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• Visual Studio Team System Trouble With Web Deployment Project and Team Build

  I'm trying to deploy a simple web site using Team Build and the Web Deployment Project. The web site builds fine on its own. On the property pages for the Web Deployment Project, under the Deployment section checked the box for "Create an IIS virtual directory for the output folder" and entered a name for the virtual directory. Every build from then on failed with the error stating "Error Virtual Director 'x' already set to path c:\documents and settings\..._deploy\Debug". I got this error no matter what I entered into virtual directory name. Next I decided to to check the box to have it replace the existing virtual directory and I got an error stating "Access Is Denied". Does anyone have any ideas of what ...Show All

• SQL Server Progress Reporting in an external application

  I have a custom external application that executes some packages. I would like to display the execution progress as it would appear in the Progress tab of the SSIS designer. How would I do that Any help is appreciated. Implement IDTSEvents interface (the simplest way is inherit from DefaultEvents class, and override the methods you need), then call package.Execute(,,IDTSEvents,) method passing your object. Process the events from package and show the progress in the way you want. ...Show All

• Visual C# Button Madness (one of many posts to come)

  I know I should have been more descriptive in the subject, but the question is too long to fit. I'm trying to make a charicter creation application for a RPG. I want to have it so that when a person clicks the + button (button2), it will subtract one for the remaining points which is displayed in label20, add it to the Strength score (int Str) and then display the modified Strength in label11. Next, I have a subtract button (button10) that does the same but adds one to the remaining points and subtracts 1 from the Strength score (int Str) and displayes the remaining points and Strength in thier appropriate label boxes. To complicate matters worse, I have to 1: have to do this for 7 other stats, which none of them can go lower than ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reporting result file.

  Is there any way I can do test reporting from the result file that got generated after the .webtest is ran I know the trx file is an XML file but there are tons of information in that file and it is very hard to tell what data I need... BTW, we do not have Team Foundation Server implemented here so we can't publish the test result. Any help on this will be appreciated. Thanks, --WC Sorry, should be clearer at first... The report is for people outside of QA to review and in this case they don't care about performance data (since it is not a load test). We just need a PASS or FAIL and with the reason. I actually find a work around: - Created custom validation rules to validate and then write the results/test result message to DB. - Wr ...Show All

• .NET Development Trouble retrieving a query using the "Like" option from an access db in C#

  Ok so here is the problem. I have an access database which i want to retrieve information of all the records that match a certian search pattern in one of its fields. I have a database named DALRES and i want to do a seach command and retrieve all the matches that match the pattern of an address I put in . So my conn and everything is fine. I can do a search query for a specific address aka not a pattern much but an exact match. It also returns mutiple records. Now when I try to do a like seach i am not getting any records back. The sql query i am perfoming is SELECT * FROM DALRES WHERE SITE_ADDR LIKE 'GRIF*'; This command in access works and returns me a set. So i know that s right. But when i run the exact sql c ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Sample code won't work

  Hello, I'm new to developing MSN Activities. I have downloaded the MSN Messenger Activity API with the Tic Tac Toe sample this morning. I have carefully read the help-file included in the archive. When I try to get the included Tic Tac Toe sample to work, nothing happens. The Activity is not listed in the menu's. I have put the files in a folder on my webserver and I have put the correct link in the msgrp2p.xml file (when I enter that link in my browser, I get the correct page). My colleague and I have both put the msgrp2p.xml file in C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger, where the Messenger (version 8) executable also is. When we restart our Messenger and we start a conversation with each other, the Tic Tac Toe example is not list ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help/information

  Hi, I am using the serial port command in visual basic to read some serial information from a microprocessor, as I need to send more than one byte (8bit) I am using the Serialport.Readline command, below is what I am sending from my microprocessor: - While(1) { UART_PutSHexInt(iData); -- Places an ASCII coded HEX int onto the serial port UART_PutLF(); --- Places a LineFeed } NOTE Copied from my microprocessor Datasheet :-- UART_PutSHexInt Description: Sends four byte ASCII Hex representation of data to the UART TX port. C Prototype: void UART_PutSHexInt(INT iData) Assembler: mov A,0x34 ; Load LSB in A ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. kW X-port for 3ds Max 9 (X file exporter with XNA support)

