Darren Tao's Q&A profile
Visual Studio Team System How i can changed task item Start Date and Finish Date?
I wanted to changed my task item Start Date and finish Date,but these are readonly I have no choice but to changed them in office project, How i can changed task item Start Date and Finish Date in Team foundation server Thank you !!! TFS does not duplicate MSProject's algorithm to calculate finish dates, and hence relies on MSProject to calculate for them. You can customize your WIT xml to add an "Estimated finish" which you could fill from TFS, while actual one can be calculated from MSProject. If you do want to overwrite them, then remember that you could potentially overwrite MSProject's calcuations. If you want to make them editable, here is how: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx ...Show All
.NET Development Using asymmetric algorithm to protect your application
I have a web application, it is a CRM and I want to protect it checking the max number of license saved into the DB. For example if a customer have a 10 users license then into CRM cannot be registered more than 10 users. Number of max users is saved into the DB but I want to encrypt this data so an user can't modify manually it. I want to encrypt it with an asymmetric key because I want the CRM can decrypt data but only my persoanl win32 keygenerator can encrypt it (if web application cannot decrypt data is because the string saved into the DB is not valid then the login isn't permitted). The problem is that all asymmetrics algorithms have a public key to encrypt data and a private key to decrypt it. I want an algorithm that has a public ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Will VSTS Profiler work in .net 1.1?
Hi All, Will the VSTS profiler works with .net 1.1 applications Regards Debugger Debugger, Unfortunatly the VSTS profiler only supports native code and .NET 2.0 applications. 1.x applications will not work the with profiler included with VSTS. Thanks, Ian ...Show All
Windows Live Developer Forums Robot Invaders Contest Winners
It's time to annouce the winners for the Robot Invaders contest. The contest ran from May 15th to September 15th and in the end 53 Messenger bots were accepted as valid entries in the contest ( per the how to compete guidelines ). Each entry to the contest was judge by three judges separately using the Judging Criteria outlined on the How to Compete page and then the judges scores were averaged. There were a lot of great robot's submitted but here's the winners: Title Prize LiveBot Grand Mother Nature 1st Spleak 2nd Mobile Record bot 2nd Virtual Secretary 2nd Dr Phile Knowledge 2nd Comtec Travel Bot 2nd Search Bunny 3rd ...Show All
Windows Forms Click Once Configuration File
Hi, I am developing a smart client that is connecting to a database directly for now and want to put it on a CD that can deploy the files on a server. During the deployment, I want to set some application settings on the smart client, like setting the database server name and so forth. I don't want to do this on the client side. Is there a way to do this. Please let me know. Thanks!! Based on my understanding I think it is possible. What you are trying to do is to publish the application on a server and asking the admin to change the app.config file to reflect the new server name and then allow the user to do application install. It will work. I compared two of my files one in development and one in ...Show All
Visual Studio Tools for Office Infopath TaskPane Addin
I have created an addin using VSTO project for Infopath Addin , have a text box in the usercontrol , and I want to have infopath access that text box every time the context changes: so , I have : public void FormEvents_ContextChanged( object sender, ContextChangedEventArgs e) { MessageBox .Show( "Context changed : " + e.Context.NodeType+ " " +e.Context.Name ); } and I can see the context change, but do not know how to access the addin taskpane. the customtaskpane is taskpane[0], that I know , because , I can hide it by code. taskpane[0].visible My problem is not to access the infopath from the Addin. I am trying to write code in the the formcode of infopath to access the u ...Show All
.NET Development Connection woos ...
Just the other day I have not been able to connect to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. NOTHING has changed. All I have noticed is that in the Surface Area Configurator the Local Connections only radio button it selected. So I try selecting the Remote radio button and Apply and Ok and then exit the Surface Area Configurator program and then come back in again and the Local Only is selected. Is this normal behavior Is Remote connections allowed or not How verify Thanks. My new and my old applications used to work remotely without problems. Both could connect using the server name or ip address. Now neither one works now, meaning they can't connect. Message is that the server doesn't exist. I can ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Clarification on device creation, resetting, and deletion...
