VenkateshMD's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System CTP5 - Schema Compare Options

  I cannot for the life of me find out where I can change or set schema compare options. How/where is this done Thanks - Amost I couldn't find ->schema compare after clicking the Database Tools item. The version of the Visual Studio I am using is 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects'. Could you tell me why Cheers, Peter Lin ...Show All

• SQL Server How to view Sql Report

  Happy Holidays!.....I wanted to know how do I view a Sql Report in the url...I add the Web Reference to my project that holds the url of my Report Server...I have the connection string to the report server in my app.config.....I want to click a buttton in my application and show a report as a PDF I have the PDF viewer in my app but i dont know how i should view any ideas or links would be helpful! thanks! If you are using the web service, you use the Render() method on the execution endpoint. If you want URL, you form the URL like http://server/reportserver reportname&rc:Format=PDF See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms154040.aspx . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Load Test

  how can i confgure the laod test, with Test Mix : unit Test , to run on WAN. Currently, the network mix only affects web tests, not unit tests. It throttles reads from the server, but does not simulate the additional latency a WAN would introduce. Josh ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Image Search?

  I still see no support for image search. When might this feature be released Thanks. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Collision Detection With Bezier Curves

  Hi, I'm currently making a small 2D game in XNA Game Studio Express. It involves a player moving around a terrain and being able to collide with it. Nearly all the graphics and settings in my game are user generated so this allows for everything to be quite customisable. For collision detection the user specifies paths made of Bezier curves which are stored in a file. The game reads this file and stores a number of points on the curves in an array. The player is also made of Bezier curves that are converted into points: This shows how I want collision detection to happen; if any of the lines that make up the player intersect with any of the lines that make up the terrain, then a collision has occurred. Once a collision has occurred two t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Installing C# Express Edition After VS2003/VS2005

  I waited till the last minute to install C# Express, but I wanted to point out that the download page is potentially confusing. Yes, it says beta versions must be uninstalled, but immediately following it says that any previous versions of SQL Server 2005, VS2005 need to be uninstalled. The good news is that it will install without issue, but I wanted to post this as a recommendation to change the text. Uninstall beta versions Before installing, you must uninstall any previous versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0 (this includes Tech Preview, Beta, or CTP versions). It's pretty much automatic for me to uninstall any previous beta versions of anything. I guess once you're been doing i ...Show All

• SQL Server Database mail does not work from Sql Server Agent Job after upgrade to SP1

  Upgraded SQL Server 2005 x64 to Service Pack 1 expressly for the purpose of enabling Database Mail from SQL Job, which was a known bug that was listed as fixed in this Service Pack. It still does not work; in fact after installing SP1 on an x86 SQL Server Standard, Database Mail does not work from there now either, although it did prior to the upgrade! I am using Integrated Security. Error message received: The job succeeded.  The Job was invoked by User <name>.  The last step to run was step 1 (Select).  NOTE: Failed to notify 'Mike Schelstrate' via email. Message in Error Log: [264] An attempt was made to send an email when no email session has been established. Send test Email does work on both Servers ...Show All

• .NET Development Unhandled Exception - Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  I've installed drivers for my HP printer but I keep getting an unhandled exception with the following detail: See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at HP.CUE.Video.PlaybackControl.UpdateProgressBar() at HP.CUE.Video.PlaybackControl._ProgressTimer_Tick(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.OnTick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr idEvent, IntPtr dwTime) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0 Win32 Version: 1.1.43 ...Show All

• Architecture Integrated Windows Active directory authentication

  Hi Ours is a distributed client server application(WinForms). We are evaluation two authentication models, one using Active Directory windows authentication and other is custom SQL server based authentication. If the workstations are not connected to the domain controller and the user was authenticated(during logon to the workstation) using workstation cached credentials, will the integrated windows authentication work in such cases Is is secure to rely on cached credentials Will windows use the cached credentials to authenticate the user even if the workstation is connected to the domain controller Thanks, Dharan Thanks for the response. Just to clarify, I wanted to understand in a typica ...Show All

• SQL Server Invalid return value from stored proc from VC++ 6.0

  I have a stored procedure that takes a computer name (nvarchar) and either updates a time stamp in a matching row or adds a new row when no match is found based on the computer name (replicates a set of rows in another table as well in the case of not found). When the row is unmatched, an output param (int) is set to 1 indicating it is new. When found, a zero is placed into the output parameter. This stored procedure worked fine until we recently upgraded to SQL Server Express (2005). C++ code: _bstr_t conn_str = CONN_STR; conn_str += (LPCTSTR)_server_name; try { _ConnectionPtr epi_conn; _CommandPtr cmd("ADODB.Command"); _ParameterPtr param; long addfg; _variant_t var_addfg; // // connect to database ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Crawling text on form

  I need to make some text crawl across the bottom of my form. What's the best way to do that and set crawl speed Thanks ! You can do it in a couple of ways. 1. Use and existing marquee control - there are a number available for free which will give you canned functionality to use. A simple web search on VB.net + Marquee control will reveal some. Example http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Programming/ActiveX/Marquee_Label__Net_Component.html 2. Write your own functionality. This involves a timer event and a label. What you will do is set the timer interval property and in the timer tick event modify the .left property to move the label. You can either increase the value to move it to t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Derived tree control and the designer

  There's something I don't get about how the designer handles my controls. I created a new Tree Control class derived from the basic TreeView. My intention here is to create a control that will have certain tree nodes in it automatically (that will eventually be pulled from a DB) and have some certain properties set, but that my developers can drop onto a page and resize and adjust the colors etc. To this end I have the following class: namespace WinRHQ { public class ZoneSiteTree : TreeView { private void InitializeComponent() { this.SuspendLayout(); // // ZoneSiteTree // this.FullRowSelect = true; this.ResumeLayout(false); } public ZoneSiteTree() { Initializ ...Show All

• .NET Development How to know what exceptions a method can throw?

  I was reading in some other posts that you only have to catch known exceptions. And that it is not allowed to catch Exception like this: private void CheckCancelEntryWeighingRecords() { try { mis.Transfer(data.CsvData); //Call to a third party dll } catch (Exception ex) { LogError("Error occured in CheckCancelEntryWeighingRecords", ex); } } How can I know what exceptions a method can throw So that i can decide on which situation i can recover and on which not I know that the Framework.NET has documented the most exceptions. But what about third party dll's with bad of no documentation I also know i could use reflector to look what the possible exceptions a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Some basic query about XNA Game Studio Express

  Hi, My question might be little irrelevant to this forum, but I could not stop but ask since the XNA Game Studio Express Beta2 has been released. I was thinking how relevant the game development expereince in XNA Game Studio Express I was thinking od writing a new engine in my part time and was looking for some option for game development Api. I have good knowledge in OpenGL and now was thinking od writing a game engine using Managed DirectX. While considering different options the idea just popped into my mind that why not using XNA express Now my question is how relevant the expereince of XNA Game Studio Express in professional game development world If someonw developed a game in XNA express is this expereince count into XBO ...Show All

• .NET Development line ending problem

  Hi, I get data from an oracle database (8i) by filling a dataset. <ds.fill>. When I check the data in Oracle, the lines ends with "0D 0A"(CR/LF). When I check the data received in the dataset, the lines ends with "0D" (CR). This might be the cause of a problem I'am having right now. Does anybody know about why it appens and what can I do to keep "0D 0A" Thanks, Sylvain Hi Sylvain, That's very interesting that you can change the behavior depending on how the data is inserted. I can't think of any reason why that would be. My recommendation at this point is to try to post this in Oracle's forums to see if they have any suggestions. If you are seeing the difference in beh ...Show All