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• Visual Studio Team System Maintaining multiple versions that existed before TFS migration

  All, One of the biggest reasons we are moving to TFS is to take advantage of the branching/merging functionality to support maintenance on releases while simultaneously developing the next version. For example, we will be doing bug fixes on a 1.0 branch while doing development for 2.0 in the trunk (or mainline). As you know, this will allow us to merge the bug fixes back into the trunk so we don't have the same bugs in 2.0. All of that is great, and we are looking forward to it. However... What if we already have versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 At some point, we copied our 1.0 repository (VSS) and began doing development for 1.1. And then, at some point, we copied our 1.1 repository and began doing development for 1.2. This obviously ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions window.h not found ?

  Hi: I've now been programming for almost a year with CodeBlocks and decided to switch to VisualC++ as I joined a team that is using it. So I install it and try to create a blank project: everything ok. The I add this line: #include <windows.h> Compiler says that the file does not exist so I copy window.h to the VC++ include folder along with all the other headers i had in the CodeBlocks include folder. I try to compile again and here's what i get: 1>------ Build started: Project: myOwn, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1>Compiling... 1>myOwn.cpp 1>e:\applications\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\winnt.h(3035) : warning C4103: 'e:\applications\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\winnt.h' : alignment changed after in ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game State Class - Sharing Information

  I'm using the default XNA game template for the time being, as I'm not intimate with C# yet. I'm trying to set up a game state stack, using a class derived from the game class. The GameState class has UpdateMe and DrawMe functions that basically call protected methods Update and Draw in the Game part of the inherited class. I also have a gameState handler class that has a stack of GameState objects that it keeps track of, etc. If I use this encapsulated method of game states, how do I share information between game states. For instance, if I have a menu screen that shows character info, how do I share the character's stats between the main game state and the menu state. I figured using static class members was a bit crude, but I'm unsure o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Environments Question

  From watching the "Walkthrough" web cast and what I understand - when I have a DB solution set up with CTP6 Use local instance of SQL for dev - deploy changed scripts here and test When if comes to deciding what to promote (Dev to Test) - If I understood video correctly - I do a Schema compare of my DEV DB and TEST DB and will get a script file to either save or run My questions are: If there are 2 to many developers, every day I should get latest from VSS from inside Vis Studio project - can I really trust that everything I'm getting should be part of the update to my local DB Isn't it possible even myself I could have written test function that works for what I needed it to do but didn't really mean it to be ...Show All

• .NET Development Sockets and refusing connections from clients on the server?

  Hi, I have an asynchronus socket server compiled as a windows service this works fine with my client application. What I would like to do is refuse connections from clients that are not 'known' about by the service. This is too prevent unauthorised machines from using the service. I'm using TCP sockets btw. I figure on providing the service a list of machine names or IP Addresses (the clients are all using static IPs) that are permitted to connect and do stuff with the service, after logging into the service with a username and password. So for example: if I only allow PCXYZ to connect to the server then if PCABC tried to connect it would be disconnected immediately. Problem is that I can't see how to retrieve the IP address or ho ...Show All

• Windows Forms Undo Changes in Property Grid

  I suppose this is a two part question... There are a couple properties that I do not wish to change within a property grid. Or if the user wishes I would like to undo changes made to the property grid. Normally, I would ignore changes for individual properties within a Property_Changing event set e.Cancel to true. This solution does not work. Any suggestions When I want to revert to the settings before the property grid is opened what should I do this is how what I have now but does not work. This could be an issue with the ScatterPlot's behaviour as well. private void customizeToolStripMenuItem_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { ScatterPlot tmpScatterPlot = this .scatterPlot1.Clone() as ScatterPlot ; usi ...Show All

• .NET Development Reflection

  Hi, What is Reflection What is use and where i can use it Any example pls Thanks Seshu Reflection is a fature of .Net through which you can find information about assemblies. Get types contained in the assembly, Get Meta data embedded in that assembly etc. Reflection is achieved through a huge number classes present in System.Reflection namespace for different purposes. Reflection is also used to refrence and use assembly programmatically at run time. You can load an assembly at run time using Assembly.Load and then we can get Attributes of loaded assembly, access meta data, List all classes in the assembly then methods in each assembly etc. Its a huge huge topic to cover here. It was just a definition of Reflection and yo ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 FTP Security Issue

  I have run into a security hole in my ftp site that has only now become a problem with IE7. The structure of my ftp directory involes several streaming media folders and a Client folder in the root directory. The contents of the client folder and its children are all password protected. Inside these folders I upload content for my clients to view approvals and allow them to upload files for my own use. The root directory has read-only permissions for everybody because of the streaming content I am hosting. In the past when a client logs into their ftp folder, the password protected nature of the client folder prevents them from moving up in the hierarchy outside of their folder. In IE7 however, I have found that a client can now leave he ...Show All

• SQL Server Certain numeric fields not read from the Excel file when using a Excel file source.

