BortNE24's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Field-name used in error message

  When the Label of a field in the FORM section is different from the name of the field and a rule is not fullfilled at commit-time, the error shows the name of the field and not the name of the label. However the user can not find a field with that name because on the forms only the Label-name is showed. E.g.: if the "Found In" field required and the label for the field on the form has been set to "Build Version" then the error shown when the field is not set becomes: "TF20012: Field "Found In" cannot be empty". There is no field with a such a name on the form. I second the need for being able to configure the error message of required fields. Renaming the fields ...Show All

• Visual Studio Running External Prog on Current Document

  In VC6 I had a toolbar icon assigned to a 'tool' that I defined in the IDE that ran an external exe (python.exe) using the active document (a python document) as an argument. Setting this up was simple in VC6 but with VC8 I have failed to figure out how to do this. I was able to create a custom toolbar and attach an icon to it and that icon is tied to "External Command 1" using Tools->Customize->Tools-External Command 1. Now I guess, what I am wanting to do, is to assign the behavior of 'External Command 1' to be the executable and I need to pass the current document path as an argument ... maybe with $(ItemPath) Any ideas Thx, Paul Yes thats it ... Thanks I figured it out. Specifically, I want ...Show All

• SQL Server Connecting to SQL Server Express from an ASP Application

  I have an ASP application which is currently using a SQL 2000 Database, attaching via SQLOLEDB. I am getting ready to migrate my ASP application to .NET using SQL Server 2005 Express. The only problem, is that I am unable to connect successfully from my ASP applcation to my DB under SQL Express. I have taken all of the steps that I have read, including the blog by Ming Lu. I still cannot be through. I have included both the messages that are thrown and comments about the drivers and connection strings. I have enabled TCP/IP and Named Pipes for SQL 2005 EE. I have also included the executable, port 1433, port 135, etc. in the firewall exceptions. I have defined the DB in ODBC using both the Native Sql driver and the SQL Driver. ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems while converting string to date.

  Hi Guys, Source Column Data type: Varchar Destination Data Type: smalldatetime We have 2 columns effective_Date and Expiration_Date: the format of data in these columns is not consistent. Sample values: 1/23/2006 Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1/0/1900 8-Mar-06, NULL Now, i want to convert to a standard date format like "2006-03-08 00:00:00". please let me know the steps to do.. Thanks in Advance. Sri Hi Jamie, As i told earlier the date column has different formats of date, please help me in finding the solution. how many derived column transformations i have to use..is it for every format of date i have to use one for eg if date format is Wednesday, June 01, 2005 then can you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installing Team Foundation Server (Databases) on a Cluster

  I cannot get the TFS databases to install on our existing SQL cluster. The installation doesn't give any errors during the system health checks, but, returns a general setup failed error during the actual install of the databases. The VSMsiLog has the following errors in it. ConfigureSql: Error 0x80004005: Failed to determine if database already exists ConfigureSql: Error 0x80004005: Failed to ensure database CurrituckDB.D19110DD_8531_4670_8844_A399C45690FF exists ConfigureSql: Error 0x80004005: failed to install databases Please help!! That might be the problem. TFS v1 can not work with named instances of SQL Server irrespective of the fact whether it is on a cluster or not. Excerpt from th ...Show All

• .NET Development Persistent storage and strong names

  Hallo all I have a little problems with serializing to a permanent file storage. I have a complex data structure and I have to serialize compatible for future program versions. My program does its work. But when I activate strong names, after each compilation I cannot deserialize again. I suppose the version is serialized with the assembly. But I must have absolute compatibility over versions. Is there a solution Thanks Reiner Obrecht The article does not address the question which mentioned “strong names”. Make a library: using System; namespace SomeLibrary { [ Serializable ] public class Class1 { } } Sign it with a strong name and place it in the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game Component Design Guidelines?

