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• Jacco Mintjes how to make application work with excel

  Hello, I am not sure if this is the right group to ask this question. I need to make my app work with excel. I have managed to get it working with access and add an analysing and charting functionality of excel. Can anybody recommend good resource on how to approach this Do I need to use VSTO I am using vb express(can't afford the paid versions yet...). Is it not good enough Thank you for any help rendered for information on developing using excel...check out the excel developer center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/program/excel/default.aspx Thanks DMan1. btw, can you give some suggestions/reference on the rest of the stuff like the excel maths and charting engine I would like to mak ...Show All

• guilhermecvm94558 Change a window position

  I am a beginner and I was wondering how I could make a form/window look like its sliding accross the screen. I have set up the timer and that, I just need something like: Me.location = (x + 1, (middle of screen)) Thanks Nathan Or even this: Dim X As Integer Dim Y As Integer = CInt(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height / 2 - Me.Height / 2) Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick X += 1 Me.Location = New Point(X, Y) End Sub If you press Alt-Spacebar while the window is moving it leaves it's control menu behind - weird. "make a form/window look like its sliding accross the screen" ...Show All

• SaravanaKumar_1977 UI for editing work item templates?

  Is there a UI that would let me edit what fields are on a work item Or I have to do everything in notepad/VSIDE with xml can you please tell me wht type of exception r u getting ...and its details... Which template r u using Thanks, Kathir System.Exception and I tried loading any of the templates from the default set Bug, Risk anything gets the same exception. I tried this one, when I try to load a template from server it gets an exception. Thanks I am able to get the tool to load it this way. I couldn't find anything there, do they hav ...Show All

• dnetmgr Where is the WinFx Application Templates?

  I have just installed .Net 3.0, and the new Windows SDK RC1 on XP with SP2. Rebooted the system, startup VS2005. The installation appear to completed with no error. Attempted to create a new application, but did not see the WinFX Application Template option. Is there an installation step that I missed What do I need to do to install the WinFx template in VS2005 to create WPF application with the new Windows SDK RC1 Thanks for the help. This forum is related to Team System issues only, so better try in the forum about Windows SDK. Anyway, did you installed "Orcas" this is the codename for the components which will install on your Visual Studio 2005 the templates for WinFX applications. ...Show All

• lennit Which database does the build process connect to when building outside Visual Studio?

  Hello. Me again, sorry for the bombardment of questions of late! When I do a Build from Visual Studio (right-click on project name-->Build) then that commits alot of activity against the Design-time Validation Database. [I can see that from SQL Profiler]. The location of the Design-time Validation Database is defined within Visual Studio [Tools-->Options-->Database Tools-->Design-time Validation Database-->SQL Server Instance Name] My question is, if I do a build from outside Visual Studio (i.e. " msbuild MyDBProj.dbproj ") where is the location of the Design-time Validation Database defined Do the msbuild tasks SQLBuild & SQLDeploy know where to go for Design-time Validation Database Do they default ...Show All

• ahmedWebDev Work Item History Report

  Hi guys, I need to write a report that should show the history of determinated WorkItem. Anyone know how can I do this I'm looking for the table at SQL Server, because I didnt find a dimension to it. tks a lot Thiago www.tritech.com.br VSTS Developer Team You should be looking for the relevant measures - the ones that contain the historical data - the dimensions will allow you to slice and dice that data. If you are using SQL Server Enterprise edition, then you should be able to use the "Work Item History" perspective, which groups all the relevant dimensions and measures. Some of the the relevant dimensions are work Item, date and the measures are: cumulative baseline work, c ...Show All

• rwbogosian PS

  Maybe it's not C#, but whatever it is, it's not familiar to me. What I want to do is to type in something like "ostream" and have it take me to an appropriate page. I did manage to naviagate to the MSDN help system (although I've already forgotten how I did that). But it did not come up with a search box or a useful index. Things are organized by categories, like input and output. I really am impressed with C++ Express. And the price literally can't be beat. But I must say, for a decade, every time MS improves a product, the help system becomes more difficult to navigate. Sigh.  I hate when I finally understand someone's post after I've made a complete fool of myself demonstrating my lack of understanding in publ ...Show All

