WilfridB's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team System Tests Performance?

  Hello all, I have a client who is just migrating to Team Foundation. The source code was migrated from VSS without problems and now they are planning to migrate their NUnit tests to Team System tests with the NUnit converter from gotdotnet. However, they have heard that team system tests do not perform as well as nunit test. Have any of you had this problem or heard about it We have not noticed this in our internal testing, but our client does have quite a large amount of tests (around 400). Our client did not give much details, only that they had "heard" this (not very helpful, I agree). Anyway, I will put it to them and see how things evolve. Thanks a lot, David. ...Show All

• Visual Basic vb5 to vb2005 express

  How can i convert my vb5 sources to vb2005 without vb6 Okay, I didn't know whether it'd open a VB5 project: that's the way to convert VB6 projects. Good top know it opened. However, you have probably a long, up-hill struggle with the converted project. Generally, the recommendation would be to keep an existing project in it's native development environment, unless it's fairly trivial. The upgrade process is a simple 'unintelligent' process, and it won't convert to the eqivalent new features in VB 2005 (e.g. file handling or graphics). You will need to go through the whole program to check almost every line for functionality - it may be easier to rewrite, while supporting the existing version, and trans ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Rounding TextBox Value to 2 Decimal Places

  How do you let a user only put a number to 2 decimal places in a texbox like this: Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress ( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System . Windows . Forms . KeyPressEventArgs ) Handles TextBox1 . KeyPress If Char . IsLetter ( e . KeyChar ) Then e . Handled = True End If End Sub Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged ( ByVal sender As System .Object, ByVal e As System . EventArgs ) Handles TextBox1 . TextChanged If Not Me . TextBox1 . Text ( Me . TextBox1 . Text . Length - 1) = "." Then Try Me . TextBox1 . Text = CStr ( Math . Round ( CDbl ( Me . TextBox1 . Text ), 2)) Me . Tex ...Show All

• SQL Server date validation

  For the incoming data from a text file i want to check if the dates are valid...how can i do that First, you should be searching BOL, or other Microsoft resources to take my answer and perform some research on your own. Never-the-less, since that didn't work, here you go: You'll be using a derived column transformation. Create a new field with the expression: (DT_DBTIMESTAMP)[fieldname] ...Show All

• Visual C# how can I do this?

  Hello, I have 2 classes: Circle, Sphere and the interface IShape. Interface IShape { public vitual void Area { } } class Circle : IShape { public override void Area { } } class Sphere: IShape { public override void Area { } } how can I do like: from the call to set currentShape as circle, it will point to Cirle class example: currentshape.Area or currentShape as Sphere, will point to Sphere class... Thanks for the help, tammy Technically Cricle is a kind of Sphere... I'm not clear what it is you want to do. Do you just want to deal with one or more shapes and be able to tell what type of shape each one is ...Show All

• SQL Server Update or insert into SQL table from excel source

  Hi all, I've had little success gooling/searching for this (so far). Given a simple spreadsheet: StoreNumber StoreName 1 UPDStoreName_1 2 UPDStoreName_2 3 UPDStoreName_3 4 NEWStoreName_4 I want to have an SSIS package that will update a table: mystores (storenumber int, storename nvarchar(255)) StoreNumber StoreName 1 StoreName_1 2 StoreName_2 3 StoreName_3 5 StoreName_5 .. what I need to do is insert the new, update the existing and leave the remaining unchanged. i.e. : StoreNumber StoreName 1 UPDStoreName_1 2 UPDStoreName_2 3 UPDStoreName_3 4 N ...Show All

• .NET Development Best Practice: Activity status

  I'm back again! For me this is a bit hard to grasp/tackle. My application has a UI and several other classes. I know that no class should interact with the other if its not needed, which is fine. I know about these things. If I have a class doing some work (not the UI), I want to be able to notify the UI of the status/activity that is going on in this work. Is it correct for me to say that I should create events which would be raised from this class, so that the UI will catch it and display the status to the user Obviously this "work" class knows nothing about the UI class, nor does it need to. All it needs to do is its work and then display the status of what its doing, wherever this status is displayed is none ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Cue the conspiracy theorist

