SoulSolutions's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Understanding areas and iterations

  I have been searching for some guidance on how to use areas and iterations, how WIs tie into a particular area etc. I haven't been able to find ANYTHING that gives a decent explanation of these topics. About the MSF guidance; I'm not sure if it's just me or do other people also find this to be too high level to be of any real use The closest I came was this post by Eric Lee: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlee/archive/2006/08/09/693849.aspx Can anyone point me to some articles/posts that shed more light on these features Thanks! Hi Michael, If you have the time to post an article it would be great. I found your article on branching especially helpful when we were considering branching strategies. I like Eric's Explorer-like view of area ...Show All

• SQL Server XML iteration

  I know this problem probably comes up alot, but Im looking for a way to iterate through certain nodes of a given XML variable. Im trying to write a stored procedure that will insert a large number of stock items, these stock items are represented by XML, there is alot of data that associated to a stock item so I need to check many many dependancies before inserting the stock item. So I need to loop through each Stock element, then loop through that particular elements child nodes etc... doing SQL validation, etc... almost like cursors for XML. Can this be done or can someone suggest a better solution Cheers, Mark create procedure sp_stockProcess @x xml as declare @title varchar(20), @price varchar(10) ...Show All

• Visual C++ vs2005 intercepts cl.exe output

  Hi, We have a custom build system that call cl.exe. From within the vs2005 IDE we call our custom application (as an NMake command) to compile. The custom application redirects the cl.exe output to a file, and at the end of the application, the complete file is fed to the IDE. This worked fine in vs2003, but in vs2005 it seems that the IDE 'steals' the output from cl.exe, so that our own application does not see that output anymore. Is there anything we can do to avoid this thanks, eli The call looks a bit like this, and the problem is that the file cpp1.log remains empty in vs2005, but in vs2003 this worked fine: _tsystem("cl.exe ... >> cpp1.log 2>>&1"); ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can I get the vertex data after rendered

  Can I get the vertex data after rendered, i.e. I want to transform a scene to diplay with a special way not the perspective projection, is that possible Ideally, you shouldn't need to read vertex data back from the GPU. Since your goal is for display purposes, then just do your custom calculations in the shaders. If you really think you need to read transformed vertices from D3D, then look at the ProcessVertices() method of Device/IDirect3DDevice9, but you won't get different calculations when using this method. It's only that it does the calculations on the CPU instead of the GPU, so your CPU code can read the values... ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Did something bad happen to the v3 api/endpoint? My maps are now all failing

  Did something bad occur to the v3 version as a result of this new release My maps are all failing. Is this still the js reference - http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/v3/mapcontrol.js Thanks,. Jeff Me too, all my maps have failed including several applications with rely on the maps... If any one knows what’s happening/happened then id love to no   Im getting the following error returned by the veapi.asjx that the mapcontrol.js loads up... /* #vesb */var err = new Object();err.message="The server is temporarily unavailable. Try again later.";throw err;       ...Show All

• SQL Server ADODB Vesion 7.0.3300.0 in vb.net

  Hi, I have developed an application in vb.net 2005 Standard Edition and is running fine in my local machine. The executed version of the same application i tried to run in other machine and getting an error as follows :- " Unable to install application. The application requires the assembly ADODB Version 7.0.3300.0 be installed in the global assembly cache (GAC) first " Can you somebody help me to solve this problem. Thanks Saju John I was able to solve this without resorting to the bootstrap loader by adding a reference to the adodb resource in my Studio project, then selecting this reference, and changing it's 'Copy Local' property to true. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Monitor a variable for the entire execution

  Hi, I was wondering if it possible to monitor the values of a variable for an entire execution of a code - for example I would like to know what is the maximum value that a variable takes for a particular execution cycle. I could do that with changes in my source code, but is there any easier way for this - because this thing comes up quite a lot many times and i would not like to add a few lines each time i need to monitor a variable. Is there any such option while debugging thanks. Other than manual observation through a debugger or with a trace, you cannot do this without adding more code.  (Writes to memory locations cannot be caught by your own program.) In VC++ you can use __dec ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Resource access problems using DLLs

  I'm trying to write an application with multilingual support using dlls that contains resources like strings and dialogs templates specific for each language. In order to use the resources in the dll I have found a solution, which consists of loading the resources from the dll and in setting them as default resources: HINSTANCE hInst = AfxGetResourceHandle(); // Get current resource AfxSetResourceHandle(AfxLoadLibrary("somedll.dll") ); // set dll resource // code which uses the resources from the dll AfxSetResourceHandle(hInst); After having used the resources in the dll, I reset the resource handle in its original state, since I also have resources in the exe file. I'm looking for an alternative solution, which let ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to Create a font with a "wide" aspect ratio in C#?

