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• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals v1.0 RTM

  Yeah, it is for real! On December 1st the product team has officially signed off on v1.0 of "Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals". Build x251 is released to manufacturing (RTM). It was Euan Garden who started talking about the need for a product like this in November 2004; this is when the "DataDude" was first conceived. In April of 2005 the project was funded and the team was established in July of 2005 by hiring Cameron Skinner as the Product Unit Manager for this product. In November of 2005 we reach critical mass and effectively January 1st of 2006 we started building on what is now known as "DataDude v1.0". It truly feels great to build a product from incubation to release within a year! 10358 check-in ...Show All

• Architecture Modeling .Net Generics in Visual UML Diagrams

  Hi Forum I'm trying to find out how I should depict our generic collections or generic types in general. Our company has a range of generic collections and I want to deliver class diagrams to developers where I depict the various generic collections that we have. (So I guide them to use the right one for the job) I only have Visio to work with - Is there any good way of doing this Is the best way to make new types each type you use them and call them something like: XXXCollectionOfProduct XXXCollectionOfOrder YYYCollectionOfProduct YYYYCollectionOfOrder So I have to make a new type for every object what is to be used in the collections ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) sparkle correct version

  hi all, i need to download sparkle but am not sure which version to download... shall i download any version or does it have to match my .net release i have the june release... i didnt install the july release because it doesnt support wpf vista extension... so... which sparkle version shall i download also is there a newer release that enables wpf development thnx :) .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 Windows SDK RC1 Visual Studio "Orcas" Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 (also see readme for WPF designer) Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Expression Interactive Designer September CTP Expression Graphics Designer September CTP ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Counting Pixels in a 1-bit Image

  I kind of brought this up before, but the topic headed off in a different (yet constructive!) direction. I have a 1-bit image. Of course, this means that pixels are either "on" or "off". Is there a way to quickly find out how many pixels are set on I don't need to know which bits are set, just how many. Is there a way to do this without using "GetPixel" on every pixel I was thinking I can read in each bit, then find the unique values (0 or 1), but the image is large (25M pixels) and this method may be too slow. Any other ideas As always...thanks! I assume you found out about Graphics.FromImage() not working with indexed color formats. Your counting-pixels req ...Show All

• Windows Forms Vertical Label

  Does someone know how i can make a vertical label like this : H E L L O Thanks Unless my eyes are deceiving me... http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4910/untitledoq8.jpg I have never had any problems not being able to make vertical labels using the default label control. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions fillby query using like

  I am attempting to fill a table based on using fillby as show: what am I missing the fillby returns no values even for a single letter in a DB with over 500 records Private Sub FillByNameToolStripButton_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FillByNameToolStripButton.Click ' Add search characters % Dim strname As String strname = "%" & Me .NameToolStripTextBox.Text & "%" Me .NameToolStripTextBox.Text = strname Try Me .CustomerTableAdapter.FillByName( Me .MaintenanceDataSet.Customer, NameToolStripTextBox.Text) Catch ex As System.Exception System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(ex.Message) End Try End Sub ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help with disable keyboard, mouse and screen

  I currently doing a project tat requried a pop up to warn the user to take a rest. Upon the pop up the user will not be able to continue using the computer is there any suggestion on how i can do that thank alot. Agreed...that kind of question deserves this answer---> MyComputer.PowerButton.Click ...Show All

• Visual C# Windows Service Error

  I have created this windows service. After building it, when I try starting it, it gives me the error msg: "Could not start myservice.FileTrans service on local computer. Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified" I have checked the file path and the .exe resides in the specified path. Would anyone know what the problem is over here Thanks... I assume that you installed the service using InstallUtil right Did you move the service after you installed it Does the path contain any spaces Are you passing any arguments to the service Michael Taylor - 11/3/06 ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to fire up the default mail client using extended MAPI

