MichaelEaton's Q&A profile

• SQL Server TEMPDB Grew to 118 gig

  I have one sql server 2000 that the log file grew to 118 over weekend I have since shrinked it.... I am monitoring it and now the MDF is at to 16 gig.... It seems the MDF and LDF are grewing at increasing rates. If i look in current activity i see locks/objects I always see tempdb.dbo.##lockinfo65 Lock type Tab Mode X owner xact But im not sure that means anything to me. This seems to have only started happening. Its almost like the checkpoint is not happening...(I was under the impression that tempdb does the checkpoint once its finished) How ofter does checkpoint occur how can i determine if it working or not Tracey one way to find out - although it's quite extreme - is to stop ...Show All

• .NET Development Word XML Toolbox in 2003 and 2007

  Hi! All, Firstly I thank you all for taking time out to read this post and help me. My problem is as follows: => We are using MS Word 2003 as an XML authoring enviornment using an additional plugin XML toolbox (which is integrated under developer's section in 2007 beta version of MS Word) provided by Microsoft. Looks like it is doing what we require however there are places where everything falls apart. 1) When we try to bring XML sibling nodes on the same line that is where all mess happens. Pic 1 Pic 2 As shown in the images above when we stry to bring sibling nodes (with content having different stylings) together on same line one of the element is removed in the process and ...Show All

• Windows Forms starting an .net application on another server

  I know how to start another application by using the command Process.Start(filePath) where filepath = "c:\program files\folder\run.exe" But when I install my .net app there is not a .exe only a short cut in the start/program menu ie c:\documents and settings\myname\start menu\programs\suntron\myprogram I need to install myprogram(consol application) on a server and have a button in a application that the user has on their desk top click to run the prcess.start(filepath) which is installed on a diffrerent server i tried \\server\c :...... but no good I see, so you want to run an application FROM the client which is held on the Server Again you may need to strong na ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Any limitations of Version Control

  Hello everybody, we are using TeamFoundationServer for about 4 months now and are very satisfied with it. Now our group of SoftwareIntegrators contacted me, they also want to store their scripts / projects from AdminStudio in our Version Control. Ok, we tried MSSCCI provider and everything seems to work fine. Now they come up with a new idea: they want to store all installation packages they get in VersionControl as well. I’m talking about 60 GB in a single TeamProject (growing up to 500 GB possibly). And there are some large files such as the MSIs for Visual Studio and so on... Are there any known limitations of Version Control (individual file sizes or the complete repository) Any timeouts when checking in & out or getting t ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS 3b2 - file type list is truncated

  On one of the machines where I have installed the second beta of WDS 3, the list of file types on the advanced page stops at "mda". No extensions below that in the alphabet even appear, nor can I add them manually (when I do so, it seems to work but the the added extensions doesn't stick - the next time I open the file types setting page, it is again truncated). Running on XP home SP2 - and by the way, all the registered file types show up properly when viewed from the menu in an Explorer window. Thanks for any help The next extension listed is '.asc' and, as Ilia hinted, it had no permissions set. After checking 'Full Control' (for Administrators), WDS then showed more extensions under File Types. But then it stopped ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to start data call via program?

  Hello, I currently am able to get whether a datacall is active using the following: Dim bolPhoneActiveDataCall as boolean = CType (SystemState.GetValue(PhoneActiveDataCall), Boolean ) How do I start a data call if this value is false in vb.net Thanks in advance. John This forum is intended to deal with issues directly related to the .NET Compact Framework. It appears that this question can better be answered by someone on one of the newsgroups for Windows Mobile or Windows CE. In order to get a quicker and more accurate response, please consider reposting this question to one of the following newsgroups: Windows Mobile API : microsoft.public.pocketpc.devel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF53010 error after SP1 install

  I installed this first http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=c18c756e-8f80-4987-b3bf-600068a9e3c4&DisplayLang=en then installed this http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=A9AB638C-04D2-4AEE-8AE8-9F00DD454AB8&displaylang=en everything installed ok. Reboot. Went into VS2005 and get several 503: TF53010 Service Unavailable errors. The event log is shown below. I read one post but all the TFS databases are in multi user mode and there arent any IP restrictions in IIS. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1026766&SiteID=1 I can access work items, documents, run reports but cant access source control - help! ! ! TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundatio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cursor locked into a text box

