gerbenvl's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Timers in Beta2 ?

  In Beta 1, the Game class had some properties that measured time. However, in Beta 2, there appears to only be a GameTime struct passed into Update. If I need a timer for other reasons, such as performance profiling, or for sub-frame measurements, what should I do I can P/Invoke the performance counters, but that's not Xbox compliant. The documentation has nada on "timer" and no static functions on GameTime et al. (It'd be nice if GameTime had a static accessor that returned a gametime, without messing up the "elapsed" part for the next call to update). yes according to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.stopwatch.aspx it is compatible with xna 1.0 and it is in the Compact Framework in w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What are the steps for Load testing using NUNIT testcases?

  Hello, I have installed Team Suite and i am trying for Load Testing using NUNIT Test Cases that we have prepared. What are the steps for Load testing using NUNIT testcases Do we have Cool Down Time in Team Suite If 'YES' How to set it Thanks, Riti You could just convert your NUNIT cases to VSTS unit tests using the NUnit converter here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jamesnewkirk/archive/2005/06/24/432485.aspx and use those in your load test No - there is no explicit "cooling time" in load tests really, but I assume what you want to do in the cool time is reduce number of users accessing the system gradually, right ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get emailNotificationAddress and SMTP server name programatically

  Hi All, I need to get the emailNotificationAddress and SMTP server name which is configured in the web.config file[<Drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Web Services\Services\web.config]...programatically... Please give me the code snippet for the same.....using the TFS API.. Thanks, Kathir The emailNotificationFromAddress and SMTP server name are not exposed through the TFS APIs. The only way I know of for you to read those values is to pull them directly from the web.config file. If you can share the scenario you are trying to enable we may be able to suggest other ways to solve the problem. For example, if you are just trying to source e-mail from ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 Title bar shows up in Chinese instead of my language

  Hello, Downloaded and installed: IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe OS: Windows XP Home (legal version) I had IE6 with SP2. I downloaded at first the IE7 RC1 but then I downloaded the file I mentionned above. With both RC1 and IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu version I got the weird Chinese titles in my Blue Titlebar. The tab-titles tho are correct. I've uploaded a screenshot to be downloaded here . This screenshot gives you the view of my IE7 browser with the blue titlebar. My Language is Dutch and at the Tools - Internet Options - General tab I've set my appearance language at Dutch (screenshot here ). Could somebody please help me out I really really love to have my own language or the english titlebar instead of Chinese. Yours Sincerely ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) A New Windows Application, WPF or Forms?

  Hi I plan on starting a new Windows Desktop project soon and I will surely want some places to be WPF, but the majority of the forms will be Windows Forms 2.0. Is there any advantage / disadvantage for me using a WPF application type (template) instead of a Windows Forms Application template from VS 2005, or because the majority of the application will be windows forms am I better off using the current Windows Forms template for the project Cheers Don't forget that animations won't have much effect on the winforms part hosted inside your wpf application, as they live above the wpf content, and can only be visible or hidden, or at most getting their size animated. ...Show All

• SQL Server Package changes made and saved revert to prior state when package closed and re-opened

  I copied and added an existing package as a new package to a project and have been having trouble with settings reverting to those for the original package after I modify and save the changes for the new package. Sometimes happens with the save itself, other times it happens when I close and re-open the package. Most cases are with connections that revert back to the original file reference, but there are also control flow and data flow elements that keep reverting back to either settings from the original package or defaults that result in the re-opened package being in error. Not sure how to get around this issue short of developing the new package from scratch which I'd rather not do since it is fairly complex. Any help anyone can provi ...Show All

• .NET Development NUnit

  Hi guys, please ,can some one help me with NUnit. Assert.AreEqual(10,5,"Some message") The above line of code will result in fail and displaying a message on the GUI of NUnit. IS THERE any way to capture that message and instead of displaying that on to the NUnit gui...or in addition to displaying it on NUnit GUI CAN i also write that to a txt file. Thanks in advance Regards This is likely specific to NUnit's implementation. The best place to have this answered is probably on the NUnit site: http://www.nunit.org/index.php p=contactUs . Kind Regards, Jon Langdon ...Show All

• .NET Development How to not show the security dialog box with a WebBrowser

  Hello, I'm using a WebBrowser in C# and when i navigate to some adresses a dialog box is shown saying i will be redirected to a website non protected. How can i hide this dialog box Thank you! Hmm Sorry don't know the way to detect it. May be when dialog is shown your form Looses focus If so put an event handler to check if form has lost focus and then use SendKeys, but still I doubt it'll not been raised if form is minimised... Best Regards, ...Show All

