shuchi's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Requirements?

  Do people track requirements as work items Is that the way we should do it I'm a former Requisite Pro man myself so I know where they are coming from. You are correct that you shouldn't really attach word documents to work items if you want versioning on that word document - you should probably store it in source control or sharepoint portal service (personally, I prefer version control for deliverable documents and then sharepoint for customer facing renditions of some document. It is possible to get an export of the requirements into Microsoft Excel which works quite nicely as a entry / review tool. You can also generate reports on the work item database and export them as PDF etc from the reporti ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CMMI: Add bug item - Where fill in "Found in version"?

  Hello! Our dev cycle looks like this, with 3 iterations: 1. Version 1.0 Beta 2. Version 1.0 Release Candidate 3. Version 1.0 Production 1. Version 2.0 Beta 2. Version 2.0 Release Candidate 3. Version 2.0 Production. And so on. The iterations of course overlaps each other, since we begin the Beta iteration at the same time we have the Production iteration for the preceding version. Lets assume we release Version 1.0 to our customer and we also have started working on Version 2.0. How do we handle bug reporting between versions of the product -We find a bug in Version 1.0 Production = What field should we use for telling that this bug was found in "v1.0 Production" - The same day we find a bug in "Version 2.0 Beta". - 2 ...Show All

• SQL Server Service Broker Table Copy, file send?

  Hi There I have a table at my initiator, i have a copy of this table at my target, every morning i want to refresh the table at the target with the data from the initiator via service broker. What would be the best way to do this One major consideration would be that this table would be very large +- 1.6 million rows. I was thinking of exporting the table to file like a csv, compressing the file and then sending it via service broker. Then at the target i would uncompress and bulk copy the data into the table at the target. But can this be done How would one go about sending a file via service broker For example if i wanted to send a .csv or something via service broker how would i do it I know i can send binary dat ...Show All

• .NET Development Save Dataset to Access/Sql

  Hi, Is there a way to save a dataset to an Access/Sql db like you save it to XML (ds.WriteXml) I want to bypass the sql INSERT INTO / sql UPDATE SET It seems to be a long and painfull method to save data to 150 columns in my dataset (some in diffrent tables in my dataset) and then run the INSERT INTO nonQuery to save that same changes to the external database. The commandbuilder is dodgy. And to build a fat sql command mannually like that is not cool Any other ideas will be appreciated Thanks in advance -RG For SQL Server the SQLBulkCopy class was added in VS 2005. Unfortunately there is no direct equivalent for a Microsoft Access database. ...Show All

• Windows Forms inherited forms, something missing

  Hi, I'm playing around with inherited forms but I'm somewhat confused. I build a normal Windows Application (vb.net2005) and added a baseform to it. Added some buttons as shown in the Walkthrough and added some code to the button_click events. Finally I builded the project. So far so good. After adding a new inherited form (called testForm) based on my baseform I can add and change properties for the buttons. However the code I added is not there and so when I click the buttons on my testForm nothing happens. Clearly I'm missing something but I don't see what. Anyone Cheers, Frank (crossposted in Windows Forms Designer, sorry for that) Hi again, I don't get it. There something I'm missin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista uninstall

  Is it possible to uninstall Vista Ultimate/Vista Transformation Pack once you have installed it. I want to try it, but I am not sure if it can be uninstalled if it takes up to much ram or doesn't look that great. Well, You might try restore your system to an earlyer date. I haven't done this with the transformation pack, but I've restored my system several times allready. ...Show All

• Visual C# Operator '+' cannot be applied to operands of type 'T' and 'T'

  One day, the Microsoft C# team will stop treat us as kids, and this code will become possible:   public static ABIDataVoidNull<T> op_Addition_NV_NV<T>(ABIDataVoidNull<T> inValueL, ABIDataVoidNull<T> inValueR)        {            if (inValueL.IsVoid)            {                return (ABIDataVoidNull<T>)inValueR;            }            else if (inValueR.IsVoid) ...Show All

• SQL Server help needed in error handling and undo transaction

  I am reading a temptable, and doing 2 inserts. In case of error, i want the 2 inserts to be undone, and move to the next line. The complete opposite is happening and the process is being stopped while i wanr it to move on!Help appreciated! This is my code: BEGIN TRANSACTION if exists( select [id] from tempdb . dbo . sysobjects where id = object_id ( N 'tempdb..#textfile' )) drop table #textfile CREATE TABLE #textfile ( line varchar ( 8000 )) BULK INSERT #textfile FROM 'c:\init_newsl.txt' DECLARE table_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT line FROM #textfile OPEN table_cursor FETCH NEXT FROM table_cursor INTO @oneline SET XACT_ABORT ON WHILE ( @@FETCH ...Show All

• Visual C# Make end of statement ";" optional?

