invantix's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Activity submission

  Hi. I have submitted an MSN Messenger activity more then a week ago. Does anybody know how much time it takes to get any feedback Thanks. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. GSE and XACT Tool

  I am wondering if I am missing something related to XACT. I have a 4MB MP3 file, I used a converter program to convert it to WAV format and it is now 34MB. For the project I am working on I have 8 such tracks, so I am going to have 250MB of music Is AIF a more highly compressed format Is there a way to compress WAV files to make the the size more manageable The old DMUSIC tool for the XBox allowed you to compress WAV files through DirectMusic Producer to ADPCM, vs. WAV (PCM). Is something like this possible Thanks. Mike Polzin WilderLand Software The XACT tool allows you to apply ADPCM compression to your WAV files. Check here for info. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Breakpoint will not currently be hit in smart device DLL

  I am trying to debug a C# .Net Compact Framework 1.0 application for Pocket PC using Visual Studio 2005. The application is made up of a number of DLL projects. All the projects are set to Debug, and they all deploy to the device fine. When I debug the application I can set breakpoints in all the classes except those in one particular project. Breakpoints are not hit in this project, and when I am stepping in other classes that use objects from that particular project, the debugger says "Could not evaluate expression" What I find even weirder is in the debug output it says "Symbols loaded" for that particular DLL, but in the Modules window the DLL is not listed. Even though the debug output indicates it is loaded and t ...Show All

• SQL Server Limitation of # cubes inside a base Analysis Services

  Does anyone have any idea which is the limitation of # cubes inside a base Analysis Services, because I created 50 cubes, and when I tried to connect to the base, i was enable to do that because the CPU was at 100 %. I think that is a problem when analysis services tried to read the xmla and print all the cubes. Tks Hallo Calacean, the problem, you have accounted is not a SSAS with its limitations, but the client you use. Some clients read copletely all metadata (available cubes, dimensins, hierarhies, levels, measures etc.) immediately after connection to the database. Take a time to monitor with the SQL Profiler what commands and queries are sent from your client to the sever. You do find some intere ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista No Answer: Converting existing workflow from code based definition to xoml

  Hi, I have very exact problem that is explained here: https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=796006&SiteID=1 The API works, but I get just one element for a fairly complex workflow. How can get a full xoml form of an existing workflow Any help would be appreciated, Alan Actually, here is how it doesn't work: You have two options for creating sequential workflow in VS2005: Sequential Workflow (with code separation) Sequential Workflow (Code) Your code works fine if the workflow is created by using the 1st option. If you use other template - "Sequential Workflow (Code)" -, then all you get is an xoml file with just one tag defi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Open File Dialog

  Ok, I'm new to VB and only know how to do simple things(show new forms/dialogs, change text in textboxes, etc). I have used many other languages so I'm not new to programming if you need to know. I saw that theres an open file dialog I can use, and its exactly what I want, but I have no idea how to get what the user selected in the dialog. Also, what would I use to display a list of strings on top of each other and the user can select them. When the user clicks one, I would like to be able to know which string the user has selected. I have Visual Basic 2005 Express if it matters. Thanks for any help. Open file dialog question first: ‘ From one of my programs Private Sub OpenFileToolS ...Show All

• .NET Development Is this possible to play .mpg or .wmv

  Is this possible to play .mpg or .wmv by .net functions Process.Start() usually works if the media player is properly setup. Give the full path to the .mpg or .wmv file as an argument... ...Show All

• .NET Development DataView Query

  I'm using VB 2005 My database is Oracle 9i I have a dataview of a very large table. I want to query it for a specific date or range of dates. My query looks like this: Select * FROM TableName WHERE (DATE_UPDATED >= TO_DATE(:PARAM1, 'rrrr/MM/DD HH:MI:SS')) No matter how I format the TO_DATE or the PARAM1 date I cannot retreive records for the current date. When I query yesterday I get yesterday and today. When I query for anything else I get everything. There are over 32 million records in this table so getting everything is not an option. Current Date = 11/07/2006 Example: PARAM1 = 2006/11/07 05:00:00 - I get no records Example: PARAM1 = 2006/11/06 05:00:00 - I get yesterday and today Example: PARAM1 = 2006/11/03 05:00:00 - I g ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Recreate Project Portal Site

