Jimmy Xiong's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS Configuration Services Missing in Action AGAIN.

  I am so absolutely furious at this point that i'm starting a new thread. If you want to understand my anger check out http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=667894&SiteID=1 I've been looking for the Configuration Manager tools in VSTS 2005. Well I found them. All I had to do is log on as an administrator! I didn't try poweruser, but it makes sense that might work too. What kind of ridiculous nonsense is this Best practice is to run with as little authority as is needed to do the job. In the ClickOnce world you can do your development and testing etc without ever once being an administrator. This is yet another circumstance where I'd love to know the address of the person at MS to send an invoice to for time ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums address coordinates

  Hello everyone, does anyone know that if there is a function or a method that takes an address and returns the coordinates (either pixel x, y or latitude, longitude will do) of that address .. but without ploting the address on the map thank you Yuki Or checkout these nice bit of code to do it using the seach behind local.live.com http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=776776&SiteID=1 John. ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Programmatic Audience Compilation

  Is there a way to fire off the audience compilation process through c# Specifically, if I wanted to compile just one audience but not the rest, is it possible to do this through code Thanks in advance for any help offered. Dez Actually, it seems that the audience compilation is possible through the object model. The AudienceJob class has a static method called RunAudienceJob that provides a way to start and stop incremental and full compilation. Althoug, it requires some parameters I can't find. Here is the SDK : public static int RunAudienceJob ( string [] args ) Parameters args Takes the following four arguments: ApplicationID ...Show All

• SQL Server T-SQL Badly needed

  To one of our sql server database Table A , we need to migrate data from another sql server database Table B . Assume there are two columns in a table namely OrderID and Comments . Here OrderID is a foreign key. And therefore, I can have any number of comments for a Particular OrderID. Thru a TSQL query, I wish to have all the Comments data beside the OrderID seperated by comma like Ord1 Comm1, Comm2, Comm3 Ord2 Comm5, Comm6. Comm7, Comm8, etc., This is just the thing we used to do for numeric columns using GROUP BY statement as SELECT ORDERID, SUM(ORDER_TOTAL) AS AMT FROM B GROUP BY ORDERID Want to know how to achieve similar effect with Varchar type of data. I'm currently using Cursor to concat, but it is taking long l ...Show All

• SQL Server Saving Image to Database

  Using: Compact Framework 1.0 and SQL Server CE 2.0 i want to save an image to my sql server ce 2.0 database on the device. In the Compact Framework 1.0 the Image class does not have .FromStream method, and the PictureBox class does not .Save method. Has anyone done this before in SQL CE 2.0 and CF1.0 Thanks Hi, I used File2SqlBlob of msdn article 316887, using sqlceconnection, sqlcecommand and sqlceparameter. - Paul ...Show All

• .NET Development Registration free com tools

  Hi Are there any tools that can take a COM dll and make a manifest file Thanks VS can do this when you set your COM reference as isolated. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/04/RegFreeCOM/ the section "Isolating a Simple COM Component" ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What about PRT lighting? I didn't find out PrtEngine =(

  AFAIK Mdx included PrtEngine, it was great. It is to be regretted that PrtEngine hasn't been included in the Xna beta. I would like to see it in the next version.. Ok, go to https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=226160&SiteID=226 and vote, please. Alternative: go to https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/default.aspx SiteID=226 and find the suggestion using "PrtEngine" keyword.. ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Steps to upgrade wss2.0 to 3.0????

  I have wss2.0 in single server and a instance "<Localserver>\SHAREPOINT" in sql server where is my wss2.0, i have install 3.0 but dont now what to do to upgrade, they say to upgrade the pages and that, but cant upgrade the database to work because is in "<Localserver>\MICROSOFT##SSEE" can you give so steps i have to do to make the upgrade of the database wright or any site, i try to follow  then manual but i cant, like prescan.exe /all "work fine" and "stsadm.exe -o addcontentdb -url http:// <Localserver> -databasename wss_Content_1478758232 -databaseserver crm" that create in wss3.0 administrator but dont now what to do more......   Please give me sites or anything else to make the migration..... ...Show All

• SQL Server Nomore snapshot without locking tables?

