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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) vista and VS

  Hi, is there a current version of VS I can use with Vista thank you You should install VS 2005 SP1 and the SP1 Vista Update beta. [MicrosoftR Visual StudioR 2005 Team Suite Service Pack 1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=BB4A75AB-E2D4-4C96-B39D-37BAF6B5B1DC&displaylang=en [Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=fb6bb56a-10b7-4c05-b81c-5863284503cf&displaylang=en ...Show All

• .NET Development Hash table

  My requirement is to compare two method signatures. Its like, i check the namespace first,if they match i then check then method names,then each parameter... Is it possible to implement it using Hashtables Any other approach could be followed Kindly help me.... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Configuring Team Foundation Server to Use a Remote Sharepoint Server

  Does anyone know if the TechNote Configuring Team Foundation Server to Use a Remote Sharepoint Server at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/reference/technotes/tfs/conf_for_remote_ss.aspx is still valid under SP1 beta That is it unavailable and being edited makes me concerned about applying it under SP1 (if I even have a copy sitting around somewhere to reference). Has anyone applied this after SP1 Or had any issues with this in adding SP1. I would not expect an issue but better safe than sorry. Thanks, Brad. Further validation for my reasoning on why I link to the source docs from our internal SharePoint sites versus posting a copy locally. If you have an estimate on it's return don't hesitate to share. If you do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error TF84011: Could not connet to team project

  I am having problems accessing certain files in the documents folder when I'm connected to Team Foundation Server from workstation. I get the above error when trying to open the issue.xls file. I get an error when attemtp to open any .mpp file about the version of the .mpp file is not the right version. I still cannot access the work item database (mentioned in a separate thread). None of the problems above exists when I log on to the server where Team Foundation server is installed. Can you help Uninstalling "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite" should uninstall Visual Studio. If you installed the stand-alone Team Explorer client on the machine before installing the suite you may ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using dropped testfiles for reporting???

  Hi We are running web tests during our dailybuild of our projects. These files however consume a large amount of space space (several hundred MBs per product and test run) so we have set up a task to clean them up periodically. We also move them from their standard drop location to make them more easily available for the test team. However after doing these changes our progress reports have begun losing all test data. It seems that the reporting engine is actually expecting the test files to be kept and to be positioned at the standard drop location. We get this in our event log: Detailed Message: Encountered an exception while deserializing test object data for test run cdf4c5b0-5923-4ef6-81b8-a4337f816e12. Attempting to continue ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is this possible???

  As part of my program I would like to set up an address book. I have created the form for this. My question is: can I connect/create a database for just this part of my program. I have never created a database but am looking forward to giving it a go. This programming thing is totally addictive!!  A useful book to look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/learning/introtovb2005/ as well as the following series of webcasts http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/easytolearn/  This is an ebook and the webcast should also help you.  SQL Express will work just fine for you - its purpose is a local database engine. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Approach to drag picture around

  Hi, I am pretty new to .net development. I have a tabcontrol. In it I programatically add tabs. In each tab I programatically add a panel. Now I select the first tab and programatically create a PictureBox. So far, so good. I see the picture. Now I want to be able to grap the picture with the mouse and move it to another location within the selected panel. The PictureBox does not have a private or public variable definition in the class. I can add an 'unlimited' nr of pictures, each in a PictureBox. In words it would be something like this: On mouse_left get the PictureBox the mouse is clicking on. While mouse_left_is_down PictureBox.Location = mouse.Location (follow mouse) On mouse_left_release leave the PictureBox at the release location ...Show All

• Visual C# why my try/catch statement "loops"

  hi! i have three succeeding try-catch-finally statements but it sort of "loops" when i run the program. this is basically the code.. . try { insert1.Connection.Open(); insert1.ExecuteNonQuery(); } catch ( OracleException ex) { MessageBox .Show(ex.ToString()); } finally { MessageBox .Show( "insert1 done!" ); insert1.Connection.Close(); } try { insert2Connection.Open(); insert2.ExecuteNonQuery(); } catch ( OracleException ex) { MessageBox .Show(ex.ToString()); } finally { MessageBox .Show( "insert2 done!" ); insert2.Connection.Close(); } try { insert3.Connection.Open(); insert3.ExecuteNo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SerialPort 101 for a beginner

