ferrethouse's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Only one CUBE in Team Foundation Server

  When I open analysis services in BI studio I only see one CUBE for TFS. However per my book I should be seeing multiple CUBEs. I wonder if anyone knows what could be going on here thanks In some beta verions of TFS, there were actually separate cubes. That may be where the confusion started. Here's some info that explains the cube structure. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms244710.aspx Allen ...Show All

• Visual C# Multiple application instances

  Hi, How do I stop multiple instances of the same application running. (ie: if the user starts an application and then tries to start it again I want to prevent the second instance from starting) I must be missing something or doing something stupid. Thanks in advance Andrew Hi, if you are working in .net 2.0 you can set a flag in the project properties wether to allow multiple instances of the app running. Hope this helps, please close the thread if it does ...Show All

• SQL Server T-SQL Code help

  Hi, When I execute the following procedure, SQL Server creates an error called 'must declare @table variable'. So I did not overcome this error. Would you please help me CREATE PROCEDURE erase @column nvarchar(25), @erasable nvarchar (25), @table nvarchar(25) AS delete from @table where @column=@erasable Hi again, I learned the answer. When we use exec statement for Strings, the batch in the String is also compiled and executed but this is only valid for Strings, is not it ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Uri is not able to represent a query string properly?

  This seems very odd to me, but I may have encounted an uri that cannot be properly represented by System.Uri. Console.WriteLine(new Uri(" http://www.example.com/somepage.html foo=bar%2bbaz ")); This should print the following line: http://www.example.com/somepage.html foo=bar%2bbaz Instead, the following line is printed: http://www.example.com/somepage.html foo=bar&baz Note that the semantic meaning of the uri has been changed. In .NET 1.1, a workaround exists: escaping the uri before passing it into the constructor of System.Uri: Console.WriteLine(new Uri(System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(" http://www.example.com/somepage.html foo=bar%2bbaz "))); In .NET 2.0, this workaround no lo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Notification - Closed task

  Hi, is there a way to get notifications, if someone close the task regards Simon In V1, if the task is assigned to you or you changed it then you get the notification. We cannot customize project alerts in currentl release. To work around this, everyone can add your email ID in addition to his/her email ID in Project alerts. Or a group email ID can be given in Project alerts. For example, in your team if you have 5 people, everyone must give abc@corp.com;simon@corp.com in project alers window. Another option is giving team@corp.com where team is the groupmail for all of you. Thanks Sagar ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using the framework with WinForm controls

  Anyone have any idea on how to redirect the rendering output to something like a winform Panel control, so that I could use the framework for traditional applications Just create a normal windows application, and define a GraphicsDevice object: public partial class Form1 : Form { //the graphics device GraphicsDevice gd; Then create a new device object in your init function: PresentationParameters pp = new PresentationParameters(); pp.IsFullScreen = false; gd = new GraphicsDevice(GraphicsAdapter.DefaultAdapter, DeviceType.Hardware, Handle, CreateOptions.HardwareVertexProcessing, pp); Then update your paint/render function depending on how you're keeping track of ren ...Show All

• SQL Server rowversion in Management Studio

  So I keep reading that the timestamp type is deprecated and we should use rowversion whenever possible. At the same time, Management Studio connected to a 2005 server won't let me use rowversion and forces me to use timestamp when creating/modifying a table. Am I missing something Yes -- you're clearly expecting way too much from the product.  Why would you expect that it would work as documented, or that various teams working on the product would bother to talk to each other to ensure consistency   <g>   But seriously, it looks a bug to me -- you should file an issue for it on connect.microsoft.com.   -- Adam Machanic Pro ...Show All

• Visual C++ Win32 API C++ Help!!!

