Goat Spirit's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build result not showing in the Builds Report

  i have stopped getting new entries in my reports, even though they appear in the list of builds. I've only added a task to create a directory & make a dummy exec call to do a "dir"... Build still succeeds... RE: Delay... OK, I can see that the server is running on borrowed RAM !!! Which won't help my cause any... Even though CPU is low, disk is prb. dying...as avg. disk Q length is often above 1.5, and out of the 1GB of Physical RAM that it has, its using 1.6Gb etc. All I'm doing it a get of stuff every 5 mins (imitate shadow directory etc.). And a test build every day - very light - one simple webform etc. Other than that I've got VStudio open etc. in a Terminal Service ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading XML file using VB code

  I have written the XML files for storing the data and want to read the same XML file using VB code and not VB.Net. can anybody help me please Thanking You Sanjay Hi Sanjay, This link should help you get started: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp p=25084&seqNum=3&rl=1 Additionally, the new XML Literals feature coming in VB9 will make this substantially easier: http://research.microsoft.com/~emeijer/Papers/PlanXDemo.pdf Hope that helps, Jonathan ...Show All

• Visual C# why multiple inheritance of classes in not supported in C#?

  Multiple inheritance is not supported in C# but it can be achieved using interfaces is fine. But can you explain why multiple inheritance of classes in not supported in C# Multiple inheritance causes problems, if one or more of the parent classes defines members with same identifier. You would have to decide which parent to use to handle each method call, and the operation of class can be then very different than intended. And usually, there is no situations when multiple inheritance is needed. "Good" classes usually maps to some phenomenom or object, and very few things are at the same time  based on two different things. Usually when people wish to do multiple inheritance (is-a), a "has-a" relation is needed, meaning that a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Pie Chart Problem

  Good day everyone. I have created a couple 2005 reports with Pie Charts and I used Formula Fields to calculate 4 field percentages (field / total * 100)... and the formula fields are named (Cars, Boats, Airplanes, etc...). I create the pie chart and include the formula fields into the "Show Value(s)" window of the "Chart Expert" and noticed an @ symbol is inserted into the show value window infront of the field name which later becomes the charts field label. The chart at runtime shows the @ symbol in front of the label ie; "@Cars" on the chart... I cant find anywhere where I can either create a variable to rename the label and call that up or rename the "real" full formula field name which is @Car ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Microsoft C# Not C# express

  Say if you used the real C# not the C# express would there be more features than C# express. well... if you want to use source control, and who doesn't express lacks that capability. We were using codeplex to house our project, but we had to pop into VS anytime we wanted to check files in and out, even though we were working in Express. Kind of a pain. just my .02 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Blend modes not supported in WPF?

  Are blend modes not supported in WPF With the recent release of WPF/E and the new CTP's for the Expression tools, my interest in WPF has rekindled.  However, after searching the Web and Newsgroups it seems that blend modes are not supported in the WPF.  I'm not quite sure what the rationale behind leaving this feature out of WPF was. (Purhaps time constraints )   I'm sure the developers on the WPF team know how to program support for blend modes.   It's pretty much well documented on the Web.   I've even written a few for a custom layering application I wrote for .Net 1.1. a year or so ago.   It's odd that they took the time to program support for filters such as drop shadow, blur, and reflection, but not ...Show All

• Windows Forms Total Physical Memory mismatch

  I have developed a VB app using visual basic 6. This will display the total physical memory in the system and other configuration details. My system has 512 MB physical memory. If i open My Computer --> Properties, it shows 512 MB of RAM. But my app shows only 511.01 MB. Why this difference I am using the following Win32 API in my app for getting the total physical memory: Declare Sub GlobalMemoryStatus Lib "kernel32" (lpBuffer As MEMORYSTATUS) The function for getting the total physical memory is Private Function GetMemory() As String Dim BytesTotal As Double Dim memInfo As MEMORYSTATUS GlobalMemoryStatus memInfo BytesTotal = memInfo.dwTotalPhys GetMemory = Format(CStr((BytesTotal / 1024) / 1024), "0.00") End Fu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to implement databinding like this?

