CassieC's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Enhancement Request: Process Template Editor (undocumented WI-Fields)

  Hello Power Tools (Toys) team, in the next version of the TFS Power Tools could you please enhance the process template editor and add the two undocumented work item control fields described in Naren's blog entry here: http://blogs.msdn.com/narend/archive/2007/02/09/hidden-attributes-to-control-your-work-item-form-layout.aspx (Name and MinimumSize) Regards, Stefan Alan, hopefully I added all the necessary keywords to get the entry routed to you: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=263119 Regards, Stefan ...Show All

• Windows Forms Collapse sections of text like visual studio

  Hi, Im wondering if its possible to collapse a section of text much like we do with regions or functions in the visula studio code editor. Maybe through a rich text editor. Thanks for any help, -Dave ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions enabling a groupbox in vb express

  I have disabled a set of group boxes AT DESIGN TIME in my application and set the status of those group boxes to enable=true when the correct answer is selected from the preceeding combo boxes. Eg. in one instance when the combo box's answer is YES then groupbox.enabled=true.But this does not happen It is not enabled at all. How can I overcome this problem rihazrazik@hotmail.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Runtime Installation

  I noticed the below in the MSDN documentation concerning the VSTO runtime installation. "How to: Install the Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime - You do not need to install Microsoft Office applications on computers that you install the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime on. For example, you can install the runtime on a server and use the ServerDocument object to access document files. If you do need Office applications on the computer, install them before you install the runtime. If you install Office after installing the runtime, you must run VSTOR.exe again and repair the installation." This seems like a hassle, since the end-user will install my app and I have no control over whether they install it before and/or afte ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error encountered while trying to process an email in the sent mail folder.

  Hi, We have developed a VSTO Outlook application that allows a User to process an email by selecting it and clicking on a custom button on the main tool bar. The program works at our company but our client encounters the exception Object reference not set to an instance of an object when they try and process an email in their sent folder (they can process emails in other folders). We are unable to reproduce the exception at our company. Does anybody have any ideas Thanks in advance, Dave Sue, My apologies for the lack of code.  I have a button on the Outlook main toolbar that runs the following code when clicked: private void ForwardToCyberGra ...Show All

• Visual Studio problem installing uninstalling vb express and vs

  I bought vs2005 and last night before installing it I tried uninstalling vb express well I let the uninstall run overnight and this morning found that it was locked up.I terminated it and tried again to uninstall and it told me that it could not because vs_setup.msi could not be found.So I tried installing vs and it tells me it failed because it could not install MSXML 6.0 parser. here is my error log [10/08/06,06:32:20] MSITOSIT: [2] CRootComponent::SetSourcePath() - Failed to access m_strSourcePath: c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\microsoft visual basic 2005 express edition - enu\vs_setup.msi [10/08/06,06:32:20] MSITOSIT: [2] CRootComponent::SetManager() - The Windows Installer package: c:\program files\microsoft visual s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Master Detail

  The help article "Walkthrough: Saving Data to a Database (Multiple Tables)" in VB 2005 Express does not seem to work. If I add a new Master record and a new Detail record at the same time, the Detail record does not contain the new Master record id value. I have went through this article a couple of times but I can't get it to work. Anyone know how to do this What I was trying to do was to add a new Customer and a new Order at the same time. The example does work if I first add a new Customer and save it, then add a new Order. But won't a user who adds a new Customer possibly want to add a new Order at the same time Do I have to code to save the new Customer record before the user enters the Data ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro foxpro for windows

  sir, i hope i am not troubling you all. i have installed foxpro for windows 2.6 on win 2000. but i am not able to run foxprow.exe. i get error "divide by zero or overflow error" how to fix it. u have to apply the patch to foxpro 2.6 (windows) it to work in windows 2000 / XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240982 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/102893 once u apply the patch it will work fine in any version till Windows XP SP2 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. GDI+ question

  If this is the wrong forum for a GDI+ question, please move it where it should be, thanks! I am leaning to use GDI+ in a simple C++/CLI windows application, and I can draw lines and boxes to my hearts content in a window, but as soon as I move the window off the sceen/minimize it, etc, the picture that I have drawn disappears. I have a feeling there is a simple reason for this involving binding the image appropriately to the window, but I can't figure it out. All I do is make a button that runs the code below when it is clicked: Graphics^ FormGraphic; FormGraphic=this->CreateGraphics(); for (int i=100;i<=280;i+=20) { for (int j=100; j<=280;j+=20) { if (((i/20)-4+(j/20)-4)%2==0) DrawingBrush = gcnew Solid ...Show All

• Windows Forms Checking digital signatures of MSI files

  Anyone know of any good tutorials/introductions/resources for MSI file signing (Not full Authenticode, just regular public/private keys). I just want to use Windows Installer to implement a self-updating application and don't wish to use ClickOnce. Prior to upgrading a previously installed version of my application with: msiexec /fvomus myapp.msi How do I check that this MSI file was signed with the same private key as the MSI file that was used for the original install ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express 2005 installation fails on all of our PCs

  The installation fails and crashes with "Error 110", while attempting to install the SQL Native Client... then crashes (DrWatson). This happens on every OS and test machines that we have within our company... flavors of W2K and WXP, all with .Net Framework 2.0. If the SQL Native Client exists, the installation continues without error. If SQLEXPR32.EXE is run directly from the command line, the installation will succeed. If SQLEXPR32.EXE is called from a Windows Installer Custom Action type 50, it will always fail. This is the method we used to successfully install MSDE previously. Our command line is: /qb ADDLOCAL=SQL_Engine,SQL_Data_Files SAPWD=password1 SECURITYMODE=SQL DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=2 INSTANCENAME=Instanc ...Show All

• Visual Studio I can't run VS 2005 on Vista

  I have installed Vista Ultimate from MSDN. On clear Windows (without any optional drivers and programs) I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional. But when I try opening Visual Studio it always closes ! In Event log is description like previous posts: Faulting application devenv.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, time stamp 0x4333e699, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549b87a, exception code 0xc0150015, fault offset 0x0002b216, process id 0xd18, application start time 0x01c751532be98c50. The same error is when I try open documentation of Vista SDK (after installation it on my system) I have try SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 and SP1 Beta on Vista but the error with ntdll.dll doen't disappear. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Make a pixel board in c#

  Hello, i need to do a 7 x 7 board control in .NET 2.0, i'm working with c# and the idea is to have the board, and when i click some pixel (that i'm representing with labels) it changes it's color (from white to black, or black to white), to this point i'm good, but i need also that when the user click some pixel and then with the mouse button pressed they move the mouse over the other pixels, those pixels also change the color to the color the first pixel changed. This is like the canvas of an icon editor application. This is a snaphot of what i have at the moment, the problem is that the mouse move part only work sometimes. I'm also posting the code i have at the moment. If someone have an idea of how to accomplish ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Garbage memory on array creation

  Hi all, When I create an array is there any chance that I could have garbage memory in the array Is the array created with all null chars ...Show All

• SQL Server performance tuning on high volume server

  I am looking to improve the performance of my sql server databases. I currently have a dual location system, the database server setup is basically a quad xeon with 4gb at my office and a double xeon with 4gb at a remote webhosting location. There are separate application/web/intranet servers at each site. The two databases servers are replicated with the local server publishing to the remote server. The relational database holds circa 26 million records, growing by a volume of 10,000 per day, there are approximately 50,000 queries performed per day. My theory is that the replication of the two databases is causing a slowdown; despite fast network connections (averaging 200ms between servers) the replication seems to place a ...Show All