Silver Haired Newby's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System TF42056: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object

  I have installed Team Foundation Build on Windows 2003 Standard Edition inside a Virtual Machine running on Virtual Sever 2005 R2. I have confirmed that the Team Build Service is running. When connecting from a client machine and a build is started the following error occurs: TF42056: The build service could not connect to the Team Foundation Server: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object. I have enabled the trace logger at level 4 (the default), and the connection request is logged but no error is written. What would be causing this and where can I look for more ideas Sorry Buck, The contract finished and I'm no longer there. I believe it was caused by the build services account not having privleges in the TFS & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem using RegisterHotKey in VC++

  Using a code with a RegisterHotKey i get those error messages in linking : 1>------ Build started: Project: les_hotkeys, Configuration: stf Win32 ------ 1>Compiling... 1>les_hotkeys.cpp 1>Linking... 1>les_hotkeys.obj : error LNK2028: unresolved token (0A00000E) "extern "C" int __stdcall RegisterHotKey(struct HWND__ *,int,unsigned int,unsigned int)" ( RegisterHotKey@@$$J216YGHPAUHWND__@@HII@Z) referenced in function "private: void __clrcall les_hotkeys::Form1::button1_Click(class System::Object ^,class System::EventArgs ^)" ( button1_Click@Form1@les_hotkeys@@$$FA$AAMXP$AAVObject@System@@P$AAVEventArgs@4@@Z) 1>les_hotkeys.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "extern "C&quo ...Show All

• Visual C# File.Move(string1, string2) error

  System.NotSupportedException was unhandled Message="The given path's format is not supported." Source="mscorlib" StackTrace: at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CanonicalizePath(String path, Boolean needFullPath) at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CreateListFromExpressions(String[] str, Boolean needFullPath) at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPathList(FileIOPermissionAccess access, AccessControlActions control, String[] pathListOrig, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath, Boolean copyPathList) at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission..ctor(FileIOPermissionAccess access, String[] pathList, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath) at System.IO.F ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Building dynamic forms in Access

  I need to make dynamic forms in access. For example i have a query that selects a user and 3 jobs he has. So the result in the query has 3 lines. Now i want for those 3 lines 3 different textboxes. Is this possible in VBA or not I already searched the help of access it self and i cant find anything about it. thx for your help in advance. look up parameter queries with forms on the microsoft knowledge base - link your front end forms to the query at the back end and let the user input the information in to the form that will then write into the query behind and produce the information you require on to a form dynamically - i have used it a heck of a lot when building the new company database and ...Show All

• Visual Studio what is phoenix?

  having heard Phoenix for the first time, can somebody help with these basic questions... exactly what is Phoenix where can I get its tutorial and why is it placed in Visual Studio section regards, Sumit Dagar hi Yan Xu not possible for me to attend the conference due to its location. It there's something like this in India then I will surely be there. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Invisible Sprite parts

  Can I make it so that a certain color of a sprite, like red or blue, is invisible where the rest o the sprite can be seen, whithout just making it the background color I personally use Photoshop or paint.net for my sprites and add the transperancy layer to it. I have also used these in the past to draw sprites that are opaque, ie for use in shadows. I have posted a simple sprite lib for a Pong game that uses the shadow effect. ...Show All

• SQL Server Output Data Bandwidth Standards?

  All: One of the new tests that we are running have to do with load testing an application with a constrained network pipe. I like this. One of my beefs has been related to stored procedures that return bloated result sets. This new set of tests potentially gives me some more amunition to use when I review stored procedures. A piece that I would like to produce as a result of this has to do with establishing an output bandwidth standard for our database servers. I have a few biased ideas but I would like to know if any of you have any similar pre-existing standards along this line. Any help Dave What we have found is that the toughest test is when bandwidth is constrained to a 128Kbps pipe. Ho ...Show All

• Visual Basic User logged in from LDAP

  Is there any way to get the current user name who logged in from LDAP I have a local account called 'remote' and all LDAP users log in to the system using this local user.   So every time I try to read the current logged in user it returns the local user which is 'remote' Actually I tried that but the same thing it returns the same thing which is the current local user. ...Show All

