CaoxiCao's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System VSS Migration hanging TF60047 - how to move forward?

  I am in the middle of running VSSConverter to migrate our source (~2GB) from VSS to TFS. It has been hanging for an hour or so with error # TF60047. The error message says there could be a problem with the network connection or TFS connection. I am running in a single server setup so TFS and SQL Server are all on the same machine, and all are running, incl. all SQL Server service - I checked in Configuration Mgr. One problem earlier was that there was huge (~800K) memory usage by w3wp.exe which was being run by the TFSService account. So I shut down IIS. Now, even though memory usage is down to acceptable levels, the migration is still not moving forward. Any ideas on how I can proceed here Or if I were to start afresh, how do I do that ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3D on Xbox360 using XNA

  I've read the forums a couple times, and I'm still confused on this one. Can I use the DirectX libraries if I want my game to run on Xbox360 If so do I need to stick with a certain build of DirectX I'm just starting to build up my game engine now, and DirectX is making all of it much easier. I hate 3D graphics programming, but I love game programming. But I don't want to keep going down that road if its a dead end. Thanks to everyone in advance XNA is built on top of DirectX, and includes a lot of directx functionality, so I don't see why you're using non-xna directx. You should try to use the XNA libraries for the xbox, because that's what they were designed for. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. any limitation with 256mb 360 memory cards?

  In the XNA documentation it states: "The largest space available on a memory unit is 52MB, so any save games must not exceed that size." I assume this is for the current 64MB 360 memory card. So there is 12mb overhead due to formatting or other uses I assume I am hoping this 52mb limit is not "hardcoded" in the XNA code anywhere. A 256MB unit is just around the corner. You can even pre-order it at gamestop.com; but it won't ship until March.. Is there anything hard-coded in the XNA framework impl today which will act as a limitation with these new memory cards I am assuming / hoping that the theoretical space available jump to ~ 244mb (assuming the same 12mb overhead for both cards), but I would like a con ...Show All

• Visual Basic FolderBrowserDialog1 fails when the user selects a folder name that's to long

  I was wondering if anyone know how to prevent a user to select a foldername that does have a long length name. When I run this code: If Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then If Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then If FolderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then txtFileDirectory.Text = FolderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath lblInstall.Text = txtFileDirectory.Text btnContinue.Enabled = True End If End If End If I get a error if I select a foldername that has a long foldername length. I think more than 50 characters. Can anyone help Thank you.... B Your code looks rather strange with duplicate lines. The following code If FolderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() = Di ...Show All

• .NET Development Possible to register a C# program to the R.O.T. for OLE automation?

  Hi all, I was wondering if it was possible to "register" your own created c# program for OLE automation This would be the equivalent of accessing something in Excel via OLE. Like: Dim ExcelApp As Object ExcelApp = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("Excel.Application") Edit: and just to clarify, I understand how the GetActiveObject works (by looking up the object in the Running Object Table). I guess I need to know if it is possible to register a program with the Running Object Table. Great, thanks again Alois. Hopefully this is my last question: I've managed to register my program with the ROT, and I can see it fine with the correct name! :) Now, accessing it is giving me some trouble ...Show All

• SQL Server web service data source complex parameters

  I am building a report that takes a web service as data source. This web service does not take primitive types as parameters. The signature is something like this: <soap:Body> <GetXml xmlns="myreports.ws"> <root > <TP Name="string"> <B Name="string" Surname="string"> <SA xsi:nil="true" /> </B> <B Name="string" Surname="string"> <SA xsi:nil="true" /> </B> </TP> <TP Name="string"> <B Name="string" Surname="string"> <SA xsi:nil="true" /> </B> <B Name="stri ...Show All

• SQL Server how to invoke/call Drillthrough Action

  Hi, experts: In AS 2005, there is this new type of action, Drillthrough. Is it possible to invoke/call it in MDX to get the results of data defined by the drillthrough action I'd like to use it in RS reports, is there a way to get the results from Drillthrough action maybe via a custom assembly There got to be a way, since it is available for pivital table in SQL BI Dev Studio's Browser. Any idea, sample thanks William In order to invoke drillthrough from an RS 2005 report, you can try the OLE DB for OLAP 9.0 Provider - there is an Adventure Works sample query in this OLAP newsgroup thread: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.olap/msg/4870097ed8fcffda >> micro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Development Project Plan not picking up all information

