DmitryMS's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums List Cleaner

  Hello, im using the latest version of Live Messenger. For some reason to my contact list was added a hundred new contacts containing only digits!!!! this happend automatically. Now the only possible way to remove them is to delete them one by one, which will take really long time. Is anybody know a good way to delete a multiple contacts simultanteously Is anubody know what is the reason so many strange contacts to be added to my messenger Really appreaciate any help! You're not using a messenger address that's been provisioned as a bot are you Bots are able to auto accept contacts, whereas as a user contacts will only be added to your list if you accept them. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Newbie setup problem

  I just installed TFS Workgroup and am attempting to add a group of users to it (...and to Sharepoint...and Reporting services). I began by following the "Walkthrough:Setting up groups and Permissions". I created a Windows group (but this group doesn't seem to appear under Local groups on my computer ) called TFSDevelopers and that seemed to work. Next I wanted to add this group to the list of Sharepoint Administrators.(Following "How To: Set Administrator Permissions for Windows Sharepoint Services"). I made it the "Set Sharepoint Administration Group" webpage. For the Group account name I typed in the same name I created earlier when I was setting up groups and permissions .i.e. <server name>\TFSD ...Show All

• .NET Development Dataset datetime column that allows null gets returned wrong after binary serialization

  Environment Windows XP Professional SP2 .NET Framework 2.0 (latest secuirty patch) VS 2005 MS SQL Server 2000 database We use automatically generated datasets and create them in this fashion: TestDataSet ds = new TestDataSet(); ds.RemotingFormat = SerializatoinFormat.Binary; When a dataset contains a datatable with a datetime element that allows null it gets set to DateTime.MinValue + 1 hour instead of DateTime.MinValue. Most like UMT +1 since my timezone is Stockholm, Sweden (CET). This only occues when the date is null, set datetime values gets stored and retrieved just fine. Everything is correct in the database and when read from it. It is after the dataset has been deserialized this issu ...Show All

• Visual Basic ListView and an ArrayList

  I have a ListView control and an ArrayList ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Public filename As New ArrayList() Public pathx As New ArrayList() Public phpath As New ArrayList() Dim fx As String = Path.GetFileName(OpenFileDialog1.FileName) Dim pcx As String = ComboBox1.Text filename.Add(fx) pathx.Add(pcx) phpath.Add(OpenFileDialog1.FileName) Dim item As New ListViewItem(fx) item.SubItems.Add(pcx) ListView1.Items.Add(item) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For deleting an Item I have the following code: For Each x As ListViewItem In Li ...Show All

• SQL Server I want to know the clock tick length of SQL Server for normal process.

  I want to know the clock tick length of SQL Server for normal process. Thanks I am not quite sure what you mean by that. But the time precision of SQL Server is 3ms. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30059 TF53010 TF53002 TF30040 -- Previously working Dual Tier installation no longer working

  We are have severe fatal errors with TFS when I got to work this morning, starting sometime last night. I am having no luck searching for answers to these error codes and am having a bummer of a time trying to troubleshoot. Any ideas These messages were occurring repeatedly all night long so much that it filled up more than 16 mb of event log and unfortunately, that’s a rolling 16mb, so I lost scope on when the first one occurred and if there were any other errors at the beginning of this trouble. Also below is the output from our two tiers where I ran msiinv.exe (in case that is useful). Any ideas --- Event Type: Error Event Source: TFS Services Event Category: None Event ID: 3014 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Course of Action; PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  what should my course of action be on my game i've got all the storyboarding done, what should i do next someone please map out for me, what my course of action should be. my game is going to be about a man who is stuck in prison in africa after an alledged murder that he committed, and he must escape to his freedom, from the imprisonment of being falsely accused. he will also help some of his friends out, back to the U.S. back to their families. PLease Help Sincerely, T2TD P.S. im not trying to encourage the act of escaping from prison, its just and idea i sprouted. The next course of action is as follows: 1) Learn to develop with C# or learn to use TorqueX 2) Make Pong 3) Make ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How can I retrieve a path to currently active folder(in explorer)