  Hi, folks, I need to write a program to generate HTML reports and email them to clients. I'd like to fire up the default mail client with the report populated in the message body before sending it. This can be easily done using simple MAPI with the MAPI_DIALOG flag passed to MAPISendMail function. However, since simple MAPI doesn't support RTF/HTML messages, I have to use extended MAPI instead. But I failed to find an equivelant way of firing up the default mail client -- just as I did in simple MAPI. How can I do it Extended MAPI is not too well documented. There is some information on MSDN library and your might find some in the Exchange SDK: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp ur ...Show All

• SQL Server Use Partial or No_Cache mode in Lookup task

  Hello, Can anyone explain to me (or show me where to get info) in what scenario should I use Full Cache, Partial, or No_Cache mode in the Lookup task I got below warning message during execute my package. I understand that my lookup data have duplicate reference keys. I want to change the mode to partial or no cache to see how it works, but don't know what to change for the parameter map. Warning : 0x802090E4 at Data Flow Task , Lookup [37] : The Lookup transformation encountered duplicate reference key values when caching reference data . The Lookup transformation found duplicate key values when caching metadata in PreExecute . This error occurs in Full Cache mode only . Either remove the duplicate key va ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Throwing SoapException between WS_Receive and WS_Response

  I have a state machine workflow that has a WebServiceInput and a WebServiceOutput. According to the documents, any unhandle exceptions thrown between a WS_In and a WS_Out will return a SoapFault. A soap fault is being returned to the consumer of the web service. However, in one of my activities I am explicitly creating a SoapException and building the Detail property of the SoapException. After the SoapException is created, I throw it, and dont handle it. When the soap fault is returned to the caller of the web method, the xml contents of the detail section of the SoapException are gone. If I throw a SoapException from some code in a normal web service and use the soap toolkit to see the contents of the soap fault, the <Detail> ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using Static Members

  In my projects, instead of passing the GraphicsDeviceManager and the SpriteBatch by reference to the constructor of every class that will need them, or directly to every method that needs it, I prefer making them both Public Static Members of my main class, thus being available anywhere in the program. I would like to know, is this a bad solution And if so, why is that I understand one of the reasons is portability. If I passed them by reference, then I could re-use those classes in other applications without any change. But consider that I'm using these classes for my own application only, and if I needed to use it somewhere else, the changes to be made are still minimal. On the other hand, by using the Static approach, both classes and ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums ScreenUpdating

  hi all, I am nearly done writing an application (in vb.net) that uses interop for Microsoft Powerpoint, and the problem is that when I write to the slide, I don't want the user to see those updates. I know in vba, one would write 'Application.ScreenUpdating = false', however screenupdating is not found under the application. I have searched fruitlessly through other articles for a simple solution, but they seem to be geared towards excel. Can anyone help me Thanks in advance   Myron thanks for your reply. The problem with that is you can't change the visiblity of the powerpoint without getting an error since it's working with "active" windows. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Filter Problem

  I'm struggling with being able to filter a bindingsource. I have a form with a datagridview (Player_InfoDataGridView). I have an event that triggers when the user double clicks on a specific record within the datagridview. That event opens another form (Tracking_List) with textboxes containing data from a bindingsource. The form has a bindingnavigator that moves from one record to the next. I need to be able to filter that form based on certain fields from the datagridview on the first form. I have assigned variables to capture the values of the certain fields to use in the filter based on the current row that the user double clicks on. However, I cannot find the correct filter code that works. Here is what I have so far: Private Su ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can Code Coverage ignore private methods?

  Assuming the "Black Box" approach of testing is there any way to set up Code Coverage in TFS to ignore private methods etc Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks Peter!  I'll give both methods a go in my tests today.  Thanks again! Edit: I've tried both attributes and while the Code Coverage ignores the marked methods it still counts the lines as untested (which is true but not what I'm after).  Looks like I'm just going to have to settled for less than 100%. Thanks again though! ...Show All