tyther's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System WorkItem programmatic migration query

  I'm working on a set of migration apps at the moment to move issues from our existing issue tracking system into VSTS Work Items. To maintain tracking information, there are various bits of information I'd really like to copy over such as "CreatedBy" and "CreatedDate" but these are ReadOnly fields in the WorkItem class. I know I could create yet more custom fields to hold this information, but then I end up in a situation where existing iss ...Show All

• Visual Studio Code reorganization

  I Work in an environment with a lot of code that was written by previous contractors.  These contractors have placed methods all over the files and we want to be able to reorganize our classes. For example, place all methods together, all event handlers together, all module level variable declarations together and maybe alphabetize them. I was wondering if there was something either in CodeDOM or DTE that I am missing that would help me cre ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# Absolute Beginner Project Files arent available for Final Project!

  I have been SO SO happy with Express and learning all this stuff! I love it and cannot get enough. I am going through the absolute beginner series offered on the site and have made it basically to the final project. NOW on the final project, where there are multiple files and coding that I need from the beginning, the project files are not even offered for download! All the other lessons have the files available, but this is the one where you R ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to update rows in an mdb data source??

  hi everybody , I'm a beginner student in vb.net,and I'm working on a very small project as a homework,and I've some questions which I ought to search for their solutions via any   source . I need to make an (Update )button in most of my VB forms,which enable me to update any row elements in the datasource in Access through each form , for example: I've a form about CustomersData as (Cust_No,Cust_Name,Cust_Address,Cust_Phone...etc) ...Show All

• .NET Development "Speaking" with windows service

  Hi all, I want to build a windows service that read data from external device through the COM port. How can to request data from the web service and how to send it parameters for certain functions on it. Please help. best regards... You used "windows service" in one sentence and "web service" in another.  Was this discrepency on purpose   I believe reading from a COM port is done throug ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Stored Procedures in SQL CE version

  According to a number of people on the web, SPs aren't supported in ce, but they are incorrect - stored procedures can be used in sql server ce . As Jim Wilson explains in this blog http://blog.jwhedgehog.com/200402archive001.asp , the CommandType of StoredProcedure isn't supported in RDA so this won't work (hence why most think it doesn't work at all): SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(); cmd.CommandText = “MyStoredProc '02/23/2004' ”; ...Show All

• .NET Development Generic SortedList and SortedDictionnary

  I've been reading the documentation on MSDN2 and it says that both, the generic SortedList and SortedDictionnary are binary search trees. My question is, are they self balancing bst (such as avl trees or red black  trees) or does their effectiveness depend on the order the nodes are added (or KeyPairs). Looking these up in reflector, it appears that SortedList simply maintains an Array internal ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express and XLL

  Hello, can I build an XLL addin in VB express I can't find this template under New... as I do in VB6... Thanks Martin I'm not aware of any template for VB 6.0 that can create an XLL file. This is a Windows DLL and VB 6.0 cannot generate these w/o a third party tool or hack. You might be thinking of C++. You can create an Office COM Add-in w/VB.NET: http://support.microsoft.com/ id=302896 ...Show All

• .NET Development Member of Group

  Hi, please can you tell me, how I can obtain a user that belongs to the specified group It is a domain user and a domain group. I already connect to the Activ Directory via LDAP. When I found a user he has property called MemberOf that contain a list of groups the user belongs to it. But only some user has filled up this property. Thanks The “memberOf” attribute contains all the groups except the primary group of the object. To get the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development DateTime Picker for SmartPhone

  I give up.  How is everyone getting a DateTime Picker for smartphone   I am using the vs 2005, but I want to support 2003 devices (since there are very few 2005 smartphones). THanks, Currently the OpenNETCF SDF does not install in VS 2005 but it is being worked on.  In the mean time you can use the SDF binaries in 2005 and manually add your references. ...Show All

• .NET Development Datasets aren't finalized after leaving the scope

  Hi, we discovered a strange behaviour concerning garbage collection of datasets. Because our application needs a tremendous amount of memory and constantly allocates more and more of it we are counting the instances of our objects in memory. Thus we able to determinate if an object is finalized by the garbage collection. Basically most of our objects contain these code snippets in the "new" and "finalize" methods: Public Sub Ne ...Show All

• .NET Development asp remoting

  I have been unsuccessful in connecting an aspx page to a remote dll because the format for web.config commands have changed and all the examples are for vs 2003. I am using vs2005 andMS does not have any samples of how to config aspx 2 remoting (at least that I can find) The questions a little vagues in terms of what you're all handling, but I've included a code snippet that might help you out. <httpRuntime useFullyQualifiedRedirec ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I reference form in main application from a class?

  Hello, I need to change cursor on a form within a class, I used to change frmSettings.ActiveForm.Cursor property but from time to time frmSettings.ActiveForm returns null (I guess when it's not currently active form). So how do I do it properly from withing a class The proper method of doing this is to pass a reference of your form to your class. This can be set through a property or passed in the form of a c ...Show All

• Windows Forms Data Binding, Data Modules and designer support

  IDE: MS Visual Studio.NET 2003 Language: C++ . Hello there, I have a data module (assume its a component or a Win Form) that contains a Connection, Data Adapter and a Data Set . Also I have another form that contains a Data Grid . Now, how can I bind my Data Grid to the Data Set which resides on the other form and make it supported by the designer Thanks in advance . Good night brother, I found the idea man: add a ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services Subscription Table DataSettings field cut off at 256 characters!

  Does anybody know why when i create a subscription using rs.CreateDataDrivenSubscription, the datasettings that is saved in the subscriptions table is cut off at 256 characters. can anyone help Is the column defined as an ntext   If so then somehow your DB is corrupt.  Otherwise, I have never seen this issue before. -Daniel ...Show All