Michael Schreuder's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Checking in VS.Net 2003 solution

  I am using .Net 2003 with the TFS source control provider. I don't know if they behaviour I am noticing is specific to 2003 and the source control provider or if it happens in 2005 as well. When I have multiple changes in several projects within my solution and I then want to check-in all the changes I do so by checking in at the solution level. What happens is that I get prompted to check in changes for each individual project. The net result is that I have several changesets created (one for each project). Obviously this is not ideal. Is this a problem with the provider or does this happen in 2005 Any ideas what I can do to get around it Will checking in with Team Explorer work (I prefer to check-in via Visual studio because I am never q ...Show All

• SQL Server Server Does Not Exist or Access Denied ConnectionOpen[Connect]

  Server Does Not Exist or Access Denied  ConnectionOpen[Connect] Help please, I'm stuck. I get the above message trying to add a new SQL Registration to Enterprise Manager.  I've installed/uninstalled 3 times, all with the same result.   EM sees it to register, it is the same name as my box, which is what I was expecting.  Install went without problems each time.  TCP/IP is enabled.  I've searched the forums looking for this problem but have not come across another situation such as this.  I don't have a clue of as to what to check next.  Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me. OS - XP Pro, SP3 Windows Auth. SQL Express ST Hi, I don't understand when you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions IE Toolbars

  Hello I am new to Visual Studio and want to know how to create my own IE toolbar Can this be done in Visual Studio Can anyone recommend a web / resource where I can find our more information Thanks Roland Frontpage 2003 allows u to add toolbars to your page by adding a web component (.ocx) control. Use version 6 of the control to get the best one. create an imagelist first and bind it when u create the control. For use in Internet Explorer, thats a little harder. Your Project would be a Control that when exported would have to be registered with the system so it could be displayed. Abit more technical. see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/MS650603.aspx for Toolbar Controls Overview. go to MS6 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What security model recommendations for outsourcing?

  We are wanting to use TFS for outsourcing projects and internal projects. In some cases we'll have combined development. We don't want to risk exposing all our source code to an outside vendor. Yet we want to be able to easily share selected portions of code between projects. We're thinking that we need an independent VPN connected server that doesn't have have any unrelated internal projects on it. And we'll create a separate domain that has no trust relationships with our internal company domain. Problem is, TFS doesn't support sharing code (with history) between external and internal projects. All you can do is copy/paste/check in (as new). Then manually merge later. Not good! Is there a practical way that we could put all our projects ...Show All

• Visual C# Unable to databind a complex class

  I am having trouble databinding my classes in the following way: 1. I have 2 classes called BLPerson and BLDepartment. BLDepartment has 2 public attributes called Name and Description of type string, BLPerson has 2 public attributes called LastName and Firstname of type string and a public attribute called Department of type BLDepartment 2. I use the Add New Datasource option in VS to create a data source object for my BLPerson Class which when I browse in the left hand pane has the attributes as expected i.e those of BLPerson and BLDepartment. 3. I drop the Object onto a form which creates a DataGridView with columns lastName,FirstName and Department 4. I run the project and the grid correctly displays with the LastName and ...Show All

• Visual Basic work surface for custom app with Visual Studio like tabs/floating/dockable/auto hide features.

  Is there a way to achieve the Visual Studio work surface using Visual Studio 2005 I just realized that the application I am porting from vb6 would be well served by that model. The main worksurface would be a tabstrip control with 6 tabs for 6 different aspects of the application. On the right (or left depending on what side the user wants to dock it) would be the properties/settings that would have a variable number of tabs dependent on which tab is selected on the main work surface. As Solution Explorer and Property windows behave in Visual Studio. Window Position (Floating/Dockable/Auto Hide, etc. Thank you for any ideas ! -greg You bet! :) It's a finicky beast. I've had a developer beat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setting for URL in Reporting services

  Hello, When viewing the project portal and drilling down into the Work Items report, the ID links href is not showing the fully qualified URL. It links to: http:<servername>:8080/WorkItemTracking/Workitem.aspx artifactMoniker=xxx instead of http:<servername>.ucr.edu:8080/WorkItemTracking/Workitem.aspx artifactMoniker=xxx I have looked all over the server in XML and config files, Sharepoint and Report Server configuration, the database tables, and in the registry, but can't find where this value is being set. I have run TFSAdminUtil activateat, and that hasn't fixed it. Does anyone know where else I can look Thanks, James One other issue has come up. When I ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Drag and drop broken/disabled when running as an administrator ?

