drdexter33's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System VPN based developers and multi-domain

  After reading many posts in the TFS forums, I'm pretty sure the product is unuseable in our development environment but I would still like some sort of confirmation from people with more experience with TFS. We have many remote developers who access domain A over a VPN connection. TFS is installed in domain B and there is no trust between the two domains. I cannot duplicate the domain A developers accounts into the domain B since the password complexity policies differs and are incompatible. So far I have not been able to get Team Explorer from domain A to make any sort of connection to TFS in domain B. I always get a TFS31002: Unable to connect to this team Foundation Server -The TFS name, port number or protocol is incorrect ...Show All

• SQL Server save data to disc

  Please help me I use sql express + C#, and when i execute my queries like "insert" into table, my data exist in dataset while i compile my project. How i can save my data to my data source, and how i can see my data in my table in data source Please help me, how i can save my data from dataset into disc file mdf. hi, depending on your "use", you should check the InsertCommand of your object is accordingly set to your needs.. but, as you say you are using an Express edition of VS, chances are you actually save your "changes" to the datasource, but you "overwrite" the existing database physical files at each application start-up becouse of User Instances features and how you set the " ...Show All

• SQL Server Incremental processing and aggregations

  If I use the incremental processing option do I have to issue a separate process index command to get the aggregations rebuilt on the partitions that has been touched Or is this handled automatically by the incremental processing command Indeed, you cannot currently specify ProcessAffectedObjects flag with the Process method. But the Server.ExecuteCaptureLog method does support it. Sample code here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=607435&SiteID=1 (you will use AMO on capture-mode and then execute the log with Server.ExecuteCaptureLog who has an overload receiving processAffectedObjects parameter)   Adrian Dumitrascu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is XNA Time-Bomb'ed?

  Easy Yes or No question for MS folks: Is XNA Time-Bomb'ed After superficial exploration with Reflector of the XNA assemblies, I found nothing, so far... ;) ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combo box resizing

  Just want to make sure that I have this straight and am not missing something. Unless one wants to draw their own control, the height of a combo box cannot be changed except by changing the font If that is indeed the case, then why does a combo box with a selected font (say Arial 8.25) render as different height than a text box with the same font selected That makes for one ugly form; either the text box and combo box can't be side-by-side without looking akward, or the text box and combo box can be the same size, but the fonts are significantly different. Someone, please tell me I'm missing something obvious. Thanks! ahmedilyas wrote: of course the height of the combobox can be changed, just select the combobox on the ...Show All

• Visual Basic Form show unrequested

  To get some experience using VBE, I converted a simple program I once made for myself(VB5). It's a birthday calendar, using a VB5 commandbutton for each day of the year, i found that VBE has great problems handling this many controls, it is slow, very slow and realy unworkable. Some where else in this forum I found that others with a lot of controls experience the same problems and there is no neat solution for it. In the mid 80's the basicinterpreter was quicker than this VBE with a machine that is 2000 times faster. Another problem I have is that the main(start) form of the program shows up unrequested. In the load section of the (start)form I show another form from which I normally select whether I show the (start)form or not. The se ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting report credentials programmatically -- this should be easy!

  This should be easy... but I can't figure out the answer from MSDN help or from google. I have my reports set up with a custom data extension. You can access the reports via report manager and enter credentials and view the report. But, the reports will be accessible via a web application as well. In this case, the user will already be logged in, so I want to either disable credentials on the fly, or set the username/password to empty. Then I set a hidden session ID parameter and the data extension can authenticate using this parameter. I know about viewer.ServerReport.ReportServerCredentials but for the web, there seems to be no ReportServerCredentials class. I have seen the help topic at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsof ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA meets Physical Simulations

  Hi, anyone know about using a system for physical simulation in games with xna I found the XPA project on codeplex, but there is only a uncomplete tutorial. I searched for alternatives and found and very old and not up-to-date project called ode.net (an ode wrapper). As WaruWaru said, the Farseer physics engine is a nice option if you're looking to do 2D simulations. Since it's written specifically for XNA it will run on Windows or Xbox 360. You can find some videos of it in action here: http://www.gameprojects.com/project id=e4d0681b58 ...Show All

• Commerce Server Making Commerce Site multilingual

  Hi, I'd like to make my site multilingual. I already use localized text resources for my asp Pages and that works correctly. But now if i open a product detail page i still get the data for the product of the default langugage. What do I have to do so that the correct data gets loaded Another problem is, that i use an extern DLL like the CommeceComponents of the StarterSite. What can I do, that this DLL loads the Correct Resources, Thanks for your help hi, When you get your catalog you should use this function: GetCatalog(catalogname,language); instead: GetCatalog(catalogname); - this always returns catalog in default language. Don't know how the startersite is build. Currently I'm working on my custom c ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Change in Common Control UI Behavior in Windows Mobile 2005, Why???

