AlanKohl's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Question about TFS parts

  I've noticed ( )that there are some parts in the TFS Architects,developers,testers,database What does it all mean Are they parts of they tfs different components Avi Those are different SKUs of Visual Studio. All of them include the same "Team Explorer" client that lets you connect to TFS. This page shows which features appear in which SKU: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/products/compare/ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Creators Club Benefits

  "Both subscriptions provide aspiring game developers with access to thousands of game assets from Microsoft and key partners such as Turbo Squid Inc., as well as white papers, specialized starter kits, samples and technical product support to help turn Your World, Your Game into a reality." Am I missing something here Where can I get access to these 'specialized starter kits' and 'samples' Have I been deceived into buying this subscription If so, is there some way I can get my money back Maybe I'm missing something... Since Xbox lib/classes < Windows lib/classes, your totally sweet game should be able to converted to a totally sweet Windows game pretty easily... On the ...Show All

• SQL Server Looking for the meaning of some labels

  Dear fellows, LOP_BEGIN_XACT, LOP_COMMIT_XACT, LOP_INSERT_ROWS Labels as the ones are easy recognizable when you explore LDFS by mean DBCC or whatever but on the contrary the following ones are tricky to reach the meaning: LOP_IDENTITY_TYPE LOP_DELTA_SYSIND LOP_SET_BITS Does anyone have any link related with this I tried hard to search by Goog or something like that but unsuccessfully at all. As Matt says, these are internal structures, and aren't documented in public forums. If you have a need to see these structures, please continue the conversation offline with Don Vilen donv@microsoft.com ...Show All

• Visual C# declaring abstract method that receives different parameters

  i want to declare an abstract method, just formality since i can declare them with the same name in inherit classes without declaring the abstract in parent, anyway, the problem is that according to subclass type, it must receive different parameters. in both cases they are enum values, but different types of enums for each subclass. i can not declare a 'void' parameter, i dont know if i can declare for example a casting in a declaration, like: in parent abstract something(int someparam) in subclass something ((int) enumtype someparam) is this possible First I must repeats the others' statement that your design is not of much use, but nevertheless, this should work: abstract ...Show All

• SQL Server round function in sql statement not executing

  Hi , I'm new to t-sql so bear with me cos this might be a stupid question. The code below SELECT [CODE], [PERIOD], [OPERATOR], [RATE], Round(IIF([OPERATOR]='/',[RATE],1/[RATE]),3) AS EXCHRATE INTO tbl_currency_test FROM [SUNDB].[dbo].[SSRFCNV] WHERE [CODE]='NGN' AND [PERIOD]<>0 always gives me the following error message Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 Line 1: Incorrect syntax near '='. However when i remove the round() code from the statement it executes fine. Can someone please please let me know what i'm doing wrong here.... Cheers Hi, The IIF is for MDX statements. For SQL statements, you need to use the CASE keyword. SELECT [CODE], [PERIOD], [OPER ...Show All

• .NET Development Empty strings in System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection

  Maybe there should be a specialized string containing collection that blocks adding empty strings I know v.v.easy but in my opinion should be included as standard. Well yes, I know. Overriding inherited Add and AddRange methods is even batter but a class like this should be included in Framework. It's my opinion. ...Show All

• .NET Development Configure what ports the .NET component uses?

  I am trying to run an application (Smartermail, a mail server built on the .NET framework), which uses a .NET component to manage its TCP connections. The application does not specify a local port, so apparently the component chooses one it considers open, from the range of 1024 to 5000 I think. Is there any way, as an administrator of the machine, I can predict, constrain, or influence what port will be chosen For example, how does the component decide a port is open Can I configure the machine to declare all but a few ports closed, so the component will always choose the ones I want it to use Can the component itself be configured at the machine level Is there some other utility in Windows 2003 server, the platform in questi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Returnvalue from server is null

  I have a problem when making a call from a client to the server. The call is supposed to return a custom object for the client to do some work on, but the object doesnt seem to reach the client. Here's my setup: Service Contract: [ ServiceContract ] public interface IClientControllerServiceContract { [ OperationContract ] TestStructureElement ClientReady(); .... }   Contract Implementation: [ ServiceBehavior (InstanceContextMode= InstanceContextMode .PerSession,ConcurrencyMode= ConcurrencyMode .Multiple)] public class ClientControllerService : IClientControllerServiceContract ..................... public TestStructureElement ClientReady() { List <System. Ty ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Basic projection, view and world matricies?

