Mike V T's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error in Downloading

  This is a very beginner question, I am sure, but I really could use some help because it is incredibly frustrating! I am having a problem when I try to download the program I wrote called "Target Practice" from my website. I use the .htm page it automatically creates but it dosen't work by just clicking on "setup.exe" either. I publish the files directally to the site by using FTP so I don't think any files could have been left out. Whenever I try to test the download it comes up with an error message and it tells me that I am missing files and to "contact the application vender for assistance." It apparently is missing the file called "Target Practice.application" that it never made! I would like t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) NLB with netTcpBinding

  I have a WCF Service using netTcpBinding hosted over a Windows Service. Is it possible to use an NLB Load Balancer to distribute the network load across multiple servers, while using netTcpBinding Any pointers to this will be very helpful. Kishore Yes it is possible. Please check out this post by Kenny - http://kennyw.com/indigo/134 HTH Kavita ...Show All

• SQL Server Massive amounts of .trc files

  Hello everyone, I've been using sql server 2005 for a few months now. Last night I ran out of disk space and I realized that in the data directory of sql server i have 55 gig of .trc files, just called audittrace[date].trc. Several a day. Excuse me for the stupid question but how do I turn this off I didn't know I had created an auto trace. Thanks, Ryan I had the same problem and I resolved it by disable C2 audit mode option. You can read about it here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187634.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Tutorial - Lesson 2 - ForEach problem

  I just completed Lesson 2. This lesson uses a ForEach component to process all the files in the ..\SampleData directory that match Currency_*.txt. My problem is that when I run the pkg, only the last file (Currency_VEB.txt) appears to be processing. The pkg is supposed to insert data in all txt files into the table. But, only the rows from Currency_VEB.txt are processed. Can anyone help me out here Did anyone else have this problem What could I have done wrong Any help would be appreciated. Thanks When I start BOL from the Start menu, the title bar says "Books Online - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Microsoft Document Explorer", so I might not have the latest, though I did d/l the late ...Show All

• .NET Development Please Help me

  I'm with a problem I have to put a value in my column in my data base I have 2 radiosbutton that are returning a value zero for my database the code is it: public static void Insert_SQL( string sexo) query.AppendFormat(", {0}", (sexo)); private void button1_Click( object sender, System.EventArgs e) string sexo = radioButton1.Checked "0":"1"; SQL_methods.Insert_SQL(sexo); private void radioButton2_CheckedChanged( object sender, System.EventArgs e) { string sexo; sexo = ((RadioButton)sender).Text; if (radioButton2.Checked == true ) { sexo = "F"; } else { sexo = "M"; } } protected void RadioButton1_Checked ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Instant Messaging

  Hi. I am trying to make a simple chat program which can allow messages to be sent privately (not a chat room) and without making it complicated by having to find and type IP addresses. I would prefer not to use add-ins (I think thats what their called) such as MSN or the Skype add-in. I am new to Visual Basic so some of this may not make sense. Thanks, To make an IM type of program, I guess you would have to look at Sockets and see how they work (Sockets, network stream, TCPClient/Listener etc...) http:// msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zsyxy9k2.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1612451t.aspx   the theory is, to connect to your client via IP/Port and once established, pretty much send/read ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Access 2000 RecordSet Sort problem

  hi there, using ms access 2000 with vb 6.3. I am using a form with a button to first off filter results in a table and copy all the relevent rows into a temp table so that additional tasks can be performed. This works successfully. Part of the problem is that the order in which the data is entered into the first table means it is never in order (this cannot be prevented due to the nature of how the data is imported from several excel documents) The temp table needs to be sorted so that the calculation algortihms will be able to calculate and generate revelent infomation. Currently defining and opening a recordset and after moving all the data to the temp table i am using: recordset.Sort = "TextValue desc" Where TextValue is my co ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem viewing Team Foundation Server Installation guid

  I downloaded the TFS Installation guide .chm file. When I open the file and click on any of the topics, I get an error message in the frame on the right that says "This program cannot display the web page". I am connected to the internet and seem to be fine network connectivity wise. What could be preventing me from seeing any of the help topics in the file Is there another way to view this installation guide Thanks! Any chance it's the "CHM block" issue If it's not that, you may just want to view the topics on MSDN online since you have internet connectivity already. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=E54BF6FF-026B-43A4-ADE4-A690388F310E&displaylang= ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Data-driven Unit Test

