SPWilkinson's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS - Project Field Mapping

  I'm trying to retrun the latest publish date from workitems by project to VSTS back to Project again. I cannot find any standard project field containing this value so i am trying to manually configure this. First of all  i tried to set the default value of an empty  custom date field in MS  project to [Current date] instead  of the project default value "NA". It seems not possible to achieve this.  An error TF80070 occurs trying to map a MS-Project date field filled with "NA" to a date type field in the workitem definition. In the Fieldmapping.xml file the attribute "Publish only is available" is there also a way to define "Refresh only" for a project field to return field values initially  filled by VS ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. accessing pivot point in 3d objects

  hello guys, i need some help here.. any body know how i can access the pivot point in a 3d object my friend said that the pivot point is set when the object is created using 3d modelers such as 3dsmax or lightwave. the thing is that i want to do a circular movement on a 3d object (obj A) based on other 3d object's (obj B) rotation and using xna, i can only rotate obj A with it's own pivot point. hope i'm not confusing everyone with my explanations. Is object A a moon, and you want it to orbit around object B If you are already rotate A around its own center, then you are half way there! Just move/transpoe object A in a circle around B as you rotate A, then it will look like it's orbitting around B. Hope that answers your question. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) july CTP and VS Ext

  Hi; I wanna know if june VS extension is compatibl with july CTP The official answer is no. There is no corresponding compatible release for the July CTP. The unofficial unsupported answer about how to make it work is described by Magnus here: http://blog.noop.se/2006/07/26/Forcing+Orcas+Into+VS+With+July+CTP+Of+NET+30.aspx Hope this helps. Andy. ...Show All

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

  a couple questions before i start asking for help 1. are there any videos on youtube, i seen videos on the homepage 2. i know this will take alot of patients and time learning.. i am wanting to make a online wrestling gaming promotion, so would it be possible to use XNA to develope the game then be able to play it on xbox note that i have no experience in game developement, however i am a expert in gfx design and drawing would i be able to bring my drawings and gfx to life and put them on the game i develope also in this thread please tell me every program i need to develope a game, i need a software that programs them, and i want to apply gfx, i originaly use this program called endorphin which you can make full scenes but ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SecurityAccessDeniedException was unhandled - Access is denied.

  Hi All, I got the following error message when accessing my WCF service from a windows application. The WCF service call the datalayer to perform INSERT in my databse. I dont have any clue where i am going wrong. can nyone pls help me a way out System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityAccessDeniedException was unhandled Message="Access is denied." Source="mscorlib" StackTrace: Server stack trace: at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.ThrowIfFaultUnderstood(Message reply, MessageFault fault, String action, MessageVersion version, FaultConverter faultConverter) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.HandleReply(ProxyOperationRuntime operation, ProxyRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studio, Save as... dialog before running External Tools

  Hi. In Management Studio I have defined some external tools. When I call my external tool from Tools menu and I have query scripts that are not saved I get "Save File As..." dialog for EVERY not saved script before running my External Tool. This is frustrating because sometimes I have a lot of not saved scripts and my External Tool doesn't need saved script files. How to run External tool in Mangement Studio without this frustrating "Save File As..." dialog box Kamil ...Show All

• Windows Forms Updating/Saving Child Data Using BindingSource and BindingNavigator

  I have a form with multiple bindingSource objects. The parent bindingSource is on the form and the child/detail bindingSources are on a tab-control. I can save the parent data but not the child. I am very frustrated, does anyone know how to go about this I will lose my sanity soon. Below is my save code: private void estimate_procedureBindingNavigatorSaveItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { try { this.Validate(); this.estimate_procedureBindingSource.EndEdit(); this.estimatesBindingSource.EndEdit(); this.cabinetBindingSource.EndEdit(); this.cylinderBindingSource.EndEdit(); this.pipeBindingSource.EndEdit(); this.angleIronBindingSource.EndEdit(); ...Show All

• Windows Forms Add data source wizard not connecting to local SQL Server instance - error 25 connection string

  Hi - I'm having an error message trying to connect my VS 2005 Datagrid Control to a SQL Server (Standard Edition) database file. (and any other data related control). Going through the data connection wizard - I Choose the option to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server Database File - I browse and find my database .mdf file that I want to use - In Advanced setting I change user instance to false (cause apparently that only works as true for SQL Server Express edition which I don't have - I hope VS 2005 knows this) - In Advanced settings I change Data Source to .\MSSQLSERVER I now have a string looking like this Data Source=.\MSSQLSERVER;AttachDbFilename="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\MediaCube.mdf";Integra ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Terrain Options

