AaronBrock's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System TFS utilizing existing Sharepoint portal

  Hi all We are looking at implementing a TFS install fairly soon for our production source control. I've been looking at the eval version for the last week or so and have encountered a problem with one of the requirements I've been given. We have an existing Sharepoint portal (2003) server that we have our company intranet on. We are trying to determine if it is possible to configure TFS to create project sites on the sharepoint server as opposed to the app tier. If anyone has any feedback on this it would be much appreciated. P. FYI - this does work, but there were a couple of hiccups following the processes. Here's my feedback for anyone else that is trying to get this to work. In step 7, the whitepaper tells you to m ...Show All

• SQL Server Number Of Business Days

  Hello, Without creating an additional table and with the least amount of code, I'm looking for a way to determine the number of business days in a given month. Thanks Man. Is this list of holidays the ones that you mean New Year's Day President's Day (the Monday) Memorial Day (the Monday) Independence Day Labor Day (the Monday) Thanksgiving Day Christmas ...Show All

• Smart Device Development strange behavior of TextBox.Text of a secondary form of an application

  I am completely lost now and absolutely clueless. I really hope someone can shet some light on this. To isolate this puzzling behavior, I created a smartphone application called Test with a simple form and everythign is normal. I created another very simple Form called Input with a TextBox control named textBox1. The form is opened by a function of the main form Test (using either Show() or ShowDialog()). No matter what I type in textBox1, textBox1.Text remains the same. I can change textBox1.Text in code, but it is not reflected in display. I have the following event handler: private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { MessageBox.Show(textBox1.Text); textBox1.Text = "ABC"; MessageBox.Show( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System msmdsrv using 50% cpu for minutes

  When running reports with cumulative account response time because extremely slow. Msmdsrv on the server starts using 50% cpu for minutes. Hi Paso, Is this still happening for you If so, let me know. We can try to see what diagnostics to run on your system so we can figure out the problem. Mauli ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Strange face transparancy / flickering [video]

  I'm sure I'm doing something wrong at a very basic level but I'm just not sure what it is. Video: http://www.minimame.com/files/WierdTiger/Tiger.html Can someone take a look at this video and observe how you can see geometry through what should be completely opaque, especially around the tops of the legs. There is nothing fancy here; no alpha or stenciling etc. Just plain rotating the sdk tiger model. What am I doing wrong Thanks in advance! Do you have created a Z-Buffer as part of your device creation ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. how to get input from various keyboards with directinput

  First sorry for my bad english... I want to get input from various USB keyboard, and I need to know from which keyboard I get the keystroke, I prove the directinput objects in VB 2005. This are the code that I use in the declaration section (in this case I use 2 USB Keyboard) Implements DirectXEvent8 Private MiDirectX As New DirectX8 Private MiDirectInput As DirectInput8 'the object to my first keyboard Private diDev As DirectInputDevice8 'the object to my second keyboard Private diDev2 As DirectInputDevice8 ' Private keyState As DIKEYBOARDSTATE Private keyState2 As DIKEYBOARDSTATE Private ManejaEvento As Long Private ManejaEvento2 As Long ------------- ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Cannot run Release build, crash...

  Hey Guys, When i do a full build of release or debug noether of them run. However when run with visual studio express the game runs fine... Any idea how to fix this issue If it runs fine with visual studio express, then how else are you building a release / debug that is causing this problem ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot open table in sql server management studio express

  Hello all. I have uploaded a table into sql management studio express. However, when I right click on the table and try and open it, I get an error message saying; "SQL Execution Error. Executed SQL statement: select columnName1, columnName2 etc.... Error source: Microsoft. VisualStudio.DataTools Error Message: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" Because of this error, I cannot manually edit the table. However, when I write a query running select * from Table X, the table does appear that way. Any help regarding how to open the table would be very much appreciated!! Hi, If you wanna modify data. you'd rather build a T-SQL script (e.g. with insert ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Certification Help

