dczraptor's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Composit Activity Problem

  Hiya I have a couple of composite activities with several child activities that build fine with no errors or warnings that won't appear in the toolbox. One of them I have actually used in a workflow (because it used to appear) and the code hasn't been changed. I'm wondering if any automatic updates could be effecting them as they stopped appearing about the time we installed updates. I can get the activities to appear in my own toolbox in the rehosted designer but it wont let me use it. Does anyone have any ideas After some testing this is a problem with the toolbox item . If I remove the toolbox item attribute for the composite activity, it works again. Unfortunately without the toolbox item it's useless in a workflow! My ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio Displays red X over the document folder in Team Explorer

  We have a team project where they want to create a Document Library in Sharpoint that only some project members has access to. To achieve this they selected to Modify Settings and Columns | Change Permissions for this Document Library. They then removed all the cross site groups from the list and added the individual users that should have access. This worked perfectly in Sharepoint but the users that didn’t have access got a red X over the entire Document Folder in Team Explorer and can’t access any of the folders under Documents using Team Explorer. Is this a known behaviour Are there any other way of achieving the result we wanted to have with a private folder. Any input appreciated. Regards, Christian ...Show All

• Visual C# Smart Comment Editing in VS.NET 2005

  can't figure out how to turn on Smart Comment Editing in Visual Studio 2005. An MSDN article mentions that you can access this feature from the Formatting, C#/J#, Text Editor, Options Dialog Box dialog in your project property pages, but I can't see anything there. This does not exist. This was a great feature. Does anyone know how I can get this working, or has it been removed from the release version of Visual Studio 2005 Hi, Mikey What you want is at Tools --> Options -->(make " show all setting " checked at left bottom corner) Text Editor --> C# --> Formatting BR ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I create a button to spell check a document?

  I need to create a spell checker button for my text editor. Oh, and it would help greatly if someone could tell me how to print a document It's a rich text box, so it needs to print formatting. "Tall Dude's approach works well if you have word installed on your machine as it is using the in built capability of word's spell checker." I'd never recommend it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Issues with dimension after following warehouse troubleshooting guide

  Hello, After following the troubleshooting guide and watching the trace files from the warehouse process I get the following error. Apparently I have some bad data in the system on a dimension. I've tried to figure out what's causing this with no luck. No reports are working as a result of this issue. Thank you for your help. 380: [DW] [Info, PID 380, TID 964, 17:26:29.048] Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Adapter: Retrieved 689 Work Items to process. 380: [DW] [Info, PID 380, TID 964, 17:26:29.048] Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Adapter: Processing work item 132 revision 1 380: [CS] [Verbose, PID 380, TID 3680, 17:26:29.078] Request authentication type: NTLM 380: [CS] [Info, PID 380, TID 3680, 17:26:29.088] CommonS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Binding workitemcollection from Query to datagrid control

  We are working on a simple website that allows our -non-tech people to execute WIQ strings. Getting the correct stored WIQ isn't that hard, getting the results from executing it neither. Problems kick in when we try to bind the 'workitemcollection' to a datagrid and we only want to display the columns that were actually requested. Problem when doing this is that the individual workitems contain a fields collection that actually hold the values we want to display (among those some custom fields). So far no luck, any help would be appreciated. Current code: items = tfsData.Store.Query(query.QueryText, parameters); //// Build list DataGrid dataGrid = new DataGrid (); dataGrid.Width = Unit .Percentage(100); dataGri ...Show All

• SQL Server Access Synchronizer confusing and sketchy

  After downloading and installing this tool, I'm confused.  The documentation refers to a wizard, which I can't find in the Start menu.  Development team:  Where is this wizard   This is a great idea that I'm certain many people can benefit from--- please make some better documentation, and give us a product that does what the documentation says. Michael Reinhart Wizard is actuall a sample application we are providing along with the solution which runs on the device. The source code can be found at "<Install Dir>\Sample". A cab file "sqlce.access.sample.PPC.wce5.armv4i.CAB" is also present in the <Install Dir>. You can copy this to the deivce and ru ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista 32 Bit Apps Wont Run On 64 Bit Cpu.

