Badpig's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System On the Destination Folder and Database Server page, type the following information

  I am following the Installation guide for TFS. I'm performing a dual install. I am up to step #5 of "To install the Team Foundation Server (services)". Step #5 says to type the installation path of the TFS services or accept the default. It also says in the Database Server box, type the name of the computer on which you installed the TFS Databases. The problem that I have is that this box is disabled/greyed out. I have tried to solve this problem by uninstalling and reinstalling about 3 times and I get the same problem everytime. I thought the problem was at the point where I am installing Sharepoint and asked to select Server Farm but I am selecting server farm and I still get a greyed out box. I don't know how to get around thi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. My first game... Asteroid Defense.

  In this game you are a ship protecting a planet from incoming asteroids. Controls: 360 controller: Left Joystick -- Move ship left and right. A -- Shoot Right or Left Trigger -- Change Weapon. Keyboard Left and Right Arrow Keys -- Move ship left and right. Up and Down Arrow Keys -- Change Weapon Space -- Shoot The weapon you are using is shown in the top left corner. The stronger the weapon you use, the less points you get for destroying an asteroid. Levels progress at timed intervals and more and more asteroids come down. You lose when one of them reaches the planet. Screenshot: http://www.rocketsoft.gm-school.uni.cc/uploads/ADScreen.JPG Game File: http://www.rocketsoft.gm-school.uni.cc/uploads/AsteroidDefense1.1.rar All in ...Show All

• .NET Development Addition of column values in a number of datarow in a datatable

  I have a datatable which has number of datarows in it. I iterate through the datarow collection and then I am trying to check values in the 3 columns. Say I am on the 2nd datarow then I have check the value in the " ID " column to see if it matches with the value in the " ID " column of 1st datarow. If it matches then I have take sum of 3 other columns in both of the rows and write it out to a text file. Can I do this I know it can be done...but not sure how ...Show All

• Visual Basic Is there a way to check the GAC for a specified or a list of registrations?

  Ive been messing alot with DLLs, and because of that, I am making myself a small tool to register/unregister them from the GAC and from the Registry. The thing is: Is there a way to retrieve if a DLL has been registered or not By checking the GAC. And if possible also the version it was registered with Or will I have to save the info about the DLLs I register in some other file or something Thanks alot anyways!! :) I'm not sure of your exact problem, but the first thing i thought of when I read it was this: http://www.thinktecture.com/Resources/Software/GacUtils/Default.html ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. "Grab Point" of a Texture2D

  Right now when I draw a texture it uses 0, 0 of the texture for where it draws it based on the X, Y I tell it to draw it at. I need to change that "grab point" to the center of the texture. Does anyone know how this is possbile Thanks. Why do that when the Draw method does it for you public void Draw ( Texture2D texture, Rectangle destinationRectangle, Nullable<Rectangle> sourceRectangle, Color color, float rotation, Vector2 origin, SpriteEffects effects, float layerDepth ) public void Draw ( Texture2D texture, Vector2 position, Nullable<Rectangle> sourceRectangle, Color color, float rotation, Vector2 origin, float sc ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Missing plugin for Live meeting in Vista

  Hi, I have installed LMAddinPack(Live meeting) on Vista.when i open Microsoft Outlook, there i should get this live meeting options as plugins.But i am not getting it. However i am getting these plugins on XP. So anyone could help me out and let me know the procedures and i should carry to get these plugins on Vista(Microsoft outlook) as well. Thanks and Regards, Karthikeyan ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development When does IE7 GET favicon.ico?

  I have a web site with a /favicon.ico file. It didn't show up on IE7 despite repeated Ctrl-F5. So I added <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> and checked it with http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/validator/ that everything was ok. Still IE 7 didn't GET the icon file (I used Fiddler to monitor the traffic). Then after about two weeks, out of the blue, while I was accessing a page (not the page containing the <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> tag) on the web site, my favicon appeared! I am at a loss. Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problems running deployed app after VS 2003 to VS 2005 conversion

  I have a C#/C++ application in which we commonly call C++ functionality from the C# layer via interop. This version of the application runs well in the following scenarios: 1. In VS 2003 (debug and release development environment (x86) and when it is deployed to other machines (x86). 2. In VS 2005 (debug and release) development environment (x86) However, the VS 2005 built application does not run (either debug or release) on another machine it is deployed to. When I try to run the VS 2005 compiled app on a deployment machine it complains that it cannot load one of my c++ DLL's. I have a total of 4 c++ DLL's. Because of point #2, I am suspecting that this is a deployment issue rather than something wrong with my DLL otherwise why would t ...Show All

