dustinto's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team Project Creation fails

  I've just installed team foundation and I'm trying to create a team project, but it fails part way through with: Error TFS30170: the plugin Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.WorkItemTracking failed during task WITs from group WorkItemTracking. Explanation Plugin error text "Response is not well-formed XML" Any ideas of what could cause this Thanks, Dave No, nothing yet. I wo't be able to work on it until Monday since the server is at work, but if I find out anything before that I'll post it. Dave ...Show All

• Visual Basic Evaluate a string expression

  Say a textbox's text is (3*4) / 2 How could I evaluate that Or evaluate whatever is entered in the box If possible I want the result to be of type Decimal Thank you. http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/math_expression_evaluator.asp Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• SQL Server Recommendations please

  Hi all, I'm fairly new to Analysis Services. I've been working through Brian Larson's "Developing Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005" which has been a great starting point. I wonder if anyone can recommend a more advanced book which covers Analysis Services in more depth and/or acts as a reference manual. I'd also be interested to hear which front-end tools people have found most endearing. Thanks Hello Sean, I'd recommend the following two books to take you to the next level: (1) Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX (Programmer to Programmer) by Sivakumar Harinath and Stephen R. Quinn (Paperback - May 30, 2006) Amazon link: < http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Server-Analys ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Highlighting text

  How can I find the text within text box and highlight it For example: I write "text highlight" in text box and in other box I write "high" for searching in first box.   Thanks. ' This goes on the main form1: (If your form name is not 'Form1' and your richtextbox name is not 'Richtextbox1', change the references in the code below.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ' Form1 calls the hilight form Private Sub HighLightWordsToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles HighLightWordsToolStripMenuItem.Click My .Forms.hiliteForm.ShowDialog() ...Show All

• Visual C# NetworkStream doesn't support seeking

  I want to play sound from network stream. For playing sound i use directsound, but when i try to create SecondaryBuffer: try { ApplicationBuffer = new SecondaryBuffer ( this .netStream, ApplicationDevice); } catch ( Exception ex) { MessageBox .Show( ex.ToString()); } i'm getting error that netStream doesn't support seek operation. I know that property "Seek" of NetworkStream is ReadOnly... how can i work around this problem You can read a block from the NetworkStream and fill a buffer (byte array) with it, then you can use a MemoryStream to Stream a specific buffer piece to the SecundaryBuffer: byte [] networkBuffer = new byte [ 8192 ]; int bytesReaded = networkStream.Read(net ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can't run any projects - 'Cannot load file or assembly' error

  I'm trying to work my way through the XNA tutorials and have also tried running the SpaceWar Starter Kit but nothing will run. Instead, I get the following error on everything. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f48fa5f25d27e8ff' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. I'm using C# express on XP x64. Anyone I've just tried removing and reinstalling XNA and still get the same error (BadImageFormatException followed by the error posted above). ...Show All

• SQL Server Automating db Backups

  Is there a way to automate (schedule) backups of the databases in SQL Express Similar to Maintenance Plans in SQL2000.... I have a similar solution posted here that's not incredibly elegant but it works just fine. It goes through and backs up all databases in a given instance and there is an included batch file to schedule it. The video deployment instructions can be seen here: http://www.jumpstarttv.com/Media.aspx vid=30 or written instructions here: http://whiteknighttechnology.com/cs/blogs/brian_knight/archive/2006/08/13/215.aspx -- Brian ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting Error C3767.

  Getting Error C3767. It is really painful! I still can not access a method of Form1 from Form2 (MDI). (Visual C++ 2005 EE.) 1>Form2.cpp 1>.\Form2.cpp(14) : error C3767: 'SP_Analyzer_8::Form1::TestThis': candidate function(s) not accessible 1>AssemblyInfo.cpp 1>Generating Code... I have an example from Mr. Graus that compiles and runs error free. When I try that approach in my experiment program I got error C3767! "Relevant" code: In Form1.h: ... void TestThis(){ MessageBox::Show("Got here"); }; ... In Form2.h: ... private: System::Void button2_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e); ... In Form2.cpp: ... #include "StdAfx.h" #include "Form2.h" #include "Form1.h&q ...Show All

• .NET Development How does one send XML file to a IP address?

