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• Visual Studio Team System Help urgently required - Team Server sharepoint problem

  Running the TS 6 month trial edition - everything seemed to install ok. when trying to create a team server project from VS.NET 2005 wizard: Event Description: TF30162 (Sometimes TF30170): Task " SharePointPortal " from Group "Portal" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client. PcwException Exception Message: Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=windows-1255' , but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with the error message: System. ArgumentOutOfRangeException : Ticks must be between DateTime.MinValue.Ticks and DateTime.MinValue.Ticks On the Team Foundation Server, can access the Team Web Site, the SQL Server Reporting Services Web site, but not the Sharepoint admin site ! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What happend??

  OK.... I downloaded all of the stuff i wanted (visual c#,web developer,sql server express) and everything is just fine... execpt there is no intergration between sql server and the C# or webdeveloper now... i did this kind of funny but, I first downloaded SQL Server Express (the smaller one) but i haven't installed it yet... and then I installed C# and since it asked if i wanted to download SQL server i said no, well b/c i already had it and ready to install for later, and i did the same for the Web Developer install. then a day later i went and installed the SQL server install since i'm ready for it and ... there is no intergration between the C# or Web Developer, there aren't an server templets or anything like that. I hope i don't h ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.NET UserControl used in VB6 application

  Hi. I build in VB Net 2005 an usercontrol that contains a toolstrip.On this toolstrip I add in runtime 9 toolstripbuttons.The code in which I add those buttons is: Public Sub AddButtonsOnToolbar(ByVal intNob As Integer) Dim tsButtons(8) As ToolStripButton For i = 0 To 8 tsButtons(i) = New ToolStripButton tsButtons(i).Tag = i tsButtons(i).Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile("D:\Work\Controale_Espot\Pictures\01.gif") tsButtons(i).AutoSize = False tsButtons(i).Size = New Size(48, 48) tsButtons(i).ImageScaling = ToolStripItemImageScaling.SizeToFit If i = 0 Then tsButtons(i).Margin = New Padding(80, 5, 0, 2) Else tsButtons(i).Margin = New Padding(10, 5, 0, 2) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Audio hoax

  I was just wondering whether the XNA framework somewhat more than using its internal icky audio engine based on prefabbed XACT packages, like writing PCM data directly to a buffer I'm not very far into game programming as of yet, but to me the use of XACT seems like a superfluous step in the work flow of a creating a game, or just an additional level to a game. Correct if I'm wrong, I've just read the documentation. First of all, wave banks, cues etc. can only be created within the XACT authoring tool, hence no possibility for integration other than using what's created in the tool. Second, apparently no reflection or discovery can be made on XACT packages in your client code to discover cues. Scenario: A level editor in which you ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Foxpro Database related

  Hi there, I wanted to quickly know how i can convert foxpro database into Access DB Do i loose any data or indexes or anything once i transfer the database from foxpro to Access Please let me know. Thanks, Smita SmileSmita wrote: I wanted to quickly know how i can convert foxpro database into Access DB Do i loose any data or indexes or anything once i transfer the database from foxpro to Access As per David M., and ... You might test with: Memo fields, General fields, Structural indexes, Candidate indexes etc. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Newbie needs help on C++: string issue

  Please help me if you know how to do it. I want to display an object in C++ (for testing purpose). My intention is like what we can do with Java by reimplementing "ToString()" method. Hence, can you give me some example(or link) on - convert int/float/double to string - "convert" object to string: display its fields - how about pointer Thank you very much. Fantonis Email: fantonis_nus@hotmail.com 1. you can use atoi, atof for convertion to int, double or float repectively. 2. You can implement your own function (you can name it "ToString") which returns the name of the object. 3. You can overload the required operators or implement the function for the same a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do i make icons for my projects

  Hello all, I would like to know how to make icons for my VB projects. Is there a specific program to make them. Any help will be good. Thank you http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Utilities/Alpha_Icon_Creator/article.asp This is also a good free tool. I use the photoshop plugin as well as this. One thing nice about this is that it will make the multiple sizes of an icon required by projects all in one file. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem displaying image with alpha

