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• Visual Studio Team System Custom Generator sample wanted

  Hi, I did the walkthrough in the documentation to develop a custom generator. The walkthrough is not quite correct, but I managed to develop and compile a custom generator. The problem is that I cannot register the generator. The Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.Extensions.xml file does not exist, so I created it myself, but I think it is wrong. Can someone from MS please post a very basic sample generator with source code and registration XML file Regards Jerrie Pelser Jerrie - If you spot inaccuracies in the custom generator docs, please let us know. We've still got time to make doc corrections for the "in the box" docs. After that, we'll still be able to update the online docs, star ...Show All

• Visual C++ I am stuck please help

  I need to write a program that will calculate the difference between those two days, I am getting those two errors: ------ Build started: Project: compare_2dates, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Linking... compare_2dates.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: class Date __thiscall Date::operator-(class Date const &)const " ( GDate@@QBE AV0@ABV0@@Z) referenced in function "public: int __thiscall Date::GetData2(void)" ( GetData2@Date@@QAEHXZ) compare_2dates.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: int __thiscall Date::compare(class Date const &)const " ( compare@Date@@QBEHABV1@@Z) referenced in function "public: int __thiscall Date::operator==(clas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Why no RefEdit control in VSTO?

  I have searched high and low, and other than establishing that it does not exist, I have not been able to discover why no one at Microsoft saw fit to include a refedit type control in VSTO, it is incredible. The inputbox alternative that is suggested is clunky and interupts the visual flow of a good GUI. The actions pane control (a wonderful addition) would be the perfect place to be able to add a refedit type control, but alas, it's not possible. It seems that as a range-selecting tool is used in a great many Excel built-in dialogs, (defining named ranges dialog, chart wizard, etc) there is clearly a control available somewhere within the guts of Excel. Why was this not included in VSTO This oversite is inexcusable and ought to be re ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Speed, speed, speed

  One of the key reasons we use desktop search is for speed in finding things. I've been using WDS since it's first release but I found that X1 was faster at finding things and displaying results and showing previews. I've also recently seen Copernic and it was much faster. I think a key issue here is speed, speed, speed, and if I didn't mention it speed! For example, OL 2007 now uses WDS. I find it terribly slow finding a contact name. I can find a contact faster on my Windows Mobile device. I expect my desktop, with it 1 GB of memory and 3GHz HT CPU to be faster at this stuff then my handheld. I was using beta 2 when I posted. It is certainly better than 2.6.5 but not where Copernic is yet. To paraphrase a ...Show All

• SQL Server Database conversion from SQL Server 2005 to 2000 is not working

  hello friends, i am facing a problem in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. The database created in the SQL Server 2005 Express is when opened in SQL Server 2000, it changes the data type of all the columns of all the table to text type. can anybody help me Hi. Thanks for the Suggesion. i need to use sql server 2005 database in SQL Server 2000. Is there any other way ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Internet Explorer crashes when using dropdown listboxes

  I am trying to develop a web site using asp dropdown listboxes. I'm getting a problem however in that if I expand a dropdown list box and select an item, then close Internet Explorer using the 'x' button whilst keeping the item selected, I get a memory error! This does not happen however if I run the application in the Visual studio environment. Is this a problem with Internet Explorer or am I doing something wrong I've also noticed that this behaviour occurs in other websites that I've tried. BrendanO, I'm not sure this is the right forum for this question. You might find a more appropriate one here . Hope this helps... -- Lance ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Error 3051

  Hello, I've been drafted to administer Team...We just went through a TFS server move to both new hardware and a new domain. The actual migration went very well (thanks to some insightful postings on this board), and Team is working fine. I'm just trying to track down the source of the following warning message that pops in my App log about a dozen times a day...I'll get 6-8 in a row, nothing for a few hours, then a few more during the day. No one has complained, and I've been unable to locate any information about this warning. I've done searches on my Team server for the "notify.asmx" file mentioned in the warning, but it does not exist on my new Team server, or the old de-commissioned server (we kept it around offline, ju ...Show All

• Windows Forms Graphic artifacts when horizontally scrolling DataGridView

  Hi, I have a C# forms app I'm using to learn this .NET stuff. It has a main form and a custom form I made. The custom form has one data grid view control in it and I bind it to a DataSet object that I stuff full of test data. The data set is not bound to a table or database or anything its just some local memory I am manually stuffing with info. Everything works fine except I have noticed when there are many columns of data and I scroll the data grid view horizontally, the column headers are picking up some artifacts and sometimes the text is not rendering perfectly due to the scrolling. For example, I saw the letter 'n' in one of my headers was drawn about 1-1/2 times wider than normal such that the left 3/4 of the letter was drawn ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to remove the border on ListBox?

