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• Visual Studio Team System Needed IIS and NTFS Permissions

  Good day! Knowing me I've probably missed something, but after installing TFS the two admins (myself included) are the only ones who can connect. Being somewhat familiar with IIS and NTFS Permissions (actually just enough to be dangerous) we noticed that <machine-name>\Administrator, <machine-name>\IIS_WPG, and SYSTEM are the only users/groups who have have access to "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Web Services" directory. Should a group like <domain>\Domain Users also have access If so, any idea at what level and why the install would not have set this for us Thanks! We just setup a new DEV and PROD system and had to do the same thing again. The machine ...Show All

• .NET Development ? .Net2: ChannelServices.RegisterChannel is obsolete - So what SHOULD I use ?

  I have this line of code in a .Net 2 program:             System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.ChannelServices.RegisterChannel( new TcpChannel( INCOMING_PORT ) ); This gives a warning: 'System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.IChannel)' is obsolete: 'Use System.Runtime.Remoting.ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(IChannel chnl, bool ensureSecurity) instead.' The thing is, as far as I can see, System.Runtime.Remoting.ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(IChannel chnl, bool ensureSecurity) doesn't exist! What should I do Oh...now I see. The a nnoying message disappeared... thks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Trial Expired, Microsoft Partner and I can't get the VS2005 Edition

  Title summarizes the issue. I am hoping that someone can suggest a fix or resolution to this other than Microsoft because I've hit a brick wall with their Partner support. So please help...... We are a Certified Partner with ISV Competency. As such, we should receive the VS2005 Team Edition for Developers. Those discs have never been sent to us. Recently my trial started warning me and we looked through the stack of discs to find out we do not have the new discs yet. So I contacted our ISV Partner Account Manager and he opened up a support case to send the discs. I have received the shipment but the discs were not in there. Since then I've contacted the support line for Certified Partners and was informed that the discs had ...Show All

• .NET Development Retrieving a managed object instance id

  I've been trying to find a way to retrieve an object instance id or an object address from a managed object. Is this possible using managed code, using the 2.0 BCL Thanks, Paul. I knew about pinning and using GCHandle but I did want to resort to that. I wasn't actually trying to do anything special with an obj-id. Simply, I'm just completing our Eiffel snippet library, for out integration into VS2005, and I was implementing an "Indenified trace" snippet, where tracing the type (class) name an method (feature) name is not enough. I wanted a snippet as compact and as eifficent as possible. We've actually been after a object id for our own BCL but has to resort to another means of tracking. One can ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can't get Image Source property to work.

  Hi, I don't seem to be able to load images in WPF using the <Image Source="myImage.bmp"/> xaml syntax. I have tried using the images as both resources and content and as neither. I have read everything I can find on the matter and no-one else seems to be having this trouble. This is even happening with sample code that I haven't modified. As an example: When I try to compile the code for the WPF sample called wordgame1 and then click on the design window I get an error message saying "Images\Start.Gif" cannot be assigned to "Source". The offending line is < Image Source = " Images\Start.gif " Height = " 300 " Width = " 300 " HorizontalAlignment = " Cent ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to Pass a Variable to an Expression in the ReportViewer

  Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is possible, but I want to set an expression for the Visibility tab of a table that I have in a local RDLC report to check the value of a variable. Basically, I have a boolean variable, PrintSysInfo that is set in the Public Module of my solution: Public PrintSysInfo As Boolean = False I refer to it in another form where it can be set to True or False. When my report runs, I want to have this particular table show up only if PrintSysInfo is True. I was hoping to be able to go into the Visibility tab of the table, set it to Expression and then put in something like: =iif(PrintSysInfo = True, False, True) But if I put this in there and then try to run my code, I get the following e ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting Application Theme/ColorTable

  Hi all, In my project, I want to use WinXP theme with blue color schema whatever user's machine color schema ( if user enabled WinXP theme ). It is easy to setup blue color schema for menustrip, toolstrip, etc. with the helps of custom Professional ColorTable. I have used reflection to get values of AreteOutlookCustomColorTable properties. However I need that all controls' of application with blue schema colors. How can I do this ToolStripManager.Renderer = new ToolStripProfessionalRenderer(new AreteControls.OutlookStyleItems.AreteOutlookCustomColorTable()); using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Drawing; namespace AreteControls.OutlookStyleItems { /// <summary> ...Show All

