LankyNibbs's Q&A profile

• .NET Development aspnet_wp.exe (PID: XXXX) stopped unexpectedly.

    I've got a c# Service that runs on several boxes, it connects to a web service running on my dev box. From my dev box and another dev box it works fine. But when connecting from a 3rd non dev box(but which has remote debugging installed), when the service calls the method, it gets and error page that directs me to the event long on the server host box (my dev box) in there I see the error aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 3944) stopped unexpectedly. Up until recently the box was able to connect to the web service. If I take the URL out of the log file and paste it into internet explorer, I see the webservice Gui page. If I run the web service on my dev box (view in browser) and put in the same input parameter ...Show All

• SQL Server temp table naming

  I have a procedure that creates temp tables. I made the temp tables local - using # instead of ## - but I still get a 'table exists' error, when I run it from 2 qa sessions at the same time. I am deleting tables at the begining of the proc and again at the end - using IF EXISTS(SELECT name FROM tempdb.dbo.sysobjects where name = '#Archive_In')DROP TABLE #Archive_In Is this expected behaviour   I thought using # would make it local to the connection If this is expected, how do I make it work   I thought SQL used the spid or something, appended to the end of the table, and maintained that reference The table isn't being dropped because there is no table in tempdb named #Archive_In. As you already said, the tabl ...Show All

• Visual C# Subtracting Times with Date

  I thought this might have been a simple task...I need to subtract 4 hours from the current datetime that is input.  The datetime format is mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm and the hours are a 24 hour clock.  After it's input, I then take and parse this string into a strDate array and strTime array by doing args[0].split('/') and args[1].split(':').  After this is where I try to subtract the 4 hours, but there's a whole lot to account for as in if the hour is 1, you'd have to go to the previous day and if the day is the first day of the month, going back one day would take you back another month, etc.  Is there an easier way to do this   The month is really what's throwing me.  Thanks in advance for the help! ...Show All

• Visual C# Run Windows Application From Windows Service?

  Hi, I have made a windows service that has a timer checks for a certain time to remind me. Now the time is reached so i want the service to display an alert!! I have made a windows app that shows the alert but when i run it from the service it runs but not GUI displayed!!! I can see it runs from the Task Manager but i cant show the form. So is there any way to dispay i GUI alert from a windows service Thanks a lot Hello Mr TheMaj0r I have doubts on the same topic,But I am new to .NET and I don't have any idea abt .NET remoting ,Can u plz post code How to run windows application from windows service, or Plz give me step by step process How to do it ,I hope u will understand my Request,I will be waiting for ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem With ClickOnce Update

  Hi!! I had published and installed a sample application using the click once. Then i had then updated the sample Application version and published the updated version(Just Published and not Installed) . Now when i run the previous version for the first time, i get the Message "Update is available,Would u like to install it. YES or SKIP". when i click the "Skip" button, the previous version is opened. But when i close the previous version and then again start the previous version , i dont get the update popup. I dont know why the update is not be checked for the second time...... How to solve this issue...PLz help me out.....This is an Urgent Issue....... check this blog entry. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Data source window is empty even though I've been using datasources...

  All of the sudden all of the datasources listed in my data source window have dissappeared... and everytime I click on a control's tasks arrow and click the datasource property, VS2005 gives an error and shuts down. If I click on the datasource properties in the properties window, it gives the old "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error message. The datasource xml( ) files are still listed under the properties\DataSources folder in the solution explorer. My program compiles and runs fine, but I can't add a datasource to the project or change an object's datasource. What could be the problem Thanks Nate Fixed my own problem... I had one datasource out of about te ...Show All

• SQL Server Ralph Kimball Group SSIS webcast

  We see a lot of posts here related to data warehousing - it is clearly a hot topic with forum readers. You may be interested to see that the Joy Mundy of the Kimball group is giving the following webcast : Using SQL Server Integration Services to Populate a Kimball Method Data Warehouse featuring Joy Mundy July 11: 11:00 AM–12:00 Noon PT Anyone using SSIS in data warehousing will find this to be a most useful webcast - it was a hit at TechEd. I'm sure it will answer many questions and give great insights for forum readers. Donald The Kimball Group has a book "Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit" and a companion website www.msftdwtoolkit.com . This should provide you with good information. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Files on Xbox360

