Manaxter's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Changing the drop location (overriding ?)

  Does anyone know how I can override the drop location to be a custom one I noticed that there is a UpdateBuildNumberDropLocation step in the build process which spits out the new drop location after updating the build number. Is there any way I can sneak in and change this to my own custom location The idea of having the build number there is to avoid having the binaries and other outputs overwrite each other during each build... If you want to modify this logic, you will need to do some real brain surgery on our targets file - you'll see the pattern $(DropLocation)\$(BuildNumber) all over the place (CoreDropBuild, CopyLogFiles, CreateWorkItem targets in addition to the UpdateBuildNumberDropLocation task ...Show All

• Visual C# Independent slide

  I made a custom button, i implemented some "slide function" and it works very good,when the user has the mouse on the control it slides to the right,and reset the default size when the MouseLeave event ocurrs, however, when i put several of the same buttons in a windows form, i put the cursor on top of each one, and they slide right, but they have to wait until the previous button resets it's size, so the slide function is not independent...how can i solve this , is neccesary to use different threads , and if i use threads, they should be declared in the Custom button class or in the windows app that use them All user interface code executes on the thread used to create the control handle. You ca ...Show All

• SQL Server Conditional row count

  Hi, Is there a way to to use RowCount based on a condition I have AS400 logs in csv file which I want to append to a SQL table using filters. But during passing of each record, I also want to count row only if they matches to a specific criteria. Thanks   Use a conditional split transformation to look at your data. Then on which ever output you desire, use a row counter. A row counter isn't a destination (it can be though), so it can go in-line with your flow. ...Show All

• .NET Development Just first access, SerializationException: Unable to find assembly

  Hello, I have seen different flavour of this problem in different places, but as far as I concern none of them has a solution for it. I am using Remoting, .Net2.0, and C#. The server components are running as Windows Service. Whenever the service gets started (restart or install) Only the first access to the service throws the following exception. SerializationException: Unable to find assembly The subsequents access are working fine. Any idea why this happens Many thanks, I am not quite sure if I understand you correctly. I am accessing the server component by marshaling the argument of the server methods, this way I only need the proxy object of the server in the client side, not the ...Show All

• Windows Forms display swf in asp.net image control

  how to display an swf file as an image in asp.net image control As Ken has mentioned,the asp.net image control does not support swf file, to display a swf file on web page, see Embedding Your SWF in a Web Page ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Pictures mess up when uploading

  For a few months now i found that every time i upload my pictures they mess up on every website.They either come out distored (with loads of lines on it ) or with a error message, ive ran various virus scans but it doesn't seem to find anything. When i uploaded a image on hotmail and sent it to ma sister the image came up with lines all over it,at it continues to do so. I first noticted when i uploaded my picture to a website called photobuct and only half of the image showed up and the rest with lines all on it . Please can any 1 help me! Your image files might be bigger than what spaces accepts. I believe spaces will resize very large images (like 3000x2000 pixels) to something ...Show All

• Windows Forms Urgent: Mage.exe Issue with -RequiredUpdate

  Hi All, I want to ensure that whenever the Application Installed through Click Once runs, it would check for updates before starting. Using the Publish wizard and the mageUI.exe this can be set. And the resultant Deployment Mainfest looks like this. <deployment install="true" disallowUrlActivation="true" mapFileExtensions="true"> <subscription> <update> <beforeApplicationStartup /> </update> </subscription> <deploymentProvider codebase=" file://server/Test.application " /> </deployment> But when I try to create the deployment manifest manually using mage.exe there seem to be no option to specify this update option. The resu ...Show All

• SQL Server Inser Problem in the alternative of cursor

  Hi all I wanted to workout with while loop as an alternative of cursor. I am working in SQL Server 2005. I have a table TEST with following values tid tname 1 John 2 Sam 3 Peter I wanted to insert these records into same table or another table using following while loop. But I ended of inserting only last record in the loop, not each one above. --DELETE FROM test1 DECLARE @id int , @lc int , @rc int --SET ROWCOUNT 0 SELECT tid , tname INTO #Temp FROM Test SET @rc = @@ROWCOUNT --SET ROWCOUNT 1 --SELECT @id=tid FROM #TEMP SET @lc = 1 WHILE @lc <= @rc BEGIN SELECT @id = tid FROM #TEMP INSERT INTO TEST SELECT @id , 'ppp' FROM ( SELECT tid FROM #TEMP WHERE tid = @id ...Show All

