dbdog's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Create a branch based on a label

  How can I create a branch of a project with a certain label or version ...Show All

• .NET Development General question......about differece btw language and technology

  Hi All, I have one general question............sorry to put in this forum................. I want to know the difference between language and technology........... eg .net is a technology and C# is a language....... what to say for HTML so I want a line that differentiate btw these two terms......... I usually look at it this way: technology allows things to be done, while languages allow humans to tell the computer HOW to do those things. To me, this distinction is fairly universal. If the "thing you want to be done" is to display the letter "A" on your monitor, from a technology point of view, the ultimate result is the same -- electrons go here, there, and everywhere, until that "A&quo ...Show All

• .NET Development What is the 3.0 runtime going to look like?

  I'm looking at (and have installed) the RC1 of .NET 3.0 and it seems empty. Are LINQ, ADO.NET Entities, WCF, etc.. all shipping as individual libraries / downloads or is this just how it is for pre-release so each project can release betas as needed I've been looking around for a good explanation of "what versions of everything to download" and I haven't been able to find anything. Right now I can't seem to build ADO.NET Entity projects that use LINQ because of version dependency problems, and there seems to be a project-type in Visual Studio for each library I plan to use. What do I pick if I want to use multiple libraries I can understand keeping everything seperate during development but I would have expect ...Show All

• SQL Server FTP bad password

  I'm trying to make an ftp task. I am able to make the connection manager. When I test the connection it works fine. When I set up the ftp task I am able to browse to the ftp site and select the file I want to download. However, when I run the task I get the following error: An error occurred in the requested FTP operation. Detailed error description: The password was not allowed I have no idea why the password wouldn't be allowed when it let me browse the ftp previously. Thanks That's an excellent question. I haven't seen that one before. I have had multiple issues with the FTP task. If you can't get this to work, use the FTP.exe in windows and create a batch file and run that. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Refreshing Datagrid

  Hi, I have a requriement in which I have to refresh the datagrid every second without clicking on Refresh button. How can I go about doing this in C# 2.0 Quick help would be appreciated. Regards, Pooja. You have to specify the DataMember DataGrid1.DataMember = "Table Name"; or you can set like this DataGrid1.DataSource = dataset1.Tables["Table Name"]; ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foudation Server Scheduled Backup + Disaster Recovery Scenarios

  Hi, We have Team Foundation Server installed in our premises. We arranged with all the people working on TFS to make sure that their connection to TFS is closed before they leave work, so that to enable our SQL Server Full Backup Schedule to work correctly at around 03:00 AM. Our questions are: 1. Do we have to back up the Reporting Services Encryption Key every night as well Or we do that only once in a life time 2. Is there anything else to backing up TFS - in order to gurantee successfull recovery in the case of a hardware crash - other than backing up TFS databases and RPT Service Enc. Key 3. Can we still reuse the files that exist in users' worksapces in the case of a TFS crash I mean after we recover/restore TFS , ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Redist Question

  If I make a game that uses the XNA Framework, what redists are necessary on the client machine Do they need both the DX redist as well as the XNA Framework redist, or is just the XNA redist adequate Person_ wrote: Is any way to run XNA application without install XNA Framework Like Managed DX where you need only right DLLs. The XNA Framework is the right DLLs. Cheers, Leaf. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Maths

  Hi, Does anyone know how to set a trigonomotry function (cos sin tan) as deg instead of radians. Thanks You cannot "set" them to degrees instead of radians. But you can the deg->rad transformation yourself: Math.Cos(deg * Math.PI / 180.0) ...Show All

• Windows Forms c# .NET TreeView

  When the selected node is changed quickly using the mouse, the select operation does not occur properly - it jumps back t the previously selected node. To provoke this bug do the following: 1. Put a TreeView control on a Form of some kind - preferably in a new Windows Application (Form1) 2. programatically add 15+ nodes to a root node and add the root node to the tree 3. Run the program 4. Select and expand the root node exposing the 15+ children 5. Starting at the top, click lower nodes one after the other 3 or four nodes apart, quickly This should provoke to bug from occurring. Why does this happen How can it be corrected It is causing problems in a derived TreeView. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploy application made in Visual Basic Express

  How i can make a installator for the applications mades in visual basic express VB Express only includes ClickOnce installation. If you wish to use Windows Installer, you'll need to get a 3rd party installation tool or Windows Installer Setup projects are available in the Std, Pro, and Visual Studio Team System editions.     ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Closing Event in Smart Device Application

  Hi, I am actually working on a smart device application and i am having problems to handle the closing event of a form. I have to prompt the user if he really wants to exit with a dialog box. i have put the codes in the closing event but still the form closes without showing the dialogue box. i have also tried the e.cancel = true code but still its not working. can anyone help please Thanks Dhiraj, Have you verified that the Closing event handler is actually called Beginning with PPC2002 (I believe) click the Close button in the title bar moves the app to the background rather than actually closing it. If you want your application to exit when the user clicks the Close button on the title bar, you need to set the form ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Few questions on merging through the API

  I'm trying to implement merge from the API and I have few question to the people in the forum. The main idea of my application is to merge between two folders (with branch relationship) based on changesets . These are the main steps of my application: Merge operation using - workspace.Merge(params) function. Looking for conflicts by querying the workspace workspace.QueryConflicts (params) For each conflict I'm trying to resolve it by - workspace.ResolveConflict (params) Then, if I can merge the content I'm trying to merge again the content using - workspace.MergeContent(param) My questions are: There is a way to command the merge function ( workspace.Merge ) to forc ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista U3 USB Drives

  Hello Everyone, As the title suggests I'm having issues with my 1gb Verbatim U3 Smart USB key. Vista detects it and installs the drivers correctly. Clicking on the removable storage icon that appears in Computer brings up the following msg: "Please insert a disk into drive H:" All my other USB drives that are non-U3 have no issues. There is a feature when you right click that says 'open as removable storage' but you cannot drag or drop anything into the folder that is opened. Anyone else having issues getting their U3 drives to function correctly I recently moved my laptop from Vista RC1 to Vista Home Premium (OEM). I updated the Launchpad software from the U3 website (from a ...Show All

• Visual C# OnShutdown() is not being called at Windows shutdown

  Hi! I have written a service in C# that needs to do some cleanup when Windows shuts down. In order to detect the shutdown the documentation states that i should override OnShutdown() which will then be called when Windows shuts down and set CanShutdown to true. The problem is that the function is never being called! I'm using VS 2005 version 8.0.50727.42 and .NET framework version 2.0.50727. In the service class I set: this .CanShutdown = true ; I also override the OnShutdown function like this: protected override void OnShutdown() {    handler.StopService(); } Please give me some pointer as to why this function isn't being called or maybe an example of a workaround if this is a know ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Access a Canvas's ScaleTransform ScaleX property via Script?

  I need to access and change the ScaleX property of a ScaleTransform object but can't seem to find the trick to getting to it with script. I've tried the following and a few variations: var cToMove = albumCanvases.GetItem(i); alert(cToMove.RenderTransform.ScaleTransform.ScaleX); If anyone could explain how to access the property via script I'd really appreciate it. The XAML for the ScaleTransform is below (I'm creating it dynamically which is why the placeholders are in there): < Canvas.RenderTransform > < ScaleTransform ScaleX = ' {7} ' ScaleY = ' {7} ' CenterX = ' 0 ' CenterY = ' 0 ' /> </ Canvas.RenderTransform > If you're add this with script (with createFromXaml), you need to ad ...Show All