Raj S's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DateTime display format in GridView

  Does anyone know how to format the DateTime text and display it in my grid view. Right now the format is rather arbitrary. It's not just XAML, you have to write some .NET code too. Have a look at the MSDN documentation for IValueConverter for a sample of a DateTime converter. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WS* and bindings in WCF

  Hello. I have a question regarding WS*. There are at least 9 pre-bindings prepared in WCF and there's custom binding. How can I tell by looking at the code or config file if I'm conforming to WS* or not. For example, I'd like to use WS-Addressing when communicating with Java client. How can I specify I'm using WS-Addressing, or how can I tell if I'm using WS-Addressing or not. Others stuff I would like to do include WS-ReliableMessaging, how can I specify that I'm using WS* thing I think this has to do more with the knowledge of WS" specs but I didn't have anywhere else to ask for help. If anyone can help me out on this matter, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Thanks for your reply. That r ...Show All

• Visual C# Which book to start with??

  Okay... I've got a variety of different books and tools to learn C# with. The problem is the one that is my FAVORITE is using an old rendition of the language (from 2002) and an old IDE. "Microsoft C# Game Programming for the Absolute Beginner" My question is: is it harmful to use OLDER books to learn a language Yes, I have newer books like "Teach yourself Visual C# 2005 in 24hrs" as well as videos from VisualStudio.Net and Prentiss Hall's book, but when it came to raw coding I found the former book more useful and more fun. But, am I gimping myself by not using the newer 2005 books I've come to also notice that the newer books seem to focus a LOT more on working within Windows Apps, which I think is a bit c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System BVT's without Team System Tester Edition - Possible?

  I'm trying to create a Team Build that will run all my unit tests as part of the build. The problem is though, when going through the wizard it allows me to select the vsmdi file, but there is no test lists available in the drop-down (and since I don't have team tester edition I don't think I can create new test lists). We can still run the tests in our Team Software Dev Edition, is there a way to make a Team Build that will also run all the tests as part of the build process without purchasing Team Tester Edition Eric, Just to clarify. You are saying that if the only version of VS we own is VSTS For Software Developers, then it is not possible at this time to create a Team Build that will run our test ...Show All

• Visual C++ Do I still need .LIB files with mixed assemblies?

  Hi*, I have a self-contained project written (almost) entirely in ANSI C++ that consists of several DLLs referencing each other. I want to compile these libraries into mixed assemblies using the VS 2005 compiler with the /clr option. I managed to compile the first two libraries but I get tons of LNK2028 linker errors. I thought that I could simply use the #using directive to reference the objects defined in other CLR DLLs. Unfortunately, this only seems to work with managed classes. Does that mean that I still have to export the unmanaged classes / native types to a .LIB file (using __declspec(dllexport)) I have attached a simple snippet of code to illustrate the problem. Any help is appreciated. Dietmar -------------- ...Show All

• Architecture Installing ADAM(urgent)

  Hi, Can anyone tell me if installing ADAM on a machine(win-xp prof, which is part of the network) will it intefere with existing AD on the domain controller According to the whitepaper it says its a user based service and a ADAM is a lightweight version of AD(2003). Need an ans asap. Hi dude, hope you find here useful resources (I think the installation over XP prof doesn't differ from the over Win Server 2003 one) ADAM Step-by-Step Guide ADAM Overview Presentation , mentions coexistence between ADAM and AD, commenting it's possible More info on ADAM ...Show All

• Visual C++ Array in VC++ (VS2005)

  Hi all, i face a problem on VC++ (VS2005) while converting some code from VC++ (VS2003) Here is the VC++(VS2003) Source Code DataRow *row[] = dt->Select(String::Format(S"AuthorID={0}", __box(CurrentAuthorID))); row[0]->Item[S"FirstName"] = tbFirstName->Text; Here is the code that I had convert to VC++ (VS2005) array<System::Data::DataRow^>^ row = dt->Select((String::Format(L"AuthorID={0}", CurrentAuthorID))); I unable to to get the Item from the row row[0]-> there have no "Item" Will be appreciate if someone can help. I think you should try a simpler way: row[0]["FirstName"] = tbFirstName->Text; I hope this works. ...Show All

• SQL Server Please help regarding extending ssis

  I am confused with this topic extentded ssis.What i am diong here is creating a pipeline component and i am trying to use this component and transfer data. What is happening here is that i create it but i dont find it when i try to include this(component) in the toolbox ->Choose items.I find my project with in tools->Attach process. Is this a problem with anyone too.... please help. You can create and run packages programmatically in c#. There's loads of documentation out there. It is a pain in the ***, tho'. Not sure why u'd wanna do that. As far as creating custom components is concerned... hmm... it does provide an easy way of extending ssis to include existing business logic. We ...Show All

