clay.routh's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Computer in Counter Set Mappings Not Appearing in Load Test

  I have 3 web servers in a cluster that I want to collect performance counter data from while running a load test. I added all three of the web servers to the Counter Set Mappings node, but only two of the three servers actually appear as I'm running the test so I'm unable to get performance data from the server that's missing. I've tried removing and adding these servers. I can also successfully monitor all three of them using PerfMon from my development workstation where I'm running the test. These servers are on the other side of a firewall, so ports had to be opened for this to work. The ability to collect data from all three servers with PerfMon seems to confirm that I've been given the necessary access to all three servers. I'm wo ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with Roles and sp_helpRoleMember

  I have a database role named gc_stationAdmin. I have a user x who has this role granted him when via Mgmt Studio under Logins. In fact I have 50+ users who have this role. 1) when I execute sp_helpRoleMember I see only 20 users who have this role when I'm expecting to see 50 and user X is not amongst the 20 2) when sp_helpRoleMember is executed AS user X, they only see 1 user with this role (and it's not himself) 3) when I drop user X from Role using sp_dropRoleMember OR using Mgmt Studio under Login Properties, it never drops him according to Mgmt Studio. When I pull up the login properties, that role is still always checked no matter what I do...although he doesn't appear in the sp_helpRoleMember result ever. What is goi ...Show All

• Visual Basic MP3s

  How to run an mp3 file in the same window(NOT TO OPEN windows media player or real player etc...) by using a play click and how to stop it by clicking a stop button, and also a pause button. I need full code for who know. sure buddy. download the DirectX SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=05DA7623-F2F9-4F57-91AA-6DB27FB8305F&displaylang=en install it and view sample codes with it also, as well as reading the documentation to add a reference to the assembly, simply right click on references in your project in solution explorer, go to "Add reference" and select Microsoft.DirectX and Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studion Express alongside full-blown Management Studio?

  Is it possible to run both Sql Server Management Studio: Express and full blown side by side I am developing with the full blown product but would like to test Management Studio Express on the same box. Is this possible Thanks Eric Hi ! For a full and realistic test, I would put them not on the same machine, as you can’t be sure in which way the big brother will interfer with the deployed assemblies. Just deploy it on a dedicated test machine to do your tests. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Register COM component on Vista

  How to register COM component on windows Vista. It seems that the administrator acount is required. Help! Thanks. I need to know the answer to this too. I used to use a batch file with XP to register my COM objects, something like this: tregsvr Module1.exe tregsvr Module2.exe tregsvr Module3.exe tregsvr Module4.exe tregsvr Module5.exe When I run the same batch file on Vista Business each registration returns as successfull, but hasn't actually worked. It makes no difference if I run the batch file as a user or an administrator. Does anyone know how to automate this process ...Show All

• Office Live Development How to disable "copy" function on your images

  Does anybody know Hi Chris, Thank you for taking the time to respond. I was talking about disabling the copy function of the visitor so he/she can't copy photos/text from my site. I am now usingthe right click disable inside the picture tax itself. I also don't know how to figure out the e-mail address of the sender when I get a message sent to me from "contact us" form. Jelena ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to make working certificate ?

  Hey! I've problem with generating certificate using makecert. makecert -r -pe -ss my -sr LocalMachine -n "CN="%ComputerName% -sky exchange -sp "Microsoft RSA SChannel Cryptographic Provider" -sy 12 I am using syntax like above. I've IIS and my client on the same machine and I want to connect them using https. But the problem is when I try to do so I got error in my client telling me that security channel cannot be established. It's for 100% certificate fault I checked with my browser it also isn't happy about this cert. How can I force my PC to trust this certificate I copied it to trusted root certs [or something like this] and I tried also to export it and import and 100 other thing ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to bind Background to RadialGradientBrush.Color?