  Hi Whats better for implement terrain -Use the content pipeline for load then .x file with the terrain or -implement de class for convert the pixels of .raw file in vertex with the height (y axi) dependent of de gray color I have problem whit the first option becose a can't extract the vertexs of vertexbuffer becose the vertexbuffer is WriteOnly What I can do thank's riemerg wrote: Really makes you think about other possibilities. This would give the CPU a LOT of free time, if I get this correct all it has to do is create a flat grid once If the geomtry shader in 4.0 can also sample textures, the CPU will almost be completely useless Exactly. It puts all the work o ...Show All

• .NET Development new to .Net - diconnected Data

  Hello everyone... I am mostly a web developer, however I have been approached with the task of creating a windows application that can work disconnected and then syncronize with the main database at a later time. (a bit like a PDA) I am looking to write the application in C#.Net and I assume I should be able to achieve this task utilizing ADO.NET, however I was wondering if anyone has a good book, tutorial, or article (web or non-web) that might help that would be much appreciated! Givens: .Net 2.0 Framework, Windows OS on clients, MSSQL 2005 Thanks! You will want to spend some time over in the Patterns and Practices Area looking at their software factories and application blocks that help you write smart client ( sometimes ...Show All

• Visual C++ Windows Form Question

  ive found almost nothing to explain how this can be done so i thought i'd ask here. Im using MS VS 2005 (VC++) and i have made a Windows Form. I know the code for generating the Form and any Objects are stored in Form1.h but i wanted to make another file.h so that Form1.h would only create the main Form and file.h could load up any Objects at run time if called by another function. hope that makes sence, the idea is so that i could use it as a type of subroutine. All i could find was samples for C# or VB and i dont want to use that, i prefer to use VC++. any help would be much appreciated. thank you Hi deen, Of course, you can create your own file.h freely, but the Designer will tend to put the auto generated code to the form1.h. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How do you pass data from an html web form back to the custom form activity (to the XOML only state workflow)?

  Matt/All WF Gurus,   We are creating a custom Form activity that will load a web html form and retrieve results back into the XOML only state workflow.  We can program the form loading in the browser from a custom activity, but are not sure how to retrieve the data from the form directly into the state workflow so that the workflow can persist this data and continue working with this data (from the form).   How can you pass data back from a web form directly into a running workflow during an idle state (XOML only state workflow using WF 3.0)   Any suggestions     Sincerely, John Portnov John, I'd start by modeling the communication using an object or coll ...Show All

• .NET Development Possible to register a C# program to the R.O.T. for OLE automation?

  Hi all, I was wondering if it was possible to "register" your own created c# program for OLE automation This would be the equivalent of accessing something in Excel via OLE. Like: Dim ExcelApp As Object ExcelApp = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("Excel.Application") Edit: and just to clarify, I understand how the GetActiveObject works (by looking up the object in the Running Object Table). I guess I need to know if it is possible to register a program with the Running Object Table. This article will give you the definitive answers about COM Interop: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/cominterop.asp Yours, Alois Kraus ...Show All

• Visual Studio Properties window cleared/disabled/disappears

  When using Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers IDE with Visual Studio SP1 and ASP.NET AJAX RC installed, the Properties window becomes empty (completely blank) when viewing an ASP.NET control or any <tag> in Source View for a web app. Everything works fine when viewed in Design View. I've only recently installed SP1 & AJAX RC. There are no "extras/add-ons" installed for VS2005 IDE as I've just reinstalled Window Server 2003 EE last week. Just curious to know if there's a "user error" or a "ID10T error" (on my behalf) or if it's just a bug in the SP1 or AJAX RC installations. Note: Before the SP1 & AJAX RC install, everthing worked fine as before and am not sure if it's SP1 or AJAX ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Debug Error

  When I debug it pops up a message when its finished: "Debugging information for 'Tutorial.exe' cannot be found or does not match.Binary was not built with debug information." I've tried to reinstall several times. Help please! I also experienced this error, and your suggestions worked perfectly. How does this happen though What project settings are missing when creating the project that leaves out all of the debug settings I'd just like to know so that I don't have to do this every time. Thanks ...Show All