Buddhist's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Errors trying to create new database project

  Hi... I have just installed the "database pro" component into the team suite installation. I have TFS installed on a remote sever, and have SQL Server 2005 installed on a other remote machine. The SQL machine has two instances installed. One is named "MSSQLSERVER" and the other is named "MYTESTSVR". Both instances allow remote connections using "TCP/IP and Named Pipes", and the SQL Server Browser service is running. (I can connect to both instances using SQL Managment Studio from my PC). In Visual Studio 2005, I can access databases within the Server Explorer. When I try to create a new database project, I receive the following error: "An error has occurred while establishing a conne ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA and C# Express, Can't link imagefiles with extension type gta and png

  C# Express installation is installed on an HP laptop and is registrated. Can’t build the examples, trows an exeption. Don’t recognize imagefiles with the extension gta or png. .NET 2.0 should be installed. Have also check with XDIAG. Have 9c installed ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Download Issues

  First off, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I can't find another one that suits it better. Anyway... I can't download this file, or anything from download.microsoft.com for that matter. I've had this problem in the past, but it is now coming back to haunt me. I'm considering just having a friend burn the express edition to CD for me, but that wouldn't fix the problem, would it Just to let you know, I've done some checking, and it's not an IPv6 or proxy error. My connection is just acting like the server doesn't exist at all. Does anyone have an idea for a fix (I'm using Firefox 2.0, but IE isn't working either.) Did you see if anything here works for you http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/render.aspx displaylang=en&c ...Show All

• SQL Server Can we send a blob in a message.

  Say i want to send a blob in a message from queue A to queue B. These locations can be geographically different. How can i implement this Also anything which i want to send as a message should be stored in the database. and then I should store it in a variable. this can be used as the message body. am I right Hi Remus, Can you explain in more detail. I did look at the BOL but did not understand much. the create endpoint definition says that you can create a soap and http end points. does this not mean that it can communicate using those protocols can you please give me an example for the following condition: Say I have a sql server instance in UK and one in the US. These are not connected by TC ...Show All

• Visual C# How Can I retrieve The real Ip

  hello I have a problem .. my project like a Messenger and I want to register The real Ip Of my machine When I login The internet But I Use DsL !! How Can I retrieve The real Ip Not Virtual Ip you could do that but thats bad practice - the website may not exist, some issues with the website and so on - but perhaps reasonable for a temp solution. The added expense being Regex ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Any enhancements to emulated components in 2.0?

  I am curious whether there have been enhancements/additions to the emulated components. Specifically have either of the following items has been addressed in v2.0 1. The NAND emulation is not 100%. The v1.0 NAND emulation only emulates the first 8 bytes of the page info area (instead of the full 16). Our platform includes ECC support. The ECC data is stored in the second 8 bytes of the page info area. To work with the v1.0 emulator we are required to disable ECC support since the second 8 bytes don't exist under the emulator. 2. The v1.0 DeviceEmulator does not support emulation of the reference board EEPROM. Yes, Device Emulator v2.0 shipped with WinCE6.0 has following new features to name a fe ...Show All

• Visual Studio UNC path of a local folder on Server??

  I have installed VSS 2005 on a WinXP Pro box (Server). I created a database at C:\VSS. I open SSAdmin, Server > Configure > Enable SourceSafe Internet for this database. It says, open the DB in UNC path. The folder is shared as "VSS". It is not accepting the "VSS" string in the create new database wizard.  It says, its not a valid UNC path. What do I need to give the UNC of a folder which is in the local file system of Server and shared as "VSS"   I tried "<computername>\VSS".. its not working because the server is looking for the computer on the network while its the name of the server itself. Sorry if I am dumb, but I couldn't find any documentation on this. TiA. I am trying to access this VSS folder from ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista My Vista!

  Well I just installed Vista like a few weeks ago but everytime I right-click on the desktop, it crashes internetexplorer. Yeah... Also like it keeps telling me to update my videocard but when i use the update they give me, it says it failed and does nothing. So if anyone can help me with these problems, that'd be great. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Where'd fedit go?

