bobchauvin's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Changing Work Item Types

  Is there any way to change work item types Our current workflow (outside TFS) involves somewhat fluid transitions between bugs, feature requests, and tasks. I was originally planning to set them all up as Tasks and specify the type in a custom field, but that means I'll have to modify a lot of the prebuilt reports. Since I plan to use the same .xml file for each of the work item types, how risky would it be to make the change in the db Ah, well. Guess I'd better start figuring out how to update reports, then. Thanks, folks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Dynamic Crystal Report Genration

  hi forum is it possible to create Crystal Report dynamically. Dynamically means i don't want to bind crystal Report from any table at design time. is it possible to create FieldObject dynamically. Thanking u in advance Hi Yes it is possible through the Crystal report Automation Object Model, but remember Version 9.X required a Report Generation API licence. If you are using other version then these API licence are free. Add a refrance to Crystal Reports .NET Active X Designer Designe and Runtime Libraray. (It is a COM Component..... so look in COM Tab in refrencing window) CRAXDDRT.Application app = new CRAXDDRT.ApplicationClass(); CRAXDDRT.Report report = app.NewReport(); ...Show All

• Visual Basic Explorer's Send To

  Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a very importent project, and I have a problem. On the explorer, when you right click a file, on the context menu, you can choose the "Send To" submenu, and there there are options. What I want to do, is to use that option, and to "Send" a specific file to there. It's not always a folder to send to it, it's sometimes a printer driver. How can I do it Ofir. I would bet that is why the "Getting WYSIWYG Print Results from a .NET RichTextBox" walkthrough isn't working out for you because of the text is in hebrew. I don't know too much about it, but I'm guessing it has to do with unicode or something. Perhaps someone else ...Show All

• Visual Basic Intercepting a CD Tray Open

  I know how to open a CD tray programatically, but is there anyway to determine when a user has pressed the button and then either allow or disallow the tray from opening, or is it strictly a hardware issue Thanks in advance. not quite. It really is hardware based to be honest. Well, actually you could do this but it would require some hooks into the OS/kernel and listen for those events then some how cancel the event but really not worth it as it requires alot of calls to Win32 ...Show All

• SQL Server Calculated field in a dataset

  Hi All, I have a dataset with the following fields Name Value ABC 100 DEF 150 GHI 180 Now i need to have a calculated field DIFF which will calculate the difference in the value of the current row and the previous row. The report should have the following fields: Name Value DIFF ABC 100 NULL DEF 150 50 GHI 180 30 Any pointers on how to achieve this requirement will help. Thanks in advance, Arun You can do this with a custom function. Place the following, in the Code section of the Report. Using Report Designer this is on the Code tab of the Report Properties Dialog. Private m_previousValue As Integer = 0 Public Function ComputeDifferen ...Show All

• Windows Forms cant use ConfigurationManager even after adding using System.Configuration namespace in windows from application

  hi there , this is my first post so good morning to everyone , i have a little problem , i was working on a windows form application and connecting to my database whose connection string was in app.config file , i added the using System.Configuration clause in my .cs file but i was not able to use ConfigurationManager namespace to access my connection string in app.config then after wasting sometime i realized that i forgot to add a reference to the assembly System.Configuration in References folder now , my question is how come the " using System.Configuration " namespace while i added was being intellisensed since there was no reference to assembly System.Configuration it should not have been , since it fooled me that ok there ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) packets filtering

  Can I delay packets with the library "fltdefs.h" Can I only block them I want to limit the net band: is it the right way Thanks In italian: Vorrei limitare la banda di rete a livello client; posso farlo tramite la libreria "fltdefs.h" Non voglio bloccare i pacchetti passanti per una certa porta, ma solo ritardarli. Grazie Hi, To be frank iam a novice in this subject. Recently I had gone through some contents on Windows Filtering Platform (WFP), WFP provides you with the power to participate in the filtering that takes place at all layers in the networking stack. A google on WFP will lead you to get more information on this. The downside of WFP is that it works only on Windows Vist ...Show All

• Visual C++ make a dependatnt service

  hi all i had made a service that beeps after a specified time interval.now i want that this service should be depend upon the some other services like RPC so that user cannot turn it off. or like RPC service whose stop button does not work or is disabled. Thanks in advance. If you use the .NET ServiceBase class, set the CanStop property to false. If you do this native, remove the SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP flag from the dwControlsAccepted member of the SERVICE_STATUS word. Be careful doing this, beeping tends to drive users nuts. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unit Testing -- Marketing question.

