RaviKalyanK's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Connecting HP Pocket PC to my PC

  I have installed the HP iPAQ rx1900 Pocket PC CD on the PC. It connects to the extent that the "media" window appears on the HP Pocket PC as predicted. Now, I prepare to depoly a Visual Studio program called "Ballistics" on to the Pocket PC. This program works gloriously on the emulator. I deploy it onto the Pocket PC. It tries and it tries and it cannot make the connection. The deployment fails. So I back off and s ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO.NET SQL query statement

  I seem to remember reading somewhere that ADO.NET Whidbey allows us to have a sort of parameterized text query.  In other words, I could use  CommandType.Text and say "SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE ID = ", but then have the paramater passed as a SqlParameter the way it would work if I had used CommandType.StoredProcedure instead of a text query. Am I hallucinating this   If not, can anyone point me to more info on it  &nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Default Enter and Cancel button C# Winforms?

  Hi In my winform application I have multiple buttons. Of those buttons, I want one to behave as Enter key by default and other as Escape key.  Tried to search for it, but couldn't find a good solution. Please suggest how can I acheive this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Added new states, do I need to add new ref names?

  The MSF Agile comes with three states for work items: Active, Resolved, and Closed. In my custom template, I have changed these to In Analysis, In Development, Dev Complete, In QA, Passed QA, Closed. Now In order to track and report the full life cycle of a work item, do I need to add new fields and ref names The fields related to event dates defined in MSF Agile are State Change Date, Activated Date, Resolved Date, Closed Date. They seem to ma ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Keyword expansion in TFS source control?

  Does Team System source control support keyword expansion   I'm not seeing it in C# file I've checked in - is there an option somewhere that I need to track down How mind-numbingly lame.  Even toy SCC systems have keyword expansion, and have had it for decades.  I reiterate my earlier claim - TFS source control is cool but unfinished - and looking more and more unfininshed every day :( ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild task use VSIP or VS automation?

  Hi, Is it possible for a task I write (that's called from MSBuild) to use VSIP interfaces or VS automation I've created my own output window pane and I'd like my MSBuild task to write to that custom output window pane. Thanks! It should be possible for your task to use VSIP interfaces or VS automation to communicate with your custom output pane. I have to admit, though, that its not something that we've tri ...Show All

• SQL Server How to create Merge Replication with latest update always from subscribers

  Hi , I am trying to create Replication Topology (Merge Replication) like below. Subscriber1 --> Publisher <-- Subscriber2. I have created both subscribers with Subscription Type as Server with Priority as 75. I am updating the Column A of Row_10 in Subscriber1 on time say 11 am. After i am running the Starting synchronizing agent from Subscriber1. The value propagated to Publisher now publisher contains the latest value in Colum ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using Classes and Structs

  I am confused on using Classes and Structs. Can anyone shed light on what MS has changed about them example this code generates a ton of weird errors #include <windows.h> class CIGECORE { public :     LPSTR sAppTitle;     int iPosX;     int iPosY;     int iWidth;     int iHeight; };   That would be Gdi32.lib.  ...Show All

• .NET Development ComboBox entries at runtime

  I have a Combobox, which I populate from a datasource.However I would like the user to be able to key in new text, which would then be saved as a new entry in the dropdown Any Ideas please.... One approach would be to overlay the textbox portion of the dropdown with an actual textbox.  In code, then, you'd need to keep the two in sync by copying the selected item in the dropdown to the textbox when th ...Show All

• SQL Server Page break with lists

  Page break aren't working with lists when printing. We have a dataset with multiple rows binding to a list, for each row I want a new page, but they're all merging contiguously when the report is run (including on print preview and printing) despite having the page break boxes set. Any idea about what I should be looking for to fix this Cheers, Paul ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System connect from sharepoint to query created in Vs2005

  hello, I created a custom query in vs2005 and want to connect to this query and show the result as a excel-table in the sharepoint portal. is it possible. In the vs I got the following url for the query: vstfs:///WorkItemTracking/Query/b900abbd-ffe9-4a34-a398-53e76e0a1a3d what does it mean how can I connect to this query kind regards --remo Office Web Components might work for you. Here's m ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smartphone C++ question

  Hi. I usually program in .NET for Windows and Smartphone.   However I am needing to access some smartphone device features (IR in particular) and it requires using C++ unfortunatly. I am wondering, what do I need to use to develop in C++ for the smartphones I do have VS.NET 2003 and 2005, Smartphone devices which have WM2003SE and WM2005. Can I develop the C++ stuff in VS.NET IF so - even though I have the smartphone SDK inst ...Show All

• SQL Server Restoring to a network paths?

  I'm getting the error "The file \\xxx ... is on a network path that is not supported for database files. File xx cannot be restored to \\xx ..... Use WITH MOVE to identify a valid location for the file. Below is my code for the restore. I've even shared the folder on the network but still no success. Try Dim restoreToServer As New Server("xxxx") Dim rest As New Restore rest.Devices.AddDevice(" \\xx\x$\Pro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding UserControl to Windows Forms Application

  Hi - I have created a small Windows Forms Application test application. I want to add a UserControl to my project that is editable in the Designer. To do this I am right clicking on the project in the Solution Explorer, then selecting Add->AddClass. This brings up a dialog with a tree view with all the class types I can add. I select .Net from the tree control and then the UserControl Icon. When I click Open I recieve a MessageBox that says: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System tfsbuild.exe.config AllowedTeamServer

  Hi, I'm having trouble executing a build from the command line or through TE on my build machine- which is also the TFS. I get the same error when I try each way TF42053: The build machine is not configured to build for server http://<servername>:8080/ . ... To change the team foundation server for the build machine update the AllowedTeamServer key in the config file for TFSbuildService.exe ... I don't see a config file for TF ...Show All