Thiru_'s Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Making Area and Iteration Read-Only

  I would like to make the fields Area and Iteration appear as readonly to every group except 1. We have our product management team enter these values, so we do not want anyone else to have access to these fields. How would I go about adding this functionality I tried adding the "Read-Only" field for "Not" the Product Management group, and it worked on other fields but did not allow me to do it for these ones. Ahhh.... yes that is something different. If you only want given groups to be able to access the fields you'll want to modify the work item definition. Such as below: You'll need to do a witexport for whatever work items types you wish to make this change on and then modify ...Show All

• Visual Basic Arithmetic overflow with signed byte

  I have an expression that returns 0xFA. I want to display it not as 250, but -5. I used CSByte(expression) but I get an arithmetic overflow. Any ideas how to fix this Thank, Troy L Well a signed byte can only store up to 127 so that's why you get the overflow. How about Convert.ToInt32("0xFA", 16) - 255 ...Show All

• SQL Server Hiding subtotal rows when there is only 1 row in the group

  How could one do this I understand you could use the COUNT() function, but I'm not sure which object's visibility would best support this. All that I've tried (subtotal area, group visibility) do not seem to work. If you change the visible property on the subtotal textbox that RS adds, it will only 'blank out' the area where the subtotal row would have been - this doesn't achieve the desired effect of saving space. It's in a matrix, so group headers and footers aren't apparent options. :( I could see how that would work in a table though. ...Show All

• SQL Server Password Encryption

  Hi I want to encrypt the password. Can u suggest some Encryption algorithms for Password protection Thanks There are several option based on the SQL Server Version you are using, SQL 2k5 has built in ecrypting mechanisms, SQL Server 2000 does not. What are you using HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http.//www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server Installation Error Sql Express 2005 - a similar problem

  When I open the installation, everything is fine. The report says that I do not meet the reccomended hardware requirements, but I checked and I am above the minimum requirements. This is the report: System Configuration Check - WMI Service Requirement (Success) Messages WMI Service Requirement Check Passed - MSXML Requirement (Success) Messages MSXML Requirement Check Passed - Operating System Minimum Level Requirement (Success) Messages Operating System Minimum Level Requirement Check Passed - Operating System Service Pack Level Requirement. (Success) Messages Operating System Service Pack Level Requirement. Check Passed - SQL Server Edition Operating ...Show All

• Visual C# multiple undo & redo

  Hi, need some help here! Does anyone know how to implement multiple undo & redo function for a GUI with multiple tab pages Thanks! for such scenarios best practice is to make log file means keep track of each change......... by this u can even do redo or undo functionality after turning off ur application or even then can recover ur file if application goes unexpectedly crashed.... in fact simple solutions are alot like to keep track of changes in collections but above i m talking about best practices followers patterns ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to open a contextmenu from code?

  Hi, I have a TextBlock and want to open its ContextMenu when the user Clicks on the TextBlock. So I override its OnLeftMouseButtonDown-method and have no clue what code I should write to achive this. :( Can you help me Greetings cheesenhomer ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Help with comma separated values in report

  Hi! A bit of a stuck-up. It’s no problem in creating a coma separated fields in .txt kind of file. But I have another problem which is probably simple to manage (not for me though - my brains work 24hrs/day and don’t come up with nothing). I want to show several different values from one field (in query) on the report - now check this - They have to be separated by a comma in one line. If anybody is familiar with the solution just show me the direction and I’ll try to solve it by myself. Thanks in advance rs (recordset) has a value (rs = nothing) when i run throuhg line by line. I don't think VBA recognizes the filed [CMR-ji za fakturo].[CMR] or even the query [CMR-ji za fakturo] which are members of a database. It reco ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Need a starting point for a word project

  I've never worked with word programmatically before, so I'm looking at some basic advice for some starting points. The project outlines as: asp.net application creates a new document based on a predefined template that includes fields to be populated from various data sources User downloads the document (easy) User makes changes to the document, including adding fields (to be auto-populated from the various data sources (assumedly via a web service)) User uploads the document (easy) Overnight a server application runs to create documents users did not want to edit, and print all documents I don't want to install any of the office client applications on the server. I am open to using/buying additional products (being MS ...Show All

• Visual C# how to retrieve addressbook from outlook express from C# or vb.net

  hi guys how to retrieve addressbook from outlook express from C# or vb.net if any one has sample code please send me Thanks and Regards this question is inappropriate for the VSTO forum. Moving to "Where is the Forum for..." for re-direction to the best place to ask questions about automating the Outlook EXPRESS part of Internet Explorer. ...Show All

• Visual C++ OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog crashes windows application

  I built a simple windows application in C++ with the .NET framework (using Visual Studio .NET 2005). The application used to run fine (it opens the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog properly), but after I added more (unrelated) features, when the application tries to display an OpenFileDialog or a SaveFileDialog, the application closes abruptly on another computer with no warning message , not even that annoying warning beep sound. However, the application "sometimes" ran properly for the computer on which the application was compiled. By "sometimes" I mean for some builds of the application. Builds of my application that crashes does so consistently.   Some more description: In earlier builds of my program, disp ...Show All

• .NET Development Bug? : Sgen breaks web-service serialization

  I am using the noaa weather web service and it works fine if I have not run sgen on the assembly. I have sgen disabled in the project settings and instead run it explicitly in the main build. I run sgen using the command: sgen /a:myassembly.dll /force /compiler:/keyfile:myassembly.snk This creates an [assembly_name].XmlSerializers.dll and when running the application again, the same call to the web-service fails with the following exception. This is internal to the web-service code so I'm stuck for what to do other than not run sgen: System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error generating the XML document. ---> System.ArgumentException: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'myassembly.gov.weather.www.productType' ...Show All

• SQL Server timeout errors, and General Network Error messages

  Hi We have a VB6 app, with SQL2005 database, SQLOLEDB driver We have it installed at many clients and normally works fine. We've migrated one client from SQL2000 to SQL2005 and had to move the database to a new machine. It's now running SQLExpress sp1, on a Win XP sp2 machine The clients now frequently get either a) SQL timeouts or b) Runtime Error’2147467259 (80004005) [DBNETLIB][Connection Read(recv()).]General network error. Check your network document Errors I suspect it is something to do with connections not be released (even though we explicitely free them in the app). Where do I look Thanks Bruce I change the provider to sqlncli, and now the error message is &q ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to add annotations to xps document through the DocumentViewer control ?

  Hi, I have one question to ask. How to customize DocumentViewer control for supporting annotations to xps documents Thanks! Yes, this functionality is available now. See the following SDK references for assistance: DocumentViewer with Annoations XML-Store Sample http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms771348.aspx Annotations Overview: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms748864.aspx SDK Samples are not currently available online, so in order to get the source for the sample above, you'll either need to install the offline SDK, or download all of the WPF SDK samples from the team blog site: http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Playback of a sound in a mode of a cycle...

  How in XNA Studio it is possible to play back a sound track in game in a mode of a cycle I have a sound track on a floor of minute and I wish to play back it in current of all game how it can be made I think you're asking how to loop a sound (like, say background music) right as far as I know, there's no built in feature to do this, so you'll have to resort to looping it yourself. I don't have code in front of me so some pseudocode (or rather, head compiled) will have to do: Cue musicCue; .. //in your update method if (musicCue == null || !musicCue.IsPlaying) { if (musicCue != null) { musicCue.Dispose(); } musicCue = soundBank.GetCue("assets/theMusic"); musicCue.Play(); } Apologies if t ...Show All