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• Visual Studio Team System Build directory on selected machine

  In the Build Team Project dialog, what is the purpose of the "Build directory on selected machine" field The Build window UI lets you use a different build machine and/or build directory than what is specified in tfsbuild.proj at the time of build type creation. More than one build under the same team project simultaneously on a build machine is not supported. So to run multiple builds of a build type simultaneously, one would have to select a different build machine (than what is specified in the .proj), and therefore, probably also a different build dir on the selected machine. Swaha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can't debug an ASP.NET project in VS 2003

  Hi All, I have an ASP.net project which I'm not able to debug. I don't get any error messages, but, when I try to debug using 'F5', the breakpoint in the Page_Load method changes to a " " and on mouseover, I see the message : "The breakpoint will currently not be hit.No symbols have been loaded for the document." The project compiles successfully though, and I have it in 'Debug' mode, not release, both in web.config and VS. I don't see a 'Debug' folder under 'bin' folder in the project. Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks Hi, Here are some more things you can check: 1. The bin directory contains a .pdb file to match the .dll for your app and that has the same timestamp. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista which VS.NET version goes with Vista ?

  Hi all, I have gone through the following installations on a clean machine: · Vista (RTM version) · Vista WDK · VS.NET 2005 version 2 During the installation of VS.NET I got a warning saying there is a known compatibility issue. It offers to search for online solutions, there was none… I installed anyway. Does anyone know which VS.NET version should I use on Vista I have found an SP1 and also a SP1 for Vista BETA version. Should I use both only Vista None Thanks, Osnat According to the Visual Studio on Windows Vista FAQ , " Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 with the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Circling an object

  hi, when i press the left arrow, i wish my camera to circle the camera-target. can someone please tell me how this is done Hi, a way to do this could be the following: transform your camera position in spherical coordinates (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalCoordinates.html) and perform the rotation easily in this space. Then you can go back to cartesian coordinates. Another way is the following: build a matrix that align your up vector to z axis and then perform the rotation of the camera position around the camera target in the XY plane (very easy to do) and then use the inverse of the computed matrix to return to the original space. - AGPX ...Show All

• Visual Basic Installing in Windows ME

  Got an old PC at the office with Windows ME. Tried to install my program created in VB.NET 2005 Standard Edition. Got this messages: Installation of Windows Installer 3.1 requires Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or Later Windows 2000 or later is required to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Any work around Windows ME! Wow, that's gotta be worth something as an antique. That machine must be about 5 years old, is it up to running VisualStudio even when you upgrade it to Win2000 VisStud likes plenty of resources (ram & processor) ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Architecture - what it is and what it will be

  As an initial discussion which can be helpful to all of us I would like to hear opinions of my colleagues regarding the basic question of just what is Architecture and what we would like it to be in the future. Regards, Behzad There is more than one architecture e.g. hardware, software. It is also important to distinguish between architecture as a description of a domain and architecture as a design process. From the software perspective the analyst role defines the business requirements of the solution, the designer / architect role determines how those requirements will be delivered. In this case the architect selects the most appropriate technologies for the job and specifies the interactions between them. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Exec Task and Long File Names

  I am having issues with the Exec Task when trying to execute .exe files who's path includes a long filename with spaces. <Target Name="Installer"> <Message Text="Installer..."/> <Exec Command="C:\Program Files\Macrovision\InstallAnywhere 8.0 Enterprise\Build.exe C:\Installers\test.iap_xml" WorkingDirectory="$(SourceDirectory)"/> </Target> This fails. I understand that the Exec Task passes on the the Command text to CMD.exe. I therefore think that I need to wrap the paths in ", but I cannot work out a way to do this, I have tried \" in the Command text where I would like the " to be, but this also fails. Any suggestions as to how I could ach ...Show All