  I have just finnish reading the a good book for C++ & C# I someone give me some advice on some more books to read some certification examination i can i go for. Thanks Nicholas Francis Hello Recommend books from another MS C++ Forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=107484&SiteID=1 College/University courses are always useful qualifications. Thanks Damien ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Name of the validation database

  Hi, A very quick one. I have 3 datadude projects, hence 3 validation databases. 2 of these DBs are named: <last-few-characters-of-the-project-name>_DB_<guid> The third one is named <full-project-name>_DB_<guid> Why the difference I know its nothing to do with truncation in order to keep the database name under a certain length because the name of the third one is much longer than the other two. Just interested to know that's all. -Jamie Bruce Johnson - MSFT wrote: Haven't seen this issue before. The default naming convention for the validation database is as you show for the 3rd one above: <full-project-name>_DB_<guid>. I'd be interested in ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating a backup report on the report server prob.

  Hi Everybody, I hope that someone will be able to help me with that problem. I have a .rdl file on the server (report Server). Now I need to use this .rdl, make somes changes and create a new one on the same server in another directory. Here are the codes that do all the work; Dim streamData As New MemoryStream(rptDefinition) Dim doc As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument() doc.Load(streamData) ' do the changes process here Dim rpt As Byte () = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(doc.OuterXml) Return rpt I always got this error: The report definition is not valid. Details: Name cannot begin with the '.' character, hexadecimal value 0x00. How can I solve that Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLexpr32.exe Commandline install error?

  I am encountering what appears to be a command line installation limitation with the latest sqlexpr32.exe installation using INSTALLSQLDIR. This fails: sqlexpr32.exe /qb ADDLOCAL=All INSTALLSQLDIR="C:\Program Files\1234567890123\12345678901\MSSQL$12345678901" SAPWD="yoohoo1234QWERTY" SECURITYMODE=SQL While this succeeds: sqlexpr32.exe /qb ADDLOCAL=All INSTALLSQLDIR="C:\Program Files\1234567890123\1234567890\MSSQL$12345678901" SAPWD="yoohoo1234QWERTY" SECURITYMODE=SQL 58 characters seems to be acceptable to INSTALLSQLDIR where 59 characters seems to cause the error. Has anyone else observed this issue Is there a workaround ...Show All

• Architecture What is the difference between Convert.toString and .toString()

  What is the difference between Convert.toString and .toString() Just to give an understanding of what the above question means seethe below code. int i =0; MessageBox.Show(i.ToString()); MessageBox.Show(Convert.ToString(i)); We can convert the integer “i” using “i.ToString()” or “Convert.ToString” so what’s the difference. The basic difference between them is “Convert” function handles NULLS while “i.ToString()” does not it will throw a NULL reference exception error. So as good coding practice using “convert” is always safe. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Detect dataset changes

  A have the following problem. I have a dataset wit the column "name". I hav a winform with a databinding control, and a textbox binded to it and to the dataset. Before I close the form or do others things (add new row, ...) I want to control if there are changes pendings in the current dataset to display a message. To do it I do: databindings.EndEdit and then a dataset.HasChanges() to verify if there are changes pendings. The problem is that if I create a new row in the dataset and call this procedure, the endedit raise an exception because the dataset column "name" don't allow dbnull values. How can I solve this problem. Thanks, Alex B. The datatable has a T ...Show All

• Windows Forms Getting a handle to a control on a form

  Hi I'm new to the C# development area. I've got different forms with different controls on it, the forms are either mdi parent or child forms. What i would like to know is the following. 1)How do i get a handle to a control on a form. The control was added earlier in another class, now in this class how do i get a handle/control of it. 2)To do step 1 do you need to inherit from the class that created the handle on the form 3) Sample would be great. Thanks in advance :) Hi Rizwan Excellent, this works great. This is a great example showing how you can do it with multiple forms. I will find this very handy to use. You have solved my problem already.    What i would like to know in addition to the abo ...Show All