George2's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Web Farm or Server Farm when installing SharePoint?

  In the TFS setup guide, I’m seeing conflicting instructions. In one place (for when installing SharePoint), it says to select the Web Farm option. In another place, it says to install the Server Farm option. Anybody know what's going on here and which I should select Thanks, Ron Ron: Can you tell me what version of the setup guide you are using and where the confilcting information is The latest version is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=e54bf6ff-026b-43a4-ade4-a690388f310e&DisplayLang=en . Thanks ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ActiveSync + Automatic Exporting of the Pocket Access Database

  Good day, Just wondering if it's possible to set up ActiveSync (3.8) to export the Pocket Access database to a dummy MDB as soon as it is cradled. Cheers, I found the answer to my problem. Seems that I didn't have to worry about this, as the third party tool already made a back up of the exported tables. Cheers, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server vs SubVersion

  Hi, Did any one has done comprehensive report comparing Team Foundation Server vs SubVersion vs VSS The comparison will be toward business decision. - Cost analysis. How much saving if using TFS compare to others - Efficiency & Productivity - Quality Assurance. - etc Thanks, John SubVersion does not track merge history. That's a deal-killer in my mind for large projects. The other thing to note is that SubVersion inherited its branch/tag/label semantics from CVS/RCS. If you're used to that system then you will probably find it easier to use than TFS at first. If you're used to something more like Vault or Perforce then the opposite is true. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Memory Leak?

  Heya, I've been working on this 2d game for about a month and a half. A space shooter with a ton of animations. But thats not the problem the problem is recently as the amount of Images has increased I've noticed that the memory usage never stops going up as the game progresses. I know there is some kind of flaw or redundancy in the way i store textures now since the release of beta2 and the content manager. However What would cause memory to keep adding up until the game begins to stutter The structure for storing textures was done before the content manager so it is just a Dictionary class that loads and gets textures loaded via the content manager. The UnloadGraphicsContent method in the game unloads the content mana ...Show All

• Visual Studio Extending core C# Language Service

  Hello, I’m starting a new package with VS SDK (Nov CTP). I want to create a package that defines a language extension to the C# language. I’d like to reuse the Intellisense, coloring, etc. of the standard C# Editor. So, I created a package and I implemented an EditorFactory to create instances of the core editor. But I don’t know how to associate the core C# Language Service to the editor. Can anybody help me Also, I will need to define new tokens in the Language Service to extend it with my constructions, and set coloring, Intellisense, etc for the new tokens. Is it possible Thanks in advance, Nicolas Hallo, 1) I tried assigning CSharp to my editors and it works fine. Don't expect to ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with moving projects from different versions.

  Hello. I'm working with Visual Basic in school, but I've got a problem. At home I'm using Visual Studio 2005 (The Visual Basic part of it), but at my school they got an older version.. My problem is that if I create a form in Visual Studio 2005, it splits the form into a form1.vb file and an form1.design.vb file. And because of that, I can't open it at my school. I'm not sure of what version they use at the school, but I think 2003. Are there any way to save the forms as just a form1.vb in Visual Studio 2005 Thanks in advance Albin Nilsson First, click the Show All Files icon in Solution Explorer, open the node next to the form and double-click the Designer.vb file. Type Ctrl+A, Ctrl+X to cut all the tex ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista AD (Active Directory) Roles

  Maybe someone with experience can help me. I have always worked with applications that have managed their own security and the security model has always been "fine-grained" in that each object has a collection of possible permissions, several objects are "instance aware" in that permissions and filters may be based and set dependent on instance values. Furthermore, the roles are user-configurable. For example, let's say we have an application with a WorkOrder form. The form may have permissions for Add, Edit, Delete, View, Print, etc. Within the object, the valid values or permissions for Delete may be None, Own, Group, or Unrestricted. If the current user is assigned a Role where the permission for Delete is s ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce Fails with "Value does not fall within the expected range."

