Whiplash8's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Perforce TS convertor

  Hi All, Does anybody know how much work involved to write a Perforce to Team Foundation Version control convertor I don't think such convertor exists yet. Can this be done by use VS SDK Or I will need to write to database directly Any comments would be help. Thanks you all in advance. As far as I know there is no ready tool doing Perforce-Tfs migration for you. However, there is TFS Migration Toolkit available now, that should you decide to perform such conversions will make your job easier. Basically, the toolkit provides migration framework (such as basic interfaces and database to store intermediate results). In addition to the toolkit you have several converters implemented with that ( TFS-to-TFS mo ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error when using the Live Labs STS

  Hello: I'm trying to use the Live Labs STS, however I'm getting an error when I try to use the issued managed card. 1) I was able to generate the card your site 2) I was able to import the card 3) When I try to signin in the Live Labs Relay, the CardSpaces UI appears correctly. 4) I'm able to choose the card. 5) The CardSpace correcly prompts me for the password (it was a password based managed card) 6) ERROR: i) The CardSpace UI notifies me with this error message: Your data could not be retrieved from the (...). Check your network connection and verify you have supplied the correct authentication credentials ii) There are two events in the Application Event Log 1) A token could not be created. Identity provider requested for an un ...Show All

• Smart Device Development No File-Explorer in german WM 5.0 Emulator Image for Smartphone

  Hi, i've installed Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulator Images for Smartphone - GER and there is no File-Explorer. In the english image I can start "Start --> All Programs --> Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP Emulator Images --> Smartphone - Coldboot (Smartphone QVGA - Coldboot)", there is a file-explorer. I have this problem not only with the german images, even if i start some other (english) devices over Deviceemulator-Manager, there is no file-explorer. I hope anyone can help me. Thanks in advance. Hi Aureon, I am also facing the same problem.If you got the solution then reply me........ plz i need it urgent. thanx ...Show All

• SQL Server External Image disappears with Interactive Sorting

  Hi, I have an image in the page header that is included in the project and is defined as "external". I also have interactive sorting enabled for the report. When a column is sorted, the image in the page header disappears. I deleted the image from the report and re-created it as "embedded" which does retain the image between postbacks. Thank you, Bob Robert, I installed the sequence of post-SP1 Hotfixes (including the one for SSRS) accessible through the link you provided, but this did not restore the 'Select All' capability. I called the support line and they could not provide any assistance without a reference # for the fix. Can you provide a bit more information on what ...Show All

• Windows Forms Row disappearance in DGVs

  I posted a topic in Windows Forms General about this recently, but I've since learned a bit more about the problem and figured this was a more appropriate section. Anyway... I've got a problem with datagridviews in a tabbed application I'm working on. Now - this doesn't seem to be related to DataErrors at all, because I handle the DataError event by popping up an informational message box, and I'm not seeing that box or the dead datagridview that results from the errors. Originally, I thought I was seeing this problem when I would switch away from the tab with a set of lists and an update would come in for a list that wasn't on the currently displayed tab. Now I'm seeing that actually, nothing has to happen. If you switch tabs and sw ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Delay garbage collection?

  In managed code, I understand that GC is performed at times which are hard (if not impossible) to predict, which can somtimes damage framerate performance. Is it possible to postpone GC until a time where the programmer would see fit For example, when the camera is not moving. Thanks for the answer. The reason I ask is because when I use managed memory textures, the memory usage slowly creeps up and up and up... Being a little worried, I used the Default memory pool instead, which seems to have solved the problem. ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Where can I store images that my extension injects into the DOM on Windows Vista?

  I have a toolbar that does some direct DOM manipulation, sort of the way the IE Developer Toolbar does. Part of this DOM injection are some images that we use. Previously, we were programmatically inserting our images into the Temporary Internet Files folder, and when we created our DOM objects that needed these images the URLs pointed to the images in that folder. The problem is, that on Windows Vista it now seems that Temporary Internet Files is now considered a system folder, and I have lost the ability to write to it. At this point, I think I have a few options but am unsure as to how to implement any of them: 1. Store the files in an accessible temporary location (using a different Special Folder, maybe ). I don't know which one, i ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SQL query to LINQ

  I have SQL query: Select * from c_payments Union all Select * from m_payments How can I do the same in LINQ You can do the following: var q = ( from c in c_payments select c ).Union( from e in m_paymnets select e ); Best, Fabio Ferracchiati's LINQ Blog: http://www.ferracchiati.com ...Show All