• Visual C++ When to use deprecated strcpy function

  Hi, Wat are the cases where in we have to use strncpy or some othr deprecated function for strcpy in VC++ 8. Does these cases need using the deprecated functions char buffer[200]; char* dest; strcpy(dest,buffer); and strcpy(( char *) pTarget, ( const char *) m_strPhoneNumber) Please suggest me on this Thanks & Regards, There are many better ways for the vast majority of cases than deprecating standard functions. You'll lose portability, strcpy_s is not a standard function. There's almost never a useful way to recover from a situation that you didn't anticipate (and yes I do think standardizing logic_error was a poor decision). I think any reputable developer I've ever talked to about t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System session timeout

  I want a page to automatically log out after a specified time period(session timeout).How can this be achieved.Can I do this by increasing the think time or can I set the session timeout property.If so how can this be achieved. Thanks, tester There are a few ways to space out requests. you can use thinktime to slow down requests. You can also set the time between test iteration property on the scenario of a load test. This proerpty is in seconds and will pause a user for the number of seconds specified prior to starting another test. Also the session timeout should happen even in new users are sending requests. Another property you may want to set is the % new users on the scenario node of a load test. If you set this to ...Show All

• .NET Development MFC exe Crashes with /clr option

  I have a MFC app that was developed with VC++ 2003 7.1 . I have now upgraded to VC++ 2005 8.0. Eventually I plan on using a Windows Form Control and hosting it on existing dialog. This exe is located on a remote computer (intranet) and I am executing from my computer. 1) First I compiled the project in 2005 and fixed a few errors and am able to compile/run with seemingly no problems 2) I turned on the /clr option and fixed what ever problems and now am able to compile with no errors 2a) now when I run I get a crash. My project settings are: <Tool Name="VCCLCompilerTool" Optimization="0" AdditionalIncludeDirectories=""$(SolutionDir)\common\include";" ...Show All

• SQL Server Flat File Source Problem...

  I have a weird thing happening. I have an .csv file. When I try to load it into a table, I can do it easily in DTS 2000. But when I am trying to do it in SSIS 2005 with exactly the same settings (like Text qualifier, row delimiter etc.), I am getting an error: "The last row in the sampled data is incomplete. The column or the row delimiter may be missing or the text is qualified incorrectly." I looked at the file and it looks complete to me. What could be the problem P.S. DTS 2000 is on 32-bit Windows, and SSIS 2005 is on 64-bit Windows 2003 . Could that we a problem It is true that the parsing behavior in SSIS is very different from DTS 2000. DTS was very forgiving as Phil mentioned, and there ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using the Cue object generates exception with multiple .Play calls

  I had entered this as an issue, but it has now been closed and marked "As Designed". I'm pretty confused by this. https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=198351&SiteID=226 [Note: You need to be signed into Connect first, before clicking on links to Connect will work.] So basically, we are supposed to always use the dictionary object to look up a sound that needs played over and over again, instead of creating a Cue object to reference and replay that sound That just doesn't sound right to me. Has anyone else noticed this issue Is there just something that I'm missing I'd really like to understand why this is "As Designed" I guess. I have some simple sample code in the issue if anyone wa ...Show All

• SQL Server Accessing lower level members

  Hi All, I have used .Children function to retrieve members of dimension at one level below the current level of dimension. For example (using FoodMart 2000 and AS 2000) Select NON EMPTY ( { [Measures].[Unit Sales] } ) ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY ( [Customers].[Country].[USA].Children ) on rows >From sales This query returns me Children of member Country which is USA. It returns all members of State Provinces which have USA as its parent. Can I access or retrieve all members of City with Country member being USA I am building a web application where user applies filters. This is necessary because if user wants to view sales data about City which belongs to country USA. Many thanks in advance. Raghu Hi Raghu. Ye ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you wire event to function

  I'm new to the .net framework and I have a question. Here's what I'm trying to do: I am developing a role base security software(Winform) and want to declaratively test whether the current user has the rights to a specific function. Example: Once a user tries the following: Form1.Show() Before the form is shown an event is raised and the user's credentials are tested. I can do this programmatically: if (User.isInRole("Administrator")) Form1.Show(); else MessageBox.Show("Insufficient Priviledges"); But I want to know if I could do something like this: <Declarativefunction(role:="Adminsitrator")> _ public void Form1_Load(sender,e) { .....Code..... } PriviledgeEventHandler(sender,e) { MsgBox("In ...Show All