    When the software I am developing is (necessarily) relaunched as an adminstrator, drag and drop is then disabled. My app can open explorer windows to drive letters. Drag and drop are also disabled to those as well. Is this behavior really correct How can I re-enable drag and drop features in my software whilst it is running under full privileges Especially DAD for items dropped on MY window which cannot harm anything If I can't work it's a pretty poor show in my opinion, and this OUGHT to be properly documented under UAC so we are all aware of it. To see what I mean, simply run "wordpad.exe" as an administrator, and try to drop anything onto it. One gets a "no entry" sign. To do this browse to C:\program files\wi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to work with Excel Rows and Cells?

  Hello, I am new to VSTO and VS 2005. I have a challenge to develop a prototype of an Excel sheet which will allow my testers to create test cases using some inputs from external source like a XML file or a VBScript. Scenario is like this: I need to develop an Excel sheet which connects to a XML file and some script file. It parses these files and loads some values in a TreeView control. I did this using UserControl and displaying this in TaskPane. Then I created Range to hold the value selected in TreeView. However, when I select a value from TreeView, it is copied in all the cells of defined range. I want to control this. I want to copy the value in selected cell and row or the cell which is active in defined Range. ‘Environm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can we print the extracted value from the script

  When using the coded script is it possible to use a message box and give a message to the user what is the value extracted. For example: Dim rule3 As ExtractFormField = New ExtractFormField rule3.Name = "txtLoanNumber" rule3.ContextParameterName = "LoanNumber" MsgBox(rule3.ContextParameterName( "LoanNumber" )) here if i want to know the value present in the LoanNumber how should be the format of the message box Thanks Thanks for the code. I tried the same in my script but it failed, we are using a VB code for the script and the example what you gave may be for VC++ . In case if you can give a snippet of the VB code for the same it would be of great us ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Forms and Objects

  I am just trying vb.net express 2005 .... I have worked a little on vb... During the course of learning i came across that to show a form I need to create an instance of it first and then use the show method as in dim mform as new MyForm() mform.Show() But when i tried the old vb way with just MyForm.Show() it too worked .... This is the actual code from Form1 of my test project Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Form2.Show() MessageBox.Show(Form2.Label1.Text) End Sub End Class What is the difference and is it a mandate I create an instance and why Can anyone help me with this ...... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions File Renaming

  I am trying to make a really small program that simply renames a file when a button is pressed. I am using Visual C++ Studio Express (2005) I have searched the HELP topics and came up with the following C++ code snippet that is supposed to do the trick... public : static void Move ( String^ sourceFileName , String^ destFileName ) I assume that "sourceFileName" and "destFileName" are variables that need to contain the local file addresses. For example: sourceFileName would be "C:\test\file.jpg" and destFileName would be "C:\test\new.jpg". I am getting errors when I build the program saying that I am using an invalid escape technique in those variables... How do I specify the file address without using a "\" What ...Show All

• .NET Development DataType Yes/No

  Using Access as a database On the Insert Command how do I do a field that has a data type of Yes/No. is it sql +="0,"; or sql+="'0'"; or what Thanks in advance. that would be a Bit value (1/0, yes/no, true/false) so itll just be 0 (for false) or 1 (for true): sql += "0"; Also looks like you are using standard SQL "injection" - I would recommend using Stored Procedures as they are fast and secure and you don't need to worry about building the query string/SQL String/statement as it would be stored in the SPROC itself on the SQL Server. All you would have to do is supply the correct parameters with values in your Client app and call the stored proc ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services Configuration - Database Setup

  I have trouble to configure the Report Server. The error message I got when trying to setup database : Verifying Dabase Version The Current Connection string is not valid and cann't be used to connect to SQL Server and it also failed to assign Reporting Services Right to user Any idea Thanks Hi Louis, I ran into the same problem. Could you share the fix with me if you have resovled this Thanks much, Beijun ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista how do i burn cd images?

  I cant seem to find anything integrated with windows, nor can I find any programs for burning that can work under windows vista. Any suggestions Thanks for the instructions. I've baked them into a Win32 console utility here... http://www.edonica.com/Win32/VistaCDWriter/ It worked first time for the ISO I needed - that's a rather nice API you've got there :-) ...Show All