  Hi, i have pretty much finished a program, but it has a few errors which over the past couple of hours i have not been able to reduce ever so much. I was hoping that someone could have a quick look and try and error check it for me. I have posted asking how to add in a new line to the output box, but i need to know why sometimes it will randomly close. Also, try typing a word such as television in. It works the first time, when you look it up, but when you change the text at all, it changes to something like a row of braces { and i cannot work out why Also, it no longer finds the word after it has for the first time. I think the problem lies in the way i have set a string as global. Is there a work around to this Because whenever i tried ...Show All

• Visual C# File Locks

  Hi, Problem 1: Assume we have a shared folder on the network ( This is a NT File Share). The folder contains a file which has been opened by multiple users. How can we get to know if the file has been opened or not (i.e. this would be a file lock) And also know the number of users that have opened the file. The code in ASP would go something like this. Set fso = GetObject("WinNT://" & strServer & "/LanmanServer") For Each r in fso.Resources Response.Write(r.LockCount) Next Is there any equivalent method in .NET I tried WMI, but will this work for other OS Problem 2: I need to same information for Shares on UNIX too. We are usign NAS for file sharing here. Problem 3: How do we unlock thes ...Show All

• .NET Development Object Methods not available using .NET Remoting

  Hello: I'm taking my first stab at .NET remoting and I'm running into some issues.First of all, here is the object that I would like to be made available remotely: namespace MyClass1 { public class MyClass { public int Add( int a, int b) { return a + b; } } I compiled this class into a library that my Remote server (host) references (The assembly is not in the GAC, just on a local directoy). Here is the code that I have for the host. (I've removed all the using statements, but all relevant namespaces are referenced, and added to the project as a reference) namespace RemoteHostApp { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { ChannelServices ...Show All

• SQL Server Import and Export SQL 2005 Maintenance Plan

  I had created a maintenance plan and configure and scheduled my maintenace plan to run. I would like to save this package as a file into a source control. SO I use SSIS to export the package under stored packages->MSDB->Maintenace Plan. After that, I wanted to test my import process. So I deleted the packages under SSIS ->stored packages->MSDB->Maintenance plan and I use the import to add the package from my previously exported package stored in a file .dtxs extention. So the problem is, after I imported my package. I lost the configured schedule and the job runs without doing anything. When I try to go in and make changes to the package, by adding a new schedule under SQL server -> management->maintenance plan. I r ...Show All

• Visual C# validate integer input

  I have this console application which calculates parking charges based on the "hours" user input. it works fine when user inputs an integer value. however, if the input is not integer, i.e. "decimal" or "string", the app crashes. "try catch" can handle the exception, but it is not what i want. i want to validate the input, keep ask the input if it is not valid. please help class parkingcharges { static void Main(string[] args) { //request hours input Console.WriteLine("How many hours do you want to park your car for (enter negative value to exit)"); int hours = Convert.ToInt16(Console.ReadLine();); while (hours >= 0) ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to handle a parameter?

  i'm creating pictureboxes in an array.i wanna handle the picturebox and array parameter.is it possible to handle a parameter in DragDropEventHandler Your question isn't clear. Do you want to use one DragDrop handler for multiple PBs or can multiple PBs be the source of the d+d object Anyhoo, you cannot add additional parameters to the event handler arguments. You can however specify any kind of object for the DoDragDrop() data argument. You can cook up your own that has any property that you might need in the DragDrop event handler. ...Show All

• SQL Server running ssis package with ssis run time compoenents and sql server 2000...

  running ssis package with ssis run time compoenents and sql server 2000... Is it possible to run ssis packages that point to servers on sql server 2000 without installing sql server 2005 Can we just install runtime for ssis and run the packages Please explian with links if possible thanks a lot This is great. So to just summarize. 1) On the production machine that I have SQL 2000 server installed, I will install SSIS component only. 2) Develop the SSIS packages on my machine using VS 2.0 and SSIS. 3) Save the packages in files with *.dtsx and configuration files *.xml 4) Move the files to the production machine and execute the files using DTExec. IS this correct Thanks again. $wapnil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSSCCI 1.2 and vs 2003

  I've installed MSSCCI 1.2, when i select File --> Source Control --> open from source control, i get the following error; Method not found: 'System.String Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Msscci.Support.Utils.EncodeData(String.String[])'. Any suggestions on how to get this working Cheers, Aaron Sorry, for the delay (Holidays). First of all version of Team Explorer - in VS2005 please go to Help menu, About Microsoft Visual Studio, in Installed products select "Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer". In the Product details you should see version number (if I'm not wrong it's 8.0.50727.147 for RTM). Let see if all assemblies are loaded from the right place: Using Visu ...Show All