Aatif latif's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX vs. WPF

  A friend of mine said that Avalon was dropped off and renamed to DirectX 10. Based on the theZBuffer.com, there is no DX10, and from what I know, Avalon has been renamed to WPF. So what's the connection between Avalon, WPF, and DirectX (10 ) Are they sharing the same code, or one's just using another's API Thanks! You are right that Avalon was the codename for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). WPF use Direct3D 9 to render a vector based UI. WPF is not dropped as it is one of the three main parts of WinFX. As WPF supports 3D effects you can build 3D games with it but it supports only a limited subset of the functions th ...Show All

• SQL Server sqlce 3.0 vs sqlce 2.0 memory issue

  I am currently upgrading our ppc app (written in .net 2003) to .net 2005 and from sqlce 2.0 to 3.0. The new application runs out memory(storage) when handling lots of data transactions (both in case of using sqlcedatareader, and dataset ). There is no memory leak issue here, sqlce 3.0 simply uses a lot more (3 times more) memory than sqlce 2.0. Our applicaton runs fine using sqlce 2.0 and .net 2003, but fail due to memory shortage with the upgrades(which has the same code). Anyone can shed some lights on this issue 1) Try to use SqlCeResultSet than DataSet 2) Please dispose the managed objects explicitly instead of waiting ...Show All

• SQL Server sql server help

  Hi, every time i try to make a database it makes it then asks what to connect to and then comes up with error messages. How do i fix this http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/6744/error5qm.jpg << the message [Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta] Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. I get the same error using c# express. Reininstalling didn't help. The frustrating thing it works fine for a friend. My sql server express failed to install properly, might be something to do with that. Unfortunately the sql server exp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS July CTP Error 32000.Failed to execute action.

  I am using the following VSTS dual server install config (all on VPCs):  Win2K Server (Sp4) DC Win2003Server Std - SP1 : Data layer (with Sql Server 2005 Standard June CTP) Win2003Server Std - Sp1: App layer (with IIS and SMTP server installed) I get the dreaded 32000 error installing Team Foundation Server (app services):   Error 32000.Failed to execute action . When I look at the log file, I saw a message about something not being supported with Sql Server 2005 Std.  Here is the actual error (in the setupwarehouse.log file): Microsoft.AnalysisServices.OperationException: Errors related to feature availability and c ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cannot save my.settings if one of the setting fields is a sortedList

  The following gives me a null reference error. Setting: name = Recipe, type = SortedList, scope = User Code: my.settings.Recipe = new SortedList my.settings.Recipe.Add("aKey", "aString") my.settings.Save() < Null reference error occurrs here. I have tried (and failed) with many different approaches to use a sorted list in my.settings. I would love to know the correct way to do this. Steve, I copy and paste your code: my.settings.Recipe = new SortedList my.settings.Recipe.Add("aKey", "aString") my.settings.Save() Into a test app after setting up the use ...Show All

• Visual Studio report rdl file portability

  Hi All: Just like to know how to import a report ( an RDL file that is created  by report design team from  VS IDE bundled with SQL Reporting Server 2005) to a report viewer control in a web page (report to be launched in local mode). The challenge we had is that the dataset, data source objects as configured in the original RDL file cannot be directly taken by the report viewer contrl. We need to use the dataset objects created locally  in the web projects for those alien reports.  The current process entails  meticulous tuning.  This will make automation difficult to impleme ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems Setting DTS Global Variables after Rebuild

  We have performed a dummy Disaster Recovery rebuild of our Windows 2000 Advanced Server(SP2) and SQL2000 database so that we all knew what to do in the event of the failure.  Everything seems to have worked OK apart from one DTS Upload task. The system uses 3 DTS packages to perform data uploads, but only one fails These are all launched from VB executables which load the relevant DTS package and then executes them. It seems that the global variables assigned in the VB executable are not being picked up or actioned within the DTS scripts. Instead the default values that are stored within the DTS package are used instead.  I ha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web test relative paths

