IanBlackburn's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Error when viewing workitem details over web

  I have my build server runingnicely, but when an exception occurs, it creates an email to me with a link similar to the following: http://<tfsserver>:8080/WorkItemTracking/WorkItem.aspx artifactMoniker=283 However, clicking the link displays the message: "The given key was not present in the dictionary." I understand that this is probably a mis-configuration of the data warehouse data, but I'm unsure where to look. Can anyone offer suggestions as to where to look first I tried the trace also (on WorkItemTracking, not WareHouse), and got a similar result: # Team Foundation Trace for component WI started at 10/18/2006 13:34:10 [note all date/time values are in GMT]. # Trace listener: Microsoft. ...Show All

• Visual Studio The best practice to enumerate classes in the VS 2005 solution?

  Hello. Is there any 'best of the best' practice to enumerate classes in the opened solution I've wrote addin that uses DTE2.Solution property than iterates through all projects (Solution.Projects) and for each namespace in the project all CodeElements with vsCMElementClass kind are added to the addins list. Sample class enumeration code that I use could be downloaded from here . It is simple VS2005 addin that shows all classes in the solutions, filter class list while user types first letters of class name and jumps to class declaration. Unfourtunately code in the sample works very slow. It takes approx 10 minutes to complete for C# solution with 1200 code files (do you understand why I start ...Show All

• SQL Server Hyperlink in the report description

  Is it possible to add a hyperlink in the report description property Thanks in advance ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Remove Applications Distributed with Access 2003 Developer Extensions (Lost CD)

  I have developed an application in access for one of my clients. I used the Access 2003 Developer Extensions to package and distribute a runtime version. He lost his install cd and now he can not uninstall the application. When he tries to go through the control panel it is asking him for the cd. I tried sending him a new cd but that did not work. Is there a clean way for him to uninstall Thanks in advance for your help. I'm afraid that this is the wrong forum for this type of question. The Visual Studio Tools for Office forum is for the discussion of issues involving custom solutions for Word and Excel created using Visual Studio. For Access questions, you will want to post your question to the Office discussion groups found ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) UsernameToken over Certificate authentication

  I need to use client certificate to validate the domain of the request and user name token to validate the user in that domain. I know that this is a classic case for federation but lets ignore that for the purpose of this post. So the first authentication of the request was through certificates, which was relatively easy. Instead of passing user name and password as arguments to a method, I would like to send a user name token in the request. On the server side, I would like to validate the user credentials in the WCF plumbing. How would I go about doing the second part given that it has to happen right after the first part Thanks. The way I configured is that client already need to know the service certificate (public portion) an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Merging caused the history lost, how to get it back?

  Although TFPT /followbranches can show all history, it's not applied to the merging command. If I did merge from a branch, say B, to the branch A, in A's history, I only saw a changeset "merged from B...". Sadly, I couldn't see all history occured in branch B. Is there some way or programmatic approach to get the history back Thx. Hello, the only way (I'm aware of) is to use SourceControl.QueryMergesWithDetails call, which was added in SP1. More about it - http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/archive/2006/09/27/777559.aspx and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/88fx1xy0(VS.80).aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Upon restarting user defined function took seemingly forever to run

  Upon restarting user defined function took seemingly forever to run   I am learning about nested while loops being used in some interdependent user defined functions. They seemed to work OK for a while.   Later, remembering how I lost the database due to hard disk reformatting, I backed up the database and copied it to a rewritable CD.   As the data is not really significant I deleted the database and practiced restoring the database from the CD.   This morning I restarted the user defined function and ran it. After more than half an hour with no result I gave up. Normally it took much less time to run such a user defined function.   I re-ran some other UDF and they worked. However, a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Don't see treediff as an option

  I don't see treediff as an option when I type TFPT at the command line. This is what I get: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>tfpt TFPT - Team Foundation PowerToys Type tfpt help <command name> for full description Commands: tfpt annotate Display line-by-line change information for a file tfpt getcs Get only the changes in a particular changeset tfpt history Show the history of an item tfpt online Pend adds, edits, deletes to writable files tfpt review Review (diff/view) workspace changes tfpt rollback Pend changes to roll back a changeset tfpt unshelve Unshelve into workspace with pending changes tfpt uu Undo changes to unchanged files in the workspace And i ...Show All

• .NET Development Global data concurrent access ?

