Melissa H.'s Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Having trouble installing XNA Game Studio Express

  I have downloaded XNA game studio beta 2. But during installation I got this error message: "Error attempting to read from the source install database: C:\Windows\Install\...msi" I have windows installer 3.1 and C# 2005 Express. Anyone got this error message Thanks. No, that message hasn't been reported before on the forums as far as I know. It wounds like your installer was corrupted during the download and is probably missing a few bits. I would try running the installer a second time to see if it will work and if not, it sounds like you got a corrupted download. So download again and install. ...Show All

• SQL Server Generate documentation of tables and columns?

  Is this possible the tables has a field called description and so does the columns. I need to generate a data dictionary. You might want to consider SchemaToDoc ( http://www.schematodoc.com ). It creates Word or HTML output that documents primary keys, fields (datatype, size, nullable, defaults), indexes, check constraints, foreign keys, triggers, views, and stored procedures. It also has an interface that lets you annotate your tables and fields; you can include these extended property descriptions in your output documents. ...Show All

• SQL Server Body BackgroundImage not displayed in browser

  I have been trying to set up reports with a background image. The background displays correctly on the preview tab in Visual Studio, but is not visible when deployed to the report server and rendered in Internet Explorer. However, if the report is printed, or exported to PDF or Excel, the background displays correctly. It does not seem to make any difference if the image is external or embedded. Also, the problem only seems to affect the Body properties; a background image attached to a table, for example, seems to display correctly. Has anybody else seen this behavior I have not done extensive testing, but every report that I have tried seems to have the same problem. Is there a setting someplace that I am missing, or is this per ...Show All

• SQL Server How to update a column in input dataset with 'NA' if it's null

  Do I have to use condition split , then union all if in script, I can use update from <tablename> Set column = isnull(column, 'NA'). It's so simple. I'm also wondering can we run SQL Script against input dataset in a SSIS component     Jeff_LIU wrote: what if this is a "Case" situation for example, case column1 when 'A' then column2 = '1' when 'B' then column2 = '2' when 'C' column2= '3' else '4' end You can nest the conditionals... Try it! column1 == "A" "1" : column1 == "B" "2" : column1 == "C" "3" : "4" Set it to replace [column2]. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Allowing the user to pick a cell in excel

  Hi, I would like to allow the user of my program to choose which cell that should be the starting cell for my program. How can I do this with a macro. This is how the code should work: It searches the worksheet for a specific text-string(This part have I fixed). If it fails to find that cell I want a pop up window to be visible where the user is asked to point out which cell that should be used as starting cell. The, by the user selected cell address should then be assign to a variable inside the code. Anyone that knows how to do this \Jonas Jonas, The user selection thats selected using the InputBox is a Range object, the range object has Row and Column properties which I hope is the what your looking for. 'sel ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Registering user GameComponent with GameServices

  I'm finishing up work on porting some of my libraries as XNA GameComponents and I'd like to register some features with Game.GameServices . I've tried looking at the IGraphicsDeviceService definiton but came up short. Does the GraphicsDevice actually implement this or is it a separate object the GraphicsDevice privately creates and registers Can someone provide me with an example on how to do this I'd like to see creating the Service Interface and/or object When to call GameServiceContainer.AddService Any events I should create/use Thanks I used Reflector, to see how the GraphicsComponent did this and what I found out was that: if your new GameComponent implements an interfac ...Show All

• Visual Basic folderbrowsedialog - need servername, not drive letter.

  I need to pull the server name and not the drive letter from a folder dialog. h:/car wash/sponge types becomes //myservername/car wash/sponge types. Long story short, different people accessing same servers but have mapped to different drive letters. Program needs to therefore store the server name. ...Show All

• Windows Forms HELP!using click once for crystal reports fails with HRESULT=-2146697211

  i don't know how to deal with it. although the files are there the downloading fails again and again with the following (Copying files to temporary directory "C:\DOCUME~1\mikili\LOCALS~1\Temp\VSD13.tmp\" Downloading files to "C:\DOCUME~1\mikili\LOCALS~1\Temp\VSD13.tmp\" (3/16/2006 8:45:26 AM) Downloading 'CrystalReports\CRRedist2005_x86.msi' from 'http://gatewaytesting/KytyKat/CrystalReports/CRRedist2005_x86.msi' to 'C:\DOCUME~1\mikili\LOCALS~1\Temp\VSD13.tmp\' Download completed at 3/16/2006 8:45:48 AM Downloading failed with HRESULT=-2146697211) if i'm installing it mannualy it gives the same error for .net 2.0 framework. please help.... Same issue here!!! different HRESULT, bu ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I ensure async calls to a remote server are delivered in sequence?

