RyM's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Control Feature

  I want to try out the new custom control feature. I have installed the SP1 Beta but I don't know where to start... Could anybody point me out a sample or give me an idea how to build a new work item custom control Do I have to inherit from a specific class, do i have to register my control type somehow, how do I reference it in the work item section of the process template Thanks! Mike Naren Thanks for the info - this should be very useful. At the moment we haven't deployed SP1 as we don't have a TFS instance that isn't live and our technical team who manage the servers a cautious about putting beta software on our TFS. I will get onto this though when SP1 goes live. Thanks Steve ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3D Points

  Hi everyone, I am working on my Direct3D project and I have question about drawing 3D points in Direct3D. I want to draw 3D points that have more than one pixel. Just like SetWidth() in Line class. Any hints would be appreciated. Hi Wessam, Thank you very much for your info. With SetWidth() in Line class, I can make lines thicker and these thickness is not change when I zoom in and out the screen. I want 3D points to be the same. Will the vertex shaders provide what I need thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Progress bar for data query?

  I would like to implement a progress bar to indicate the progress of sql queries, but I don't know if it can be done or how to do it if it can. Here is the code I'm using to fill a DataGridView: Dim myAdapter As Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter = New Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter(QueryString, MyConnection) Dim myDataTable As New DataTable myAdapter.Fill(myDataTable) DataGridView1.DataSource = myDataTable Can anyone show me how to add a progress bar to this code Thanks... At least your giving a user some feedback - the marquee progress bar was just another simple option in VB 2005 that you can use for visual feedback. ...Show All

• .NET Development Bulk Insert fails and stop the SQL Server

  Hi, I am trying to insert some records from delimited file. I worte Dot Net code using Interop.DTS package. It works fine but it stops SQL Server if delimeter starts by '0x'. Please let me know if anybody has some helpful information. Thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA IDE

  hello, The installation instructions for XNA sort of infer in the download you get a modified CLR and an ide based on visual studio express. I use the full version of visual studio 2005 professional, can I use this instead or do I need to have two IDE's running thanks. Neil. Better asked over in the GSE forum... It is probably already answered there. I think you can just reference the XNA libraries in Pro and use it. But there's no tutorials or templates built for Pro, yet. ...Show All

• Windows Forms WriteXml

  In a Visual Studio Windows Application Form, I'm trying ot export the data to an Excel file, but I'm getting the message 'WriteXml is a not a member of System'.Windows.Forms.Button... Question 1 - why is it not in the list Question 2 - then how do I export the data Thanks I just try to guess what you want to do sir: I think we can using XML format Excel file, and waht we need to do is save an Excel file to xml format; than we can see how it is bulided, first may be some schema, then style then row by row, so we can write row by row to form that xml file hope it help you ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. ID3DX10Mesh setting an undefined IA topology randomly at start of app.

  Morning all, I've been observing some strange behaviour that appears to trace back to ID3DX10Mesh, the fact it's randomly reproducible is worrying me a bit... There is no obvious visual errors - I get the image rendered exactly as I expected it to be. I'm rendering the Stanford Bunny (note: large mesh = 32bit IB & lots of data) and for one or more initial frames the DrawSubset() call triggers: IASetPrimitiveTopology: Topology value D3D10_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_UNDEFINED is OK to set during IASetPrimitiveTopology; but will not be valid for any Draw routine. < STATE_SETTING INFO #237: DEVICE_IASETPRIMITIVETOPOLOGY_TOPOLOGY_UNDEFINED > I can be lucky and have it only emit that for the first frame, more often ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Thread was being aborted exception at end of load test