• SQL Server dataset with parameterized top query

  I have a report based on a dataset that has a "top()" statement in it. SELECT TOP (10) name, val FROM tab ORDER BY val DESC I wanted wanted to return a report with 10 rows as the default. But allow the user to change the default and regenerate the report with more rows. I tried the following; SELECT TOP (@N) name, val FROM tab ORDER BY val DESC Normally in VS2005, the paraemeters work fine for things like the WHERE clause. But when i do the TOP(@N) the query/report parameter synchronization messes up. If i manual go to the parameter tab of the dataset and configure the matching between query and report params it works. But doing anything to the dataset resets this. Its getting very tiring. Any advice for a ...Show All

• Visual C++ _access returns -1 for EXISTS even though file exists.

  I have a file which has been locked by a process (not sure may be a spyware or something) and when I try to change the attributes of the file using attrib , I get an ACCES_DENIED message. The funny thing is the C++ _access function returns -1 for mode 0 (EXISTS) . Should it not return 0 if the file exists (even though it may be locked by a process) Thanks, KarthikR I order to be sure the problem is not caused by an invalid path supplied to _access , I would suggest checking of errno variable. If it is ENOENT (2), then your path probably is malformed. I hope this makes sense. ...Show All

• SQL Server Doing a data import using DTS Wizard in SQL Server 2005 - being efficient with 5 flat files

  Hi, I'm a new user of SQL Server 2005. I have the full version installed. I also have SQL Server Business Integration Dev Studio installed. My OS is Windows XP. I'm importing a series of 5 flat files into a database on one of the SQL Servers we have. My goal is to get 5 different tables (though perhaps I should do one and add an extra field to distinguish each import) into the database for further analysis. I tried doing an import via DTS Wizard. There are no column names in the flat file so I defined them during the import process (all 58 of them). When I got to the end, I had an option to save the import process as a SSIS (SQL Server Integration Service) Package on: SQL SERVER (I don't have permission for this) or FILE ...Show All

• Visual C++ error C3867:...need help

  Hi all, I am now trying to run a discrete event simulation using MSVC++2005, After built it shows the following error:.... portion of the header file is: #ifndef _DESL_H_V003_INCLUDED_ #define _DESL_H_V003_INCLUDED_ #include <crtdbg.h> // needed for _ASSERT() macro #include "avltree.h" #include "_stack.h" #include "_list.h" ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // CLASS: template < class TIME_T, class DATA_T > // class DESL_environment // // PURPOSE: use as 'parameterized namespace' ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #define DESL_QUALIFIER DESL_environment< ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista I am unable to install The Windows SDK 6.0.6000.0. It is ignoring the installation directories I enter.

  I have Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. I have a system partition which is 8GB (D:). I have a separate partition for programs and documents (E:). I also have a big scratch partition (F:). My temporary directory is on the F: drive. Currently, the D: drive has about 100MB of free disk space. Since only system components are installed here and my swap file is on a separate partition, this is enough space. The E: drive has about 25GB free. The F: drive has about 30GB free. When I run the Windows Vista / .NET Framework 3.0 SDK setup, it asks me for two folder locations. One for the SDK files and another for SDK samples. I set both to directories on the E: drive. When I go to the next step, it says I need 600MB+ on my D: drive in order to co ...Show All

• Visual C++ Warning if variablename in function differs from implementation

  Hi I have searched in the compiler warning list, msdn and a lot of other forums, but i couldn't find any warning for this. Is there such warning, or can i get it in another way It would be nice if the compiler raises a warning for this, just to keep my code clean. example: headerfile: class myClass { int myFunction(int a, int b); } cpp file: int myClass::myFunction(int c, int d) { return c+d; } Imagine http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createprocess.asp  without named parameters ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Select Syntax problem in a Query

  Hi - i have a query setup that is held on a subform that displays all activities that have been logged by users.  there is a field called 'leadofficer' that displays the name of the user who logged the activity. Based on prior help from forum users I thought it would be easy enough to set criteria whereby the form, when opened would only show activity where the values in the 'leadofficer' field would equal the value of the user who has logged in - where the value of the user who has logged in is held in a global variable called 'loginname'  - but i was wrong! - ive been wrestling with the SQL syntax in the query but can only get it to work by having the query to prompt me for the name, which is no use because it al ...Show All