  Here is my simple problem. I've been contacted by my ex-client (I'm retired). Their customer has switch to a new database system. So the old method of sending reply data is not valid anymore. The customer told my ex-client send the data via XML. From what I understand XML is just a formating of the data, not a protocol of actually sending of data. They given me a IP address and said. Send the XML there. Their "help" consist of just this: <WebService(Namespace:=" http://microsoft.com/webservices/ ")> Public Class MyWebService ' implementation End Class I really don't have any interest in learning XML. However, it is not a problem to format the data so that it will be XML compliant. The problem I ha ...Show All

• Windows Forms Distributing MDAC 2.8 in my VS2005 deployment project

  I have used VS2005 to develop a deployment project. I have included MDAC 2.8 and Windows Installer 2.0 as prerequisites to be installed. When a user runs this setup on his PC, running WinXP Pro, SETUP determines that it needs to install MDAC 2.8. The install log file shows that it is finding MDAC version 2.71.9030.0 on her system. The installation log shows that setup runs the following command line to install MDAC 2.8: ' "\Temp\mdac28\mdac_typ.exe" /q:a /c:\"dasetup.exe /q /n\" ' The next lines in the log say: Process exited with code -2147467259 Status of package 'Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8 after install is 'InstallFailed' This computer is a stand-alone machine with no network connections, ...Show All

• Community Chat Interactive services

  Hi, I am using Visusal Studio 2005 Professional and developing a Winform application using Visual C#. My task is to developed a service, which will show a UI to user [according to date/time stored in MySQL database] and display information. Probably, I wish to add feature to update information displayed. Is it possible to create such service in visual C# for winform application I don't really have idea how to start with. Could anybody help Thanks You should post your C# related questions in the C# Forums : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx ForumGroupID=9&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Objects cannot be created by using Transact-SQL statement

  I can create a database or table or schema by using the (right click) context menu. This method is successful. When I use the Transact-SQL statement (query window) to create an object, after being executed the reply is: command(s) completed successfully. However, the object does not get created. Has anyone else had this issue Any ideas We are using the MSSQL 2005 Enterprise server eval edition. Thanks for your help. Did you try to create an object in the schema and check again :-) HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server Cascading query with parameters

  I need to get at some information and this is the only way I know how to do it but I need to run these queries in order and using the previous query output. I don't know how to set up the output parameters so they can be used in the second query and the second query results to be used in the third query. In a nutshell: The first query gets a number from a user as a parameter and pulls one record containing multiple fields. Some of those fields will be needed as parameters in the second query to pull mutltiple records. I need to put some where statements in to narrow down the result set. Then this part I haven't figured out either, but then the third query takes one record from the second result set and pulls mutliple records to put ...Show All

• Visual C++ std::locale loc(""); throws an exception

  I use std::locale variable loc initialized by empty string ( "" ). It should create user default locales. It works fine on most computers with all Windows OS. Unfortunatelly, on one (with Windows XP, I do not know other parameters) it throws an exception in line 345 (VS 2005) if (_Lobj._Getname().compare( " * " ) == 0) _THROW(runtime_error, "bad locale name"); Do somebody know under which conditions could request for "" locale could return locales with " * " name Thanks Hello Re: std::locale loc(""); throws an exception Such questions are outside the scope of this forum - for the scope of the VC General forum ...Show All

• SQL Server Calculated fields on olap pivottable in excel 2007

  Is there a way to add calculated fields in excel 2007 to a pivot table, connected to a SSAS cube Meaning that is calculated on the fly automatically while drilling up/down... I do not think so. The formulas button is disabled. Formulas have to be server side MDX calculated members. Same in Excel 2003 You will also note some other diffences like Grouping may require security access to cube metadata in order to work. Philippe ...Show All