  I think microsoft should make the end of line statement, (i.e. the ";") optional. If you program VB.net like I do and is inevitably forced to write/read C# code, having to write the ; after each statement is annoying. I know C/C++/java etc all have it but in an enviroment like Visual studio where the IDE makes life so much easier the end of line statement is unnecessary. Who agrees with me The IDE has nothing to do with it. The end-of-statement character is needed to parse the language. The under-score continuation character in VB is just the type of hack needed when you don't use a terminating character. It's just one of the many patched to VB needed to mantain the syntax created 40+ years ago, when a line of BASIC code h ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Why Bitblt cannot capture sidebar gadget ?

  Hi everyone, I'm developing some kind of screen capture application. I use API like CreateDC("DISPLAY",NULL,NULL,NULL) and BitBlt to capture desktop screen. All windows on desktop can capture normally. But sidebar and gadget not capture by this method. Does it require special API to do this Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Development Group - Please help! Cannot compare databases.

  I simply cannot compare two databases in my environment without the application erroring out. I've tried it from multiple machines, freshly installed, and it keeps happening. I wonder if there's something unique about my environment, but I need help to determine that (by looking through the error logs to locate the problem...) Can someone from the development group please help !! Please direct me toward what information you need and where I can get it to help you. I'll be happy to do whatever will help you troubleshoot this. I would love to make this tool work and avoid going out and purchasing Red Gate (my trial is almost up :-) -M- 1. As you discovered, I am using CTP5. 2. Thank you for the ...Show All

• Community Chat .NET Web Browser Effort - First Preview!

  Hi Guys, A couple of months ago I started an opensource effort to create a Web Browser better than IE7 in .NET. So far its going GREAT, with a team of 3 including me. As of now, source code is not offered - it will be once I get it to a Beta 2 state. Also, if anyone would like to join the project please send an email to netwebbrowser@gmail.com or add mateuszrajca@msn.com to your MSN/Live Messenger contacts list(email is preferred) Here are some stuff you can help in: Write code(C#), fix bugs in code(C#), make sourcefourge web site, report bugs, optimize code(C#), make app more responsive, make installer, graphics (icons logos) and whatever else you can come up with! Download Now Preview 1! ~Matt ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Source: string types lose length attributes in XML Schema?

  I'm having a problem with the XML Source data flow component not transferring the length attributes from an XML Schema to the column attributes of the output table. An example schema that I have is: < xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' > <data xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'> <xsd:schema> <xsd:simpleType name='NameType'> <xsd:restriction base='xsd:string'> <xsd:minLength value='0'/> <xsd:maxLength value='50'/> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> <xsd:element name='Name' type='NameType' nillable='true'/> <xsd:simpleType name='FamilyType'> <xsd:restriction base='xsd:string'> <xs ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem Generating a Boiler-plate IIS-hosted WCF Service using Visual Studio 2005

  Hi I'm tring to generate a boiler-plate IIS-hosted WCF service using Visual Studio 2005. I select: File -> New -> Website -> WCF Service and set location to HTTP with name for example, http://localhost/WCFService and click OK. I then get the error message, "Unable to create the Web 'http://localhost/WCFService'. The web server does not appear to have the Frontpage server extensions installed". I'm running Windows Vista RC1 by the way. I tried downloading the Frontpage Server Extensions 2002 yesterday but it was unavailable. Could someone please point out what the problem may be and a possible solution(s). Thanks. Hi, you have to install the IIS6 manag ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions i want to bind a dll file withe my project how?

  how can i add a dll file with my project so i dont have to put this dll beside my .exe file when i use it If you can't add reference to a dll then this means that file has nothing to do with your project and you can't use it. I think it can also mean that the DLL is not registered. ...Show All