Bo2n's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Why is TFS not available to Empower Program subscriptions?

  I checked with Rob Caron. Although Empower comes with MSDN Premium, the included version of VS is only Professional. You must have one of the VS Team Editions + MSDN Premium to get TFS Workgroup Edition, thus Empower doesn’t qualify :-( Brian: >> I'm not promising anything will change ... In the absence of a dialog, it *is* difficult to effect change. Eric Lee never did respond to my email. That, too, speaks volumes, I suppose. Josh ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Searching for HD DVD Authoring online training and certification

  Hi friends! I am a SD DVD Author and willing to work on HD, so I need to know how I can learn HD DVD authoring and would like to do certification for the same. Online I am not sure. But sometimes MS do some training session in US and in Europe to learn how to developp and to make authoring of HD DVD. Golgot13 ...Show All

• SQL Server Could not load file or assembly ADODB, Version=7.0.3300.0

  I have an application broadly deployed (about 10 computers). As of yesterday, two of these computers are unable to start the application, and failing with the error below. All other computers run the application just fine. System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'ADODB, Version=7.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. File name: 'ADODB, Version=7.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' I checked and ADODB.dll version 7.0.3300.0 is in the GAC in the deployment target machines. I find ADODB.dll in my C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\Primary Interop Assemblies folder (development com ...Show All

• SQL Server Why use NULL and NOT NULL

  What are the differences in defining a field as NULL or NOT NULL, considering we may define a field as having a default value... There is a lot of debate about using NULL values. Many professionals say that you shouldn't, and others use them regularly. You can read more starting here: http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp g=sqlserver&seqNum=215&rl=1 Buck Woody ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to add an assembly reference when processing an item template?

  Hi, I have an item template that uses a base class in another assembly. Is there a way to ensure the project has a reference to that assembly and if not, add it when processing the template Regards, Alexander Actually, I was referring to the declaratively way. If you take a look at the solution template generated by GAT you will notice something like: < WizardData > < Template xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/gax-template " SchemaVersion = " 1.0 " Recipe = " YourRecipeName " > This will cause the firing of the YourRecipeName when the template is unfolded. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding to a service from xaml

  I'm having trouble figuring out how to bind to an object retrieved from a custom service locator where the key of the service is indicated in the xaml. For example, imagine I've exposed an object "ServiceLocator" to the namescope. I'd expect to be able to call: < UserControl x:Class = " UserControl1 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " > < StackPanel > < TextBox Text = " {Binding ElementName=ServiceLocator, Path=GetService[CurrentUser].CompanyName} " /> </ StackPanel > </ UserControl > My ServiceLocator class has: Public ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with w95_s7.dll

  Hi I have w95_s7.dll with function unload_tool(). I try call this function in Visual c++ 2005 express edition. I don't have installed SDK. I add w95_s7.lib to resource in me project Prodave. I add w95_s7.h and call function: #include "w95_s7.h" ... ... ... private : System::Void button1_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) { int res; res=unload_tool(); } When I try build project linker send 3 errors: ------ Build started: Project: Prodave, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Compiling... Prodave.cpp Linking... Prodave.obj : error LNK2028: unresolved token (0A00000A) "extern "C" int __cdecl unload_tool(void)" ( unload_tool@@$$J0YAHXZ) referen ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can the rules engine execute external code and return a value?

  I know the rules engine can store simple rules externally in a sql server, but can it also run more complex code that is not compiled in the main application For example, can each customer write their own scripts to do various calculations, and call them externally using the rules engine to return a value If the calculation then needs to be changed, only the script would need to be edited not the main exe Thanks. Presumably there are some object/objects that the rules will be written against.  Simply add a routine to your workflow call it CallExternalScript and add the RuleWrite("myObject/*") attribute to the routine where myObject is the object the rules are written against that the policy reacts to and /* is tha ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem with DirectX and Visual Studio 2k5

  Hey,    I've noticed something very wierd. I am using Visual Studio 2k5 for sometime but I've never tried to complile my previous Direct3D relelated projects on this release of Visual Studio, maybe because it never occured because the machine that I was developing them had 2k3. Now for the Problem if you create a Win32 default application with MFC support (or not) that you try to write the following stuff you get linker errors and sometimes complier errors. I've never had them before and I don't know why they are occur. I checked for the Project Properties, altered some stuff (such the use of precompiled headers etc with no luck :S). The DirectX samples compile fine but I don't know the cause of the pr ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to Convert Data Types into Byte Arrays?

