Ahsan Ali's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System TF53010 NullReferenceException from "TFS Warehouse" source

  Each hour there are two TF53010 errors in Event Log. Thanks in advance for help how to resolve the issue. ------------------- THE FIRST ------------------- TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): 10/16/2006 7:32:35 AM Machine: SERVER Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/3/Root/Warehouse-4-128054503400728648 Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727 Process Details: Process Name: w3wp Process Id: 5140 Thread Id: 884 Account name: DOMAIN\tfsservice Detailed Message: Micros ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with SQLAgent Running SSIS Package "...package execution failed..."

  I am trying to run an SSIS package from the SQL Agent. I am able to execute the package manually from VS2005 and SQL Server. When I try to run the package from the agent, I get the error "The package execution failed.  The step failed." VS2005, SQL Server, and the SQL Server Agent are all installed on my local machine and running from the same account. I only have one step in the job and it doesn't include any scripts. Are there any permissions I need to set for the agent What am I missing -Stephen Hi! If you follow Abha's instructions from 03-01-2007 you can fix this problem! I finally managed to get it to work after months of trying to fix it. By selecting SQL Serve ...Show All

• Visual Basic MDI and MenuStrip Problems

  I'm having some problems with MDI windows and MenuStrip objects. Here is a link to a sample project . Some of the problems I have are: When a child window is first created, the icon in the MenuStrip is the default icon instead of the custom icon. When the child window is changed from maximized to normal then maximized again, the right icon is show but it is too large. After doing problem #2, close the window and a System.ObjectDisposed exception is thrown. After doing problem #2, open a new window then close it and the program will hang. These problems are seriously interfering with a program I'm writing. What can I do about them ...Show All

• Visual Basic debugging exe and dll

  I have a solution which includes an exe project (startup project) and a dll project. Sometimes when I am debugging the solution VS will stop at a breakpoint in the dll project, sometimes it won't. Why is that and how get I get it to always stop at said breakpoints If you compile the dll in release mode, it will not stop on the break points. Make sure you are compiling in debug mode in order to debug the solution. Jim Wooley http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS to run a webservice times out

  We have a package that runs a webservice. The webservice connects to exchange for multiple mail accounts so it sometimes takes awhile to run. If run from SQL Server Management Studio, it usually completes, but may occassionally time out. If run from a job (i.e. we want this scheduled) then it NEVER completes successfully - althought there is very little information about what the error was. It seems to fail too quickly to be a time out error... Any idea why this is happening Or how to prevent it from timing out Is there a way to initiate the webservice asynchronously from SSIS Running a package from Management Studio uses the credentials of the logged in user. If your job is run using SQLAgent, the cre ...Show All

• Visual C++ nmake U1073 error on target file name contains Japanese characters

  Under Japanese XP SP2 - Use Visual Studio 2005 nmake to build a project with some target .cpp files contain Japanese characters resulting nmake fatal error U1073: can't find target file (in Japanese). The file refers to the cpp file with Japanese characters in the file name. The command window displays these Japanese characters incorrectly in this nmake error message. Basically it shows the binary equivalents of these DBCS characters. The problem is not there using Visual Studio 2003 and nmake can display DBCS characters correctly when running. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView date issue

  hi all... I have a DatagridView populated by a database. One of the colums holds datetime values, but it seems that the DataGrid stores those values as txt. So, when i click the DGV header to order by the date column, it doens't consider the month (being dd-mm-yyyy), so it orders considering only the day value 'dd'. How do I format the dgv column to read the dates properly so that i can order the values by date thx in advance Thread moved to the appropriate forum. I'm unsure why it does that as if it has been populated using a database (with the aid of say a dataset and the binding has been set) then it should automatically create the datatypes. Any chance of giving us the code on how you are populating the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Tile Engine Tutorial - Part 2

