Bluhman's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Difference between Visual C++ and Visual Basic.net

  hi, What is the Difference between Visual C++ and Visual Basic.net thanks I think you mean Visual C# .net and Visual Basic .net, right If so, you can refer to this KB URL: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/308470 And if you dont have the time to read it, generaly they are the same, both are complied to MSIL. They differ slightly within the code syntax and some classes. I hope this helps ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. The values used in the attempt to create the GraphicsDevice were invalid.

  Is this because my graphic card does not support shader model 2 I didn't even know of this requirement till I saw it on the readme file. Time to change my geforce4 Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600 here, same error - total bummer too, might have to work on the laptop for a while until I either buy a new card or a solution arises... still, looks like nice concise code, reminds me of the Jad engine, good stuff guys at least from what I can see of it :) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Branching Model - Staircase vs. Mainline

  Is there a preferred branching model to use for VSTF We are currently using the mainline branching model (software configuration management pattern), but are running into a couple issues that we didn't anticipate. For example, we currently have the following source control structure: /main/foo /Rel1-maint/foo /Rel1.1-maint/foo Both Rel1-maint and Rel1.1-maint were branches off the main branch. The problem that we are having right now is when there is a bug fix in Rel1 we make the changes and then merge back to the main. Since there is no way to merge changes from Rel1 to Rel1.1 directly, I guess we need to merge from Rel1 to Main and then do a file-by-file branch back to Rel1.1. Is there any better way to do this Would you suggest t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Filtering Associated Work Items

  I have a TFS project that includes multiple solutions for more than one team (client, server, etc.). I have set up a build type that builds solution server.sln successfully. However, I want the build log to display the work items associated with this build that only fall under a certain area path. I have my area paths set up hierarchically for each team. How is this possible Thank you, Sammy Okay... well this will result in achieving what I want right, why unfortunately Is there a problem in doing what I'm about to do ! Thank you, Sammy ...Show All

• SQL Server Bulk Insert performance

  I have a situation where I need to do multiple inserts into the sql mobile db at one time. I am wondering what would be the most efficient method to do this. Right now I am just doing many inserts, but the performance is lacking. I tried to wrap all the inserts into 1 sql command and process it like that, but it does not seem to want to execute. Any help would be appreciated. Form a loop to write the columns (tab seperated) in the order exactly as in the table in database using SteamWriter object's WriteLine() method. Code Block using System.Data.SQLClient; cnMessage=new SQLConnection("Your Connectionstring") string PathToFile="\\\\DBServer\\Messages\\File.txt" cmdMessag ...Show All

• SQL Server Calling .Net Assembly or Dll from SQL Server 2005 at config Level 80

  Hi, I create a dll assembly with the strong name in VB.Net environment. Created assembly is registered also. SQL Server 2005 configuraton level is set at "80" I want to call that assembly from stored procedure with the database config level at "80" But when i execute the stored proecure i get the following error Error Source: "ODSOLE Extended Procedure" Description: "Invalid Class String" My Code in VB.Net is given below: Imports System Imports System.Reflection Imports System.Globalization Imports System.IO Imports System.data Imports System.Data.SqlClient Imports System.Data.SqlTypes Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Server Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Imports System.Diagnostics I ...Show All

• SQL Server Login problems on Vista before and after SP2

  Hi: I have recently updated my Sony Vaio and installed Windows Vista. After installing I could not access my SQL databases because of the NT Authorisation / sysadmin problem. I have since installed SQLServer SP2 (Nov CTP) but the problem persists. If I run SQL Management Studio under the administrative account I can login just fine. I have also made sure the 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM' is marked for sysadmin access (which it is). The eror I get is Error 18456. What else can I do to gain access via Windows Authorisation TIA, MartinH. Hello Martin, Are you are logging into the Vista under any domain credentials If so please add the domain user as the local system administrator and try. Thanks, Prakash P [MSFT] ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error while viewing the Workflow Designer

  I'm always getting the following error whenever I'm trying to open any new or existing workflow. I've downloaded all the CTP Runtime Components and Visual Studio extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2 couple of days back. The Error: Method 'GetSelectedPropertyContext' in type 'Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner.ExtendedUIService' from assembly 'Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' does not have an implementation. Hide at Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner.XomlWindowPane..ctor(DesignSurface surface) at Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner.DeferrableWindowPaneProviderService.CreateWindowPane(DesignSurface surface) at Microsoft.VisualStud ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System automated unit tests

