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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using reference rasterizer on virtualized windows/xna

  Hi. I'm running windows on a virtual machine on a intel Mac. As of now, there's now hardware D3D support from virtual machine manufacturer (Parallels). So, I'm forced to use reference rasterizer. Now, on a "normal" D3D, I know how to setup a device as a rasterizer device. On XNA framework (beta 2), I don't know how to do it. For one sample somewhere I got the idea of inheriting a new class ReferenceGraphicsDeviceManager from GraphicsDeviceManager, overriding RankDevices() and FindBestDevice() -methods and then basically stating the following inside FindBestDevice-block: protected override GraphicsDeviceInformation FindBestDevice(bool anySuitableDevice) { GraphicsDeviceInformation deviceInformation = new GraphicsDeviceInformation( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Timeout error while accessing VSS database Via Internet plug-in

  Hi, I developed a web application in ASP.NET 2.0 and added this web application to VisualSourceSafe. I am able to setup my VSS database to access through Internet plug-in. Since my VSS database is on public IP system, I can establish connection from Visual Studio Internet plug-in and I can able to see the folders inside the VSS database. But when i try to open the solution it gives following error after few seconds. Cannot contact the VisualSourceSafe Internet Web Service or cannot access the specified database. The server returned the following error: The operation timed out (0x80072EE2) is there any way to increase time limit or any suggestions on this Regards, Sit. Hi ...Show All

• Visual Studio SP1 Error / Cancel Compile

  When compiling my solution, if I select the cancel build option (Build -=> Cancel) Visual Studio believes that it is still compiling when it is not. I can't then exit VS or kick off another build, I have to kill VS it in my processes. Is this a known issue, because if it isn't, it should be! Regards, Andy Andy Burrow wrote: Is this a known issue, because if it isn't, it should be! I take it then you're either researching this problem or making your developers aware I've not yet heard of anyone else reporting this problem. Andy ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Meta data exchange with indigo webservice

  Hi, How can i exchange the metadata with the indigo service. Does WCF provide any particular facility for that Hello 1) The config file: <services> <service name="Service1.Service1Impl" behaviorConfiguration="Service1Behavior"> <endpoint address="ep1" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="IService1" /> <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" /> </service> </services> <behaviors> <serviceBehaviors> <behavior name="Service1Behavior"> <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" /> <se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom rule to validate the value of a string literal

  Hi, guys. I have methods that takes a string argument that is utlimately passed to String.Format. Stuff like "{0} has value {1}". I've written an FxCop rule that can ascertain when these methods are called but I'm stumped on how to actually extract the contents of the string literal in order to analyse its contents. Any clues It must be possible as Reflector.exe can display the strings. Guess I'm just missing the correct API. Whilst I'm at it, do you know of an existing rule to analyse a format string Kind regards, Angus ps. If there's a way to improve my "TraceMethodTakesStringFormatter" so that I don't have to do a string comparison on "System.String()", I'm all ears ;-) public override ...Show All

• .NET Development How to make http connections to an MS SQL server and retrieve data from a data base this way?

  Hi, I want to be able to use an http connection to connect to a MS SQL server and take data from a database this way. What is the easiest way to do that I was looking for some way to do that directly by connecting my application to the sql server through http but I couldn't find anything. Or maybe some proxy-like app must be used to work between my application and the sql server which transfers data Thanks beforehand, Anton Please start a new thread for this last question so more people will look at it. Zlatko ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Finding Page Breaks

  Re: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1179691&SiteID=1 Thanks already to Maarten van Stam , who answered part of my earlier question. I am trying to identify the page breaks in a Word document that will eventually be saved as a filtered html file for some post-processing later.I want to mark each page break with a string so it can be identified visually and/or by a regex expression. This will be part of an application-level plug in for word that is being developed in C#. This is in Word 2003 Professional, and I am trying to identify any and all page breaks whether they be user- or Word-generated. I didn't realized (but I did suspect) that most of the page-breaks are done on-the-fl ...Show All

• SQL Server SCD component - is there an alternative?