  I was just wondering whether the XNA framework somewhat more than using its internal icky audio engine based on prefabbed XACT packages, like writing PCM data directly to a buffer I'm not very far into game programming as of yet, but to me the use of XACT seems like a superfluous step in the work flow of a creating a game, or just an additional level to a game. Correct if I'm wrong, I've just read the documentation. First of all, wave banks, cues etc. can only be created within the XACT authoring tool, hence no possibility for integration other than using what's created in the tool. Second, apparently no reflection or discovery can be made on XACT packages in your client code to discover cues. Scenario: A level editor in which you ...Show All

• .NET Development using x64 COM Dll in VB.NET

  We are in the process of porting our app to x64. We have a COM dll that builds and registers a varietly of interfaces. We also have a VB app that implements these interfaces. When we build a 64 bit version of our com DLL and register the output, our VB app can no longer find the reference to these interfeaces. If I try to re-add the reference to the COM dll through project properties I cannot find our DLL listed in the COM tab. I even tried targething the VB app directly to x64 versus anycpu. Is there a trick I am missing here How do I add this as a reference We are running x64. The COM dll is 64 bit. I have gone into the registry and found that my interface is getting registered. I cannot add a reference ...Show All

• Visual Basic dt.defaultview.sort

  hi, i want to sort my data table. in sql the order goes this way -> 'order by userid, startdatetime'. is this how we sort data in data table dt.defaultview.sort = "userid, startdatetime" thanks cherrie If you want to change the actual order of the dataset then on the SQL statement used to populate the dataset - use the Order By clause of the sql statement to determine to sort order. ...Show All

• Visual C# Events problems.

  Hello, I try to make a class (called voltage) to use in a Usercontrol (called switch). I like to know when one of the propertys of the type voltage change by means of an event triggerd in the voltage class, and then trigger a event in the class switch to notify the user. (see also my last post) here is the code for the voltage class: Yes I try'd to format it a bit by hand. Maybe something for the MSDN guys to make it possible to copy formatted code directly from the C# IDE. It looks to me that the code " a.VoltageChanged += new VoltageEventHandler (This_VoltageChanged);" Dus not add a VoltageEventHandler to the VoltageChanged event in the Voltage class. because during runtime it stays null altrough the OnVoltag ...Show All

• Community Chat Firefox 2

  Yay! firefox 2 is being released at 8pm today!! Hooray! just thought i would let you know... awww... you're funny! just read the forum about halo i think you'll find otherwise. here, i'll help you: I'M USING FIREFOX RIGHT NOW!! I EVEN GOT AN EXTENSION SO THAT IF I FIND A WEBSITE THAT WON'T WORK WITH FIREFOX, I CAN OPEN THAT SITE IN A NEW TAB IN IE ENCODING SO I NO LONGER HAVE ANY PRACTICAL USE FOR IE!! ha-ha. i keep it around, tho. ...Show All

• Windows Forms contextMenu associated window shown in taskbar

  I have a NotifyIcon in my app also a ContextMenuStrip when I click with the rigth button on the NotifyIcon everything works perfect. I also want to show the context menu usign the left button so I wrote this simple code private void notifyIconDailyMe_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { contextMenuStripMain.Show(10000, 10000); } and it shows the contextmenu.. the problem is that a windows appears in the TaskBar that windows has no icon so it tell me this window represents the context menu.This behavior is not elegant at all. I want to show my Contextmenu and that's it. How can I hide this window from the taskbar thanks I know that is the easy way but I want to go beyond. As I wrote "I also want ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem building Setup Projects with Team Build

  Hi, We're experiencing problems while building setup projects from team build. We have VS installed on a build machine and use a custom build step calling devenv for building the setup project. It works so far that we get our desired msi package. But the problem is that before the setup project is build, all other projects in the solution are build as well regardless of the fact that team build did this right before! I checked the vdproj file and it contains the right paths (yes, all are relative paths to obj/Release folders). Devenv seems to be unable to detect that all projects are up-to-date. However, when I launch devenv with exactly the same command line on my desktop, the setup project is correctly b ...Show All

• SQL Server report manager or builder

  i cannot get either of these to open. i follow the launch instructions for builder and cannot get past the username and password. when i enter either my system info or server info it fails to connect. thanks ...Show All