  When I open the Development Project Plan and load all the work items, the start dates and end dates are not loaded. Which may or may not lead to that the blue bars on the right are not shown. Why isn't Microsoft Project picking up the start dates and end dates /Chris Still doesn't pick it up. Actually, its kinda funny because every time I open the Development Project Plan.mpp I have to import all work items (via Get Work Items) to see the work items. This does not import the start or finish dates, or the area and iteration. If I click Refresh just after the import the area and iteration fields are updated. However, the start and finish dates are never updated. I would have expected that the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) how to convert binary of a 3D xaml resource, to make the program light weigh

  Hi,      I have a really complex 3d object with me, and is of around 3000 lines of xaml....when i program wityh this objet in ide, it just fails to load, / makes the IDE slow. Now, the thing is i could have kept it as a resource but still the resource file would m,easure around 8 mb in size.... can we make this whole thing really light by converting the whole 3d xaml piece in to some binay format like .bin (they use somewhat like this in Computer games likes NFS). thanks and regards brij   ...Show All

• .NET Development Programatically Setting the Priority of the Windows Service to Low.

  Hello, I have written a windows service. But the service priority is normal. I need to set the priority to low or lowest. Does anyone know how to do this programatically using C#. Thanks In Advance With Regards Sunil Dutt I 'm not sure what you mean with service priority. If you mean the priority as indicated in the task manager than you could try change the priority with Windows Management Instrumentation. Generate a class for processes and use it in c# to find your proces and change the priority. ...Show All

• SQL Server SET NEW_BROKER statement hangs system

  SQL Version - SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition, SP 1 I have a database which is Broker Enabled. We use Query notification extensively and the application is in testing stage. Both Testing and development database is on the same server. When I create database for testing I used to do Backup-restore method. When i restore a borker enabled database, the restored database and the source database will have same GUID for Broker. So by default the restored database will not be broker enabled. So what I do is , i run Alter database somedatabase SET NEW_BROKER. This statement will generate new GUID for this database and then we can enable the Broker by SET ENABLE_BROKER statement. Till last week this process was working fine. When I did the same ...Show All

• SQL Server Extremely simple query (I hope) but I can't solve it

  Hi, I'm new in MDX and I have a request that I think is extremely simple, but I can't make it. I have a dimension with a hierarchy, like this [Dim1] [Hier_Dim1] All Level1 SLevel12 SLevel13 Level 2 SLevel21 SSlevel211 SSLevel212 etc. I want the values of a measure [Measures].[Total] on the childrens of SLevel21, I write this MDX SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Total] } ON COLUMNS , NON EMPTY { [Dim1].[Hier_Dim1].&[SLevel21].Children} ON ROWS FROM [My Cube] Result Set I expect is SSLevel211 Total1 SSLevel212 Total2 But I have this Level1 SLevel2 SSLevel211 ...Show All

• SQL Server Install SQL SERVER 2005

    Hi All... For the last one week I am trying to install SQL Server 2005, but couldn't succeed uptil know. For installing it in the proper way first i downloaded and installed the Windows Installer 3.1, then I installed the .net Framework 2.0 from the SQL server 2005's CD. Then tried to install SQL CLIENT and SQL SERVER 2005. SQL CLIENT installed properly but not the sql server. There were two warning messages i.e. windows is not compatible and the hardware also. I use windows xp professional sp 2. I will appreciate for your precious reply Standard edition will also run in SQL 2k5 on Windows XP boxes. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Windows Forms ReadyBoost - Optimize for performance or quick removal?

  So I got an Apacer HT203 2GB USB flash drive (claimed fastest in the world). I plugged it in and chose the option to speed up my computer with ReadyBoost. It created a default cache size on it of 1860MB. Everything seems to be working great so I just have one question... In the properties for the drive I can 'Optimize for quick removal" or "Optimize for performance." It seems logical to choose the performance option since I will never be removing this drive, it will always be for ReadyBoost. Am I correct or will this make ReadyBoost perform worse The default is set to quick removal even using it as a ReadyBoost drive which surprises me. Thanks very much for any help provided. ...Show All

• .NET Development add an element to a xml file

  I want to add another language to my following xml file: < xml version="1.0" > - < languages > < language language =" Nederlands " /> - < language language =" English " > - < categorie > < Word English =" banana " Spanish =" platano " /> < Word English =" apple " Spanish =" manzana " /> </ categorie > < categorie /> </ language > </ languages > How can I do that with j# Creating a node is ...Show All