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• Visual Studio Team System Perforce vs TFS?

  All, Thank you for reading this email. I have done Clearcase, Cvs, Subversion, Perforce and various SCM tools. Now, evaluating the new TFS version control for a company that only has Windows developments. Can anyone help me with the following questions 1. Is TFS version control out of beta phase yet 2. Is there a list of comparison between Perforce and TFS version control 3. In addition, is there a list of comparison between MKS integrity and TFS version control Thank you in advance. B. TFS does not have Perforce-style server-side checkin triggers. But there are some options here. You could do something similar to that using a client-side checkin policy. But where the Perforce trigger would always ...Show All

• Visual Studio Specifying file creation paths

  Hi, I have a receipe that generates an entity class based on the schema information of a database table. Besides, the entity class I need to generate also Identity classes following the patterns used by some Software Factories defined by P&P. For instance, I need to create the Order entity class and the GetOrderById and GetAllOrders identity classes. These 3 files go into different folders. Is there a way to specify the path where these files will be created Because the files are created in the Target Folder of the recipe but I need some other files created in other folders. Thanks I’m using almos ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Reporting Services WS - check user input

  Hi, What is the best way of ensuring that users of a report entere data in all the provided input boxes I have written a vb function that checks the above requirement – but when I deploy my report and use a Reporting Services WS to retrieve the data the function no longer works. Any ideas any body Thanks Then you probably would need to built a custom web site before calling the Reporting Services. That customization is not supported in Reporting Services. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Security Checklist

  Has anyone compiled a list of out of the box features to disable (like sql mail in 2000) Or even just a general security checklist for 2005 I'm looking for one similar to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/sp3sec04.mspx MBSA is always helpful. This may not be the complete solution for your question, but its helpful.. Refer : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx Madhu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem getting alpha blending to work with point sprites

  I have a particle system that I can initialize to use either point sprites or billboards. When using billboards, the alpha blending works fine. But when I change to using point sprites, using the same effect file, the alpha blending doesn't work and nothing appears on screen. If I disable the following alpha blending code in the effect file: AlphaBlendEnable = true; SrcBlend = SrcAlpha; DestBlend = InvSrcAlpha; ZWriteEnable = false; the point sprites appear (although without blending, obviously) so there is clearly no issue with the point sprites being too small to see. Thoughts Your comment turned on a lightbulb for me and I found the problem. I had this in my effect file: Output.Color = tex2D(TextureSampler, Textur ...Show All

• Visual Studio Pin, Share, Branch troubles

  Suppose the scenario below: Project P1 has a File F1 with 5 versions ( 1 to 5 ) and version 4 is supposed to be shared, branched , modified and finally, merged into version 5. Steps 1.Version 4 of file F1 in Project P1 was pinned. 2.Project P2 shared the file, that had been branched immediately after the share operation. So far, the version of file F1 in project P2 is the 4th one of Project P1. 3.The file F1 in project P2 was checked out , changed and checked in, creating a version 2 of the file in Project P2. 4.The pinned version of the file F1 in project P1 was unppined. 5.After all, the file F1 in project P1 was selected and the Merge Branch operation was executed Normally, VSS should perform a Visual Merge be ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Change World Matrix

  Is there any way to change the world matrix of an effect while rendering without another call to DrawIndexedPrimitive. I have a large VertexBuffer and don't want to stop drawing, change Matrix and start rendering again if not necessary. Thanks I found a solution to this while reading on another forum last night. What I forgot to menton was that most of my geometry is static untill selected or interacted with in some way. What I'm going to do is batch all static geometry and pre-transform the vertices before I send them to the buffer. This way I don't have to have a seperate draw call for each object. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista BPM generations

  Can somebody throw light on the added functionalities in 3rd generation BPM products like Ascentn compared to 2nd generation BPM products like K2 etc Regards The new K2 product offerings are built on top of WF. For more information on their features and product lineup, check out their website: http://www.k2workflow.com/ Thanks, Angel ...Show All

• .NET Development BufferedGraphics - Rendering

  I have recently started playing with BufferedGraphics class. One piece of functionality that I found missing is rendering to a specific location. BufferedGraphics.Render function does not accept any coordinate parameters. Is there a way around this Rationale: I have a control that has 3 parts that change independently. I have a BufferedGraphics object for each part. On paint, I would like to only update the buffer (contents and size) of the part that has changed. Then render all 3 buffers to the control's Graphics object. Thanks... J I thought it was just a matter of creating three BufferGraphics classes via the factory (BufferedGraphicsContext.Allocate) supplying the rectangle that each BufferedGraphics ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using COM on Pocket PC

  I projected about Text to speech, Could I ask you some questions I only need a file Interop.SpeechLib.dll to program, Do I not need to install any software Can I program Text to speech on smart device like pocket PC Thank you so much for your help. Yes, you need to install some TTS engine and call into it. Please refer to documentation of whatever engine you're using. ...Show All

• SQL Server SSMS Launch error?

  One fine day at work, I decided to open SSMS. And to my suprise, I get the following error message: "The File %CommonDir%\dte80.olb could not be loaded. An attempt to repair this condition failed because the file could not be found. Please reinstall this program." ... " The application cannot start" I've uninstalled the client tools, and reinstalled it. No problems there. Hmmm. But when I went to launch it again, alas, the message appears yet again. I have no idea why this would suddenly occurr. Any ideas anyone, anyone  <EDIT: From another machine on the network, I can connect to the database engine fine.> That file is related to one of the CLR functionality, so I would say it ...Show All

• Visual C# with keyword

  Hello, In VB 6 this keyword means inserting an object to the context. fields and properties of the object can be accessed directly, without a variable name (like when writing code inside a class and all the properties of "this" are accessible). In VB the dot "." operator is used, in other languages like delphi - you can just write the property \ method name. Is there a "with" keyword or something similiar in c# Thanks. There is no with in C#, see this link for more details from the C# language designer http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/csharp/learn/columns/ask.aspx#with Mark. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Way to get rid of surplus strings?

  I have a big app that seems to collect an obscene amount of strings throughout its life, without letting them go... Is there some kind of way to purge all the strings I'm not using anymore because the garbage collector isn't taking care of them.... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Portals stop working after restoring TFS from backups

  Synopsis of Problem: After restoring TFS from backups, the Project Portals cease working. When I try to load one I get the error message "The virtual server that is referenced here is not in the config database.". Full Story: In my evaluation of Team Foundation Server I decided to see how smoothly a backup and restore would go. The backup was easy enough. I backed up all the TFS databases (per this article ) and the reporting services encryption key (per this article ). With backups safely stored on a separate machine I wiped the server running TFS, reinstalled Server 2003, applied all available updates, and started the TFS install by following the instructions found in the installation guide for a single server configuration. ...Show All

• SQL Server Select * & table name issue (Reserve world)

  Hi All, We are trying to read a table name Order through command line SQLcmd. But it is giving us an error. Order is an SQl2005 reserver word and app programmer created that table who left. No we have problem to read that table through sqlcmd. any ide a how we can do that. C:\>sqlcmd 1> use ACCMedford 2> select * from 'Order' 3> go Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Server ACCMedford, Line 2 Incorrect syntax near 'Order'. 1> select * from "order" 2> go Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Server ACCMedford,, Line 2 Incorrect syntax near 'order'. 1> select * from order 2> go Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Server ACCMedford,, Line 1 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'order'. Hi , Your Database might ...Show All