• Visual C# Adding hyperlink to Excel sheet

  Hello, I am trying to convert some VB.NET code to C# that writes information to an Excel file. What i'm having trouble is that i'm trying to insert a hyperlink to an local file like i did before but i can't seem to get past this exception. Here is my old code. Dim xlCurrentSheet As Excel.Worksheet xlCurrentSheet.Range("A3").Offset(yDir - 1).Hyperlinks.Add(xlCurrentSheet.Range(" A3").Offse t(yDir - 1), OrdPath, , , TextBox1.Text) here is the new code i'm trying: oRange = (Excel.Range)currSheet.get_Range("A1", "A100"); string ordPath = @"C:\\IDTWest\\orders\\order" + orderInfo.orderNum.ToString() + ".doc"; Object txtToDis = "order " + orderInfo.ord ...Show All

• Visual Basic Singleton-threading confusion

  Hi, My first singleton, so i have some doubts about threading issues involved. Public Class UsuRegistro Private bloqUsers As String = "bloqUsers" Public users As New Hashtable Public Function GetUsers() As Hashtable SyncLock bloqUsers Return users End SyncLock End Function Public Function GetUser(ByVal cod As Integer) As UsuObj Dim obj1 As Object = users(cod) Dim usu1 As UsuObj = DirectCast(obj1, UsuObj) Return usu1 End Function Public Sub RegistUser(ByVal cod As Integer, ByVal usu1 As UsuObj) SyncLock bloqUsers users.Add(cod, usu1) End SyncLock End Sub Public Sub DeleteUser(ByVal cod As Integer) SyncLock bloqUsers users.Remove(cod) End SyncLock En ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Assign an array to .values and .Xvalues in an excel chart

  Hi, I'm having trouble with assigning arrays to a chart. Below is how I done. Anyone nowing how to make this work     Set MyDispl = Application.InputBox(Prompt:="Select displ.", Type:=8)     Set MyForce = Application.InputBox(Prompt:="Select force.", Type:=8)     Do '''Collects Displ data             plot_disp(i) = MyDispl.Offset(i, 0)             i = i + 1     Loop Until IsEmpty(plot_disp(i))           Do '''Collects force data                ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Console Applications Help needed

  hi all, I want to develop a console app and call it from my main application. how to do it If i want to pass any arguments to console application then Is there any mechanisms tht u appln made by me, send msgs plz help needed.How to make the console appln to run in background hi, thanx for the help. By msgs i meant, is there any way to have communication between the 2 applications Like RPC (remote procedure call) something like tht. 2ndly, If i use Process.Start() and call the exe to run, if i stop the main appln from where i called the another, then tht called process will also stop Also, i want that the console appln should run after specific intervals and do the work. is it possible to exit the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Time-tracking for TFS work items?

  Does anyone know if there is a way to track the time spent working on a work item   I'm thinking of something like a "clock-in/clock-out" feature, so a developer can record the actual time spent working on a particular task, etc. I assume that if there isn't a built-in way to do this, there might be a way to build this in as custom functionality.  Any ideas/guidance Updated Question:  Perhaps I should have stated this better earlier... TFS work items obviously have a field or two in which a developer can enter the total time spent on a project, but what I'm looking for is a way to help track and calculate that total time, based on a mechanism (like a chess timer, for example) which would allow a user to "clock in" ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewColumn - DropDownDataGridView

  I had an idea. I need a multicolumn combo box in a cell of a datagrid view. So I got to thinking of different ways to do this... Then it popped into my head. Why not use a datagridview for the drop down So I'm going to attempt it... I just have one question though.. I would like to expose all of the datagridview properties through the Column object. Obviously, the dropdown datagridview has to be a member of the editing control... So how do I expose all those properties in there to the column and have them pass down the column to the editing control Thanks, Aaron I have this somewhat working... I have a few issues however and I need direction. (Keep in mind, I have only been doing VB.Net for a couple of mo ...Show All

• Office Live Development Flash files not working on new release of Office Live Premium?

  We recently transferred our domain to OL Premium and have found that when we uploaded our website, the flash files are not working. Last October we created a test environment in OL Essentials and are currently successfully hosting the exact same website flash files on that beta site without a problem. The new (and not beta) version of OL Premium is displaying everything except these flash files. Why would it work in beta Essentials and not on the full release Premium version Any ideas For those interested, the problem we were facing was resolved by upgrading the swfobject.js file to v1.4. I am not exactly sure why this changes anything from going from the Essentials beta to the Premium full release, bu ...Show All