  Hello, I have a Solution consisting of 3 Projects. One main App that depends on a COM-ActiveX Control, and a project that builds an assembly wrapping native C++ code with some image processing algorithms. Additional there is a project that performs the unittest for this project. Everything works fine when I do a local run: the test runs and I get my coverage results. When automating this doing a Build, my compilation still works fine ( after doing some adjustments to the TFSBuild.proj - file as described here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=421666&SiteID=1 ) , but the tests won't run: Das Projekt c:\BuildDir\DicomViewer\Nightbuild\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj erstellt c:\BuildDir\DicomViewer\Nightbuild\BuildType\TFSBu ...Show All

• .NET Development NotifyIcon_BalloonTipClicked or any event on NotifyIcon Not working in windows service

  I have a windows service and a windows form is included in the service project. the windows form is having one NotifyIcon. It is working for showing ballon and for all other properties like NotifyIcon.visible etc.. but the events are not firing. Can somebody help me   this .WSnotifyIcon.BalloonTipClicked += new EventHandler (WSnotifyIcon_BalloonTipClicked); this .WSnotifyIcon.MouseClick += new MouseEventHandler (WSnotifyIcon_MouseClick); public void WSnotifyIcon_MouseClick( object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { MessageBox .Show( "hi u r in WSnotifyIcon_MouseClick" ); } public void WSnotifyIcon_BalloonTipClicked( object sender, EventArgs e) { MessageBox .Show( "hi u r in WSn ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. foreach slower than for on 360?

  Hi, I have been hearing on the "internets" that foreach runs slower on the XBox 360 CF because of the IEnumerators used. According to this hot book, "Effective C# (item 11)", it claims that the C# compiler 1.1+ generates different code when a foreach is used on an array. The code avoids IEnumerator and even avoids bounds check that a normal for() loop would invoke. The book, however, was written in 2004. I was hoping for a a final statement on this because I just find it hard to believe that foreach is slower on the XBox 360 and enjoy the syntax it offers. Thanks. Two clarifications: Due to an optimization in the C# compiler, foreach does not cause garbage if you use it to iterate ...Show All

• SQL Server 'Processor Affinity from server properties

  Hi everyone, Primary platform is 2005 under 64-bit. I'm trying to figure out what does 'Processor Affinity' and 'I/O Affinity' means when you're viewing server properties. We've got eight processors. Thanks for your comments, Hi, Jerome. We're having a weird problem with multi-processor systems (we're currently an MSVC++ shop). One piece of software locks up with processor affinity 1 and doesn't with processor affinity 0. Usually our software works the other way around: multiple processors tend to introduce weird things like apparently random data for class pointers and such, and processor affinity 1 makes it work. Any ideas >> If you do decide to make changes to either setting ensure that the sam ...Show All

• .NET Development check if xmlreader is empty or not

  I'm reading xml from a table . Table has two columns - id and xml I'm retrieving the xml using ID from the table and placing it in xmlreader. I want to check if a particlar ID contains an xml or not How do I do it One problem is that you can't decide whether text is valid XML or not without parsing it. And System.Xml doesn't contain anything like TryParse(). What I recommend is limit number of special cases program checks before passing text to XmlReader. For example check only that field is not null or empty. More special logic -- more chances to enter the gray area. XML is deceptively simple. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista tracking service is slow

  Hello I am using beta 2.2 of the WF Engine. Using the SQLTracking service to extract parameters from the WF I ancounter the problem, that the data is not yet in the database when I show my WFStatus on my web page. Do I have to flush the result when tracking data How can I do this thanks in advance Josef Hi, Are you using the SQLTracking service in transactional mode When the SqlTracking service is in transactional mode , writes to the database are batched. If you would like to see the events as soon as they happen so that you can see it live say in a web page, try setting the isTransactional property to false. This will make sure that the tracking data is written to the database as soon as they happen. Alternately, if you wo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) TreeViewItem: hide item when it is the last node in the tree level

  I have a TreeView and for the TreeViewItem I have created a style with a ControlTemplate in it. One of the elements is a line to connect all the tree nodes (visually, that is). But for the last node in the tree level it should hide this line, because there is no other node to connect to. The way I was thinking to do this, is to set the Visibility of the line element by using a Binding string/statement/whatever it is called: Visibility="{Binding Path=..., RelativeSource={...}}" RelativeSource should then point to a property of some sorts which tells me if the current TreeViewItem is the last node in that level. Is there such a property available Or has anyone done something like this before and knows how to do it ...Show All