  I have made a preliminary version of the kW X-port plug-in available for Max 9. The full Max 9 download from Autodesk is almost 3 GB and is still going, so I haven't been able to test it yet -- it's just re-compiled with their new SDK. I give it a good 90% chance of working fine, though :-) The version for Max 8 has been tested, of course, and is still available. It might work as far back as Max 6, because they are apparently version compatible from 6 through 8, but I have only tested on 8. kW has some features that might help with XNA usage, such as support for the Max Direct3D9 material with shader parameters; support for mirroring along Z and mirroring the V coordinate ; support for properly exported skinned meshes even if ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Edition Distributed System Diagram

  Please help, When I try to add/drag an ASP.NetWebService or ASP.NetWebApplication to a new Distributed System Diagram I receive the following error: "Can not load type System.Configuration.ProtectedDataSection from assembly...." or "Object reference not set to an instantance of an object." All other applications that I add/drag on to the diagram work fine. I had no install problems that I am aware of. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. I run into the same problem. This is a test run, so I have only one machine with all components of Team System including the client. I am using Team Foundation Server for work groups and Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite 180- ...Show All

• SQL Server Maxis 3G connection

  I cannot connect to SQL Server 2000(Remote Server) through Maxis 3G connection. I'm using Windows Application to connect to SQL Server 2000. dim strsqlcon as string = "Server=000.000.000.000;databse=dbname;usr=sa;pws=1234" dim sqlcon as sqlconnection = new sqlconnection(strsqlcon) sqlcon.open() "It's Error : Sql not exist or access denied." But I can connect to SQL Server 2000(Remote Server) through Local Area Connection. Have any solution Thank you. Server does not has any firewall. I can connect to SQL Server 2000 through Lan Area Connection. Is it 3G Connection TCP different with Lan Area Connection TCP ...Show All

• Windows Forms Im a trying to build a msi with visual studio pro ->Setup Project -> Custom Actions(SQLEXPRESS.EXE)

  Im a trying to build a msi file but have a problem. I use the "setup project" template in visual studio pro to bulid a msi file for my application. I need sql express for my app. So i am trying to build an installation file(msi) with my app and sql Express. When i run the installation file i have created the sql Express run into an error, it says something about another installation is already in progress". Yes my msi file is running in the back ground, wich have started the sql express- installation. Anyone who knows how to get around this I just want to install both these applications at the same time! Regards Marreoragarn It works! SQL Express did not install because I alr ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Recommended books on WCF

  I have recently read Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Hands on (Sams) by Craig McMurtry, Marc Mercuri and Nigel Watling. Unfortunately, this book documents WCF as it is in the beta edition. Some of the examples in the book is therefore not working as they should, since .NET 3.0 now is released. I have found updates on the examples after the CTP update. But there are still differences. So what I am looking for now is good books, alternavly good resources on the Internet for studying WCF in .NET 3.0. Thank you. Thanks Nishith! I'm looking forward to read your book. There seems to be a competition between WCF-books in the beginning of next 2007. Good luck! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions grrrr - registering

  For some reason the registration page says my email address is invalid so i can't get the key, but its the same one i logged on with. Help Thanks!! I am not at all familiar with this error and this is the first occurance of it that I see. I have no ideas how to help you other than try to get in contact with microsoft. At the bottom of most pages and possible the error message pages there usually is a link "Contact us" that will give you options to get in contact with microsoft. It might take a few days to get an response. If you get help or manage to find out what the problem is and how to fix it, please post it here. It will help others with similar problems. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) A form with a 1000 text boxes, help required.

  I have created a form with the new vs.net 2005 tools for rc1, and put a 1000 text boxes there. A ran the application, and the form opened (it took the form couple of seconds to render itself). Now moving the form on the screen (not resizing it), just moving it, takes 100% cpu, and it is very slow. I know what I wrote is just very basic, and there is a better way to do things in WPF, can you please point mo to any example that has a form with lots of controls over it The form must open instantly, render whatever is on the screen, and render the rest when I scroll the contents. Any examples Henry Hahn posted some Xaml and C# code here http://blogs.msdn.com/henr ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Webbrowser Navigating Event Exception

  I'm building a WM5 app using VS2005 and CF2. Users view a web page via a webbrowser control where they click each link individually or build a play sequence list of links. Both paths are captured by the web navigating event below. If the link is for wma or wav files, I manually process the download and process start to avoid the IE mobile file dialog ("do you want to download, replace existing file"). When one of the wma or wav files is clicked directly, the navigating code works file. When one of the wma or wav files is in a play list and *invoked via an event* (each item is invoked as webbrowsing navigation from playList() ), the e.Cancel = true statement causes an "Unexpected Error" exception. If I remove that statement, I get ...Show All