Terry Smith's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Workspace concepts

  I need some help understanding the Workspace. Are there any good docs on it Here are some things I think I have learned... but are they true Please comment and amplify. Thanks! ====================================== - Within a TFS Server database, a workspace is uniquely identified by (Name, Owner) - A workspace has one or multiple mappings to the local drive system. Each mapping associates a local folder with a TFS project folder. - A local path cannot be mapped to more than one project. This also means that a local path cannot be mapped to more than one workspace. - Certain static and/or dynamic properties of a workspace are cached on the client. The client side of a workspace definition can be ...Show All

• Visual C# Knowing when an Asynchronous Socket is disconnected

  Does anyone know how to tell if a connection has been lost without polling I am trying to make it so that when my machine loses a connection to the remote machine it waits a minute then automatically tries to start reconnecting. I know how to do everything except figuring out when a connection is lost. I know I could do this by polling every so often to see if the socket is connected but I would rather not waste the resources polling. Thanks in advance I figured it out. For anyone that wants to know you just have to get the number of bytes read in when you call EndReceive on the socket int nBytesRec = sock.EndReceive(result); and if nBytesRec = 0 then the connection has been lost and you can do what you w ...Show All

• SQL Server OLAP Analysis Services - Remote Connection issue

  Hi! does anybody tell me how to connect remotely to an OLAP Analysis Server I have defined a local windows account on the OLAP server and added it to AS cube roles. Despite that I still can't connect remotely to the AS server. Thanks, Chris If this is about connecting with SQL Management Studio (or BI Development Studio) to Analysis Services 2005: - you need to have a Windows account in the domain of the 2 machines (the AS2005 machine and the client machine from where you want to connect remotely) - temporarily make the user a server administrator on the AS2005 (to eliminate the potential permission problems); you can do this with SQL Management Studio, right click on the server i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Scrolling textbox

  I'm using Windows Forms 2.0 (Visual Stduio 2005) and cannot get characters within the textbox to scroll. I need displays coming out because it is a batch process and need to allow operators of the app to view the messages. I have the following code which I want to basically have show up in the window like so: line1 line 2 etc. <code> TextBox1.Text = ControlChars.CrLf & "Retrieving Search Definitions along with their respective Search Criteria." 'do some processing TextBox1.Text = ControlChars.CrLf & "Retrieved Search Definitions along with their respective Search Criteria." </code> I have the above type of code in several places in my app. Every time the textbox gets ass ...Show All

• .NET Development 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

  Hi all! I receive the error "System.IO.FileNotFoundException occurred in mscorlib.dll" while trying to deserialize a custom object in VS 2005. Background: I am building a mobile application with the .Net Compact framework so normal object serialization is not available to me in the client application. This app however connects to a desktop bound server using the full .Net framework, the custom class is very simple and holds 3 collections and an integer i.e. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Collections; using System.Text; namespace SignatureVerificationServer { public class SignatureRawDataObject { public string bob; public int SignatureType; public ArrayList Coords;// = new ArrayList(); ...Show All

• SQL Server System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlClientPermission, System.Dat

  I have created a windows library control that accesses a local sql database I tried the following strings for connecting Dim connectionString As String = "Data Source=localhost\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=TimeSheet;Trusted_Connection = true" Dim connectionString As String = "Data Source=localhost\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=TimeSheet;Integrated Security=SSPI" I am not running the webpage in a virtual directory but in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\usercontrol and I have a simple index.html that tries to read from an sql db but throws the error System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlClientPermission, System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How do I install .NETCF 2.0 to my dell axim?

