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• Windows Forms Start Installation of msi-package with command

  Hello and greetings from Germany, I'm new to MSBuild and therfore I may ask a stupid question. I developed a MSi-Package with WIX. What is important for me now is, that I need a Bootstrapper for for ensuring that all necassary components are installed. Sofar this is no problem for me. But after completing this prerequisits I must install the msi with parameters passed to msiexec. I need this Parameters for further processing in the installer. Is there a way to do so with MSBuild, and if yes, how must I configure the Project-File Thanks for your help. Greetinge Markus ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I need HELP

  I download visual c# 2005 express edition for my windows XP computer. I keep getting an error message that says: the upgrade patch cannot be installed by the windows installer service because the program to be upgradded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct upgrade patch. Please help i dont even know what this meens. I have the same issue though I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition and subsequently the Service Pack 1 it gives the same error as previously mentioned..... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF53010 / TF14055 errors

  We have a TF53010/TF14055 issue which may be similar to ones reported by others: In a nutshell, we have a 2 tier TFS installation on Domain A. The user accounts used by the TFS installation are on domain B. Additionally we have a 3rd domain (call it C) that is a legacy NT domain. The user accounts in question on domain B were migrated from domain C several years ago. Our problem only occurs when the last DC (the PDC) in domain C is shut down. When we do this, email notifications from the TFS application tier on domain A to users in domain B stop working with the error 6008 (The identity DomainB\UserXXX is not a recognized domain identity). If we switch the DC from domain C back on the problem goes away. What I don't understand is why hav ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting latest versions for non-labeled elements in Get by Label operation

  IMy requirement is as follows: I have label on folder but that label is not present on files inside except one. Now whenever i get labeled version of folder, i get only labeled file in it. Now is there any way so that i can specify that give me latest version for all those files inside folder which are not labeled. In other words, can i get versions by specifying two rules, so that if first rule is not applicable for some element, then second rule is applied. Can someone help me in this We are facing similar kind of issue. When we try to get specific version on particular label, TFS gets the files under that label but deletes all other files from the working folder on disk. Any ...Show All

• Visual Basic How can I get a String() array allocated by an unmanaged DLL into VB.Net?

  Folks; Under VB6, I called a (flat) third-party DLL with an un-allocated array of strings. The DLL then allocates the array, and loads each entry in the array with a string. The function prototype for this DLL call is: ----- Declare Function GetSampleRateSettings Lib "Vlink.dll" (ByRef Settings() As String) As Long ----- In this DLL, the 'Settings()' array is allocated, and each of the entries in the array is filled with information. When the DLL function completes, the caller then Ubounds() the array, and picks the array apart for the strings it contains. Works great. In VB6 code, the function is used thusly, ----- Dim tmpStringArray() as String If (GetSampleRateSettings(tmpStringArray()) = AP ...Show All

• SQL Server log shipping between sql 2005 clusters

  hi I am working for a small govt dept.We are planning to implement sql 2005. We will be having sql 2005 instance in active/passive cluster mode We will also have a standby sql server 2005 in active/passive cluster mode. i need to know how to configure log shipping between my primary and secondary Is logshipping the best option Thanks Thank you very much for the reply. I need to have an exact replica of the live enviornment (production cluster) to be switched to (standby cluster) in case of any probs to the primary. We also do switching between primary and standby every week. Basically the standby is like having a disaster recovery site. Its having Redundancy outside the cluster. P ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. post processing shader

  hi, i want to learn how to write post processing shader. so i have a few questions. when i tried to figure out, how post processing shader are working i saw a script in an effect technique. are this scripts used to redirect the rendering process into a texture instead of rendering the pixels to the back buffer when i want to post process a final scene, do i need to draw the scene onto a rectangle i mean do i have to render to primitives and map the final scene onto these primitives in order to post process thx a lot! Here's the render loop from my code, that uses post processing: class SceneManager ... { GraphicsDeviceManager graphics_; GraphicsDevice dev_; RenderTarget2D renderTarget ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Problem with polylines and pushpin draw in 3D mode.

