Tdar's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System How customizable is TFS?

  Hi, Just wondering how customizable is TFS... For example, what if I wanted to add new state values in the Status section on the Work Item Detail tab Is there a table I can INSERT new values The same goes for Discipline values... Thanks, - gshaf Editing the work item i.e. customizing the process template long back before is the pain..since if you want to change any thing means ..you have to go xml file and do the changes...at that i thought of any editior which will be available...but it went on vain ... ....but now it is easy to customize the Process template in a easiest way...i got the Process Template editor...just go through the following link.. http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx id= ...Show All

• SQL Server Auto update statistics

  In SQL 2000 is there a way of changing the threshold that auto updating of statistics kicks in Currently I am working with a db where the stats are becoming extremely poor after a day (as no automatic stats update is taking place) and the length of time a stored proc takes to compile and run goes from about 5 mins to around 120 mins. An update stats fixes the problem. Thanks. Thanks for your reply. I would like to avoid query hints, as quite a number of procedures are affected by the stats problem. I am not using default values within the SPs in fact a lot of the data being processed is fairly similar to the existing data within the tables. I don't quite understand why the stats are becoming out of d ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Add category to deskbar results

  Since I installed WDS 3 the program category is not shown in the windows deskbar results. In the main results window I still can search for programs from the start menu. How can I change that Thanks for this hint. With the preceding star it works for me. It seems to be a new "feature" in wds 3. Although it would be nice to have the possibility to customize this. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to copy a file to/from a PDA using a windows form application?

  Hi, I have an windows form application developed in VS2005 .net2 using C#. Using this I want to copy a file from a PDA which is connected via ActiveSync and a USB cable. However I can n't access the PDA. I was trying to use File.Copy but was unsure of the path so tried to use a openFileDialog control but the PDA does n't appear in the list of drives/folders. From outside of the app using windows explorer its possible to access the PDAs drive just as though it was any USB external drive. Does anybody have any suggestions Thanks Rob ...Show All

• Windows Forms CallBack in GridView

  Hello: I am in the process of extending GridView and adding some functionalities. For example, I added a single row click to postback and handle the event. I would like now to be able to do a CallBack instead of PostBack. Do you know if there is a whitepaper on how that CallBack functionality is added to the Grid currently through sorting and paging I believe it is better to follow the same technique used. I have been trying for some time, im getting all the needed methods and functions, and I have added for example: Grid1.EditIndex = e.GridViewRow.RowIndex; inside the handler of the sinlge click which is being fired upon a callback, I am doing debugging and I am going to that method, but nothing is changing on the grid. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Wrapper interfaces and duplicate proxy types

  Hi, I have two contracts that use the same schema type: In MySchemas.dll: [DataContract] public class KnickKnack { private int _number; [DataMember] public int Number { get { return _number; } set { _number = value; } } } In MyContracts.dll: [ServiceContract] public interface IServiceA { [OperationContract] void Modify(KnickKnack k); } [ServiceContract] public interface IServiceB { [OperationContract] void Modify(KnickKnack k); } If I host the two contracts as services as then generate client proxies, I get duplicated types (search the forums for 'duplicate proxy types' to see similar posts). I realized that my two contracts are actually part of the same application; it doesn't make sense ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem when deleting and adding a new project from source control

  Hi we have Solution S1 in C:\Software1 S1.Project 1 ...S1.Project 6 Solution S2 in C:\Software 2 s2. Project 1... S2.project 6. There is one solution S3 which integrates all projects from S1 and s2. This is in folder C:\Software3 . This solution has no project on its own. but it uses projects from other solutions. so we have ---Software3.sln ---------S1.Project1 ----------S1.Project 2 -----------S1.Project 3 -------------S1.Project 4 -------------S1.Project 5 -------------S1.Project 6 ---------S2.Project1 ----------S2.Project 2 -----------S2.Project 3 -------------S2.Project 4 -- ...Show All

• SQL Server How to define a Left Outer Join in report using ReportModel as DataSource

  Dear ppl, I got a Report Model Project, in which i have created a model of my Database and deployed it on the server... Then I have a Report Server project for my reports. The reports are using Report Model as the DataSource... Now in the Report Designer, inside a report, when I define query for Dataset using Report Model , I can't find a way to write a left Outer Join query... It always performs Inner Joins... was wondering ether Report model supports Outer Joins ... I might achive this using two different datasets but then i'll end up using two data regions e.g. 2 tables, but i don't want to do that... instead I want all of my data to appear in a single table which can reference to single dataset. Is there a way to define ...Show All

