chinnybloke's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Trouble calculating YTD

  I'm trying to create a YearToDate calculated measure that gives me YTD sales.  However, when I add the following calculated member:   Sum(YTD([Measures].[Sales])) with "Measures" as the parent, I get the following error when I try to use the calculated measure: "The YTD function exects a member expression for the argument.  A string or numeric expression was used" I'm using SQL 2005.  Any suggestions Trent Here is article you can take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnvbpj00/html/complex.asp Edward Melomed ------- This posting is provided "A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't access to the documents

  Hi, I can't access the documents tree. There is no permissions problem (I can view the sharepoint site via browser, but not in team explorer). Thanks, Michael The URL used to access the SharePoint site is stored as an absolute URL (i.e., with protocol, port number and machine name) in TFS Registration data. The first thing to check is that the URL that is specified in the registration data actually works from the client machine. Log on to your TFS application tier machine and browse to http://<server>:8080/services/v1.0/registration.asmx Click on GetRegistrationEntries and Invoke the method with no parameter ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) OperationContracts and parameters

  What are the use cases for the various ways of factoring interfaces using: intrinsic types, XSD complex types (classes), and data contracts For example, which is the “best practice” for the following: [OperationContract] void CreateUser(string username, string password); [OperationContract] void CreateUser(User user); [OperationContract] void CreateUser(CreateUserRequest createUserReqest); I’m used to the ASMX-style method signatures (the first example). However, most of the Indigo material pefers the latter (message-oriented) method. Can someone please explain the rationale for using one ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual SourceSafe

  Hello I had installed Visual Studio 2005 BETA 2 Team Suite. And in this version is Visual SourceSafe included. Now i have installed Visual Studio 2005 RC Team Suite, but the Visual SourceSafe is in this Version not included. Can anywhere help me Sincerly, roger ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to create a new report and include into process templates?

  How to create a new report and include into process templates I just created and rdl, and upload to report server and it has the connection string inside the project, but I would like to put this report on all the projects. How can I achieve that Tks You can modify an existing process template by downloading it, making necessary changes and uploading it back to the server (right-click on the server in the team explorer, 'Team Foundation Server Settings' -> 'Process Template Manager'). This will ensure that all *new* projects, created with that methodology will have your report. However, this won't affect existing projects ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) <?Mapping?> fails after upgrade to beta 2

  To use a custom panel Foo.Bar.CustomPanel in XAML, I do the following: < Mapping XmlNamespace="foo/bar" ClrNamespace="Foo.Bar" > <Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:foobar="foo/bar" ... <foobar:CustomPanel .../> After updating to WinFX beta 2, this no longer works. I get the following error: Error 5 'CustomPanel' tag does not exist in XML namespace 'foo/bar'. Does anyone know how to use a custom class in XAML in beta 2 I'm probably not looking in the right places, but I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Anyone implemented site with express edition?

  The express edition is impressive BUT am I safe in developing a site with this version Thanks for sharing your experience Pauley Yah its safe, I used it to develope a WebSite for some client and The website is working fine till date. I think it has some miner prob. but it will be solved soon by Ms team in new realease of Express. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro [noob questions] Arrays..

  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgggghhhhhgadsfhasdjhf 1. Is foxpro incapable of returning an array from a function by using the return statement  2. Does foxpro have a function that merges 2 arrays 3. How do you pass an array as an argument to a function in a class when the array is a class variable For example: define class test as Custom     dimension Arr(1)        procedure asdf(tmpArray, tmpString)        * do stuff     endproc     .. etc etc How do I call the procedure asdf (from some other procedure in this class) using Arr as a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions installing VS 2005 beta 2

  I have tried to install Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, but I'm told i have a previous version of Visual Web Developer installed. It does not appear in my control panel though! Any one have an idea of what to do I am sorry to hear that you have problem. You could try out this auto uninstall tool here. http://mscomapps/fwlink/edit.asp linkid=47065   Please also refer to this document at https://blogs.msdn.com/hgao/archive/2005/05/30/423249.aspx Let me know if this helps Thanks Hong Gao ...Show All

• Smart Device Development stream in vs 2005

  Hi, I write a program for pocket pc 2003 in vs8 beta 2. I am using cout,cin,cerr...etc.And i compile without the error. But i can't see anything in the emulator of pocket pc 2003 in vs 2005 Can you explain to me Does vs8 really support stream for pocket pc PocketConsole works for me on WM2003SE. BTW, it is not a CMD shell program. It just displays the output directed to stdout and reads stdin in a cmd like window when a console program is executed. The window closes if the program terminates. So if you have a short lived program you should write something like getchar() before its return statement so that you have time to read the out ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Diasbling Security settings in Microsoft Excel

  Hi all My friend uses Visual Basic Application code embedded in a Excel Worksheet for his application. When the machine has the EXcel MAcro Security as 'High' (Tools--> Macro --> Security) the macro fails to get executed. How to turn off the security (make it Low) from Visual Basic / C# code. Thanks Shasur The right way to go about this would be to digitally sign the VB code. If it's an application that is going to be run on the same machine where the code was created, you can use SelfCert.exe ( Digital Certicate for VBA projects in the Microsoft Office Tools menu) to create your own personal digital certificate; othe ...Show All

• Visual Basic The type initializer threw an exception. - For no reason

  Hi, Im developing a timetable like program which was all working fine until i installed some security updates for windows xp. This might be p urely coincidental but i keep getting the exception, pasted below, when i try to call ModPublic.GetSett(). I even removed all code from inside the public modpublic.getSett() sub but i still get this error on each debug/F5 run. System.TypeInitializationException was unhandled   Message="The type initializer for 'TimeTable.ModPublic' threw an exception."   Source="TimeTable"   TypeName="TimeTable.ModPublic"   StackTrace:        at TimeTable.Mod ...Show All

• Windows Forms MSN Messenger type toast, or alert

  How about a control that displays the so called MSN Messenger toast, or alert, as also shown in Outlook 2003, and Nortan Anti Virus. And please there are many developers giving this kind of controls for a fee, or the developer evaluation controls that have limited features, or some blurps in it.. So can some smarty do it this simple stuff, and&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C# Wave Recorder - problems with a splitted/joined audio record

  I've written a small application to record data from an audio device to a wave file ( based on this article ). A further function is saving/splitting a recording in several files. If I play the files later back, it should sound as one continous recording, but it doesn't. There are short breaks/clicks in between. It seems that the recording function doesn't capture the input properly. You can find my application/VS project here (22 KB): download Can anyone see what's wrong Any help appreciated! Hi Bandman, For this issue, it seems more to be an issue about how to handle the WAV file. I suggest you p ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is there a simple way to flip a Sprite?

  It's been a while since I've posted here (last question I asked was about scrolling a 2D background) and now I'm back with another 2D question. Is there a simple way to flip a sprite horizontally and vertically I started to just make new textures for each of the positions, but then I thought somebody has to know how to do this the right way for 2D games. From what I'm gathering, typically you do some kind of World transformations to flip your game objects around when you normally develop for DirectX (and by normal I mean 3D development), but with the 2D development route I've been going, I've been trying to leave out things like Wor ...Show All