Greg Knierim's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team System and Microsoft Project Resource Name Conflict

  Hi When i create a project and assign Valid users to it, the default way the team system writes the name is the windows way (Last Name, First Name MiddleInitial). But when i open to manage tasks for this project in Microsft Project, the resource name are now split because of the comma delimiter in the name. How do we fix this Was this fix included in SP1 Thanks in advance. ___________________________ Sarah Cameron - Incycle Software ...Show All

• Visual Basic Hyperlink in Textbox

  I have a VB 2005 app that let's the user bring up a "Discussion" form that simply displays a textbox containing information about the program. Is it possible to put a hyperlink to a web page in the textbox text such that if the user clicks on it it will load IE and display the link Sounds like a simple thing to do but I don't see a way to do it. Thanks. Thanks ahmedilyas ... I would prefer to use a text box because I am displaying a bunch of text and wanted to embed a number of hyperlinks within it. That appears to be awkward at best so I will rewrite the text and refer to a list of hyperlinks at the end ... and then use a series of LinkLabel. I thought your idea of looking for &q ...Show All

• .NET Development another timer question

  Hey, I'm developing a program to calculate satellite orbits, and some calculations need to be done each second, others each day. For that I'm using System.Timers.Timer class. This program is going to be running for a long time, sometimes even months. Question: isn't this a bit dangerous I mean, having a timer running for this long time always counting up Any suggestions Thanks I believe you may find some of your objects would be disposed if it is not being used but as well as this, having a timer interval set to every second (1000 ms) would be really bad. If you must, try to make sure the timer interval is set to the true interval you require as close as possible. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reference from one DSL metamodel to another

  Hi, How can I reference from my metamodel to element from another metamodel For example, SDM (is based on old version of DSL), you can inherit or reference on elements from imported metamodels, but they implements it inside SDM. Probably, in the current version of the DSL you have implemented this as DSL functionality May be if all referenced metamodels are loaded to Store it solves some problem, but how does it works for Designer, for instance Evgeny Popov In the V1 release, we've amended the supplied directive processor to correctly span a transaction across multiple uses of itself in one text template. However, this won't make the dsldesigner itself any happier with the multiple files in this rel ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to restart remote server

  I have a remote server and client, using IPCServerChannel and IPCClientChannel. If my remote server  (ipcservchannel) application is shutdown for some reasons I can't restart it without shuting down the client. How can I get around this   I suppose that the client is somehow blocking the port or name.  Is there away around this    I want to be able to restart the server app without the clients knowing this. Regards Stein ...Show All

• SQL Server PAD function in Data Tranformation Editor

  I have a value with a float datatype in Excel that is actually a date. For example, the value displays 1272006 for January 27, 2006. I am trying to convert this value to a date. I can do this in several stages using T-SQL by converting the datatype to integer, using replicate to make it eight characters and than using substrings to make it look like 01-27-2006 which SQL Server will recognize as a date. My problem is that there is nothing similar to a PAD (replicate) function using the Data Tranformation Editor in Integration Services. There is a replicate function but it merely functions to repeat a value. It doesn't appear to perform the same PAD function as the T-SQL replicate does. Here is my formula in T-SQL that works okay. rig ...Show All

• Visual C++ Question about const_cast

  Here's round two of my silly questions. How come this compiles: ---------------------------------- int main (int argc, char * argv[]) { const int test1 = 5; const int test2 = const_cast<const int &> (test1); return 0; } ---------------------------------- But this does not. ---------------------------------- int main (int argc, char * argv[]) { const int test1 = 5; const int test2 = const_cast<const int> (test1); return 0; } ---------------------------------- Error 1 error C2440: 'const_cast' : cannot convert from 'const int' to 'int' j:\test\main.cpp 4 ---------------------------------- I definitely have the latest version of VC++ Express Edition this time. I'm not trying to u ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to record the High score of the game, must use database :,{ ?