  Hi, I need to take a font which is on the system and create a "wider" version of it and draw some text with it. I wrote some code in MFC that does this. Here is the MFC code: //////////////////////////////////////// ////////// ////////// ////////// ////////// CFont font; LOGFONT lf; memset(&lf, 0, sizeof(LOGFONT)); lf.lfHeight = 20; lf.lfWidth = 40; lf.lfWeight = 500; wcscpy(lf.lfFaceName, L"Arial"); // Need a face name "Arial". font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf); CImage image; CString *inFile = new CString("c:\\temp\\test\\plainwhite.bmp" ); //Make sure this file exists CString *outFile = new CString("c:\\temp\\test\\sometext.bmp"); //This is the file that contains the output bitmap image.Load(*inFile); CDC* pDC = CDC: ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. space on Storage device

  how mucth space can we use on the xbox360 using Storage device Note that the size of an xbox memory card is somewhat less than 64 MB. In addition, I would guess that, if you don't have a hard drive, and still download an application, the application and your storage will have to share the same memory card. Of course, until we know what the actual release method for XNA games will be, this is all speculation. Maybe XNA will require a hard disk, and then there's not much of a problem. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Hands On Lab Code

  I have looked all over for the accompanying .msi installer for the the Microsoft HOL titled "Step by Step: Developing a SQL Mobile Application with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005". Can anyone tellm me where I can download the file from so that I may do the lab Thanks! No, there is a mobile database script that it asks you to run during the step by step. I've been looking for the code too, but haven't been able to find it. ...Show All

• SQL Server Horizontal Variety Seeking Association rule Problem

  I read somewhere that market basket analysis finds rules with substitutes as likely as rules with complements due to a consumer behavior called "horizontal variety seeking". This is when customers buy more than one product in the same category even though they are subsitutes. For example, when people go to the grocery store and buy soda, they buy coke and sprite at the same time even though they are substitutes of each other. I was wondering if anyone has experience with this anomaly and how they solved it. I found a time series model called the vector autoregressive model which is used to find the elasticity of prices over a time period. Does anyone have experience working with the VAR model I am having trouble figuring out what ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Pocket pc and bluetooth programing start point

  hi i am C# develper i am interesting in pocket & bluetooth programing can any one tell me how to start thanks i have a samsung i750 running windows mobile 2003 SE pocket pc , i am using vs2005 . Start with samples here https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wcebluet/html/ceconbluetoothsamples.asp Manav ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build fails as the DLLs are in separate directory.

  Hi, I am trying to do a team build but it fails while local build happens successfully. Teh reason is perhaps because in the build I am trying to copy the files(DLLs) in a separate directory so in team build, it gives error that error while copying ABC.DLL to the location, access is denied. My directory where DLLs are stored is also added in Source control. How can I tackle such a situation in TFS. Thanks, Ekta Thanks Jeff for the reply. What my code script is doing that after the compilation happens, the DLLs are copied in a separate directory and this new directory and DLLs are also checked in source control. When I do the team build all the folders are ReadOnly in the Build directory a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't re-install VC++ or VC#

  A little background before I ask my question. I bought a new hard drive (WD Caviar SE 7200 RPM), installed it and partitioned it with 3 seperate partitions (20 gig NTFS, 20 gig FAT32, and 280 gig NTFS). I transferred all files from my old hard drives to the new one via a utility provided on the CD that came with the hard drive which I purchased. After getting everything transferred, Windows XP SP2 ran just fine but when I went to run VCExpress or VC#Express they wouldn't run. I attempted to reinstall them but the images I mounted on CD wouldn't run either. I get the following error message: The Windows installer package: e:\vs_setup.ms_ could not be opened. Choose Retry to try again. Choose Cancel for exit setup. I co ...Show All