  Hi friends, I have some global structure in my application. The data within this is read by some reader threads. There are about 10 new threads created per second. Threads do some processing and die. All threads process based on data read from the global structure. This global structure is populated from a set of files at application startup, which can be modified at run-time. There is also the option to apply the modified files at run-time. At the time the modified files are read into the application, I need to block access to this global structure from the 'reader' threads. Threads do not modify this structure. What is the best/efficient way to achieve this task - lock / mutex / wait - and how can this be done Any ideas are welc ...Show All

• .NET Development There was an error while trying to serialize parameter

  I tried to write a simple WCF example: With datacontract: <DataContract(Namespace:= "http://MyPhoneBook" )> _ Public Class LE <DataMember()> _ Public m_name As String Public Sub New ( ByVal name As String ) m_name = name End Sub End Class and servicecontract <ServiceContract(Namespace:= "http://MyPhoneBook" )> _ Public Interface IPhoneBook <OperationContract()> _ Function getLE() End Interface The implementation of the server returns a simple Test-LE: Public Function getLE() As Object Implements PhoneBookContract.IPhoneBook.getLE Return New LE( "Test" ) End Function I generated the client proxy with svcutil. So, when I start server ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions importing a source tree

  Hi all, I'm migrating an existing Linux source base too Windows (a thousand source files spread over a few projects). I'm trying to find a way to import this tree into Visual C++ but haven't been successfull. I got stuck on a number of problems: all source files must have a unique name (their path doesn't count), all project folders must have unique names, etc. Is there a way to automatically import such a source directory tree or is creating the tree manually (O man, what a pain) in Visual C++ express the only option regards Importing the source files is likely to be the least of your problems. I seriously doubt that it will compile out of the box. If you've got a makefile for the linux project, ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studio Express breaks database connectivity

  Hi, I'm using SQL Express to run DotNetNuke on my own Windows 2003 server. DotNetNuke(DNN) copies a database on to the server from it's installation files and during the installtion process it fills the database with starter data. That process works fine. But the minute I attach to the database in SQL Server Management Studio Express (MSE), my web app loses connectivity to the database. When browsing to the default.aspx, I see the following message: Error Installing DotNetNuke Current Assembly Version: 04.03.05 ERROR: Could not connect to database specified in connectionString for SqlDataProvider __________________________________________________________________ (don't be fooled by the error message, Dot Net Nuke was fu ...Show All

• Windows Forms more than one curve?

  this is really urgent, I need help about it.. I'm drawing a curve, and taking the coordinates of the points of the curve by clicking the mouse on the picturebox. I'm using a dynamic arraylist to get the best result about it and it works really good. but the problem is, whenever I click the mouse, it give an additional point to that curve. What I want is, to finish adding points to a curve (i.e. by right clicking the mouse) and when I start to left click again, it should start drawing a new curve, and it must continue this way for every other curve. I thought that it might be useful to make an object(which has its arraylist in it) array and to let the counter rise by1 when I right-click, so that it can start drawing a new curve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Known Issues - Release Date

  Hi There I am very keen to try out Visual Studio Team System - Database Professionals . However i have had some issues with various CTP's before , is the lastest CTP4 Are there any serious know issues with it By that i mean if i install it my management studio is not going to break or anything And finally is there a rough release date yet for Visual Studio Team System - Database Professionals Thanx The final product will ship by the end of the year. CTP 4 won't touch management studio. It should not break your VS either and it has full uninstall support. Are there known issues Yes there are a number of bugs and items that are not yet implemented but you shouldn't find side-by-sid ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual Studio 2005 layout prob

  Hi guys   I have been trying to compile an app in Visual Studio 2005(its a c++ app) but every time i run the proggy after compiling it, it looks like this:    After Compiling(click me)     although when i click on the Test Dialog button in Visual Studio 2005 it shows the apps layout like this:    Using Test Dialog(click me)     I started the project in Visual Studio 2005 and the first time when i compiled the app after adding just a simple button ,nothing else, it worked and my app was compiled in the VS2005 format although after adding som functions and stuff it compiled in Visual C++ 6 format! Visual Studio 2005 Format: Click Here ...Show All