oiTomas's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions unable to install vb 2005

  Hi, I encountered a problem while installing vb express. the error message is "A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Cancelling setup." attached is the log from the dd file in %temp% dir. [10/09/06,10:12:10] setup.exe: [2] CSetupManager::GetLibraryAndGUID() - Failed to Initialize [10/09/06,10:12:10] setup.exe: [0] CSetupManager::LoadSetupObjectName(), CoLoadLibrary failure: vsbasereqs.dll,{a67b1e72-f530-4d0f-bef3-b4cea450c1a3} [10/09/06,10:12:11] setup.exe: [2] CSetupManager::GetLibraryAndGUID() - Failed to Initialize [10/09/06,10:12:11] setup.exe: [0] CSetupManager::LoadSetupObjectName(), CoLoadLibrary failure: vs70uimgr.dll [10/09/06,10:12:11] setup.exe: [0] LoadUIManager(), LoadSetupObject ...Show All

• SQL Server Stored procedure execution report or statistic, is there any?

  Hello, I have too many procedures and wanted to do some clean-up, I am sure that I can drop many obsolete procedures accumulated over time and over developers. I was looking into the database report "object execution statistics" in an attempt to find out which procedures are used or not. This report seems to be very helpful however I am under the impression that it does not quite tell me what I want to know. It lists only based on cached plans for objects in the database. Is there any out of the box or not too time consuming way to report a list of procedures not ran in the last n weeks or months or the opposite, what procedures have been ran in the last n weeks/months. Regards, Philippe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sandcastle - Please consider allowing richer formatting in documentation

  Hi there, I've seen the developers behind Sandcastle seem to be very active here so I thought I may make a request - something I'm sure is wanted by others (albeit perhaps indirectly). My employer is considering enforcing a set format for comments for each class with this  information. Class Name (covered implicitly by Sandcastle) Description (covered by <summary>) Date Created Authors (possibly list) Revision Table with these headings Date of change Issue reference number Developer whom made change Reviewer of change Summary sentence of change made I've argued for the fact that these things should be covered by the source repository - and they've agreed but want this stuff at the top of class headers too - as we are curre ...Show All

• SQL Server Binding dataset to a reportviewer control

  Hi, I need to bind my custom dataset, which i retrieve by executing some query to a reportviewer control. I don't want to create a typed dataset in the application. Is there any way to do it The dataset that i bind will be built in a seperate class. If I plan to use a Object Data source, what are the steps to follow. Pls help. thanks, Saravanan Hi Robert, Thanks for the reply. I already read through that article. What i really need is to bind a dataset ( which i create in my application) to be bound to the report viewer. The dataset will have some columns from the database ( thro a select query), some columns may be added by me. I want to bind this custom dataset to the report viewer contr ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Device Emulator COM port problems

  I'm using Pocket PC 2003 device emulator v8.0.50727.42 and am trying to use the COM ports by mapping them to COM1 of my PC I can successfully create a handle for serial port 0 (COM1) or serial port 2 (COM3), but it fails for serial port 1 (COM2 ). In addition if I try and write to serial port 0 I get the first byte out of my PC COM port but then my application on the emulator appears to block on the call to WriteFile. If I click on the emulator frame a few more bytes get sent and then it blocks again. If I write to serial port 2 the application appears to successfully send the data i.e. no block this time, but nothing comes out of my PC COM port. I've run the application on a HP Pocket PC using it's COM1 port and the application works fine ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Learning Curve Factor - What do you use?

  I need to estimate testing time for a project. We are going to use VSTS (we have the whole suite) to drive this project. What do most of you use as a learning curve factor I would like to estimate our testing time on this project my normal way then multiply it by whatever for our Team System learning curve. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks MU Mary, That is a very tough questions and the answer is it really depends but I will take a stab for you. From my expirence I have found that customers who are already proficient at creating unit, web and load tests in other tools can be proficient in using our solution in a couple of weeks. This of course also depends on how much time you have to devote to learning the new ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can't see ComboBox Items bound to XmlDataProvider

  I have a ComboBox bound to an XmlDataProvider. The drop down looks like it has all the rows but the items aren't visible. Can anyone help me with this <XmlDataProvider x:Key="CodeTableCache" XPath="/perform_batch_result"> <x:XData> <perform_batch_result> <tabular_select_result result_name="req_status"> <row> <attr> <name>req_status.occurrence_type</name> <value>R</value> </attr> <attr> <name>req_status.req_status</name> <value>TEST4</value> </attr> </row> </tabular_select_result> </perform_batch_result> </x:XData> </X ...Show All