I come from C/C++ and DirectX 9 where the defacto standard (at least with their early examples) was an InitDeviceObjects()/DeleteDeviceObjects() pair of functions and an InvalidateDeviceObjects()/RestoreDeviceObjects() pair of functions. It all seemed pretty clear cut as to when any of those functions ever got called. The Init/Delete functions where called for device creation and deletion. The Invalidate/Restore functions were/are typically called for device reset etc. Within those functions -- if you had static device assets (i.e. MANAGED memory pool) -- you could create and delete them inside of the Init/Delete functions. For device assets that needed to be recreated due to the fact that they don't persist across a device reset (i.e. DEF ...Show All
Visual Basic Reading Excel Sheet from .net
Iam reading a excel file from .net application , my question is i need to read the worksheet from excel sheet which has values in it. i dont want to read the worksheet which has no data in it. here is my code Dim sConnString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source= " & txt_file.Text & " ;Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;IMEX=1;HDR = YES""" Dim OleDbConnection1 As New OleDb.OleDbConnection(sConnString) If OleDbConnection1.State = ConnectionState.Open Then OleDbConnection1.Close() End If OleDbConnection1.Open() Dim dt As DataTable dt = OleDbConnection1.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables, Nothing ) Dim excelSheets( ...Show All
Visual Studio Updating to the 2.0 SDK
I'm wondering what I have to do to get the 2.0 SDK functional on my Computer. I have SDK v1.1 on and running Visual Studios 2003. I have downloaded and ran the dotnetfix.exe which should install necessary things to run 2.0 applications. But I need the ful SDK (also downloaded) so that I can build using some of the newer classes. When I installed the SDK 2.0 the first time, it came up in the 'Add/Remove Programs' window, but the VS2003 failed to recognize it. Any suggestions in order to use .NET 2.0 you need to have VS2005 as VS2003 does not support .NET 2.0 or higher, only .NET 1.1 either purchase the full verson of VS2005, or the upgrade, or download the Express editions for free for life ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Decision tables in Excel
Hi, I'm currently evaluating a number of rule engines (OpenSource or similar) with focus on decision tables. Currently Drools.NET seems to have the best implemenation. I read however that Windows Workflow Foundation Rule Engine can use decision tables, but I am unable fnd any sample on this. Any links to articles or sample code on this issue We do not provide a decision table authoring tool with Workflow Foundation. However, we do have a sample that shows a decision table being used in Excel to author rules against the API. http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/rules_samples/entry313.aspx ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Forward integrating (parent-to-child) bug fixes always causes conflicts
Hi everyone: I have the following branching scenario: BranchA - Version 1.0 of the product, currently in production, currently being maintained - Branch B - Version 1.1 of the product, currently under development (child of BranchA) Obviously, bug fixes in branch A need to be forward integrated into branch B. This works, but the scenario below is confusing, and can potentially cause devs to merge incorrectly: Branch V 1.0 into V 1.1 Make changes to code in V 1.1; file class1.cs Check in changes Make changes to code in V 1.0 (e.g. bug fix); file class1.cs Check in changes Merge V 1.0 to V 1.1; latest version Conflict window pops up => understandable, both versions of class1.cs have changed Merge the fil ...Show All
Visual Studio ReportViewer Cause error after deploying the webserver
Dear all, When I deploy my web project into my Web server,everything is work,but except the report does not work properly. The config of my webserver is win2003 with IIS 6.0.And I make use of the report in the local processing mode and set "sessions state mode=InProc","cookieless mode=UseCookie"on the page of the state management in IIS. The error message is showed below Server Error in '/' Application. I also add "<sessionstate stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:8001"/>" into the web.config file But I don't know why it works. ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Release Date of final Version
Who know when the final Version (VS2007) will be released for MS Partners That is news for me right there. I didn't know there was going to be a whole new VS system for .NET 3.0 I thought they were just going to release VS2005 extensions for WPF/WCF/CS/WF. If they are making a release you will most likely see a beta first sometime within the next month or 2. Edit: Ok sorry I have been misinterpreting what Orcas actually is. I thought it was just the extensions but it is actually a different version of VS. So if that is the case then I would guess it is going to be a while since it is still in code name. ...Show All
Smart Device Development Where is the stand alone emulator now?
The link that used to point to the stand alone emulator has been replaced by the "Windows Mobile Emulator Images" page. http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/downloads/emulatorpreview/default.aspx It lists the Microsoft Device Emulator as being available, and links further down the page to " >> Coming Soon! Download Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 " The stand alone emulator has become a really useful tool for many people. Where is it now That was it - I was using the emulator images for the old emulator. Thank you! The Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Beta shipped with PPC 2003 images, but the release version only has WM5. Is there any chance that the PPC 20 ...Show All