  I store the file name of images in "PIC" field. Then I bind the filed to Source property of an Image. <Image Source="{Binding PIC}"/> But since only file name is stored, so the path of the image files should also be added to the Source. What should I do to binding this correctly I have tried in this way, <Image Source="Images/"+"{Binding PIC}"/> But it seems to be a wrong syntax. Any suggestion Hi, Drew Thank you for your advice. I have thought of this method. Converter is more powerful but also a little more complicated in this scene, right Anyway, I will have a try. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums MapCruncher customer tile layer looks a little MapBlended ...

  I tried making my own custom tile layer using MapCruncher and it looks very good when I view it using the samplepage.html that comes with MapCruncher. However, when I tried to use my own html page by modifying the custom tile layer code in the sdk it looks a little blended. Does any one know why this is happening I made the following modifications to the custom tile layer sample code: function GetMap() { map = new VEMap('myMap'); Changed the default Lat Long to centre where my custom layer is. map.LoadMap(new VELatLong(43.7706272357647,-79.5549744612714),11,'r' ,false); GetTiles(); } function GetTiles() { Modified boundary box to be in the general location of the map var bounds = [new VELatLo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Help with styles

  I seem to be missing something fundamental with styles. In the code below, see the Hyperlink cell template for the PublishDate column. When I apply the LinkDefault style, it works great for the first row, but after that all the other cells are blank for PublishDate. It does show an active scroll bar there in the cell , so something is happening, but it does not seem to be showing any data in any of the rows in the GridView except the first row. ------------------ <Window xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation' xmlns:x='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml' Width="664.8" xmlns:l="clr-namespace:SDKSample" x:Class="SDKSample.Window1"> <Window.Res ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Animation - Final Question

  I have a model with multiple animations in one x file, I really want to animate the bleeding thing. Now, I will hold my hands up and say that I am not a good enough game developer to produce my own animation classes ... is there going to be an example of how to do this in the near future from the XNA team Cant wait for the final xna release ... I seriously hope this feature makes it in for the dec. 10th release. It will not. XNA is a framework for the application, but it doesn't provide all the functionality that the application will need. AI for games is another huge bit of gameplay value, and they provide nothing for AI. Same thing for physical simulation, or scene graph -- none of that is p ...Show All

• Visual Studio TableAdapters etc

  Can you use the TableAdapters to pass data to an embedded Crystal Report. I have used the TableAdapters etc to add and view data in the application, but when I create a report and attach it to the project data, the report just shows the headers when viewed through the viewer, have tried working through the tutorial, but am getting a little lost. Any help would be gratefully received. John check out this links http://www.crystalkeen.com/articles/crystalreports/parametersandvb.htm http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/Chapter04_XI.asp ...Show All

• Architecture Integrated Windows Active directory authentication

  Hi Ours is a distributed client server application(WinForms). We are evaluation two authentication models, one using Active Directory windows authentication and other is custom SQL server based authentication. If the workstations are not connected to the domain controller and the user was authenticated(during logon to the workstation) using workstation cached credentials, will the integrated windows authentication work in such cases Is is secure to rely on cached credentials Will windows use the cached credentials to authenticate the user even if the workstation is connected to the domain controller Thanks, Dharan Thanks for the response. Just to clarify, I wanted to understand in a typica ...Show All

• Visual C++ Dialog Box in DLL not shown in vc++2005

  hi my is appliocation calling a method of dll(abc.dll) which is supposed to show a dialog box but not showing. when i go to module tab while debugging, there is a red icon on abc.dll and mouse tool tip shows "the module did not load at the default load address". i have ported my app from vc6.0 to vc++2005. any help will be appreciated. thanks!! _VIPUL Did u try to Debug your Code. if not Please do this First and Let us Know What's the error your getting here and Second thing Please Specify your Dll Type and if Possible Show your Code So Anyone can help you. Thanx ...Show All

• SQL Server Totals on last page only - How?

  Just started (today) using RS2005. Me and my Brian Larson MS RS2005 book. Can't figure out how to get my Grand totals to ONLY print on the last page of my report. They are calculating correctly, but printing on every page. I guess I wouldn't mind if the totals were page specific, but it's not even doing that... Thanks!! It tells me I can only use the globals you mentioned in the page header and footer. I try that and then it tells me I can't sum fields in the page footer.... Any ideas. Thanks ...Show All