Danny Tuppeny's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Status of build in a team project

  How can i get the status of a build running in a team project. In C# or from the command line.   Also what event is fired after every chanege of build status (eg. Initialization, Getting sources, Testing etc.). thanks You can check on the build status of a running build in the UI. But you can not get the status of a running build from the command line. There are BuildStatusChangeEvent and BuildCompletionEvent. Note that the BuildStatusChangeEvent is fired only when there is a change in Build Quality and not for the build steps (Initialization, Getting sources, etc.). You can set up notification for these 2 events through Project Alerts. Swaha ...Show All

• SQL Server Passing the xml configuration file to the package as an input parameter while executing the package

  Hi, I am planning to develop a single package that will download files from ftp server, move the files to internal file server and upload it in the database. But I want to run this package for multiple ftp file providers. For each provider the ftp server might be different and the transformation to upload the files into a database table might be different. So can I create a single package and then multiple configuration files (xml), which will contain the details fo the ftp file providers and then pass the xml file as a parameter while executing the package. The reason being that the timings of fetching the files is different for each ftp file provider and hence cannot be combined into one. Is this possible Thanks for your help ...Show All

• SQL Server help on SubscriptionProperties.aspx page

  I want to pop up a subscription page for user to subscribe a report from my customized web page. I did a little research on this page and I can generate a url including the report name/path, and some parameters else, then open the url in a browser window. sometimes it works fine. but sometimes it did not. I am wondering if there are some regulations or information about the url variables being passed over to the page of SubscriptionProperties.aspx. thanks a lot. Did you have luck with this I'm about to head down a similar route and thought I'd check before getting too far along. Thanks, Derek ...Show All

• .NET Development XPath query problem

  For ex: i want to get "book1" that has both categoryname='Data' and categoryname='XML'. Not just 'Data' or just 'XML'. i tried following XPath queries but first one returns all the books. The second does not return anything because @categoryname cannot be 'Data' and 'XML' at the same time. How can i query this /books/book/related[@categoryname='Data' or @categoryname='XML']/.. /books/book/related[@categoryname='Data' and @categoryname='XML']/.. <books>   <book name='book1'>        <related categoryname='Data'/>        <related categoryname='XML'/>   </book>   <book name='book2'>        <related ca ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Input suggestion

  Please make also event based input option for Mouse and Keyboard. For example. 1.In Mouse and Keyboard, add EventDelegate like Mouse.OnMouseEvent, Keyboard.OnKeyEvent 2.We then just do Mouse.OnMouseEvent+= new MouseEventDelegate(game.OnMouseEvent); 3. OnMouseEvent should look like OnMouseEvent(object sender,MouseState state,MouseEventArg args) { //MouseEventArg tells us what button was pressed,released, wheel moved or //just x,y change } Thanks drEKO I use EventBased input for handling typing. If a KeyDown event is fired I simply add it to the end of the text string. My Event Based Input Service (Ebi) handled KeyDowns and KeyUps for me automatically. To create a buffered input you would simply have to a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Trouble creating my effect object

  I have the following code: CompiledEffect compiledEffect = Effect.CompileEffectFromFile("Shaders\\simple.fx", null, null, CompilerOptions.Debug | CompilerOptions.SkipOptimization, TargetPlatform.Windows); m_effect = new Effect(m_graphics.GraphicsDevice, compiledEffect.GetShaderCode(), CompilerOptions.None, null); Unfortunately, on the second line, I get an exception. Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.InvalidCallException was unhandled Message="External component has thrown an exception." Source="Microsoft.Xna.Framework" ErrorCode=-2147467259 StackTrace: at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Effect.CreateEffectFromCode(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice, Int32[] effectCode, CompilerOptions options, EffectPool p ...Show All

• SQL Server Learning Optimization Techniques

  Hi, Still using 2000; I'm trying to figure out where to even start with optimization in SQL queries. BOL is very confusing to me on this point. I ran the following query with and without and index as seen below. Is Trace a good place to start DROP INDEX OrdDetails.OrderID_ind GO CREATE INDEX OrderID_ind ON OrdDetails (OrderID) GO select count(*) from OrdDetails = 6467155 rows GO -- query; without index Duration 156; CPU 95; Reads 54 -- query; with index Duration 66; CPU 15; Reads 97 select OrderID, Count(OrderID) AS OrderIDCnt from OrdDetails group by OrderID having count(*) > 1 GO Why are the reads more with the index This is just a simple non-clustered index, which I believe is the default. Should I be startin ...Show All

