russlunn's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to detect if vstor 2005 se is installed?

  What is a right way to detect if vstor 2005 se for outlook 2007 is installed I was using MSI product codes, but just noticed that Product code for vstor 2005 and vstor 2005 se are the same. Since addin is for Outlook 2007, it won't work with vstor 2005. Thanks, Victor I just found an answer on my question in this forum. Check out post by Martin Sawicki. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=863382&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Use which platform to develop GUI?

  My only experience with programming is using C++ and I learn a bit of MFC previously. I'm supposed to develop a powerful GUI, but with so many options available, I'm confused which platform I should use, MFC C# Basic Any advice is greatly appreciated. thanks for your advice, but i'm a freaking newbie, i don't understand what is directx calls or xaml, so which is a good way to start and my boss give me a month's deadline! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Getting an exception on WCF client for Username SSL security.

  Hi Community, I am writing a WCF client against the IBM Username security hosted on SSL. I am getting the following exception. {" Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority 'test3a.techlabs.fabrikam.com:9443 '."} How do I specify the SSL for the WCF client in the following configuration FYI - IBM does not support password digest, and Microsoft WCF does not support clear text password. It has to be on SSL. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/index.jsp topic=/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/cwbs_usernametokenv6.html The following is my configuration.     < bindings >         < basicHtt ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to set infinite activity timeout on netTcpBinding?

  hi, I have  a service that has an endpoint that uses netTcpBinding, the problem is that my proxy dies out after 10 minutes (inactivity timeout) I searched the forum and found some threads saying that the the element "reliableSession" should be set this way:  < reliableSession inactivityTimeout = " infinite "/>  but it didn't work (actually it ignored any value that I used) and the proxy still got into faulted state after 10 minutes, is there any other solution (I dont want to use "ping" to the server every X minutes) thanks in advance, ofer. The inactivityTimeout on reliableSession only affects the WS-RM level timeout. For the dispatcher activi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can we automate(creation of test scripts) the functionality testing of windows based application developed in vb using vsts

  i would like to know is there any possibility to migratie scripts from loadrunner to vsts. Is there any possibility to record the vb application by using unit or web test. 1.How can we automate(creation of test scripts) the functionality testing of a windows based application developed in vb using Visual Studio Team System for testers. 2.previously we were using load runner for testing the vb application. now we are planning to create the scrips for the same application in vsts for testers by using same functionality. pls give me quick answer. thanks and regards rams Hi, 1) You can only record web tests. Web tests works on the HTTP level, means that you can only record HTTP requests and HTTP responses. 2) You can autogenerate un ...Show All

• Windows Forms Only the last value is sent???

  I was wondering if anyone could tell me why it only appends the last row of data in my listbox to my xmlserializer to write it to my xml file....the infomation comes in the listBox but only the last row of data is written to the xml file.....why is that and how would i go about fixing that...any help would be great! empinfo info = new empinfo(); string connect = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["connstring"]; SqlConnection sql = new SqlConnection(connect); string cmd = "Select * From Employees"; SqlCommand scmd = new SqlCommand(cmd, sql); sql.Open(); SqlDataReader dr = scmd.ExecuteReader(); if (dr.HasRows) { while (dr.Read()) { //s ...Show All

• Visual C# Special Assignement

  Hi guys, I have there variables setup like this, I would like in one line be able to assign OldID to ID and "1111" to OldID, is it possible ID = null OldID= "0000" ID = OldID = "1111" ; final result would be: ID = "0000" OldID = "1111" There is no language construct that would allow you to do this in one line. You could easily write a helper method to accomplish this, though. Are you expecting this operation to be atomic (i.e. Multiple threads can call the helper method and you won't lose or duplicate IDs.) If so, you would need to use synchronization primitives like Monitor (aka C# lock) to ensure that it is thread-safe. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Fxcop Rules can UT?

