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• Visual Studio Team System Managing team foundation through web

  2 issues: 1) I cannot access http://tfsServer/Reports from any computer on the network (it works just fine when i remote desktop to it and run it via localhost - also same server works when i access it through visual studio) 2) are there any other web services that team foundation server provides i only know of "Reports and ReportServer" , I looked under IIS and saw Warehouse, Build, etc, but i cannot access them via http://localhost/Warehouse) thanks for your reply cheers! Hi, You need to be able to access your TFS server on port 80 (for sharepoint, and reporting services) and for port 8080 - the port over which the TFS web services run. The port 8080 will only really be required by any TFS clie ...Show All

• SQL Server Dimension Hierarchies

  When a new hierarchy in created in a dimension, all of the attributes are listed as related to the lowest level of the hierarchy. I have heard that this restricts SSAS to only creating aggregations at the leaf and all levels for that hierarchy until you re-distibute the attribute relationships. This will then allow SSAS to create aggregations at levels higher than the leaf level. What I mean by this is that when you have both Year, Month and Day in a hierarchy, you can have Year and Month under Day (not allowing aggregations at something other than the leaf level) or you can put Year under Month and now that will allow aggs on all levels of the hierarchy. Can someone confirm this What are the implications of not defining the re ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Create special-shaped windows

  Hello, I know Microsoft Dancer (inside the Plus! package) is able to make windows with a shape and a content that is always changing, like the "dancers" do. And I'm sure it doesn't use the SetWindowRgn function of Windows since it's too fast. So that must be DirectX. Does someone know how to reproduce this Thanks a lot. ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Internationalization

  Hi all, I wonder if Microsoft has a vision about building wpf/e - based applications for Arabic languages/cultures which use right-to-left approach. Windows-based controls usually have property like .IsRightToLeft How can we deal with this in wpf/e Or we will have to build the app from scratch and no reuse of xaml for European/American cultures Thanks, Andrei Based on this thread I believe they are working on it, but it isn't in the current CTP. Pretty important to have this to achieve the Everywhere in WPF/E. :) ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Pushpin Layer not updated

  i'm trying to implement geotagging on my website that allow my blog reader to add themself to the map using pushpin. under my map i've several field for the users to key in their details then upon clicking the "add" button... their details will be appended to a georss xml file... and this step works fine as the details can be appended without problem... but when the page refreshes after my user hav clicked the "add" button... the details added are not shown... and even click "refresh" on IE wont help... all i got to do to get the newly added details shown is to close the current IE and re-request the page in a new IE... then all the pushpins(including the last pushpin added) can be shown... y is this problem occuring am i doing a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XBox 360 controllers for the PC

  Hi, I had a question about controllers that plug into the PC. I understand that only XBox 360 controllers are supported by XNA. I also understand (I think) that wired only controllers work as they need to be plugged into the USB port on the PC. Actually the last point is now not valid since I discovered the wireless controller for Windows and 360. But this isn't available until 2007. Does anyone know if this wireless controller is an actual controller or just a receiver for an existing wireless controller Cheers, Steve Yeah I was hoping the receiver would be out for the holidays. Instead I picked up a Play 'n Charge kit and later smacked myself for not reading the FAQ (it doesn't work). I st ...Show All

• .NET Development gather connectionString properties at runtime

  I've been working an a tool for creating and editing connection string and I'm running into a bit of difficulty determining the connectionstring properies for a given source. How does Visual Studio or any other tool for that matter determine what properties are valid for a given provider If I install a new provider and begin adding a connection using that provider Studio *knows* the connection string properties How does it do that I don't mind if the solution involved interop but I'm curious as to how the properties are determined gabe I believe designer that integrates provider with the Visual Studio knows what specific properties of the provider are. When vendor develops designer, they could im ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagridview question about DataGridViewComboBoxColumn

  I would like to initially have a combox box column type look like an ordinary text display. It would only turn into a combo box display when someone clicks on it. How would I do that Thank you -greg ...Show All

• Windows Forms KeyPress event doesn't work In Form with atleast one control

  I created a windows application with a form. In this empty form i handle the KeyPress event with OnKeyPress() function. when i run the application and push any key on the keyboard the KeyPress Event is lunched and the OnKeyPress() function works great. now , All i did is add one Button to the Form and the KeyPress event doesn't respond anymore. I run the application and push the keyboard buttons... nothing happens ( doesn't matter which one got the focus). why adding a button to the form disables the KeyPress event How do i solve it thank you. What method are you using to determine what key is what Character codes or (char).Keys.Insert, Delete, F1-12 If you're just using numbe ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI and Maximized Forms

  I have a MDI program that when I maximize a child form, and then close that form it seems to freeze up the program. It seems to work fine as long as I don’t close any maximized forms. Is this a known error Thanks William ...Show All

• Windows Forms ComboBox Datasource

  The comboBox on my ActionPane does not display the Data attached to it via a datasource. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. j Thanks for the response. I've selected a DataSource and specified the DisplayMember as well as ValueMember. If I have the ComboBox bound to a list of hard coded items, it works just fine. Is there any ActionPane/ComboBox/Datasource binding samples that you know of out there j ...Show All

• Windows Forms BindingList.Add behaviour (Extremley slow!)

  I am trying to improve a bindable class that supports filtering. I use a class I found on a blog somewhere. After some fidling I get it to work, and I have replaced the Filter functionality with my own RegEx filter that works nicely. My problem, however, is that the BindingList.Add method is so extremly slow! The functionality is like this: I have a textbox where the user inputs his filter. On the Change event I update the BindingSource.Filter property, and run my own filtering code. When the user removes his filter, the original values should be shown again. This is when the problem arises. I have to clear the bound collection, and copy the values from the original collection back. This should be extremely fast, since it is an in-memory l ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Net.Mail and Threading

  I am attempting to start a new thread using the QueueUserWorkItem and send a large number of emails. I have been unable to get past even creating a MailMessage, much less sending the email. It is returning a "Thread was being aborted" error on the new MailMessage line. Why Here is the code: public static void SendNotifications( int incidentId) { ThreadPool .QueueUserWorkItem(SendNotifications, incidentId); } private static void SendNotificationsAsync( int incidentId) { try { MailMessage message = new MailMessage ( "from" , "to" , "Notification Test" , "this is a test" ); SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient ( "127.0.0.1 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development About Email Tracker

  Hi, I need to track the time taken to write a email message.I.e whenever the user clicks new message till he clicks on send. I am using Comapct framework 2.0 and trying to deploy in Windows mobile 5.0 pocket pc phone emulater. I had already used microsoft.windowsmobile.status dll for tracking the time taken for making a call. But now i need to track the time taken to send a email. Can anyone help me. Thanks & regards Prathap.K.H Software Engineer Marlabs Software (P) Ltd This forum is intended to deal with issues directly related to the .NET Compact Framework. It appears that this question can better be answered by someone on one of the newsgroups for Windows Mobile or Windows CE. In order to ge ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Building XPS printer driver on windows XP

  Hi      I want to use XPS printer driver on Windows XP.  while installing this XPS printer driver on windows XP it's asking for some DLL files (ex. xdwmark.dll, xdcolman.dll). in WDk folder there is no such DLL that means i have to build this DLL from WDK building environment.   when i am trying to build these dll from WDK's Windows XP build environment i am gettting following warning :   [source path ] is not valid for the current  OS target . can you help me how can i build these DLL for XP   I am able to build these DLL from Windows Vista environment. but while printing from this d ...Show All