  Hi, I'm having some problems displaying an image with alpha. Here's what I have // get the image bits from an handle IntPtr imgBits = GetSurfaceBits(m_surfaceId); // create a new bitmap from these bits m_bmp = new Bitmap(512, 512, 4 * 512, PixelFormat.Format32bppPArgb, imgBits); To display it: private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { using (Graphics g = e.Graphics) { // clears the panel to blue g.Clear(Color.CornflowerBlue); // this doesn't do anything if (m_bmp != null) g.DrawImage(m_bmp, 0, 0, m_bmp.Width, m_bmp.Height); } } I'll just get a blue panel when doing this. The bitmap is correct because if I do: m_bmp.Save("test.png", ImageFormat.Png); the image gets saved correctly ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Get The text of Words from a word document

  This may be a topic for some other group, but this group gets replies faster then then Automation or some other Word groups, so maybe someone here knows this. I really want to thank Cindy for pointing me in the right direction for what I wanted to do. I ended up using the DsoFramer control to host my word doc, and now I have the document loaded, when I first saw the Word.Document.Words collection, I thought cool a collection of string variables for words. Microsoft would never make it so easy. Does anyone know how I access the words in the document, and highlight a word that matches my search criteria (similiar to the way Google highlights your results). I am heading to the book store to buy an Office book next, but if someone has ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System users can not save WI

  Hello, everyone One of users has created some work items, and his name appears in "Created by" field, I've excluded this user from any team group. Now, other workers want to edit his work items but they can not save them, they get the next error: TF20015: The field "Created By" contains a value that is not in the list of supported values. After I've added this user to Readers Group everything works well, but what if this man does not work anymore in company and his user does not exist anymore Can anyone explain how to resolve this problem Thank you One way would be to change the "Created By" Field. If your WI type says this fields has "Read-Only ...Show All

• Community Chat Firefox 2

  Yay! firefox 2 is being released at 8pm today!! Hooray! just thought i would let you know... random factoid: windows contacted mozilla to help them create a better internet explorer. i still like firefox tho, 'cause it has so much stuff for it. i like my dummy lipsum plug-in 'cause it's fun! ...Show All

• .NET Development OleDbDataAdapter to fill a DataSet object from an ADO Recordset object

  Hi i use in OleDbDataAdapter to fill a DataSet object from an ADO Recordset object . Recordset RsEvents = new Recordset (); m_ContentServer.GetEvents( ref RsEvents ); m_DataAdaper.Fill(Ds_Events, RsEvents, "TableEvents" ); m_ContentServer is com object i use in RCW . i get exception ADODB.RecordsetClass)(RsEvents)).Status' threw an exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' base {System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException} = {"Operation is not allowed when the object is closed."} but i doesn't close the object i check the RecordSet before fill and the recordset contain records when i call to fill the exception appear. ...Show All

• Community Chat I can't believe most Windows users don't know how to use toolbars, OMG.

  This is most irritating. Almost all of Windows users in my company don't know how toolbar works. They don't know they can enable toolbar, take out toolbar, customize toolbar, and not even the simplest of all, move toolbar around. Toolbar is so simple, standard, and flexible. And yet, they don't know how to use it. And now, I think that's the main reason why IE7 doesn't support moveable toolbar, and that pisses me off even more. Argh. hej magicalclick he its not a big problem here (in my country) have people who dont know how to move the mouse those people work for big companies newspapers ext. but we dont have what to ...Show All

• SQL Server Conditional formating in Subtotals?

  I have subtotals in a matrix and I want to format the background color depending on the subtotal value - > 95 = "Green", < 95 > 90 = "Yellow", < 90 = "Red". I go to the Subtotal properties and put the iif expression in the background color, but it's not detecting the Subtotal value. How do I refer to the Subtotal value in a formating expression Yes, I created the subtotals by right-clicking the row cell of the outer-most group and selecting 'subtotals'. The problem with the simple iif... is that it affects all the cells - not just the subtotals. I did find out why my background image wasn't showing in the subtotals, if you set a background color in the Subtotal ...Show All

• .NET Development Help request on How to draw a vertical upward string?

  Assume that I have drawn two coordinate axes on the screen (X and Y). When I want to put axis captions on the screen it's OK with X-axis such that Graphics^ gObj = this->CreateGraphics(); String^ xAxis ="X-Axis"; // Make necessary arrangements here such as measure string and find the optimal screen position, etc. then draw the string gObj->DrawString(// put necessary parameters here); Then the result is "X-Axis". It is just fine. How can I do it for the y-axis When I choose text alignment vertical, the string containing "Y-Axis" is drawn like this : Y - A x i s (LOL!). How can I put a vertical upward string "Y-Axis" parallel with the vertical y-axis on the screen Rega ...Show All