  I have the Excel Connection Manager and Source to read the contents from an Excel file. For some reason couple of numeric fields from the Excel worksheet are brought over as nulls even though they have a value of 300 and 150. I am not sure why this is happening. I looked into the format of the fields and they are set to General in Excel, I tried setting them to numeric and that did not help. All the other content from the excel file is coming thru except for the 2 numeric fields. I tried to bring the contents from the excel source to a text file in csv format and for some reason the 2 numeric fields came out as blank. Any inputs on getting this addressed will be much appreciated. Thanks, Manisha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Code generation based on checked nodes within a treeview.

  All WizardPages I have seen as examples use textboxes from which GAT extracts argument values, although I need a different approach. In a WizardPage I have a treeview with dynamic filled items. I would like to create class files for every item that has been selected. Later on I also want to create class properties for every sub-item that has been selected. Lets only tacle the class generation, and so take a list of animals as an example: -Cat -Mouse -Horse -.... In the Wizard, the user can select one or more items by using checkboxes. So if they select a Cat and Horse it would generate the classes: Class Cat { // Todo: Code to write manually } and Class Mouse { // Todo: Code to write manually } -- Is it possible to create a class file ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can I unsign a ClickOnce manifest

  Without breaking the projects and having to reinstall the app. Could you send me that utility also I've tried calling MS support without being able to get through to a person for 30 minutes, and I've got hundreds of clients who are going to be affected by this problem on Monday if I don't fix it this weekend. jeremyh@leverance.com ...Show All

• SQL Server Trouble unistalling the SQL Server 2005 Express that come with Visual Studio 2005

  Hi There I'm having trouble unistalling an install of SQL Server that was added when I installed Visual Studio 2005. When I try to install Sql Dev edition it gives me this stupid message about running a cleanup wizard from the CD but the Visual Studio CD does't have one! Has anyone got any better ideas Regards Andy I finally fixed it by uninstalling Visual studio and installing the SQL 2005 Developers edition then reinstalling Visual studio. I think SQL Developers had a problem with the released version of the .Net Framework version 2, once that was removed it worked. After the SQL Developers install Visual Studio wouldn't install until I removed the framework that SQL installed ...Show All

• SQL Server Printing in MSRS - Riddle

  Is it possible to schedule a report to print to a specific printer, that would work on a schedule the way an email subscription does Thanks!! Go back to setup and install the samples. The sample printer delivery extension is installed by default in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Samples\Reporting Services\Extension Samples\PrinterDelivery Sample ...Show All

• Windows Forms address/URL bar in Internet Explorer ?

  Hello ... I need to help me about IE toolbars . I mean the address toolbar which it come with IE, I want develop new one - address toolbar - with special option for my business, then repeals the new one I develop it with old one which is come with IE . I need some options like: when our users enter the domain name at the address bar, it is send the request with domain - which user entered it - to our Reflector Servers then we reply to the address bar - which send request - with an other domain, then IE complete its steps normally . Pleas help me with any thing you thing related with this problem like ( books,forums,sites,...) . Many thanks . Mohd ...Show All

• Windows Forms Language of MessageBox

  I write in VB.NET with VS2005. I would like to change the displaying language of my message box. How could I change the displaying language of a message box e.g. Dim Message As String = "You did not enter a server name. Cancel this operation " Dim Caption As String = "Error Detected in Input" Dim Buttons As MessageBoxButtons = MessageBoxButtons.YesNo MessageBox.Show(Message, Caption, Buttons) The message box of the above code shows two buttons, "Yes" and "No" in my computer. What I want is to have "Yes" and "No" translated into some localized languages. For example, "Yes" -> "Oui" for French, "Yes" -> "是" for Chinese. ...Show All