Alan Robbins's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System link requirements and tasks

  hi, i created a "MSF for CMMI Process Improvement" project. in this project i created a requirement to manage the requirements for the project. but i do not find anything, to link the requirement with a task. is this possible in tfs it would really hurt if it is not possible. edit: i found the possibility to add a work item to a task. "add related work item" . there i can choose "requirement". but if i choose "requirement" i can just add a new requirement and not an existing one. in our project development we have requirements (mostly defined by the customer) and then we have a number of tasks which are allocated to a requirement. we use an access database to manage these requirements. and now we want to use tfs to do this. but how edit2: ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel pivot table

  Hi, I have several pivot tables in Excel that access data to a SQL 2000. We install SQL 2005, we change the ODBC from the 2000 server to the 2005 server. Now when we try to run the pivot tables I've got the following message: "User 'public' does not have permission to run DBCC TRACEON" Any idea on how to fix this problem Thanks, Arty Hello Igor, knowing that the code helped many users - would you like to share your Excel Workbook for examining the circumstances have you copy&pasted the code like described in the article cheers, markus ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is the '?' in this code a typo: public virtual long? SiteId { get; set; }

  Does the question mark in ‘long ’ mean something I'm using a third party library. The VisualStudio 2005 C# compiler is complaining about this conversion. Argument '3': cannot convert from 'long ' to 'long' (NOTE: if I do an explicit cast to long my code builds); VisualStudio displayed the class definition Metadata, I’ve extracted these two lines. public class ControllerEntity : EntityBase2, ISerializable public virtual long SiteId { get; set; } I could not find anything in the Visual Studio documentation to indicate that the symbol ' ' means anything but then I recently found that '^' has a special meaning to the garbage collector. So I thought I'd ask. Here is my code snipit: ControllerEntity TestController = ...Show All

• .NET Development Desiging Data Access

  Hi All, Been plugging away at .net for a while now and starting to look at best ways to accomplish data access. Im trying to minimise the amount of data involved in a query and at the same time make all data access through a single component. Do i merely create lots of dataadapters and datasets for every use inside my data access component, or do i merly make generic data access calls in my component and then use dataviews etc inside my windows form etc. More and more im discovering its not the actual writing of code but the architecture that is important and not being part of a development team per se means im flying blind so to speak. Any webcast/websites recommendations would be appreciated as well on this topic. ...Show All

• Visual Studio error MSB4057

  Helo, I'm receiving this error when I try to build a NEW PPC Project. Has anyone an idea how to fix the problem Thanks in advance for any help. I attached the build output of a sample project: ------ Neues Erstellen gestartet: Projekt: DPS90 PPC TEST, Konfiguration: Debug Any CPU ------ Der Buildvorgang wurde um 08.11.2006 13:49:34 gestartet. Ursprungliche Eigenschaften: _DebugSymbolsProduced = false _DeploymentApplicationManifestIdentity = DPS90 PPC TEST.exe _DeploymentBuiltUpdateInterval = 0 _DeploymentBuiltUpdateIntervalUnits = Days _DeploymentDeployManifestIdentity = DPS90 PPC TEST.application _DeploymentFileMappingExtension = _DeploymentPublishableProjectDefault = true _DeploymentTargetApplicationManif ...Show All

• SQL Server Validation issues

  Hi there, I have a package that runs fine in BIDS, however fails when run in a job with the following error: "The Validate method must succeed and indicate the result using an "out" parameter". The task it is failing on is a third party FTP task that uses expressions for the filesource and filedestination and username. I have set delay validation on for this task, yet it still seems that it is trying to validate it. Any suggestions Thanks. Thanks for the reply Yes i have setup a config file to use. I have just tried to reproduce this error in all possible ways that is why i used the dtexec as well. As said before, the only time if fails is when in a job that uses the pac ...Show All

• SQL Server Looking for a good example of a script task in the dataflow that writes to a file

  I need to write back to a legacy system in the form of flat file --the first row would be a header and the remaining rows would be the actuals rows of data--each field would have a column delimiter of , and a row delimter of CRLF. The source is a SQL Server 2005 table. Im looking for a good example of a script task in the dataflow section that writes to a file. Can anyone show me the code how to do this or point me to a link. thanks in advance Dave have you tried me.variables.<variable name> I'm not sure about this but i guess that is because even if you could use the access the variables to write to them, they'll only be available to other components after the postexecute ...Show All

• Windows Forms Parse HTML from webBrowser control ??

