nglow's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Running outside TFS - Possible?

  I've got almost the same software at home as at work, except for the Team Foundation Server of course. I've installed the VSTS at home and have added the VSTS-DP. Is there some way I can take the db project from work (on a usb drive) and work on it at home and then merge the modified files back into the TFS-VC EDIT ******************************************* Well, I grabbed all the files from work thru remote.  Then tried to open it here at home. When it was opening it complained 3 times about not resolving the server name.  And also warned me about source control and gave me the option to work temporarily uncontrolled.  Toward the end of the load, it said I needed to go to Tools | Options and change the validation database ...Show All

• Smart Device Development What is WindowsCE and WindowsCE.NET?

  Can anyone please elaborate on what is WindowsCE and WindowsCE.NET WinCE is the real-time embedded OS from MS. Pocket PC and Smartphone editions of Windows Mobile are based on this OS. I have never heard of WindowsCE.NET. There is no such thing Manav ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can I find which files are updated by other users?

  Hi, I am new in visual sourcesafe. When I open "Microsoft Visual SourceSafe" or Visual Studio, I can easily see which files or folders are being locked by other users. But when they check in the files I can't find whcih files are updated to update my own local files by "Get Latest Version". Is there a way to easily find this out Of cours I can use the comapre tool, but it is not wise in a 10000 files solution. :) Thank you. If you have a solution/project open in Visual Studio, you can right click on the solution/project to bring up a context menu which then you can select the Get... menu item to bring up the Get dialog. The Get dialog should tell you which files VSS needs to g ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Datacontract versioning

  There appears to be 2 ways of versioning datacontracts: using the order= attribute to define additional non required datamembers. Creating a new version of the contract and service contract in new namspaces as per Craig McMurty's blog http://blogs.msdn.com/craigmcmurtry/archive/2006/07/23/676104.aspx . Can someone highlight the pros and cons of each I took a look at Craig's post. I have a similar set of diagrams, but I broke it up between service and data contracts. We more or less give the same advice. Based on your question, I posted two blog entries that take from my chapter on Contracts, to describe versioning issues and solutions: http://www.dasblonde.net/Default.aspx#ad21f52c6- ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problem using a data bound combo box

  (I'm using VS2005) Instead of using a bindingnavigator, I'm setting one field as a databound combo box with the display member and selected value set to the field. Then the other fields are text boxes and change based on the selected value of the combo box. The problem is that when I run the app, the form won't close. Why does this happen and what can I do to make the form run appropriately Thanks. There aren't any other controls on the form. I basically started a project, added a datasource, set the table to "details" instead of grid view, set one field to a combobox, dragged a couple fields to the form, set the combobox on the form to "use data bound items" (display member and sel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office "Go live" with a share add in application

  Hello. I've developed a shared add in application using Visual Studio 2005. Does anyone know how I install the addin on a computer that doesn't have Visual Studio installed... I'll be happy for any answers :) Thanks Yes of course. If you are writing a managed add-in then you need an eniv (.net 2.0) to execute it. You need to copy all the dlls that you reference, to the client m/c. Whether they are PIAs or any other dlls. You can choose to GAC all the dependent dlls. Hope this helps Regards, Pavan ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Drastic FPS fall,when rendering QUAD

  Hello guys, I've been working on my 3D directx game for a while and I've recently added QUAD(ship cockpit), inversly transformed to VIEW, so its like GUI. However, I am encountering big fall FPS - well normally my time delay between frames is 17 ms, but when I render quad it jumps to 50 'ms'. What's strange is that rendering tha quad + needed preRender+postRender takes just 6 'us'. So why is there 5000x longer delay. Moreover, I've noticed that I can bypass time delay increase by rendering quad without being scaled and transformed to [0,0,1]=> (further to the front) position - there is no TIME INCREASE...but then the "cockpit image" takes just 30% of the screen and so it is not very realistic. Some info about the imag ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSIP package load failure

  hi, i have developed a VSIP package for 2005. I got the PLK also. i deployed it on my machine on my machine if i run devenv with the /novsip argument, it works fine, but on any other machine,if i deploy and then run devenv with the /novsip argument, the package load failure for my package happens. I am confused about this behaviour. any help is kindly appreciated thanks in advance Welcome, Nandan! :) Did you have a chance to overview that blog-post - Debugging Package Load Failures ...Show All