  Hello, I have spent a lot of time trying to use the serial port command in the toolbox but i was unsucessful. I looked at the samples posted online but i always get errrors. Can anyone explains what are the steps needed to have a sucessful communication (read and write) from and to a serialport.If you can post the code it would be great...Please help Thank you Hello, Here is what i have at this point. I am just trying to read from the serial port . Am i missing anything all i get is a blank messagebox. Public Class Form1 Dim StoreReceived As String ...Show All

• .NET Development Loading 2 different assemblies which is referenced by each other

  Dear ALL. I have simple Form1 application which has 3 buttons. What i want to do: 1. Create class library with WinForm and build it as Form2.dll 2. Create another class library with WinForm, add reference of Form2.dll, add Button1. Onclick event Form2.ShowDialog() and build it as Form3.dll This classes works correctly. Now, in Form1 application 1. When Click on Button1 must load form2.dll 2. When click On Button2 must load form3.dll 3. when click on Button 3 must show form2. after form3 displayes, as we said there is buttin1 which must show Form2. Please, I am new to C# reflection. Help me to solve that. Thanks in advance Teymur Thank you for your time and detail explan ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.NET Class Library for use in VB 6.0

  Hi! I am making a class in Visual Basic .NET 2002, ver. 7.0., with wish to use it in Visual Basic 6.0. The class is declared: Public NotInheritable Class VerifyLicense The function I need in VB 6.0 is declared: Public Shared Function Verify() As Boolean "Register for Com Interop" is checked Output type is Class Library. When I build the project I got following message: COM Interop registration failed. There are no registrable types in the built assembly. If I add a form in the project, there is no error message, compilation is Ok, but I can't see function Verify() in object browser of VB 6.0 nor use it. By the way, I don't need the added form! Please, can somebody to help me Thanks a lot! If you download the code samp ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WaitForSingleObject alwasy Object_0

  I have a case where my WaitForSingleObject is used by the root thread and Some other thread started by this root thread signals the Event object which WaitForSingleObject is waiting for. But the WaitForSingleObject seems always signaled regardles of the SetEvent function of the child thread. I have tried Manual or Auto Reset and the case is always the same and my Event is started as Non-signaled. Well sometime programming so dense is digging out my brain. I solved my problem But I want to share my experience Never give the same name to the Events that are created with CreateEvent that easy isnt it. Well sometimes jumping those little details puts you in trouble. The effect of CreatingEvents with the same name for different Object ...Show All

• .NET Development Performance problem

  Hi, i'm coding with C# something like that: j = 0; for (int i = 0; i < bmpArr.Length; i += bytesPorPixel) { colorArray[j] = new T(); colorArray[j++].FromBMPColorArray( bmpArr, i); if (j % bmp.Width == 0) i += paddedBytes; } This code take 5-8 seconds to execute when the loop have 2'500.000 cycles. I need that this code take only around 1-2 seconds in these case, but i really don't know how i can do that. I've treated to isolate the lack speed problem and i've saw that the object instanciation take the most of the time colorArray[j] = new T(); until the rest of instructions: colorArray[j++].FromBMPColorArray( bmpArr, i); if (j % bmp.Width == 0) i += ...Show All

• Visual C++ Pop up msg gets focus and the user gets disturbed

  I have created the popup message. I have mentioned SWP_NOACTIVATE in the SetWindowPos(...). But even then when the message pops up any other window like notepad/ WordPad etc. gets deactivated and the user loses its focus from the working window to Pop up window. SetWindowPos(&CWnd::wndTopMost, left, top, rect.Width(),rect.Height(), nSWFlag|SWP_NOACTIVATE); I want that the message to just pop up, but the user doesn't get disturbed from the work he is doing. What I should do Can anyone please help me out Already tried. But still the focus gets shifted to the popup message. it just neglects the position that you are mentioning in SetWindowPos(..) ...Show All

• SQL Server Replicating structure only not data

  I have a SQL 2005 database that I am using with a website. This basic website will be sold to other companies and ran on their servers with different URLs. Since, All of these databases will store different data, I'm not sure how I can make updates to original database and replicate those structure changes to the other DBs without changing the data also. Is there a way to automate the replication of structural DB changes without replicating the data along with it Thanks, Kirk You can enable @replicate_dll at publication level, which will push the schema change to your subscriber. And you can set all the ins/upd/del commands to NONE for all of your articles, which will ignore all the data changes tha ...Show All