LydiaC's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Answering some user questions about TFS failures

  Hi, I also posted this in Visual Studio Team System General, but I think it was the wrong place to post. So here goes. I'm the administrator for the Team Foundation Server at my company. I installed it as a single server (Xeon 2.8 GHz, Nocona, 1 GB ram ecc, 2 sata disks in raid 1 config) and it works fine. However, there are times when the users (i.e. the developers) complain that they can't check-in items. There are no traces of the event in the event logs and there don't seem to be any other signs of a malfunction. After they try again, once or twice it usually works. My question really is: what do I tell them when they ask me "why can't I check in this file " (doesn't happen with check-in only, managers somet ...Show All

• SQL Server Association Rules algorithm [support,confidence]

  In assotiation rules each rule has a [support, confidence] part. In Microsoft Association Rules there is a [probability,importance] measure in each rule and importance can be greater that 1. I found the following in msdn but i'm not sure if i understood correctly. MINIMUM_PROBABILITY: Specifies the minimum probability that a rule is true. For example, setting this value to 0.5 specifies that no rule with less than fifty percent probability is generated. The default is 0.4. MAXIMUM_SUPPORT: Specifies the maximum number of cases in which an itemset can have support. If this value is less than 1, the value represents a percentage of the total cases. Values greater than 1 represent the absolute number of cases that can contain the items ...Show All

• Visual C# How do i use wildchar in query?

  Hi, I have a problem with my sql query. I use: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Visual Studio 2005 i have a database called Scan, and a table in the database called convert convert consist of 3 coloumns: id, product and barnumber. only one row: 1, 1111111111, 22222222222222 I have a dataset with the table, and when i use the query editor and query for %111% i get the result, but when i do the same from my program i get nothing! if i query for %111%1111% i get the result. the query goes for product which is a string. SQL query "GetDataByProduct" SELECT id, product, barnumber FROM dbo.[convert] WHERE (product LIKE @product) My Sourcecode dbDataSet . convertDataTable cdt = new dbDataSetTableAdapters. convertTableA ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MS should ask the community to work on features for xna!!!

  MS i really think you should use the knowledge of the community to help create features for XNA. If MS asks the community to work on specific area, or feature and to send there program to MS, MS could skip alot of the programing work, and just certify and expand upon the ideas of the community. Hell look what the xbox community did will all of the xbox live featuers. What do you think. We appreciate your enthusiasm! Feel free to create and share components or starter kits through your own site. We will be glad to link to it on our community site at http://msdn.com/directx/community . ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with DataMember of DataGridView

  Hello, I am having some problem with flitering a dataset and setting the same data set as the source of a datagridView. customer_list.Tables[0].DefaultView.RowFilter = "Surname like '" + textBox1.Text + "%'" ; this .dataGridView1.DataSource = customer_list.Tables[0].DefaultView.ToTable(); this .dataGridView1.DataMember = "customer_list" ; But it is not working. In my earlier projects the same code worked fine with dataGrid, well, i did not have to specify the datamember in that case to see the data. Can anybody please tell me, how do i simply show the data of a DataSet(thats been flitered) in a dataGridview well, actuall the dataset is not empty, but still its not showing anythin ...Show All

• Visual C++ Inconsistencies in overriding private function (bug?)

  I have a class, "Facade", which has two private members. One returns void, the other returns a pointer to another class. virtual void doProcessing(); virtual ResultSet* processPolicy(Policy* policy, boost::gregorian::date evaluationDate); I have two derived classes, class A overrides doProcessing(), class B overrides processPolicy(). I noticed that A's doProcessing() will get called, but that B's processPolicy() does not. Both instances of A and B get created and started in the same manner. Once started, doProcessing() gets called, which in turn calls processPolicy(). The only differences I can spot One is void and has no parameters; the other returns a value and has parameters. Do I need to treat one different from t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Server to TFS "Loose Integration"

  I have seen numerous posts and heard many quotes from Microsoft and MVPs saying that TFS does not directly integrate with Project Server, but that they do support indirect integration.  See how MSDN ( ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718916.aspx ) refers to Rob’s Project Server post.... http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2006/02/22/537486.aspx which suggests loose integration is supported. " Currently, Team Foundation Server supports loose integration with Project Server by using Microsoft Project plans as a means to synchronize data between the two servers. The Project Server–Visual Studio Team System Connector (available on GotDotNet.com) is an illustrative sample solution that explain ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# Program Ideas

