ducas's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Error 28704.Unable to connect to the Analysis server.

  I just can't figure this one out - two tier installation where I have followed the setup manual to the letter (i think). Analysis service is in fact running, I can even connect to it from a mgmt studio installed on the application tier. I tried watching the network traffic to see where it might be getting confused, but the servers were talking via soap, and then encrytped the conversation so I couldn't diagnose anything in particular. I would gu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Irreversible decisions?

  What are the irreversible decisions (or effectively irreversible due to large amounts of work) in VSTS   If you choose MSF Agile and later decide that you either want MSF CMMI or want to make significant changes to the process template, can those changes be applied to an existing project Can you change fields in a work item type of an existing project   Say add some fields, remove some fields and add more choi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Compare between folders

  Hi, There is a way to compare folders in VSTS Thanks in advance, Shmulik. Robert Horvick's blog has a few posts on implementing folder diff: http://blogs.msdn.com/roberthorvick/ ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Designer wish list?

  I have been playing around, and making some presentations to some people in our group on WF, and the way that can be used not only for programming purposes, but also for designin and presenting business processes. Here is a couple of questions (should I call it wish-list ) on the designer. If someone in the team could give some feedback on this I would appreciate it: 1. Ability to drag-and-drop "comment" activities (like the 'annotation' sh ...Show All

• .NET Development Configuration File

  I can connect to by database using the following ODBC connection string. Dim conn as New OdbcConnection("DSN=AlphaRDB; UID=username; PWD=password) I have created a file app.config located in my project directory that has the following: <configuration>   <appSettings>       <add key="LD_Connect" value=               "DSN=RDBAlpha; UID=use ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System version details

  eyooo, well i guess from all my post everyone knows my config already :-) Windows 2003 server, SP1 all patches, office 2003 SP1 + patches, sql 2005. .net framework 2.0, IIS 6.0, sharepoint services 2.0 SP1 + patch, all in a active directory domain usin this server as domain contoller...... well, i edited the ...\ roots\web.config , reportserver\web.config , reportmanager\web.config , made sure that the securtiylevel in rsreporterserver.config i ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Hands-on lab and the February CTP

  Folks: I am trying to get the DataBindingLab from the Hands-On-Labs to compile. I have nto changed anything, but it will not compile. Here is the offending code: < Mapping XmlNamespace="src" ClrNamespace="DataBindingLab" > < Window x:Class = " DataBindingLab.AddProductWindow " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas. ...Show All

• Visual C++ how to stop an application like a messagebox does

  hi there! i hope this is the right place for this post. i have the following problem: i am writing an adobe acrobat plugin in c++ with the visual studio.net 2003. i have another application with which i send data per mailslot to my plugin. the plugin displays a messagebox which is to be clicked when data is sent from the other application. if i try to implement the plugin without the messagebox the acrobat hangs because the plugin looks perm ...Show All

• Visual C++ Add anim gif to resource in VS 2005 (or 2003) doesn't working?

  How to add anim gif resource to project I try Add resource/Import, choose a gif file, in Custom Resource Type Window typing GIF (trying so "GIF") but it doesn't working. This message box is displayed: http://www.racap.net/nuke/vc++/notvalidfile.jpg I try this with some another gif files. Thank for help. Hi, Even if we do not support Gif files as Bitmap resource type, this looks like a bug. Please report this defect to the MS ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error missing runtime function in MSVCR80D.dll

  Just installed VS 2005 Pro.  Rebuilt a project that had been working with the beta and I'm getting a runtime error when trying to run an executable.  It says: The procedure entry point _encode_pointer could not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCR80D.dll. I searched the forums and didn't find anything about this problem.  Hard to believe I'm the first to encounter it though.  Anyone else have this problem   Any ...Show All

• Visual Basic StreamReader

  Imports System.IO Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form Dim IDNo As String Dim Rate As Double Dim Hours As String Dim RegPay As Double Dim GPay As Double Dim OvrPay As Double   Dim EmpData As System.IO.StreamReader   # Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New () MyBase .New() 'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I add images to main menu in VS.NET 2003?

  How can I add images to main menu in VS.NET 2003 while developing the WinForms application Are you familiar with GDI   You need to know something about GDI in order to make use of this feature. When you set the OwnerDraw to true, whenever the menu has to be painted, it will trigger the DrawItem event.  The event passes you a a DrawItemEventArgs which contains a Graphics object and Bounds.  The Bounds is the dimensions of ...Show All

• Visual Studio What is the status of Beta2 docs?

  I installed the MSDN help that came with MSVS Beta2.  I notice that the documentation seems to be missing lots of information, for example, some .Net framework classes are incomplete, compiler warnings are missing and c++ example code is missing. Are we expected to report bugs on these things or are these known issues that will be addressed in future updates I also notice that when I search for something like 'Forms', In 2003, I used ...Show All

• Visual Basic Single Quote problem in Insert Query.

  I have a Form where a user is supposed to enter following information: Zone Number and Zone Name. I am using following Insert Query to insert the record in the Oracle Database: qCommit = "Insert into Zones Values(" & Val(txtNewZoneNo.Text) & ",' " & txtNewZoneName.Text & " ' )" This query is execute using "ExecuteNonQuery()" method. The Form uses Hindi Language Fonts to enter the informatio ...Show All

• Visual Basic Picture Box

  I got an MDI application and am trying to place a picture on the MDI parent. If I place the picture as a Background Image of the MDI parent, the picture is tiled across the whole form..... and doesn't look nice! If I place a picture box and dock it to fill, and select the image I want, the image is shown well. But whenever I call another form, nothing appears on the screen...... the form is loading behind the picture box. I already tried calling ...Show All