  We just posted part 2 of our Tile Engine Tutorial over at www.xnaresources.com ! This tutorial covers the following: - Updating the tile set handling to use a tile sets with transitions, etc.. - Adding smooth scrolling to the map engine - Adding a game screen overlay Here is a screenshot of the finished product: http://www.xnaresources.com/images/TileTutorial2.jpg Pop over and run through the tutorial: http://www.xnaresources.com   Ah... I see why you did it that way now. I hadn't thought much about walkability. How many parts do you estimate will be in this Tile Engine series ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. text mixed with 3d

  thought id ask another question while im at it. i want to display text on the hud of my 3d engine. i did some searching and came across some of the text components out there and chose the nuclex.fonts componenet (very good imo). this works fine on its own or with other 2d objects (eg. sprites) but if i render any 3d objects, all the 3d objects have z buffer issues. i noticed this problem when i first introduced sprites into my engine and it was fixed via the spritebatch.begin methods savestatemode parameter. however, this functionality doesnt exist with the nuclex.fonts package, so my 3d objects are all screwed again. is there another option to prevent this, or can someone tell me how to manually save my renderstate and restore it after re ...Show All

• Visual C++ A Missing Include?

  Dear Collective Wisdom, I am a C/C++ newbie using Visual C++ 2005 Windows Forms to try to compile a C code project developed (by someone else) in MacIntosh Project Builder. A sample of some of the error messages I am receiving are as follows: Error 7 error C2065: 'FILE' : undeclared identifier c:\FNSimulator\ReadLayup.cpp 82 Error 8 error C2065: 'inFilePtr' : undeclared identifier c:\FNSimulator\ReadLayup.cpp 82 Error 9 error C3861: 'sprintf': identifier not found c:\FNSimulator\ReadLayup.cpp 85 Error 10 error C3861: 'fopen': identifier not found c:\FNSimulator\ReadLayup.cpp 86 Error 11 error C2065: 'cout' : undeclared identifier c:\FNSimulator\ReadLayup.cpp 88 Error 12 error C3861: 'calloc': identifier not found c:\FN ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions update the column with primary key in MS access

  hi, I have a question related to update the column which has primary key in MS access. since the value in that column cannot be the same, is there any way to update it efficiently if I want to add a new data into it I have one idea. first, I try to count how many entries there are in the table. then, just set the new value to that result plus one. but it seems unefficient.   Funny, you should ask, this, because I spent the weekend in PK Management hell!!! It's very doable, it's just clumsy. I finally had to copy the table, delete the orginal, and handload each table item. DMAN, in this app, Autoincrememnting was not an option. I needed consecutive numbers and sometimes rows are deleted. Pub ...Show All

• SQL Server List of Stored Procedures

  How do I get a list of the stored procedures currently in the database Is there a quick way to edit them Thank you! Hi, if you just want to use a query you can use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Views to get the information. If you want to retrieve the data programmtically and as typed objects you should have a look on the SMO classes. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem with Registry reading..

  I am using Windows Vista now and developing a Registry code in C# but i was surprised why when i use this code to SetValue: RegistryKey ping_registry_key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Jassim\\ping-to-ip", true); ping_registry_key.SetValue("ip_address", txtIPAddress.Text); it saves the data under this key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Jassim\ping-to-ip instead of: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Jassim\ping-to-ip The message I'm replying to is about as close as I found to being relevant to my question. The referenced page in the MSDN library is .NET centric and this question is specific to an application I'm responsible for which is not based on .NET. I've been unable to locate a similar p ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS Cube Options

  Can anyone give me the comparison of the pros and cons of building Cube on normalized transaction database VS building Cube on dimensional database Thanks in advance, Henary Pros: It will give you results pretty fast because you do not have to build a data warehouse Cons You will compete for resources in the OLTP system when you send queries and when you process the cube There will be many more joins in queries with OLTP sources than with a starschema What will you do if you will have to add a second separate source system You will build a report system on top of the OLTP system which is closed and very hard to integrate with other systems. You are unable to improve data qual ...Show All

• .NET Development BigProblem with Async and Forms

  Hello to anyone, I've this big problem, when I try to dispose my forms in the events of updateasync and checkupdate async I've no errors but the form never dispose. Why This is my code: Imports System.Threading Imports Lipsia.Tools Imports Lipsia.Tools.Utility Imports System.Deployment.Application Public Class Update Private Downloader As New Lipsia.Controls.Downloader Private Intro As New Lipsia.Controls.SimpleIntro Private App As New Main Private WithEvents Updater As ApplicationDeployment Private Ready As Boolean = False Private ThreadReady As Thread Public Sub Start() Dim t As New ThreadStart(AddressOf ReadyThread) ThreadReady = New Thread(t) ThreadReady.Start() Application.EnableVisualStyles() Applic ...Show All