Walter Poupore - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System any certification exam for software testers ?

  is there a plan to have a certification exam for software testers to test their proficiency on VS team edition Let me know because I would be interested in the Training kit book. Thanks Hello, I don't know if there are any certifications available yet, but I do know that there are trainings. Anyways, if there are certifications, you will find them in the links that I will provide you: Optimizing the Software Development Lifecycle with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System course: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/syllabi/en-us/2631afinal.mspx Microsoft Certifications webpage: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/default.mspx Thanks, David Gorena Elizondo [MSFT] VSTS ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems incorporating WorkflowCommitWorkBatchService

  Hi I'm currently building a state machine workflow with the OOB web service activities.  I'm using the OOB persistence service and i'm also saving information into a custom data model.  To ensure the consistency between the workflow state and the custom data model I am following the work batch approach.  This works fine however I have the following problem with this arrangement. The problem is that I want to let the client using the web service know if there were any problems commiting the work, ie: I want to give them back a soap exception indicating any failure.  Is this possible using these standard activities and services Just as an example of the problem, I found this problem when I moved my source to a ne ...Show All

• Windows Forms Invoke

  Hi, I was wondering if the following syntax is correct for a call to Control.Invoke: private void Form1_MyEventHandler(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (InvokeRequired) Invoke(new EventHandler(Form1_MyEventHandler), new object[] {sender, e}); else { // TODO throw new Exception("not implemented"); } } Is it not to late to call Form1.Invoke, assuming the call to Form1.Form1_MyEventHandler is done by another thread than the one that instanciated the Form1 object If not the case, is Invoke necessary even if Form1_MyEventHandler doesn't access any members of Form1 Also, is the recursive syntax ok Thanks in advance :) What you are doing is correct to ensure you don't get cross-thread acces ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

  Does anyone know why Outlook 2003 reports a crash when you close it Vista kindly says 'this program has stopped working' even though I have manually closed it deliberately. I'm about one more crash away from reformatting my laptop and putting XP back on.... :o(((( Hello Glyn, I have experienced the same issue, this is because the build of Vista you are running is a pre-release build. Inside these pre-release builds there are specific debug harneses in place to assist with reporting any errors no matter how small back to Microsoft. The reporting program, known as Windows Error Reporting (WER for short) assists us with developing better products. There is probably an exception being thrown when Outl ...Show All

• .NET Development Access Excel File On Different Server ** Help Urgently Needed Plz **

  Hi all, I am trying to link to an excel file on a web directory on a different server but can't seem to get access to the file, This is the code i'm using: Dim sConnectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" _ & "Data Source=\\fse1web563\fsetrain$\public\Equiv\FSE_PAS.xls;" _ & "Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;" Any ideas, help appreciated At the moment i'm just trying to retrieve the data, though i have all permissions. Is the code i'm using to connect to the file correct do you know Note: The file is on a different server location Rgds ...Show All

• Windows Forms how do I conditionally change a DataGridViewButtonColumn?

  I'd like to change the text and disable the column if a certain condition is true in the row. What events or methods should I be altering Hi, As I said, when to check the condition is all up to you. You may check it after the data is loaded or updated everytime. Because your conditions are related to your business rules, you'd better not hard-code the rules. Write the rules in another file, therefore you have more flexibility. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista .NET3 RC - New Sequential WF Error

  Ok, I've installed the 3.0 Runtime, 2005 Extensions RC2, and SDK. When I open VS2005 and choose New Workflow - Sequential WF. The IDE attempts to load a blank WF solution but I get the following error. Warning 1 The service System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Compiler.IWorkflowCompilerOptionsService already exists in the service container. Parameter name: serviceType 0 0 What gives Did I miss something in the installs Has anyone else experienced this problem with the 3.0 RC yet. Is the title of the repair, modify or delete dialog "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Installation Wizard" If not, then you need to make sure there isn't a setup.exe file in your temp ...Show All

• Visual C++ Getting Error Description.

