DouglasL's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server.

  We just installed Team Foundation Server Suite. I can access it from the same machine but when I try from other machines, I get a failure notice, TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server. Possible reasons for failure are - The Team Foundation Server name, port or protocol - The Team Foundation server is offline - Password is expired or incorrect. For more information, contact the Team Foundation Server Administrator. Well, the server name, port and protocol are correct, the server is online and the password is not expired and I am the Administrator. Any hints I have the exact same issue. I set up a new developer machine today and I am not able to connect to the TFS. All other m ...Show All

• SQL Server Left join returns values where I was was expecting nulls

  I have a query which is returning a different result set when it is run against identical tables in 2 different environments. The query is like: Select F.LicenseeID, IsSpecialLicensee from FactTable F left join View_SpecialLicensee SL on F.LicenseeID = SL.LicenseeID The Create Statement for the view is like Create View [dbo].[View_SpecialLicensee] as Select LicenseeID, LicenseeName, IsSpecialLicensee = 1 from DimensionLicensee where LicenseeName like '%ibm%' or LicenseeName like '%cisco%' or LicenseeName like '%hp%' In my test environment, I get the query result I expected: LicenseeID, IsSpecialLicensee 1 , 1 - (where LicenseeName = 'IBM') 2, null - (where LicenseeName = 'Juniper') 3, 1 - (where LicenseeName = 'Cisco') 4 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using XNA for PC games?

  Hi, I understand that XNA games coded for XBox 360 cannot be sold for the XBox 360 (can only be used by subscribers to the same game developer service). But, can XNA be used to code commercial PC games :p ...Show All

• Visual C# The process cannot access the file **HARD ONE**

  Ok, This is a hard one...For me at least. I have a jpeg image that is being used by a picturebox in my windows form. During the duration of my program, I need to let the user replace the file that my picturebox uses an an image. I recieve the following error: Additional information: The process cannot access the file "C:\Documents and Settings\Ryan Barger\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\WindowsApplication1\bin\Debug\workingDirectory\images\CRMImage[1].png" because it is being used by another process. I have tried disposing the image prior to replacing the file. Is there a way to close the file that was being used by the picureBox so the file can be replaced Thanks! Yea I s ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. pre-release Exception, but I'm using SDK August 2006

  Hello, My Configuration: I have been using August 2006 SDK on C# Express 2005 Final. I used to program without problems using this configuration, but for a day ago, a exception is launched when I try to compile or execute my exe file. Exception Message: This pre-release version of DirectX has expired… What I Do I found that it can happens when uses an old SDK version or old Run-Time DX, but this is not my case. The DXDiag shows a several beta libraries (because are embedded in August SDK) and one of them is marked such and “!” exclamation. I remove and reinstall the DirectX SDK, but didn’t solve anything. So, if anybody know why I have problems using the last SDK versi ...Show All

• Visual Studio crystal reports execute slow when run the first time in VB 2005 application

  I have developed a VB.net 2005 application with Crystal Reports. When i run the .exe application the first time & run a report, the report takes a considerable amount of time to execute on screen. But, after closing the report and running the report again, it executes & displays quickly on screen. Subsequently, if i run other reports, they execute fast. The problem appears the first time i run any report after logging into my .exe application Pls. help. I do not see any errors ........... Alex Hi I had this same problem but with VB 2003 after upgrading to Crystal Reports XI. Take a look at the KBase Article ID: c2018729 on the businessobjects.com web site. After applying the hot fix the fi ...Show All

• SQL Server Grouping dissimilar data

  I’m trying to build a report that contains bank account activity. For 3 customers their activity is this: Deposits Date Amount John 1/2/2007 500.00 1/7/2007 250.00 Mary 1/3/2007 100.00 Withdrawals Date Amount John 1/3/2007 100.00 Mary 1/2/2007 100.00 1/4/2007 200.00 1/6/2007 50.00 Sam 1/6/2007 50.00 I would like the report to have deposit/withdrawal info, with subtotals, grouped by customer, looking something like this: Deposit Withdrawal Cust Date Amount Date Amount John 1/2/2007 500.00 ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Network trasfered trailers!