  Hi there, I have a Singleton remote service object, and I'm invoking a method on it asynchronously from another process by using BeginInvoke. However, sometimes calls are delivered to the method in a different sequence than they were made by the calling process. Is there a way I can ensure that calls are delivered in the same order as they were made by the client, without having to make the client stop and wait for each call to return Thanks Alistair ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Activate a Fail-Over Application-Tier Server

  We're currently setting up our TFS instance including a warm backup for the application tier. We have just a couple of questions about how to "activate" the warm backup. We'll want to do this on a periodic basis and not just when we have a failure. A. In step 3 of http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252501(VS.80).aspx , they state have the DNS Administrator change the DNS entry to the warm backup. Then in step 4 they say run tfsadminutil activateat on the warm backup. 1) What happens to users that are currently connected to the primary server when the DNS changes Say for example they are in the middle of a check in or have not saved a work item yet. What happens 2) Then let's say there is a five minute window bet ...Show All

• SQL Server Grouping issue....Long

  This is going to sound SO silly but I am serioulsy baffled and I was wondering if anybody on here has ever experienced this ....or perhaps I am just missing somehting. I am fairly new to reporting services and have been getting reports done on a wing and a prayer so far. I have a puzzling issue: I created a summary report that had only one group (person type) ...unfortunately I need to add 3 more groups which are Div, Reg, Area.....I figured this would be simple I could just go in to the report and add them by right clicking the table and adding group. They DO get added to the report but they do not "group" per say. However, I can go through the report and see the same division repeated several times and not kept together. ...Show All

• SQL Server Loading data at Both Ends of a Merge Replication?

  Hi gang, We have a database that's using merge replication between two servers, and we need to insert a lot (about 1GB) of data into it. The servers, however, are separated by a 192k WAN connection, so it's impractical to rely on the merge replication to send the data across to the subscriber. Is there a way to insert the data at both ends I can get the data out there on a DVD or a laptop easily enough. Can I load the data into both copies of the database and tell the merge agent that it's not to be replicated Thanks, Matt Thanks Michael, That at least presents us with another alternative. Right now we're looking at unloading the source data to text files (using bcp) and using BULK INSERT t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions database question hopefuly my final

  HI! My program is saving data to database. I don't have problems with updating it since I changed database property (in solution explorer): "copy to output directory" to copy if newer. Everything works just fine sofar. My problem is that my application is displaying data from database in listview and is allowing user to add and delete information. Now I want the changes being instantly displayed after they were made. How can I do this What should I do so the user can see changes that were made right away. Maybe I should try datasave1.update( ) Anything please help. This is code from one of my form: Public Class UpdateEmployeeList Public numberofrows As Integer Dim x As Integer Dim datasa ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) winFX equivalent of application.idle?

  Could someone please tell me what the WinFX equivalent of the windows forms Application.Idle event is For example how would you do the following in WinFX: System.Windows.Forms. Application .Idle += new EventHandler (OnApplicationIdle); I've tried the SDK but haven't found anything. Check out the Dispatcher class, and the BeginInvoke method. http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.threading.dispatcher.aspx It allows you to pass a DispatcherPriorityvalue which specifies that your callback executes on idle. ...Show All

• .NET Development ! Possible System.NET bug? SocketException when performing Async download in Async thread

  (The following is a bit long, but it details what I think might be a bug in System.Net) Our application uses WebRequest to perform asynchronous downloads. Things work just fine on almost everyone's machine, but we are starting to get error reports back from some users in the field. We looked at their call stacks from our logs and saw this: Exception Information Details: ====================================== Exception Type: System.Net.WebException Status: ConnectFailure Response: NULL Message: Unable to connect to the remote server Data: System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal TargetSite: System.Net.WebResponse EndGetResponse(System.IAsyncResult) HelpLink: NULL Source: System StackTrace Informa ...Show All