  Hello. I have been writing an application which sends out UDP packets whose payload is a Byte array which is comprised of the values of different types of Data Types. My problem is that I have not been able to figure out how to convert a Data Type into its Byte equivalent in VB 2005. For example, representing a UIntenger = 5 as the Byte array = [0,0,0,5] Here is an example of code which I am trying to get to work. Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim tmpUInt8 As UShort = 1 'The ToByte converts to UInt8 Dim tmpUInt8 as Byte Dim tmpUInt16 As UShort = 2 Dim tmpUInt16Bytes(1) As Byte Dim tmpUInt32 As UInteg ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSTudio installation - trial version

  I downloaded and burnt the image file to a DVD - the installation page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=B2C27A7F-D875-47D5-B226-E2578A116E12&displaylang=en says (in additional info) that the file can be extracted by nero but I am unable to extract the file. Any input Thank I have been able to extract the files using iso buster are the set up files i need to install in the "vs" folder and would that be setup.exe Do I also need to unistall VWD express before I set this up Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C# Making an advanced settings form

  I am working on a user interface that needs to have a form added for advanced settings for the program. I have added a button and set the event handler for the button to call up the new form, but I am unable to get the program to take any of the settings from the advanced form. Everything is under the same namespace, but it will not find them, so when I try to build my program I get an error for each time that one of the settings from the advanced tab is called out. Is there a call out that I am forgetting, or do I need to change each callout to reflect that the setting is on a different form Thanks SVandal hmm, from the code you posted it seems as if this AdvancedForms does have the x_counts control, cor ...Show All

• SQL Server Report not using pagination properly

  I have a portrait report that has 1 table with 1 hidden group header (for the Page Header to reference fields from) and 36 detail rows. My problem is that pagination is not working properly. Depending on the length of data in the detail rows, the report tends to push majority of data on the next page(s) which leaves a lot of blank lines or blank page at the beginning of each group of data. I want the data to complete the first page before rolling over to the next page. That's why I have 36 individual detail rows instead of all the data in 1 detail row. I've tried adjusting the page length, but it doesn't seem to work all that well. I either get all the report on one page (which is fine when viewing online, but data is cut off when printing ...Show All

• SQL Server Distributed query from SS 2000 to access catalog views on SS 2005 via linked server

  I am trying to write some admin only procedures which will collect information to one of my development server from other production and development servers.   I have created linked servers to access these other servers on the development server. This development server is SQL Server 2000 EE. Other servers which I want to access are 2000 and 2005 (vaious editions)   E.g I have another development server called PRODTEST which is SQL Server 2005 and on the development server I have created a linked server pointing to PRODTEST called TESTLINKSRV. I want to access new object catalog view (as I do not want to use sysobjects)   When I run the following query   SELECT * FROM [TESTLINKSRV] ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem with DialogBox-will not halt the program

  Hi all. I hope this question is in the right place... I have a confirmation box in my program, and i wish for it to stop and wait for confirmation before continueing. I use this line: MessageBox(hDlg,"CONFIRM","CONFIRM", MB_YESNO | MB_ICONINFORMATION|MB_APPLMODAL); But the program keeps receiving and handling messages although it should wait for me to click on the confirmation box. What should I do to correct this   Thanks in advance, Moshe OK, thanks - but I have a few questions: 1. The situation is caused only because I call a messagebox, or the program will process new messages even if it's still in the middle of handling old ones 2. How does the system handle this ...Show All