Biju S Melayil's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Cant install Build service - not a domain account

  Trying to install the build service, however we can't because the install wants a domain user. We installed TFS with local users for TFSSERVICE and the other users. Is there anyway to install the build service with local accounts Or do we have to uninstall TFS and reinstall with domain users Thanks in advance Maurice If you are using it in a workgroup environment there is no need to use domain accounts, althought is recommended for increasing security and not having to use different credentials Which error is giving you the install can you take a look to the installation logs is the user an administrator used Mathew is right also in part, the user you set for Team Build must have permissions ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Spacewar failed to launch...

  Error 1 Error code: -1 encounted when initializing FBX file loader. The file is either corrupted or it is not a valid FBX file. C:\...\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MySpacewarWin1\MySpacewarWin1\Content\Models\p1_pencil.fbx MySpacewarWin1 corrupted :( I got the same error when starting my project for the contest. I haven't really looked into fixing it but what I did instead is create the 360 spacewar kit and then create another XNA windows empty project and add all of the 360's spacewars files. Now I have two projects using the same files and I can easily switch between PC and 360. ...Show All

• .NET Development Memory Issues

  Hello all, I've been trying to profile my ASP.NET application on my application server. I set up 2 counters for aspnet_wp process namely '#bytes in all heaps' and 'process:private bytes'. According to a documentation that i read, '#bytes in all heaps' should be less that 'process: private bytes'. However the '#bytes in all heaps' was far greater than that of the 'process: private bytes'. I'm lead to believe that this indicates a memory leak somewhere. Now, the problem is that i've got 15 ASP.NET applications running on that server and i need to find which application(s) are causing the problem. Please i'll need help on which counters to set up that will enable me pin point the rouge application. Thanks Emeka. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Dream Build Play today?

  Well it's just gone 9am UK time and as it's the last day of January I assume that the Dream Build Play website will go live today One way to kill time while looking at the same Dream Build Play website might be to decipher the Morse code message at the bottom of page.. (It's nothing they haven't already told us...) Perhaps by this evening someone can cross out January and add February to give them another 28 days. :) ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) PlainXmlWriter+MaxSizeExceededException

  Anyone can explain "System.ServiceModel.Diagnostics.PlainXmlWriter+MaxSizeExceededException" , i have encounter this in the WriteXml for the IXmlSerializable sometimes. can't find the info in sdk documentation, no lucky google it either. appreciate any input. thanks I believe it has to do with the message size being too large when WCF tracing is enabled. Do you have tracing enabled in your config If so, check out the maxSizeOfMessageToLog attribute of the messageLogging configuration element and determine if it is set approriately. Dave ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Kill connections prior to dropping database

  Hi, I'm working on using VSTS4DBP as my deployment tool for databases and I'm excited about the ability to use it from MSBuild. So, I'm working on my deployment script and one thing I want to do is drop the database if it already exists prior to recreating it again. Hence, I clicked the "Always recreate database" button in the project properties which causes the following to go into the deployment script: IF ( DB_ID ( N 'MyDB' ) IS NOT NULL) DROP DATABASE [MyDB] ; GO That's all good except that if someone is connected to the database (which is a possibility) then the deployment will fail with the message: Error 3 Msg 3702, Level 16, State 4, Line 3 Cannot drop database "MyDB" beca ...Show All

• SQL Server linear regression with nested explanation variable

  We are trying to create a model of linear regression with nested table. We used the create mining model sintax as follow : create mining model rate_plan3002_nested2 ( CUST_cycle LONG KEY , VOICE_CHARGES double CONTINUOUS predict , DUR_PARTNER_GRP_1 double regressor CONTINUOUS , nested_taarif_time_3002 table ( CUST_cycle long CONTINUOUS , TARIFF_TIME text key , TARIFF_VOICE_DUR_ALL double regressor CONTINUOUS ) ) using microsoft_linear_regression INSERT INTO MINING STRUCTURE [rate_plan3002_nested2_Structure] (CUST_cycle , VOICE_CHARGES , DUR_PARTNER_GRP_1 , [nested_taarif_time_3002]( SKIP ,TARIFF_TIME ,TARIFF_VOICE_DUR_ALL) ) SHAPE { OPE ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Bug? InvokeWorkFlow activity used with Sequential Workflow hosted in Console App

