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• Visual Studio Team System Mass Transitions

  Mass Transitions In our current workflow tool (i.e. Serena's TeamTrack) we have a concept of "Mass Transitions" where you can take a number of requests (e.g. 1000) and do a mass update to the work item states (or any other fields) instead of laboriously updating each work item. For example we have "Enhancement" work items that queue up in a "Code Complete" state. Once the build is deployed to QC (i.e. Test) we run the "Mass Transition" to update all work item states to "Deployed To QC." We can handle hundreds up updates with a simple "Mass Transition" and a cup of coffee. Does Team Foundation have a similar concept Mac Noland Just out of professional curiosity ho ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get target location of a file from its shortcut .....?

  Hi, I placed a shortcut of a paricular file on my desktop.(DONE PROGRAMMATICALLY). Now i want to get the target location of that file by using the shortcut.How can i get it Are there any specific methods Here's one way http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/dotnet_shelllink.asp ...Show All

• Visual C++ Project : error PRJ0002 In a CLR Windows Forms Application

  Hi, when i make a new CLR Windows Forms Application and try to compile it I get this: Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result -1073741819 returned from 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin\resgen.exe'. Here is the Build log: Build Log Build started: Project: Ex1_05_1, Configuration: Debug|Win32 Command Lines Creating temporary file "c:\Documents and Settings\Mito\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Ex1_05_1\Ex1_05_1\Debug\RSP00000135603528.rsp" with contents [ /Od /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D "_UNICODE" /D "UNICODE" /FD /EHa /MDd /Yu"stdafx.h" /Fp"Debug\Ex1_05_1.pch" /Fo"Debug\\" /Fd"Debug\vc80.pdb" / ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Problems configuring for e-mail enabled libraries and distribution groups

  I need some help here. I have been trying to set up WSS vs on a Win2k3 R2 box for two + weeks now. This latest attempt follows OS install Drivers & multiple reboots IIS, ASP.NET, SMTP .NET 2.0 SQLExpress2005 Reboot Windows Updates = 59 (no IE7) Reboot WSS v3 – error wants .Net 3 first .Net 3 WSS V3 – install only – no config Update Reboot Login as (Domain Service account) – Run config wizard   When I try to add e-mail to a list I get an "error in application" page.   From other places I've read that I have to set the Central Admin user to the Domain user that has access to the OU I created in AD for this to work.  When I do that I get warnings in the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report Viewer Distribution

  I have done some searching through various places on MSDN and the internet in general. I am trying to find the best way to distribute the Report Viewer controls automatically to the end user's of my application. I have found the following link on MSDN. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251723(VS.80).aspx However, in my Prerequisites dialog box, I have the following entries: .NET Framework 2.0 Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 2.0 Windows Installer 3.1 SQL Server 205 Express Edition Currently, the .NET Framework 2.0 is checked. But there is not an instance of the Report Viewer Redistributable package as the MSDN link refers to. I also found a link on the internet "Hacking the Report Vi ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Caching

  In a test app, I've noticed (by logging the times to execute) that it appears SQL Server 2005 is caching the results of queries (no client-side caching is being used). Some questions if I may... Is it possible to know how long/how many queries will be cached Is setting such caching a database setting Can longer-term caching priorities be set by configuration Is it possible send a command to the database (on startup) to preload the cache with certain data Thanks! Hi Steve, A nice explanation of what I've been seeing. I ran the DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS and saw it clear as you described (the SET STATISTICS IO ON is quite nice!). Thanks for the help! Andy ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Async sleep

  In VB.Net, if I use System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000), then my application is halted. Is the a way to prevent this. While Sleep(5000) is executing, other controls like textbox or button still can active No. Thread.Sleep will block the thread and it will not be able to process any other work. It sounds like you are doing this in the main thread and hence your controls become unresponsive. If you did it in another thread, then that thread would sleep and your UI thread would process windows messages and hence your controls would be usable. Why are you calling Sleep Now take a large step back and describe to us what it is you are trying to achieve (in end user terms). Cheers Daniel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 3 line text file to be put into 3 text boxes