  Hello Everyone, Is there any way i get the Error Description or Exceptions Description when i use try { --- Some code here. } catch(...) { --Exception Descrption .. } I want to get the description in the catch block, is it possible if so then how can i get Thanks If its an MFC Code you have to catch a CEXpection* and you can use the GetErrorMessage method or the ReportError function. Don't forget to call Delete if you no longer need the Exception. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Dynamic COM DLL Referencing Question

  Forgive me if this is a very trivial process. I'm not a C++ programmer but do need to research how something might be done in C++. How would an C++ application dynamically create a reference to an ActiveX control inside of a function Here's a rundown on what we're trying to do. We develop custom CAD applications on top of OLE capable CAD engines such as AutoCAD. This allows us to take control of the CAD engine and perform drawing operations, reading data off the drawing, etc. The only problem is the HUGE bottleneck in speed by using OLE Automation. Some other CAD engines give developers the capability of using DLL's instead of writing a seperate app and controlling the CAD app with OLE. It gives a big performance boost. Unfortunetely, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Explorer Context File path??

  I have a windows based application in c#. On Windows explorer context menu i added one context menu item named "MyContext" . when the user right clicks on a file or folder, i have "MyContext" menu(This is the context menu item that i have added to the windows explorer context menu). When i click "MyContext" menu, i have to execute one application. In that application page load, i want to get the file or folder path that the user right clicked. How to get that file path Please help I'm not familiar with the registry key you're using. You can add one to HKCR\* to create a context menu item. Here's a sample registry script that does this: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\ ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista problem with TBS API function Tbsi_Context_Create

  Dear all, I have a PC with a Broadcom TPM 1.2 chip. I can call the Vista TPM Management Tool to show the TPM chip information and to call TakeOwnerShip. Now I wrote a sample code using the TBS API functions: TBS_CONTEXT_PARAMS pContextParams; TBS_HCONTEXT hContext; TBS_RESULT rv; pContextParams.version = TBS_CONTEXT_VERSION_ONE; rv = Tbsi_Context_Create(&pContextParams, &hContext); BYTE data[10] = {0,0xc0,0,0,0,0x0a,0,0,0,0x50}; BYTE buf[512]; UINT32 buf_len = 512; rv =Tbsip_Submit_Command(hContext,0,TBS_COMMAND_PRIORITY_NORMAL,data,10,buf,&buf_len); rv = Tbsip_Context_Close(hContext); But the function Tbsi_Context_Create returns always TBS_E_INTERNAL_ERROR . Do you have any idea Than ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS.Net 2005 how to clear form?

  I would like to call a method to clear the controls inside a form. eg. i am having textboxes,comboboxes,buttons....functions,methods etc in a form. Now i would like to use a method to clear everything that is in the form, making it into the default state. is there a way i can go about doing it Error 1 'System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlCollection' is a 'type', which is not valid in the given context C:\Documents and Settings\student\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\VCamAPP\VCamAPP\Screen.cs 12 55 VCamAPP i receive this error when i added into a class the following Control.ControlCollection coll = formScr1.ControlCollection; coll.Clear(); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Collaboration from the US to Europe

  We have two developers (me in the US, and my counterpart in Holland) that need to work on the same project. Would SourceSafe be the way to manage and coordinate this I would imagine one of the sites to be the 'master' site and the other to be a replicated site. Does VSS handle this type of scenario Thanks. Using the HTTP server from Holland shouldn't be *too* bad. Whether it's acceptable or not depends on how many files you need to share across the wire, and what your expectations are. Using Team Foundation Server instead with a local proxy would be much faster, albeit more expensive. ...Show All

• Visual C++ list boxes and data sources...

  Here is what i am trying to do: listBox1 displays information from a database. when I click on an item in listBox1, listBox2 displays information from another table. However, i try putting this code in: private : System::Void listBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) { if (listBox1->SelectedIndex.Equals( "Elves" )) { listBox2->DataSource = "gamestaBindingSource2" ; } else { listBox2->DataSource = "gamestaBindingSource3" ; } } The program runs, but when you get to this section, the following error appears: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll Additional ...Show All

• SQL Server Distributed App, Technology Question

  Hi Everyone. I am trying to get ideas for a possible technology we could use for a certain scenario. In a nutshell we want to run a distributed application at hundred of remote stores, anything that happens at the store must be propagated to a central sort of hub server. Now i have already thought about replication, but maintaining replcation across hundreds or even a thousand remote instances would be a nightmare.Also the App must work offline so if no link exists the app must still work and sort of reliably queue the transactions. So i been experimenting with service broker, to write transactions, that then queue on to service broker to the central hub, therefore enabling remote stores to continue to work even if no comms exi ...Show All