  Hello, I am trying to learn C# and so I have been reading the book and doing the sample apps, but now I would like to go a little farther. I want to write an app that I can sharpen and learn more with C#, but I am out of ideas for applications. I could write a game and that might not be bad, but I was wonder if anyone had any ideas for a program. I feel like a writter who just can not come up with an idea for a book. So any Ideas Cryptography might be an interesting topic. Buy a book on the history of cryptography and write programs that implement coders/decoders or perhaps code breakers. You will do a lot of string manipulation, arrays etc. Try to write the code using object oriented programming principle ...Show All

• Visual C++ Image Color Management in VC++ 8 Platform SDK

  I'm converting a VC++ 6 MFC app to VC++ 8 using Visual Studio 2005 Standard. The existing app uses Image Color Management, so it #include's icm.h. In the VC++ 6 environment, it is included from the Platform SDK [$(ProgramFiles)Microsoft SDK\include] directory. A Visual Studio .Net installation delivers a version of the Platform SDK in a subdirectory of the VC directory [$(VCInstallDir)PlatformSDK] and this directory is setup to be used for includes upon install. However, icm.h is not included in this version of the Platform SDK delivered with Visual Studio 2005. The file does exist in both VS2002 and VS2003 installations. Was this ommision intentional I know I could set up my environment to find ICM.h in my downloaded Platform SDK di ...Show All

• SQL Server FOR EACH Loop to export files based on Header Record

  Hey guys,, Well im new at this SSIS stuff and i have something that i am trying to do, but cannot get it to work.. Ill try to explain, and if anyone can help me or point me in the right direction it would be much appriciated.. I have 2 tables, one header table. and one lines table. This is a one - to -many relationship.. ie 1 header, many lines.. This is a Order Header, and Order Lines table setup.. Order header has Order numbers and and email address field that link to the lines table by order number. I also have a view which links all this info together. I would like to export a excel file (preferable named from the order number column - but that can come later) for each order number in the header table. The excel file will con ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Performance Tool: Unexpected Bottom of Stack

  I have been using the Performance Tool In Instrumentation "mode" on ASP.NET Website. The results are very useful, but I have a question - probably a silly/stupid one: My website uses a Presentation Layer which in turn calls a Business Layer which in turn calls a DAL (all different DLL's and different projects in the same solution as the website). Im trying to determine the time spent in each layer, in a method call that passes through all layers. However, when im examining the Caller/Callee or Call tree, the last function i get data from is the Presentation Layer. I can't see the time spent in Business and DAL layers. The list of "Functions that were called by PresentationLayerMethod" only has one entry: "Bottom ...Show All

• .NET Development devEdit attributes

  Hello all, I am using DevEdit html editer for html formatting.what i want to do is limit the no. of characters entered. for this i used the javascript like this  devEdit.attributes.add("onkeydown","CountString()") but no effect is found. any help please.   ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XACT crashes instantly under Vista - fixed by run as admin

  I have to set the XACT tool to run as admin to get it to run at all on Vista RC1. Is this supposed to happen XACT shouldn't be doing anything requiring administrator... Yeah, I later spotted that in the Release Notes, shouldv'e read them more carefully :) Also, there's a lot of other weird behaviour under Vista, such as the inability to set the looping of a sound to Infinity without manually tweaking the xap file, and the program beeping (ding sound) every time you select anything in the wave or sound bank windows... but I guess that's why you guys labeled it as unsupported under Vista. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Non blocked worflows do not resume after web service restart

  Hi, I'm using the default sql persistence service and manual scheduler and the generated web services for the workflow. If I restart the web service, the workflows that were executing are not restarted from their last persistence point. I can see the entries in the InstanceState table and the runtime picks them up using RetrieveNonblockingInstanceStateIds but then when they are scheduled to run nothing happens. For each workflow instance that should resume, the last lines I can see in the log are System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting Information: 0 : WorkflowRuntime:ScheduleLoaded event raised for instance Id 454c0cf7-2117-4f29-bd3f-2d867118923e System.Workflow.Runtime Transfer: 0 : , relatedActivityId=454c0cf7-2117-4f29-bd3f-2d867118923e Syste ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Needs to support ARM DSP opcodes out of the box (or, Welcome to the 21st Century)

  The DeviceEmulator 2.0 Community Tech. Preview has gone live, at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=13F5DE85-30CD-4506-9C5B-A2068FA1EE9E&displaylang=en . V2 has: Much improved performance DEComInterfaces.idl - the COM interface to the emulator, along with sample code showing how to use DMA to communicate between a Windows app and an app or driver running inside the emulator. This is the DeviceEmulator's equivalent of the "Building DMA Drivers for the Windows CE.NET Emulator" article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dncenet/html/builddmadriver.asp . An eXDI driver for Windows CE Platform Builder 5.0, giving you a hardware debugger interface to the emul ...Show All