Sathish Alagirisamy's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Help still broken

  Just installed the release version of VS2005 standard. Alas, F1 help is still broken. If I position the cursor over a word (for example HANDLE) and hit F1, the following happens: 1. If MSDN is set to use local help only, it always displays the topic-not-found page, even though on the left hand side, the topic is not only present, but selected. A single click on the highlighted item displays the correct information. 2. If MSDN is set to use onlin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Items in Project, Projects in Solution

  <Sorry for the cross-post from Build Automation group if you have already read this post - I was recommended to try this group over there> Hi folks, I'm trying to find a way in MSBuild to get an ItemGroup containing the Projects that are in a Solution, and in turn an ItemGroup that has the files in a Project. Ultimately I'd like a single ItemGroup that contained ALL files that are in a solution. This is proving a little tricky, since ...Show All

• Visual C# Developing web apps using VC# Express?

  Hi. Is it possible to develop web applications using Visual C# Express Edition, or will I need the full Visual Studio 2005 product for this If not, is it possible to code the project as a windows forms project in VC# Express, and then copy the project to a Visual Studio 2005 machine and compile it as a web application Thanks! /Anders (newbie) The language is not a problem, you can use C# or VB. If you used Vis ...Show All

• SQL Server Free space information in Management Studio

  In Enterprise Manager, the taskpad view showed me how much space is available in the data and log files. Is this information available anywhere in SSMS For instance, in one database EM shows me that I have 1200MB free in the data file and 400MB free in the log file. It also says, at the top of the taskpad view, that I have 0 free space in the database - I'm not sure how they relate, but in SSMS the only number that I can see is the 0. It also t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Hradware compatible

  Hi My PC currently using the P4 630 with HT 3.0 Ghz, can anyone give me some sugesstion, is the processor ready for running  the windows vista platform  Can it still provide the best experience for high-end gaming or video editing. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to read a remote URL

  Hi. Can I read a remote URL by using : ------- fp = File.OpenText(Server.MapPath("http://www.server.com/test.txt")) txtMyFile.Text = fp.ReadToEnd() fp.Close() ------- Thank you very much. ASP.NET is cool! Hi! Thanks for asking! I'm a member of the ASP.NET team, and was just popping over here to see what was going on. The best place to ask ASP.NET questions is over on the ASP.NET forums at http ...Show All

• Windows Forms validation in forms

  Hi I have made a web form (C# asp.net) and now I'm making the same form for windows.  I'm trying to validate the user input.  Can I use the same validator gems I used in asp.net (requiredfieldvalidator, comparevalidator etc) in a windows form ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Viewing Testing Artefacts in Team Edition for Software Developers

  I am software tester working with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers in a small team of software developers working with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers.   As I raise Bugs from my manual test scripts they get automatically attached to the Bug as a link.   This should allow the developer to see the test script (manual test .mht file), result of the test and comments as to why the test failed.   This ...Show All

• Visual Studio Add-in language neutral resources

  I've implemented an add-in for Visual Studio 2005. For the .addin xml file I've set up @XXX strings for the description, about box etc. For the toolbar I'm loading custom images (using the AddNamedCommand2). All is fine as long as I provide a satellite dll with the same culture as VS. However, if my add-in is installed on a system with a localized version of VS and I don't provide a satellite dll for that exact culture the add-in doesn't st ...Show All

• Visual C# Annoying Dialog

  When opening custom projects an annoying dialog pops up saying: " Security Warning...." And then you have the option to either "Load project for Browsing" or "Load project normally", and then a checkbox "Show this dialog for sub projects" or something like that. Can anyone please tell me how I can disable the dialog Thank you. The easiest will be if I could send you ...Show All

• .NET Development error using tableadapter

  was looking for a little help on this one i'm doing the tutorial for 05 http://beta.asp.net/guidedtour2/ and i'm on page 14 adding update functionality, the code provided is generating an overload error for the way in which the .Update is being used. Here is the error I'm getting. Error    1    d:\Authors\App_Code\DataAccess.vb(23): error BC30516: Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'Update' accepts th ...Show All

• .NET Development FileNotFoundException while calling web service from web service

  I have system which runs self standing asmx web service on desktop (I have simple web service web server implemented with http.sys, modified version of system described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/12/ServiceStation/default.aspx). This system works just fine with simple web methods in my service, calling for example methods from my other custom assemblies etc. But now, when I add web reference to another web service (AXIS 1.2 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System gosh! why the heck???

  hello once again, on install of VSTFS 2005 Beta 2 i recieve always login failed in the event log (first entry in the event log after install)  on my user tfssetup who is domain admin and in the local admin group too... but the user has ALL rights on SQL 05 (on the same machine (domaincontroller) installed) hmm any ideas regards from austria Mikky dd_depcheck80.txt says: [09/13/05,11:05:38] =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= ...Show All

• Architecture When to factories and interfaces in a component

  Hello everyone. When developing a component should I always handle creation of objects with a factory Should the objects that my component contains always be fronted with an interface For example a component to manage a user account database being consumed in-proc by an ASP.NET web app. Which do you think a better design in most cases for the UserMgr component : 1.) using UserMgr; public void Page_Load { IUsers users = ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Error in loading BETA

  I have recieved an invite, installed the program, however, when I come to load it i reviece the following error:http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7180/error4oc.pngI have tried uninstalling, and deleting the msn directory in Program Files.I have uninstalled all plugins to my origninal msn, but this error still occurs.Can someone please help me. The purpose of this forum is to discuss MSN and Windows Live applica ...Show All