sweet_salt's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) BitmapImage and Metadata

  BitmapImage seems to be the only class that allows to specify the target size of a decoded image ( DecodePixelHeight and DecodePixelWidth ). The problem is in that BitmapImage does not support Metadata property, which can only be obtained through BitmapFrame or BitmapDecoder . It means that an image would be decoded twice. There is, of course, an option to use BitmapDecoder to get an instance of BitmapSource (with Metadata ) and then scale it using TransformedBitmap . But it is still less efficient (both memory and performance) than using JPEG codec's ability to decode and scale simultaneously. Have I overlooked an API which can do that, or it is a new feature request ...Show All

• .NET Development request help with DLL on database machine & thin Client application

  Hello, Here is what I'm doing: 1. SQL Server 2005 database is created on machine using Transact-SQL (this includes dropping any previous files). This is created onto the Defaul instance (MSSQLSERVER). 2. a DLL (class library) is made in VB.NET using ADO.NET connection objects. The connection string looks like this: strConnection = "Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=" & dbName & ";Integrated Security=True" where "dbName" is "SQLdatabase1" 3. the Client application adds a Reference to this DLL and will run from the development machine. Here is the problem and the question: When I install the DLL onto the database machine, and I shut off the .MDF database on my developm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I get this product working?

  I am attempting to evaluate VSTS for use in our environment and have run into problems before I have begun. What I have so far: The VSTS server is installed and running Visual Studio enviroment has been installed from En_vs_2005_vsts_180_Trial.img I am going through the Introduction to VSTS Guide (Walk-Through Only).doc and heven't been able to get past the first step with Excel, How do I enable the "New List" button and the VSTS toolbar I am using Office 2003 SP2 and have just run through Windows Update applying all patches associated with Office. Any help would be extremely appreciated at this point. My two main areas of concern are project management and defect tracking, if anyone can point me to the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Shared Workspace error message

  Hello! I have a development team, which for various reasons created their workspaces to map to the same network drive location. Example: user1 has workspace for $/TP1/folder1 mapped to I:\folder1 where I:\ is the network location accessible to all his team members. He usually works on items in folder1 and doesn't touch other folders in the Team Project. user2 also has his workspace mapped to I:\folder2. He works with items in folder2 only. Now, user1 is OOO and user2 is trying to modify folder1 contents. User1 doesn't have anything checked out from TFS. User2 maps his folder1 workspace to I:\folder1 as well. He checks out a file, makes modifications and checkes it back in. The out put window shows that Changeset <#> is ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLISPackage start/finish events in windows event logs

  I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to disable the following, SQLISPackage start/finish events sent to windows event logs everytime a SSIS package is executed and completed. Regards Ryan Dickson I've been trying to figure this out myself. I'm executing packages in a loop in C# and I can't find any SSIS setting to supress these messages which are clogging up my event log. ...Show All

• SQL Server Error using UnaryOperatorColumn on a Many-to-Many linked dimension

  Hi, i made a small debugging environment for a problem i am getting, it has 2 fact and 2 dimension tables: FactAccount - fact - (AccountKey,Balance) DimAccount - dimension - (AccountKey,Code,Name) BridgeAccountReport - fact - (AccountKey,ReportKey) DimReport - dimension - (ReportKey,ParentReportKey,Code,Name,UnaryOperator) the dimension usage is as follows: for BridgeAccountReport DimAccount - Regular DimReport - Regular for FactAccount DimAccount - Regular DimReport - Many-to-Many using BridgeAccountReport as intermediate fact table DimReport has a self-referencing hierarchy using ParentReportKey. The idea is to be able to use the same facts recorded at the DimAccount level under different analysis structures recorded in DimReport. The p ...Show All

• .NET Development Save as Unicode

  How can I fetch text using WebClient and save it in a file as Unicode or to be precise as Windows-1255 pagecode I have already set WebClient object's Encoding Property to Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1255"), but still its not solving the problem. Any better ideas Regards, Suman The Encoding property is only used when using the WebClient.DownloadString[Async] method (or the WebClient.UploadString[Async]; but you only mentioned downloading...) Are using DownloadString/DownloadStringAsync to download data as a string and you're finding it's not decoded properly ...Show All

• .NET Development any problems loading .net vers 1.1 and 2.0 on the same server?

