Manoj G's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Any issues using MS Virtual Server to roll out Team System Foundation Server?

  Hello All, I am contemplating the use of MS virtual server as a means for us to initially use the eval copy of Team Foundation Server in order to provide a low impact on our server. The tentative plan is to allocate 1 GB of RAM, 20 GB HD space and a seperate network card for this virtual server instance. I would appreciate any feedback (good or bad) regarding this :) Thanks in advance Sounds like a good plan to me Bob. As a virtual server it will be much easier to move it around until it finds it's permanent home. Any idea how many users you expect to have connected to the virtual server With only 1Gb or memory you probably shouldn't go to far towards 100 users (but it depends on how your server is utilized) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Is it possible to get the DTE2 com object when starting devenv.exe with parameters...?

  I am currently writing some Visual Studio automation and would like to use the experimental hive so that when one of our users fires off Visual Studio from within our code any changes we make through code to windows toolbars etc are not persisted in their main version of Visual Studio. I have experimented with windows configurations, restoring settings on close etc, but this is still to risky for my liking (if the program crashes Visual Studio will be pretty messed up next time it is loaded outside of our code!!). This works perfectly from the command line using the rootsuffx argument but my problem lies in the fact that I need to start devenv.exe from code and get hold of the DTE2 com object. At present we do this by getting the CLSID or ...Show All

• Visual Basic counting letters in a textbox?

  Is it possible to count the number of letters in a textbox OR label e.g >textbox1.text = "thesister" would return a value of 9 letters is this possible TextBox1.Text.Length counts both letters and numbers, to count letters only : Dim Letters As String = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" , TempIndex As Integer , Count As Integer = 0 For TempIndex = 0 To TextBox1.Text.Length - 1 If Letters.LastIndexOf(TextBox1.Text.Substring(TempIndex, 1 ).ToLower) >= 0 Then Count += 1 Next MessageBox.Show(Count) ...Show All

• SQL Server Selective filtering of rows

  Hi. I am using Visual Studio 2005 professional and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. I am having a bit of an issue at the moment with my project. I have a large SQL server database (over 600,000 rows of data decoded from a text datafile and stored by my C# program) where I need to select a series of distinct rows. I have a datacolumn of varchar(10) called UID which is assigned to every row in my database. It's not a unique code so it can happen several times. By selecting a specific UID code, I can narrow down my selection to a specific range of rows (which are incremental in order). This range will contain many names. What I want to do is find a UID which will have one of two names. I have so far done this: SELECT DISTINC ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Content pipeline design issues

  I LOVE the content pipeline, but while digging deep and creating a bunch of cool custom importers/processors/etc I found a few annoyances that I don't see clean solutions for. I was hoping some experts here or MSFTies could set me on the right path. My problem is with the content pipeline and it's files/types. I have two assemblies that I'm using, we'll call them Foo.Content and Foo.Content.Pipeline, with Foo.Content containing the types I use and the content readers, and Foo.Content.Pipeline containing the processors/writers/importers. Of course I have two versions of Foo.Content (one for Windows, Foo.Content.Windows, and one for the 360, Foo.Content.X360 - the 360 one has the files from the Windows folder linked in). I kind of lik ...Show All

• Visual Basic Write data in VB.NET to Access using SQL

  Okay, I have an Administrator page that is able to create new users. I have a simple adduserform that has a TabControl added in it with a tab for General Info and User Info. Those have quite a few texboxes for input and outside of the TabControl are 3 buttons that are Save, Clear, and Exit. What I want to do is have the Save write the data to my small database that I have for users. If you want to see an example of my screen you can see it here.... http://redbearcustoms.no-ip.info/VB/adduserform.html Aight.  I have used the above information to write my save function BUT nothing is happening. Here is some of my code.  <code> Private Sub usersaveBTN_Click( ByVal sender As Sys ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies No Outlook in WDS

  WDS 2.6.6, Outlook 2003 SP2, XP Tablet SP2, SBS2003 domain This station has 'E-mail and all hard disks' and 'E-mail and My Documents' greyed out, only shows Outlook Express under Custom Folders and e-mail locations, not Outlook. Other stations on the network work fine. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Office, Outlook, WDS, but it still does not recognize that Outlook is installed (Otlook does show as the default email under Internet options and on the start menu). Before I wipe the machine and reinstall the OS/Office/WDS, is there anything else to try Thanks for the link and the help Eric, but unfortunately that key DOES exist, as well as a key Outlook.Application.11 scanpst and scanost bot ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Normals - Crazy mirrored artifacts