  Is there a tutorial out there about projection, view and world matrices I would like to check them out. If you want to learn about how to do matrix calculations yourself by hand, that's complicated and you should seek out some math books. However, in most cases you don't have to know anything about the math in order to be able to use them in a game. You simply need to understand what they are. The world matrix describes the position and orientation of the object you are about to ask the GPU to draw. The view matrix describes the camera's position, the world space point the camera is looking at, and the "up" vector for the camera. The up vector is typically the direction of the positive Y a ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS - OLE DB - IBM DB2 - SQLDUMP - more dumps than works....

  I have a package which access a DB2 database and pulls data from a single table. I can't put a specific event on it, but the package has been causing a dump to occur on a rather regular basis. The really odd part is sometime when I add a data viewer on the output link of the OLE DB Source it works....then it starts to dump again a couple of executions later. There are not date/time values involved in the result set, just character strings. Default code page is set to 1252 and use default page is set to False....any ideas appreciated - this is really starting to drive me nuts! Thanks Where is the connect site I'm not sure if it will help at all, but here is a list form the mtf file... Version ...Show All

• Visual C# .NET or CF.NET

  Hi... I am really very new in .NET programming. I have to develop an Application for Win XP-Embedded. Which Framwork should I use Normal .NET or Compact Framework Thanks.. I think that .NET for Embedded XP is called .NET Micro Framework . ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Target Menu, Connectivity Options Menu doesn't respond to selection

  I'm trying to build a CE image using the following environment: Vista RC2, Visual Studio 2005, Platform Builder CE 6.0. When I select the Target menu, Connectivity Options... choice, I get a brief change in the cursor, but no dialog box opens up, so I am unable to go any further. Has anybody any encountered this before Thanks in advance, Andrew Can you please manually try and register device emulator binaries They will be located in Program Files\Microsoft Device Emulator\1.0 1. DeviceEmulator.exe /register 2. DvcEmuManager.exe /register 3. regsvr32 SerDMAASPlugin.dll 4. regsvr32 DeviceEmulatorProxy.dll Hope this helps. Also please make sure you carry out these operations ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Humorous but somewhat serious question about XNA

  Microsoft has claimed the Nintendo Wii as a "kids toy;" however, if XNA can produce graphics and push performance up to what the Wii is capable of handling (games like Half-Life, Sims 2 from most XNA performance claims), does that mean that XNA is a kids toy too Kid's toy, geek toy, whatever you want to call it. There is no WNA for the Wii or PNA for PS3. I agree XNA is not as capable as pure DirectX/C++, but its not supposed to be. It supposed to be more accessible and faster development, which it is both. I'd love to have a Wii, but I'd love to have all 3 consoles. XNA is about development, making games not playing them. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server does not allow remote connections

  Hello , The problem is that we are having Problem while making the remote Connection to the Sql Server 2005 Basically We are having a problem connecting to SQL2005 through a package remotely. when we try to connect to a remote data base, we get the following error [Connection manager "CRA LRRS Development DB"] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Login timeout expired". An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: " An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When ...Show All

• Visual Basic NullReferenceException on splash screen

  Here's one for everyone. I have an app that I am using a splash screen with. In Windows XP it works great, no issues. In Windows 2000 not so much. It throws a System.NullReferenceException when the splash screen closes. I can choose continue from the error and the app works fine, but as you can imagin that looks bad to the end user. As per a suggestion made in a previous post. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=184053&SiteID=1 I loaded vb express on a 2K box and tried to catch the exception. It will not catch, I have it set to break on this exception, it just states a NullReferenceException was unhandled. After looking into the detail, it states that the exception is comming from the System.Windows.Forms.dll. C ...Show All