  Hi, I have a Dell Axim and want to write C# code for it. I just downloaded the .NET CF 2.0 and is stored in My Documents. I had previously installed .NET Framework on my computer when I installed VS 2005 Studio. Now I would like to install the .NET CF to the device and Im stuck. When I click the installer for .NET CF 2.0 it says I already have it installed (Im assuming its because of the .NET Framework thats installed) so I dont have a clue what next. I also have Active Sync 4.0 installed on the laptop and the help file just says to double click on the installer file. How do I do this guys. Thanks Zii MSI is probably already installed because you have VS 2005 installed (required for NETCF de ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions reading in CSV files

  I want to read in, then manipulate different lines of data from a CSV file ... before manipulating the data and then placing the data in a database format and structure suitable for other analysis and review in TBD (Access, SQL or Excel) I seem to be having trouble with the first, perhaps most trivial step. I cannot read in the CSV file (filename.txt) past the first line. I have tried snippets, help and forum generally revolving around the use of: dim fields As String () Using parser As New TextFieldParser (filename) parser.SetDelimiters (" ' ") While Not parser EndofData fields=parser.ReadFields() I am able to read files okay as long as there are single records on a single line, but not able to make a succes ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Report, Custom paper Size

  - i have created a custom paper size on my pc - in visual studio 2005, VB Project, i have created a crystal report using the custom paper size that i have created - when deploying the application i cant print the report, i have also created the same paper size on the remote machine, but it didnt work, i need to know how to set papersize in vb @ run time, i mean to pass to the report the width & height - pagecontentheigth & width are readonly i cant set them - my page size : width = 215 mm height = 135 mm thanks for your help Hello I don't know if it's applicable also to VS 2005 but anyway have a look at my reply to this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx Pos ...Show All

• Visual Basic Queston about "nothing"

  vb.net 2003 I am comfused about "", nothing, and string.empty. When a string variable is created,: Dim MyString as String, does MyString initially = nothing or an empty string. Is there a difference between setting a string variable to "" vice string.empty. Thanks, Fred I think I will follow the advice of the blog and just check for the length of the string to determine if anything resides in the string variable. Thanks, Fred ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions My class is being ignored

  Hi, ive build this browser with a favourites system but every time i run it, it totally ignores the favourites class. Any ideas Well i can tell because it gets left out. All of the code just gets left behind. It is like the two two class files have no conection. For instance i defined a public string in one class but then when i used the string in the other class it said "Error 1 The name 'TheURL' does not exist in the current context" Can you help me ...Show All

• Visual C# Array of struct A in struct B!

  Hi struct A { int x; int y; } struct B { int z; A [] tab=new A[14]; //cannot have instance field initializer in struc ...I know! } but i need an array of struct in another struct thanks. 1-yes B has to be a struct. 2- "can you add a parameterized constructor to it" : why not. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Time Stamp in Source Control Explorer

  Hi, How can I add timestamp column in TFS Source Control Explorer It was so easy in VSS sort latest changes by timestamp. I refuse to beleive that VSTS miss this part!!!!! If you want this feature, you can vote for it on Microsoft Connect. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=727904&SiteID=1 Regards, Grant Holliday http://www.oztfs.com/ ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Instances persisted by different hosts

  Hi, For example, I have 3 Winform Workflow host applications (with 3 different workflows also). They all using the SqlPersistenceService. Now I want to add a function to each of them to check the persisted workflow with the routine like this Dim instances As IEnumerable(Of SqlPersistenceWorkflowInstanceDescription) instances = PersistenceService.GetAllWorkflows Dim instance As SqlPersistenceWorkflowInstanceDescription For Each instance In instances System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(instance.WorkflowInstanceId.ToString) Next Everything work fine. But if I added the the to check the Status of the workflow (with StateMachineInstance) or try to load the workflow with : Dim Wfi As WorkflowInstance ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA vs. DirectX SDK

  I have been playing with Managed DirectX for a couple years now. So I'm somewhat familiar with the DirectX SDK and MDX. What is the difference between the new XNA Framework and XNA Game Studio and what we've had previously with DirectX, besides an XBox path. This is a pretty deap issue to dive into. It is based on what was to become Managed DirectX 2.0. We'll have a whitepaper soon for users who are familer with MDX and want to move over to using XNA. It should be available around the same time as the beta so I would look for that. In addition there's a whole lot more stuff that makes it more of a complete system for developing a game as opposed to just graphics API's Thanks! ...Show All