SQuen's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System has anybody created a conversion tool that import bugzilla bugs and test cases to VSTS?

  we are using bugzilla and are evaluating using VSTS. all of our existing test cases and bugs are in bugzilla. has anybody created a conversion tool that can import bug and test cases from Buzilla to VSTS I have the need to import defects from another system other than bugzilla, can you point me to the documentation on how to programmatically add work items to TFS Thank you, Dan ...Show All

• SQL Server Proxy Class is fine when used in C# project but returns error when Used with SSIS

  My proxy class returns web service responses well if I use it in a C# code.  I compile it with CSC and put it in GAC to use it with SSIS. Then I get web service response with some field values populated with "Exception of type :{System.InvalidOperationException "' occured. Here is the part of web service response received by the C# program: Name Value Type mainAddress {Address} Address city Metuchen string cityField Metuchen string country USA Country countryField USA Country state NEW_JERSEY State stateField NEW_JERSEY State Here is the same objec ...Show All

• .NET Development scavenging?

  What is scavenging When server running your ASP.NET application runs low on memory resources, items are removed from cache depending on cache item priority. Cache item priority is set when you add item to cache. By setting the cache item priority controls the items scavenging are removed first. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Unable to change deployment directory to point to storage card!

  i got a Dopod smartphone 577W running windows mobile 5.0. As the available ram in the phone is very limited, i would like to deploy my programs into the storage card instead. So, i fitted a micro sd card(1gig) into the phone and it was detected correctly. when i go to properties tab of VS2005 to change the 'Output file folder (generated)' directory, i found that i wasn't able to modify that field as it was masked out! When i tried to changed the 'Location of the output on device' from the drop down menu, there was no option to select storage card. i've verified that the storage card is working correctly. pls help! thanks! here's a screenshot: <a href=" http://photobucket.com " target="_bla ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Standalone Emulator V1.0 - 320 x 240 landscape mode

  I read that the Standalone emulator V1.0 ships with the 320 x 240 SP image. But, I didn't find it when I installed it. It just has the SP and SP qvga images. Has anybody installed a 320 x 240 landscape mode SP image on the V 1.0 standalone emulator. Also, has anybody successfully installed a MotoQ image with the V 1.0 standalone emulator. You have to give the full-path name for the files, assuming they are not in the " C:\Program Files\Microsoft Device Emulator\1.0\ " directory. Please let me know if that fixes the problem. ...Show All

• Customer Care Framework Error in Lookup table

  Hi, When i click the cancel button of Lookup table the following error is getting displayed....I am not able to view the current session and workflow....Anyone help me please....The log file contains following error Customer Care Framework 2005 - Agent Desktop: Error: An error has occurred while clicking the toolbar button. Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: '1' is not a valid value for 'index'.\n\nStack:\n at System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox.set_SelectedIndex(Int32 value) at Microsoft.Ccf.Samples.WorkFlowControl.WorkFlowControl.StartWorkflowByIndex(Int32 index) at Microsoft.Ccf.Samples.Csr.AgentDesktop.Desktop.doLookupCommand() at Microsoft.Ccf.Samples.Csr.AgentDesktop.Desktop.toolBa ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How long does it take to make a game?

  i'm answering my own question here. For people new to game development: longer than you think! i was just cruising around a forum where some folks were daydreaming about what they'd create with XNA GSE, and giggled a little when i read "Grand Theft Auto" and "FPS": http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php t=32477 The Independant Game Festival has a great site if you want to check out the cream of the indie crop. It's especially valuable because it records how long each game took to complete: http://www.igf.com/02finalists.html You might check out some screenshots and think "three years But that game looks like ***!" Yes, my friends. Yes. :) Start small. Build complexity from simplicity ...Show All

• Visual Basic changes to a form in visual basic.net

  when changing a form in vb.net there are occasions when the changes "take" in the run cycle and there are times when the changes do no "take". Any ideas greatgrandma Hi Remco! thanks for answering. I wrote the beginning of an apllication for my son'store. A hardware strore . One of the forms of the project is a litlle complicated. I designed it. It reads an Acces data base. It updates, adds to it... I debugged, buit it, rebuilt it. it works pretty well but I decided to change the form. I added a "richtextbox" from which I print a receipt. I have problems with that control. For example the default text:" richtextbo" keeps reappearing in the e ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to resize a TextBox to fit the text in it?