• SQL Server "service unavailable" error message

  I recently changed the service account for the SSRS service, after which I restarted IIS & reporting services. Now, I get an error message that says "Service Unavailable" whenever i try to load up http://localhost/Reports Event viewer looks clean...what's wrong ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Modifying a Table Column

  What would be the steps to modify a table column The database schema has been imported. The project is under source control. The column of an existing table must be modified. Currently (eg): [ColumnName] [int] NOT NULL, Later: [ColumnName] [int] NULL, If I modify the table in Solution Explorer and save the file, I get an error "An object with name '[Table] dbo.[TableName]' exists in the database project. But I cannot repro the problem on both Schema View and Solution Explorer. Can you please send me the script for the table or the whole database so that I may be able to repro on your database and investigate the cause Thanks, Henry ...Show All

• Visual Studio Group execution bug

  Hi I had put a similar post earlier but need to put it again as the first one failed to produce any response. In my reportviewer webform, when I have a "Group" (in a table) then the group execution sequence of the group is Header - Footer - Detail. Shouldnt it be Header-Detail-Footer Since my group footer executes before the group details I have no data in to do the footer calculations !! Has anyone encountered this issue regards mqs Group header and footer are always evaluated before going "inside". The reason is that expressions inside can reference e.g. textbox values in the group header and footer because they are both in the "parent" scope. -- ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Connecting active sync to emulator in an x64 environment

  Hi, I am trying to connect my Windows Mobile 5.0 emulator to active sync on a 64 bit machine, but the emulator is not being recognised by active sync. Is this a problem with the 64 bit environment (is active sync+WM 5.0 emulator) supported on a 64-bit machine Is there something that I am missing here Thanks Deepthi Hi Curnel_D, Are you talking about installing ActiveSync I thought you were talking about the Device Emulator! I just went to the ActiveSync download site and found only Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, but not the HOME edition in the list of supported OSes. Are you using XP x64 home edition http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=7269173a-28bf-4cac-a682- ...Show All

• Visual C++ vector::resize causes floating point exception

  Hello, I'm hoping for a reality check here. The following program generates a floating point exception in the vector::resize call. I compiled it under VC 2005 using the command line in the comment below. I've disassembled the executable and found that vector::resize creates a default Point object which is then copied to the new empty elements at the end of the vector. But note that the Point constructor doesn't initialize the x and y members. This means the bits are garbage, and vector::resize will copy the garbage to the new elements. This is no biggie because I don't use the uninitialized elements. However, the problem is that the compiler uses the floating point processor to copy the doubles. Whe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Header Control

  There doesn't seem to be a Windows Forms control which is equivalent to the Common Controls header control.  I am looking for a control to provide the same functionailty as this which is a header control consisting of seperate text headings which can be sized but is a standalone control. i.e as the headers on the ListView or Grid controls but standalone. Am i missing it somewhere  or does it just not exist  If not does anyone know of a 3rd party one anywhere This project provides a .NET wrapper around the header control. ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies How to get authenticated password of sharepoint site user to pass on NetworkCredential() method as parameters

  I am creating a user control page(ascx) using the web services from SharePoint Services/Project Server site. As we know that the user name and password needs to access the sites of them. I used the following code(C#) to access the web services, it will work fine. There is already Windows Authentication in Sharepoint Site. //UserGroupWS is Added Web Service private static UserGroupWS.UserGroup userGroup = new UserGroupWS.UserGroup(); userGroup.Url = " http://DomainName/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx "; userGroup.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("UserName", "Password", "DomainName"); Note that there are the parameters namded "Password" also in NetworkCredential() method. W ...Show All

• SQL Server About Connections and component mappings

  1.After creating pacakages what i am concerned about is that when i move then to different locations do they work just the same as the had been. 2.About the mapping with in the components like lookups,and the variable with in conditional split or etc....do they get disturbed with any change in the location of the textfiles or anything of this kind of location change. 3.Is is adviceable transforming 5 to 6 text file with in one package in parallel Please let me know Thanks 1. They should work the same way. Just make sure the account executing the package has required permissions on all enviroments; but that is nothing to do with the package itself. 2. Same as above 3. That may be a matter ...Show All