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• Visual Studio Team System Associating Manual Test With Tasks

  We have a tester who will be writing a series of manual tests for our application. We want to associate them with tasks that we store in Team Foundation Server such that it is easy to identify which task needs attention upon failure. Is there an easy way to do this Does anyone have any resources on how this is accomplished Everyone in my office is brand new to this Team Foundation stuff. Custom fields can be created in Task workitemtype to store the test id and the result of it. Those values can be populated manually or programmatically from your testcase management tool. Then tasks with failed results can be queried. I have seen such approach implemented. Workitems can also be linked directly to TestRe ...Show All

• SQL Server Exporting in XML format

  Is there a way of exporting data in XML format from SQL Server 2000, there is a wizard for exporting to a html file but I can't seem to find one to export into an XML file A week and no replies All I want to do is create an XML document from sql server 2000 and have it written to a shared drive so I can read it from our webserver! I know to  produce on the fly such as SELECT * FROM VW_Web_Curr_Projs1 FOR XML AUTO, but how to write this result to an xml document Or am I going about this the wrong way, any help please ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Exception thrown when accessing static instance of out of process singleton COM server from more than one test

  I am trying to use unit tests to test an interface class I have written to an out of process singleton COM server. In the test I instantiate a static reference to my singleton COM server. Each test then performs different operations on that singleton server. When I run the tests one at a time everything works fine. If I try to run all the tests at once then I get the exception "System.Runtime.InteropServices.InvalidComObjectException: COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used" on all of the tests except the very first one. I tried the identical tests in NUnit and everything worked fine. It looks my RCW is getting Disposed between tests even though the RCW is defined as static. Any fix or workaroun ...Show All

• SQL Server mdx questions

  I'm going to start reading through the performance document, but in the mean time any suggestions on how to speed up the following with member Measures.bucket1 AS sum ( filter (([REL TURN HRS].[REL TURN HRS].[REL TURN HRS]. members * [Measures].[FACT CUT RELEASE Count] ) ,[REL TURN HRS].[REL TURN HRS]. membervalue < 6),[Measures].[FACT CUT RELEASE Count]), NON_EMPTY_BEHAVIOR = { [FACT CUT RELEASE Count] } SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].bucket1} ON COLUMNS , NON EMPTY { ([CUSTOMER JOB].[Cust-Title-Issue-Job].[JOB_NUMBER]. ALLMEMBERS ) } ON ROWS FROM ( SELECT ( { [CUSTOMER JOB].[CUSTOMER NAME].&[T016]&[TIME4 MEDIA, INC. (T016)] } ) ON COLUMNS FROM [DW INSIGHT]) WHERE ( [CUSTOME ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem with AddNamedCommand and tooltips

  Hi. I'm using AddNamedCommand to create a custom command in my add-in: pCommands->AddNamedCommand(m_pAddInInstance, CComBSTR("Settings"), CComBSTR("Settings"), CComBSTR("Edit add-in settings"), VARIANT_TRUE, 3049, NULL, EnvDTE::vsCommandStatusSupported+EnvDTE::vsCommandStatusEnabled, &pSettings); In Visual Studio 2003 the tooltip for the command is "Edit add-in settings" as I expect. In Visual Studio 2005 the tooltip is "Settings". Seems like it is using the button name as a tooltip. Is there a way to have different button name and tooltip Thanks Ivo I got it to work. For those interested, here's the exact code: CComPtr<Micr ...Show All

• Visual Basic how can we get the last 5 charecter of string?

  how can we get the last 5 charecter of string for eg 99919016 28387 i want 28387 thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom rule - Loading an Assembly to check one of its classes

  Hi all, In one of my rules I want to check if from a method there is a call to a method of other type. In order to do that I load the assembly where the type holding the method that should be checked if called with the following code: // Get the assembly AssemblyNode assemblyNode = RuleUtilities .GetAssembly(assemblyName); // Create an identifier for the Namespace Identifier namespaceIdentifier = new Identifier (namespaceOfType); // Create an identifier for the name of the Type Identifier typeNameIdentifier = new Identifier (typeName); // Get a TypeNode representing the type. TypeNode type = assemblyNode.GetType(namespaceIdentifier, typeNameIdentifier, true ); return type; ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to using COM in C++ appliaction?