  OK, I'm hitting a very unexpected stumbling point here. I've got a series of Textboxes displayed in a TableLayoutPanel. Each of these textboxes shares a row with a button. The button is of fixed width and the TextBox fills the remainder of the row. The behavior I want from the TextBox is to automatically resize itself in the Y-axis if the text in it is multi-line. Right now, I'm automatically resizing the TextBox on the TextChanged event. This works partially. I can get the number of lines of text with a GetLineFromCharIndex call that takes the Index of the last character of text in the TextBox. I then multiply the number of lines by the height of the font, and add the difference between the Bounds.Height and ClientSize.Height to figur ...Show All

• SQL Server Can SSIS work without SQL SERVER 2005

  Can I install only [Bus....integ.. dev.... st..]. on my machine without SQL 2005 I have a sybase database management system.. can I work with SSIS Can it extract something from IBM DB2/DATACOM/LOTUS NOTES/VSAM/   pl give me answers with justifications!!!! There are some high-end components in SSIS that are dependent on SQL Server. These are the Fuzzy Logic components but its highly highly unlikely that you will be using these. Other than that, SSIS is a stand-alone tool that can operate against Sybase, DB2 and any other data source for which exists an OLE DB Provider. So yes, you can install BIDS on your machine and it will work with no problems. However, if you want to do anything other than run your packages wi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting "Memory is Corrupt" errors when performing checkins.

  I have seen this a few times now. When performing a checkin of several files into VSTS I get the following error, any ideas running Beta 3 Refresh with VS 2005 RTM. "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." I am also getting this error now on my Solutions. "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an idication that other memory is corrupt." When I use the "Check In" menu option from the Solution, nothing happens (no dialog or anything). When I do the "View Pending Changes..." I get this error then the pending changes window shows up. If I go to the Source Control Explorer ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Recommendations for terrainmesh collision and physics

  I've been enjoying myself with XNAGSE for a while now, and wanted to start actually developing something real. So I started to play around with shaders a little, looking into terrain collision algorithms, but they all use a heightmap or a bytemap for terrains. What if I modeled something with Maya, loaded it in using the DirectX model content pipeline and wanted to use that as a level I searched around the Net, but haven't found anything that explains at least in understandable detail how to actually apply the algorithms to meshes themselves. Same goes for physics, a lot of info about the algorithms (Newton and Euler's laws etc.), but no real solid code as to how to do it in C#, let alone XNA. I'm sorry if this has ...Show All

• Visual Studio VB .NET 2005 Solution Files + CVS

  Hi, Im trying to import our new VS 2005 projects(ASP.NET 2.0 & VB) into WinCVS. Im having trouble though with checking the project out and then trying to open it. The problem comes from the fact that the solution files have the directories hard-coded into it. Is there a workaround for this I want to be able to put the project on CVS and then allow for other people to check the project out into a directory of their choice. Is this possible Any suggestions/workarounds Thank you. Eric Seidel Thanks for the reply. My folder structure is as follows: H: \food_menu.net\ - aspx pages accessible by intranet users \food_menu.net\Admin - pages accessible by admin only \food_menu.net\MemberPages ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Using ApplyCustomType with variable numbers and types of series

  Using our excel charting tool, users can create line/bar charts with varying numbers of line and bar series. e.g. They can generate a chart with revenue as a line series on the left axis and interest income, trust income and fees as bars on the right axis. I would like to apply a chart type using ApplyCustomType that would set the fonts and color scheme to our company standard, but it seems like the number and types of series in the Custom Type must match the number and type of series in the chart the user is creating. I created a standard template with one line and one bar series formatted the way I want it, but when I save that as a user-defined type and apply it, it makes the first series a line and every other series a bar regardless o ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using VB Express to connect non Sql or Access Database....

  Follow the Learning VB.net books....I can easily connect the Sql Express database with just draging the Data Source after add connection and add new data source....It's automatic build a DataGridView Control, a tableadapter, a bindingsource, and a bindingnavigator. We can add, edit, delete, and update data in datagrid with the bindingnavigator icon. It's so easy......But how it can doing the same way if I use to connect a Oracle database ... When right click the database Explorer, then click Add connection, the databases that can be connected or created are just MS Acces and Sql Express.......Can help me pls..... thanks......... I tried to connect VB Express to an existing database. Whatever I do I seem to come across the ...Show All