simon_'s Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System TFS MSSCCI provider 1.2

  I'm using version 1.2 of the TFS MSSCCI provider and I'm having problems using with eMbedded C++ 4 (SP4). I seem to be getting the Server Busy dialog shortly after bringing up Add to Source Control . Unfortunately I can type fast enough to get all the information in until the dialog pops up and makes it impossible to add projects to source control with current WinCE native (non-managed) development tools. Is this a known issue Any workarounds Thanks Please look at the blog post I just published - http://blogs.msdn.com/michalma/archive/2007/02/15/msscci-with-embedded-c-4.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions hide tab header

  how do I hide tab header of each tab in tabcontrol I would like control browsing of each tab myself . rgds, charles If you permanently want to hide the tab headers, don't use a TabControl, just use a set of Panel controls. Start out with all Panel.Visible = false except the first one... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project/TFS Integration issue - please help

  Ok, this is my last effort before opening a ticket with Microsoft and spending the rest of my life on the phone with them. I have Project Server setup, and I have it receiving its data from TFS. The data is replicating between the 2, etc. Here is the problem. When I click "Refresh" on the Team plugin for project a couple times, the data will change. Here is an example: I have a work item with Actual (Completed) Work set to 8 hours. This shows in TFS. Refreshing it in project shows the 8 hours fine. However, if I refresh again it changes it bakc to 0. Clicking refresh 2 more times sets it back to 8, hitting it again makes it go back. This happens with most of the work items, and I cant for the life of me figure out what it is. ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem deploying custom report item. Items shows in preview screen in VS, but not in server deployed report

  I have developed a custom report item that works fine in design and preview mode while in Visual Studio. I cannot get it to show up on my deployed reports. Here's what I have done so far: 1. Deployed the report using Visual Studio 2. updated the rsreportserver.config file with the following entry: <ReportItems> <ReportItem Name="PedigreeChart" Type="Uabr.Rap.PedigreeChart.PedigreeChartRenderer, Uabr.Rap.PedigreeChart" /> </ReportItems> 3. Updated the rssrvpolicy.config file with the following entry. <CodeGroup class="UnionCodeGroup" version="1" PermissionSetName="FullTrust" Description="This ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Console app problem

  This is pritty weird... no matter what i try to do in console app it will close itself auto after it done the event... why this happens .. ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development HDDVD_E_INVALIDOPERATION when switching tracks

  In the HDiSim, I'm getting an error most of the time I switch to play another title. The error is thrown when a new title is called like so: Player.playlist.titles["title1"].chapters[0].top(); This only happens if a title is currently playing. Do I need to stop a title before starting a new one The readme I have just indicates that you should have a current gen video card with 256mb RAM. I have the new Toshiba Laptop with a GeForce 7600 256MB, so that should fit the bill. I stripped out a bunch of timer managed code and most of my javascript. Now the video plays smoothly. I'm going to back and slowly add all my script, checking video playback along the way to see what might be causing the issue. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development FileIOPermission issue

  Hi, I'm trying tot write an App that runs through the system just reading files and producing a hash of each file. The problem is that certain files in the CE file system are protected and I can't seem to read from them. The Exception occured in these lines; private string GetHash( BinaryReader br, int SizeOfFile) { byte [] hash; ASCIIEncoding enc = new ASCIIEncoding (); byte [] buffer = new byte [SizeOfFile]; br.Read(buffer, 0, SizeOfFile); }   From what I was getting from Visual studio suggeted I did something like the following: using System.Security; using System.Security.Permissions; [assembly:FileIOPermission(SecurityAction.RequestOptional, Unrestricted = true )] ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem adding stored proc commands to Typed DataSet

  This one appears to be a bug in the Typed DataSet designer in Visual Studio 2005 but maybe I'm just missing something. Here is how it happens: I have a table "Friends" already setup in my Typed DataSet with only a Fill query configured on it's table adapter. I switch over to SQL Management Studio, connect as "sa" and create a stored proc "Friends_Insert" and then I grant Execute permission on the stored proc to my non-admin sql user account "jason". I switch back to VS2005 and in the DataSet designer I click the "FriendsTableAdapter" object. It's Connection property shows a connection string configured to connect to SQL Server 2005 as "jason". I click the InsertCommand property an ...Show All