• ken9865432 Looking for a good online book to convince my manager

  Is there somebody how can give me a PDF version of the following book: 'Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 200 Team System' written by Richard Hundhausen. Part of our company is already using Microsoft Team Foundation. We want to introduce this in other departments as well. Once I stumbled on a PDF version of the book mentioned above. I printed the document but forgot to download it. I want to make this document (or a similar book) acceccible via our intranet so others can have a look at it. According to some information I found I should be able to get this document for free via my MSDN license but I cannot find it anywhere. Thanks, Arjan Sam Guckenheimer's Software Engineering with Visu ...Show All

• Kurt Biesemans TF31001: Team Foundation cannot retrieve a list of the team projects from Team Foundation Server

  The detail of the error is: The Team Foundation Server returned the following error: The request failed with HTTP status 502: Proxy Error ( No data record is available) I only get this error when I try to connect from my development machine. If I connect from the server itself, I connect fine. Any ideas Apologize for the same. I was actually in hurry that's why i typed so fast and went. Anyhow your problem got solved. Good First of all, please answer in full sentences. I can barely understand what you are asking. Yes, I am using a proxy server, and that seems to be part of the problem. I opened IE (7.0) and changed my proxy settings so that the "Bypass proxy server ...Show All

• mklaey Build Reports

  I know you can view the Build results by reviewing the summary tab. Is there anyway to export the data to excel or run a query to determine which work items and change sets were associated with the build Thanks. In addition to what Paul said, you can also use the GetChangeSetsForBuild and GetWorkItemsForBuild methods on the BuildStore object to get the data. Then you could export the information to a .csv file. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.build.proxy.buildstore.getchangesetsforbuild(vs.80).aspx Buck you could run the canned BuildReport. It is a click through report that will give you that info for each build. because its on the report server you can acce ...Show All

• ChrisCo Newbie question on editing

  I do not know how to do the EDITING in steps4 and 5 below and don’t want to try (by opening the files in word pad) and mess things up. Please help. Thanks in advance, Gerhard From http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/ Step 4: Update the corewin_express.vsprops file. One more step is needed to make the Win32 template work in Visual C++ Express. You need to edit the corewin_express.vsprops file (found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCProjectDefaults) and Change the string that reads: AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib" to AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid. ...Show All

• tokie Profiling web sites under IIS server

  I have solution with website "GridViewTest". In start options I specefied "Use custom server" and location http://localhost/gridviewtest/ . When I start application normaly all works nice. When I start profiling from "Perfomance explorer" I get error. --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- The web site could not be configured correctly; getting ASP.NET process information failed. Requesting 'http://localhost/VSEnterpriseHelper.axd' returned an error: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- I have no errors when starting website from perfomance explorer with option in "Start Options" ...Show All

• JCJCJC Listboxes - Combining Data

  Hello, I'm very very new to Visual Basics. I'm using 2005 express and I'm stuck on the list boxes. In my project I have two list boxes which have completely different sets of data in them. The data is numeric. Here is what I need to do: 1. I need to create an error message so if someone has info in one box but not the other box they will get an error message saying there must be info in box boxes. I would prefer to make it so the user has to have the same number of items in each box 2. When a button is clicked I need the info in both boxes to generate the sum and divide the answer by two 3. Lastly I would like to know how to make it so that if someone wants to change a number in a listbox they can and the new number will go ...Show All

• dreameR.78 cant see object test bench IDE

  Hi, I am using Visual studi team system RTM version(8.0.050727.42). I am working with a e-commerce project. I have written some classes in Business layer. I need to check it by creating objects of these classes before creating aspx forms. I heard that object test bench is useful. But I cant see any sign of this facility.That is, I cant see 'create Instance' option when I right-click on classes from class view or class designer. can anybody explain why it is like this Thanks in advance... akajal It is a bug that has been fixed in the SP1 ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb265237.aspx ) ...Show All

• jayakhanna Creating Area/Iteration Path Nodes

  We are developing an add-in that turns our MS Word documented requirements into Categorized Work Items in VSTS. However, while we can use the Object Model to create the Work Items, the Area and Iteration Node Paths do not seem accessible via the OM. We are trying to be good people and do not really want to be editing the Database directly, so can you please advise if it is possible to create Area/Iteration Nodes using the TFS Object Model Many Thanks Greg Doh, I should have noticed I was using utility code :) Here's the code: public const String Areas = "ProjectModelHierarchy"; public static NodeInfo GetCssStructure(ICommonStructureService css, String projectUri, String struc ...Show All