Bigmo's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Can't Update, Repair, or Uninstall Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

  Hello. I have recently found a security patch for my Microsoft .NET Framework, V 2.0. I needed the framework installed for my ATI Driver update to work. However, Every time I tried to install the patch, it failed. I tried repairing the framework, but that didn't work. Neither did uninstalling it. Uninstalling and Repairing yeilded the following message: "The following error occured during setup: Patch Package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package." I downloaded and installed the framework from ATI's site. My system is a Windows XP, and I would like some help... Please... Thanks for any ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem with duplication function

  Hi, I know that this is probably fairly easy to answer (I suspect a pointer problem), but here it goes: I am currently working on an application that requires a function to duplicate a 'resource' (one of several types of objects) and give it its own spot on a resource tree. I had thought that I had completed this function long ago until the point came when I began to create dialog boxes for editing the resource properties. I have now discovered that both the resource and the duplication point to the same address and constantly sync all values with one another. I am a bit rusty on my pointer usage, I admit. Here is my current code: template<class type> void DuplicateResource(HWND hwnd,int message,vector<type> &container,HTRE ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploying dll with application question

  Somehow I bet this has been covered somewhere, but I couldn't find anything via the search/faq so here goes: I have my own custom library (dll) that I share between several applications. I figured I could stick the dll and its associated dependent dlls in the "System Folder" of the setup project and everything would be fine. Well, as soon as I installed and ran the app on the target machine I got the error message that it couldn't find the dll. I really would rather not have my users' application folder have 11 dll's in it. What am I missing Thanks, Bob ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how do you delete defects?

  Good Morning i created several defects to test the life cycle and everything worked the way I planned. now my question is how do i actually delete remove these defects another question i have is when VSTS gives a defect an ID why does it start from 150 ( i think) is there a way it can start from 0 Thanks for your time and help You can look at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=327599&SiteID=1 for the information on deleting work items. -Mohammad ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multiuser games?

  Just curious... but has anyone used XNA/C# to develop MOG's or even MMOG's I doubt there is one available now, its very new and no one would have had the chance to build an MMOG! You could be the first to try :) I believe its possible. ...Show All

• .NET Development Assembly.Load(): Fails once, fails always ?

  Scenario: Dynamic assembly loading: If an assembly does not exist, install it from the network. Consider the following code: 1: Assembly oAssembly; 2: try 3: { 4: oAssembly = Assembly .Load( "ClassLibrary1" ); // Will fail since assembly is not available. 5: } 6: catch ( Exception ex) 7: { 8: // Copy ClassLibrary1 to AppPath\ClassLibary1 folder 9: } 10: oAssembly = Assembly .Load( "ClassLibrary1" ); If you run the code above it fails at line 10, although the assembly is available at that time. It seems that when an assembly can't be loaded the 1st time, the application will not try to load it the 2nd time, even when it is available at that time. Is it possible to force the application to try to load it the 2nd ti ...Show All

• SQL Server Failover Not Working Because Logins are not Synched

  I have the failover working fine in the sense that the mirror becomes the principal when I issue a failover. The problem is that the login that I have set for the database becomes invalid and I get no permissions on my stored procs unless I go in and manually change the password for the login. I know the issue is that the logins have different SIDs on the two boxes. How do I sync them up These machines are not on a domain and are using SQL authentication. Brad Basically the same way, however, I would NOT recreate the login. Just run sp_change_users_login. So, you would failover to the log shipping standby, run sp_change_users_login, ship the tran log backup back to the other machine, and then failback. ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance degradation after replication rolled out

  Hi all. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. We recently created transactional replication to hopefully improve performance issues we were expereincing. The replication is between 2 SQL Servers (2000), and since we have introduced the replication, the performance has degraded considerably. I will try and explain the scenario. We have a primary db that our internal users use and we also have the newly replicated db that our website and another application use. The users are complaining that the website and the internal application is extremely slow and I was just wondering if it is possible to do an Index Tuning on both the primary db and replicated db based on trace files so as to create new indexes or would this have a ...Show All

• Visual C++ Deletion using ADO is time consuming

  Hello, everybody. Deleting a record from a .mdb DB using ADO (not ADO.NET), takes approx. 5 sec. This is a 100,000 records DB (500 B each record). Anybody has a clue, why I'm afraid the question is outside the scope of this forum. The C++ General forum deals with the VC++ 2005 IDE, libraries, setup, debugger, samples and documentation -- but not the use of all libraries and technologies. While most borderline issues are answered, and followed up, a great deal of these off topic questions are simply not given their fair attention. The reason is that many of the people here are specialized in their field, which may not be the same as that of the question. Seeing as this post has gone by unanswered, I encourage you to direc ...Show All

• .NET Development WSE 3.0 get UsernameToken

  How do i get my UsernameToken in a web Service [ WebMethod ] public string HelloWorld() { UsernameToken token = // how String username = token.Username; return username ; } Thanks. Paul. Ive found this code on the net which does work ok but it's obsolete. string tokenStr = string .Empty; UsernameToken token = null ; foreach ( UsernameToken t in RequestSoapContext .Current.Security.Tokens) { token = t; break ; } String username = token.Username; It's saying: Warning 1 'Microsoft.Web.Services3.SoapContext.Security' is obsolete: 'SoapContext.Security is obsolete. Consider deriving from SendSecurityFilter ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build - Build Passes on Developer Machines and Fails on Build Server

  When our developers build the solution on their workstations the build completes just fine. However, when a build is performed on the build server there are errors. This typically involves places where attributes are added to methods. The type that is being passed as a parameter is part of the same solution and the project has a valid reference. All project references are standard copy local=false and nothing needs to be installed to the GAC. [XmlArrayItem(Type = typeof(TypeSerializer))] public List < Type > JournaledTypes     Debug.txt from Build Server (None of these errors occur on the developer machines) Solution: Sodexho.sln, Project: SetupHelper.csproj, Compilation errors and warnings Setup ...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

• Visual Basic Using .DLL files

  I have looked for a while on the internet but I cant figr it out, how do I call and use functions in a VB app from a dll file. Probably, Unmanaged API's The following may help example a little more http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/PInvoke.asp This is a useful site for finding the declare statements for many of the Win32 API's - on some of them there are sample code you can call. http://www.pinvoke.net/ Also, the developer of the API, should be able to provide some documentation / information on the methods inside and calling from various different languages. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration Benefit Portal

  I just installed VB 2005 Express and after registration I received an email about some freebies located on the Registration Beneift Portal. Clicking on that link .. I got a page not found (or moved) from the URL: https://connect.microsoft.com/downloads/downloads.aspx SiteID=40 was this just a hoax Works for me. If I recall, some people had problems if they tried accessing it 'too early'. Give it a day or so and see if it's ok after then. It'll require your MS Passport information. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office add in problem in outllok editor

  hi Experts, i created a add-in for MS Outlook. its working fine on outllok but its not dispplaying when i go to compose a mail. how to do that Thanks Cindi i will post there also, i posted here because its related to vsto.if you know any solution than please let me know. ...Show All