Paul Bradley's Q&A profile

• SQL Server The snapshot for this publication has become obsolete !

  Hi, I am in need of some help with this error - I am seeing on my PDA units. Here is my scenario: I have 5 PDA units that use merge replication with SQL 2005. These PDA units replicate fine. But when I try to sync a 6th or 7th PDA unit, I see the following error: Source : Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition - The snapshot for this publication has become obsolete. The snapshot agent needs to be run again before the subscription can be synchronized. -2147198698 I know that if I regenerate a new snapshot, I will be able to sync fine. But here are my concerns and questions: What happens to the first 5 PDAs when I regenerate the a new snapshot. Will they be able to sync without losing the data Does generating ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) PrintTicket.PageOrientation does not have an effect

  It seems that PrintTicket.PageOrientation property is being ignored when I try to change orientation of a page when I'm generating XPS document. Here is the code I'm using... Is this the correct way of doing it and I just run into a bug Thanks... LocalPrintServer server = new LocalPrintServer (); PrintQueue queue = server.DefaultPrintQueue; PrintTicket ticket = queue.DefaultPrintTicket; // this seems to be broken ticket.PageOrientation = PageOrientation .Landscape; Package package = Package .Open( "test.xps" , FileMode .Create); XpsDocument doc = new XpsDocument (package); XpsDocumentWriter writer = XpsDocument .CreateXpsDocumentWriter(doc); writer.Write(visu ...Show All

• SQL Server Configuring SSRS enterprise Edition

  I need help to configure the reporting service, I was using the book Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step to get help, but in the steps to configure the reporting service, in specific web service identity the screen shot that I have is diferent In the book this screen only have: ASP .NET Service Acount(default 994DNX7/ASPNET) in my screen I have: ASP .NET Service Acount(default NT Authority\NetworkService) Specify the the application pool in wich to run the report server web service report server: DefaultAppPool report manager: DefaultAppPool why is different what I should do ...Show All

• Visual Basic add fields in the createuserwizard

  Hi everyone, I’ve finaly decieded to stop using my good old Frontpage 2003 to start using Visual Web Developer 2005. As I have no knowledge of scripting and things like that, this is turning into a little bit of a nightmare. I’m trying to add a few field for the user registration process, such as first and last name and also city. I have added those field to the createuserwizard step 1 but I realise that none of those fields are link to my database and therefore even if the user fill in the fields, the data just gets lost. I hope someone can help me find a way to save the extra info in my database. Thanks in advance for your help! Mike   The following are some links that you might ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2003 setup issue !

  I havent found a forum for VS 2003 install issue, so i am posting here. Pls let me know if there is one for 2003. I am trying to install VS 2003 Ent Architect 2003 , and i am getting error with while Visual J# 1.1 prereq. The error is as follows : [09/07/06,10:15:54] Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1: \\rossam01\devtools\microsoft\visual studio .net 2003 windows prerequisites\jsharpredistcore\vjredist.exe exited with return value -2147024893 [09/07/06,10:15:54] Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Error code -2147024893 for this component means "The system cannot find the path specified. " [09/07/06,10:15:54] Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Schema Compare in the RTM version

  Currently (CTP5) we're able to synchronize a DB project with an actual database. Does anyone know if we'll be able to do the reverse when VSTS-DB is released IOW, will we be able to synchronize an actual database with a project I very much hope so. I think this will be a tremendous time saver. Amos. There will be some limitations such as one may not be able to do the complete drops. We will handle new creates, alters to the existing objects. - Sachin Kumar ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Custom processor with additinal data - Content pipeline

  I understand one can use the Tag property to add custom data while processing a model. Is that the only way Meaning, do I have to create a whole hierarchy of user defined classes with the Tag property as a root I though of something like deriving ModelContent but that's sealed. Create a collision skin (other than the supplied bounding sphere), add hard points to attach weaponry or any other thing that would require processing of the original geometry or exporting custom data directly from the modeling tool. ...Show All

