dbloom's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Error TF24042

  Hello, I have added two domain groups in [Team Project] \Contributors group, but users received the error message: "TF24042 You do not have permission to create work items in project ...". Users cannot see any work item created for that Team Project. Please, could you help me Thanks Montse This may not solve your issue, but I wanted to clarify something. The permission required to view work items is not 'view project level information'. You need to right-click on a project and go to Areas and Iterations. There, select an Area node (root will apply for the whole project) and click security. In the dialog that comes up, there are two permissions for work items -> Vi ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Setting Password Char in InputBox?

  Hi, I am trying to set the password char property of an inputbox and would like to know if there is a simpler solution rather than having to put in alot of code like the script here: http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp ID=1214 Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Hello Scott, It will be easier to use a userform with a text box. Then set one of the properties PasswordChar (or something similar, to the character you want) In the VBE when you have selected TextBox (after having placed it on the form). View the properties of it and you will see the one for Password char. Am in a bit of a hurry now, but if no one has answered you by the time I get free I will reply with a more detail ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Futures, VB 2005 Essential Content, Other Content From PDC '05

  Hi Forum Readers - I just wanted to give you a heads up about some of the pretty exciting announcements and content coming out of PDC '05 this week, so you can share in the fun.  I discuss the overall activities and Essential Content available from PDC here: http://blogs.msdn.com/pauly/archive/2005/09/12/464207.aspx I discuss the announcements of LINQ and next generation Visual Basic features here: http://blogs.msdn.com/pauly/archive/2005/09/13/464965.aspx   Best, Paul Yuknewicz Visual Basic VB 9 will only infer a type when a type isn't specified.  If you give the variable a specific type (shown below), it will work as it always has.         Di ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Vista Machine with Office 2007- Outlook not finding emails. Instant Search/Indexing issue

  Hi, I have search everywhere for a solution and still I do not seem to find a solution. Outlook is not finding any emails (instant search). I think it is not really indexing anything. Vista search works perfect (seems like it). The index says it is done (outlook is included on it) As I receive emails, the list of pending items to index just grows and grows. I am using pop accounts not exchange. (I already checked the instant search options, the indexing thorugh control panel). Any ideas. I spent the last two weeks searching for a solution, and I have read and follow the suggested solutions from microsoft, but still is not really finding anything.. so frustrated!. Thanks for reading this, and I hope somebody can help me ou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to build several projects into single .sql file?

  Is there ability to build several database projects into single file I wish place different functional parts of database into different projects and add this projects to solution. It will be more simple for me to set dependencies between projects in this solution and build all these projects into one sql-file. We can not support that in the current product, a project reflects a single user database, we do not support it to break it up between projects this will not work. -GertD ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can MSMQ fire events??

  i need to register a method to a event ( to know if the queue received any messages). so can MSMQ message queues fire events ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error when adding a user control to a form

  I've created a user control that consists of a text box and a list box. The listbox is populated by a data table that's created in the MDI parent and copied to each form as needed. In the load event of the user control, I set the datasource of the listbox to the tables defaultview, then add the sort, display and value properties. When I try to add the control to a form, I get a 'Failed to create component' white screen of death, with the message that the column name for the sort property can't be found. If I comment out the load code, I can add the control to the form. I can then uncomment the code and run the app, and the user control does exactly what it's supposed to do. First, why is the designer finding what would be a runtime e ...Show All

• Windows Forms creating xls spread sheet from gridview. problem with formating/sorting in xls

  I am creating an excel spread sheet that is locked so the users wont mess with the col order (i need to upload latter). I lock the spread sheet except for p-s col. I want to format the who sheet with grid lines. but I can't figure out how to do this. also is there a way I can allow sorting on a protected spread sheet Private Sub buildXLS(ByVal filname As String) Dim Fnum As Integer = FreeFile() Dim oconn As New SqlConnection(connstring) Dim strVenOpenPOs As String = "select family, vendornum, [vendor name], [suntron part], [order number], po_line, [po rel], bal_due, [dock date],[action msg], [desired date], P_DESdt as [Last Weeks Desire Date], po_reduction, po_rev_qty, comments, s_comitdate as 'Supplier Commit Da ...Show All

• SQL Server Date format - Parameter/Field

  Hi, I have some difficulties to format a Date value in my reporting service. As you know you can use this kind of expression: =DateTime.Parse(Parameters!ReportingDate.Value).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") But it does not work, and when I just want to use the format property of the textbox content such as " dd/MM/yyyy ", it displays "dd/MM/yyyy", not the real formatted data, this property works for " =Today() " but not for parameters and fields. What is the diffrence Have you an idea to format a Parameter/Field of Date type such as dd/MM/yyyy Many thanks! Vins, That's a tough one, if you're using integer data type for Datetime. I guess my approach ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System adding VB.Net button to Reporting services

  Example: I want to add a button to my reporting services, when clicked on shows a VB.Net form and lets the user select a specific account(accounts) from my SQL Server 2000 table. After user selects a specific account, the form disappears, and the selected account appears in the account parameter textbox on reporting services report... I have seen this done, but am unable 2 find any helpful stuff on the net. Can anyone explain how this is done, or if they know of any useful links I am using Visual Studio .Net 2003 Thanks. Hey ddCONFUSED- Try contacting the SQL Reporting Services forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=82&SiteID=1 They are the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System automatic check out

  I have the Source Control - Envionment - Editing option set to "Check out automatically." When I open a file from Source Control Explorer and begin editing, the file does not check out.  Is this a bug ...Show All

• SQL Server Where to look for Extended Stored Procedure DLL Wizard in VS 2005

  Hi MSDN says that we can use DDL wizard of C++ . Can someone show me where exactly this is ..Because when I open new project and look in the templates I do not find the one with this name...... Regards Imtiaz See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/ahd3f5bb(en-US,VS.80).aspx . AFAIK, you should be able to find it in the same location as VS2003. ...Show All

• Visual C++ strange error :-S

  BITMAP HdcToBitmap(HDC hdcNeedle, int needleWidth, int needleHeight) { HDC memDC_Needle = CreateCompatibleDC(hdcNeedle); HBITMAP memBM_Needle = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hdcNeedle, needleWidth, needleHeight); SelectObject(memDC_Needle, memBM_Needle); BitBlt(memDC_Needle, 0, 0, needleWidth, needleHeight, hdcNeedle, 0, 0, SRCCOPY); BITMAP bmpNeedle; GetObject(memBM_Needle, sizeof(BITMAP), &bmpNeedle); return bmpNeedle; } There are some questions that remain - where are you getting these APIs from What sort of project did you create What IDE are you using As nobugz said, the errors you're getting make no sense, they appear to be errors in the calling convention of the APIs. ...Show All

• Commerce Server Commerce Server 2007 Performance Guide is now available online!

  At long last, the performance guide for CS2007 is up on Microsoft.com for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=E79691F0-BE0F-40A6-940C-5D3A679C5526&displaylang=en . Enjoy! Hi Colin, The Starter Site has the VSTS test available. When you download the Starter Site and unzip the files there are two more zip files one of them UnitTests.zip has the unit test. Good luck, -Max ...Show All

• SQL Server Query performance

  I have a query as follow Select product.name, vendor.name from product join vendor on product.vendor_key = vendor_key Vendor_key is the primary key on Vendor Table If I want to increase the performance should I use Stored Procedure or create index for the vendor_key on Product Table The first thing to check is that both tables have indices on the linking columns. Vendor(Vendor_Key) is a PK, so it is automatically indexed. Does Product(Vendor_Key) have an index ...Show All