freddieb's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Feasibility: outlook aggregator emails

  Based on past limitations of the outlook programming model, I wanted to first check on the possibility for something before perusing the documentation: I was wondering about the ability to enumerate outlook 2003 messages such that email addresses can be used to create personal folders where messages will be moved. In other words, an automatic personal folder creator based on a repetetive emails. In addition, ide like to create rules automatically for this process. Is this already done Or is it not possible Thanks in advance. Thanks for the starting point. One last question: can rules be managed programatically Thanks again; Eric ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team System and Microsoft Project Resource Name Conflict

  Hi When i create a project and assign Valid users to it, the default way the team system writes the name is the windows way (Last Name, First Name MiddleInitial). But when i open to manage tasks for this project in Microsft Project, the resource name are now split because of the comma delimiter in the name. How do we fix this Agreed. Changing the system delimiter is not an option for me (unfortunately it causes problems in another application if I do), and the "re-assignment" option is a massive headache. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What is the best software for game dev with XNA?

  As the title states, what software will be good to have. I am going to download Visual C# Studio Express, but what else is good for stuff like graphics or sound. I have a limited budget so I am looking for something in the free to $100 price range, if possible. Thanks for any help you can give me. Big post on the XNA Team Blog about the content pipeline. Read it, learn it, love it. ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Custom Controls

  So how can we build custom controls and deploy with the application I don't see anything that hints about how to include a referenced assembly that contains custom controls. I don't see any installable modules, or anything in the architecture that hints that it can be extended with custom controls, data binding, or .net-based event handlers. Thank you for using WPF/E. I am sorry to say that in Current CTP release we don’t support referencing an external assembly and data binding. In-fact, current version of WPF/E is a subset of WPF and does not support all the features of WPF. If you can share us what you are trying to do, May be we can help you with alternative approaches ...Show All

• Visual C# Metafile rotation

  Hi, How can I get each record from ametafile (*.emf) and rotate it Thank you in advance ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Training

  Does any one knows the best training avaliable for SSIS where a person can learn from scratch how to use SSIS for data warehouse Jamie, Thanks. Yes I found out that course offered by Solid Quality Learning taught by Erik Veerman. I am kind of confused if he will go through the Project REAL only or will he teach the inside out of SSIS. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. AccessViolationExcpetion

  I have a really weird and annoying error appearing. Basically, I'm following the Hazy Mind engine tutorials for XNA, and I can't get post processing working correctly. I get this error occouring An unhandled exception of type 'System.AccessViolationException' occurred in Microsoft.Xna.Framework.dll Additional information: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. This does not always happen in the same place though, if I turn off code optimisation, it happens in the line above. I have run Windows Memory Diagnostic and my memory seems fine. Here is the code public void ResolveAndRender(GraphicsDevice myDevice) { myDevice.ResolveRenderTarget(0); myDevice.SetRenderTa ...Show All

• Smart Device Development status bar help

  I am wanting to use something like the round pie looking thing that pops up when the hand held is doing something. My software has times when it takes 3 or 4 seconds to go to the next step due to calculations and sql queries. I am wanting to display something to let the user know that the software is active. does anyone have any ideas on this. I am using VB Hi, why not just use the wait cursor cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor Application.Doevents Pete ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to Display the Current Date and time Work Item

  Hi All, Presently I am customizing the Work Item template. I need to display the date and time of Work Item creation as one of the field . I trie d the following code, but still I am unable to display date and time by default. Please let me know is this is the right way to do . <Control Type="DateTimeControl" FiledName="System.CreatedDate" Label="Create Date" LabelPosition="Left" /> Thanks in Advance Pramod Hi Mohammad, I tried the above solution. When I create the WI using Visual Studio Team IDE , still "Create Date" field is empty. But when I view the same WI using WorkItem track web interface, it displays the in ...Show All

• SQL Server my script not working when the name of a DB has - (the dash character)

  Hi, this script uses MSforEachDB to check all the SPs in all the databases and look for a keyword LockCookie . The script runs well except when there is a database with a dash - in ots name. ie: When in the script is replaced by a database whose name contains a dash - the dash and the rest of the database name after the dash is ignored. And I get the message for example: Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'SharePoint_AdminContent_f5c0f71f'. No entry found with that name. Make sure that the name is entered correctly. Here is the script: exec sp_MSforeachDB ' use select ''LockCookie'' as searchedTxt, o.name AS ProcName ,Len(SubString(object_definition(o.object_id),1, PatIndex(''%LockCookie%'', object_definitio ...Show All

• SQL Server T-Log : Recovery Model

  Does Transaction log in Simple recovery model behave like Full during the transaction or it behaves like Bulk Logged To make my Q simple, if I do BULK operation (BULK INSERT) & my DB is in simple recovery model, does T-Log records BUlk Operation OR it does it log FULL until the BULK operation is complete. Also refer to the SQL Server books online (updated) for such information also, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/sqlbackuprest.mspx fyi. ...Show All

• Visual C# AppDomain and reflection and "unable to cast transparent proxy"

  Hi, I'm having problems using objects created in a new AppDomain in an object that is created with reflection: "unable to cast transparent proxy" Situation: We're creating a smartclient framework, basically an MDI that will contain multiple child applications (configured in a database, dll's, class names, ...). Each child application should run in his own AppDomain, because you can't host Forms in another AppDomain and host it in the main MDI at the same time => the child Form is hosted in the MDI (default AppDomain) and receives a reference to his "controller" in the separate AppDomain. The child form implements an interface that is used to pass the controller and the controller inherits from MarshalByRefObject. Ba ...Show All

• Visual C# debugging tooltip

  Hi all, don't know if you can help me,when i am debugging an application in VS2005, the hover and show variable value is not showing! if the variable is a class or something that results in the IDE showing the datatip that works fine, yet simply hovering over a bool variable should show true or false in a tooltip like display doesn't the cursor is the "I" bar i see the cursor flash momentarily as if it's trying to show the value and then resets to normal view as if the time-out for the display = 1 ms! is this something in the IDE or please forbid do i need to re-install everything any ideas Please. You don't realise how much you use a feature untill it's no longer available! foun ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ServiceHost close

  Hi How does the service know that it is being closed by the serviceHost. The following code: ServiceHost host1 = new ServiceHost ( typeof (my Service )); host1.Open(); Console .WriteLine( "MyService available. Press any key to quit" ); Console .ReadKey(); host1.Close(); Now assume the constructor of MyService opens a file. That file stays open and other clients send data to the file. The clients only send. Later when host1.Close is called how does MyService know it is time to close the file. I do not want to open and close the file on each send command. thanks, Rob Scott wrote this sample,just add following function to the sample,your fu ...Show All

• SQL Server How do I prevent a SQL Error terminating my package?

  I am getting the ubiquitous error.... "The statement has been terminated.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly. I have a stored procedure that performs a task on a loop. Sometime it fails, somtimes it succeeds and that's just fine, the errors are handled within the stored procedure and I return counts of success and failures. The trouble is that the package execution terminates when even one of the task fails. I don't want it to, I just want it to continue as the pakage should then go on to extract the source of the failues and post them back where they came from. Any ideas how I can ...Show All