• Visual Studio Data Break Problem

  I created an app like this: int _tmain( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { float a,b,c; (breakpoint) c=0; a=.23; b=.45; c=a+b; (breakpoint) cout<< "Hi there!" ; return 0; } So when I hit the first break point, I set a data breakpoint when "&c" changes in the C language with 4 bytes (default). And yet it only stops on the cout line, not on the c=a+b line... What's wrong here Each time you start your program all data breakpoints are initially disabled (as the memory in question does not yet 'exist' or at least is not active). Therefore you must re-enable them each time you start the program - I do this by having a regular breakpoint in my program before the point ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista pesky DLM file

  I've inadvertantly downloaded the 5536 build vista as a DLM file when i'd obviously would prefer it in .iso format. When i click on the file i get the manditory "windows cannot read this file, shall we look it up on the net instead " and the programs it comes up with are of no use to me what so ever! is there any good program that reads this format i've been told it's a download manager file, but how do i get that and if it's a standard download then y doesn't windows bring it up when it consults the internet or should i cut my losses and wait for 5600 renaming my .dlm did not result in an image that daemon tools could handle. checking the box did nothing either - it just keeps saying &qu ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++/CLI constructors initialization sequence

  Hi all, I’ve been translating a C# program to C++/CLI and I saw something that I thought It might or introduce unpredicted results to my code. A virtual method was called from inside a base class. That was enough motivation for me to debug the code, and actually find out that it was the virtual method of the derived class which was actually called from the constructor of the base class! During this debugging session though, I also discovered that the constructor of the base class is called AFTER any initialization of the member variables of the derived class! I’ve searched for some info for constructing objects in .NET, and I only found this in my first attempts. Do not call virtual members on a ...Show All

• Visual C++ Experts please - Function problem

  Is there a function/header for executing a line of code from a string You might ask what this is for, it is for a dll wrapper. So i need to execute custom code which changes at runtime. Any ideas Thanks for any help provided. Regards, I am extending this '2-data-type-program' using dlls, the program is for making games and doesn't support things like common controls. So i need to call this dll with common controls which is simple but the problem is that the program calling the dll has only to types of veriables: real/integers and string wereas this dll needs handle values. So we put a dll between them that ie: converts an integer into a handle and then call the common control dll. Look making this in simpler terms: i nee ...Show All

• .NET Development accessing a properties PropertyInfo

  I want to access a property's PropertyInfo without knowing it's name, I can do this if an accessor invokes another method via putting the following code in the invoked method. string caller = new StackTrace.GetFrame(1).GetMethod().Name; string pName = caller.Name.SubString(caller.Name.IndexOf('_')); PropertyInfo info = <this>.GetType().GetProperty(pName); As a result the same method can be readily invoked by accessors of different properties and the method can do its work based on the property name, type, custom attributes etc But I also want to do something similar in an associated method that is not invoked by an accessor - but by a method in another class, which has an instance of the properties declaring class. If I were ta ...Show All

• Visual C++ urlmon.lib

  How does one import this library into an application longwood Thanks. I wrote this simple program: #include "stdafx.h" #include <afxinet.h> int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { HRESULT h = URLDownloadToFile(NULL, "www.google.com", "C:\\google.html", 0, NULL); printf("HRESULT = %d\n", h); } but it does not work. The output is: HRESULT = -2146697203 I did try changing the "www.google.com" to "http://www.google.com", but it still does not work. longwood ...Show All

• SQL Server LS: Why are LS support procs duplicated in both master and MSDB?

  Hello, Just a question born of curiosity: why are the 2005 log shipping procs duplicated in both master and msdb For example, sp_help_log_shipping_monitor exists in identical form as a proc in msdb, and also in master (as opposed to say, a synonym). Is there any reason for this Just thought it strange... Cheers Rob ...Show All

• Visual C# error CS0016

  I'm trying to run the csc command on a server. One user works, but I can't get any other user to work. I've tried giving the other users admistrative rights, but still no luck. The user that does work logs in against the machine and not against the company domain. I can not find any other differences. Why can't any user run this The command is like csc.exe /target:library /out:D:\DEVTEST\cc_keys.dll /reference:D:\DEVTEST\library.dll cc\src\Class1.cs Microsoft (R) Visual C# 2005 Compiler version 8.00.50727.42 for Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 2005 Framework version 2.0.50727 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2001-2005. All rights reserved. error CS0016: Could not write to output 'd:\devtest\cc_keys.dll' -- 'The direct ...Show All