Enix591's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Different deploy requirements for differrent environments

  Hi, I have an unanswered thread here: https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=912956&SiteID=1 about how we manage differrent requirements for different environments. Here's an example of a problem I'm having. Our developers are all grouped together in an AD group called SomeDomain\Developers. That group has various permissions assigned in our dev environment. We also have those same permissions setup in our DBPro project. However, we don't want that group to have the same permissions on our other environments. In fact, when we go into our live environment we don't want this group to have any permissions at all. If we use DBPro to do all of our deployments then, unless we change something, that group will ...Show All

• .NET Development Adding a connection to a database from the code?

  Hello all, Hope this is question is not too obvious... Is there a way to add to my local server a connection to a database from within the code, while the application is running ...Show All

• Architecture Using Object Relation Mapping Tools

  I am planning to use Object Relation mapping tool in our project, presently we zeroed on Nhibernate. Just before implementing i want to seek advice on the below points Any cons of using OR mapping tools Any known issues Any performance issues TIA, Sudheer. The answer to all your questions is Yes. If you do not intend to use the Domain Model Pattern, then O/R mapping is probably not for you. If this is your first time implementing a Domain Model, I would suggest reading the book Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans, or Applying Domain Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson, BEFORE you get started. More importantly, if you haven't tried persisting objects yourself, then you might ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums error in formula

  Hi, This is a formula that I am creating for a cell. The system complains that there is an error on ISDATE (where I have indicated with below) : How can this be solved please Thanks =IF(LOWER(E20)="ia-q",IF(ISDATE(D62),"YES",IF(LOWER(E20)="ia-r-q",IF(ISDATE(D62),"YES",IF(LOWER(E20)="ia-st",IF(ISDATE(D62),"YES",IF(LOWER(E20)="ia-lm",IF( ISDATE (D62),"YES", "NO")))))))) I believe the cause is the IF function, instead of ISDATE function. See below extracts from MS Excel help: "Up to seven IF functions can be nested as value_if_true and value_if_false arguments to construct more elaborate tests. If you ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) I don't like xaml :-)

  Everything that I can do using xaml I can do from C# code, right And I am not sure whether this is true also other way round. I know people are saying that xaml is great because tools used by designers can generate xaml files and whole UI can be created by them independently of programming language (C# or VB) and so on... But I know C# and I don’t have designer and I am going to create whole application alone and I don’t want to learn some kind of new language (xaml) only to use it because it is cool. Also when I am writing xaml I feel like doing web page and not implementing standalone application. And I have some feeling (maybe wrong) that doing things in code runs faster then when using xaml. A ...Show All

• SQL Server MSDE fails to install; cnfgsvr cannot start the instance service.

  Windows XP, SP2; MSDE 2000 Release A - on some installs of the XP SP2 MSDE installation fails, the section of the install log that applies is:   Executing "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\cnfgsvr.exe -V 1 -M 1 -U sa -I "INSTANCE" -Q "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS""   MSI (c) (60:64) [19:21:20:734]: Font created.  Charset: Req=0, Ret=0, Font: Req=MS Shell Dlg, Ret=MS Shell Dlg   Setup failed to configure the server. Refer to the server error logs and setup error logs for more information.   MSI (s) (B4!F4) [19:21:33:546]: Product: Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine -- Setup failed to configure the server. Refer to the server error logs and setup error logs for more information.   Action ende ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can you have a camera without an effect?

  From what I can tell you HAVE to use an effect to setup the position of the camera; is this right Are there any XNA-centric examples of how the HLSL works and how to use it Jim.Welch wrote: I'm pretty sure you don't need to use an effect for a camera. Effects are just for drawing objects. A camera just defines your view and projection, etc. There's a couple camera examples in the help files and a few FX examples in the help files, also. Well, actually since they removed the methods from the graphics device to set the view and projection matrices you now need to set the camera via shaders. Objects generally are position via the World * View * Projection Matrix in the vertex shader. In XNA this can be acomplished using t ...Show All

• Windows Forms can i Connect multi table on the datagridView

  please answer me can i connect multi table with dataGridview if can give me example thanks Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Dim dsOrdersAndDetails As New DataSet() Dim daOrders As New SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter() Dim daDetails As New SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter() Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlConnection() Dim tblOrders As New DataTable() Dim tblDetails As New DataTable() dsOrdersAndDetails.Tables.Add(tblOrders) dsOrdersAndDetails.Tables.Add(tblDetails) conn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=Northwind;Integrated Security=SSPI" ...Show All

• .NET Development How to create a script for creation of users and roles in a DB?