• .NET Development FTP entire folders with FtpWebRequest in 2.0

  I'm trying to use FtpWebRequest to get entire directory (folder) contents from an FTP site including sub-folders, etc. Basically I am using recursive ListDirectoryDetails calls to build the folder structure first. Here's some pseudo-code: method foo( localTargetDir, uri) create new ftpwebrequest with method set to ListDirectoryDetails get response and store it as text close response check response text for any sub directories for each sub-directory found in response set localTargetDir equal to currentLocalTargetDir plus sub-directory name create localTargetDir call foo with localTargetDir and uri + sub-directory name end of for each end of method This seems to work fine for the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Access to APIs in C#

  Can I use the Windows Media Player 10 activex control in C# I've researched the documentation and it seems to only be available in C++. Also, does C# support DirectDraw and DirectShow I need to use the camera api functions and allow the user to take a video, replay the video, and draw on the screen using the stylus. I need the drawing to persist on top of the video while the video plays (as with overlays, but I think most handheld devices don't support overlays). Thank you for the information. I should have clarified that I am programming for a pocket pc running Win Mobile 5.0. I've had no difficulty using the WMP control on the desktop, but I can't seem to add the control to my pocket pc device for ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Methods of base workflow not visible in Intellisense of derived workflow

  I created a base workflow class "MyBaseWorkflow", derived from SequentialWorkflowactivity. this class defines some methods, like "MyEntity GetEntity(Guid string)", to get a certain entity from a database. Then I created a workflow which derives from "MyBaseWorkflow". The problem ist, the GetEntity method is not visible in any Intellisense window, e.g. in the rule declaration wizard. That means, I cannot provide the workflow developer with easy-to-consume "helper" methods to accomplish this task. Is there any way to do this better, or can I attach an attribute or such in order to let these base class methods appear in the designer Thanks for any help, Urs ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Compact and OleDb Datasets

  I am considering using SQL Compact in a new project, but during my testing I run into the weirdest errors. I don't want to use the specialized SqlCeConnection, but rather OleDbConnection so the application supports any database (theoretically). I cannot get it to work with datasets though. In my small testapp, I can create tables, insert data and get data with raw sql sentences and OleDbCommands. But when I try to use a Dataset with DataAdapters, then I receive weird errors like: When I run DataAdapter.Update: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException was caught Message="The given type name was unrecognized. [,,,,,]" Source="Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition OLE DB Provider" ErrorCode=-2147217872 When I try to Conf ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System BUG: Event Subscriptions without domain/machine name

  It is allowed to subscribe to events using the following syntax: ".\\USER". The subscriptions are stored successfully in the tbl_subscription in the TfsIntegration database. In the subscriber column, the SSID is stored, not the username. This is working as expected. The bug is related to EventSubscriptions method on the TFS EventService. If I try to query using the same username as I initially subscribed with (.\\USER), I get an empty array returned. If I on the other hand, change the username to "MACHINE\USER", it returns the subscriptions as expected. Should I report this issue through the proper feedback (Microsoft Connect I presume) or is this forum post enough Regards, Sondre ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help!! - Code doesn't update when I run debug

  OK - This is my second time asking. No one has answered my last post. Yesterday - I created a program. While I was working on the code I occasional would run the program. I would then see some errors in the way I wanted the code to work and then make changes to the code. All the sudden – when doing the same thing as above – when running the code through debug I noticed that the changes in the code where not taking effect. I then tested my theory and found that I could even create errors or remove large chunks of code and the program would still run as if I didn’t make these changes. Can anyone please explain It's disappointing that up till this point (nearly a year later), there has not bee ...Show All

• Windows Forms Include the parent control when a child is cut / copied and pasted.

  Hi all, This is the final step in what became a rather involved process. The big picture is that I need to present a container control at design-time which does NOT clip its children. So yeah, I want for instance a child button control to be able to draw beyond its parent's bounds. I've gotten it to work by implementing an "envelope / hub" mechanism, where the hub is the above-mentioned container, and the envelope is its parent, another container which sizes itself to envelop the hub. When the user needs to "float" (ie. un-clip) the child button, it gets re-parented to the envelope and now has free reign to paint over the hub's bounds. All that to say, I have one final problem: when the hub is cut to clipboard, ...Show All