  Hi, I have numerous Games and Apps that will not run on my computer. Am Just about fed up with it , I've had it for about a year now. I upgraded it from a 3.0 ghz 32 bit intel. To a 3.0 ghz 64 bit intel. The em64t, I can't play my new games, or run programs like, nortons anti-virus, spy sweeper etc... Is there drivers im missing, programs, wrong version of windows or what. I got Windows xp Pro. x64 Edition. Anyone got any idea why i cant run games and programs, 32 bit games and programs trying to install them on a 64 bit windows with a 64 bit cpu. They won't even install, or even start to install. Anyone that can help me pleeeeaseeee do so..... ASAP... ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setup Project, Custom Actions Editor

  Hi, I'm using visual studio 2005 beta 2. I created setup project and in the Custom Actions Editor I added a vbs file. This file is using the WScript.Shell Object. When I run the setup.exe on the target computer (windows xp sp2) I get the error message: "There is a problem with the Windows Installer Package. A script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personal or package vendor." If I just copy the .vbs file to the target computer and double click it, it's working fine. If I use the script without using the WScript.Shell Object it's working fine. The lines which make my troubles are:    dim obj    set obj = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Any idea  Th ...Show All

• Visual C++ SP1 and WinSXS

  What will be placed in the WinSXS directory when SP1 is installed Will there be a new MSVCR80.dll and more importantly, will there be a policy file that redirects the binding of the original dll to the new dll Yes, the new versions will be placed in the WinSxS directory (different version number). The old ones will remain as well. Yes, the policy file will redirect the binding of the original to the new. Any new apps compiled with SP1 will use the new one and only the new one (or you can define _USE_RTM_VERSION to allow it to work with the original) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Why Can I only see Red Color when drawing three points which have three colors?

  CustomVertex.TransformedColored[] verts = new CustomVertex.TransformedColored[3]; verts[0].X=150;verts[0].Y=50;verts[0].Z=0.5f;verts[0].Color=Color.Red.ToArgb(); verts[1].X=250;verts[1].Y=250;verts[1].Z=0.5f;verts[1].Color=Color.Yellow.ToArgb(); verts[2].X=50;verts[2].Y=250;verts[2].Z=0.5f; verts[2].Color =Color.Green.ToArgb(); device.SetRenderState(RenderStates.ShadeMode,2); device.DrawPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, 1); Someone Please tell me I don’t receive an image but anyway it would be better if you upload it to any of the free image hoster and post a link here. ...Show All

• Visual C# Build .net 1.1 solution

  I am trying to build a .net 1.1 solution using the command line only and not VS IDE. I have build box with only the .net 1.1 framework installed. How can I build from the command line Is there an equivalent of the VS .net 2003 command prompt that will recognize the "devenv" command when I try to use it. My Reason for building on a box without VS installed is to follow best practices so that the applicaion has no dependencies on VS IDE, as the production server will not have VS IDE. Is this possible with NAnt for a project that has multiple libraries in different locations. Does NAnt have an include command or do I have to build the libraries first I.E. build the dependancies then build the solution; rather than just addi ...Show All

• Windows Forms About Threading

  I have a winform application which begin with a splash form in a new thread(I used the . When the splash form closes automatically, a login form instanates in the original thread and hold using LoginForm.ShowDialog. However, although a textbox in the Login Form() get the focus, the application become inactive(user cannot type in the textbox immediatlly). User have to click on the form or use Alt-Tab to switch to the Login Form before they can type on the textbox. How can I make the application keep its focus after the splash form close Kennon2005 wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am actually doing this task exactly the way as you suggest. However, if I do this, there is a flash of the Main Form even the login is unsuccessful ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista Final Release Date

  Have to plan IT budget for hardware & software. Can anyone tell me what is the deadline of the Vista Project if there is one From MSDN Subscriber downloads: Office 2007 is now available from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Windows Vista is expected to be available on Friday November 17, 2006 PST Good News for us Developers ! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with connection string

  Hello, I am an experienced Excel and Access VBA developer and I am developing my first windows app in VS2005 linking to SQL Server.  The application is standalone with the SQL Server running on the same machine. I have used the Project Properties to define an application setting DatabaseConnectionString of type (ConnectionString), scope Application  and the value is defined using the ... that launches the Connection Properties Dialog. I complete the dialog using appropriate values (server name, Windows authentication, database name) and click the 'Test Connection' button.  All appears OK. The connection string returned is: "Data source=MyExtraLaptop;Initial Catalog=MyNewDatabase;Integrated Security=True" Th ...Show All