  Hi all, I was looking to create a script for users and roles of my database so that I can run the script whenever I am in need and if it exist it will drop and recreate again. What I am looking now is how to create the script for users and roles. I am using sql sever. Thank you in advance.  What database are you using If SQL Server you can create a text file with the CREATE USER command to create users http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173463.aspx And CREAT ROLE to create roles: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187936.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Display Last 2 Comments to a Record

  Ok, I'll try to explain this as best as I can... I have an Invoice Record in one table (Invoices) and in another table (Comments) I have multiple comments to an Invoice. I'm looking for a statement that will output the last 2 comments per Invoice Record. Example: The Comments table has multiple ID #'s corresponding to the ID # in the Invoices table. Invoice ID # 1 has 4 Comments; Invoice ID #2 has 3 Comments; ID# 3 has 2 comments. The output would be 6 records with 2 comments for each ID #1, 2, and 3. Yes, most recent 2 comments. The Comments table has 3 fields. Date, Comment, and ID. The ID corresponds to the ID of the Invoice Record. So, there can be multiple records in the Comments tabl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What is the difference Between VS 2005

  What is the Difference Between Visual studio 2005 & Visual Studio .Net & Visual Studio 2003 is probabably the last version of Visual Studio 2005 Similerly the languages like Visual Basic 2005 & Visual Basic .net With the .Net framework the Language is not really a problem as it is your choice to what language that you choose. In the end when you compile the code it compiles to exactly the same format. As for the Development Packages you will find that Visual Studio .Net was for .Net framework 1.0, the Visual Studio 2003 targets the .Net framework 1.1.... and the Visual Studio 2005 System targets the .Net framework 2.0. Also not that if you do need to develop applications that use the different Versions ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System The item [path] could not be found in your workspace.

  I'm using Visual Studion 2005 Team Suite to work on a .NET website, and have been experiencing an issue when I try to check out aspx files for editing. Everytime attempt results in the following error message... The item [path] could not be found in your workspace. The weird thing is I can open the file from the source safe folder, and I can check out vb files for edit that are located in the same project folder. I tried forcing a get on the source safe folder which resulted in all the files being updated locally, but I still can't edit the aspx files. Can anyone offer any solutions Thanks, amehrich Luis, Nothing in the log really jumps out at me. The content below was generated during ...Show All

• SQL Server XML data source to Report Model (Dec CTP SQL 2005 SP2)

  Hi, I've used the Dec CTP of SQL 2005 SP2 to create a Report Server Project. In this project, I can create an XML datasource and successfully use that datasource in a report published on Sharepoint using the new Sharepoint AddIn. I've also used Dec CTP of SQL 2005 SP2 to create a Report Model Project. In this project I can create SQL Data Sources, DataSource Views andReport Models which I deploy to sharepoint and create a report builder based report from. What I can't do is create an XML based datasource in a Report Model Project. Also, if I create one solution containing both types of project, the Report Model Project Data Source Wizard suggests I can create a data source based on an existing data source in my solution . Wh ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF and legacy applications

  I currently have a web service that is being used by a number of different web applications and console applications, all written in VB.Net and ASP.Net 2005. Is there a way that I can re-write the web service using WCF and still allow the other applications to reference the new web service without breaking them The WCF methodly is new to us but we are wanting to start implementing it in our organization. Thanks Never mind, I think I found my answer at http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751433.aspx ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Early Z and alpha test

  Hi all, I am creating an app to draw 3d objects by blending trasparent view-aligned layers. The bottleneck is the pixel shader here, so I want to avoid processing pixels in empty areas and in areas where the pixel is already opaque enough. The empty space skpping works nicely, I draw the backfaces of the bounding boxes in the z, then enable z testing. The problem I have is with the other optimization (early z). I am working with a radeon 9700, and my early z method is called after every 10 slices. This is the method: /// <summary>Setup early ray occlusion render states</summary> public void SetupEarlyRay(int alphaThreshold) { device.TextureState[0].ColorArgument0 = TextureArgument.TextureColor; device.TextureSta ...Show All