shieldy's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem with running XNA-Applications

  I have a problem. I can't start XNA-Applications on my second PC, although I had installed there the XNA Framework Redistributable and .Net 2.0. On my first computer (where I had installed the XNA GameStudio Express), all XNA-Applications run. (Boths PCs have the same DirectX-Version.) Perhaps I had forgotten something, but I don't know what. Thanks for any help (and sorry for my bad english). SteveKr Could you be more specific "Can't start XNA-applications" is a bit vague. Do you get an error If so, what error do you get ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSS Migration hanging TF60047 - how to fix it?

  Hi, I'm trying to convert a VSS Database to TFS but TF60047 error lock the PC. Scenario Old PC but New W2003 Installation TFS and VSS on the same PC VSS size 415MB The 1° time i had tried after 48 hours VSSCONVERT write more the 4000 error and 8 tf60047 then I delete all PIN files and ANALYZE many time with different options VSS Database. The 2° time i start VSSCONVERT after 3 days (now is stll run) VSS write more only 11 error but more the 80 tf60047!!! Now the week is finish so i let VSSCONVERT run but on Monday i stop it. How to fix that (BIG) problem Thanks Paolo Botti Hi Robert, after 24h I stop convertion after the 2° TF60047. VSSConverter.log is 40MB !! With zip become 3MB ...Show All

• SQL Server Need to copy All oracle tables to SQL Server 2005

  I am racking my brain on this one. I am migrating Oracle data to SQL Server and would like an SSIS package that will copy the oracle data from every table to SQL server. I already have the schema set up in SQL and a straight copy of a specified table works fine between the OLEDB source and OLEDB destination. However, when I set up a loop which sets a global variable for the table names, which are identical on both dbs, and try to set the OLEDB Source and Destination OpenRowsetVariable to the global variable, the process fails with these errors with all validation turned off: [OLE DB Source [18]] Warning: Cannot retrieve the column code page info from the OLE DB provider. If the component supports the "DefaultCodePage" property, the code ...Show All

• SQL Server buckets or quartile

  Hi all, Dreaded moment has come:) I need to produce a report against MSAS 2005 with quartiles buckets, meaning that besides actual value of the measure, it needs to display following: Value 1st 2nd 3rd 4th X Min - Max Min - Max Min - Max Min - Max ------------------------------------------------------------------- 80 85 - 95 75 - 85 55 - 75 12 - 55 where 1st is range of values of top 25% performing entities and so forth. It's supposed to be sliceable by any hierarchy in the cube. I tried to use TopPercent 25%, but never could get it work in calculated member. Any idea, comment, reference highly appreciated. Thanks the measure is not additive. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums GeoRSS and Static point

  I have a number of GeoRRS Layers that I am using to display various pushpins.  I would like to also show one point on the map at all times.  Here is what I am trying to do but something is not working right: //Start of Script..............................    <script src=" http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/v3/mapcontrol.js"></script >        <script> var myMap; var tileLayer; var tileSourceSpec; function onPageLoad() {  myMap = new VEMap('map1');  myMap.LoadMap(new VELatLong(45.45303010460688, -122.7883368730545), 17 ,'h' , false); }          function AddPin()       & ...Show All

• Visual Basic "*" Question

  Hi again everyone, I am back once again working on a new project. For some reason I cant seem to find the info I need so, I am back here. :) Anyways, my project... I made a text file parser... it basically opens a text file of your choice, then it searches the document for any word you specify, afterwards, it places that info in a new textbox that you can save as a new file. What I really need this app for is to parse emails. Since the emails arent the same... just the same domain... I need to be able to use the * as a wildcard. Any info on how to do this would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance, Im really sorry that I wasnt clear in my request. I was trying to make it as clear as possible. Let me try once again. Im going t ...Show All

• SQL Server Access Denied running SSIS package as a Job

  I having a wierd problem. Environment: SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) If I create a job with an OS step with the text below "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\Binn"\dtexec /DTS "\MSDB\new Import" /SERVER HAYDN /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF /REPORTING V I keep getting the following error: Message Executed as user: XYZ\Administrator. The process could not be created for step 1 of job 0x2161C39C2C34C54AA850602A482E82DF (reason: Access is denied). The step failed. HOWEVER... If I take put the above text within in a batch file (foo.cmd); and chanage the step to execute "c:\foo.cmd" it works fine. What am I missing here It's seems wierd that it works one way, and not the other. ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Adv. Cont. Playback on HD-A1 >> Simple video of black