  HI There After upgrading my publishers to 2005 i noticed that i cannot specify not to lock tables during snapshot during publication creation, also not on publication properties, and i see sp_addpublication has no such parameter, is there no longer an option not to lock publication tables during snapshot Thanx Hi Dietz, You can specify the @sync_method parameter of sp_addpublication to be concurrent or concurrent_c. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_sp_repl_4s32.asp [ @sync_method= ] 'sync_method ' Is the synchronization mode. sync_method is nvarchar(13) , and can be one of the following values. Value Description na ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) NetMsmqBinding does not Queue

  I am new to Indigo. So far, this technology looks like it should be very useful for many of our applications, but am not having much luck with the example code. We are most interested in the asynch possibilities of NetMsmqBinding. The MSDN samples (examples) for NetMsmqBinding are not working for me, though the non-queuing examples do work. Specifically, the "Transacted MSMQ Binding" and the "Transacted Batching" examples at MSDN Library > .NET Development > Samples > Windows Communication Foundation Samples > Windows Communication Foundation Technology Samples > Basic Windows Communication Foundation Technology Samples > Binding Samples > Net Binding Samples > NetMsmqBinding Samples (whew! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Recommendations for terrainmesh collision and physics

  I've been enjoying myself with XNAGSE for a while now, and wanted to start actually developing something real. So I started to play around with shaders a little, looking into terrain collision algorithms, but they all use a heightmap or a bytemap for terrains. What if I modeled something with Maya, loaded it in using the DirectX model content pipeline and wanted to use that as a level I searched around the Net, but haven't found anything that explains at least in understandable detail how to actually apply the algorithms to meshes themselves. Same goes for physics, a lot of info about the algorithms (Newton and Euler's laws etc.), but no real solid code as to how to do it in C#, let alone XNA. I'm sorry if this has ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I'd like to have a game developed...but I need a partner.

  I teach 1st grade. I have an idea for a simple 2D (Phonics) game...but I don't have any skills as a programmer. I wanted to know if any programmers would be interested in a partnership   The game basically involves a little character running around the screen to pick up letters and form words. The character would have to avoid certain obstacles on screen. The game would require a lot of speech to sound out the words that the onscreen character created. That sounds interesting. How big do you think the market is What distribution channels are you looking at Also, do you already know someone who can handle some part of game-making, such as art, sound, or programming If you don't k ...Show All

• .NET Development Login Page validate against the server sql database

  Hi, I want to create a login page that can redirect to the welcome page and display welcome username. But I don't know how to validate the username and password entered by the user against the server database using ado.net. Can anyone help me with it First of all thats a C# code. Now @UserName defined in the query is to use parameterized query. see msdn for more details on Parameterized Query. You can do the same thing like "Select UserName, Password From UserTable Where UserName = '" + txtUserName.Text + "'"; but this leads to sql injection. To prevent sql injection I used parameterized query. bool is a boolean type value [True and False]. Next when u use a ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Setup JDBC for SQL2005 in Webshpere 6.0

  Does anyone know the steps on how to get SQL2005 to talk to a Websphere application via the MS JDBC We are trying to setup the Niku Clarity system with a new SQL2005 Database. Thanks This works great when creating XA data sources in WebSphere 6. Thanks. (By the way, if the one warning you received was for the "url" custom property, I got that to go away by naming the property "URL". Apparently case matters.) However, has anyone tried creating non-XA SQL Server 2005 data sources in WebSphere 6 I've tried and I keep getting: DSRA8101E: DataSource class cannot be used as one-phase: ClassCastException: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver, error code: NOT_A_1_PHASE_DS. Is it possible that WebS ...Show All

• SQL Server MICR Font Issue When Exporting to PDF

  Hi, I'm using Reporting Service to print checks. Everything seems ok when I design and deploy and view the reports. But when I try to export to pdf, the MICR font I'm using does not work. I've tried a couple of different MICR fonts from the web and they either get replaced by a standard font or disappear altogether. I would love to know why that is. Thanks in advance, Tom I am facing the same problem. The text in MICR Font disappears when i render the report to PDF. Is there any solution/workaround for this problem ...Show All