  I've been tasked to mess around with Force Feedback, and fedit is gone in the latest DirectX SDK release. Bring it back, please. ...Show All

• SQL Server Drill Through to degenerate dimension inefficient and slow

  Based on a profile trace it appears that SSAS performs a select distinct on each nonkey column and a select distinct on all drill through defined colums on the SQL backend when drilling to a degenerate dimension with Rolap storage. Caching reduces the amount of subsequest requests but is still very inefficient. Is there a way to just do a select columns from dimension table where dimension keys in (members, ..) I could set the storage to Molap but that would cause the same issue on during the load process. I indicated in the original posting that I could do that but it would cause performance issues during the load process. Other OLAP tools can do this and I've gone crazy trying to do the equivalent process with a reporting acti ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System An unhandled exception of type 'System.ExecutionEngineException' occurred in system.web.mobile.dll

  Hi Everyone, Before I did windows update for Windows 2000, .NET application created in Visual Studio was running OK. Since I did windows update in December, I see the following error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.ExecutionEngineException' occurred in system.web.dll The code is like this: Dim v_string As String = String .Empty If (len(v_string) =0) then do something... end if Each time it runs here, the error message pops up. I change it to if (v_string ="") or IsDBNull(v_stirng ) then end if I use this same code everywere in the application, it only stops here. I delete the line it runs fine. If I add other lines, it executes ok. I tried many others ways using response.write, it ...Show All

• SQL Server Importing Excel "Reports"

  I'm trying to import data which from Excel which has been "prettied up" to make it readable to users. The report has a fixed number of columns and the data itself is well structured, but there are blank lines etc. The problem I'm having is unless the first row of the spreadsheet contains or headers, SSIS fails with error "External table is not in the expected format." and the exception below is thrown. So I thought I'd be clever and create a template spreadsheet with the same number of columns and set the first row to strings - I made all columns DT_WSTR thinking I could extract the numeric and datetime data from the actual rows which contain data and convert using a script. But SSIS simply ignores the numeric ...Show All

• Visual C# Returning a DataSet from a load function

  I have a business object called Contacts....and also i have a static constructor that calls a LoadContacts function...I need it to return a dataset so that in my windows form i can bind the dataset to a DataGrid...but i am not sure how i should return the dataset from my constructor here is the code take a look....I need to be able to return a dataset from this constuctor... public void LoadContacts( int CustomerID, int TypeOfContact) { try { string sql = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["ConnectionString"]; using (SqlConnection connect = new SqlConnection(sql)) { using (SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("SelectContacts", connect)) { command.CommandType = Command ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Image File Extension .dds

  My problem surface, when I need to add image file, say texture1.dds to my game project. WindowsGame1 Add Existing Item... then from the dialog I select Files of type Image Files (*.gif,*.jpg,*.jpe,*.png,*.bmp,*.dib,*.tif,*.wmf,*.raw) So my problem is missing image file type *.dds . DX Tool creates it and is supported by XNA Texture2D.FromFile(). Is there published solution avaible or should I change with hexeditor for example *.jpe (never seen jpeg files with this extension) to *.dds If I hard code extension, then where lives dialog recource Any comments will do Peca I just say "Add Existing Item" Then in the File name field type "*.*" and click Open. Now you'll see e ...Show All

• Visual C++ Tree-view with checkboxes (Win32)

  I have created a tree-view control with the TVS_CHECKBOXES style. I want to include a few items on root level as a kind of headings only. I don't want these to have checkboxes. Then the default functionality is not good enough, but it should be possible to achieve this by providing a state image list and setting the state image index to 0. I have created a bitmap (48x16, 16 colors) with three images. One blank, one empty checkbox, and one selected checkbox. I create the list and selects it with the following code: HIMAGELIST himl; himl = ImageList_Create(16,16,ILC_COLOR4,3,1); TreeView_SetImageList(GetDlgItem(hDlg,IDC_OPTIONS),himl,TVSIL_STATE); I then set an item: TVINSERTSTRUCT tvis; HTREEITEM hItem; tvis.hParent = NU ...Show All