  Is there a way to recreate a TFS project WSS site We migrated from B3R to RC and the WSS portion was not migrated correctly and all of our backups are gone at this point. I would like to get just a blank one set up that the project will use going forward. Thanks, I also don't mind creating a new project and moving the source control over to it, if there is a way to do that.  It looks like a branch/merge might work, but I want to verify before attempting this... Hi, The best way to get help for this is to start a new thread explaining your issue. Doing so helps others know exactly what problem you are seeing, and also gives your question more visibility. -Matt ...Show All

• Visual Basic VS 2003 Walkthrough not working in VS 2005 Creating a distributed Application

  I have looked through these MSDN forums and ASP.NET forums with no luck. I'm using VS 2005 Team Ed for developers - clean install - selected General option for default project type. Created New Web Service project by selecting the File... New... Web Site.... ASP.NET Web Service (there was no template under Project... as suggested in the walkthrough) The problem: the database drag and drop onto the web service designer pane doesn't generate a sqlConnector or a sqlDataAdapter. I can: connect successfully to the database in server Explorer. create a Dataset by using the Website menu -> Add New Item... DataSet but shouldn't I be able to just drag and drop the database onto the Web Service James Reid ...Show All

• SQL Server Datasource-Microsoft Visual Studio

  Hi I am new to all SQL Related. I am trying to create a datasource to our old database we used in the company to write reports on the data. when I create a new data source and enter all required info, when testing the connection, i get a reply that I do not have the necessary permissions to use this object, although my account is specified as an administrator can somebody please explain this to me. ...Show All

• Visual C++ __wchar_t and wchar_t

  Greetings, What's the difference between __wchar_t (two leading underscores) and wchar_t (zero leading underscores) Thanks http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wcepbguide5/html/wce50grfZcwchar_t-Wchar_tIsNativeType.asp explains the relationship between the two types. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Ctrl+Space command notification

  Hi, I wanted to be able to handle the Ctrl+Space key combination keypressed event within the xml document so that I can display a lookup window. I was able to handle key press by implementing my own command filter but it seems that the command filter will only be triggered on every key press. This means that if you do something like Ctrl+Space, you will receive a notification for Ctrl key first then a notification for Space key. I would like to know if there is a way to know if both keys were pressed. Thanks, Marlon D. Gallego ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Add Related Work Item fields question

  We are using the "Add Related Work Item" feature for creating a Bug from a Test. This is being done by right-clicking on the Test work item and selectiong the "Add Related Work Item" option. What we want to do is specify how field data gets copied from the Test WIT to the Bug WIT. It looks like a few of the built-in fields get copied automatically (maybe by reference name ). But I would like to customize this behavior. For example, we would like the Title of the Test WIT to flow to a custom field in the Bug WIT - instead of the Title field. And, we also want other custom fields from the Test WIT to flow to other fields in the Bug WIT. Is there any way to accomplish this I messed around with the WIT elements and attributes in ...Show All

• SQL Server SELECT WHERE Date is...

  Hi All... I have a table that has a field called LogDateTime whose type is datetime. How do I specify the WHERE clause if I want only those records that are say from the last three days Such as WHERE (LogTimeDate < Today - 3 days)... Thanks for any help!!! -- Curt Curtis: -- ------------------------------------------- -- It is best to avoid enclosing the target -- within a function such as DATEADD or -- DATEDIFF because this can potentially -- inhibit the use of an index that might -- provide a performance boost. -- -- The dateadd can of course be used instead -- of directly decrementing the GETDATE -- function. I have chosen to directly -- decrement the getdate function. -- --------- ...Show All