AndyWillig's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Build fails with: The binary form of an ACE object is invalid

  I can't seem to get team builds to work at all. They fail with "The binary form of an ACE object is invalid" but, there's no indication of which ACL has an invalid ACE. Any ideas The complete log is: Build started 7/22/2006 8:51:35 PM. __________________________________________________ Project "E:\Checkin\JAMS\Checkin\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (EndToEndIteration target(s)): Target InitializeEndToEndIteration: UpdateBuildNumberDropLocation BuildNumber='Checkin_20060722.3' DropLocation='\\MVP\Cmn\Kits\Checkin\Checkin_20060722.3' C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v8.0\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets(165,5): error : The binary form of an ACE object is invalid. C:\Program Files\M ...Show All

• Windows Forms list box and datasets

  hey, how do you make it so that a list box shows the items on a dataset     Thanks :) I believe that you would have to loop through the datatable/dataset and add each item to the listbox.   da.Fill(ds); command.Connection.Close(); foreach ( DataRow curRow in ds.Tables[0].Rows) { foreach ( DataColumn curColumn in ds.Tables[0].Columns) { if (curColumn.ColumnName.Equals( "theColumnName" )) { this .listBox1.Items.Add(curRow[curColumn.ColumnName].ToString()); } } }   ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Large Fonts = Large Problem

  Hi All, Hope someone can help here........ In all previous versions of Windows, window and control sizes designed in twips have been converted to pixels using 15 twips per pixel at small fonts and 12 twips per pixel at large fonts producing similar but slightly different displays. Minor adjustments could easily be made at startup to make things look right at either DPI. This doesn't happen in Vista. I don't know exactly whats happening, but basically, the window is sized at 15 twips per pixel and then enlarged as a graphic might be using anti aliasing techniques. Quite apart from not producing a window that looks as good as the old 12 twips per pixel formula, this is causing huge problems. 1. In large fonts, GetClientRect&am ...Show All

• Visual Basic what's wrong with the resources.resx?

  So i added some images to my project (i switched back to vb since its wasn't working out with C++) But now i have a problem during build. I keep getting this error message ---- Error 1 Unable to write to output file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MMediaPlayer\MMediaPlayer\obj\Debug\MMediaPlayer.exe': The specified image file did not contain a resource section. ---- Now under "My Project" in the VB program, the Resources.resx file is not there! but stuff shows under the Resoruces section under the Project Option Menu. How can i fix this I think it's a windows system error message due to system limitations you can follow this link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. how to create a mesh?

  Now, I want to create a mesh through a mesh's boundingsphere. Whether XNA have some classes or functions to create mesh,  or it have functions like 'D3DXCreateSphere' and 'D3DXCreateBox'  in D3D of C++   XNA doesn't have any functions to create a mesh at runtime, although you could always just create a vertex buffer of your own and then call SetData on it to specify the vertex positions. If you write a new content pipeline processor, you can use the MeshBuilder class to construct a MeshContent object, then pass this to the built in ModelProcessor to convert it into a Model instance. ...Show All

• Windows Forms MultiThread Visual Application

  I have TreeView on my Form. This application has 2 threads and I want to make changes with my treeView in 2nd thread, but here is such exception: name: InvalidOperationException and Message: "Action being performed on this control is being called from the wrong thread." what can I do with it thanks for your help do NOT set the checkillegalcrossthread to false - it was built in .NET 2.0 for a reason - for SAFE thread -> UI calls, it is there only if you need to use it, which 99% of the time you do not - its built for a reason and I highly suggest you use the correct method approach. Without doing so, you may experience some unwanted and nasty things happening within your application ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Provider-Independent Data Access

  Hi i am working on independent data access that we can use either oracle or sql server database. could u help how to add paramters to IdbDataParameter[] array. Thanks in Advance by Madhu.P Sorry about the late response. What are you talking about g Garrett Serack | Program Manager |Federated Identity Team | Microsoft Corporation blog: http://blogs.msdn ...Show All

• SQL Server MSSQLSERVER Service cannot start [SQL 2000]

