JTai's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Can TFSBuild run different targets the way MSBuild can

  I am new to TFSBuild and now have a basic, automated build working for my project. The next step is to be able to add a couple of targets to the project file and run those at different schedules. It may be that one of the targets builds the project in Debug mode and the other builds it in Release mode. In MSBuild, I could do this by adding the "/t:" switch, followed by the name of the Target. Can I do this with TFSBuild Perhaps I am barking up the wrong tree and would be better to create more Build Types. My set up is that I have Team VSS on one server and a seperate Build Server with Team Services installed. Thanks in advance for your help, Gordon That could certainly work. ...Show All

• .NET Development Event subscribers disappear after inactivity

  I have a class in a shared assembly which publishes several events. This shared assembly is shared between two applications and is used to pass client/server messages via remoting. My code works as expected, and the two application can share objects using the class' public delegates and raises notifications of messages received using the published events. After several minutes of inactivity (that is, no events have been raised), the events will "loose" their subscribers. The event variables are non-null after the client app subscribes to them, but after a period of inactivity, the event variables will become null. Events that are periodically raised do not loose their subscribes, but those that are "still" for a minute ...Show All

• Visual C++ Change DLL Search Order Dynamically?

  Is there a way I can alter the dll search order dynamically (launching executable process) * SetDllDirectory( ) only works with LoadLibrary/LoadLibraryEx * CreateProcess( ) doesn't seem to have any flags/parameters to toy with. * LoadLibrary( )/LoadLibraryEx( ) don't load executable bits for executing (only for resource manipulation) * Changing values in the registry upon load is unacceptable and would likely break anyway. Ah. I was of the understanding that you wanted to replace kernel32.dll for given applications to monitor certain *existing* methods. You're talking compatibility issues. Patching the IAT seems like a feasible solution in this case. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Bitmap font

  hi guys! I am trying to open a bitmap font ( Extension .FON) which is already installed in my PC , using the Font Dialog option of VB.NET . I could able to see all the installed fonts other than the Bitmap font in the Font dailog window . Any idea how i can use the same font in the programe Thanks in Advance Regards Sumod Hi Sumod, Sounds like you need to install the font into Windows. Once that is done, it should appear in the font dialog window. Check out this article about installing fonts into windows. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/314960 Hope this helps, Bort ...Show All

• Visual C++ missing .lib files for x86 in Platform SDK where do I get them?

  I have installed "Microsoft R Windows ServerR 2003 R2 Platform SDK Web Install" and Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition and my programming seemed to work fine (Visual C++) until I needed to include fstream.h witch includes iostream.h, but now I cant compile because of some missing .lib files wich I find in the \lib\AMD64\ folder and \lib\IA64\ but they dont work on an x86, then I read on the install page for the Platform SDK that x84 compiler is not included I guess that is the reason for my problem, but where do I find my .lib files for x86 then otherwise, can I work around this problem somehow, I need to read ASCII numbers data from a .txt file. Can I do this without my .h files I cant compile with ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How can i get device id of wm5 motorola smartphone Q device.

  I am converting my application from pocket pc to smart phone I wants to get device id in this "3606d294-0000-0100-0008-0050bf3f5171"format for smart phone. Previously i were using KernelIoControl. Now I want's to use GetDeviceUniqueID My code for KernelIoControl and GetDeviceuniqueID is private static Int32 FILE_DEVICE_HAL = 0x00000101; private static Int32 FILE_ANY_ACCESS = 0x0; private static Int32 METHOD_BUFFERED = 0x0; private static Int32 IOCTL_HAL_GET_DEVICEID = ((FILE_DEVICE_HAL) << 16) | ((FILE_ANY_ACCESS) << 14) | ((21) << 2) | (METHOD_BUFFERED); public static string GetDeviceID() { byte[] OutputBuffer = new byte[256]; Int32 OutputBufferSize, Bytes ...Show All

