Pintoo Khaira's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Best Practices for Collaborating on Diagrams

  Has anybody developed any good practices for sharing an SDM diagram with people who don't happen to have access Visual Studio for filling details For instance, I am working on the architecture for a solution, and I've built an SDM diagram that shows the high-level design of the entire solution. I'd like to have a network engineer fill in the specific details of machine names, etc., for the various environments to which the solution will be deployed (development, testing, production, etc.), but I cannot count on my engineers having Visual Studio. If I could export to Visio, that'd be cool; the engineers all have Visio. Even if I couldn't do a full round-trip back into Visual Studio, it would still save me a lot of work to let them edit a V ...Show All

• SQL Server Using expressions in custom data flow transformation

  Hi, I'm creating a custom data flow transformation in c#. I would like to use expressions within this component in the same way as in the derived column component: specifying the expression as a custom property of an output column, then evaluating this expression for each row of the buffer and using this evaluated expression to populate my output column values. So I've added an custom expression on my output column, and set its expression type to CPET_NOTIFY IDTSCustomProperty90 exp = col.CustomPropertyCollection.New(); exp.Name = "Expression" ; exp.ExpressionType = DTSCustomPropertyExpressionType .CPET_NOTIFY; But in the ProcessInput method I don't manage to get the evaluated expressions, when I use exp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Add date field for attachments in control type 'AttachmentsControl' in VSTS for WorkItem type

  Hi, I think It would be good idea to add date field for attachments in control type 'AttachmentsControl' in  VSTS for WorkItem type. Thanks,   Hi, sorry to dig this up again, but is there an update on this If not, is there any way to add a datetime field to the attachments control by making a new custom control or extending the current one ...Show All

• Visual Studio how to properly check in solution to VSS 2005!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  This is driving me nuts.  I'm tyring to upload my solution folder (which contains everything from the .sln, the project folders, the root files such as web.config...everything!) for the first time in our VSS 2005 database that contains other projects...it's a 3rd party forum app.  The solution contains multople projects.   I am not sure the proper way to upload to VSS because every time I test VSS by redownloading it into a test folder or something, I open the .sln only to find it cannot find the projects.  When I go back to VSS, sure enough, myupload did not upload the damn projects or files. what the hell am I doing wrong.  Should I just manually drag the entire folder form my C drive which contains mul ...Show All

• Windows Forms .NET Framework 2 adoption - Require it in windows update!?

  Why is it so hard to find information about when .NET Framework 2 will be REQUIRED This is a HUGE concern for me in adopting .NET (and shouldn't it for most people who require their app to be downloaded by the general public ). It turns my nice 3.5mb app and blows it up to a 27mb download. This is ridiculous and is making me reconsidering developing in .NET. Why not then just build it in Java and support all OSes then if you require a framework to be downloaded Come on M$, require it in windows update, or forget about it. At least give us a yes or no answer if it will ever be required. I guess we are going to go into a flame war of some sort about this so lets just stick to the last question. .NE ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro programmatically finding out if dbf is part of dbc??

  I'm going through a directory that has free tables and a dbc. I can get all the dbf names and info, but I don't know how to identify if a dbf is in the dbc or is a free table. Is there a function that will give me that info or does someone have code that pulls this out of the dbf header file Thanks!!! ** Code snippet with problem in red below** ADIR(laArrayTables,".DBF","D",1) lnNumberTables = ADIR(laArrayTables, '*.DBF') && Create array FOR nCount = 1 TO lnNumberTables && Loop for number of databases lcDBC = "" lcTable = ALLTRIM(laArrayTables(nCount,1)) lcTable = SUBSTR(lcTable,1,AT('.',lcTable)-1) IF "|" + lcTable + "|" $ "|STABLES|SFIELDS|SINDEXES|" LO ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help in implementation of a magnifying glass

  I have an image viewer application which I want to apply a magnifying glass effect on certain area of the image. The problem I've run into is that when I slowly dragged the magnifying glass across (when left mouse down) the magnifying glass window didn't move smoothly. I believe it has something to do with drawing the graphics of the original image on the background. May someone please help me solve this issue Thanks. Okay, so what's "this.image" Sounds like a bitmap. magnifyGlass_Paint() will be very slow if that bitmap is not in PixelFormat32PArgb format and this.image gets large. If you get this image from a resource, copy it into a bitmap with that format and use that bitmap for all your pa ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Repeated Prompting at runtime: ENU-String Resource is already installed