  Dear Caleb and VE team, In VE I draw ( first ) several polylines and then ( second ) draw several pushpins. In 2D mode I have no problem, but on 3D mode, some polylines draw and disappear quickly. It seems that when VE draw tiles, some tiles hide the polylines. What I can do to solve this Thanks in advance! and congratulations again for your excellent work. Alex Hi, Tried example from http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ and can't see any polylines or polygons. Running Windows XP SP2, IE7. But at home it works fine (Vista RC2, IE7). Any ideas Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Trouble with databinding

  I have 2 forms on the first form I have a combobox and a datagridview on the second form I have a Detail datatable. I on the datatable I have itemID and itemName. I want to display the itemName of all of the items that I add to this datatable in the Combobox on the first form. I want to do this so that I can create a link between my datagridview and my combobox. So when I select Harddrives from the ComboBox I can get the Datagridview to display all of the Harddrives that I have in store along with the speeds and other information. And all off this other information is in the datatable that is on form 2. So how do I get the itemname to display in my combobox and then how do I get the itemname in the combobox to determine the displ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Debugging Error Message of VS2005

  --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- The following module was built either with optimizations enabled or without debug information:   C:\Documents and Settings\ Peter Peter \Local Settings\Application Data\assembly\dl3\GK36Y4X8.1TR\K1JO6NOP.P99\bc8980d3\f0e49e63_711dc601\MyResources.dll   To debug this module, change its project build configuration to Debug mode. To suppress this message, disable the 'Warn if no user code on launch' debugger option. --------------------------- OK   --------------------------- I didn't do anything but this error message come out from VS2005, I followed the "suggested" solution and of course, it doesn't work. Who know the reason of ...Show All

• Visual C# Method Attribute Inheritance from Interfaces...

  ...is it possible Sure doesn't seem to be. Consider the application outline below: interface MyInterface { [MyAttribute("some vlaue")] void DoSomething(); } class MyClass : MyInterface { public void DoSomething() { } } Now, it sure would be helpful if I could access that attribute on the class, but no, we get a big "false" from calls like this: Attribute.IsDefined(typeof(MyClass).GetMethod("DoSomething"), typeof(MyAttribute), true); So, I guess I just wanted to confirm that this is in fact the case and I am not just doing something stupid... and if anyone has a good explaination for the behavior that could be entertaining too. As far as a workaround goes I started looking into reflection to grab all ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions [OTP] ASP.Net - Restricting size of new window

  Hello, I am adding a small catalogue to my website (no online purchasing). When an image is clicked, I want to launch a new window with a larger copy of the same image displayed. I assume the simpliest way to do this would be to set a hyperlink on the original image to launch the next page, where I have the larger image stored. My question is, how can I restrict the size of the new window, so it opens at, say, a third of the main window. Many thanks Karen Me . FormBorderStyle = Windows . Forms . FormBorderStyle . FixedSingle 'or Me . MaximumSize = New Size ( CInt ( Screen . PrimaryScreen . Bounds . Width / 3), CInt ( Screen . PrimaryScreen . Bounds . Height / 3)) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Running Windows-Command Lines in 2005 Express Ed.

  Hello! OK. I have a batch script that I am using and it works awesome! However, I want to make it work using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. Can someone show me examples on how to run windows command lines under a Visual Basic 2005 Express edition program So in other words… Having a form that shows an OK button disabled until my script that is running Windows Command lines in the background is finished. Then the OK button will enable. I know how to make the OK button disable and enable…I just want to know how in the world you can have command lines work in VB. Another quick question…what is a good book out there for a beginner Thanks Chapio Publi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Running a program in conjunction with a batch file (Command Line Arguments)

  Hi All, This is a tricky situation... I wrote an application that filters through a input text file to remove any " and add new headings etc. It contains 2 inout text boxes for the 2 inout text files and 2 output files... After specifying the location of both an clicking on the filter button it filters and saves the files. My question if if you can run this program form a dos batch file to automate the process. i.e. normally what would happen is you could do something like c:\filter.exe -title -filename1 -filename2 -output1 - output2 But how do you encorporate this into the program Thanks This is the code for converting the files: Me .Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor tspDate.Text = "Converting..." Dim tl ...Show All

• Visual C# Asian characters in a rich edit text box

  In my C#, VS2005, app, there are labels and three rich edit text boxes. Chinese, Korean, and Japanese characters are being displayed on the labels, but " " show up on the rich edit controls. Operating System being used: XP, SP2, US version. I have gone into Control Panel \ Regional and Language Options and 'Installed files for east asian languages' and also 'Install files for complex scripts...". Do I need an Asian operating system to see the characters instead of the " " on a rich edit control This is the code I'm using that works for labels. m_rtfDesc.Rtf = @"{\rtf1\ansi \nowwrap " + prodDesc + "}" ; Thanks in advance. Thanks for the quick re ...Show All