  Unit testing is such a fundamental expectation of the Agile software process, I am disappointed that the Unit test is not part of the core team server client product. Particularly, right-click on a member function to create a Unit test, and then the test view window to manage unit testing. These seem to be functionality that should be part of the core team server client product. 1. What is the reasoning behind this decision (besides revenue) 2. What is the cheapest way to purchase the Unit test functionality as an add on to the core TeamServer licensed product 3. Any chance you may change just how this functionality is bundled Unit testing is part of Visual Studio Team Edition and has nothing at all to do with Team Se ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Beginner's level HLSL Tutorials - what would you like to know?

  I'm very much a beginner in HLSL ("High Level Shader Language", y'know, those .fx files ). So I'm unable to answer your questions personally. However, help may be on the way in the form of an existing tutorial on the web possibly being updated. I'm collating any thoughts, feedback, or specific areas of interest in beginners HLSL land. If you'd like to contribute, can you please leave a comment on this Blog . Cheers. Scoob (aka. Sharky from Sharky's Blog ) ...Show All

• SQL Server Error Importing SSIS Package

  I can't import a package from the SSIS to the file system of my SQL Server Management Studio. Every time i've tried the following message appears. What should i do to correct this problem Any ideas =================================== Invalid access to memory location. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800703E6) (Microsoft.SqlServer.ManagedDTS) ------------------------------ Program Location: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application.SaveToDtsServer(Package pPackage, IDTSEvents pEvents, String sPackagePath, String sServerName) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.ObjectExplorerUI.ImportPackageAsAction.ImportPackage(ImportPackageAsForm dlg) Similar problem here: I cannot store DTSX-Packages from local filesystem on the ISS ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem: Can a Form == a Control??

  This is quite an interesting problem (well I think so, but then again, I am a bit strange). I have a .NET 2.0 application that consists of a number of panels that can be dragged around and docked - not unlike the Visual Studio IDE in fact. In these panels I can put any control I care to choose. All well so far. Now then. I have another .NET 2.0 application which fulfils some functional need (as applications tend to do) but it was a bit of a nuisance that it was a separate app. I wanted it to be included as part of my aformentioned panel app. So, after having a look at the object hierarchy for Form, I noticed that it derives from Control. "Yipee!" says I, theoretically I can drop an instance of this entire app as a Contro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Set descriptor methods for WMI objects

  I am using WMI with VB.NET for my project. I am having problem with setting the values of Win32_LogicalDisk class. I know how to get the methods but don't know how to modify them. Please tell me how to set the methods or attributes of WMI properties using VB.NET or C# you may need to use the InvokeMethod function to do this. The best place really to ask for setting values is to probably ask in the WMI newsgroup, we can then convert that to VB.NET. However being it a logicalDisk class I only thing its output (read only) but could may well be wrong http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript ...Show All

• Windows Forms usercontrol

  i created my usercontrol(wave) and try to use it to create other one like a collection of it (waves) at runtime How can i do it You will need to ensure that your usercontrol is set up as container control (see code below that goes in the controls contructor), Public Sub New () MyBase .New() ' This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. InitializeComponent() ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call. SetStyle(ControlStyles.ContainerControl, True ) End Sub then you can dynamically create controls by simply doing the code below Public Sub AddControlsDynamically() ' Declare the type of control you want to add Dim myNewControl As TextBox Dim cou ...Show All

• SQL Server Error message

  Hello, When I try to run a query on a server, I get the following error: "Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation." The same query, but on another server works without any problems. Any idea how I can resolve this I think there is no command for changing every column within the table. YOu will have to change this by column with the command: ALTER TABLE <tablename> ALTER COLUMN colname <datatype> COLLATE <collationname> HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All