PEng1's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System MDX syntax question

  Hello, I am starting to play with customizing some of the TFS Reports and have been able to create a couple of simple ones on my own. I am just trying to get my head around MDX and learn the basic syntax by playing with some of the box reports. I am having a simple problem however and I don't understand what is wrong. I am trying to modify the Remaining Work report and add in a filter in the WHERE clause that only returns items where the Exit Criteria is set to false. i.e. [Work Item].[Microsoft_VSTS_Common_ExitCriteria].&[Yes]. So my modified query looks like this. ---START WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Date Key] AS [Date].[Date].CurrentMember.UniqueName SELECT { [Measures].[Date Key], [Measures].[Cumulative Count] } ON COLUMN ...Show All

• SQL Server Cant upload report (rdl-file) in Reporting Services 2005

  When uploading a report definition file in Report Manager I get following error: An unexpected error occurred while compiling expressions. Native compiler return value: ‘[BC2000] compiler initialization failed unexpectedly: Project already has a reference to assembly System. A second reference to 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.dll' cannot be added.’. (rsUnexpectedCompilerError)    Any suggestions   You have to add an explicit reference to the System.Data assembly: in the VS menu, select "Report" - "Report Properties" - "References". Add a reference to the System.Data assembly. -- Robert ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reverse Engineering

  I have recently taken over for a programmer who has left for medical reasons. He has left a program with a few bugs and the code is nowwhere to be found. Is there a way to retrieve the code from the .exe using VB 2005, which was what it was originaly written in.. thanks As already stated, Reflector is a good tool but it will take ages to piece together a big application manually; and it cannot retrieve variable names, comments, compiler directives etc .. ie the stuff the compiler discards. You really need to try all routes to source the code .... I presume someone has been in contact with the previous developer Richard ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Create Graphics/Meshes?

  Greetings, I'm pretty new to games development, until today I've only worked with web development and win forms development for 2 years now... My question is simple I think! How do I create meshes or characters for a game does XNA have any tool to design them There are any free tools Are they easy to use I would like to have this information to start designing the graphics of the game Thanks a Lot Best Regards Diogo Alves You should take a look at Blender , Blender is a 3d modelling package that is free to use. XNA does not include a modelling package. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem with /MTd compile option

  I encounter a problem with VS2005 where the EXE would crash with heap error. I create a simple EXE, DLL to illustrate the problem. Crash - if I use /MTd in the compile option for the EXE No Crash - if I use /MDd in the comppile option for the EXE I mark the place where the crash occurs. ------------ Error Message ------------ Debug Assertion Failed! Program: ... File: dbgheap.c Expression: _CrtIsValidHeapPointer(pUserData) ------------ DLL Header ------------ void DLL_API GetValue( wstring& value); ------------- DLL CPP --------------- void GetValue( wstring& ReturnValue) { wstring wtemp; wtemp.assign(L"This is a test string"); ReturnValue.assign(wtemp.c_str()); } --------------- ...Show All

• Visual C++ Rebuild Solution w/'Setup and Deployment' project

  I have a VS2005 solution that has several projects including one ‘Setup and Deployment’. If I do a ‘Rebuild Solution’, when the setup build phase begins, I get the following messages: “Preparing to install” <… long delay> “Please wait while windows configures Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition – ENU” <… long delay> “The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available Insert the ‘Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition – ENU’ disk and click OK.” If I put the VS2005 disks in, it reads it and continues building. If I press ‘Cancel’ it repeats the above up to three times and then continues building. Either way, the build seems to be valid. ...Show All

• SQL Server Adding DataSet as DataSource to Report Published on Report Server from ClientSide

  Hi I am Creating Click Once Windows Application with Reporting Services 2005.I have created Report and Published on Report Server.In my windows application I am successfully able to view my published report through report viewer control. Now in my application I am getting a dataset from my custom webservice. I want this dataset data to be added to my report as datasource at runtime on Client Side ,as my report is on Report Server. waiting for help!! Thanks in Advance Pankaj Hi Daniel Or is it possible to get report from reportserver at client side and make it as local report and use it as local report and add datasources to it. -Pankaj ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sandcastle: How do I create seealso links to external Hxs files

  I am creating help for a set of libraries that extend a library provided by a third party (actually MS in this case but the Hxs files are not part of the standard SDK stuff they are an additional add-on) I need to add see also links to the base classes which are not part of my help conent but are part of the other content. DocumentX! has a means of doing this via the seealso doc comment element (cref=!:ms-help:...) and I can't seem to find any way to do it with SandCastle. No matter what I try it ends up as just bold text. THe XSL files all transform seealso tags into an undocumented <referenceLink> tag but I have no idea how that tag gets transformed to the final HTML seen in the help. Any idea or pointers on how to make a link to a ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Photo Upload Tool

