Jeff Wilson MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team Project Creation Fails with exception "Retrieving MSF methodology failed"

  Hi All,          We managed to setup the a Single Server  Team server installion. Creating a new team project does completes the download process and then it   fails. Detailed log is given below. Please help!!!! 06/27/2005 09:38:16.265 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | URL for eLead web service retrieved as " http://aztecmsdts:8080/bisserver/EleadWebService.asmx " from the registration service | Completion time: 0.046875 seconds 06/27/2005 09:38:16.843 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | eLead web service proxy constructed | Completion time: 0.53125 seconds 06/27/2005 09:38:39.890 | Module: ELea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Multilingual tutorial

  Hi, I'm trying to use the multilingual tutorial that comes with Visual Studio 2005 ( http://support.businessobjects.com/documentation/product_guides/cr_net/vs_2005/html/crtsktutorialsothermultilingual.htm ) but I cannot find the "CrystalReportViewer_resource_files" folder they talk about (I have installed the tutorial sample code files). Does anybody know where I can find it   Thanks.   -Philippe. To localize the viewer, you have to localize the assembly you are calling it from. System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = (CultureInfo) Session[CULTURE_INFO]; Rep ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. creating stars

  Im not sure how to do this but im creating a space sim and what I want to do is place billboard sprites in static position's so as you move you get the effect that you really are moving, what should I do here Point sprites are probably a good enough solution to this - although the initial positioning should be carefully done. If you have a background (e.g. not just black space - maybe one with nebula's/galaxies/whatever) then render it first. Next you want to render your point sprites - but do so without any Z Testing or Z Writing. You want them on top of the background, but you don't want them contributing ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Novice converting from VFP 5 to client/server using Microsoft SQL - HELP PLEASE!!!

  I currently have an application that is written in VFP 5.0 and running on Windows XP machines with the database stored on a Windows 2000 server. It was first installed in 2000 and has had modules added, the most recent being 4 months ago. However, I have been having some problems with the program seeing that the database sizes has grown considerably with at least 2 tables having over 20000 records. The hardware technician has indicated that their server needs to be replaced and said I should look into making my application a client/server one. Right now, my program set a path to the database which is stored on the server, which means th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System File/directory exclusion patterns

  Is it possible to prevent source control from selecting speficic directories when running recurisive commands Suppose I want to add a folder and all subfolders except for folders named CVS, bin and obj, and all files except .user files.  Can this presently be done or is someone going to need to write a wrapper tool for this Thanks! --Oren There is no general mechanism for excluding specific directories or file extensions for any recursive command.  However, if you are adding files/folders to source control from within Visual Studio you can exclude files/folders by doing the following: In Visu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VBA/excel programming investing software

  Entry Date Entry Price Exit Date Exit Price Amount Invested 01/01 22.00 01/05 23.00 1980 01/03 10.00 01/10 12.00 2000 01/05 28.14 01/15 28.19 1969 01/07 38.70 01/08 39.00 1935 01/09 1.59 01/09 1.62 1955 01/11 1.59 01/16 2.62 795 01/13 0.45 01/20 0.50 225 01/15 3.59 01/19 4.62 3590 01/17 4.59 01/21 5.62 4590 01/19 5.59 01/25 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Bold and Ubold

  Hi i have created a simple  editor  and i have a  text which is bold and underline i want to remove the bold but keep the underline the question is how to remove a style and keep the other You need to set the control's font to a new font, created using the existing font, with a font style that removes the desi ...Show All

• SQL Server HTML String Rendering in a Report

  We have a "Comment" field that is saved as a HTML string to the DB. This field needs to be pulled into a report as rendered HTML. I know this has been hashed out before, but has anybody found a good solution in the past couple of months We are thinking about storing two versions of the Comment in the DB: one with HTML, one as simple text. Has anybody found this an acceptable solution I know it flies in the face of good DB design, but it seems the quickest, easiest solution... Any word if this will be fixed in the next major release of SSRS Can we expect this release any time soon Thanks for looking, Smith ...Show All

• .NET Development HTTP Handlers

  Hi all. I want to write Http handler that saves an image in the server. I send Http Post of image as a bytes array , the IIS doesn't have any file extention suits the "jpg" file. My target is to upload the image from the mobile to the server. When I use the Http Post from the mobile I got "405 method not allowed" ,I think this is because there is no engin in the IIS side deal with images files, so I thought about Http handlers. Any other ideas. Best regards... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions atlbase.h

  While trying to convert com projects from VC6.0, I  get: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'atlthunk.lib' This is from atlbase.h . There is no way I can just comment out the #include for that, as some lucky programmer here said he did. It causes many projects to err out. Is there any way to get around this linkage error something like "#pragma error disable: 1104)" (wild stab in the dark here) Note that atlthunk.lib was not on my vc6 system, and apparently on anyone elses either. Short of modifying atlbase.h, I don't know what to do, unless maybe create a dummy lib and rename it and stick it in the lib sear ...Show All

• .NET Development system.objectdisposedexception

  Hi, I have a multithreaded application that crashes with the following msg in event log ... EventType clr20r3, P1 smartserver2005.exe, P2 1.0.0.0, P3 43f6cc52, P4 system, P5 2.0.0.0, P6 4333ae87, P7 3ad8, P8 a5, P9 system.objectdisposedexception, P10 NIL. I have provided try catch block in all routines in the code & still the appl crashes with the above msg. Note that crash is not consistent for a particular sequence of events. Any suggestions -S.Malathi I check MSDN about SerialPort. Here what I found there: 1. events called on worker thread, so you can't call MessageBox() and for ...Show All

• Visual C# Speeding up the TcpClient method

  I am working on a set of programs that communicate over a stand alone network. I have 1 client and 10 servers. The client trys to connect to the servers when the program starts. The client uses return new TcpClient(StudentIP, port); to try to connect to the servers. StudentIP is a String that is "192.168.0.101" , port is an integer equal to 60000. The TcpClient hangs(blocks ) over 1 minute when trying to connect to a server that is not running. It does connect to a server that is running. When I try IPEndPoint ipLocalEndPoint = new IPEndPoint ( IPAddress .Parse(StudentIP),port); temp = new TcpCli ...Show All

• Smart Device Development DesignMode support in CF 2.0

  Hi, Is there a way in CF2.0 to check that something is executing within Visual Studio 2005 I am looking for something that works like the property DesignMode in the full .NET framework. //A Component.Site.DesignMode will be true if you are in the designer. In your control's code that needs to know if it is being designed or not, you would have code similar to: if (this.Site.DesignMode) {    // do design time only stuff } ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Direct Music examples

  Anyone know how to obtain the Direct Music samples mentioned in the Dx9 docs The docs direct you to the <sdk>/Samples/C++/DirectMusic directory which doesn't exist (for me, anyway). Since DirectMusic has been deprecated its not been in the last few SDK sample. I would try to download an earlier one ( SDK links ). I can't remember when they were dropped but try Summer 04 ...Show All

• SQL Server HELP: Failed to create the task. (Microsoft Visual Studio)

  I created my first SSIS project in BI Dev Studio but get the following error when trying to add a data flow task to the Control container: ================================== Failed to create the task. (Microsoft Visual Studio) =================================== Value does not fall within the expected range. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ManagedDTS) ------------------------------ Program Location:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Executables.Add(String moniker)    at Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design.DtsBasePackageDesigner.CreateExecutable(String moniker, IDTSSequence container, String name) Any advice greatly ...Show All