Nosam Neb's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System My one-penny opinion about this edition, and of course I'd like yours

  Hello everybody, I just finished and review for Database Professionals. Very interesting features are "inherited" from Visual Studio Team System: change control and work item tracking, unit testing (very good!), refactoring, and also parallel execution of T-SQL queries. About specifing features, well, it's a nice thing have them out-of-the-box, but I think a medium-experienced developer shoudn't have difficult and write a VSTS plug-in to emulate ...Show All

• Visual C++ rand() not being random!!!

  OK An other problem which I really need assistance with I'm using srand to generate random numbers out of a range BUT i always get the same sequence of numbers!! But I notice the problem come from rand() i tried to create a new project with only this : #include <ctime> #include <iostream> using namespace std; void main() { srand(time(NULL)); cout << rand() << endl; cin.get(); cin.ignore(); } ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvide question

  Hi, I'm using the "System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvide" provider in an ASP.NET app to authenticate users: < add name = " ADConnectionString " connectionString = LDAP://MyCompany.com/OU=People,DC=MyCompnay,DC=com />  The authentication process has no issues and works as expected. For authorization, I've set to use the "AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider": <roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Issue installing Jan Windows SDK

  I've tried installing the windows SDK on my VPC image and get an installation error. The final few rows in the log file are: 8:39:26 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2006: Action 8:39:26: ValidateProductID. 8:39:26 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2006: Action 8:39:26: CostInitialize. Computing space requirements 8:39:27 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2006: Action 8:39:27: FileCost. Computing space requirements 8:39:27 AM Wednesday, January 25, 2006: Action 8:3 ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS transaction problem

  I created DTS package that has two connections “Source” and “Destination”, contains several “Execute SQL” tasks and several “Data Driven Query” tasks after them. For all tasks workflow properties are set to “Join transaction if present”, “Rollback transaction on failure” and “Fail package on step failure” except the last “Execute SQL” task that has also “Commit transaction on successful completion of this step” property set. The problem: when ...Show All

• .NET Development Warning related to size_t

  I am trying to port an application from 32-bit to 64-bit windows environment. While compiling i get a lot of warnings related to "size_t" . This is because the size of the variable "size_t" changes from 32-bit to 64-bit on a 64-bit platform. The kind of warnings which i am getting are:- sumAgg.cxx(370) : warning C4267: 'argument' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data sumAgg.cxx(1105) : warning C4267: 'argument' : conversion ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Migrate work items from Beta 2 to Beta 3?

  Ok, first of all let me state clearly for the record. I fully realize that MSFT does not officially support work item migration from Beta 2 to Beta 3.  I also realize Beta 2 did not have a GO-LIVE license with it, so I am officially on my own on this one.  Having said that, "un-officially" is there anything I can do to half-way get this to work When my team moved from Beta 1 Refresh -> Beta 2, we exported all of our work item ...Show All

• Visual C# Regions keep auto-expanding

  As in the beta 2, in fact even more so, regions still auto-expand all the time, which gets very annoying now that my code increases in size. I've pretty much stopped minimizing them because it's a waste of time, as all the regions will expand again when the next exception occurs. Is there really no way to prevent this from happening It's not an answer to your question, but I sugges ...Show All

• .NET Development StrongName validation fail

  Hi I have a bit truoble with an exe asembly. I built it with strongname and setting to false the DelaySing attribute. This exe is running from another asembly, a dll one, via Process class and it works fine. But when i install it in others machines, win2003, it fails with a strongname validation error. I have tested the assembly with sn -vf and it is ok. Also when I run the exe from command line it works fine. Someone has any ide ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Basic Help!

  Before going any futher with developing games and such.. Which SDK file do I have to download to start please link me up =) I'll go for the DirectX C++ I know nothing about DirectX, but I have good knowlage in C++. Thx You probably need to do an extensive search on DirectX 9/C++ tutorial but I don't want to take a lot of time doing it--can be hard for me to find for me. However, I'd recommend you learn Managed DirectX with C#.  Since ...Show All

• Visual Basic Blair Allen Stark

  Here is the problem I am working on. It asks me to use the method CalculateCharges, but I don't fully understand how to do this or how it works. I would be grateful for any input. Lab Problem III A parking garage charges a $2.00 minimum fee to park for up to three hours. The garage charges an additional $0.50 per hour for each hour or part thereof in excess of three hours. The maximum charge for any given 24-hour period ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS.net 2003 Eval. UNINSTALL. "Setup is unable to determine a valid ordering for the installation."

  I tried uninstalling it and get a msgbox saying: "Setup is unable to determine a valid ordering of installation. See error log for further details" Where is this error log How would I uninstall I which MS can for once wake up and make something uninstall and not also fail on uninstall. A fat joke it is... Can you try uninstalling from the CD Something may be messed up with the cached version ...Show All

• Windows Forms need help in progressbar...

  i really no idea how to use a progressbar... i have a button which when i click it, it will download the html page .....because the file i going to download is big, so i want to use progressbar to show tat the downloading is in progress....how can i do tat help is appreciated... Hi, add a progress bar to your application and then set the following values in the progressbar: progressBar.Value = 0; progre ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Having a cpu usage issue...

  My app is direct3d9 using a small oop framework i made. When the application is running (windowed) my computer has ~15% cpu usage. When i focus another window on top of that one or i minimize the window, cpu usage goes all the way up to 100%... very annoying i really dont know wat the prob is. I think it has smthing to do with the main loop: while (msg.message!=WM_QUIT) { if (PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE)) { Translat ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Open table exclusively?

  Forgive my ignorance - I've recently reinstalled XP and subsequently Foxpro 7.0. Now when i double click on a foxpro dbf file it opens the table and another datasession labeled 'B' (i'm supposing it's a datasession). Previously, when i opened a table i was in exclusive mode and didn't have this duplicate table open also. I normally work in exclusive mode because my data is not in a shared environment (i'm a vb developer). Any suggestions thanks ...Show All