  I'm running a load test that consists of a single unit test, which runs without problems as just a unit test. However, when I attempt to run that unit test in a load test with only a single user and for 50 seconds, I get an exception of type System.Threading.ThreadAbortException right at the end of the test. Here's the exception information: Thread was being aborted. When I examine the caught exception in my code, all the fields say "Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack." I'm running the test in VS 2005 Team Suite, Ver. 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050626-4200) . I'm not calling Thread.Abort in any of my code, but wonder if this may be happening somewhere in ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development very poor picture , compressed image , Shift+R to improve and Control+F5 to load page internet explorer

    very poor picture , compressed JPG , Shift+R to improve and Control+F5 to load page, you are right it might be from UMTS operatore i'm using a mobile 3G GPRS connection and it only happens with me on this pc, any news to get rid of the Java applet or application that is causing this, please if anybody from Internet explorer team or Sun Java could help me by email me finding on NADIMSL@HOTMAIL.COM   go ahead, i' ma computer scientist and i'm not able to figure out what is that,,   regards   ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Is this the best way to Rename a text file?

  I want to change the name of a text file ex - "file~.txt" to "file.txt" This is the code I used,             Dim fileinfo As New IO.FileInfo("file~.txt")             fileinfo.CopyTo("file.txt")             File.Delete("file~.txt") Is there a better way to do this than this Thanks Mahesh Yes - see: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx postid=894559&siteid=1 Michael ...Show All

• SQL Server How to schedule a SQL job from .net 2005

  Can we still schedule a sql job from .net 2005 using sqldmo object Any pointers will be appreciated... If you're developing a new application for SQL Server 2005, it is recommend that you use SQL SMO instead of DMO. DMO has been marked for deprecation and SQL SMO is taking its place. Here is a link to the BOL docs for SMO and SQL Server Agent: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.management.smo.agent.aspx Paul A. Mestemaker II Program Manager Microsoft SQL Server Manageability http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlrem/ ...Show All

• Smart Device Development License control for application software

  Hi All, i would like to add a license control on my .NET Compact Framework software, for unlicensed users they have a 15-30 days using limitation but for licensed user they need to enter serial number and then unlimited user. Can anyone help me how to start and apply such function to the software Thanks Hi Jose, Sounds like a great idea and concept. Thanks for your reply. Please can you shed some light on this area "Then with that code you build up another code that matches", i am not sure how this works. Please can you explain more about this area, Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Install Hangs - Does MS Plan to fix?

  I am experiencing extremely slow behavior (no activity for > 30 mins) during a SS 2005 Dev Edition install on XP SP2 on various steps during the SQL Server Database Services step - e.g. during "Setting File Security". This is very annoying. I've found many postings on this issue indicating that OS calls in this part of the install (e.g. LookupAccountName()) are network speed dependent. Does Microsoft have any plans to rework this part of the install to rid the need of these calls I really wish the install would be possible without these calls - it's driving me crazy monitoring this for hours. We've got to roll SS2005 out to a couple hundred developers eventually and this isn't going to cut it. Thanks for your tim ...Show All

• .NET Development Reading XML files

  Hi How do you access specific nodes from a XML file I've got XML files stored in a database and want to extract all Event nodes (Name, Timestamp). Code: SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection (connectionString); SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand (sqlCommand, connection); SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter (); adapter.SelectCommand = command; DataSet dataset = new DataSet ( "XmlDb" ); adapter.Fill(dataset, "Sessions" ); XmlDataDocument doc = new XmlDataDocument (dataset); XML: < Events > <JumpEvent Event Nr = " 0 " > < Name > Jump 0 </ Name > < Description /> < TimeStamps /> </JumpEvent t > & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Wish to use text box to only allow numeric Data entry

  I am creating a windows form with VB expressions How to I allow only text to be input into text box How do I allow only numeric data entered into textbox How do I place a "zero" in the textbox if there is no value for the user to input How do I allow for Currency How do I place "," seperators and "$" i.e $ 1,123,123.00 eg. Code: 'this is to create liabilites calculator Dim mort. as double =textbox1.text Dim Credit as double =textbox2.text Dim Total as Double =Textbox3.text Total = Mort + Credit If i debug and do not place values in the box I get error. So I need to Have "0" by default. Thanks Chris How to I allow only text to be ...Show All