  I've been experimenting with InvokeWorkFlow activity and found what I think might be a bug with the logic in hosting code for the console app.  In the Main method, the WF runtime is instantiated and the started passing in the type for WorkFlow1.  Before it starts the workflow however it wires up a handler for the WorkflowCompleted event that when called sets a AutoResetEvent which the main thread uses to terminate the WF runtime and end the app.  So here's the problem.  I have a workflow that uses InvokeWorkflow activities to invoke 3 separate workflows that I want to run asynchronously.  However, after calling the InvokeWorkflow activities, the Workflow1 sequence ends firing the WorkflowCompleted event.  Thi ...Show All

• Visual C# Switch statement

  Hi, all: [I guess this could be considered a rant, but I'm still curious if anyone shares my opinion on this] I am still wondering why the switch statement is not more flexible. For example, I feel that a switch statement using objects makes sense. I'll give a more visual example for ease of understanding more than anything else, so picture this: I have three buttons on my form, button1, button2, button3. I set the click event to the same event handler, button_ButtonClick. Inside the button_ButtonClick method I want to check the sender to see which button was clicked, so I do this: switch (sender) // or even (sender as Button) { case button1: // do something here break ; case button2: // do somethi ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode with SQL Server

  I keep getting the error message below when attempting to import a text file (flat file) to an SQL Server Destination using SSIS. This database has recently been migrated from SQL Server 2000 (where I used a DTS Package that worked fine). I plan on doing further manipulation to the file after importing but have so far tried to keep one step at a time. I have tried using a smaller files and different tables but still get a similar response. I believe that the encoding of the text file is ANSI. If it is relevant the database collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS (the same as it was when 2000). Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated!!! TITLE: Package Validation Error ------------------------------ Package Validation Error ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Use button to change selected Textboxes to Readonly

  I have successfully (with heaps of help from this forum) coded a button to toggle the readonly property on/off on one of my forms using the code below Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click For Each c As Control In Me.Controls If TypeOf (c) Is TextBox Then Dim currentcontrol As TextBox currentcontrol = c currentcontrol.ReadOnly = Not currentcontrol.ReadOnly '//Toggle readonly '//Change Formatting If currentcontrol.ReadOnly Then currentcontrol.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None Else currentcontrol.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle End If End If Next End Sub ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. BUG: RenderTarget gets clipped to backbuffer size

  Hello, I just stepped onto a really annoying bug that always clips render targets to the current size of the backbuffer. I didn't even notice this before, as I am normally using render targets that are smaller than the backbuffer, but I just tested the rendering at lower resolutions and then that strange clipping behavior appeared. The rendertarget has a resolution of 512x512 pixels and when I set the screen size to 256x256 and render the scene into the rendertarget and then that texture sized down to my screen, I just see one quarter of the screen (and the render target) filled and the rest is clipped. The viewports are adjusted correctly and I even checked their size directly before rendering onto the texture with the debu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to get the Handle of a xaml Control???

  In my project. I must pass a Handle of a control to a dll. In the previous Windows Form, it's easy to get a control's Handle. But in WPF,it is very difficult,I wander if there is a way to achieve it. Thank you!! Controls in WPF don't have handles. The only handle available in an entire WPF application is the one for the Window instances. You can get this handle with WindowInteropHelper::Handle . Here's a section in the SDK to check out for more info on WPF and Win32 interop. HTH, Drew ...Show All

• Commerce Server How many categories did they use?

  The performance document mentions that the catalog had 1 million products, but how many categories did it have And were products assigned to multiple categories Were the categories hierarchically organized and how much so Thanks in advance! -Tom Tom, If i remember correctly, you begin incurring serious performance penalties by nesting 5 or more categories. I know for a fact that this was the limit in CS2k2, and I'm pretty sure that it's still the limit in CS2k7, but I can't find any documentation to support that. I believe that the catalog system should support several thousand categorys per catalog, but again, I'm having trouble finding the documentation for this. The benchmarks given ar ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ISA Firewall Client

  Why can't I install the ISA firewall client on Vista. I have tried stopping Windows defender but it still doesn't allow me to install it. Can anyone help ISA 2006 Client will not work. BUT, I just installed the older version (Microsoft Firewall Client Version 3.0) and it is working like a charm! Go figure. ...Show All