• Windows Forms Formatting entries in DataGridView selection

  I have a DataGridView (Dgvx1) and I am trying to change the format (currency in the code below) in the selected cells after the user clicks a ToolStripManuItem. My problem is that the format doesn't take effect. When I added a color change as shown in the code, the color did indeed change after selection but not the format. Am I missing something Thanks, Rene --------------------------------------------- Private Sub CurrencyToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _ Handles CurrencyToolStripMenuItem.Click Dim counter As Integer Dim myStyle As New DataGridViewCellStyle myStyle.Format = "C2" myStyle.ForeColor = Color.Red ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums V.E. SDK

  I was wondering if I could see the code that you use for the Virtual Earth SDK because it is not the same code used for the example. So if it is possible can i view that Thanks also do you know how to make it so i can add a on click event to my custom pushpins without changing the whole code so it will send just the address to the txtfinish Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Service Host Endpoint Addressing

  I have my wcf service created and hosted in my Windows service. When I created my service host instance I had to provide a Uri to the constructor. I would rather that the service host use the address specified in the app.config file that I generated. It seems, though that the service host address is not being set by what is provided in the app.config file. The behaviors and bindings appear to be taking from the app.config file. How do you force the wcf service to use the address in app.config even though you have to provide a uri to its constructor I'm passing a singleton object (rather than a type) as well for event handling. Does this have ramifications to how the address is established Would you normally not create the service ho ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce file share icon?

  This is probably a really basic (maybe stupid) question, but I have done several searches and haven't found an answer Here's one version of the documentation I'm referring to: Install from the Web or a Network Share Using this strategy, your application is deployed to a Web server or a network file share. When an end user wants to install the application, he or she clicks an icon on a Web page or double-clicks an icon on the file share. The application is then downloaded, installed, and started on the end user's computer. Items are added to the Start menu and the Add/Remove Programs group in the Control Panel . Where is the icon they are referring to in the statement: double-clicks an icon on the file share When I pub ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to implement file search???

  Hello, I would like to ask how can I implement a file search on a local or network drive I have read about implementing a recursive search. I would also like to use wild cards too. Once the program is done, it should have the same functions as “Windows Search Companion”. Is there any API available for doing search Any suggestions or code examples will be wonderful; I am fairly new to C#. Thank you very much! Hi, Ke What you asked is really a big big range of questions. You can first read some useful book about C#: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=849534&SiteID=1 And for local file search, maybe you can start doing sth with Directory class...(of course you ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2D-3D Brawler help.

  Hi, I'm definately new to the entire game engine coding field and I'm working on a university project to develop a physics based 3D "brawler" Like Small Arms, or Smash Brothers (but with an emphasis on throwing steel balls around, interesting physics based powers/weapons). Most of the XNA projects out there either seem to be 2D puzzle games, or 3D FPS/FlightSims, almost no platformers.As a result I've been having alot of trouble finding any decent XNA source material even for setting up a basic scene, so I'm appealing to these boards in desperation. (note: I went through all of the 2D tutorials on XNAresources.com as well as the MSDN samples and the Farseer physics demos. All I want to do is; --Step 1-- 1a) Add a bunch of cubes to the scen ...Show All

• Visual C# How to add parameters from stored procedures.

  hi is there a way of programmatically adding a stored procedure parameters to a parameter collection well what i meant is that after declaring your a command etc like you did. i was thinking since the stored procedure already has the parameters and their types on the database is it possible to just load these automatically into myParam with having to add them manually ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I plot a graph (with x and y axis) on my form?

  Hi, how do i plot a graph (with x and y-axis) on my form Hope you fixed your com Thanks a lot for the error free program , but got 2 questions. Firstly, i change the picturebox BackColor to Black right Second, after i done the above i only see a black picturebox in the form it don't have axis or line ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Email notifications stop working after a while

  I have some email notifications which are to be sent out on events (buildqualitychanged, buildcompleted, etc.) These work fine for a while, but every week or so they stop working and I have to reboot and then they start working again. I have to do this at least every week (more often recently). Are there any known issues about this It is strange, everything else keeps working when the notifications starts to fail can it be a problem with your SMTP server I would also delete that existing subscription which hits that old webservice, althought I don't think it haas nothing to do with the failure ...Show All