using the AxWebBrowser on a form in VS 2003 to create this browser. one of codes is mywebbrowser.navigate(URL.toURL). The question is the value of param in url including special char '&',I must retrieve data from database with the value of the param .now the http address cann't display the data cause the char'&' . Can anyone help me out here I would need more information Are you trying to Use a URL that has a parameter Please give examples (you might want to block out the actual address part) ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to use Books Online search function

  I am unable to use the search feature in Books Online.  Every time I click the "Search" button, I get this error message: Package "Visual Studio Common IDE Package" failed to load Anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this error Hmm, this is strange. I know that you have already gone through an uninstall/repair/install cycle and I am sorry for the trouble it has caused. Is it possible to uninstall Books Online again and send me the registry entries that are left behind under the following registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0 For speedier communication and resolution of this issue, y ...Show All

• Architecture need som direction

  Hi All, I'm a overseeing a project using asp.net tech uppfront for data capture and vb.net client where the data is manually manipluated and then returned SQL Server and back to the Asp.net client. Have any of you heard of an instance where you have used IIS to cache to relieve performance problems is this a often occurrance isn't this a sign that the application as such is poorly designed Background to my question are based on the development team has developed 1 major Object which is about 2MB in size which is sent back & forth between the client (VB.Net) and the server (SQL Server) which has created performance ...Show All

• Windows Forms how do u change the appearance of the windows and buttons

  how do u change the appearance of the windows and buttons from Windows classic style to the Windows XP kind. I have XP and it wont let me change, like there's no choice to put it back HELP ME!!!! PLEASE do you have a manifest file if you dont, hear is what to do: 1 go to the bin folder of yur application 2 create a new text ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problems with Sprite.Draw2D & October SDK

  Hi, I replaced my Direct3DX reference (1.0.2906.0) with the latest version included in the October SDK (1.0.2908.0). However, when I now compile, my code fails with "Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'Draw2D' can be called with these arguments:" Sprite.Draw2D(Texture, Rectangle, Rectange, Point, Color) The "dxreadme.htm" states that the D3DX dll is unchanged from the August version. So what is this 1.0.2908 I have gone back to the 1.0.2906 dll and all is fine again. Can someone explain what I am doing wrong please. Thanks, Jim Hi I found that out too. Using the 3D Draw it seems setting Z ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Working Folder

  With VFP 3.0 I always checked whether the EXE folder sys(16,0) existed in the same folder as the current working folder set("default") + curdir() . If they did not match then I knew that CONFIG.FPW would not be read. So I would exit and display a message telling the user to modify their shortcut. Is there any way in VFP 6.0 and newer to make sure CONFIG.FPW is read regardless of the current folder or method used to start the program ================== I also used the following method to check if the EXE was already running. To prevent users from accidentally running the program twice and accessing the same set of data files. set libr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System absolute paths in vsmdi file

  Hi, We use Visual Studio's test lists functionality to order our unit tests, since there are lots of them, and a hierarchical partitioning is definitely nice. As it seems, the structure of these lists are stored in the .vsmdi file. This is all well, but for the storage tag, which contains the absolute path to the test assembly. <storage type="System.String">c:\...\bin\debug\frameworktests.dll</storage> The problem is that we have multiple developers working at multiple places in different environments, and not all use the same directory. This results in the source code versioning system to create conflicts every time somebod ...Show All