  Does anyone have any good code examples for parsing html from the webBrowser control for instance... I would like to grab the source from a loaded page .. parse it out probably using a split method (like in php) .. I would also like to be able to define my delimiters... <img src=blah.gif border=0 etc. /> I would like to grab "blah.gif" by defining say "<img src=" and " border=0" Or something to this effect.. I have wrote this code in php but cant seem to find a good example in C# .. A function would be ideal .. to where I could just pass in the delimiters.. function = public void in C# newbie here... sorry! -Paul The best place to start w ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ in visual

  I have just started using visual and my codes don't work. DO i have to change some setting or what's wrong. #include <iostream.h> main() { int a; int b = 20; int c = A + B; cout << "ENTER A VALUE FOR 'A' : "; cin >> a; cout << "Here is the ANSWER when u add 20 to ur varible: " << c ; return 0; } Hello Gagand. When you have a problem and are seeking help it is best if you state the exact ERROR message you are getting. This helps people help you faster and more accurately instead of trying to magicaly guess what your error is. I am going to guess that you probably have the error common to most people who are ju ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista 360 controller doesn't work in RC1.

  See topic. I can't get it to work. you need to provide much more detail. Also RC1 has not been released, its a Pre RC1. On top of this, these are the incorrect forums, these forums are for software development therefore I must ask you to post in the appropriate communities: www.microsoft.com/communities Thanks! ...Show All

• Windows Forms UserPreferenceChangedEventHandler

  Here's my code, what am I missing Dim UserPref As New Microsoft.Win32.UserPreferenceChangedEventHandler( AddressOf HandlePrefChange) Public Sub New () InitializeComponent() UserPref. Don't know how to begin receiving events End Sub Private Sub HandlePrefChange( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As Microsoft.Win32.UserPreferenceChangedEventArgs) If e.Category = Microsoft.Win32.UserPreferenceCategory.Screensaver Then MsgBox( "Screensaver Settings Changed" ) End If End Sub All you should need is an AddHandler statement: AddHandler Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.UserPreferenceChanged, Me.UserPref Note that the documentatio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Express edition 2005 freezes during setup.

  OK, I just downloaded Visula Basic Express Edition 2005, I've already uninstalled the .NET framework 2.0, and done everything the online instructions tell me too. My problem is this: When I run the setup program, everything goes OK untill the progress bar in the box that says "Setup is gathering the files needed for installation" gets about 3/4 of the way full, then it stops, I thought maybe it was just being slow, so I left it alone for 4 1/2 hours and still no progress, does anyone know what my problem is and how to fix it Here are the manual install instructions. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Password char in textbox

  Hi, Somebody knows how I can set only to the first five characters in a textbox the passoword char. Example: *****8965 The characters can’t be replaced with *. The user will add the nine characters and only the first five will be display with the password char not replaced with the password char. I don’t want to use a mask because what the mask do is place fixed strings in a place like the date “__/__/_____” or in my case “*****____” that will replace the real value and I don’t want that. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Particles and programmable pipeline

  Im working on a particles class. Everything works fine except that partices dont change size with distance. All render states are correctly set. I tried my code in a DirectX sample project and it worked. The only difference between that and my project is, that i use my own effect files, so programmable pipeline. Must particles have some code in vertex/pixel shader, to work correctly Any ideas Thx for any help. Andrej edit: Im working with point sprites. Hi, It's been a while since I've messed around with this sort of thing, but is your vertex shader emitting a PSIZE semantic If not, try adding it to your output structure and, for example, passing the projection-space Z coordinate out as the value. I'm not a 100% sur ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to control input from textbox?

  please help how can i control inputs from textbox so that user can only type letters and number no ascii and symbol well I did find an alternative but not the best. I will see if I can find a better solution however this is what I came up with: if (!Char.IsLetterOrDigit(e.KeyChar) && !e.KeyChar.ToString().Equals("\b") ) { e.Handle = true; } it converts the KeyChar entered to a string and check to see if it has \b - a backspace character. ...Show All