  I wish to record the high score of the game player, can anyone tell me how can i make it I think i can not use only the variables to make it, because all the data will lost after i closed the game. If really need to use database, then can anyone give me some link of free tutorial. Thanks A database would be overkill for just a high score being stored on local computer. You can just save it to an XML file in your game folder if you just want a simple solution. Encrypt the file or the text however you want to if you do not want the user messing with it. So you do not need a database for saving a high score for a game being play locally. However if you are needing a central location to store all of the high scores for all the playe ...Show All

• .NET Development DISPOSE() When and for what object?

  I have looked and read till my eyes got all red.. I still do not understand exactally what objects require you to use Dispose() on. Or a stupid question as I usually ask Any object you use new on or just graphic objects.. Sorry, I'm not smart enought to ask this question in a reasonable way.. Anyway.. Ya' All'.. have a great holiday comming up..(If you do that sort of thing)... I do! no worries :-) well i guess looking at the documentation/class helps to see if the object implements a dispose/IDisposable method. As well as this, try creating an instance of the object and seeing if it implements/has a dispose/disposing method/event. if it does then yes you could dispose it (recommended) and this is the way to go ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System This tool could be dangerous

  I am not a 24/7 database admin. I am project manager / development lead here and I am also responsible for several mid sized production, test and development databases. What I am trying to say, is that I am not necessarily the top expert in database administration. Because of this, and because I feel that VSTSDBP is actually aimed more at me / us than the 24/7 administrator I am concerned that this tool increases the danger of inadvertantly doing serious damage. This would be the case when a schema compare is run and one too quickly does an update. Since it is normal (I hope / think so anyway) that each instance could have different users, roles, permissions and role memberships defined (I do that to prevent the developers from havin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista how can I connect 2 states ?????????

  I'm trying to connect a startstate and a state to each other, but I don't see the connectorhit object in the toolbox. How can I connect 2 states to each other First you need to add a Initialize State / Finalize State or an EventDriven activity to your state. From here you can add a "Set state" activity. On this activity you can choose the destenation state and the WWF designer will draw the line for you. Regards Anders Kjellerup Jacobsen ...Show All

• SQL Server hidden cell in excel

  Hello, Can someone please tell me why there's ALWAYS a hidden cell in Excel when a report has a more than one page for example, a report has 10 page breaks and after exported to Excel it has the first row hidden in each sheet except the first sheet. Why this happens always is there any workaround to avoid this thanks I also have the same questions as the original poster. How does one get rid of the hidden row in an exported Excel spreadsheet when there are page breaks in the report Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. General debugging problem in Direct3d

  Hello everyone, I am trying to create a general game map editor. Please take a look at the code below. Before going further I would like to fix some severe problems with the program. The problem is that while debugging the program I often (1 out of 3 times approximately) get different errors. For example "Fatal execution error was detected" on OnIbCreate, buffer.setdata, etc. The compiled program doesn't run at all - I get "Send error report" message. Also please have in mind these facts: I program in MS VB 2005 express. I ticked off use application framework and run the form class from sub main(). {chopped large chunk of code} Please take a look at my program and help me solve my problem. {chopped ever larger ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Logging to Flat File Destination

  Hi I am trying to use a conditional split task so that I can check for specific fields. If the value doesn't exist I am piping the records to a derived field task, where I add an error. I then try to send these records to a flat file destination so that I can keep track of them. However, when I execute the SSIS data flow task I get the following error [Log Invalid Records [5496]] Warning: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. This file isn't being used by any other process as far as I can tell, and the only process using it is the SSIS task trying to write to it. If anyone has any ideas, then I would really really appreciate it Thanks Darrell Jam ...Show All

• .NET Development Error installing dotnetfx3.0

  [10/02/06,09:38:05] WIC Installer: [2] Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal error during installation. " [10/02/06,09:38:05] WIC Installer: [2] Setup Failed on component WIC Installer [10/02/06,09:38:14] WapUI: [2] DepCheck indicates WIC Installer is not installed. [10/02/06,09:38:14] WapUI: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 was not attempted to be installed. [10/02/06,09:57:29] WIC Installer: [2] Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal error during installation. " [10/02/06,09:57:29] WIC Installer: [2] Setup Failed on component WIC Installer [10/02/06,09:57:35] WapUI: [2] DepCheck indicates WIC Installer is not installed. [10/02/06,09:57:35] WapUI: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft . ...Show All