sadaniel's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 and Analysis Service 2005 upgrade

  Hi, All, I posted this question on http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp icp=sqlserver2005&slcid=us  and http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx forumid=149&messageid=211308 , but only got 1 response so far. So I am trying here. Our IT department is planning for the SQL Server/Analysis Service upgrade next year. For budgeting reason, management may want to hold the upgrade of Analysis ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System InstallationError 32000: in SetupWarehouse.exe (Team Foundation App-Data Tier Beta 2 Setup)

  Hello All, After a lot of installation problems installing Foundation Server I cleaned the Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition and started, allmost desparate, all over again. I checked everything and even started reading the installationmanual. I checked the User (TFSSETUP and TFSSERVICE are local Administrators) and  all the services (Analysis Server, Report Server, SQL Server, SQL Server Agentand Sharepoint) and started the installation ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Camera viewing all objects

  If I have a camera and a collection of 3D objects, how do I calculate the position of the camera so that I'll have all the objects visible in the camera's view Thanks in advance. I think one naive way is to compute a bounding sphere around all your objects then create a camera position that looks at the center of the sphere. Then you need to calculate the from position such that the radius of the sphere fits i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Extending VSTA IDE

  Hi, I'm looking at the VSTA tech and wondering how I can extend VSTA IDE (similiarly to regular VS IDE): 1. Add custom tool windows 2. Add custom menu commands 3. Add custom editors 4. Add custom services I've tried deploying some test VSIP package for VSTA IDE but it doesn't looks like it is getting it; so the question is: how can I accomplish points 1-4 for VSTA IDE Thanks in advance, Peter Hi, I understand ...Show All

• Visual C# OWC10 Pivotchart Save and retrive using C# windows forms

  hi how can i can save a pivotchart designed using owc10 introp . i used drag and drop from the field list to build my chart and i need to reload same chart view from the saved result. i am using visual studio.net 1.1 version with C# windows forms. Thanking you Delphi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Animating ScaleTransform in C#

  In the SDK there is an "Animate an Element's Size" example that uses ScaleTransform but it is in XAML. I'm trying to do the same thing in C# but I am missing some key element. The following code compiles and does not crash the app, but it also does not scale my rectangle so I'm assuming I'm not using the right property or something like that: //Initialization growImageX.KeyFrames.Add(new LinearDoubleKeyFrame(1, KeyTime.FromPercent ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can't understand delegate function

  I'm reading Wrox's Professional VB 2005. I'm just at the beginning of delegates. It has us open a module1 and put in the following code: Public Delegate Function Compare(ByVal v1 As Object, ByVal v2 As Object) As Boolean Public Sub DoSort(ByVal theData() As Object, ByVal greaterThan As Compare) Dim outer As Integer Dim inner As Integer Dim temp As Object For outer = 0 To UBound(theData) - 1 For inner = outer + 1 To UBound ...Show All

• Windows Forms Build Errors - Is this a bug in Visual Studio?

  When I compile from the command line, everything builds great. But when I compile from  within Visual Studio, I get errors on a couple of files because it seems like Visual Studio is  holding onto my files and won't let go. Here is the&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Will run in SSIS Designer but not from DTExec

  Hi all, I have a package that runs fine in SSIS Designer but not from DTExec. I get the following 2 error messages: The task "Reset variables" cannot run on this edition of Integration Services. It requires a higher level edition. The task "Prepare variables" cannot run on this edition of Integration Services. It requires a higher level edition. Those 2 tasks are both script tasks. The version number on both installations is the same (i.e. 9.00 ...Show All

• .NET Development FtpWebRequest re-sending USER and PASS commands half way through download loop

  Well, the title says it all really: I'm using FtpWebRequest to download multiple files as follows: private string GetFile(Uri uri) { string un = Misc.ReadRegKey("ParserFtpUsername"); string pwd = Misc.ReadRegKey("ParserFtpPwd"); string file; NetworkCredential cred = new NetworkCredential(un, pwd); WebProxy pxy = new WebProxy(); pxy.UseDefaultCredentials = true; FtpWebRequest wr = (FtpWebRequest)We ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System shared library in team system?

  hello, I've got a general question: I've got 2 Solutions each of them uses a (shared) library. this shared library should also be deployed or used for each build process. how can i handle this in the visual studio team system i don't want to declare explicitly the source of this library. Is there  a sophisticated approach This library should be saved at a central location, but must be included as a reference in the project and also be deplo ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to access methods of MDI Child form by MDI Parent toolbar?

  How can I access the methods (save, new, delete methods) of a MDI child form when clicking on a toolbar positioned in the MDI parent form So on the MDI parent I have this toolbar. When clicking on a button on this toolbar it must call a method from the current MDI child form. There are several types of MDI child forms, but each contains (the same) methods... Does anybody has an example of how to do this Thanks, Alwin ...Show All

• Visual C++ Windows XP Password character.

  Hi, Dont know if this is the correct forum, but since I didnt get any answers elsewhere, I'm posting it here as well The Problem: On some machines, my password field displays the password character as the "dot" - which is XP standard, and on other machines it dispays small square boxes. Details: We have written a win32 application in C++ with, in which we have a password field.  Inorder to use the XP style of "bulleted" password chars (in ...Show All

• Visual Basic Strange problem with mouse scrolling in Visual Studio 6

  I've just started working with VS6 where the task is correcting parts of a large existing code. The problem is that i can't scroll up or down in code windows, so I'm wasting lots of time with the scroll bar. I'm using a normal Dell PS2 mouse - which works fine in other applications such Explorer fx. I've tried installing new driver to the mouse, but no. Is it because the VS6 platform i old (there has been about 5 service packs to it), and is not ...Show All

• Windows Forms GetSelectedRow from Datagrid

  I want to read the selected Row from a datagrid. How is this possible  Anything like: object mySelectedObject = gridControl.getSelectedRow() but I didn't find a way to do that !!! thanxx for help! THANK YOU!!!  I know you posted this last y ...Show All