  I will post the whole code below. The form works fine the first time around but when adding a second database row (a second record) the cursor will not leave the date time text boxes (masked text boxes) once entered unless a valid date is entered. Public Class NewVehicle Dim Ready1 As Boolean = False Dim Ready2 As Boolean = False Dim Ready3 As Boolean = False Dim Ready4 As Boolean = False Private Sub NewVehicle_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Me .Vehicle_filtersetTableAdapter.Fill( Me .M1DataSet.vehicle_filterset) Me .Vehicle_typeTableAdapter.Fill( Me .M1DataSet.vehicle_type) End ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. loading compressed files such as zip, rar,pk3, etc

  is it a "feature" of the content pipeline or would i need to write a custom load+filesystem routine to uncompress such files This is something i'm looking into also. I think I'll be working with zips becuase they are easy to understand and I have tons of books with c++ code that I'm trying to convert into c#. I'm hoping i can achieve extracting zips into memory on the xbox360 sope c# can support this in some way. Time to keep researching for me and I'll post any classes I build. ...Show All

• .NET Development New request is not allowed to start because it should come with valid transaction descriptor.

  I have a C# windows service that uses MSMQ, DTC Transactions, SQL server 2005 and Notification services. I am doing the following in the service: OnStart Create the queue set the Peek Complete event call Begin Peek PeekComplete WaitHandle[] waitHandle = new WaitHandle[] { new AutoResetEvent(false) }; ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(ProcessMessage, waitHandle[0]) Call End Peek WaitHandle.WaiteAll(waitHandle) queue.BeginPeek ProcessMessage(object stateInfo) AutoResetEvent are = (AutoResetEvent)stateInfo; Create DTC Transaction try Message msg = callResultQueue.Receive(MessageQueueTransactionType.Automatic); are.Set(); retreive Message Body Using (SQLConnection conn = new SQLConnection(connectionStr ...Show All

• Windows Forms drop down combobox via code more now

  hi i need to open a combobox via code. how do i/ Private Sub myDGV_KeyDown( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles myDGV.KeyDown If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then If ( Me .myDGV.CurrentCell.OwningColumn.CellType.ToString = "System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewComboBoxCell" ) Then 'ctype(me.myDGV.CurrentCell,DataGridViewComboBoxCell) 'code to open the combobox and display the values End If End If End Sub Public Class Datagrid Private Sub myDGV_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles myDGV.Click Me .myDGV.Rows.Add() End Sub Private Sub myDGV_DataError( ByVal sender ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to cast to the parametrized type?

  In my application, I have got a subroutine, which should retrieve the active window, check its type and return it in case of success. I wrote it with the generics syntax: Private Function ActiveWindow( Of T)() As T Dim f As Form = Me .ActiveMdiChild If TypeOf f Is T Then Return DirectCast (f, T) Else Return Nothing End If End Function But compiler says that System.Windows.Forms.Form cannot be converted to the type T. As you can see from this code, f can always be converted to the type T. I have found out really weird thing about that. If we modify the code in the following way, everything works: Private Function ActiveWindow( Of T)() As T Dim f As Form = Me ...Show All

• Visual Basic Any good tutorial link for SQL Reporting Services

  Any good tutorial link for SQL Reporting Services preferably in free movie format. Am a newbie WalangAlam, Video: 1. TechNet Support WebCast: An introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834838/ 2. TechNet Support WebCast: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895617 3. TechNet Support WebCast: Upgrading to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/913930 4. MSDN Support WebCast: Installing Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883676 MSDN articles and samples: 1. SQL Server Reporting Services: http ...Show All

• .NET Development Generating WSDL file via a UNC path

  Hello, I have a .asmx file which I want to use to generate the .wsdl file so I can pass it to the WSDL.EXE tool to generate the cs proxy class. I do not have access to the web server so I'm forced to use a UNC path to access the asmx file, how do I go about generating a .wsdl file from it without using the web server The WSDL is generated by the web server. It reflects upon the compiled web service code to automatically generate the WSDL based upon the code an it's attributes. You'll have to run it through some sort of web server. If you've got Visual Studio installed you should be able to set up a file system web project that you can run the asmx through. You can either create a web site project and us ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How can I pass Cubemap texture into Pixal Shader ?

  Q1: How to contruction a samplerCUBE in   .fx file 1. I import my static cubemap texture into content pipeline  TextureCube mySkybox; 2. In LoadGraphicsContent()   mySkybox = content.Load<TextureCube>("Contents\\skybox");   and now everything is ok. The question is  how can I contruct a samplerCUBE in myEffect.fx file   Q2: How to create a dynamic cubemap  Q3: How can I setup VC# express so that I can have HLSL language higt light when I  edit *.fx   in VC#   LOL, 1024 loads :) Thank you, that was painful, sorry to be slow on the uptake and thanks for your time. All I have to do is get the shade ...Show All