• SQL Server Aggregation dependent on dimension attribute

  Hi, I have little tricky situation here and I'll try to describe it as accurately as possible... Using Analysis Services 2005, I need to provide a measure in which the aggregation is basically a sum, but sometimes based on a maximum within a dimension member. Here's the situation: Table: Event Available fields: Event Group, Date, Attendance Attendance is the measure and Event Group and Date (Time) are dimensions. Time has a Year - Month - Day hierarchy. Event Groups have an attribute "Same Attendance" that signifies that the same people attended all events in that Event Group. Example: Event Group: "VB.Net Course" - Same Attendance = true Related Events: Nov 10, 2006 - Attendance = 12 Nov 20, 2006 - A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Installing VSTO

  Where can I find information for installing and setting up VSTO I already have Visual Studio and Office 2003 installed and I need to figure out how I can setup Visual Studio so that I use VSTO functionality. At the top of this forum, there is a fixed post that says "Please Read this Next" ... That's what you want to read; all those links and posts and whatnot. Lots of good information in there. FYI - the VSTO 2005 SE works for both Office 2003 and 2007, and allows you to implement an application-level solution, and is FREE, verse the previous VSTO that only worked on 2003, implemented a document-level solution and wasn't free. ...Show All

• Visual C# Run application from WindowsService

  I have a windows service that needs to start a windows application at a certain time, but when it runs the application, I can't see it, but I can see it in the taskmanager. Any ideas why could be because its running under your account but in a seperate session. You could see what happens if you try to tell it to interact with the desktop (again from the same place you changed the user account to use) however I would advise against this as its bad practice. you should instead create a winform app that sits in the background which does this instead :-) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Question related to UAC

  Hi, I have question about UAC What I understand is that any software program is excuted in User Mode in Windows Vista even though the user loged in as Admin To execute software program in Admin Mode as in previouse OS, I should mark XML using the executing software program's manifest and get the user prove in the middle of program execution, then the mode will be changed to Admin mode I'm developing the system management program which must utilize all of Vista system resource I have marked XML using manifest in the program and register this at HKCU...Run registry key after registration, automatic execution does not occure. I expected that the user is asked to change mode every ...Show All

• Windows Forms App. runs on Win XP, not on Win 2000

  I created an VS 2005 application that runs on a Win XP SP2 computer. But xcopied to Win 2000 SP4, it silently fails to run, with no error messages. Both computers have .net 2.0 re-distributable installed. Any help Can you provide further information about the application Also, have you tested a simple 'Hello, World' app to try and isolate the problem ...Show All

• Visual C++ Profiling C++ .Net app in Visual Studio .Net 2003 enterprise version

  Hi, Does anyone know how to profile a C++ .Net application in VS .NET 2003. With VS 6, you can do it by enabling the "profile" in project property link page. But in VS .NET 2003, I couldn't find this setting. Has it moved to some other places DevPartner Performance Analysis Community Edition http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/profiler Be warned - you will get a phone call from their sales before you are finished downloading the file :-) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX10 asm

  actually I can't use Vista for make test in DirectX10, can please anyone post here an fx file with vertex,pixel and geometry shader and the relative compilation in asm using fxc10. I need to see it for a project that I've in mind thanks I know it but for my project I need to know how directX10 compile the geometry shader that is kind different from vertex and pixel shader (it has an inout list for example). What I need is an fx file (one of the fx shader in the october SDK for example) and its compilation with fxc10 (fxc10 /T fx4_0 filename) In that way I can see in assembly what it does. I've october SDK but fxc10 need directX10 installed and actually I can't install Vista on my machine to test personally. Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Aborting a load test

  I am attempting to implement a load test which we want to end after a certain number of transactions have been processed. I've been reading about the LoadTest.Abort() method which sounds like what I need to call (since it stops the load test on all agents). However, I'm confused about how I go about doing this and my attempts so far have failed. If I raise the Abort event by calling LoadTest.Abort(), will this event be handled or does custom code need to be written to make this happen Should this be as simple as just creating an instance of LoadTest in my existing load test code and calling Abort(), or do I need to create a class that implements ILoadTestPlugin If this is what I need to do, are there any examples or something that at l ...Show All