• Windows Forms Threading Problem

  Hey, I have a custom object that is using threading. I'm following an example I have in a book, so I created an object, and have a thread defined as a private member: private Thread _thread = null ; I have a method called run that defines this: public void Run() { _thread = new Thread ( new ThreadStart (Start)); _thread.Start(); } I have a Start method that does the work. public void Start() { .. do work.. } I am debugging, and the object is being created and it executes the Run method, but it never calls start to actually do any processing; instead it returns and nothing gets done. What am I doing wrong Thanks. Hello, Yes, but I'm not even getting to the Start m ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rasterizer default state

  What are the default values of the RasterizerState This point is not documented and RSGetState returns NULL on a default pipeline. From common sense (and some experiences), I would say: FillMode = Solid CullMode = Front FrontCounterClockwise = TRUE DepthBias = 0 DepthBiasClamp = 0 SlopeScaledDepthBias = 0 DepthClipEnable = TRUE ScissorEnable = FALSE MultisampleEnable = FALSE AntialiasedLineEnable = FALSE Can someone confirm Thanks. The runtime creates a default state object for any type that is used when a NULL state object is active. BlendState: AlphaToCoverageEnable = FALSE BlendEnable = FALSE SrcBlend = D3D10_BLEND_ONE DestBlend = D3D10_BLEND_ZERO BlendOp = D3D10_BLEND_OP_ADD ...Show All

• .NET Development RegEx and URL's

  I need a regex pattern that can be used to extract urls from the clipboard. Clipboard data could be text, html or rtf even. Possibly three different patterns Any ideas Anyone done this sort of thing before There are so many problems of course, for example invalid characters in url, url cant start with a hyphen, but can contain a hyphen etc. All of these need to be matched! http://www.url.com http://url.com url.com www.url.com (and each one could be += /file/file.html) Thanks for the help guys. This has put me on the right path, sort of. Now I just need to get all urls, remove identifier from each (eg "http://"), and check for duplicates, so if theres http://www.startmenuex.com and www ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem with type of a Binding expression in XAML

  Hi all, when adapting the sample of http://fortes.com/2005/10/12/customizing-singlepageviewer-part2 to the actual WPF builds I always get a warning that the type of the Binding expression is wrong: ... <FlowDocumentPageViewer MinZoom="50" MaxZoom="200"> <FlowDocumentPageViewer.Template> <DocumentPageView Name ="PageView" DocumentViewerBase.IsMasterPage="True" PageNumber="0" /> <Slider Value="{Binding Path=Zoom, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"> ... </Slider> </FlowDocumentPageViewer.Template> </FlowDocumentPageViewer> ... Compiling this results in warning: Warning 1 The 'Value' attribute is ...Show All

• Windows Forms Populating Multiple TextBox Controls from ComboBox with Concatenated Items

  I need to populate the text property of two textbox controls via a value selected from a comboBox. The comboBox is populated via dataReader and the items are created via concatenated fields (this is kind of a look-up comboBox). Usually I would assign the text property of the textbox control like this: string sItem = ComboBox.SelectedItem.ToString(); TextBox.Text = sItem; Because my comboBox selectedItem is a concatenated field, I do not know how to populate the two textboxes. I tried using the comboBox.ValueMember but that is always null (I'm assuming because the comboBox is not really databound ). What can I do to populate the textboxes This is how I populate the comboBox: private void populateCompanyName() { OleDbData ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Not Ordinary MS Project mapping

  In my WI Task” I’ve added field name “Task Type” with two values: “Grouping field” and “Detailed field”. I wont to map this field to MS Project. It should change its value depending on the fact if in MS Project the task is a grouping task (have subtasks) or not. In other words. I Have two tasks – A and B. When I change in MS Project task B to a subtask of task A (A will become a grouping task) and send changes to TFS, then the field’s “Task Type” value for task A should change to “Grouping field”. Is there any possibility to achieve this effect Best, It can be achieved but it will need some coding from your end. 1. Has you are doing currently. Have a WI, Task with "TaskType" field, have a rule fo ...Show All

• .NET Development Embedding .dll file in Internet Explorer...

  Hi, I am experimenting with windows form. I tried to embed dll file in Internet Explorer and I run into Security Permission issue. The dll can't run. So I do some research and finally find a way to do it. Assign strong name to the .dll file. Then put the .snk strong name key file and .dll file together in a directory, use the .NET security configuration tool and increase the assembly trust to full trust. Then I am manage to run the .dll without any permission issues. But what I am not too sure is, since I wish to distribute this .dll file from internet through internet explorer, I believe not every user on the client side would have actually configure my .dll to have full trust on their machine. And if it is the case they w ...Show All