  I'm in the process of writing my master thesis about hybrid shadow casting methods using the Xbox360. I have a few questions I would love to have clearified. - Say I wanted to use a .3DS file to represent my scene and models. Are there a way to get this file to the xbox360 without using the content pipeline since it doesn't support this format. I know this might be a simple problem, but I just can't seam to figure out how to do it. I know that Abi's RocketCommander uses some custom .level files which is just placed and copied directly. Would this work for .3DS files as well - In case it does, how would I access it Normal file IO This whole reason for using the .3DS file format is the fact that it incapsules geometry, cameras, ligh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Integration adapters

  There's mention in the Team Foundation Server Extensibility documentation of "integration adapters" with an example of a help desk application that synchronizes help desk requests are synchronized with work items. But, that's about as much detail on "integration adapters" that I could find in the extensibility documentation. I recall mention that one benefit of the TFS architecture is that a SQL Server instance is available for use to store extension-/application-specific data. Is there a recommended architecture and process for this type of integration Specifically, if data-centric extensions or linked applications are expected to use the TFS SQL Server instance is there a client-side property or method for ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio ContextGuids ?

  In my ever searching quest to understand the DTE objects inside and out I have been searching for information on the DTE top level class ContextGuids.  It states in MSDN help that Context Guid: Contains context GUIDs, each of which represents a given IDE or tool window state, such as a debugging is in process, an empty solution is loaded, or the IDE is in design view. How would I write code that would find each one of the above examples And is there a place that lists these ContextGuids I use C# but can decipher VB (I hope).   Oh and while I have your attention can someone tell me why I would want to use the DTE2 level ProjectKinds instead of PrjKind or PrjKinds found in the language specific class Thanks so muc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Version Control on documents

  Is there "version control" available for the documents that published to the project portal Forget the sharepoint checkin/checkout it's a waste of time. We have a pretty large library of documents that needed versioning as well. Our solution was just to go ahead and create a Documents project with it's own source control tree and handle it that way. These documents are under constant development, so it made sense to go ahead and do it. The Doc team seems to be pretty happy with the solution. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Bug in 'Move' feature?

  Hi, Here is a reproduction of the steps I took. I had a folder in TFS at the path $/Root/Recon. I mapped a local path to it in my workspace (C:\Dev\Recon). I then attempted to move the folder in TFS to another location and received a message to the effect that a move could not be performed because the fodler was mapped to a local path. That was ok, so I removed the mapping. Then I tried again and got this error: No appropriate mapping exists for c:\Dev\Recon. I tried this multiple times with the same end result. I even shut down VS and restarted it. Finally, I another random TFS folder to c:\dev\recon. THEN only it worked. Sounds like a bug. Or was I performing the move incorrectly Hi Richard, Here's the output (edited) from tf work ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Database Project Question

  I've got a team of 10 developers and we'll be migrating to VSTS DBPro as soon as it's released. In the mean time, I've created a database project containing our database schema and have it under source control. At the moment, I am the only one of the 10 that has the project loaded on his/her laptop. My question is this. When other developers first retrieve the project from source control and load it on their own laptops, is there is anything else they will need to do to begin working on the project Will they be able to simply retrieve from source control and go Thanks - Amos. Should work. But don't place the proj.user file under source control. This file is individual for each box / user. Alle ...Show All

• Windows Forms Mouse Wheeling

  So I've got this genious idea. The current issue, is that I require constant capture of the mouse wheel. My for is pretty much completely covered by various controls. What I want to know is, can I capture the mousewheel on the form level, even though the mouse might be over a textbox And secondly, what event gets fired off when I scroll my mousewheel Where can I add code to do something with the mouse wheel I figured that THAT would be the easiest way to do that. However, I have no idead HOW to call THAT procedure when the mouse wheel is actually moved... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to find the target directory in ASP.NET

  Hi i am downloading a file from ftp programitically in ASP.NET using c#.and i am unable to trace the target directory in which the file is stored.i am using a DLL to do this functionality.the link is as follows. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/dotnetftp.asp i want to trace the target location directory. Thanks Chandu.Sanka When working in the web the assumed root directory is the websites root not C:\. For example if your web site is located at C:\Inetpub\www then C:\Inetpub\www is the root. So you need to do this using System.IO; // Create a reference to the current directory. DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(@"c:\"); // Get the files FileInfo[] fi = di.GetF ...Show All