• .NET Development vfpoledb & cdx > dbf problems

  When I try to open, (i.e. join), .dbf files using vfpoledb and there are .cdx files present in the free table directory. It will not work. I get a prompt for a 'convcpp.prg'. This must be a run-time expression compiler or something. I am using C# over FoxPro and VFP tables. When I copy the .dbf and .fpt files to another directory, then I have no problem with the vfpoledb data access. I don't get these prompts with the ODBC drivers. Is there a way to specify in a connection string for vfpoledb to ignore .cdx files A read-only scenario for my vfpoledb connection would suffice for now... and what are those prompts for .prg I've never used FoxPro or VFP. My problems show when I try to query with joins, which is what the .cdx files concern t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build Creation web service

  Dear Folks, I would like to know if there is a web service for build type creation . also let me kow if i do not wnat to use the build type wizard but abstract it out with some customisations, what are the steps that i have to do. regards, Sundararajan.S [Technical specialist - Infosys] Thanks Aaron. I will try the same thing. hope just creating the Xml file from my custom wizard and checking it into TFS will work . ...Show All

• Visual Basic UserControl in StatusStrip

  Hoping someone can help me figure out how to add a Usercontrol into StatusStrip. There seems no obvious way in which to add any controls other than the default ones allowed through the Items Collection Editor. Hi, the key here is to use the ToolStripHost class , which would host your user control. This MSDN's How To article will guide you through the process of generating a wrapper around your control, allowing you to put in on your status strip. Andrej ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom UITypeEditor Is Ignored After Activity.Bind called :(

  Hello Everyone, I've created my own custom PropertyBindDialog because the one that Microsoft provides is pretty deficient. Unfortunately my own custom PropertyBindDialog will not be used after I call Activity.SetBinding - after I do this for a given property my own custom PropertyBindDialog is ignored and the Microsoft BindDialog is used. Here's some of my source code... The problem occurs when I call SetBinding on the property Test. After I call SetBinding, my PropertyBindDialog is no longer used when I want to edit the Test property - the Microsoft BindDialog is used and my custom PropertyBindDialog is ignored. Anyone out there have any ideas namespace MyActivityLibrary { public partial class MySpe ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to deselect the DataGridView row header

  Hi, I'm trying to figure how if it's possible to completely deselect rows, including the arrow symbol in the rowheader cell. The reason I am trying to do this is because with multiple selections (eg. using CTRL key) the user can select multiple rows, but they can also deselect previous selections. Example: - Select first 3 rows with CTRL key - Deselect 3rd row with CTRL key. The SelectedRows collection correctly reflects the change, and now contains only the first 2 rows. Also, the CurrentRow.Selected = false for the third row - But the RowHeader arrow is still on the third row, which is now no longer selected - What I would ideally like is to set the new CurrentRow to be the second row, and the RowHeader to be updated accordingly I have t ...Show All

• Windows Forms A question on events

  Ok this is probably a simple question but here goes: I have a form with several buttons. If a user clicks on any button i want to have the ability to cancel that click. I don't want to write the same code for every button, i want to catch the mouse click before the buttons ever get it and cancel it if certain guidelines aren't met. I can't find anywhere that allows a mouse click event to be cancelled. Can anyone help or do i have to write the same code code for every single button Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance! Yes, that how you approach it. If the button shouldn't be clicked it needs to be disabled until the proper condition is met. If you throw away the click, user might assum ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Present.DoNotWait

  I thought I would post this code in case it might be useful to someone. This is a modification of the Draw function from the "Your First XNA Game" section of the XNA documentation. An earlier thread about input polling with a low frame rate got me thinking about using the Present.DoNotWait flag to allow more Update calls to happen while the device is still drawing. This way you don't have to create a separate thread to get more resolution on the input polling. On my machine, the Update function was called about 11000 times per second with 85 frames drawn per second. This is with vsync and fullscreen on (this doesn't work in windowed mode). Also, if anyone can think of a problem with this scheme, I'd love to hear about it. ...Show All