GusBraga's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) propagate Claims

  Hi, I have a Service A, hosted in IIS. Service A provides 2 endpoints using 2 different bindings. Binding 1 is wshttpBinding and Binding 2 is netNamedPipeBinding. Service A uses a custom authorization manager and authentication policy as a behavior with the wsHttpBinding. Service A calls Service B by using netNamedPipeBinding. The motivation for using netNamedPipeBinding when calling service B is purely for performance reasons, and I can change the binding later on if I choose to deploy service B somewhere else (i.e. not on the same machine) and the programming model would be the same for service A when invoking service B. The thing is, netNamedPipeBinding only supports security mode none or ...Show All

• SQL Server Truncate Table

  I have a database of 25 GB. I truncated a table which holds around 5 GB of data. Even after truncation, I see my database size as 25 GB... Should I run a shrink database after the truncation Thanks Santhosh Yes. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual C# Difference in allocating memory when static or local

  I have a static array of struct that I use in a lot of code. Recently I have found need to try and create this variable with an array size over 27M. I am able to do this, as a test, if I create a local variable, but my code requires that it is static and when I try to create it - I get an OutOfMemory Exception. My machine has 4G ram and can easily hold the array. How might I get around this problem Moon Hi what is the value of recsize it could just be that you are running out of memory, so could you not write the values to disk reclaiming them in memory (and disposing of them) as needed ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. need help..

  im kinda new to xna and c# and when i tried to debug now i get some errors that i dont know how to fix lol. heres the errors i get this is what i wrote in: protected override void Draw(Microsoft.Xna.Framework. GameTime gameTime) { this .graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear(Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics. Color .Black); this .spritebatch.Begin(Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics. SpriteBlendMode .AlphaBlend); this .spritebatch.Draw( this .mytexture, this .spriteposition, Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics. Color .White); this .spritebatch.End(); base .Draw(gameTime); } and heres the errors: error 1 = Error 1 The best overloaded method match for 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.SpriteBatch.Draw(Microso ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Diagrams, SQL Server 2005

  Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is any way to generate a database diagram with foreign key relationships automatically generated between tables in SQL Server 2005... My initial investigations has yielded no, but I'd like to be sure. Thank you Chris The database diagramming tool won't automatically create foreign key contraints on your tables. You can explicitly create foreign key relationships in a diagram by clicking on one table and dragging the relationship line to the related table. If you have two existing tables with a foreign key relating them, the relationship line should automatically display in the diagram as soon as you add both tables to the diagram. Hope this helps, Steve ...Show All

• SQL Server Conditional format within matrix, depending on subtotal?

  Hi there, I'm having trouble inserting a conditional format to a specific column. e.g.: Matrix within the rows the "weeks" (1, 2, 3, ... , 52), and in the column a "lastyear revenu", "thisyear revenue" and a difference between them, "delta %", in percent grouped by the stores. I added a subtotal to it so I get in the latest column the "total lastyear revenue", the "total thisyear revenue" and a difference between them in percent for all stores, "total delta %", for a specific week. Problem: I want to colour the "delta %" column green when it is greater then the "total delta %" value. I thougt this would be quite easy, but it really is a pain in the ** ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums microsoft need to work on explorer 7

  locks up with errors when closing tabs, need to load web pages alot faster, locks up when downloading gif, and any java apps. at start up in explorer 7 always looking for proxy or connection the gui interface needs to expand with more tools in browser. microsoft is creating another window me editions o/s to fast for the future guys i think you should rethink specs and requirements actually its in RC1 now and this is the wrong place to post :-) best place: www.microsoft.com/communities in the IE newsgroup I've personally never had problems like most people, perhaps you are using some toolbars or 3rd party plugin's causing the problem, otherwise we wouldnt have a delay in its release ;-) No doubt feedback is a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Newbie question

  Hi all, Having some issues building the default "My Space War" project in XNA. It builds fine but dies and gives me an error prompting me to send the information back to MS. Any ideas about why this might be Thanks! Could you please clarify what is crashing Is it Visual C# Express, or the Spacewar game that you built It seems to me like you mean C# Express, since otherwise you would be able to debug the exception instead of getting the Error Reporting dialog. Can you also specify what platform you are using (Windows XP or Vista) and whether you have the Visual Studio SP1 for Express Editions installed Thanks, --Stephen ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Benchmarks/Overhead with WS-AT