• SQL Server Error 28092 when upgrading from Express to Workgroup Edition

  Hello, when I try to upgrade SQL Server 2005 using this command line: setup.exe /qb SKUUPGRADE=1 UPGRADE=SQL_Engine INSTANCENAME=Z1 SQLACCOUNT=NT-AUTORITAT\SYSTEM SECURITYMODE=SQL SAPWD=XXXXXX I get error 28092 (administrator rights needed). It seems like the upgrade tries to use Windows authentification although I've told it to use SQL Server authentification. Or did I miss a parameter in my command line If I do the upgrade manually it works without needing Windows authentification. 1) Yes, but on Vista with UAC enabled. Vista asks for admin evelation and I allow it. May this be the problem Shall I try under Windows XP 2) Both are the German versions. Maybe this is a similar p ...Show All

• SQL Server stored procedure addressing generic table

  I want to use ONE stored procedure to update/insert about 300 tables in a database. I hoped this code would work but it gives me an error: ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[InsertRowsTick] @tableName varchar, @bid float, @ask float, @last float, @volume int, @dateTimed DateTime AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; INSERT INTO tableName ( bid, ask, last, volume, dateTimed) Values ( @bid, @ask, @last, @volume, @dateTimed) END When I (1) commented out @tableName parameter and (2) instead of INSERT INTO tableName wrote: INSERT INTO <realtableName> the code (C#) executed and the table was filled. How can I use a generic table name as a parameter Thanks. Alex, Check sp_executesql. However be carefull. You might be opening a se ...Show All

• SQL Server Efficient sorting by an XML node value over multiple table rows

  Hi colleagues. I would like to use the newest XML feature for localization problem. So: I have  Country table with Name column of XML data type. This column contains a country's names in amount of languages, in a format like: "<ru> </ru><en>Russia</en><fr>Russie</fr>...". I liked that approach much until I faced a problem - How to select all the countries ordered by French name So I created primary and secondary (PROPERTY) XML indexes in order to increase efficiency of the following query: select top 100 * from Country order by Name.value('(/fr/text())[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') However, when I tested that query over 150 000 rows it turned out to be 60(!) times slower than to quer ...Show All

• .NET Development Hashtable insert failed. Load factor too high - NET 2.0 bug ?

  Hi Guys We are having an intermittent problem with an ASP 2.0 website which renders the entire site unusable until we restart I.I.S. Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Hashtable insert failed. Load factor too high. This is a known issue with the .NET framework 1.1 and there is a knowledge base article and associated hot fix ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831730/ ) however I can't find any reference to this being an issue with .NET 2.0, which is what we are currently running (in conjunction with Windows Server 2003) Has anybody else experienced this, if so how did you resolve it Thanks in advance Matt Williams Okay, got it, it is deleting text between C++ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Update/Edit DataGridView

  Hello, I have a DataGridView that is bound to a database. I've been trying to figure out how to get it to update when changes are made but can't seem to find the answer. I tried doing a update query directly on the datagrid but it won't allow me to do that. I tried creating one on the tableadapter as well but can't access from the datagrid properties. Could someone point me in the right direction walkswan no worries. I also learnt to help with the wizard generated data! :-) be sure that you set the database to copy if newer or never copy in the copy to output property of the database properties in the solution explorer. This could be one reason why you are not seeing the updates as it woul ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to get a form object through the form name

  Hi, I need to get a form instance, by supplying the form name i.e, i need some thing similar to Class.forName() in Java. I tried it using System.Type.GetType() method passing the form name as object. But the prob here is i'm getting an exception saying "System.Type can not be casted to a System.Windows.Form". How can i get the form object based on the form name. Any one plz suggest. Thanks, Hari That's because you're getting the Type of the form, not the Form itself. The difference is like between house description and house itself. You should create an instance as follows: Object foo ...Show All

• Visual C++ Existing MFC app. Switching from ODBC to OLE DB. ATL or MFC? Can I mix?

  I have an existing MFC app in which I connect to a VFP database using ODBC. Since VFP no longer supports ODBC, I am switching to OLE DB for the connection. Should I be using MFC or ATL to implement this interface Can I mix ATL classes in my MFC application The MSDN library has the following comments that I don't understand: The following example assumes that you are adding OLE DB consumer support to an existing ATL project. If you want to add OLE DB consumer support to an MFC application, you should run the MFC Application Wizard, which creates all the support necessary and invokes MFC routines necessary to execute the application . When I originally created this APP I did run the MFC Application Wizard at that time. B ...Show All