  Hi. Ive got a text file which has: Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 Line 6 and 6 text boxes. How can i get my vb app to read the file and put each line into each textbox Thanks!!!! ive just done a quick test, probably not the best way but here it goes: Dim theStreamReader as new StreamReader( file ) Dim theFirstLine as string = theStreamReader.ReadLine() theStreamReader.Close()   Dim theCharsToFill(theFirstLine.Length) as Char for counter as Integer = 0 to theCharsToFill.Length - 1    theCharsToFill(counter) = ' ' next   Dim theFileStream as new FileStream( file , FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite) Dim theStreamWriter as new StreamWriter(theFileStream) theFileStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions sum a secod

  hello guys! I'm doing a sql query and the criteria is >'08-02-2007 12:42:06'. When I run the query, it returns this date. But the criteria is bigger than the date (> '08-02-2007 12:42:06') I think it is because of miliseconds. So I was thinking, maybe I can add a second to the hour. Does somebody know how to do this Thanks. Liliana I Dman1! Thanks for your reply! But I had to do a modification. I had to declare another variable to add the second: Dim dt As DateTime = #8/2/2007 12:42:06 PM# dim new_dt as DateTime = dt.AddSeconds(1) ...Show All

• .NET Development Class Library Perfection

  I have read the documentation of the .NET Framework. I'm very appreciate with the library, but I felt something must added to the library. That is : links. We all know how important a link is. So many classes in the class library that should be connected each other. That's what I mean with link. Think, how amazing the .NET Framework is, if we can get the classes linked, and we use that. But, that is a great effort, because, I think, it's about 2.000.000 links. I know what the link is and I know the diagram. Do you know that too With the links, .NET Framework is not amazing toy anymore, it will be an amazing game! An amazing game for us, the amazing creators of this world! ...Show All

• Visual Studio checkout a file.(VSS+c#)

  Hi. I connected to VSS using COM objects, that is located on the server. When I checkout a file to C:\test it checks out to the server c:\test and not to my local PC. IS there away to checkout not to the server's local computer folder but to the local computer from where the appiaction is run. Since not all users has access to the server machine. I am tring to find the local path's PC (user loged-in) when accesing the server.. (I use impersonation) Thank you in advance. Thanks,.. I asked ASP.NET guys, but didnt get a response yet. Yes it is a web application... MSDN site shows that http://msdn2.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/microsoft.visualstudio.sourcesafe.interop. ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to add comboBox in a data grid column, DataGridComboBoxColumn???

  The question is simple, & for sure sample code will b there, I searched & found only C# smples :( I want to add a combo box dynamically [at runtime] in the data grid, it should appear in one of the columns of the grid, say column 1, a text box, column 2 a check box, column 3 is a combo box please provide vb.net sample, if you use any self mde 3rd party specialized class, provide the code please Hi- The sample I point to above supports showing combo values from a lookup table. The piece of the sample responsible for this feature is setting the DisplayMember and the ValueMember of the combo box to values in your lookup table. Could you please try that and let me know how that works for you Best, Paul ...Show All

• Visual J# J# + .Net installations has destroyed the "ease of use" factor of my product!

  Hello, We develop novelty applications for consumers, many of which are leisure user. What I don’t understand is why do Microsoft separate .Net and .J# files from the OS its created for Why do my users have to go to product pages for .Net and J# just to use a product that was made for Windows Why don’t these things exist in the OS already For all the automatic updates that Windows user have to endure.. .Net and J# can't be a component of that This tells me there is 1 of 2 things happening: 1) Microsoft programmers are morons (which I highly doubt) or 2) Microsoft has legal reason (jvm) why they are not including the .Net and J# in XP and J# in  Vista .   If&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Defining custom multiplicities

  Hi all I need to define an embedding relationship between ClassA and ClassB that has a multiplicity 0..3, so that ClassA cannot contain more than 3 ClassB instances. It seems like this is not possible (I am using the June CTP). I can only select the predefined multiplicities, but not define one myself. Is this so, or is there a way to define other multiplicities I could solve the problem by setting up a rule restraining the number of ClassB instances to 3, but this doesn’t seem like an optimal solution since the multiplicity would not be visible when studying the domain model. Thanks, Louise The way I like to think of connection builders (which are a bit abstract) is that they're ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What does it take to run you own program?

  My question is as the subject says: What does it take to run you own program I created my own program, put it on a floppy and tried it on an other computer... But it doesn't work... i get an error and this is the error signature. I think this is weird because i have the same version of windows as on the pc I developed the program on(Windows XP SP2) and i have .NET Framework 2 installed. I also installed the MSWINSCK.ocx file by using "regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\MSWINSCK.ocx". But my program still doesn't work untill i install VB studio 2005 express, then it works normally and i don't get any error any longer. When I uninstall VB studio 2005 express my programs continue to work correct. So my question is... whats rea ...Show All