We're investigating software configuration management products that integrate with Visual Source Safe, and all I have experience with PVCS Tracker.... I know Rational ClearCase is also popular, and I see a zillion others out there... was wondering what anyone could recommend, we're looking for something that's focused on the software development effort, for bug tracking and dev team communication that allows you to enter and update bugs and bug tracking info, and hopefully have some integration ability with VSS.... Is there a recognized favorite out there...??? thanks...

Couldn't find a better place to post the question, feel free to direct me to a better place... Needing to automate our application testing using a keystroke/mouseclick recorder for playing back user events.... I thought there was something called Microsoft Test, but can't find any info on it... Does Microsoft still makes something like this...??? If not, can someone suggest a popular automated testing tool for recording user events for playback...??? thanks

I'm developing a simple intranet site for my company that will use Integrated Windows Authentication (NTLM) for authentication, to allow user access. I'd like to customize what the user sees on the start page based on his membership in a particular network user group... For example, members of the Accounting group don't need to see a button for viewing "Open helpdesk issues", but members of the IT group do... I see where web.config files can limit acess to a particular directory or page, but I'm interested in being able to turn on/off things like menu items and hyperlinks for a given page based on a user's privileges... Is there a standard way of implementing this type of functionality in .NET...??? Thanks for any help or suggestions....

Thanks for the reply... So it's standard practice to install these components on both the development machine and the server...??? I can't understand why you'd install IIS on your development machine when it's already installed on the web server on your network... I can point my dev environment to the virtual dir on the web server so I'd be interested in knowing what I'd gain by doing this... I'm more interested in the proper location of the asp.net and mdac.... thanks for any further explanation.... vince

I'm transitioning into asp.net developmnent and need to properly install asp.net and mdac... IIS is already installed on a server on the network. Development will be done on a seperate development pc connected to the network using VS.NET. sorry for the dumb question, but do asp.net and mdac get installed on the web server or the development machine...?? Looked around on the microsoft site for an overview of how this is done, but had no luck... The development pc has vs.net 2003 and .net framwork 1.1 currently installed. Just don't know where to install asp.net and mdac 2.7 thanks for the help

thanks for the reply... as it turns out, that's exactly what I ended up doing

I have a C# Windows form app with its own installer... I'd like the installer to create several empty subfolders below the install dir that will hold data that will be created by the app... how can this be done...?? thanks, vince

I'm finishing up development of a network file backup application consisting of a C# Windows form app and a windows service. Both the form app and the windows service exist in seperate solutions, and each one is built with its own installer. Works fine. I'd like to be able to deploy both components together in a single installer, but I'm not sure about the best way to go about it... I was thinking about adding an installer project for the service to the form project, or possibly combining the two solutions somehow, but I'm really just shooting in the dark at this point... I'm probably making this a lot harder than it really is.. Would appreciate any suggestions or resources for packaging both solutions into one installer... thanks, vince .. .

Is there an easy way to determine which radio button in a group has been chosen, besides having to put code in the checkchanged or clicked event for each button in the group...??? thanks, vince

I'm new to xml docs, and I'm trying to use a third party .NET lib that came with an xml doc file... would like to be able to access the help but can't find info on how to do this... I've added the project to my solution, and I've verified that the xml file exists in the location specified by the projects output dir... built the solution but nothing appears in dynamic help for the project/lib... What am I doing wrong..??? thanks for any help.. vince .

I need the ability to get/set permission attributes, such as the ones you get when you right click Properties/Security tab for a given file or dir in file manager... How can this be done programmatically in .NET...??? thanks,

Thanks a again for the help.... That's basically how I've coded my main and child form, but still no luck... As I said before, there's nothing special about either of the forms, main is a treeview/listview pair with a "settings" button that launches a child form... child form contains various controls (textboxes, buttons, monthcalendar control, status bar), and the only custom constructor (if you can call it that) accepts a string that is used to initialize a textbox... Thanks for any other suggestions... vince

thanks for the reply... I tried using Form.Show()and it had no effect, still couldn't access the parent form without closing the child dialog... any other ideas...??? There's nothing special about the app, can't understand why it won't let me shift focus to the parent.... thanks for any more help, vince

Don't see a form property that will allow me to leave a form open while accessing the parent form... how is this functionality achieved...??? thanks, vince

Nick, thanks for the clarification... I'll be trying it out soon...

thanks for the reply.... so I could do something like: "\\\\192.168.1.1\\myshare\\dir\file.txt" ??? thanks for your input..

MSDN help says you can use a UNC path for any methods that accept a path, and I'm wondering if I can also substitute an IP address for the UNC....??? Example: Using System.IO.File.Move() File.Move("\\\\MyServer\\share\\dir\\myfile.txt", "\\\\YourServer\\share\\dir\\myfile.txt"); Should I also be able to use IP address like this?: File.Move("http://192.168.1.1\\share\\dir\\myfile.txt", "http://192.166.1.3\\share\\dir\\myfile.txt"); thanks for your input... vince

would like to change/modify the appearance of the tab page label text... all tabpage properties related to this are for the items in the tabpage itself, not for the label... thanks for any help. vince

yes, I had added some declarations between the namespace declaration and the windows-generated form class declaration... once I moved those out, the problem went away...

Look at the reply from "furty" above, this was my problem... I had declared something before the windows generated class, and the problem went away when I moved it further down in the source file... hope this helps...