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• Visual Studio MSDN 2005 not integrated with visual studio 6.0

  I have both the MSDN 2005 and Visual studio 6.0 installed side by side, but the help is not integrated with visual studio, which is a pain ! I found this article : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306873/ but the solution proposed does not work for visual studio 6.0 Any idea Thanks pelicanous The last issue of MSDN to be integrated with VS 6 was October 2001. Mike Ober. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Old Work Items missing from query

  Hi all One of the developers in my group run into this problem : we have more then 3000 work items in our system (RTM). when preforming the "all work items" query, he gets only the last 250 (by ID) !!! he has the developer edition. when I run the same query on my machine, with the team suite edition, I get to see all work items. how (and where exactly) can I allow him to see those work items, since he is suppose to be worki ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Revision history in source file

  Does anybody know whether it is possible to set TFS up to automatically apply check in comments and work-item IDs as comments to the top of a source file as it is checked in We used to use a system called PVCS Tracker integrated with Visual SourceSafe using PVCS-TrackerLink which would do this and it was very useful when looking at the source file to have a visual trace of its lifetime. So, we would have a file comment header like ... /***** ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista About the workflow desiger Rehosting?

  When I try to load a xoml file using the designer( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/WFDsgnRehst.asp ) ,I meet the Exception msg {"Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 2, position 53."}. try { WorkflowMarkupSerializer xomlSerializer = new WorkflowMarkupSerializer(); rootActivity = xomlSerializer.Deserialize(reader) as Activity; } I think the xom ...Show All

• SQL Server Permissions in SQLExpress

  Hello.  I have a problem with assigning permissions in SQLExpress.  First a little background.  A couple of weeks ago we upgraded from MSDE to SQLExpress.  The database came over fine, tables, stored procedures, roles and since everything ran ok I am sure that it preserved all the permissions from the roles.  The database has two programs and two distinct groups of users that create and edit da ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) msmq multicast and indigo

  Is it possible to get netMsmqBinding working with msmq multicasting. I didn't find a way to set it up. Thanks, Igor. Hi Igor, Currently, it is not possible to get MSMQ multicasting work with NetMsmqBinding. You can, of course, make it work with the MsmqIntegrationBinding. Cheers, Krish ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to restore MainWindow to maximized on startup

  I tried to restore the MainWindow on application startup on the second screen. I saved some window position, Size and state on previous window shutdown. On startup i tried to restore the old state. window.Left = rectangleLocation.Location.X; window.Top = rectangleLocation.Location.Y; window.Width = rectangleLocation.Width; window.Height = rectangleLocation.Height; if (state == System.Windows.WindowState.Maximized) window.WindowState = state; ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS 2005 linker bug

  We just found what sure seems like a linker bug with VS 2005. Below is an extremely simple test program with comments to trivially reproduce the problem. - John /** * This code demonstrates what appears to be a linker bug in Visual Studio 2005. * Compile this file using these two commands. * * cl /c /showIncludes /MDd /Zi /Od /DDEBUG /D_DEBUG /EHsc test.cpp * link /verbose /manifest /out:test.exe test.obj msvcprtd.lib msvcrtd.lib * ...Show All

• Visual C# Changing width of scrollbar on combo box

  I'm currently writing a C# application that will utilize a touchscreen as the primary interface method. Since I'm using a touchscreen and not a mouse, large, easy to hit controls are key. This hasn't been a problem for the most part, but I'm running into trouble in a situation where I use a combo box. I can change font size of the items listed in the combo box, so each row is tall enough to hit easily. The problem is that there are more item ...Show All

• SQL Server ERROR: SQL Server does not exist or access denied

  I am really new to SQL and am having trouble getting to first base. I installed SQL Express on a 700Mhz Pentium III with 256Mb of RAM system running Windows XP pro. The installation went smoothly except for a warning that my system did not meet the minimum requirements. I can open the configuration tools, but am clueless about their meaning. When I open Visual Studio and view the Server Explorer , I see my system GYPSY listed under the servers, ...Show All

• Visual Basic DirectX confusion?

  Hi There, I have been trying to integrate some Direct X functionality into my VB.NET application and am finding it incredibly difficult to find code samples with VB.NET code instead of C# examples which are everywhere! When I have found a few VB.NET code samples that I can understand, they won't run on my machine because I am running a newer version of Direct X (DirectX 9c) and this version is apparently not backwards compatible with the previou ...Show All

• SQL Server Error 1 Parser: The syntax for the ImpersonationInfo object is incorrect

  Error 1 Parser: The syntax for the ImpersonationInfo object is incorrect. If the ImpersonateAccount value is used for ImpersonationInfo, then the Account property cannot be empty.  0 0  I am getting the above error when I am trying to deploy my objects. I am trying to deploy this on a named sql 2005 server. The host also have named sql 2000 instance. Thank you all. This was re ...Show All

• Visual Basic convert an access database to a single XML file

  I have an MDB file with only a few tables. what is the best way to convert this MDB file to A single XML file using vb 2005 code Hi, You can put the data into a DataSet and write the information into a XML file. For more information read the next How To: Persist a DataSet as XML by Using VB.NET http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q308/0/64.asp The article uses SqlDataAdapter to read from a SQL database t ...Show All

• Visual C# creating a dom navigable document from a string

  Hey, So. What do you reckon the easiest way to do this is. I have a string that contains the source of a webpage, and i want to be able to navigate using the DOM. what is the easiest way to insert this string into a dom-compatible document. at the moment i have tried a few things with mshtml, but to no avail. this is for the purpose of manipulating the contents of an email in outlook, so creating a axwebbrowser object isn't really a viable optio ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Issue with Eventing Service in VSTS

  We tried to build a prototype for capturing the events from VSTS as follows - 1. A windows application - EventingClient - It contains a button - Subscribe - on click of which the following piece of code gets executed to subscribe to workitemchangedevent. //Logon to the VSTS Server  LogonToVSTSServer( "xyz046247.testdom" ); //set the delivery preference to immediate delivery via SOAP DeliveryPreference DP = new DeliveryPreferenc ...Show All