  I have version 1.1 on a Win2003 server. I'd like to load 2.0 now - can both be loaded fine on the same server, or should I just load one version at a time Any problems using it with VS 2003 thanks, Besides, you will find this link useful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/netfxcompat.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio XslTransform is giving error!!!!

  Hi, I am using December CTP and VS2005 and Sandcastle.config file. When i do XslTransform /xsl:"C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTransforms\ApplyVsDocModel.xsl" reflection.org | XslTransform "C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTransforms\AddGuidFilenames.xsl" /out:reflection.xml it gives following output XslTransform (v2.2.61208.1447) Copyright c Microsoft 2005-2006 Specify one input XML input file . reflection.xml is not generated... I am not sure what is going wrong.. thanks, Abhi As I recall, piping the output from one copy of XslTransform to another isn't supported anymore. Specify the transforms in a single call in a comma-separated list. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) transform flash to xaml

  Is there a tool can achieve it thanks I've just recently released a free tool called SWF2XAML that does this: http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2006/11/21/swf2xaml-a-tool-to-convert-flash-files-to-xaml.aspx ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is there a way to create a dll in C++ without a def file and have it work for a Visual Basic Host?

  Is there a way to create a dll in C++ without a def file and have it work for a Visual Basic Host I narrowed the code down to just an attempt to write the value of the variable being passed to the dll function to a file. It mangles it somehow. Is there a trick to passing strings to a dll file One viewer wrote that you can't call C++ dll files from a vb program. Could that be true ...Show All

• Visual Studio Any one use speedspeccer?

  Hi, Any one use speedspeccer to document the "report defination" Please reply or email me out of the fourm. Need some help. Thanks in advance, Sachi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to show selected item highlighted without focus?

  I have a list box and some buttons in my window. When I select one item in the list it gets highlighted (it gets a blue background). When i then click on one of the buttons the list box loses focus, the selected item is still marked but not highlighted as before (it has now a gray background). I want it to still have the same appearance as if the list box never lost the focus because I can have multilple list boxes with items and then it cannot be seen for which list box' item I pressed the button. Any ideas how to do that I think you need to change your UI rather than the template. If the user is working with a single listbox at a time you should make it painfully obvious. I'd recommend putting the diff ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem updating record

  Hi, I've the following code used to update a record on my Access database: con.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & "Data Source=""C:\Programacao\Visual Basic\Inapal\ReportIt\ReportIt.mdb"";" con.Open() sSQL = "SELECT * FROM [Utilizadores] WHERE (User= '" & Utilizador & "')" da = New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(sSQL, con) ds.Clear() da.Fill(ds, "Utilizadores") ds.Tables(0).Rows(0).Item("Password") = NewPasswordTxtBx.Text da.Update(ds, "Utilizadores") con.Close() Me.Close() When I try to update the record I get the following error: "Update requires a valid UpdateCommand when passed DataRow collection w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can I permanently delete a solution from inside of a Team Project so that it doesn't count in reports (such as code chur

  I have a Team Project that contains several solutions. One of the solutions did not migrate properly and had to be deleted. The delete was performed using the client source control tools in visual studio. The solution has been removed but it appears that the code churn calculations are still taking into account the deleted project. For example, I currently show that I have -980,000 lines of code since I deleted the solution from source control. My question is, how can I permanently remove a solution from inside of a Team Project container without deleting the whole container I know the entire container can be removed via the tfsdeleteproject tool but I dont think that applies here. Thanks, Kevin ...Show All