  Hi All, I was hoping that someone could help me with a change in the Window Mobile 2005 Common Control behavior compared to Windows Mobile 2003 and older. What I have noticed is that in WM2005 the keyboard/SIP events sent to Dialog applications have changed... in that keystrokes are handled by the control itself and the parent dialog does not receive the keyboard events or if it does it acts on them differently. For example, in WM2005 when the Enter key is pressed while on a dialog box with edit control(s) on it, the focus will jump from one to another and circles back. However, in the older versions of Windows Mobile (2003 and 2002) and all the plain Windows CE OSs that I have worked on, the Dialog box would get the Enter Key response in ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) video example not working

  public Scene1() { this.InitializeComponent(); MediaPlayer player = new MediaPlayer(); player.Open(new Uri("pack://application:,,/rock.wmv")); VideoDrawing aVideoDrawing = new VideoDrawing(); aVideoDrawing.Rect = new Rect(100, 100, 100, 100); aVideoDrawing.Player = player; player.Play(); I took this from the msdn page but changed the Uri as I had added a .wmv to the project. All I get is a blank screen. Any help would be great - thanks Thank you PataraK the source for the MediaElement is not pack but just the rock.wmv as its and added resource. Even though its added I cannot just use rock.wmv from c# (when I tried I just got errors) so I used pack. Thank you for the reply I will n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Automatic update of label text bound to a class property updated by another thread

  Hi, I'm having troubles with a data binding between a label text and a class property. I have a class like this: public ref class TestClass : public INotifyPropertyChanged { public: virtual event PropertyChangedEventHandler ^PropertyChanged { void add(PropertyChangedEventHandler^ value) { this->propertyChanged += value; } void remove(PropertyChangedEventHandler^ value) { this->propertyChanged -= value; } }; virtual void NotifyPropertyChanged(String ^info) override { propertyChanged(this, gcnew PropertyChangedEventArgs(info)); }; property unsigned int ToW { void set(unsigned int tow_){ tow = tow_; NotifyPropertyChanged("ToW"); } unsigned int get() { return tow; } }; private: unsigned int tow; event Pr ...Show All

• SQL Server TOP 2 in a Cross Join (Matrix)

  Hello I have to retrieve a cross join between languages and language-skills for more person in a matrix (grid) report. E.g. i like to ritrieve the TOP 2 people in each "cell" of the grid (order by name). There are 3 people in cell "ITALIAN / very good". So i have to retrieve only the top 2. In table tEmployee i have the people names (john, anna, michael) In table tLanguage i have all language (english, italian, german) And in table tLanSkill i have the language rating (bad, good, very good) bad good very good Englisch Michael John Anna Italian John Michael Anna German Anna THX for your help. ciao, michele ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smart device cab project creates incorrect cab file with multiple files with the same name

  Hi there, I've created a C# project in Visual Studio 2005 with two 'content files': both named 'setupscreeninfo.xml', but in different folders, and both also have different content. After that I created a "smart devices cabinet" project, to create a .cab installer file for the C# project. For some more clarity I've made a screenshot: http://smaankers.jepraatpoep.nl/upload/bestanden/Smaankers/cabproject.JPG Now, when I build this solution, it creates a cabinet file with both xml files, but they are the same.. They have the same content, while they should be different files. When I rename one of them to a different filename, I get the two different files in it, so it works. When I check the outputs of the content ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server July Books Online access issue

  Hello After I installed SQL July Books Online and Samples neither Tutorials nor SQL Server Books online can be opened. When I try to open any of them (SQL Server Mobile Edition Tutorials, SQL Server Tutorials or SQL Server Books Online) I get a message: "Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9' is invalid." Also when I try to use local Help I get 'Search failed. Exception from HRESULT: 0x800403BA' message. The Help Topics and Help Searches lists are both empty - 'Currently no topics have been found'. I tried to uninstall and then install again the SQL Server Books Online but nothing happened. I tried to do the same with the April's one as well. Same ...Show All