  I'm using SQL 2005, Visual Studio Team Suite with CTP7 and would like to make a Data-driven Database Unit Test which tests a stored procedure. Anyone got any sample code I've managed to link the Database Unit Test to a Data Source and Data Table, so it now runs my SQL 100 times (there are 100 rows in the Data Table), but don't know how to link the data from the table to the SQL script. Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick here, ie can you only make normal Unit Tests data-driven, so they have to be written in C# / VB.net I know a bit of C# if that's required.. Thanks wBob Actually you do not need to replace the variable this way - it will be error prone depending on what the data t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System .dbproj files to be read inside a Developer Edition of VSTS?

  At my workplace we have a number of editions of VSTS, one of those being the new Database Projessionals version for our DBA. We used to create a Database project, then had an app to combine all the .sql files into a master file for execution against our development server. It seems now that this new project type can better integrate into our build server and we will no longer need to use this sql joiner app. Regardless, all developers could view the standard Database project, but these new SQL Server 2005 (.dbproj) files are unreadable by the Developer edition of VSTS. While developers won't be doing many database changes, it's nice for us to be able to get latest and do small changes with code review on our databases, but moving to this ...Show All

• Visual C# XML socket problem?

  Hi all, i know flash can create xmlsocket and send message to server. How to create Xml Socket and send Message to server with c#. Below is flash send message codeing. C# can do this Please sombody can give me good solution. //Flash send message codeing var msg_xml = new XML(); msg_xml.nodeName = "message"; var msg_node = msg_xml.createTextNode(input_txt.text); msg_xml.appendChild(msg_node); //send Message _root.socket.send(msg_xml.toString()+"\n"); //================================== Best Regards, Replace your XML type with .Nets XmlDocument. CreateTextNode and AppendChild differ only in the case of the first letter. msg_node will be of type XmlNode. Then have a look at this msdn page: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cycling the active document

  Hey, I'm trying to write an add-in that will let me use Ctrl+LeftArrow and Ctrl+RightArrow to go left and right through the documents as they are listed. I've encountered a problem that apparently everyone else has already in that the Documents list on the DTE object isn't in the order that they are displayed visually but it's sorted historically. I was wondering if anyone has any idea about how I could go about this My team wants the ability to navigate left and right through the list of tabs of source code as it appears in visual studio. Thanks Shawn Is there a way to iterate through the Windows collection and only get the code documents I'm not even sure as to whether that would be sorted in the UI orde ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Water on screen

  Hurro... I'm wanting to make an effect to simulate water droplets running down the screen after exiting a body of water... Anyone got some cool ideas on how to simulate the movement of these droplets or any other idea on achieving this effect cheers... The effect you're describing needs to deform rendering around droplets. It looks like a post processing effect that uses a normal map containing the droplets to refract the scene. So you should articulate your effect like any other post processing effect but do some special case to produce the droplet normal map. I can see at least two solutions: - The easiest one: Handmade normal map. Do a simple normal map using your fevorite texture editor. Use that norm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting the string value out of a WMI query

  Hi Folks; I have a function that was available on the MSDN website to gather system information using WMI and it works beautifully. My frustration is this; the data (computer name for example) comes out as a BSTR. I also have a Win32 appl I'm working on so I want to be able to pass the name to my app so it can put it out onto a text field. The problem is there is no easy conversion that I'm aware of. A snippet of the code is as follows: ... VARIANT vtProp; VariantInit(&vtProp); // Get the value of the Name property HRESULT hr; hr = pclsObj->Get(L "CSName" , 0, &vtProp, 0, 0); _bstr_t b = vtProp.bstrVal; data.CompName = ( char *)b; ... This is one of the many examples I f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions tetx box problems

  ok im trying to get a list to appear in a text box when i use a dropdownbox. i want it to look something like: E01-00 = AC Power Failure E02-00 = System Low Battery and so on. If Me .ComboBox1.Text.Contains( "RP-3" ) And Me .ComboBox2.Text.Contains( "Error Codes" ) Then Me .RichTextBox1.Text = ( "E01-00 = AC Power Failure" And "E02-00 = System Low Battery" ) End If I see like: brand specific brand specific .. lets try... for each currentItem as String in Me.ComboBox2.Items Me.RichTextBox1.Append(Me.ComboBox1.Text & " " & currentItem) next this should append it like for example ...Show All