  Hi All, I am having trouble getting an advanced content application to play once burned on a DVD-R and inserted into the Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD player. Video and audio play fine using this method, but once the advanced content object is reached the player stops playback and gives an error. Does anyone have any advice on this We have tried the samples posted here and we get the same results. Thanks. I got similar results to Jeff. My first effort described above was fatally flawed as I tried to remember the disc structure from memory, and failed (I put ADV_OBJ into HVDVD_TS - doh!) This time I copied the Buttons ADV_OBJ dir to the DVD and made a blank HVDVD_TS directory at root. The player recognized it as HD DVD, but gave the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Creating a .msg file

  i have a requirement to extract e-mails from an e-mail archive system and then add them to a document management system (yup - ugly !!!). The document management system likes emails in the outlook .Msg file format. is there any way of creating a .msg file and writitng it to disk (rather than sending it) so that i can get the document management system to read it in environment is vs2003 / .net 1.1 - but .net2 is close....(have it but not in production - and also have VSTools for Office 2005) thx m sue, have tried this - as far as i can see it creates a TXT file with a .msg extension - which, when i try and open through Outlook - Fails to open also, it doesnt allow me to put in th sen ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rants on XNA 1.0

  This is my first reaction when I installed and tried the 1.0 of XNA. To summarize my feeling: it's still 95% for XBox and no nearer to replace the old MDX 1.0. So I decided not to migrate from MDX to XNA though I want to do that very much. I feel like MDX 2 more; amen to MDX 2. The hardest issue for me is the content pipeline, which is very necessary, but the workflow is fixed and it assumes the contents are only built before the program runs. The helper functions wrapping D3DX can only be used with types in the content pipeline. I have to utilize the full content pipeline just for generating something dynamically, of course with significant performance cost. Or I have to write those D3DX utilities my self. Currently I don't have a good id ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting/Pipes/Events: Chicken and Egg

  Hi Everyone, Visual Studio 2005; SQL Server Express 2005; Enterprise Data Access Application Block; Single computer hosts all elements and applications. GOAL: To have one application nudge another one on the same computer so it will update its view of data in a shared database. I have a GUI application in a namespace called "guispace".  This namespace also contains a class hierarchy for doing all data access operations (my Data Access Layer (DAL) for this application).  There is also a non-GUI application that runs in the Scheduler and exists in its own namespace, "noguispace".  These two applications share a SQL Express 2005 database file, which is using DAAB.  The nonGUI application  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Creating controls for Datagrid

  how can i created controls for Compact Datagrid. Well, go ahead and create them – you already have a sample on how to host controls in the grid. They just controls, by the way, there's nothing special about them. ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net Framework 2.0 Install Error

  Hi I'm getting this error when I try install .NET Framework 2.0 on a client: 1: ALLUSERS property is not 1 - this MSM cannot be used for a per-user or fallback-to-per-user install Can anyone please tell me if it's a security issue Or can i set the ALLUSERS property myself Hi I have exactly the same problem and I have cleaned using the tool mentioned and still does not work. I have a windows 2003 domain and am trying to publish .net 2.0 framework through policy. I have enabled this through user (I have also tried it through computer setting unsuccessfuly). I was expected this to be straight forward... ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) how to show page title in navbar?

  WPF browserlike app. I'd like to show the Title of the current Page in the Navigation Chrome of the NavigationWindow. But how I guess I need to provide a new ControlTemplate for the NavigationWindow, which is no problem, but I got no idea how to bind the Title of the current Page to a Textblock. < TextBlock Text = " {TemplateBinding NavigationWindow.Content.Title} " /> in the new NavigationWindow ControlTemplate does not even compile :( Thanks, Sam Just checked my hdd, I don't have this source anymore (purged and reinstalled my comp since the question). Maybe theres another way to help, what are you looking for Sam ...Show All

• Visual C++ C3767 - Porting VC 7.1 MEC++ TO VC 8 MEC++ - #pragma make_public no way out

  I'm trying to get a large source code base that currently compiles under VS 2003 to compile under VS 2005 tools. There is a lot of MEC++ source involved. In my first pass I am not attempting to rewrite from MEC++ into C++/CLI. I'm leaving the MEC++ as MEC++ and just trying to get it all to build with the new tools. I've discovered how native types are now made private by default. I have one case where I used #pragma make_public and it worked nicely. But I have another case where it won't work. In that case we have a class that has two readonly public properties that both return the same value but as different types. The value returned from both is actually a pointer to the same native object. One property returns it as a System.IntP ...Show All