  Hello, I defined style for button. Its template contains rectangle filled with RadialGradientBrush and I want to bind Color property of brush to Background property of button. I know, Brush and Color are different types, but how to bind it correctly < Window x:Class = " WPFForm.Window2 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title = " WPFForm " Height = " 441 " Width = " 520 " > < Window.Resources > < Style x:Key = " ButtonStyler " TargetType = " {x:Type Button} " > < Setter Property = &quo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. simple projectile motion physics??

  im pretty new to gamedev, so simulating physics is new to me too. i know the projectile motion formulas, im just having trouble applying them. is there any "tutorial" on projectile motion physics for XNA basically, someone suggested to do "scorched earth". im trying to get the hang of just some simple projectile before i apply it to a game. i know i should basically have to just enter the initial velocity vector and the angle. then have it passed to a function that gets the initial x velocity, and initial y velocity. also, im assuming that whatever i get for y-velocity should be negative as "up" is negative in the XNA graphics. then, after each update, it should find the current change in position for x and ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Request: Table UpdateCheckDefault

  It would save a lot of typing if we could have the UpdateCheck value in the column attribute defaulted by a UpdateCheckDefault value in the Table attribute. Example - I'd like this: [ Table (Name= "Person" , UpdateCheckDefault= UpdateCheck .Never)] public class Person { [ Column ()] public string FirstName; [ Column ()] public string LastName; [ Column (UpdateCheck= UpdateCheck .WhenChanged)] public string SSN; } instead of this: [ Table (Name= "Person" )] public class Person { [ Column (UpdateCheck= UpdateCheck .Never)] public string FirstName; [ Column (UpdateCheck= UpdateCheck .Never)] public string LastName; [ Column (UpdateCheck= UpdateCheck ...Show All

• Windows Forms Run Framework 1.1 and 2.0 application at the same time on the same machine.

  I wonder if I have two different applications, one is using 1.1 and the other is using 2.0,  can they run at the same time I work on 1.0 and 1.1 before and I remember I need to switch between the framework. But since I work on ASP.NET and VB.NET before, I am not sure the switch is only apply for web application. I also found this from the web, please look at no. 3 here. http://blogs.msdn.com/seshadripv/archive/2006/02/24/538610.aspx Thanks. Hi Terrence, Yes you can run two differenent applications at the same time. I have 2.0 windows applications running at the same time as 1.1 on boxes. hths, James ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ListBoxes to show info?

  How can I make it when an item clicked in a ListBox will open like another frame in the same form to show information Im working on making a DVD database program so lets say when I select Stargate Sg1 It brings up some info I typed up about it Thank You! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Has anyone been able to run an XNA Game?

  I've seen many people sharing code and talking about Space Wars but no one really talking about running XNA Games. I do however see many people having problems running an XNA Game. People like me, have everything needed to run the game, a high Graphics card, and yet the game will not run. Those of you that are running games, do you know why Hey TruePsion Your card is a DX8.1 card (PS 1.4). If you were to write code directly (or find some tuts) on XNA that say they support VS/PS1.4, they will run on your hardware. Spacewar (the game that ships with XNA Game Studio Express) requires SM2.0 to run which your card doesn't support. Alternatively some one out there can crank out some SM 1.x versions of th ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to detect the existence of external storage?

  Hi, I am current developing a hand held program, and I need the access to the external storage. But I do not know how to detect the external storage and how to get the folder name of the external storages. As I aware that the default name of the external storage is "External Storage", but it can be changed, therefore I cannot hard code it in my program. Thanks. Ting Fong http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=612136&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Dynamic Vertexbuffer

  Hi people, I am working with a dynamic vertexbuffer and I am wondering what the best practise is to fill the buffer with data. I have two different approaches to tackle this problem but as I cant figure out what is the best solution is I need your help. Option1: Create a vertexbuffer with flags dynamic and write only and keep a seperate array of vertices. If I want to update the buffer I can update the vertex array and then set this array into the vertexbuffer. Option2: Create the vertexbuffer, again with the dynamic flag, and just get the set and set the data from the vertexbuffer. Option1 needs double the space space but might be faster as the get function is not needed. Option2 is the other way around. Please tell me which option you wo ...Show All