  What I meant is that for ex. I've got c:/test folder opened in explorer aaand I want to know is there any Api or Interface method witch will retrieve that path(c:/test) form explorer window Thanks p.s. Sorry if I posted this in wrong place There is no documented way of doing that. And why would you want to What if there was more than one Windows Explorer window opened About the only think you can do is enumerate all windows looking for Windows Explorer windows and try and get the text for the address combo box. But, I wouldn't recommend doing that because the user can disable that control and checking the caption is unreliable because the user can disable the full path in the window caption... ...Show All

• Visual C++ date related functions

  I am using VC++ 2005 Express Edition. I want to get the current year as an int, current day of week as an int, and current day of year as an int. How do I accomplish this I am writing my program using .NET because I can't find the std namespace anywhere in the VC++ Express Edition installation. When I first installed it, I installed .NET and Platform SDK. I keep seeing something about the MFC SDK, but I don't know how to access it in my environment. I only know that if I include "using namespace std;" in my program, VC++ says there is no such namespace. All of the documentation I've looked at in the .NET section is no help. Help Wayne.C wrote: Can you point me to (or provide me wi ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to serialize with TreeView?

  How to serialize with TreeView in .NET 2.0 Thanks for the code! I'm a bit of a beginner, though, and am not sure how to use this code - how does the contructor's inputs ( SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context ) reference an existing TreeView Does anyone have an example of how one would take an existing TreeView and make it serializable using this class Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Toggle buttons

  Hi everyone :) i was wondering how to change the style of a toolbar Button to a ToggleButton. I tried finding some 'How to ' info about it but it didn't have any information at this present moment. Thank you for any replies :) Simple lol took me a while till it hit me Here is how: - Create a button - Choose False from Checked - Choose True from CheckOnClick And in your coding you do something like this (jst a little example ^_^) this: private void tbbInvisible_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { // Checks to see if the button is checked txtMyTextbox.Visible = (!tbbInvisible.Checked); } ...Show All

• Visual C# About Compressing using GZipStream

  hi guys .. , I have the following code from book MCTS 70-536 ( Self paced training kit by Mcft Press) Microsoft .NET 2.0 Application Development Foundation .. In lesson 3 "Compressing Streams " of Chapter 2 Input/Output .... using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.IO; using System.IO.Compression; namespace CompressDe { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { FileStream sourceFile = File.OpenRead(@"C:\anyFile.txt"); FileStream destFile = File.Create(@"C:\anyFile.txt.gz"); GZipStream compStream = new GZipStream(destFile, CompressionMode.Compress); int theByte = sourceFile.ReadByte(); while ...Show All

• Visual Basic Merge files

  In the old dos days you could combine 2 files as save to a third file: copy file1 + file2 file3 It still works in a dos shell. I did this: Shell("copy " & file1 & " + " & file2 & " " & file3) I got an error that file3 cannot be found. I know it doesn't exist I want to create it. So I created a bat file: copy %1 + %2 %3 and called it as such: Shell("ccopy " & file1 & " " & file2 & " " & file3) I still get the error that file3 cannot be found. First I don't see how it can tell from the shell that file3 is a file. How do I do this otherwise Do I have to create a blank file before calling it Here's a function that can append two files in binary mode you can do two calls to this fu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Need help getting started with VSTO & Excel

  I have many custom procedures that I want to use in any Excel workbook through the menu bar. I used to do this in VBA with an add-in. Now how do I do this with VSTO Also, is there any related sample projects and coding for VSTO and Excel complex range work. Tim, Q: ... any Excel workbook through the menu bar.Now how do I do this with VSTO A: Please see the following article about Ribbon and how to implement a RibbonX solution: http://www.excelkb.com/article.aspx id=10217&cNode=3C8V1B Q: Also, is there any related sample projects and coding for VSTO and Excel complex range work. A: Please see the following URL: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=196504&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Database objects not getting created in .sql file

  Hi, I'm experiencing some peculiar behaviour when building my datadude project When I right-click-->Build the resultant .sql file does not contain any of the objects (tables, keys, sprocs etc...)within my project. I have checked each individual object and they all have BuildAction='Build'. Anything that has BuildAction='PostDeploy' DOES end up in the resultant .sql file. The even stranger thing is that all those objects have been in my project for some time. I then added a completely new table and then built the project again. The resultant .sql file ONLY contained the creation statement for this new object (plus all the BuildAction='PostDeploy' stuff). This behaviour is consistent across both of my data ...Show All