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

  Hello, I have about a year of experence with C# and I have tried a simple game using XNA, I made breakout with some crappy homemade graphics Would anyone mind to look at my code and tell me what I could do better with Note: The game is not completely done yet but for the most part, it works. Code is at http://joshmackey.net/programming/XNA/XNA%20Breakout/ Working nicely! One thing that I found that made the game dull is that the X-axis speed is always the same, just being mirrored when hitting the side walls. This makes the game just a matter of waiting for the ball to come up and down, and doesn't let the player have the ability to "redirect" slightly the movement of the ball to their liking, trying to ...Show All

• Visual C# cannot convert from 'ref int' to 'ref int?'

  i have this methos in by bussiness logic call and it is generating the error cannot convert from 'ref int' to 'ref int ' public bool InsertUser( Guid Userid, byte [] UserName, byte [] UserPassword, string FullName, string EMail) { int intResult = 0; UserTableAdapters. QueriesTableAdapter UserDb = new UserTableAdapters. QueriesTableAdapter (); UserDb.InsertUser(Userid, UserName, UserPassword, FullName, EMail, "INSERT" , ref intResult); //cannot convert from 'ref int' to 'ref int ' if (intResult == 1) return true ; else return false ; } can any one help in this regard Thankx. Hello Prasant, I have same problem. Can you please tell me how you solved th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Drawing Text

  How can you draw text in XNA. i have a done pong game, but need to display the scores. Before the new XNA release, i know someone made a font class, and it worked, but i need to know how to do it in the new release Its the same way as in beta. There's a few different font classes out there. Here's a few http://www.nuclex.org http://blogs.msdn.com/manders/archive/2007/01/12/stroke-based-text-rendering-in-xna.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/garykac/archive/2006/12/01/xnaextras-update.aspx ...Show All

• Visual C# Good Guide to C# Syntax ??

  I have begun using C# in VS 2005, but am a little puzzled with the syntax. Searching on the web to solve a problem, I came up with the line: GridViewRow currRow = (GridViewRow)((Button)e.CommandSource).NamingContainer; It works, returning the row index # of the selected row. But both the (GridViewRow) and (Button) syntax are strange to me. They work, but I would never have come up with it myself. Moreover, I am not sure where the weak spots of using this command are. Does anyone know of a good summary of C# syntax, preferably on the web, which might explain this kind of thing Thanks MIke Thomas (Button)e.CommandSource make TypeCasting of object e.CommandSource to a custom class called Button. ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't uninstall or reinstall SQL Server 2005 Dev

  Long story short: Installed SQL Server 2005 Developers Edition along with Visual Studio 2005. Everything worked as it should. Then there was a problem installing .NET Framework 2.0 Security Update. Fixed that by uninstall and reinstall of .NET Framework 2.0. Now SQL Server does not work. So I figured uninstall/reinstall. Only problem is that it WILL NOT uninstall. I have tried to uninstall manually per KB article (9009967). That doesn't work either. The error info that I'm geting is: LinkID: 20476 Product Name: Microsoft SQL Server Product Version: 9.00.2047.00 Message source: setup.rll Message ID: 50000 EvtType: stateengine\resourcemodule.cpp@ScheduleActionAction@sqls::ResourceModule::LoadStringW@0x716 I ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is my video card too old?

  Hi, I searched the forum before I posted :). When I start the SpaceWar game, and run the retro, it puts double ships on the screen. When I start the evolved version, It looks good for about a second and then just goes white. Only some of the graphics are left. I can see the jet engines on the ship, but the background just flashed once when the game starts and then goes away (with the body of the ship itself gone too). It's got double ships too. Is my video card just too old ATI Radeon 7500 I already had to do the graphics.AllowMultiSampling = false ; to get everything working. I'm just thinking if I upgrade all will go well. Thanks . Mitch, When you say shader Model 2.0. Do you mean Dir ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Excel report is not opening

  Hi, Excel report is not opening using VSTS Load testing tool. Scenario: Open the web application. Select search criteria and click on search button. search results appear with the link “Export to Excel” in each row Click on “Export to Excel” link. Report opens in excel sheet. Question: Using VSTS Load testing tool I have recorded the above scenario. While replaying the script, 4 th step is not working. I think it is not clicking on link “Export to Excel ” Excel report is not opening. Why it is not clicking on link “Export to Excel” What is the solution When I am clicking on "Export to Excel” link in Web Test Recorder it is not adding any new step under web te ...Show All