  Hi All, MSSQLSERVER Service is not started, when I try to start it, it tries to start then it remains not started. What are the possible causes of this issue What are the possible solutions other than reinstalling the SQL software Thank you. Bishoy Hi Bishoy, The most elementary test which you can do is that verify that in the Service Manager, the login details are correct. Possible cause : Change in Domain account password. If you are using SP3 or lower update, download latest Service Pack (SP4) from the microsoft download site. There is a KB article on it and this bug has been fixed in SP4 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840856 ) Let me know if you are not able to resolve the i ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista UIA XPSP2 Availability

  Almost all downlevel components and APIs from Vista are now available on Windows XP SP2. When will UI Automation be available Or is it installed with the Windows SDK It is installed with the Windows SDK. End users require the .NET Framework 3.0 runtimes; see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043 . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build Information Record

  Hi, Is there is any way that we can store and retrieve the file names and it's respective version which went in to Specific executable build. I found that one way of doing it in TF is by using Labels associated during build process by Build server. But I find it has a potential problem , because Labels can be moved to new version or delete from a specific file version. Clearcase has a powerful auditing functionality (Configuration record) which records all the files and respective revision went in to build and which can't be edited accidentally.Do we have similar functionality in Team System Thanks In advance Pramod What you need is a VersionSpec for the files that went ...Show All

• Windows Forms Methods in windows service

  Hi all, Just i've created windows service called "MYserv1" and controlled(like start and stop) it via VB.NET client apps. Now i want to write my own function calls in the windows service. i need to pass the parameters as well as need to get a return value from the function from/to normal windows client application. How to do it Most importantly,how can call those methods from client programs. Kindly advice me in this aspect. Thank U! In the example on codeguru.com (which you have refered), you write some info to C:\Log file. Instead is it possible to store the Qunitity in Service object and refered from a ServiceController Class So effectively an external program gets the value ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot start SQL Server Browser

  Hello, I use SQL Server 2005 for multi-user access. In the Surface Area Configuration, I changed the protocol from TCP/IP to Named Pipes and restarted the service. Then I went to SQL Server Browser, stopped it and clicked on Start to restart. I am getting a message "An error occurred while performing this operation". I am not able to get the Browser started. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I checked the error log and found a few messages for SQL Browser. Here they are: 1. SQL Browser Service was unable to establish SQL instance and connectivity discovery 2. The SQL Browser service port was unavailable for listening, invalid 3. The configuration of the AdminConnection\TCP protoco ...Show All

• SQL Server RetainDays property of Backup statement

  According to SQL Server 2005 Books Online, the RetainDays property specifies the number of days that must elapse before a backup set can be overwritten. I do not quite understand the implication of this property. Say, if I set RetainDays = 1, is it mean the backup set from yesterday MAY BE overwritten If it is 'may be', how does SQL Server determines whether to overwrite or not I tried RetainDays = 1 to backup a dummy database, but my test.bak keeps growing, the old files do not seem to be overwritten. Besides, what is the implication of accepting the default RetainDays = 0 it just says that you can not overwrite the backup after the no of days you set has elapse.  Sql server does not automatical ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Speed issue

  Hi I have an open table in VFP. I am using vb.Net to get the records from the table. I use the following connection string to connect to the open table. Provider=vfpoledb.1; Data Source=\\Commercial\Data; Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source= \\Commercial\Data;Extended Properties=dBASE IV;" The open table has more than 3,604,393 records in it. When I give the following sql statement Sql = “select * from ordDet where 1=1 and comp_code = ‘01’ and Itemcode =’02’” cmd = New OleDb.OleDbCommand(Sql, gconnMDB_I) Dim rdDept As OleDb.OleDbDataReader = cmd.ExecuteReader() Do While rdDept.Read() dr = dt.NewRow() dr(0) = rd ...Show All

• Visual C# How To Copy To Clipboard Like MSPAINT

  Hi, I would like to be able to copy a bitmap to the clipboard using a method similar to that used by Paint. If you use a program like ClipCache Plus (a free version 2.9 is still available), it will keep copies of items that have been sent to the clipboard. If you use Paint, it will copy to the clipboard in such a way that ClipCache can see it. If you use the Visual Studio 2005 Clipboard.SetDataObject(ObjectName, true); It does copy to the clipboard. But it is not available to ClipCache. I have also tried Clipboard.SetData and so on. It doesn't work. Does anyone know how to do it. In Delphi I used var AFormat : Word; AData : THandle; APalette: HPalette; fBitmap.SaveToClipboardFormat(AFormat,AData,APalette); Clipboard.S ...Show All