  The ListBox class contains a Border element which has a padding set to 1. Setting the BorderThickness of the ListBox doesn't change this. I want to remove this border padding. The following XAML snippet shows it. Paste it into XamlPad and you'll see a single pixel lime green border around the listbox item, which prevents it from lining up with the TextBlock text on the left. XamlPad's visual tree explorer shows an element called "Bd" of type Border which has its padding set to 1. < StackPanel xmlns = ' http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation ' xmlns:x = ' http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml ' > < StackPanel Orientation = " Horizontal " > < StackPanel > ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB .net tab control multi line...

  Ok, I am creating a new version of a program in vb .net. The main page has a tab control with 7 tabs on it to select your general category. However, the two word text does not always fit on these tabs. I want the text to wrap instead of just going out of view off of the tab. However, there is no wrapping option or way to get the text on multiple lines(like there was in VB 6), except for forcing it by inserting a new line character into the text. But if I do it that way the text is no longer vertically OR horizontally centered and looks very bad, and is plainly unacceptable. So, is there any way to get the text on multiple lines on the tab control I have been looking everywhere for this option and it is simply not there. Thank you. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Invoke throws an exception with VC8 ported code...

  Hi, I have upgraded vc5 ATL server DLL to vc8 and vb5 client to vb6. I have a VC8 Atl server dll that I would like to fire an event to then be used by VB6 using the With Events keyword. BUT when DLL raises event, it throws an exception at the following statement.. pDispatch->Invoke(0x1, IID_NULL, LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, DISPATCH_METHOD, &disp, NULL,NULL, NULL); It was working fine with my original source code in vc5 and vb5 client. Any ideas Thanks, Mac Hi, It was properly working with VC5 and VB5. I tried AddRef to vb object in overrided advise() method, but still the problem persists. Well I don't know how to call AddRef before Advise(), as it will be called automatically by vb I am using object with ...Show All

• .NET Development VB .NET - Using ListView to log activity

  VB, Visual Studio 2005. I am using a listview to log some activity in my app. The problem I have is that every line I add I need to automaticallly scroll down to the last added line (to show the last added log line). I already tried with: myListView.items ( last_item_index ) .focused=true this piece of code only focus the item without showing it (scrolling down to view it) Anyone knows how to do it Thanks in advance.. Fede. I just tried it... adding multiple items than using that works just fine. Automaticaly scrolls to the bottom of the list for me. -Chad ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Drawing points

  Hi - new to C# and XNA, but an experienced C/C++ coder. Maybe I'm being an idiot, but having gone through the XNA Game Studio Express (beta) docs I can't see any convenient way to draw 2D primitives such as rectangles, lines or points (ie. things other than sprites). Is there any equivalent in XNA for a Direct3D point list for example I just want to plot some raw pixels in 2D, and right now the only way I can see to do that is to create a big Surface or Texture2D and then use the setData method, which seems a little wasteful to me. Is there a better practise for this kind of thing, a more efficient way to just set pixel values I know this topic is rather old and dated, but, it was something I was trying ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form Opacity Changed -> Component not updating

  First of all I apollogise for reposting this, but apparently I haven't posted it in the right place the first time. I hope that by posting here I could get an answer. So here goes: I have created a form, and set the region of the form from a bitmap. On this form I have an PictureBox Component wich is updated by a timer. On the OnTimer Event I have some code that does the following things : Gets a region of the forms background and paints it on the control Gets 2 bitmaps from two different picture boxes and draws them on control Everything worked fine until I decided to add the possibility to change the forms Opacity at runtime. The form is shown with 100% opacity at runtime and everything works as it should. When I change the ...Show All

• SQL Server Unnatended uninstallation

  Does anyone knows how to Uninstall SQL Server Express from command promt in unnatended way I've already achieve the unnatended Installation but i try the reverse steps to uninstall and they didn't work. Any information wolud be helpful I've already tried that but two things happen, if the " are closed after setup.exe as you tell me an error message appears idicating that that the modifier is not valid: "qb", in the other hand if the " are colosed before setup.exe for example "C:\Program files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap" setup.exe /qb REMOVE=ALL INSTANCENAME=SQLEXPRESS a message appears indicating that for Installing and configuring system components you must ...Show All