  I generate COM in the following way: Create an ATL project called ATLTransmitAs. Add an IDL file named ATLTransmitAs.idl and paste the following code into it. // ATLTransmitAs.idl : IDL source for ATLTransmitAs // This file will be processed by the MIDL tool to produce // the type library (ATLTransmitAs.tlb) and marshalling code. import "oaidl.idl"; import "ocidl.idl"; typedef long DATEXMIT; typedef [transmit_as(DATEXMIT)] struct CUSTOM_DATE { short day; short month; short year; } CUSTOM_DATE; [ object, uuid("AE23C15E-920D-4ffa-B662-7E77E231E951"), helpstring("ICustomDate Interface"), pointer_default(unique) ] interface ICustomDate : IUnknown { [helpstring("method GetDate&quo ...Show All

• Visual Basic My.Computer.FileSystem -- kinda light, isn't it?

  This isn't a specific How To question, but more a philosophical one, so I may be in the wrong place... It involves the My.Computer.FileSystem, which--if I read my indicators properly--seems to be poised to completely replace the older FileOpen, FilePut, FileGet, etc. and I say this because the latter are referred to as being "provided for backward compatibility". This usually means it won't be there at all in another version or two... Don't get me wrong, I love progress. Find a way for us to stop inventing that dang wheel over and over again and I'm your best buddy. But when I look deeply into My.Computer.FileSystem, just about everything there pertains to Text files. There are two functions left for binaries, ReadAllBytes() and WriteAll ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Listbox Help plz

  How do I hide a url address in a listbox and change it into a name For example i want a user to click on the name (eg. Radio 1) in the listbox without giving out the full address, which then plays through media player. Im using visual basic 2005 express edition. Hashtable is a type of an array, which is in the System.Collections namespace http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.hashtable.aspx ...Show All

• Visual C# how to customize propertygrid control?

  could i customize the color of one row of the propertygrid ...Show All

• Visual C# Create a library that work with int that have whatever dimension i want

  I created a class Int that work with integer value  that have very big dimension(256,512,1024 bits.....) , but i want that normal int (when i write int , in declaration of a variable or as parameters of a function ) to work like my Int ( to overload tipe int). Can somebody tell me pls how can i do that Pls! Thank you! You can't replace the "built-in" int type (unless you build your own compiler). You can create your own int type, but since int is a keyword you'd have to escape it like @int. ...Show All

• SQL Server Failure saving package

  Hello All, I have a package in the SQL 2000 environment that works fine. I have migrated this DTS Package to a SSIS Package using the Visual Studio 2005. After that, i made some changes in this package and now I'm trying to save it but I am facing with this error message below: TITLE: Microsoft Visual Studio ------------------------------ Failure saving package. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Invalid at the top level of the document. (Microsoft OLEDB Persistence Provider) ------------------------------ Invalid at the top level of the document. (Microsoft OLEDB Persistence Provider) ------------------------------ BUTTONS: OK ------------------------------ Could someone please help me wi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Slow-paced Tutorial on Cursors

  I intend to create and use custom cursors in my application, but most information on creating and using cursors and, more generally, creating and using resources, goes much too fast. I am looking for an 'absolute beginners' tutorial on how to incorporate a custom cursor in my application. Start by making your custom cursor. Project + Add New Item, select the "Cursor File" template. That starts the cursor image editor, draw the cursor the way you want it. The Image menu contains options to change the format of the cursor, the default is 16x16 black-and-white. Next, you need to set the hot-spot. Click the "Set Hot Spot Tool" icon in the Image Editor toolbar and click the pixel that w ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Gaming groups or websites

  I'm looking for a good 2D gaming development group or website. For example, DeviantArt is where artists go to share their work with other artists. Is there a game dev equivalent I'm a 2D, RPG developer typically. If you know of any other great communitys out there (apart from this one, of course), please let me know. Thanx! *jinx Since you're posting on an XNA-related forum, I'll assume you're looking for a similarly focused web site, in which case you might want to check out the one I run: www.threesixbox.com ...Show All