• Visual C++ CFile usage performance question

  VC++ 2005 Unmanaged code: My system makes heavy use of the CFile object to read and write lots of files. We're talking 100s of threads talking to 10,000s of files. It commonly does either a open, read entire file, close Or an open, append, close to the file. In general, one pool of threads opens the files and pass it to another pool of threads that then reads or writes the data and passes it to another pool of threads that simply closes the files. By doing this, we can make slower operations, like closing a file, be run on a low-priority thread. This also reduces thrashing the same file since we can detect that a file is in a waiting to close queue and grab it instead of opening a new CFile. To try to increase performance, we cha ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Nobody can play videos with Compact Framework 2.0 (lots of posts, no answer)

  Hi, I post several and several message on several and several forums, but nobody answers my question. What I know is that Alex Feinman shows how to do during MEDC 2005 in Las Vegas, but I can't find any docs, videos or articles about his speech. I also know he uses Opennetcf.AxHost, but I can't find the namespace. I really appreciate any help about this question I asked for a month. Thanks in advance. Hi Syed Safiullah Hussaini, Can you please send me the sample source code you mentioned above to play wma files in CF 2.0 Its a very urgent issue to me!!!!!!!!! Thanks and Regards Anil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Enabling Keyword Expansion

  I can't find how to enable keyword expansion in source files (for example, expand the $History:$ keyword to include the check-in comments).  Am I missing something Keyword expansion was planned, but unfortunately ended up being cut for v1. I know people want it, and there's some fun challenges around doing it right in a system that allows renames, shelvesets, and so on (I was the test owner). We just didn't have enough time left to do it 'properly', and we'd seen some really rough spots emerge trying to do a lighter version of it. Sorry! Chris ...Show All

• Windows Forms designer errors: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  Hello, I am getting the following error when I try to open the designer for some of the forms in my project. I have no clue why this is happening. thanks Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.CompactFramework.Design.DeviceTypeResolutionService.EnsurePopulated(Boolean fPopulateProject) at Microsoft.CompactFramework.Design.DeviceTypeResolutionService.SearchNormalEntries(AssemblyName assemblyName, String typeName, Boolean ignoreTypeCase, Boolean reflectionBased, Assembly& assembly) at Microsoft.CompactFramework.Design.DeviceTypeResolutionService.SearchEntries(AssemblyName assemblyName, String typeName, Boolean ignoreTypeCase, Boolean reflectionBased, Assembly& ass ...Show All

• Visual C# VB to C#(one line of code)

  Hey, in Visual C# 2005 what would this VB 2005 code be: ComapreMethod Thanks :) CompareMethod is a enum for how to compare strings. Binary means case sensitive and text means case insensitive. If you want to do case insensitive comparsions compare try something like this if ("Test".ToLower() == "test".ToLower()) { this .Text="Equal"; } ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. xna level/map editor

  Hi, guys! Sorry for that probably silly question, but I am somewhat new to the whole XNA stuff. Is it possible to create a tool, i.e. level/map editor with XNA My question is in fact two-fold: 1. Is it possible to load some game content (meshes, textures etc.) through the content pipeline on the fly - from your hard disk and add it to your level All examples i have found so far use only static content added directly to the GSE game project. 2. Is it possible to target XNA rendering output to a windows forms control From what I have seen/tested XNA creates its own window. I have read some threads in this forum from guys who have limited success running XNA inside windows forms, but nothing 100% working, just hacks. Actually I ...Show All

• SQL Server Checkpoints problem in parallel tasks

  Hi, I have a master package with a sequence container with around 10 execute package tasks (for child packages), all in parallel. Checkpoints has been enabled in the master package. For the execute package tasks FailParentOnFailure is set to true and for the sequence container FailPackageOnFailure is set to true. The problem i am facing is as follows. One of the parallel tasks fails and at the time of failure some of the parallel tasks (say set S1) are completed succesfully and few are still in execution (say set S2) which eventually complete successfully. The container fails after all the tasks complete execution and fails the package. When the package is restarted the task which failed is not executed, but the tasks in set S2 a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Speech Recognition from WMV

  Colleagues, how could I recognise speech from WMV file using .NET 3.0 Thanks in advance! -- Sincerely, Dmitry Alekseenko You could try this, although it's for WAV files only: http://blogs.msdn.com/robertbrown/archive/2005/07/20/440983.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/robertbrown/archive/2005/08/04/447845.aspx The samples are based on WinFX Beta 1. ...Show All