  Hi, I have several SCD components in my project. As I have to process millions of records, SCD's are taking a lot of time. Is there a way to speed them up Work arounds Any tip is welcome -Tom Tom De Cort wrote: Hi, I have several SCD components in my project. As I have to process millions of records, SCD's are taking a lot of time. Is there a way to speed them up Work arounds Any tip is welcome -Tom I believe that under the covers the SCD transform uses an uncached Lookup. Hence, you could use a Lookup component, with cache, to do the same job. This may help: Checking if a row exists and if it does, has it changed ( http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2006/09/12/SSIS_3A0 ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Is there any way to use .css files locally in v3 map control?

  when i use locally api.css and ero.css files in v3 mapcontrol , i am not getting compass control and panning not working Can any one help me to use api.css and ero.css files locally in v3 mapcontrol ...Show All

• .NET Development Datatable Vs. Excel workseet

  Hi, My application is using a Excel file as the data storage. I am now connecting to the Excel sheet by using Jet Engine OleDb objects and then perform searching. The search process takes 25-30 seconds and it seems a bit too long. Then I found out another method is to load Excel data into a dataset. does anyone know that which method is faster to search and can SQL statement be used in the latter method Thanks! Carol I believe it depends on type of query you are using, but take into account that Excel is not a real database and does not have indexes for the columns. It means that each condition in your query would require full scan of the columns. In a case if you load data into DataSet and use DataVew or Select method, the ...Show All

• Visual C++ relinking RTM libraries for VS2005SP1

  Hello.I cannot relinking CRT libraries (msvcr80.dll, ...) due to unhandld.obj. This obj is not generated during compiling. I used original makefile from VS2005 SP1. Can you help me. Thanks. confirmed - currently asking VC team about this - I'll let you know what I find out. In the mean time please file a bug at connect.microsoft.com ...Show All

• SQL Server Best practice about creating partitions dynamically in AS2000 ?

  Does anyone have a good article, link or just input concering the dynamic creation and processing of partitions in a cube. The scenario where a large amount of data is daily loaded into the data warehouse. In the ETL there is some logic creating a new table when data is comming in for a new month (example: the table Fact_Q1_2007 is created when data is being recieved on 1. januar 2007 and Fact_Q2_2007 is created when data is recieved 1.april and so on) The question is now - how do i set up the logic to create partitions dynamic in the cube and afterwards make sure that the partitions are being processed successfully. Thanks I read that there should be some tools in the SQL Server 2000 Ressource K ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Uninstall of our product pops-up a strange explorer.exe crash dialog

  The product that I work on has a Wise based installer, and when we uninstall the product, you get a pop-up saying that explorer.exe crashed. There is no visual evidence of the main explorer.exe crashing, and the task manager does list a second explorer.exe process running. Our uninstall is removing some file types and mime types, and does an SHChangeNotify(SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED), but nothing that looks like it should crash anything, let alone explorer.exe. The error is: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: explorer.exe Application Version: 6.0.5744.16384 Application Timestamp: 45234a84 Fault Module Name: StackHash_0c47 Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: ...Show All

• SQL Server Installin sqlserver 2005 error

  I get the following error message when I install sqlserver 2005. TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup ------------------------------ The installer has encountered an unexpected error. The error code is 2380. Error opening file for write: 5. GetLastError: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\Setup. For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=2380&EvtType=sqlca%5csqlsecurityca.cpp%40Do_sqlGroup%40Do_sqlGroup%40x5 ------------------------------ BUTTONS: &Retry Cancel ------------------------------ Anybody got an idea Thanks   Hi Tony, Thanks for the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio Stanard Installation fails on Vista Business

  Hi, Installation of my Visual Studio 2005 Standard (german version) fails on a completely new installed Windows Vista Business Edition. After setup starts (as administrator) it reports copying setup files to Temp directory and the it shows an empty error message (no text, just an ok button - very nice...). Someone got any ideas Regards Andor Notes: - All updates are installed - There is a suite integration note (this may be a hint, but it could be produced by one of several approaches to get the installation working) Description This program might not have installed correctly Problem signature Problem Event Name: PCA2 Problem Signature 01: setup.exe Problem Signature 02: 8.0.50727.42 Problem Signature 03: Ausfuhrbare Datei fur den Sui ...Show All