• Customer Care Framework MS Customer Care Framework

  Hi, I have a MSDN CD released on May 2006 which has below mentioned softwares Biztalk Server 2004 ISA Server 2004 Exchange Server 2003 ISA 2004 SP4 Customer Care Framework Connected Services Framework 2.5 Host Integration Server 2004 Identity Integration Server 2003 with SP1 Office Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 Office Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 MOM 2005 with SP1 Speech Server 2004 R2 SMS 2003 with SP1 System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 Out othese i am trying to install Customer Care Framework and evaluate it. But in the CD i can find only installables for CCF app demos. I am not able to find any installables for CCF in the CD. But i can see developer edition for Biztalk server, CMS etc. Can anyone provide me ho ...Show All

• Visual C# Data trasnfer between forms

  Hi, I don't know how to transfer data between my two forms. I have one form, that when clicked opens up a second form full of different bitmaps. Then on the second form, once you click a bitmap I want the number of that bitmap to show up on the first "parent" form. I have everything done, but the part that stumps me, is how to transfer that number from my second form to my first. Can anyone provide a sample code snippet of how to do that Hi, in the second form put something like private int bitmapSelected = -1; // invalid value public int BitmapSelected {     get { return bitmapSelected; } } private void pictureBox1_Click( object sender, EventA ...Show All

• SQL Server How do I move my database?

  I am using VWD 2005 Express, with SQL 2005 Express. My web hosting company supports ASP 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, but have put SQL on a database server, which is separate from the application server. I successfully published a "Hello world" test application, but my database application failed after displaying the logon page, presumably when it first tried to connect to the database. VWD has created my database within the application folder ( app \App_Data\ASPNETDB.MDF) and created the configuration string in web.config: - < add name = " ConnectionString " connectionString = " Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\ASPNETDB.MDF;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True " pr ...Show All

• .NET Development Timer not firing at set rate...

  I set up a timer for my basic form. The only problem is that it only fires at 30 times per second. I would like it to fire at 60 times per second so I set it's interval to 15 milliseconds but still fires 30 times per second. Anybody know why Excuse me if it is basically obvious. Thanks, Devin Which Timer are you using Keep in mind that the Timers have different "ticks" in a sense, so it's possible you just picked a timer which does not have a small enough tick. In addition, there is only so much time the OS will give your application to run, perhaps your attempted ticks are more frequent than this ...Show All

• SQL Server insert only time in sql server database

  hi, i want to insert only time in my sql server database.but when m try to insert time in database it takes time+default date. i want to eliminate this default date. plz any one know this then tell me. Regards, shruti. If you use SQL Enterprise Manager and enter just a time in a datetime column, it does indeed just show the time when you open the table. If you select the data using SQL Query Analyzer, it show the date portion is December 31, 1899. This is really just a quirk in whatever application you're using to display the data. ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection Strings

  I have created a SSIS package, and got it to perform as I want. I am having a problem though with connecting to my data source (OLE DB Source) using SQL Server Authentication. If I use Integrated security, I have no problems. If I use SQL Server Authentication, I get errors. Here is the connection string that works: Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Data Source=.\SqlExpress;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=MyDataBase Here is the connection string that fails: Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Data Source=.\SqlExpress;Persist Security Info=True;Password=**********;User ID=myUserid;Initial Catalog=MyDataBase The strange thing is that when I use the Connection Manager dialog screen and click on "Test Connection", I get the response t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What's the proper way of documenting our code?

  In the past I have used Java and and placed header comments in my code so that javadoc could produce excellent documentation from the code. I have also use something called doxygen to document my C++ code to produce similar documentation for C/C++ code. From using Visual Studio 2005, I can tell you guys are doing or planning on something similar with .NET code. In VB.NET, when I type three consecutive ''', it automatically generates header comments. Same with C# when I type three consecutive ///. Unfortunately, C++/CLI doesn't have this feature. From the project settings, I can get Visual Studio 2005 to generate an XML document from these header comments.  But this XML document is not very useful as a form of AP ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Super Stickman Adventures (source included)

  After doing some spriting, here's a "new" game, Super Stickman Adventures. I'll let you guess what type of a clone it is.. It includes 5 levels, some enemies, and a whole lot of bananas ! (I hope donkey kong won't kick my ***) Keyboard controls : arrows, shift, space, enter Gamepad controls: left stick, x, a, start Download/Screenshots - HERE If someone would like to contribute with their own graphics/sounds/music, just email me. Have fun! Minimum Requirements Quote: "The minimum supported is Shader Model 1.1. nVidia started with this in the GeForce 3 series, in February 2001, and ATI with Radeon 8500 from 2001. in If your card says DirectX 8.0 support on the box, then it's Shader Model 1.1." ...Show All