  Anyone have any suggestions, tips, experiences, etc regarding designing and developing Game Components With the move of the GraphicsComponent to a service (which makes sense), one of my questions is remains: what makes a good Game Component In pre beta 1, other Game Components that were hinted at were a Camera and Fps Counter. In beta 2, would these still be Game Components, or be left at system-level Is the choice as simple as whether or not your would-be-component has an Update method that takes a single GameTime parameter Same goes for IDrawable, if a Draw method with a single GameTime parameter is sufficient, should this be a Drawable Game Component Is it a never-ending debate such as the guidelines for designing Interfaces ...Show All

• SQL Server Saving Auto Recovery Information

  Hi I am using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to manage our database objects over a VPN connection. At scheduled intervals the system saves recovery information. The problem is that the location of the recovery files appears to be located on a remote server. This causes the UI to completely freeze while the operation is in progress. How can I change the location of the recovery files or turn off the Auto Recovery functionality completely. In VS2005 this is configurable in the Tools-->Options-->Environment settings. Thanks. I haven't tried this but this registry mod should disable AutoRecovery. If it doesn't work let me know and I'll dig a bit deeper. All the standard di ...Show All

• .NET Development E-Mail Program

  I am making an e-mail program with 3 forms. One is the "Main" form, another is a fullscreen window called "webView" that shows the e-mail in full view, and the last one is called "AccountInfo" which I hoped to use for the users account information such as the server, username, and password, and if the users account requires an SSL connection. I just don't know how to incorporate it with the main form. I don't know if I should save all of that data into a text file as soon as the user clicks the OK button. I need help please. I am not sure if I understood correctly. I get that: you have Winforms application that send email using SmtpMail you send emails in HTML formats an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Iterate through array help

  Hello, I have a form with a picturebox and a menustrip from which the user opens a file or files using the openfiledialog and adds them to an array. Also on the menustrip there is a next button so that if the user selected more than one picture they can display the next picture they in the array. The problem I'm having is when I use the next button it will go to next picture in the array but then when I click the next button again it doesn't do anything. Here's the code Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As _ System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load opnFile.Filter = "All Files (*.*)|*.*| Jpg (*.jpg)|*.jpg| Jpeg (*.jpeg)|*.jpeg" End Sub Private Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_C ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Creating a new store in outlook

  I want to create a store in outlook, but I would like it to be 'virtual' - ie with no pst file. An example of such a folder is the Microsoft CRM plugin - this which creates a Store with no pst file behind it. The folder\store I want to add will not ontain any items, rather it's home page will be somewhere I specify and it will show it by default. Can anyone help All I can find is a call to CreateStore() and CreateStoreEx() both of which create a pst file. You mean AddStore() and AddStoreEx(), I think. Last time I looked at CRM (which was a couple versions back), it did use a .pst file. It just doesn't store any data there. It just uses the folder hierarchy to show a folder home ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot change the reports of ReportViewer control

  I am using a tree to select various reports to be displayed into the ReportViewer control on a winform app. However, only the first report is displayed and the control does not reload any other reports. Using the following code does not change the report being displayed: this .reportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportPath = "selected report path" ; this .reportViewer1.RefreshReport(); Is this a limitation of the control Is the only solution to re-create a ReportViewer control for each report to be displayed Thanks. Gidaye Beats me...I have the same problem. One Viewer and 2 different Reports, Two buttons on the form, One for each Report. If i use "viewer.reset", it tells me t ...Show All

• SQL Server One data source view and multiple data source

  Hi, In my datawarehouse we have different database one for dimensions and one for fact tables. can we create a cube to pull dimensions from one data soure and fact from other databsource Actually Analysis Services allows for having dimensions and parittions to come from different datasources. The caveat here is not to use different datasources to define your dimension. In such case Analysis Services might decide to use OPENROWSET clause as part of the query it sends during processing of dimension. This would slow you down considerably. But having partitions to come from different datasource should be perfectly fine. Run Profier to capture SQL queries Aanlysis Server sends during processing and verify you dont get OPE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to add Calender control to choose the date for the process template

  I have down loaded the process template and trying to customize the template. I have added 3 date fields to the Tasks.xml and uploaded the template < FIELD name = " Expected Start Date " refname = " Microsoft.VSTS.Common.ExpectedStartDate " type = " DateTime " reportable = " dimension " ></ FIELD > the field shows on the workitem template form and we can type in the date and the validation is working fine. Now I want to add a calender control so that the users can pick a date from. Is there any way I can add a function that shows the calender and when the user picks a date it will populate the date and timeto the Expected Start Date field that I mentioned before. Thanks ...Show All

• Smart Device Development window wista is more attaractive andwant to know about thread programming?

  is thread progarmming in windows wista is different from windows xp is it also same compiler win32 api for windows wista This forum is smart device development related. Since your question is not related to smart device development, it's off topic here. If you’re having a hardware issue, please contact hardware manufacturer or reseller. If you having an issue with 3rd party software, please contact respective software manufacturer or reseller. Otherwise please post to relevant forum or news group: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx Closing as off topic. ...Show All