  Todays plan was to put some images up on a web server and try to pull them into my "trailers" section. All went well! message.png appeared as expected...Tommorrow I hope to pull some video content...what format is ecommended for my video files WMV and if so what version of WMV should I encode to I have been throwing every format of video at it and all I have been able to do is stream 1 .png image...I get "Unable to load surface from specified file" ...happens for all video...images appear fine. ...Show All

• Visual Studio upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service

  Hi Is the 20-DEC-2006 SP1 Update for VS2005 the most recent version I tried to patch the Team Edition for Software Developers running on the 6000 build of Vista x64 and i get the following error The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version ... Am I using the wrong patch ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=FB6BB56A-10B7-4C05-B81C-5863284503CF&displaylang=en ) - is there an x64 version Dave As mentioned in the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista release notes it is supported on both the x86 as the x64 editions o ...Show All

• .NET Development tranXform website

  http://tranXform.onestop.net has simple XSLTransform utility (with source, one using .NET and one using MSXML via Delphi) that gets XML filepath , XSL filepath and output target filepath params and does the transformation (ignores any XSL mentioned in the XML file - not sure how I could get that info so that one would pass an XSL filepath param optionally) also has VB6 form design to XML extractor and VB6 form to ASP.net WebForm converter (plus VB.net event stubs generating for the events you had in VB6 form), using XSL transformations to map control/properties from VB6 to ASP.net WebForms (can make your own transformations for WinForms, but not needed cause VS.net has nice import tool for VB6 forms to convert to WinForms). Can e ...Show All

• SQL Server How do I prevent a SQL Error terminating my package?

  I am getting the ubiquitous error.... "The statement has been terminated.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly. I have a stored procedure that performs a task on a loop. Sometime it fails, somtimes it succeeds and that's just fine, the errors are handled within the stored procedure and I return counts of success and failures. The trouble is that the package execution terminates when even one of the task fails. I don't want it to, I just want it to continue as the pakage should then go on to extract the source of the failues and post them back where they came from. Any ideas how I can ...Show All

• Visual C# overloading == operator in c# fails checking for null values

  Hi, I have developed one class called CProductInfo providing == and != operator features. I have one problem. When I use this class in my program, say CProductInfo product = null; and later, when i check for emptiness, if (product==null) it returns false as if the product instance is not empty. I tried various ways to eliminate this run-time error, but it just does not happen. Also I don't think there is use full tips on net for this. Can someone help Thanks in advance - Constantine <<<< THE BRIEF SOURCE CODE FOR CProductInfo IS BELOW >>>>>   using System; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient; using MyDataLibrary; namespace ProductManager2006 {  public ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Fidalgo vs Orcas

  I'm still a bit confused about Fidalgo (WPF add-in for Visual Studio 2005) vs Orcas (forthcoming new version of Visual Studio). Particularly as Fidalgo is described as "Orcas" .NET Framework 3.0 Development Tools: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=935AABF9-D1D0-4FC9-B443-877D8EA6EAB8&displaylang=en Will there ever be a final release of Fidalgo for VS 2005 or is this really a sort-of preview of Orcas Tim Cider: Code name for the Visual Designer in Visual Studio that targets WPF. Fidalgo: Code name the WPF project flavor and templates for VS 2005, which also includes Cider. Orcas: Code name for the next release of Visual Studio, which will include Cider. ...Show All

• SQL Server FTP task limitations

  Hi, I'm thinking about using the FTP task in an integration i am developing, but before i do, i need to get an idea that what i want to do is possible. With the FTP task could i get a list of directories on the FTP server, and compare the folders with a result set returned from a SQL query. If any of the directories on the FTP site then i want to download each of the relevent directories and there contents to the local machine. Could someone give me an idea as to if this is possible via the task, or if indeed a script task would be better Many thanks, Grant Sorry to bump a LONG dead thread, but I was reading this and thought that I might as well answer since I too had been searching for something of this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions mediaplayer

  how do i use the wmp in vb what code do i use(basically) Well is a question similar to, "how many angels can dance on a head of pin" because you can go forever in writing wmp code. But there are ways you can get started. Goto Tools | Choose Tool box items | Com and choose the Windows Media Player. It will then show up in your toolbox and you can D&D it to a form. I've written extensive WMP code and used the mcisendstring API for controlling it. Enjoy ! ...Show All