Ragin Cajun's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System TFS RC: Error loading Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Server.EventFilter ...

  Even though the installation was successful, I am getting the following error four times in a row, every hour: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Server.EventFilter' or one of its dependencies Is this a serious problem Should I be able to fix it or is it a problem with thr RC build Thanks in advance, here is the entire event log entry: Event Type: Warning Event Source: TFS Services Event Catego ...Show All

• Windows Forms Saving a picture

  I have a picture box that i can draw in using mousePath.AddLine This works well but now i need to save the image into a datadase. Can anyone let me know how to do this And what datatype in the database table should I use What about to save a document in the same table Great example, thanks. ...Show All

• SQL Server Frequent SP recompiles in proc with many temp tables

  I noticed a specific stored proc was getting recompiled quite often, so I decided to try to optimize it a bit. In the proc, there are 9 and sometimes 10 temp tables created; the tenth table is created conditionally: I F @param IS NOT NULL BEGIN CREATE TABLE #tbl ( col1 VARCHAR ( 21 )) CREATE UNIQUE INDEX XIDX_tmp_tbl_pk ON #tbl ( col1 ) INSERT #tbl ( col1 ) SELECT @param END All the create table statements are at ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX CLR2.0 Release Date

  Can anybody offer any information regarding the possible MDX9 (CLR2.0 compatible) release date (a +/- two month precision would be more than satisfactory). Thank you. Sandman Questions about betas should be asked in the beta newsgroups or forums. See http://msdn.com/directx/beta for more information. ...Show All

• SQL Server Transformation script last row

  Hello, in an asynchronous transformation script, how can i know when the script reach the last input row That section was added in the 1st week of May...I would have expected it to make the June CTP but can't easily verify.   -Doug ...Show All

• .NET Development XP Home vs XP x64

  I have seen a range of comments here from people with an Athlon 64 processor but only having Windows XP Home installed. First some bad news, Microsoft has EOLed XP Home, they recoment moving to XP Pro or XP Pro x64. x64 was RTM back in Mar 31, 05 so its not quite a year old in the market place, so its not going to be as rich for drivers. I have an Audigy 2 card, drivers for x64 are available, I have a Webcam Live Ultra, drivers are late ...Show All

• Visual C# Convert string to date

  Hi, I have string in unknown format of the date. I need to convert it to DateTime. How can I do this Thank's Alexei Why do you have a unknown format, then you can never parse it to a DateTime object. Because you need to know what the month, date and year is. ...Show All

• .NET Development consuming .Net webservice mobile

  Hi all, I'm consuming a web service from a mobile based on j2me platform. I'm using the Soap protocol. Some times the device throws an exception of "malformed header field", I learned about the exception, and It was the XML parser cann't parse the response correctly. What can be the problem with the HTTP header is the server is the reson or the client what is the job of the HTTP header Please give me some ideas seeking the ...Show All

• Windows Forms How-to Start .Net executable with parameters?

  I have not been able to find some documentation on how to pass parameters to a .Net windows forms executable. I am not sure what changes I need to make to the application to accept parameters I want to be able to issue something like System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\myfolder\myapp.exe 1 T") where in myapp.exe I am able to read the two parameters on startup and implement some logic accordingly. Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Uses of VC++

  What does it mean on the download/install page where it says: "You can use Visual C++ Express to build powerful .NET Framework applications immediately after installation. In order to use Visual C++ Express to build Win32 applications, you'll need to take just a few more steps." And is there a button to compile and run your C source code without messing around in a cmd window Hi! It's advertisement :) Visual Studio have ...Show All

• .NET Development Express SQL Database error from Tutorial

  Hi, I'm trying to create a database using the VB 2005 Express tutorial and selecting SQL, the new database (MyFirstDatabase) is created but has a red cross by it's name in the Database explorer window. I can create a table and save it, but when I try to link it to another project (Addresses), which it does, I can make changes to the data (in run mode), add a new entry etc, but the save icon (although it has the update code in it), doesn't sav ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL user permissions

  Using C# how do I obtain information about the access permissions on an SQL Server database. For example, I need to discover if a user is alllowed to perform select, add, delete & updates on a table. If you use SQL Server, you can query the TABLE_PRIVILEGES view to query for this information. In your C# application, you just create a SqlCommand, and in the CommandText, provide a query that queries this syst ...Show All

• .NET Development Fill an irregular shape with color in System.Drawing

  Hello, How do I fill an irregular shape with a given color in an image with System.Drawing Let's say I have a map of North America and I want to paint the USA with a color given by my user. It's just like doing a fill with paint or photoshop right in the middle of the USA. Is there a way to do this with System.Drawing I just want to know if it's possible and an explanation on how to do it. I don't necessarily need the exact code for it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions vb2005 exp ed will not connect to sql 2005 exp ed

  I uninstalled the Beta2 version per the install instructions with the release edition.  I have been taking the online learning up to lesson 08 in which we start doing something with sql2005.  I cannot make a database in visual studio 2005 because it will not connect to the current instance of sql 2005.  Starting sql2005 indicates that the default instance is running as a service on my computer.  in lessons 1 through 7, everyt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newb Question: Opening Forms inside main form

  I'm completely new to programming, my knowledge only goes as far as html, css and light php so I'm way in over my head. :) I've been through the tutorials but all the teach is how to pop open a form in a new window. I need it to display as though it was seamless. I've created Form1 and I want to use that as the main design of everything. What I need to do is open up all other forms created inside of Form1. For instance, if someone clicks on the ...Show All