  Hi, hmm I have once more a little problem, i have a generated mesh using a vertex- and indexbuffer. Therefor i need to calculate normals for the lightning. So i found the need the cross-product of two sides of my triangle. With this info and some sample code I tried this: // Calculate normals for (i = 0; i < indices.Length; i += 3) { Vector3 vert0 = vertices[indices ].Position; Vector3 vert1 = vertices[indices[i + 1]].Position; Vector3 vert2 = vertices[indices[i + 2]].Position; Vector3 normal = Vector3.Normalize(Vector3.Cross(vert2 - vert0, vert1 - vert0)); vertices[indices ].Normal = normal; vertices[indices[i + 1]].Normal = normal; vertices[indices[i + 2]].Normal = normal; } for (int vert = 0; vert < vertices.Le ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Does anyone know how to resolve an HCP based shortcut (.lnk) file.

  For instance the shortcut to the compatabilty wizard found on the start menu lists the 'target' as  hcp://system/compatctr/compatmode.htm  but IShellLink->GetPath() returns an empty string. Thanks in advance for any help! -Shaun Harrington shaun@planetharrington.com I figured it out. BOOL CShortcutMap::GetHCPShortcutTarget(OUT LPWSTR ptszTargetPathSpec, IN CONST UINT cch) {     LPITEMIDLIST pidl;     m_psl->GetIDList(&pidl);     STRRET strret;     m_psf->GetDisplayNameOf(pidl,SHGDN_FORPARSING,&strret);     StrRetToBuf(&strret, pidl, ptszTargetPathSpec, cch);     return lst ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Multi-Monitor... no hardware drawing support

  Hi, as a split off from this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=679032&SiteID=1 I'm working in the financial industry and virtually every deployed client machine uses a multi monitor setup. However, I noticed that as soon as I move a WPF application from the "base" screen to another screen it loses all hardware accalerated drawing support and everything is way laggy. Is this a known issue that is going to be addressed or what's going on here This even happens with the Expression Designer. Right now this makes WPF totally useless for multi monitor setups. Thanks, Tom perhaps, but I doubt it. The only determining factor in the problem that I have described, is a ui th ...Show All

• Visual Basic get location of running exe file

  I make a program... when in this program user clicks on a button, I'd like to write in Label1 the path to this exe file.. example: if exe is in C:\program\something\test.exe, I'd like that in Label is written: C:\program\something Hi, Application.ExecutablePath will return the full path to your executable, while Application.StartupPath will return the path only (without the executable's filename). Hope this helps, Andrej ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel Connection object returns "Class not Registered"

  I am trying to import the contents of an Excel spreadsheet, the import works fine when using the import wizard, but as soon as I try to run it from the VS environment I get this error, Has anyone got any ideas ...Show All

• SQL Server what are Precausions while updating schema of a database?

  Hi I need to update the schema of an existing database from a .NET application. can anybody suggest me about the precausions to take while upgrading the schema of a database. Thanks vizai. There are third party software available which do these kind of activities. Check www.Red-gate.com . Anyhow, you should take backup in anycase. Madhu ...Show All

• .NET Development Unzip File using .net 2.0 class libraries [no third party component like sharplib]

  I have a zip file.I want's to unzip it how can i do this in .net 2.0 as we know there is a class i think gzip from which i can unzip a file. Please can anybody help. What i have is a abc.zip file which contains only single file abc.xml.I want's to extract the abc.zip file and save abc.xml file. I am using .net 2.0.I don't want to use any third party component like #ZipLib .I want's to unzip file using .net 2.0 provided classes. Can I do it I have a simple .zip {not .gzip } file which contains only 1 file with the same name as .zip file with .xml extension. I have seen the example in the documentation but can't able to extract the file.Can Any body give me a simple example ...Show All

• .NET Development Side by Side Execution.

  Hello, Please can you confirm whether the following statement is true: If a .Net 1.1 application runs on a machine with both 1.1 and 2.0 runtimes installed, the application will try to run in the 2.0 runtime. In other words, if you don't configure an application to target a specific runtime, it will use the latest runtime installed on the machine. Thanks in advance. paulballard wrote: This is what I have read on MSDN but the behaviour I have seen in our production environment shows that the 1.1 application is trying to run in the 2.0 runtime. Strange, that's not what I'm seeing. At least not as long as the 1.1 framework is installed. paulballard wrote: Is there ...Show All