  FxCop gurus, can you please take the following question asked on VS Team Test forum : Can anybody tell me how to unit test my custom rules in VSTS There is nothing supported out of the box, however, Roy Osherove has put together a Framework for testing FxCop rules. See Framework for intergrated FxCop rule testing . ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Metod call authentication

  Hi all! I need some Principal / Identity guidelines. I'm about to design a business/data layer (of a small application) using WCF. The user will have to login with a username and a password that will be checked against information in a database. The user will also be assigned different roles depending on what the database says. The clinet will be a winforms app and (as I said) the business/data tier will be a WCF-service. So, let's say there is one login method in my WCF service looking something like this: public GenericPrincipal Login(string name, string password) { ... } The client application will start off by asking the user for a name and a password and call the above method. A GenericPrincipal will be returned telling wh ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Importing to Excel

  Dear Friends, I would like to export my cursors to Excel file but when I do this they send only the datas of one cursor and the rest not. How to do this eg ; SELECT cursor1 SELECT cursor2 SELECT cursor3 copy to compare.xls type xls only the datas of the cursor3 will be exported not for the rest advance thanks for your suggestions satish Copy to xls is almost useless. Here is a sample using ADO instead. Select emp_id,First_Name,Last_Name,; Title,Notes ; from (_samples+'\data\employee') ; into Cursor crsToExcel1 ; nofilter Select cust_id,company,contact,Title,country ; from (_samples+'\data\customer') ; into Cursor crsToExcel2 ; nofilter Select * ; fr ...Show All

• Visual C# Ngen

  Hi, I've created native image by using ngen now How can i know whether .Net framework is using native image(generated by Ngen) or it is compliling it again by using JIT I suspect it is still using JIT Thanks sparta Does it help if you set ForceLog=1 in the registry http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cptools/html/cpgrffusionlogviewerfuslogvwexe.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) RequestNavigate

  Toward the end of the code I have pasted below, there is a CellTemplate with a Hyperlink in it that has a handler for RequestNavigate. My handler does not seem to fire when I click the hyperlink in the UI. Any idea what I might be doing wrong I tried putting the handler on the ListView as well. ============== <Window xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation' xmlns:x='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml' Width="664.8" xmlns:l="clr-namespace:SDKSample" x:Class="SDKSample.Window1"> <Window.Resources> <XmlDataProvider x:Key="MyData" XPath="/Info"> <x:XData> <Info xmlns=""> <Item I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Security - still don't get it...

  I have two Team projects and I am trying to set access permissions. There are contributors and administratora. Only administrators should be the only person who is allowed to delete the or create Team Projects. I though it might be done through the adminsitrators/contributors groups on the projects level but it doesn't seem to work. As soon as I add user to the licensed users group - they get all the rights right away. Now I am totally confused - without being addedto the licensed users group user can not get any access to the Team Server. But as soon as user added - other settings are don't have any effect. Even not being an administraotr or contributor users are able to edit projects or create new ones. And another thing which I don't ge ...Show All

• Visual C# How to hide the first form when the application starts

  I have an application with a form, with two text boxes as an input of a username and a password. I would like to do that, if the user check a checkbox called "Remember me", at the start, the form isn't shown, but only the systray icon. I got the systray icon to work correctly, but i can't hide the form when the application starts. I tried to associate at the Form_Load event the code this.hide() or this.visible=false, but nothing, the form is still here. Can you help me I'll try to explain myself better. I have a normal application window, with a form (called Form1) that is the form shown when the application starts. In this form, the user type his username and password. If the user checks the checkbox "Remember me next time" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Merge branches - why do I get a conflict notification in this case?

  Hi, I am trying to verify whether what I'm seeing is expected behaviour in TFS. I have two branches 1.1 and 1.2. There's a config file branched from 1.1 to 1.2 This is the file: <appSetting> Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 </appSetting> I modify branch 1.2 file. The only change is: Line 1 becomes Line 1.a I check in this change. I then modify the branch 1.1 file. The only change is: Line 3 becomes Line 3.a I check in the file. When I try to merge the branches, a merge conflict is thrown. I can merge the changes using AutoMerge, ie not having to go through the visual merge process. My question is, why am I even being shown this merge conflict. Shouldn't TFS be able to auto-merge without notifiying me since the lines modified are diff ...Show All