  With unit tests I can use relative paths (even go so far as to adding them to the config file) Can I do something simular with webtests Since a web test is simply an XML file I assume I could open the web test and edit it, but would like to hear if there is an easier way.   Thanks, TomK Sorry about the poor documentation. (It made sense to me, I knew what I wanted) My web test is data driven. With Unit tests if they are data driven it is easy to change the data source to be relative. It appears that if I edit the web test file I can make it relative fairly easily, but I want to know if there is a sugges ...Show All

• Smart Device Development HP 6515 and GPS

  hi i am have just got an HP 6515d with build in GPS am trying to read from the GPS but no luck have searched the forums and found some articles but still no luck my try to read data from the gps is by using a simple SerialPort and wait for data i dot know if you have to turn on the gps in some way first or what am programming in C# on . NET CF 2.0 Pocket PC 2003 SE is there sombody that has some experience with reading from the GPS on HP 6515 how to set up the serialport private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { object obj = comboBox1.SelectedItem; if(obj != null) { port = new SerialPort((string ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Regarding .net CF2.0 and visual studio 2003

  Hi all, i've just installed the .net framework 2.0 and the compact portion but cannot create any smart device projects that reference the 2.0 framework. is there something i am missing I've reviewed as much documentation as i can but nothing says that visual studio 2003 is not supported. Thunder vs2003 supports the .net fw 1.0 vs2005 supports the .net fw 1.0 & 2.0 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005 sucks!!

  I have been using vS2003 for a couple years now. I upgraded to 2005 thinking I'd be getting a better environment with more up to date libraries and tools. What I ended up with is an environment that takes 3 or 4 minutes to open for me to start working. Another 4 or 5 minutes to open my tiny PDA application with 4 forms in it. Errors that make no sense about such and such not existing as a function of a class, yet the editor itself finds every step of the command as you type it. Again, this all worked perfectly in 2003, no code changes, but what I'm left with is not a single project that I can sucessfully compile and an envrionment that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Winforms ReportViewer control does not work with ClickOnce

  I have a major problem.  I want to use ClickOnce to deploy a business app that uses reporting services (with the new reportviewer control for winforms).  However, the majority (not all) the machines that I try to install the app on complain about a missing assembly "ADODB 7.0.3300" that must be installed in the GAC.   When I reference the Microsoft.ReportViewer.ClickOnce assembly I get a new dependency in my clickonce manifest file for the ADODB.  However, most XP machines simply do not have this installed.  This means that they have to install it some other way first before they can use clickonce.  This is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Accessing forms from external classes

  Hi, I am quite new to high level language programming (being one of those who lived with machine code for a couple of decades). I am creating an application for my company which will store lots of information in a database (and I am using the C# language to do this). What I would like to do is access a form that I have created with Visual Studio 2005 professional from other classes. As the project is going to be large, I will create several forms over a period of time, but the main program elements will be stored in several separate classes for tidyness. All my own classes I have written so far can be accessible quite easily by decl ...Show All

• Visual C++ Resource Editor: Add/Remove Operation impossible code read only - Release VS2005

  I've seen this bug discussed frequently with regard to the beta release of VS2005, but not often in the release version. I've tried former resolutions suggested. I'm running the release version of VS2005, Professional Edition, XP Pro, all latest service releases. Source Safe 6.0b We only recently moved to VS2005 from VS 6.0 and project was upgraded from a 6.0 project. Symptoms: - Dialog control event handlers do not appear in the properties window even when they exist. Some of the dialogs will take us to the handler when we select "New..." since some do indeed exist. - On trying to add on BN_CLICKED handler for a radio but ...Show All

• SQL Server DATABACK UP

  How can i backup the full database to another diffrent server Simply do the backup via the GUI or the BACKUP DATABASE command and do a restore at the destination server with RESTORE DATABASE. WHat version of SQL Server are you using http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/sqlbackuprest.mspx HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. ...Show All