  When deploying a CSharp program on the Pocket PC 2003 emulator I keep getting prompted with the following message: "Microsoft .NET 1.0 ENU-String Resource is already installed. Re-install " After I click OK, the program runs as expected. This is with Visual Studio 2003 and the Pocket PC 2003 SDK. This started after a fresh install of VS 2003 and after I installed service pack 1 (of VS). This issue does not occur on other development machines. I've seem some articles that say to tell VS to stop deplying it as it is not needed. But, I can't find where to tell it to stop. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Hi, Do you have the file System_SR_enu.cab with 0 bytes length created I had a ...Show All

• SQL Server Turning off "Select All" in SP2

  Does anyone know if there is an easy way to turn off the "Select All" option from appearing on reports with multi-selects I am going to have a hard time getting the development staff to update all of our reports AGAIN after making them conform to SP1. Please let me know if there is a way before I install SP2. Thanks. I hope there is a way because I am not installing SP2 until I know of a way. I have hundreds of reports built with custom "Select All" in the dropdownlists already. I dont want another auto one appearing and messing things up. Come on Microsoft help us out here! We are very accomodating already in accepting the way this Select All was removed and then reintrod ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Seem Broken After SafeGuard Easy install

  I was forced to install a product by the name SafeGuard Easy (a whole disk encryption system) on my development PC at work and since them I have been unable to run my VSTO excel projects. SafeGuard Easy evidently has some kind of issue with Visual Studio 2005 as I was required to removed Visual Studio before SafeGuard would install. After SafeGuard was installed, I was able to reinstall Visual Studio, its service pack and VSTO 2005 SE but now excel addin projects do not launch. As far as I can tell, the addins for excel simply are not loading. The new() method in the code behind is not firing but there are no error messages either in excel or Visual Studio. 1) I've looked at the security settings for excel and they seem correct 2) I've lo ...Show All

• Visual C++ Unresolved externals and wchar_t's

  I'm getting the following errors when compiling my program in VS2005b2.  This program uses a 3rd party static lib and associated header files, so I can't change them.  I think it was originally compiled in eVC++4.0. Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public : int __cdecl CL2CapIf::SetSecurityLevel(wchar_t *,unsigned char , int )" (__imp_ SetSecurityLevel@CL2CapIf@@QAAHPA_WEH@Z) referenced in function __unwind$66570 STPStack.obj Error 2 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public : enum SDP_RETURN_CODE __cdecl CSdpService::AddServiceName(wchar_t *)" (__imp_ AddServiceName@CSdpService@@QAA AW4SDP_RETURN_CODE@@PA_W@Z) referenced in function __unwind$66570 ST ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Uninstalling Windows Desktop Search

  I'd like to uninstall my windows desktop search but can't find it in the add/remove programs. How can I uninstall it Hello lex3, could you please let me know what version of WDS you installed If you aren't able to find the program in Add/Remove programs then I'll need to version to point you to the correct uninstall file. Thanks, Paul Nystrom - MSFT ...Show All

• Visual Basic i need datetime picker supports Arabic language

  hi i need a date tima picker control that support Arabic Language and Hijri date for ( VB.NET ) so i read about this subject in microsoft website but i dont know how to get it, Thx. have you tried using the standard date pick control in Visual Studio on a machine which is configured for arabic with the hirji date formatting Where did you read about this can you provide the URL ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Access Controls in Word (VSTO 2005)

  Hi, I would like to access at a later state my controls (textboxes and a dateTimePicker), which I have previously generated dynamically. For an unknown reason, I can't access the Item property in the ControlCollection class ! I have also tried to pass through the GetEnumerator() method like this: System.Collections.IEnumerator en = Controls.GetEnumerator(); while (en.MoveNext()) {en.Current} But when I have the "en.Current" object, I don't know how to access the property of the control. Can anybody help me out Thanks a lot! Claudia I know, I have seen already some examples doing exactly what I have described in the previous message... but I can't find! Any suggestions Thanks, Claudia ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA and MDX

  hi guys. what is the future of MDX will the development of MDX go on or will XNA replace the existing MDX ...Show All