• Windows Forms runtime error while running the setup on vista

  Hi everybody, I am getting the following runtime error while running the setup on vista. If anybody has faced similar error, Pls help me. The error is as follows: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: propglue.exe Application Version: 12.0.1.161 Application Timestamp: 452c8925 Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll Fault Module Version: 6.0.5744.16384 Fault Module Timestamp: 452358e5 Exception Code: c0150002 Exception Offset: 000089f3 OS Version: 6.0.5744.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 9d13 Additional Information 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8 Additional Information 3: 9d13 Additional Information 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8 Read our privacy statement: http:// ...Show All

• SQL Server The configuration of the AdminConnection\TCP protocol in the SQL instance SQLEXPRESS is not valid

  Hello, I am getting the following warning in the Application Event Log: The configuration of the AdminConnection\TCP protocol in the SQL instance SQLEXPRESS is not valid. The warning is logged by the SQLBrowser service. This is happening on Windows 2003 server with SQL Server Express 2005. On the same machine SQL Server 2000 is installed. I am currently unable to connect from remote clients to the instance of SQL Express and I believe it has to do with this warning (I've tried all the usual remote connection troubleshooting without success - enabled protocols, SQL Browser Service running, there is no firewall on the server, I disabled firewall on the client when trying to connect). Does anyone know how to resolve this iss ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to work with comma separated values?

  C# VS2005 Am reading data from GPIB instrument, it comes back as comma separated values. I try to create a string and work with the new CSV features, but cannot find examples. Am hoping to take the comma separated value string from the instrument and put each value into a unique textbox. have tried many ways, cannot figure it out. have a string with CSV data, am hoping to see the new feature, otherwise will have to dig out old C books and manually sift thru the array of chars tia If it's a pure CSV, you can load it into a String and .Split it on the comma character. This will return an array of Strings, ordered by their sequence in the CSV. You can then place them into the a ...Show All

• .NET Development Folder Copying

  Hi,     i have a requirement where i have to transfer files between two pcs and also update the transfered files in both pcs whenever they are updated in any of the pcs. Am able to transfer the files. but now i have to monitor the files for any updates(i.e.renamed,changed).There is a component Filesystemwatcher in .net to monitor changes occured to files in a directory(It monitors all files in a particular directory).But i want to monitor a particular file in a directory. Is there any other method other than filesystemwatcher to accomplish this task If there is no alternative then how to accomplish Folder copying instead of file transfering You can use Filter property of ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista GetCurrentUser/GetUser call and security elevation

  I have a problem that I have yet to find a documented answer. I need to obtain the logged in user while running a setup application. I am trying to create a scheduled task in Vista and this is one part of the issues that I am having. The setup application is required to run with admin privledges. Calling GetCurrentUser or Getuser returns the admin where I expected the logged in (standard) user. My intended use is to allow for the creation of a scheduled task using the user name of the logged in standard user yet the documentation clearly says the owner of the currently running thread is the reported user - any other options Thanks for the response yet I've been struggling with the code sample when i ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Radiosity Light Maps Generator

  Hello, I wish to light my worlds (about 200k triangles) with light maps computed by a radiosity processor. However, radiosity calculation is incredibly slow for medium/large worlds and so acceleration technique are needed. Computing lightmap on the GPU is a way to speedup the process, but I haven't found any far decent tool on internet (I have tried FSRad, but run on CPU and can't handle so much triangles). Any suggestions Thanks. P.S.: XNA include tools like this I don't think full-scene real-time radiosity light-map generation is possible on current PCs, with or without GPU acceleration. Have you considered using the D3DX library's Precomputed Radiance Transfer API ...Show All

• SQL Server How do I know if I have Enterprise or Standard on my machine?

  I go to help>About and it just says SQL Server 2005 Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Version 9.00.1399.00 The problem I'm having is that I'm unable to establish and instance of a server so I don't know or have a server name. This is one of the reasons why I want to know the edition I have. As I understand it, Enterprise edition does not support XP Pro OS, which is what I'm running. If I have enterprise then I figure I might as well give up on trying to get this solved. If I have standard, then I won't give up so easily. ...Show All