  Hi, Are there any Benchmarks or Performance Overhead indications for running a fully distributed transaction through WS-AT as opposed to something like System.Transactions Some sort of rough rule of thumb percentage for a simple debit/credit transaction over two SQL Server (or Oracle) databases Will there be a Transaction Processing Council TPC-WS benchmark Regards Richard Maher It's important to note that System.Transactions is an API, while WS-AT is a transaction propagation and coordination protocol. A program using System.Transactions may also use WS-AT as its propagation protocol when flowing transactions over WCF. So the two are not directly comparable. In general, WS-AT is an interop pr ...Show All

• SQL Server date parameter issue

  hi all We are a multi site / multi language company so do not want to hardcode the date format - these reports will be on intranet Using MS Sql - Reporting Services 2005 Using no formatting on fields = yyyy-mm-dd - is how it is displayed. I added a @startdate and an @enddate parameter I read up and saw this information: Report properties set 'Language' setting to '=User!Language' to detect user culture automatically My regional settings are set to English (New Zealand) but whatever I do I receive no data - (data is definately there eg when run without parameters) so it is obviously the dates incorrect. Can someone give me some advice on what else to check. Have you tried the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX or XNA i don't understand which to use!

  I first started MDX programming about a year ago, to create a simple 3D viewer app, after creating the app, I stopped and didn't touch mdx at all since then so i have forgotten quite a bit of it. Anyway I was suprised to find that mdx seems to be phased out and this new XNA thingy is replacing it. Is XNA just for games on xbox360 I am not interested in xbox360 or games programming, only programming 3D visualisation apps for windows pcs. I don't know if I should still learn MDX or learn XNA, i don't want to learn something and just have it phased out again... Any advice would be appreciated. ='( XNA can be used for both PC and 360 game development. It's not really meant for non-game apps, although to a cert ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista S

  Hi there. Yesterday I have installed Vista rc2 (b. 5744) and I tried to install Alcohol 120 Software (virtual cd-rom emulation and creation). Installation seemed fine but after I restarted my system and logged on I had a serious problem - after a few second the screen started somehow "flashing" in blue and black (NOT the classic blue screen). The system did not react and after a few seconds of this flashing it restarted. This repeated a few times. Then I tried to run the system in Safe Mode but in this it did not even started, the error blue screen apperared for a second and the system restarted again. Finally I somehow found some memory repairing tool and after running this the system works OK. I hope this helps you to mak ...Show All

• Visual C# TextWriter vs. StreamWriter

  I am using this operation to write a string variable response to a *.csv file. It runs into some problem: information gets lost about 50% of the time. using ( StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter ( pathq ) ) { sw.Write ( response ); } I figured that this is perhaps due to the fact that this class is not thread safe. Another class TextWriter is offered as a substitute however when I change the code above into: using ( TextWriter sw = new TextWriter ( pathq ) ) { sw.Write ( response ); } I get an error: Error 1 Cannot create an instance of the abstract class or interface 'System.IO.TextWriter' D:\VCsharp_Projects\tapTCPports_1\Class2.cs 127 37 tapTCPports_1 Why I posted the same q ...Show All

• Visual Basic how do you custom a message box?

  Hi All! Is there a way to custom a message box Change the font, font coloring, background color of box. Stuff like that. Thanks! Rudy ...Show All

• SQL Server How to impersonate user for data on another server?

  Hello all, I have a quick question. The sql reporting server is on server A, and the actual data for the report is on a sql server 2005 called server B. When I am actually developing my report and click preview, everything works perfectly using windows authentication. However, whenever I publish and try to view the report, i get this error: An error has occurred during report processing. Cannot create a connection to data source 'serverB'. Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. How do I change the login for this datasource while still using windows authentication and not mixed mode Thanks Go to the data source properties in the Reporting Services Manager and you can put in a Windows o ...Show All