  Photo Upload Tool  - The photo upload tool is designed to allow you to upload pictures in a dedicated storage assigned to your space.  You can rearange these photos into albums and arrange them in the order you want them to be displayed.  You can also choose which pictures you do not wish to be made visible on your MSN Spaces photo album.  Many people are having dificulty with the Photo Upload tool.  If your Photo Upload tool is not working try these few simple steps. 1. Click here  to download a .cab file that is required  DOWNLOAD  and when prompted click OPEN then close the folder it opens. 2. Click here to download another .cab file that is required DOWNLOAD and when prompted clic ...Show All

• SQL Server Expression on hidden property

  I have param named Direction i would like to put on the hidden property of image this expression iif(Parameters!Direction.Value = "ascending" ,False ,True) But i've got error message .....my expression is not avalid value. why It’s like a said before... =iif(Parameters!Direction.Value = "ascending" ,False ,True) if everything's ok that should hide your image when the Parameters!Direction.Value is "ascending" and show it otherwise. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Incremental variable creation..

  Hi all... I'm tryiing to create a variable incremental.. eg: int i = 1; string BEGIN5 = "TE0|1|44|test|12|| |drive|paul" ; char [] SEPARATEUR = { '|' }; string [] words = BEGIN5.Split(SEPARATEUR); foreach ( string s in words) { string TAB1VAR = ( "TAB1VAR" + (i++)); } The result must be this: TAB1VAR 1 ="TE0" TAB1VAR 2 ="1" TAB1VAR 3 ="44" TAB1VAR 4 ="test" TAB1VAR 5 ="12" TAB1VAR 6 ="" TAB1VAR 7 =" " TAB1VAR 8 ="drive" TAB1VAR 9 ="paul" but dont know how to create the TAB1VAR( x ) variables... ;-( ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Confused About XNA and DX10

  I am confused about the differences between XNA and DX10; is that correct: 1- XNA will have both fixed function and shader programming and effects also 2- DX10 will have only shader programming with no assembly, no fixed function and no effects. 3- DX10 will be on Vista only, since it is shader programming will Shader 3.0 (DX9.0 C and L) is compatible with Vista shader 4.0, so a program written on Windows XP DX9.0 C will run on Vista DX9.0 L but will not run on Vista DX10 shader 4.0 But why it will not run on DX10 Vista runtime if the program is only shader with no effects is that because shader 4.0 will not be compatible with shader 3.0 or it will run regarding windows controls with DX: 1- can we build application ...Show All

• Visual Basic Save data from a listbox to a .CSV file.

  Hi, I am pretty new to Visual Studio, but know enough about SQL. I am working on creating some applications with VB to access my SQL database. I created a listbox that is extracting some data from a table. I am trying to Save that data to a .CSV file, but I am having major issues. I would really appretiate it if someone could help me and explain why my code is not working. I used examples to get to this code, but lack of experience is helping me to get stuck at this point. Thanks!!! Code: Try With sdlgTextFile .AddExtension = True .CheckPathExists = True .CreatePrompt = False .OverwritePrompt = True .ValidateNames = True .ShowHelp = True .DefaultExt = "txt" .FileName = filename .Filter = _ "CSV Fil ...Show All

• Windows Forms MonthCalendar, anyway to stop it from updating itself?

  Seems about every 2 minutes the control will update itself and cause it's datechanged event to fire...causing my program to do weird things since I have my own code in that event. :) I'm just using it to let a user pick a day (i'm sure they wont be using it near midnight!) I've tried disableing it, hiding it, disposing it..yet every 2 minutes the datechanged event fires. I've had to code it onto a 2nd form for now, then in the date changed event I check to see if my other form is visible, if it is I exit that event..but that seems like a lame hack. Any ideas Carl I hardly think it's "pointless". If the current control doesn't work as expected, maybe they need to create a ne ...Show All

• SQL Server Would you like the ability to hide columns in the pipeline?

  Alot of people complain, legitamately, that they wish to remove columns from the SSIS pipeline that they know are not going to be used again. This would help to avoid the "clutter" that can exist when there are alot of columns in the pipeline. If you are one of those people then click-through below, vote and (most importantly) add a comment. The more people that do that - the more likely we are to get this functionality in a future version. SSIS: Hide columns in the pipeline https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=252462 -Jamie I voted for ya, though I *do* want the columns removed from the buffer. Why take up the memory After I've used the column in a derived column transfo ...Show All