  I have a ClickOnce-deployed application installed in offline mode across a range of Windows 2000/XP machines on my network. I now receive an 'Application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor.' error message when I attempt to run the application on my development machine. (It works still on the production machines.) I've run mage -cc, and renamed the '2.0' directory to '2.0x' to ignore its presence. Add/Remove Programs still shows it, and clicking Change/Remove pops up a window for a moment, but otherwise does nothing apparent. I've changed the installation path to be a network path instead of a website, and it still fails. The following is the error log: PLATFORM VERSION INFO Windows : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT) Comm ...Show All

• Windows Forms Controls appear attractive in design but not runtime

  Hello, I have recently upgraded a number of VS projects into 2005 and I have noticed that for each of these applications the user controls appear different at runtime. When using the designer in 2005 the buttons appear rounded, and more user-friendly (like the buttons in IE) however at runtime (or during debug) all controls appear a ugly, grey, windows 2000 style appearance. If I create an Windows Forms application from scratch in 2005 I get the attractive controls in all cases - It just seems to be the upgrade. Any ideas Regards, Luc Pettett Hi again, just tried the conversion and noticed, that VS2003 application doesn't enable visual styles by default. Try inserting those lines in your startup code ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums When will Live Spaces come out of beta?

  It is awfully S-L-O-W now. When will it become useable for regular users ...Show All

• Windows Forms Property value is not valid - PropertyGrid

  Hi, I have got a propertygrid control. Now I want to replace the message box "Property value is not valid". Is this possible Any help would be great. Cheers, Franz Hi, I am interested in both scenarios - runtime and designtime. But most interesting would be to modify this in runtime. It would be great if you could help me. Thanks in advance Cheers, Franz ...Show All

• Windows Forms Version property for MSI Files

  Hi, We have created a deployment MSI package and when i right click and click on properties i see only "General" and "Security" tabs. How do i include "Version" tab that would have my product version We are using Visual Studio.NET deployment projects to create the MSI file. Thanks, Kris Phil, Sorry i guess i didn't put my question right. Well after building the deployment project we get a setup.exe and an application MSI file. I was talking about that , how do we also add a version tab to the created MSI file properties that will contain the version information. Is it possible someway to edit through ORCA and enable this feature Thanks, Kris ...Show All

• .NET Development Fatal Error in Fax Service for Windows 2003 Server

  I have an ASP.NET application that generates text files which get faxed to suppliers using Fax Service on Windows 2003 Server. This functionality works just fine. I am developing the next version of our software which uses SQL Reporting Services to generate a TIF report to fax. Before I actually fax this TIF, my code uses bit locking to convert this 24 bpp TIF to a 1 bpp TIF with CompressionCCITT4, 204-196 dpi, and 1728-2200 resolution. However, the faxes are failing in the middle of transmission with a fatal error and extended codes of 32028 and 32027. This error occurs to a number of different supplier end points (i.e., not isolated to just one). Interestingly, if I open the original TIF file and Print To Fax, it works. I can't see ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development using a scanner with Ie.

  I have a rather complex little problem facing me.  The company I work for implements a CRM application that is purely a web application.  We have clients that use a Card Scanning Solutions license scanner to gather information about the customer.   I need to make the following happen. User logs into an ASP or ASP.NET 2.0 site.(we have two versions of our application) User clicks a button on an IE toolbar and a dialog is displayed that prompts them to insert the license into a scanner. Clicking through this dialog makes a call to the Card Scanning Solutions license scanning SDK which is registered as a COM object on the user's system. The scanner returns information read from the license to IE and IE closes t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WF Services

  I have been playing with WF for a week now and I have been successfully using my own workflow. I am using a workflow with ASP.NET pages. Currently I am just using the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService and the DataExchangeService. I have seen examples out there were developers are using ManualWorkflowSchedulerService, DataExchangeService, SQLPersistance and Tracking all at the same time. Is this necessary for ASP.NET workflows I guess I am just trying to find what is the best service to use and why Thank you for the help. RB right; to summarize : About scalability : -ManualWorkflowSchedulerService : to optimize thread handling in asp.net + WF: -Persistence service : to unload and ...Show All